Organising Committee

Dr Frank Sellke received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from Indiana University in 1982 He is currently a Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, and formerly the Karl Karlson & Gloria Karlson Professor, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Director of the Cardiovascular Institute at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Lifespan Hospitals. He previously served as the Johnson & Johnson Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His basic research focuses on microcirculation of the heart, brain and other organs as it relates to vasomotor regulation, permeability and collateral development.  His clinical interests involve neurocognitive decline and other outcomes, quality improvement and reduction of inflammation, bleeding, transfusion after cardiac surgery and predictors and treatment of perioperative atrial fibrillation.

Dr Sellke’s publications have been cited 140,000 times and he has an H-index of 103.

Prof. Dr. Ahmed Fouad is a Senior Consultant and Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, with over 30 years of experience in adult cardiac surgery. He is a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK, and a Fellow of Dalhousie University, Canada. Currently, he serves as Head of the Cardiac Surgery Department at Elaraby Hospital, Egypt. Dr. Fouad has authored numerous publications in international journals and actively reviews scholarly work. A frequent speaker at global conferences, he is deeply committed to training and mentoring the next generation of cardiac surgeons.

Prof. Walid Abdelmohsen Shehabeldin has completed his PhD degree in endocrinology through joint supervision program between university of saskatchewan, Canada and university of menofia, Egypt. He is currently a professor of diabetes and endocrinology at the faculty medicine at University of Menofia, Egypt and is the consultant of internal medicine in Saudi German Hospital Aseer, Saudi Arabia. He has over 30 peer-reviewed research papers which have received over 500 citations and has publication H-index of 9.

Chidinma Ifeyinwa Mmaju is a lecturer 1 staff from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. She holds a B.sc and M.sc in Human Physiology and currently on her PhD program in human Physiology which will be completed soon. She is also a research assistant affiliated with Eldorado Multi – Specialist Hospital Awka.

Specialization: Expertise in Endocrine and cardiovascular physiology and also course coordinators in both courses in her institution

Research: Chidimma maintains an active academic presence with her Google scholar account- Chidinma Ifeyinwa Mmaju and publications available soon research gate profile- Mmaju Chidinma and Academic Edu – Chidinma Mmaju

Social Media: She has a strong presence in Facebook and Instagram page.

Dr. Rose Kokui Dufe Turkson is a seasoned clinical and community nutritionist, academic, and public health researcher with more than 19 years of professional experience across Sub-Saharan Africa. She holds a PhD in Nutrition, an MSc in Dietetics, a BSc in Community Nutrition, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education. Dr. Turkson is a Senior Lecturer and former Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the National University of Lesotho, where she has provided strategic academic leadership, overseen curriculum development, strengthened quality assurance systems, and supervised undergraduate and postgraduate research.

Her scholarly and professional work focuses on nutrition across the life course, with particular emphasis on maternal and child nutrition, endocrine and metabolic health, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other nutrition-related non-communicable diseases. She has extensive experience in nutrition education, research mentorship, and multidisciplinary collaboration, and her work consistently engages policy-relevant questions within resource-constrained settings, contributing to improved health outcomes and capacity building at institutional and community levels.

Dr Kulvinder Kaur is the scientific director of DR Kulvinder Kaur Centre For Human Reproduction,jalandhar,Punjab ,India,where she manages the complicated cases of infertility .She graduated from LHMC Delhi in 1980 topping in medicine in all 3 medical colleges thereby getting the DR Devi Chand Gold medal from the late PM Smt Indira Gandhi&also topped in all the MBBS subjects prior to that eg anatomy,pathology,biochem etc making her basicssound &later she managed the endocrine clinic in PGI Chandigarh during her MD days .Following that she reported the 40^{th world}  case  hydrometrocolpos working in Saudi Arabia &has been working in the field of neuroendocrinology of obesity. GnRH control along with role of kisspeptins,prokineticins in human reproduction,AIDS &Cancer –during this period she managed to successfully treat the first case of nongestational choriocarcinoma of uterine body in a young girl medically thereby preserving her fertility-the first case in world literature of its kind.Further she has over 300 publications mostly international in her name

Prof. Dr. Alireza Heidari, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Full Distinguished Professor and Academic Tenure of Chemistry and also Enrico Fermi Distinguished Chair in Molecular Spectroscopy at California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. He has got his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. Furthermore, he has double postdocs in Project Management, Oncology, Human Cancer Tissues and Synchrotron Radiation from Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and also in Nanochemistry and Modern Molecular Electronic–Structure Computations Theory from California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA.  It should be noted that he is currently board member of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC), continuous member of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, continuous member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), Rockville, Maryland, USA, the President of the American International Standards Institute (AISI), Irvine, California, USA and also Head of Cancer Research Institute (CRI) and Director of the BioSpectroscopy Core Research Laboratory (BCRL) at California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA.

Egesie Umezuruike Gideon has completed his PhD at the age of 45 years from University of Jos Nigeria. He is the professor of Human Physiology Faculty of Basic Medical sciences, University of Jos, Nigeria. He has over 50 publications that have been cited 200 times, and his publication H-index is 10 and has been serving as an editorial board member of reputed Journals.