13^th Global Diabetes Conference & Medicare Expo August 08-10, 2016 Birmingham, UK

Dr. M.R.C. Greenwood is Chancellor Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz and currently Director of the Foods for Health Initiative, Chair of the Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology and Distinguished Professor of Nutrition and Internal Medicine at the University of California, Davis. She also holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Public Health and Nutrition at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Greenwood is a nationally and internationally known expert on obesity and diabetes. She has numerous publications investigating the basis of obesity and diabetes. In addition, she is a national leader on science and technology policy and an expert on higher education policy issues. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academies of Sciences. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is a fellow, past president and board chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and is a fellow of the American Society for Nutrition (ASN). She currently chairs the Policy and Global Affairs division of the NRC at the National Academies of Sciences.

Dr. M.R.C. Greenwood´s research interests are in national science policy, obesity, diabetes, and women´s health. Her past research work has been on the role of genetics in the development of obesity and diabetes.

Michael Yafi is the director of Pediatric Endrocinology division of University of Texas Medical School. He got the "Best Doctors in Houston" in 2006. Dr. Michael is a member of "Austin Journal of Pediatrics"

Diabetes, Thyroid gland

Dr. José Luis Reyes Sanchez is an associate Professor of Department of Physiology and Biophysics Neuroscience, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the IPN. His research includes participation of sex hormones on renal maturation,effects of exposure to heavy metals in the kidney postnatal development, features of proteins of the tight junctions of the peritoneum, study of the effects of dialysis fluids in cell cultures peritoneum and etc

Study of physiology, pharmacology and toxicology of the kidney, particularly in the perinatal period.Study of the morphology and function of the peritoneum

Vladimír Štrbák,MD and DSc., has completed his study in Bratislava. He was Director of the Inst. Exp. End.SAS, Head of Pathological Physiology, Slovak Med. Univ., president of the Slovak Physiological Society, Council Member FEPS, chair of the Scientfic Board of the Slovak Academy of Sciences for Medical Sciences, Council Member of the International Society for Pathophysiology. Published 118 PuBMed papers. Organized series of symposia on Hormones in Milk (5) and Cell volume and function (2) and FEPS meeting in Bratislava. He served as Organizing Committee member of the 6th Global Diabetes Summit and Medicare Expo in Dubai (2015).

Endocrinology, Diabetes, Cell volume regulation and its relation to functions

Dr Knott is a member of the Course Management Team for the Postgraduate Certificate in Research Methods, and teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the area of research methods, molecular and cell biology, biotherapy, pharmacogenomics and pharmacogenetics. She is a Professional Member of Diabetes UK and the Biochemical Society, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Dr Knott's research skills are in the area of molecular and cell biology with particular interest in the microvascular complication of diabetes.

Dr.Lixin Li has completed her PhD from Norwegian University of Science and Technology and postdoctoral studies from Departement of Physiology, University of Toronto. She is the assistant professor at Central Michigan University US. She has published more than 20 papers in diabetes, obesity journals, she was the invited speaker of serveal international conferences and has been serving as an editorial board member of serveral jounals

Her research interests have been focused on the underlying mechanism of pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes with a specific focus on β-cell dysfunction as well as the molecular mechanism of obesity associated insulin resistance

Dr. Belma Turan is a professor and head of biophysics in Ankara University. She got distinguished Service Award in Cardiovascular Sciences, Medicine and Surgery by International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences, 2005.She is an editorial board member of number of journals and also a visiting professor in Manitoba University.

Cardiac electrophysiology, Calcium ion regulation, Zinc ion regulation, oxidant stress, antioxidants, diabetic cardiomyopathy

Professor Yusuf Ozturk has completed his PhD from Ankara University in 1985. He was the former director of Graduate Institute of Health, and is now the head of Department of Pharmacology and the dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Anadolu University. He has published more than 160 papers in reputed journals cited around 1800 times and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute. Participating many scientific juries, boards and commissions, he has various national and international awards and prizes, acknowledging top and distinguished review service.

Obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and preventive medicine

Dr. Zeeshan Ali is the Kickstart India Program Specialist at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in Washington, D.C.He supports the outreach efforts of the Physicians Committee by reaching new members, physicians, health care professionals and researchers at medical and scientific conferences. He received his doctorate degree from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Germany. He held a Marie Curie fellowship from Gabriele D'Annunzio University in Italy in 2010 and a postdoctoral fellowship at University Piemonte Orientale Italy 2012.

Prevention of disease over treatment

Omo is a Senior Lecturer in Primary Care in the Department of Acute and Continuing Care.He leads the school Diabetes Specialist Interest Group and co-ordinates the Diabetes Care and Management course for post registration nurses and Patient Pathways of Care for pre-registration participants and also conducts study days in collaboration with partner organisations outside the university.He is a link lecturer for students attending clinical placement in various community settings and is also the Professional Tutor Group Leader for students, providing pastoral support to these students throughout their programm.He supervises both undergraduate and postgraduate research students. Omo's work is recognised both nationally and internationally and he has been a keynote speaker at the NNNG conference, a reviewer for Journal, Editor of Journals and sits on the Editorial Board of American Journal of Food and Nutrition.

His research interests are in diabetes and clinical nutrition which are reflected in his publications and conference presentations

Dr. Jose Mario Franco de Oliveira is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine of Universidade Federal Fluminense, in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is also one of the Deputy Editors for Diabetes of The British Medical Journal. He has published a number of papers and served as a reviewer or author&co-author for many prestigious medical journals like “Hypertension”, “The American Journal of Hypertension”, “The Journal of the American Society of Nephrology”, “The British Medical Journal”, and the “New England Journal of Medicine. His main interests are in the clinical research of diabetes and hypertension. He is a Certified Preventive Cardiologist, Nephrologist, and Adult Intensive Care Unit Physician,. Finally, Prof de Oliveira, was a Post-Doctoral Clinical&Research Fellow at the Endocrinology-Hypertension-Diabetes Division of the Brigham&Women,s Hospital at Harvard Medical School, in Boston, USA, and is one of the two authors of the recent electronic Diabetes e-book published and edited by the British Medical Journal for All Doctors World-Wide.

Hypertension, macrovascular complication, diabetes

Dr. Jose Mario Franco de Oliveira is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine of Universidade Federal Fluminense, in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is also one of the Deputy Editors for Diabetes of The British Medical Journal. He has published a number of papers and served as a reviewer or author&co-author for many prestigious medical journals like “Hypertension”, “The American Journal of Hypertension”, “The Journal of the American Society of Nephrology”, “The British Medical Journal”, and the “New England Journal of Medicine. His main interests are in the clinical research of diabetes and hypertension. He is a Certified Preventive Cardiologist, Nephrologist, and Adult Intensive Care Unit Physician,. Finally, Prof de Oliveira, was a Post-Doctoral Clinical&Research Fellow at the Endocrinology-Hypertension-Diabetes Division of the Brigham&Women,s Hospital at Harvard Medical School, in Boston, USA, and is one of the two authors of the recent electronic Diabetes e-book published and edited by the British Medical Journal for All Doctors World-Wide.

Diabetes, Hypertension, Macrvascular complications

Dr. Gaurav Sharma is a renowned Diabetologist and a lifestyle doctor who is credited with changing the entire wellness industry across the globe. He is one of the illustrious personalities known for his contribution towards society & making people aware about the perpetual dominance of a number of lifestyle related disorders. A visionary by approach & innovator by default his urge of giving back to society inspired him to launch DrG Wellness, a company which has motto of constant innovation in terms of pathbreaking food supplement & products. Dr. G Wellness has dedicated R & D team which is headed by Dr. G Sharma himself. After completion of his post graduation (M.D) from St. Petesburg state medical academy, he heralded a profound need for people to lead a healthy lifestyle by adopting the right diet plans. He was always keen towards working for the benefits for those suffering from most prevalent lifestyle related disorders like diabetes, arthritis, obesity. He has been practicing for more than 14 years in preventing and managing such disorders through his world famous lifestyle modification programs. He was recently awarded at the 4th M.T India health care awards held in 2014 to become the most admired Diabetologist and lifestyle doctor. Dr. G feels “Impossible is equal to opportunity” & this is what has inspired him to innovate products which have reversed diabetes and arthritis of thousands of patients. Dr. G Sharma has been featured numerous times on the leading national television discussing how to reverse the symptoms of most lifestyles related disorders naturally.

Reverse diabetes

She graduated from the University of Malaya with a Master's Degree in Medical Microbiology. She worked as a research assistant in Professor Thomas Luscher's lab (Zurich, Switzerland) before commencing her doctoral and postdoctoral research training in the lab of Associate Professor Yang (University of Fribourg, Switzerland). She has been awarded with the Pfizer Research Award for the Best Research in Cardiovascular Biology (Switzerland, 2005) for the finding of the beneficial role of reconstituted high density lipoprotein, in improving endothelial function as an important contribution towards therapeutics against atherosclerosis.She is also an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, with a passion for widening medical research knowledge among school children, through school placements. She was elected Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology in the field of Cardiovascular Sciences (ESC) and a member of the ESC Working Group on Atherosclerosis.Currently, she is working on exploring the mechanisms underlying endothelial function and insulin sensitivity.

She has worked with animals models of vascular diseases and is interested in mechanisms of atherosclerosis and insulin resistance.

Prof. Dr. Nuray Yazihan (MD) is physiologist and pathophysiologist and currently works in Ankara University,Faculty of Medicine, Internal Medicine Division, Pathophysiology Department. Her current research areas are inflammatory aspects of ischemia, hypoxia, cancer and metabolic diseases. She has projects about novel inflammatory molecules in cell/organ defense systems and special interest in erythropoietin and midkine. She has extensive experience in developing animal and in vitro/ex vivo organ and cell culture models and molecular tecniques. She has also studies in mathematical modelling , risk analysis and health economics. She has been leading national and international projects, and being as advisor in different projects of national and international public sector.

Inflammatory aspects of ischemia, hypoxia, cancer and metabolic diseases

Dr. Esma Nur Okatan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biophysics, Cumhuriyet University Faculty of Medicine.Her research interest is in clarifying the mechanisms underlying diabetes-induced cardiac dysfunction. Specifically, she has focused on altered intracellular calcium ion homeostasis and sarcoplasmic reticulum function in diabetic rat hearts. She has received fellowships from organizations such as UNESCO, FP6 Marie Curie actions, International Society for Heart Research, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÃœBÄ°TAK) and Ankara University.

She uses animal models to mimic type-1 diabetes and high carbohydrate-induced metabolic syndrome, and electrophysiological methods to define cardiac dysfunction. She investigates the mechanisms underlying the dysfunction through cell culture models and molecular biological approaches.

Ovsyannikova Alla had completed her studies from Novosibirsk Medical University, Russia. She had two certificates of specialists: internal medicine and endocrinologist. She is working as an endocrinologist and scientist in Federal State Budget Institution "Scientific - Research Institute of Therapy and Preventive Medicine".She investigates characteristics of the clinical course, treatment and genetic features in Siberian and Russian population.

Her research work is about monogenic types of diabetes mellitus (especially MODY diabetes) in young patients.

Haobo Li has completed his Ph.D. from Department of Anaesthesiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China, and postdoctoral study from the same department. He is the postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Anaesthesiology, The University of Hong Kong. His major focus of research is the mechanism of ischemic postconditioning cardioprotection against myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury, particularly, of diabetic hearts. He has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers and services as a reviewer for more than 3 reputed journals and grant.

Diabetic hearts

Sunita Singh is Associate Professor in Banaras Hindu University, India. She did her Ph.D. in Biochemical and Evolutionary Genetics and post doc in Population Genetics from Banaras Hindu University. Dr. Singh’s current research work involves genetics of complex diseases, including genetics of Type 2 Diabetes and molecular pathology of multiple cancers. Dr. Singh has authored/co-authored 23 papers in the field of molecular evolution, type 2 diabetes mellitus and carcinogenesis

Type 2 diabetes mellitus and carcinogenesis

Dr. Nicolette Nadene Houreld N.Dip (TWR), B.Tech (TWR), M.Tech (TWR), D.Tech (UJ) Biomedical Technology was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She graduated from the Laser Research Centre, Faculty of Heath Sciences, University of Johannesburg in 2007 with her doctoral degree in Biomedical Technology and became a full time senior researcher and lecturer in the Laser Research Centre in 2009. She received her NRF (National Research Foundation, South Africa) Y2-rating in 2012.Dr Houreld has supervised and co-supervised 8 honours, 8 masters and 4 doctorate students within the Laser Research Centre and other departments within the University of Johannesburg. She has secured external funding towards projects in the Laser Research Centre and has reviewed both National and International grant applications. Over the last 11 years she has published 34 peer-reviewed accredited national and international articles, 17 conference proceedings, 4 book chapters and 1 book, and reviews articles for numerous international journals. Dr Houreld serves on various research-related university and science council committees, and is on the editorial board for the journal Photomedicine and Laser Surgery. She is currently on the executive committee as treasurer for the World Association for Laser Therapy (WALT). She has presented at and been invited to present and give workshops at a number of international conferences.

Her research interests lie in the areas of photobiomodulation and diabetic wound healing, where she investigates the molecular and cellular effects of photobiomodulation and laser tissue interaction.