Marion Ben Jacob has a Ph.D. in theoretical mathematics and is ABD in computer science. She is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences at Mercy College for over 36 years. She teaches courses in mathematics and computer science, both in the traditional classroom and online. She has published articles on, assessment, mathematics, computer science, computer ethics, pedagogy, online teaching/distance education, collaborative learning, and global learning. She is the editor and a contributing author of Integrating Computer Ethics across the Curriculum. She is the author of an e-book, Computer Ethics: Integrating across the Curriculum.

Professor David Wang, M.S,. is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Mercy College. He has led several NSF STEM and Microsoft grants totaling more than $1,000,000. He has served on the Content Advisory Committee for New York State Teacher Certification., as well on the Computer Science Review Committee for the joint ACM & IEEE 2001 Curriculum Project. As Associate Dean of School of Liberal Arts, he was a member of college-wide strategic planning committee and led the school’s academic program assessment efforts.

Dan DuBravec is a senior consultant at LMI, a not-for-profit consulting firm headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area. Mr. DuBravec leads IT implementation projects and holds multiple EHR certifications, as well as a BS in product design from Illinois State University and an MS in educational technology leadership from George Washington University. His published articles on EHRs and Genomic data have been featured in the Journal of AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association). He is currently working with George Mason University on a research project focused on the Shareability and Accessibility to Big Genomic Data.

Francesco Zirilli born in Genoa in 1949 graduated from Sapienza Università di Roma in 1971.He has been a professor in Università di Camerino, Università di Catania, Università di Salerno, Sapienza Università di Roma.He has been visiting professor in the USA several times, principal investigator in research grants funded by national and international agencies, editorial board member and editor in chief of several scientific journals.The research interests of Francesco Zirilli are applied and numerical mathematics and their applications in science and engineering.He is author or coauthor of about 160 scientific publications in refereed journals and books.

Dr. Arcady Putilov received his PhDs (candidate and doctor of science) from the Institute of Physiology (Novosibirsk) and the Siberian Medical University (Tomsk), He’s a research group leader at the Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics (Novosibirsk). He’s experienced in study of rhythmic processes in physiology, biochemistry, zoology, ecology, psychology, psychiatry, and history. His other research interests include sleep regulation, personality, individual differences, evolutionary psychology, and history. He authored several hundred scientific publications including books and articles in peer reviewed international journals. He also writes for the general public about sleep, biological rhythms, mood disorders, psychology, and history of science.

Chronobiology (mostly circadian physiology), sleep-wake regulation processes, biological and psychological processes modeling, inter-individual differences, psychology (mostly personality trait structuring, evolutionary psychology, comparative and zoological psychology), human and animal ethology, ecology (communities of animal species).

Maria José works as Systems Analyst at the Federal University of São Paulo, at the Information Technology Department of Hospital São Paulo. Post graduated in Health Informatics at the Federal University of São Paulo. Has experience in research, implementation and training in new health software’s. Participates in the standardization group of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT) and in the Innovation area in technology of Hospital São Paulo. She has worked in marketing at large advertising companies in Brazil. She's always researching new technologies that can positively impact society.

In 2016, Steve Shaha was introduced internationally as “premier healthcare outcomes researcher globally in breadth and depth.” With 35+ years of studies, teaching, speaking and advisory work, Steve has addressed the needs of a long list of recognized organizations on four continents, including 11 foreign governments. He has 250+ conference presentations, 125+ peer-reviewed publications, three invited chapters internationally in 2015, and four books. Steve is full Professor with 4 graduate degrees and has taught or lectured at 30+ universities in 6 countries, among them Harvard, Cambridge (UK), the King’s College, UCLA, Columbia and Cornell.

Professor David Wang, M.S,. is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Mercy College. He has led several NSF STEM and Microsoft grants totaling more than $1,000,000. He has served on the Content Advisory Committee for New York State Teacher Certification., as well on the Computer Science Review Committee for the joint ACM & IEEE 2001 Curriculum Project. As Associate Dean of School of Liberal Arts, he was a member of college-wide strategic planning committee and led the school’s academic program assessment efforts.

Wilfried Dimpfel is Honorary Professor at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany, since 1983. He is pharmacologist and got his neurophysiological education during 1973-1974 as Max Kade stipend (New York) at the NIH Bethesda from Phil Nelson. Together with Hans-Carlos Hofmann, a physicist and mathematician, he developed quantitative EEG software for research and practice. Wilfried Dimpfel is consultant and CSO at NeuroCode AG, Wetzlar, Germany. He published more than 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Marion Ben-Jacob has a Ph.D. in theoretical mathematics and is ABD in computer science. She is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences at Mercy College for over 36 years. She teaches courses in mathematics and computer science, both in the traditional classroom and online. She has published articles on, assessment, mathematics, computer science, computer ethics, pedagogy, online teaching/distance education, collaborative learning, and global learning. She is the editor and a contributing author of Integrating Computer Ethics across the Curriculum. She is the author of an e-book, Computer Ethics: Integrating across the Curriculum

Andrea Silvello has over 15 years of experience in business & strategy consulting in multinationals like BCG and Bain & Company. He is founder of Business Support (a business consulting firm) and 2 insurtech startups: Neosurance and Digital Tech. He is also a columnist at The Indian Economist - online journal on business & economics, policy, politics and culture & society, guest contributor at Insurance Thought Leadership, InsurTechNews and Fùture Inese. He is 50insurtech influencer (according to insurtechnews.com) and top fintech influencer in Italy (according to letstalkpayments.com).

Dr. Abraham (Rami) Rudnick is a certified psychiatrist and a PhD-trained philosopher. He is a Professor in the Section of Psychiatry at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Lakehead University and Laurentian University, Thunder Bay and Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, as well as an Adjunct Professor at other universities in Canada. He is the Vice President of Research at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre and the Chief Scientist at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute. He is a Canadian Certified Physician Executive and a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner. He is a Senior Editor of the Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health and the founder of the Canadian Unit of the International Network of a UNESCO Chair in Bioethics. He is a recipient of the pioneer award in recovery research granted by Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) / Réadaptation Psychosociale (RPS) Canada, a recipient of the Michael Smith award granted by the Schizophrenia Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, and a Distinguished Fellow and Gold Medal recipient of the European Society for Person Centered Healthcare as well the Chair of its Mental Health Special Interest Group. Much of his research addresses bioethics, mental health, social determinants of health, and use of smart technology for, with and by people who have mental health challenges.

Chris Boone, Vice President, leads client engagements involving real world informatics strategies.Prior to joining Avalere, Chris served as the CEO of the Health Data Consortium (HDC), a public-private partnership working in concert with the public sector agencies, such as the U.S. Chris is a professor in the Masters of Health Informatics program at the University of Cincinnati and serves as a guest lecturer at other universities.Chris holds a B.S. in Management Information Systems from the University of Tulsa, a M.S. in Healthcare Administration from the University of Texas at Arlington, a PhD in Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Dallas, and two executive certificates from the Harvard Kennedy School.In addition, he is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE), a certified professional of healthcare information and management systems (CPHIMS), and a project management professional (PMP).

Enterprise strategy and innovation,Business model transformation using “real world” health informatics and data infrastructures,Health informatics policy analysis and strategy development, and The establishment of sustainable multi-stakeholder partnerships.

Liaquat Hossain, Ph.D. Professor of Information Management and Head of the Division of Information and Technology Studies, The University of Hong Kong. His research deals with disaster/crisis management and resilience for dealing with disasters related to flood, fire, tsunami, disease outbreaks from food, zoonotic diseases and other man made and bio related security preparedness and response. Shihui Feng, PhD Candidate in Information Management, Division of Information and Technology Studies, The University of Hong Kong. Her research deals with network dynamics for disaster response.

Loc Nguyen is a Director of International Engineering and Technology Institute from 2016. He holds Postdoctoral degree in Computer Science, certified by INSTICC in 2015. He serves as reviewer and editor in a wide range of international journals and conferences from 2014. He is volunteer of SWB from 2015. He is granted as Mathematician by London Mathematical Society for Postdoctoral research in Mathematics and awarded as Professor by Scientific Advances and Science Publishing Group from 2016. He is awarded as Doctor of Medicine by HOSREM from 2016. He has published 41 papers in journals, books and conference proceedings. He is author of 2 scientific books. He is author and creator of 5 scientific and technology. Moreover, he is Vietnamese-language poet who composed 1 verse story and 5 collections of 280 poems. He also has 2 music albums in which many poems are chanted by famous artists.

computer science, statistics, and mathematics

Dr. Arcady Putilov received his PhDs (candidate and doctor of science) from the Institute of Physiology (Novosibirsk) and the Siberian Medical University (Tomsk), He’s a research group leader at the Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics (Novosibirsk). He’s experienced in study of rhythmic processes in physiology, biochemistry, zoology, ecology, psychology, psychiatry, and history. His other research interests include sleep regulation, personality, individual differences, evolutionary psychology, and history. He authored several hundred scientific publications including books and articles in peer reviewed international journals. He also writes for the general public about sleep, biological rhythms, mood disorders, psychology, and history of science.

Chronobiology (mostly circadian physiology), sleep-wake regulation processes, biological and psychological processes modeling, inter-individual differences, psychology (mostly personality trait structuring, evolutionary psychology, comparative and zoological psychology), human and animal ethology, ecology (communities of animal species).

Alexander Khalyavkin is the Academic Secretary of Gerontological Society of RAS (Moscow Branch), Senior Researcher of the Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics of RAS and Senior Researcher of the Institute for Systems Analysis of FRC CSC RAS. His Alma Mater was the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (the Russian MIT). His postgraduate training was at the Gamaleya Institute for Epidemiology and Microbiology (Moscow). He has completed his PhD in Immunology at 1980. He is author and lecturer of “Introduction to Biogerontology” for the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1991-2000). He cooperated with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (2001-2009). His research interests include theoretical aspects of biomedicine, biogerontology, biodemography, an effect of environmental factors on the rate of aging, and some aspects of the regulation of reproduction of normal and malignant cells. He studied non-canonical (growth control) function of the immune system and mechanism for a switching of symmetric to asymmetric mitosis in stem cells.

Theoretical aspects of Biomedicine, Biogerontology, Biodemography, an effect of environmental factors on the rate of aging and some aspects of the regulation of reproduction of normal and malignant cells.

Dr. Haluk Altunel is a Program Director at SoftTech A.S. He is responsible for the management of various projects including health informatics. His special focus is on mobile health area. He is also a part-time faculty in the Medical Informatics Department of Informatics Institute at Middle East Technical University. At the same time he is also a part-time faculty in the Computer Science Department of Bilkent University. He has published various articles on mobile health, biomedical imaging and sensing, project management, and agile methodologies. He is the co-author of a book on multi project management. His research interests include Mobile Health, Biomedical Signal Processing, Biomedical Sensing, Software Engineering, Agile Methodologies, and Project Management.

Isabel de la Torre Díez Associate Professor in the Department of Signal Theory, Communications and Telematics Engineering at the University of Valladolid, Spain. Her teaching and research interests includes development of Telemedicine applications, e-health, m-health, EHRs (Electronic Health Records), EHR standards, biosensors, and e-services. She is leader of GTe Research Group, belonging to the also research group called SI (Information Society), GIR (Recognized Research Group) of the Engineering and Technology Area of the University of Valladolid. She is author or coauthor of more than 150 papers in SCI journals, peer-reviewed conferences proceedings, books and international book chapters. She has coauthored 14 registered innovative software. She has been involved in more than 20 Program committees of international conferences until 2015. She has participated in 32 funded European, national and regional research projects. Moreover, she is reviewer in well-known SCI journals like International Journal of Medical Informatics, Journal of Medical Systems, IET Journal, Telemedicine and e-health Journal, etc.

Eduardo J. Simoes, is Chair, Dr. Stuart Wesbury and HMI Alumni Distinguished Professor of the Department of Health Management and Informatics-University of Missouri School of Medicine (2011-current). His medical degree is from Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Pernambuco-Brazil (1976-1981), diploma&master of sciences degree from University Of London School Of Hygiene Tropical Medicine (1986-1987) and master of public health degree from Emory University School of Public Health (1989-1991). He is a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, reviewer and editor for 12 journals. He published over 100 peer-reviewed publications, eight book chapters and 18 reports. He presented in 150 conferences.

Chris Boone, Vice President, leads client engagements involving real world informatics strategies.Prior to joining Avalere, Chris served as the CEO of the Health Data Consortium (HDC), a public-private partnership working in concert with the public sector agencies, such as the U.S. Chris is a professor in the Masters of Health Informatics program at the University of Cincinnati and serves as a guest lecturer at other universities.Chris holds a B.S. in Management Information Systems from the University of Tulsa, a M.S. in Healthcare Administration from the University of Texas at Arlington, a PhD in Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Dallas, and two executive certificates from the Harvard Kennedy School.In addition, he is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE), a certified professional of healthcare information and management systems (CPHIMS), and a project management professional (PMP).

Enterprise strategy and innovation,Business model transformation using “real world” health informatics and data infrastructures,Health informatics policy analysis and strategy development, and The establishment of sustainable multi-stakeholder partnerships.

Dr. Tolomiczenko’s experience as a clinician, researcher, teacher and administrator helps him in his Administrative Director role to guide and run the Health, Technology and Engineering program at the University of Southern California (HTE@USC). After an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree at Caltech, he earned a doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Boston University. As both a scientist and clinician working at medical institutions affiliated with Harvard University, his focus shifted to public health and policy issues involving homelessness and mental illness. His Masters in Public Health from Harvard University covered healthcare management and improvement. He then moved home to Toronto, where he earned an M.B.A. to inform his efforts were devoted to creating and funding programs and partnerships enabling disease-focused basic research, knowledge translation and adapting chronic disease models. Since returning to California in 2010, he has served as a CIHR reviewer and committee member for knowledge translation and commercialization. He continues to develop USC’s interdisciplinary collaborative strengths applied to medical device and process innovation. He teaches courses designed to form and train teams linking engineering and medicine to create innovative and licensed technology and start-up companies. In addition to his HTE@USC work, he serves as adjunct faculty on the NSF I-Corps USC Node.

Ronald O’Donnell, Ph.D., is a clinical professor and Program Manager, International Programs, in the Arizona State University College of Health Solutions. He is president of SunCrane Health Solutions. Dr. O’Donnell is the founding director of the Doctor of Behavioral Health program and other educational initiatives focused on workforce training for integrated behavioral health. He is Principle Investigator of the PCORI research grant on integrated care with Banner Health in Phoenix Arizona. Dr. O’Donnell has also lectured and provided trainign for physicians and other health professionals in China and Southeast Asia. He is an advocate of incorporating Internet and mHealth behavior change resources into the practice of integrated behavioral health.

level of primary care integration, health risk, and treatment clinical and cost outcomes.

Marie-Pierre Gagnon, PhD, is Full Professor at the Faculty of Nursing at Laval, University and researcher at the Quebec University Hospital Centre. Since 2012, she holds the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Technologies and Practices in Health. Her research program focuses on the evaluation of information and communication technologies (ICT) for health, organizational and individual determinants of ICT adoption and integration in the healthcare system, patient and public involvement in healthcare decisions, systematic reviews and best practices in knowledge translation and application.

evaluation of information and communication technologies (ICT) for health.

Joseph Tan, PhD, formerly Wayne C Fox Chair of eBusiness Innovation, and currently, Professor of eHealth Informatics, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, is the founding and ongoing Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems & Informatics with a professional background that spans a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary research area. A lead investigator in redefining the frontiers of multidisciplinary Business and Health IT knowledge development, management and expansion, including active involvement in collaborative research and multidisciplinary joint-grant submissions, Dr. Tan has demonstrated skills and ability to serve in both academia and industry. He has achieved recognized scholarship in teaching and learning with students’ nominations for teaching excellence awards.

Promotion in e-Health informatics through cross-disciplinary thinking/project partnering with diverse practitioners, clinicians, researchers, and a variety of user communities.

Graduated as Medical Doctor in 1982 at Ancona University, Italy; Postgraduate School in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Endocrinology and Metabolism. Dr Filiberto Di Prospero is considered an expert in Medical Informatics and Computer Science with the passion to develop innovative solutions in health care. Some significant contributions: the first diagnostic support software for predicting human ovulation in 1990; the realization of one of the most important Italian websites on feminine health in 1999 (SaluteDonna.it); the first app for fetal well-being assessment, integrated into outpatient obstetric assistance in 2012; introduction of the new concept of “proximity medicine” in 2013.

Dr. Powell completed her Ph.D at the Ohio State University in 1992. She is an assistant research professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at OSU and the director of Small Animal Imaging for the University. Dr. Powell is an imaging scientist who has extensive research experience in microscopy, small animal, and clinical imaging and image analysis. She has published more than 50 papers in reputed journals.

Microscopy, small animal, and clinical imaging and image analysis.

Yuh-Fong Hong is an assistant professor of School of Nursing at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Hong’s expertise includes health care quality improvement using health information technology (HIT) and applied health informatics. He leads the integration of applied informatics in nursing programs. Dr. Hong is selected to serve on the interprofessional education program team to facilitate collaboration on the EHR usage at the university level. Dr. Hong presents his teaching and research findings at national and international professional conferences.

information technology applications, development of nursing informatics in academics and practices, ethics and regulations in HIT, and promoting quality of care with HIT.

Dr. Freimuth works at the interface of biomedical informatics and clinical genomics developing computational methods, tools and infrastructure that facilitate the translation of genomic data to clinical practice. Currently, his focus is on developing standards-based knowledge representation schemas for the pharmacogenomic domain, including gene-drug interactions and clinical recommendations that could be used as part of decision support algorithms. Dr. Freimuth is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic (Rochester). He is a member of several research networks, including the Pharmacogenomics Research Network (PGRN), Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE), and Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen). He also participates in formal standards development initiatives, including HL7 Clinical Genomics, W3C Healthcare and Life Sciences, and the ONC Standards & Interoperability Framework.

Biomedical informatics and clinical genomics developing computational methods, tools and infrastructure that facilitate the translation of genomic data to clinical practice.

Álvaro Rocha is Professor of Information Systems at University of Coimbra, President of AISTI - Iberian Association for Information Systems and Technologies, Chair of the IEEE Portugal Section Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Chapter, and Vice-President of ADI-PME - Association for the Development and Innovation in the Small and Medium Enterprises. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the JISEM - Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management, and the Editor-in-Chief of the RISTI - Iberian Journal of Information Systems and Technologies. And he is General Chair of the WorldCIST - World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies.

Information Systems

Dr. Russell Gann is working in support of the National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Gann spent three years at the Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as the Project Manager for healthcare informatics in the surveillance of infectious disease, chronic disease and infection control in an effort to build the Saudi Centers for Disease Control and National Laboratory. Dr. Gann worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) where he was the Program Manager and principle architect for surveillance applications to include the following: BioSense – National syndromic surveillance of the US for infectious diseases.

Hospital safety, hospital acquired infection, safety, data quality, informatics solution

Dr. Yu is currently a research assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at The Ohio State University. Dr. Yu is also the high-dimensional group leader at the Center for Biostatistics, where he collaborates with investigators from College of Medicine and the Comprehensive Cancer Center and serves as the biostatistics core director for multiple NCI program project grant awards and applications. Dr. Yu’s research focus is to answer genomic based biological questions by utilizing high-throughput genomic data. He is currently interested in (1) variance smoothing for testing differential expression in NGS data, (2) sample size calculation for NGS data, (3) data integration of multiple genotypes and multiple platforms, (4) prediction models with biomarkers.

Biomedical experimental design, biomedical data modeling, disease diagnosis and prognosis using biomarkers

Dr. Arcady Putilov received his PhDs (candidate and doctor of science) from the Institute of Physiology (Novosibirsk) and the Siberian Medical University (Tomsk), He’s a research group leader at the Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics (Novosibirsk). He’s experienced in study of rhythmic processes in physiology, biochemistry, zoology, ecology, psychology, psychiatry, and history. His other research interests include sleep regulation, personality, individual differences, evolutionary psychology, and history. He authored several hundred scientific publications including books and articles in peer reviewed international journals. He also writes for the general public about sleep, biological rhythms, mood disorders, psychology, and history of science.

Chronobiology (mostly circadian physiology), sleep-wake regulation processes, biological and psychological processes modeling, inter-individual differences, psychology (mostly personality trait structuring, evolutionary psychology, comparative and zoological psychology), human and animal ethology, ecology (communities of animal species).

Professor at Sorbonne Universités, University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC Univ. Paris 06), Daniel RACOCEANU is the Director of the Cancer Theranostics research team of the Bioimaging Lab (CNRS - French National Center for Scientific Research, Inserm - French National Institute of Health and Medical Research) and member of the Executive Board of the University Institute of Health Engineering of the Sorbonne University, Paris, participating also to its creation. He participated to the creation of the International Research Unit IPAL (Image & Pervasive Access Lab) in Singapore, being the Director (between 2008 and 2014) of this joint research venture between the CNRS, NUS (National University of Singapore), A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) and UPMC. Until 2015, Daniel RACOCEANU was adjunct Professor at NUS. He has published more than 30 respectively 100 papers in reputed journals respectively conferences, serving as an editorial board member of reputable journals in the area of biomedical imaging and medical informatics.

Biomedical imaging and medical informatics.

He is a professor emeritus since October 2007 . He was a Director of Scientific Computing Center at Ain Shams University (1984-1990).He is a Professor of Computer Science , since 1989 at Ain Shams University, Egypt. His research includes: intelligent computing, knowledge-based systems , data mining , knowledge engineering , bio-medical and health,informatics, e-government, intelligent e-learning and artificial intelligence technologies. He has published around 350 papers in refereed journals and conferences. He has been involved in more than 400 international conferences and workshops as a keynote speaker, member of Scientific Program Committees, and Organizer and Session Chair. He is a member of many national and international informatics associations. He is a member of the editorial boards of many internal journals in the areas of ICT ,Bio-medical Informatics and artificial intelligence.

Intelligent computing, knowledge-based systems , data mining , knowledge engineering , bio-medical and health,informatics.

Loc Nguyen is a Director at Sunflower Soft Company, Vietnam. Currently, he is interested in computer science, statistics, and mathematics. He serves as reviewer and editor in a wide range of international journals and conferences. Now he is a volunteer of Statistics Without Borders of American Statistics Association. He hold a Postdoctoral degree in Computer Science, certified by Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC). He has published 39 papers in journals, books and conference proceedings. He is author of 2 books. He is author and creator of 8 scientific and technology products.

computer science, statistics, and mathematics

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Mathematical modeling, discretization methods for PDEs, cardiovascular and respiratory mechanics, global transport processes in human, environmental eects on human, endovascular surgery, laparoscopic surgery, graph layout algorithms.

Sorana D. Bolboacă, PhD Habil, is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the Faculty of Medicine, Iuliu Haţieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She has published more than 200 papers in scientific journals, serves as reviewer at several journals and scientific conferences. She is an executive editor at Applied Medical Informatics journal. Her research focuses on applied & computational statistics, integrated health informatics system, medical imaging analysis, assisted decision systems, ethics, best practices in knowledge translation and application, evidence-based medicine, and medical information on social media.

computational statistics, integrated health informatics system, medical imaging analysis, assisted decision systems, ethics.

Dr. Chuang earned her PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Pittsburgh. As a Research Fellow at the National Institutes of Health, her research contributed to an understanding of the neuroprotective biomarkers, neuro-immune responses and pathophysiological mechanisms in the brain. She has received research funding and recognition in a specific field of neuroscience.As a critical care nurse, Chuang teaches undergraduate students about patients’ management in high acuity settings and medical-surgery clinical care. She continues to use her experiences and abilities to pursue her research/academic strategies and explore a translational research from the bench evidence to bedside practice in neurological populations in both the critical care setting and long-term recovery.

neuroscience.

Professor Gerson Chadi, MD. PHD., is Full Professor at the Department of Neurology of the University of Sao Paulo Medical School (USP), Brazil, since 1998. He specialized in Neurodegenerative Diseases and Advanced Research on Regeneration of Central Nervous System in the periods he developed a Post-doctoral fellow at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden (1991-1994), and also a senior sabbatical at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry of the University of Toronto and at the Montreal Neurological Institute of the McGill University (1999). He introduced in Brazil the concepts and research methods in the Central Nervous System Regeneration (1994) and was one of the signatories of the Beijing Letter which created the Neurorestauratology Discipline in the field of Neurology. He heads the Translational Neurology Unit, the Translational Neurology Laboratory and the Neuroregeneration Research Center at Department of Neurology of USP. He coordinates the Neurological Genomic Project and the Cell Therapy Project of his Medical School. He joined the Advisory Board of the "Center for Research and Neuroscience and Behavior of USP", in the area of Neuroplasticity and Development for 10 years. He introduced the first Brazilian Systematic Translational Research on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, bench to bed, side 2010), being responsible for various clinical and laboratory projects on ALS research. Ongoing projects employ advanced methodology in molecular / cellular biology, large gene profiling, expanded gene sequencing, stem cell transformation, biomarkers and bioinformatics. He published more than 100 scientific peer reviewed papers in International Scientific Journals, graduated over than 60 Master, PhD and post doctoral students.

Neuronal plasticity, regeneration of the nervous system, biomedical Informatics, translational neurology, therapeutic targets, mutational analyses, biomarkers, cell therapy, neurorehabilitation, healthcare, clinical trials in the fields of neurotrauma and neurodegenerative diseases with focus on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Charles is the Chief Innovation Officer for Clearsense, a healthcare analytics organization specializing in bringing “Big Data” technologies to healthcare. Prior to Clearsense Charles was the Enterprise Analytics Architect for Stony Brook Medicine. In his role he is developed the analytics infrastructure to serve the clinical, operational, quality and research needs of the organization. He was a founding member of the team that developed the Health and Human Services award winning application "NowTrending" to assist in the early detection of disease outbreaks utilizing social media feeds. In 2015 Charles served as co-editor for “Mastering Healthcare Informatics” published by Sigma Theta Tau. Charles holds a MS in Technology Management from Stevens Institute of Technology and is the President of the American Nursing Informatics Association.

healthcare analytics,Health and Human Services and Big Data analytics

Werner Leodolter is CIO of KAGes . Previously he served as CIO in steel industry. 2008-2013 he led the Styrian hospital GmbH (KAGes) – a 17000 employees hospital group in Austria - as CEO through a period of organizational realignment . He is also member of the telehealth services commission of the Federal Ministry of Health of Austria. He is university professor of Applied Management in Health Care at the University of Graz (KFU). He is author of the book (in German) "The subconscious mind of organizations: New technologies - Rethinking organizations ", published at Springer in 2015.

Telehealth, Applied Management in Health Care and hybrid intelligence.

Dr. Tsong-Long Hwang is a professor of Graduate Institute of natural Products, Chang Gung University and a dean of College of Human Ecology, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. Dr. Hwang received his Ph.D. in pharmacology at National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He has published close to 270 research papers and acting as an Editorial member and reviewer for many professional journals.

His research interests include inflammopharmacology, innate immunity, phytopharmacology and signal transduction.

Mr. Abdul Malik Shakir is a recognized industry expert in healthcare information management. His information technology experience spans more than four decades, including 35+ years in healthcare. Mr. Shakir’s consulting experience includes providing advisory services and expert assistance to large-scale healthcare provider organizations and integrated delivery networks. He has contributed to the advancement of healthcare related standards through volunteer participation in Health Level Seven International (HL7), the X12N Healthcare Task Group, the OMG Healthcare Domain Task Force, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), and the IEEE Joint Workgroup for a Common Data Model.

His professional experience includes development of enterprise information architectures, data warehouses / business intelligence applications, systems integration solutions, and expertise in electronic data interchange standards.

Ridha Hambli is currently a Professor of Biomechanics and the Director of the Research group of Biomechanics and mechanobiology of bone at PRISME Institute in Orleans University in France. Prof Hamblis main research activities lie in the Healthcare Informatics based on finite element multiscale modeling of the human bone behavior considering the remodeling process, the fracture and the effects of bone drugs against osteoporosis. The scales range from the ultrastructure to the whole bone organ. His recent research focuses on the development of mechanobiological modeling algorithms considering explicitly the effects of the bone cells activities on the bone adaptation process and the associated risk of fracture under side fall. The approach is used to investigate the effect of some bone drugs on the bone quality for a given patient. He is an author of about 140 refereed publications and abstracts in international scientific journals and conferences proceedings.

Healthcare Informatics, finite element multiscale modeling of the human bone behavior considering the remodeling process, the fracture and the effects of bone drugs against osteoporosis

Dr. Syed S. Haque is the founding Director of the Graduate degree (MS and PhD) programs in Biomedical Informatics, and Chair of the Department of Health informatics, at the School of Health Related Professions, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now merged with Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey). This was the first graduate degree program on the east of Mississippi river and fourth program in the USA. Since then, under the guidance of Dr. Haque, the Department of Health Informatics has maintained its leadership position in the field of Health and Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Haque is an accomplished informatics educator and researcher. His research and development interests include: Biomedical Informatics education and research, Health care Outcomes measurement and research, healthcare predictive analytics including prediction models and risk analysis, use of data mining techniques and pattern analysis, disease mapping and surveillance systems, development of bioterrorism surveillance & detection system, development of cyber-terrorism security and control for healthcare systems. Dr. Haque has been very frequently invited to deliver keynote addresses, conference presentations, seminars and workshops at both the national and international levels in various countries including USA, India, China, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt.

Biomedical Informatics education and research, Health care Outcomes measurement and research, healthcare predictive analytics including prediction models and risk analysis, use of data mining techniques and pattern analysis, disease mapping and surveillance systems, development of bio terrorism surveillance & detection system, development of cyber-terrorism security and control for healthcare systems.

Mirsad has over thirty years of information technology experience combining business and academic environments. Dr. Hadzikadic joined the UNC Charlotte faculty in 1987 after receiving his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Southern Methodist University where he was a Fulbright Scholar. In addition to publishing his scholarship, he has made presentations at national and international conferences, leading information technology firms, and universities. His research/scholarship activities have been primarily focused on: data mining, cognitive science, medical informatics, and complex adaptive systems. From 1991 to 1997, Mirsad served as the Director of the Department of Medical Informatics and Department of Orthopedic Informatics of the Carolinas HealthCare System. In 1998, he joined Deloitte and Touche Consulting Group as Manager in the Health Systems Integration Service Line. He returned full time to the University in January 1999 to assume the chair position in Computer Science and serve as Associate Director of the School of Information Technology. Mirsad helped to shepherd the transition from a school in the College of Engineering into an independent College of Computing and Informatics, and served as its Founding Dean. Mirsad is currently serving as the Director of the Complex Systems Institute at UNC Charlotte and Executive Director of the Data Science Initiative.

Data mining, Cognitive science, Medical informatics, and Complex adaptive systems

Dr. Dinesh P Mital received his B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India in 1968. Thereafter, he received his M.S. and PhD degrees from The State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook in 1970 and 1974, respectively. From 1980-1983, worked as a professor in the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, University of Roorkee, Roorkee, India. From 1983 to 1999, he worked as an associate professor, in the School of EEE, NTU, Singapore. Currently working as Professor in Health Informatics in Heath Informatics, Rutgers, the State University, New Jersey. His current areas of research include, biomedical signal processing, medical image processing, clinical decision support systems, outcome analysis, AI, and neural network based biomedical applications. He has published over 280 technical papers in various international conferences and journals.

Biomedical signal processing, Medical image processing, Clinical decision support systems, Outcome analysis,Neural network based biomedical applications

Dr. Placide POBA-NZAOU is an Assistant Professor of IT and HR in the HR & Organization Department at the School of Business at University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada. His research interests include the adoption and implementation of enterprise systems, open source software, the deployment of IT in support to HR processes, and the impacts of IT in health care organizations. He has had several articles published in journals such as Journal of Information Technology, Information and Management, Information Systems Frontiers, Information Systems Management, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, International Journal of Medical Informatics, European Research in Telemedicine, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Implementation Science, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare and Business Process Management Journal. Dr. Poba-Nzaou research have also been published in the proceedings of international refereed conferences such as HICSS, ECIS, AMCIS and ASAC. Moreover, he has an extensive experience as a Consultant.

Adoption and implementation of enterprise systems,Open source software, Deployment of IT in support to HR processes,Impacts of IT in health care organizations

Dr. Kami Makki is Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Digital Media and E-Learning

Digital Media, E-Learning

Dr. Addeo has more than 20 years of experience at the senior management level at AT&T Bell Labs, Telcordia, and most recently at Panasonic Labs in Princeton. He has appeared on CNN’s Technology watch. He is the recipient of NJITs Distinguished Alumni Medal for his management and leadership of industrial research organizations. He holds ten patents. He is the recipient of the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame Award in recognition of his seminal contributions to research and for the development of current-generation cellular communications systems. Dr. Addeo’s novel contributions to the field of communications have been on display at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. He is currently a Professor in the college of Engineering and Information Sciences at DeVry University in North Brunswick, New Jersey. He has an earned Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Technology, Information Sciences, Electrical Engineering

Dr. Kewei Sha is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at University of Houston, Clear Lake (UHCL). He is also the Associate Director of Cyber Security Institute at UHCL. Before he moved to UHCL, he was the Department Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Software Engineering at Oklahoma City University. He received Ph.D in Computer Science from Wayne State University in 2008. His research interests include Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical Systems, Mobile Computing, and Network Security and Privacy. Dr. Sha has served as the secretary of Technical Committee on the Internet of the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS TCI), a guest Editor at Wireless Personal Communications, International Journal on Security and Networks and EAI Transactions on Wireless Spectrum, a conference technical program committee chair for ICCCN 2015, a workshop general chair for ICCCN 2013, a workshop founder and chair of MobiPST and MedSPT, a session chair in ICCCN and CollaborateCom, a member of editorial board in several journals, and a program committee member in numerous conferences. He is also a reviewer for numerous journals including IEEE TPDS, IEEE TC, ACM TAAS, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TITS, Elsevier JPDC and so on. He is a member of ACM and IEEE.

Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical Systems, Mobile Computing, and Network Security and Privacy

Dr. Harry Wechsler serves as Professor of Computer Science at George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, VA, USA. He has been active in biomedical image processing, data mining, machine learning and pattern recognition, image analysis and understanding, biometrics, face recognition, forensics and evidence analysis, smart identity and information management, contents-based image retrieval (CBIR), and cyber security, with research funding coming from ARL, DARPA, DOD / TSWG, FBI, and NSF. The focus for his R&D is coping with uncertainty and uncontrolled settings, in general, and incomplete or degraded data, in particular. He organized the NATO ASI on Face Recognition and his book on Reliable Face Recognition Methods, was published by Springer in 2007. Dr. Wechsler has published over 300 papers and holds together with his former doctoral students 7 patents. He is an IEEE Fellow and an IAPR Fellow.

biomedical image processing, data mining, machine learning and pattern recognition, image analysis and understanding, biometrics, face recognition, forensics and evidence analysis, smart identity and information management, contents-based image retrieval (CBIR), and cyber security, with research funding coming from ARL, DARPA, DOD / TSWG, FBI, and NSF

Josep M Picas, MD of University of Barcelona has done his Diploma from ESADE Business School of Barcelona. He is the President of the European Association of Healthcare IT Managers. He has been Director of the Primary Care of Barcelona City and CIO at the Hospital de St. Pau. Now he is promoting Adaptive HS.

Healthcare

Dr Adrian Stavert-Dobson is the Manaing Partner of Safehand Consulting Limited. He is a leading expert on the safe implementation of health technology. Formerly Head of Clinical Risk Management at BT Global Services, Adrian has operated as a Clinical Safety Officer for ten years overseeing the risk assessment of national health IT systems. In 2016 he published the world’s first book on the subject (ISBN-10: 3319266101). Adrian is a medical doctor, computer programmer and health informatician and speaks regularly at conferences, seminars and workshops. He was pivotal in the development of the UK Safety Standards ISB 0129 and ISB 0160.

Healthcare Informatics, Health technology

Luiz Giacomelli has a Bachelors Degree in Physical Therapy. A Masters Degree in Health System Administration from Indiana University SB, USA. Additionally, he specialized in HR Management; in Sports Management; In Sports Physical Therapy; And in Neuro-Muscule-Skeletal Biomechanics. He became the physiotherapist of professional Sports teams, elite athletes, and major sports events, such as Rio2016 Olympics. Also, he owns a PT Clinic, and a Fitness Center at his home town. Further, is the general coordinator of an anual Sport Traumatology Conference at his State. Finally, he is the managing director of a Sports Research Institute in Brazil.

Sports, Physiotherapy

Carla Guimaraes has a bachelor's degree in Sports and Physical Education, a Masters in Biosciences of Physical Activity, and a Ph.D. in Production Engineering at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2002). She is a Senior Researcher at National Institute of Technology. She is now coordinating three projects involving Interactive 3D digital platforms for formation applied to caregivers, combat sports and Paralympics sports. Her areas of professional experience are in Human Factors and Ergonomics, 1D and 3D Anthropometry, Occupational biomechanics, Sports Biomechanics, Assistive Technology, Digital Human Modeling and Simulation.

Human Factors and Ergonomics, 1D and 3D Anthropometry, Occupational biomechanics, Sports Biomechanics, Assistive Technology, Digital Human Modeling and Simulation

I have been a Canadian citizen and was a US permanent resident, with M.Sc., Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. I was a Full Professor of Neurology and Physiology/ Biophysics with tenure at the University of Tennessee, Memphis. I found the non-profit Cell Therapy Research Foundation in USA and the Cell Therapy Institute in China. I pioneered human somatic cell therapies and genome therapies, and developed angiomyogenic cell therapies to treat debilitating and fatal diseases such as muscular dystrophies, cancer, heart diseases, Type II diabetes and aging. I pioneered and hold world patents on Human Myoblast Genome Therapy, a platform technology in Regenerative Medicine. My studies, published in Lancet, Nature and Science, have been featured on CNN, BBC, CBC, NBC, USA Today, New York Times and Wall Street Journal. I have been an editor-in-chief, sectional editor-in-chief and a manuscript reviewer for reputable journals. I chaired many scientific sessions in international conferences, and various committees in University Senate.

Neurology, Physiology, Biophysics, Cell Therapy, muscular dystrophies, cancer, heart diseases, Type II diabetes and aging

Wanyang Dai is a distinguished professor of Nanjing University in China, Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Information Engineering, Journal of Advances in Applied Mathematics. He received his Ph.D degree in applied mathematics jointly with industrial engineering and systems engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A., in 1996. He was an MTS (permanent) in End-to-End Network Architecture Department of AT&T Bell Labs (now called Nokia Bell Labs), U.S.A., from 1996-1999, where he was a principal investigator of several lightning projects with some (nowadays called cloud computing) project won "Technology Transfer". His "influential" papers are published in "big name" journals including Operations Research.

Information Engineering, Applied Mathematics, industrial engineering, systems engineering

Professor Cheung is graduated as PhD in Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, CUHK in 2000 and joined as academic staff in 2005. He is also a Programme Committee Member of Biomedical Engineering Programme, Faculty of Engineering, CUHK and Member of Management Committee on the Laboratory Animal Services Centre. He serves as reviewers for AO Foundation and Annual Meeting of Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS); meanwhile, he is editorial board members of 4 international journals and ad hoc reviewers of over 15 professional journals. He is an active member of ORS, ISFR and ICMRS. He has published 80 peer-reviewed international articles, 7 book chapters, over 250 conference abstracts and contributes as 1 book editor. He was awarded with Berton Rahn Research Fund of AO Foundation in 2013 and obtains 3 patents (1 PCT and 2 US/China).

Tissue Culture, Bone Densitometry, Histomorphometry, Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Prof. Dr. Yarub Al-Douri has been granted Doctorat D’etat in Materials Science. He worked at NUS (Singapore), TUC (Germany), CNRS (France) and Malaysia, in addition to Algeria and Yemen. He has more almost quarter century experience of scientific research and university teaching, and more than 386 publications until now including patents, books, chapters review, papers, articles and conferences. He has 2067 citations, h-index = 22 and i10-index = 59 for the moment. He is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Nanoelectronics and Materials (http://ijneam.unimap.edu.my), Editor-in-Chief of World Journal of Nano Science and Engineering (http://www.scirp.org/journal/wjnse), editor and peer-reviewer of different international journals, member of different international scientific associations and has been awarded diverse medals internationally. He has initiated Nanotechnology Engineering MSc Program and established Nano Computing laboratory in Malaysia. His research interests are Modeling & Simulation, Semiconductors, Optical studies, Nanoelectronics, Nanomaterials and Renewable Energy.

Modeling & Simulation, Semiconductors, Optical studies, Nanoelectronics, Nanomaterials and Renewable Energy.

Aidy Ali is a Professor of mechanical Engineering at National Defence University of Malaysia (UPNM). He received his first degree in Mechanical Engineering from Universiti Putra Malaysia, 1999. He then pursued his Ph.D degree in Year 2003 research on Improving Fatigue Life of Aircraft Components By Using Surface Engineering at Sheffield University, UK. He was awarded a Ph.D degree in March 2006. His expertise is related to mechanical Fatigue, Fracture of materials, Failure assessment, Failure prevention analysis, Reliability engineering prediction and Crash analysis. H index is 19. He is working on fracture of bone and knee implant study in his recent projects.

Mechanical Engineering, mechanical Fatigue, Fracture of materials, Failure assessment, Failure prevention analysis, Reliability engineering prediction and Crash analysis

Dr. Arcady Putilov received his PhDs (candidate and doctor of science) from the Institute of Physiology (Novosibirsk) and the Siberian Medical University (Tomsk), He’s a research group leader at the Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics (Novosibirsk). He’s experienced in study of rhythmic processes in physiology, biochemistry, zoology, ecology, psychology, psychiatry, and history. His other research interests include sleep regulation, personality, individual differences, evolutionary psychology, and history. He authored several hundred scientific publications including books and articles in peer reviewed international journals. He also writes for the general public about sleep, biological rhythms, mood disorders, psychology, and history of science.

physiology, biochemistry, zoology, ecology, psychology, psychiatry, and history, sleep regulation, personality, individual differences, evolutionary psychology, sleep, biological rhythms, mood disorders, psychology, and history of science.