Medical Informatics & Telemedicine

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).

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.

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.

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.

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).

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 ([email protected]). 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 [email protected] 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Dr. Josep M. Picas. M.D., University of Barcelona, is President of the European Association of Healthcare IT Managers. He served for several years as deputy Director of the Hospital de l’Esperança in Barcelona. From 2004 to 2007 he was Medical Director of Municipal Institute of Health Care Services (Public HMO in Barcelona). He has been Director of Primary Care of Barcelona City, CIO at the Hospital del Mar and CIO at the Hospital de St. Pau in Barcelona. Dr. Picas is now leading a new project to re-structure healthcare, including Medical Home and new pharma approaches.

Peter Waegemann (www.peterwaegemann.com) has spent 35 years as EHR leader and standards expert. He is an acknowledged international Advocate of Health Informatics, particularly in EHR, mHealth, and e-care systems. The former CEO of the Medical Records Institute (Boston, USA) has been a world leader of 12 HITC standards organizations and has been named as one of 20 people who make US Healthcare better (HealthLeaders Magazine). Waegemann is co-founder of the international standards committee ISO TC215 and coordinated all healthcare standards activities as Chair of ANSI HISB for eight years. His recent focus is on the interaction and effect of the emerging Digital Society on healthcare. Waegemann’s latest book is “Knowledge Capital in the Digital Society”.

Gisele Roesems-Kerremans is Deputy Head of Unit of the (ICT for) Health and Wellbeing unit within DG CONNECT, the Communications Networks, Content and Technology DG. She joined the European Commission in 1994 as a Scientific officer in the domain of Software technologies in the ICT research programme and then moved on to the areas Micro/Nanosystems and Nanoelectronics.She studied Civil Engineering / Computer sciences at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and started her career as a system engineer in the telecommunication sector and continued later in the automotive industry.

Professor Gunnar O Klein has spent 40 years on IT for health and medical research. He was for many years working for Karolinska Institutet, the medical university of Stockholm, Sweden both as a cancer researcher and for the development of health informatics research and education. He is now professor of eHealth at the Centre for Empirical Research on Information Systems at the Örebro University School of Business. He has made many contributions to the development of security techniques for health and semantic interoperability. He was leading European Standardization of Health Informatics in CEN/TC 251 1997-2006 and was a co-founder of the global standardization in ISO/TC 215. He is now involved in research on patient empowerment in interaction with healthcare using apps and other techniques and new innovative functions for managing elderly patients with multimorbidity. He is a member of the regional eHealth steering group and one day a week he works as a primary care physician.

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.

Peter Brooks AM MD FRACP is Executive Director Research Northern Health Melbourne and has Professorial appointments in the Centre for Health Policy ,School of Population and Global Health and the School of Medicine University of Melbourne .He established the Australian Health Workforce Institute at the University of Melbourne in 2008. He was Executive Dean of Health Sciences at the University of Queensland from 1998 to 2009 and has held professorial positions at the UNSW , University of Sydney, Flinders University and the University of Tasmania prior to that. After graduating from Monash University he held hospital and university posts in Hobart and Glasgow training initially as a rheumatologist. He has published widely in musculoskeletal diseases ,on health education and more recently on health care and health workforce reform. He is a frequent commentator on health policy and the importance of developing an evidence base in this area. In 2010 he was awarded Membership of the Order of Australia for services to rheumatology as a clinician, researcher and academic .

Dr. Kerry Redican is a Professor of Public Health in the College of Veterinary MedicinVirginiaTech. He has been a faculty member at Virginia Tech for 33 years. Dr. Redican's educationalbackground include degrees from California State University, Long Beach (B.A., Health Education); UCLA (Master of Science in Public Health, Public Health Education); University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (Ph.D., Health Education); and University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill (MPH, Health Administration). Dr. Redican has taught undergraduate and graduate classes in public health and health promotion. He has been actively involved in development, implementation, and evaluation of primary prevention programs in various settings including schools and communities. Dr. Redican is co-author of four textbooks (Health Today, Organization of School Health Programs, Dimensions of Consumer Health, and i-Health) and has over 70 publications in health journals.

Professor Chunxue Bai was trained at Beijing Union Medical College and Shanghai Medical University. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of California, San Francisco, from 1997 to 1998. He is the Director of Shanghai Respiratory Research Institute and professor of Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University. He serves as Chair of Chinese Alliance against Lung Cancer (CALC), President of Chinese Society of e-Health and Treasure of Asian Pacific Society of Respirology. His major scientific contributions are the understanding of pathogenesis of and therapies for ARDS, COPD and lung cancer. He has authored more than 500 papers, including 200 papers in SCI indexes and 30 book chapters. He is Editor-in-Chief for Clinical eHealth，Associate Editor for AJP-Lung and International Journal of COPD. He also serves as the international editorial board member for AJRCCM，AJRCMB， Chest.