34^th Annual Cardiologists Conference

(Assistant Professor) Cardiac Anaesthesiology Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Cardiac Anaesthesiology Kolkata, West Bengal, India Here two DM Cardiac Anaesthesiology seats are recognized by MCI (2014)

Cardiac Anaesthesiology

I am Dr. Mojtaba Mafi M.D., Medical Doctor/ Physician, who graduated from Tehran University, School of Medicine with honor. I studied in the neurosurgery ward and graduated with A score with a thesis on Meningioma Brain Tumor for 6 years. With continuing my practice with special consideration on psychosomatic disorders, I completed many post-graduate courses on health psychology, addiction medicine, sexual disorders therapy successfully. I passed many post-graduate courses in Neuro, approved by Medical sciences university. As well, I have been passed postgraduate courses on Nutrition, I successfully passed more than 10 programs with certificates and membership in the Iranian. I had passed Beauty and Skincare courses in South Korea and certified from Sunghuwan co Ltd for using and working of beauty technology, RF and IPL.

Neuroscience, Brain Tumor, vascular disorder, Medical Doctor/ Physician.

Sergey Suchkov was a Secretary-in-Chief of the Editorial Board, Biomedical Science, an international journal published jointly by the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK. At present, he is the Director of Center for Personalized Medicine, Sechenov University, Russia; Chair of Dept. for Translational Medicine, Moscow Engineering Physical University and Secretary General of United Cultural Convention, Cambridge, UK.

Personalized medicine, Translational research

Marco Picichè (MD, Ph.D.) graduated with a degree in medicine from the University of Florence in 1995 and completed his cardiac surgery residency at the Tor Vergata University of Rome in 2000, both summa cum laude. He has worked as an assistant at Saint Luc Hospital, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels (1999–2001), as a clinic head/hospital assistant at the universities of Clermont-Ferrand (2003–2004) and Montpellier (2004–2007). He held regular teaching appointments at the university of Montpellier school of medicine, obtained certification by the French Board in cardiac surgery (Paris, 2007), earned his research master in surgical science (Paris, 2007). In Canada, he authored a research project on ‘‘Noncoronary collateral circulation’’ which was submitted to the annual research competition at Québec Heart & Lung Institute, Laval University, and received the competition’s highest grant. In September 2011 he received a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) in therapeutic innovations from Paris-Sud University. He is the Editor in Chief of the book : Dawn and evolution of cardiac procedures : research avenues in cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology- (Springer-Verlag publishing house, September 2012). Currently he is a consultant cardiac surgeon in Italy.

Cardiac Surgery, Interventional Cardiology

Fabiola B Sozzi works as a Staff Cardiologist at University Hospital Policlinico of Milan, Italy. She has high skills in multimodality imaging of heart disease using echocardiography integrated with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, cardiac computed tomography and nuclear. She also works in the acute clinical setting treating acute cardiac syndromes. She has expertise in Echocardiography at Thoraxcenter of Rotterdam (NL), where she defended her PhD thesis on Stress Cardiac Imaging under the supervision of Professor J Roelandt. She is a Visiting Professor at University of Milan where she leads several research projects and teaches at Faculty of Medicine and School of Specialization of Cardiology. She is an Author of 70 papers published in peer-reviewed international journals and Reviewer of several medical international journals.

Echocardiography, cardiac imaging

Sergio Mejía Viana has completed his Cardiology training and Doctorate at the University Clinic of Navarre. He was an interventional Cardiologist, Angiologist and Phlebologist for 20 years. He is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, has written more than 100 scientific publications including abstracts, articles and book chapters. He returned to clinical practice with high interest in prevention. Currently, he is a Consultant at the Medical Investigation Unit in St. Bernard´s Hospital in Gibraltar.

Angiology, Atypical risk factors, Heavy metals toxicity.

Višnja Nesek Adam is anesthesiologist, emergency medicine specialist and subspecialist in intensive care medicine. She is recognised for her expertise in emergency medicine. Dr. Nesek served as Assistant Professor at JJ Strossmayer School of Medicine at the University of Osijek. Although she loves the clinical practice of anesthesia and emergency medicine, teaching students is her true passion and she was responsible for teaching medical students, residents and fellows about the anesthesia and emergency medicine. She is also Head of the University Department of anesthesiology, reanimatology and intensive care medicine and Center for emergency medicine.

Cardiac anethesiology

Galya Atanasova has completed her PhD training in Cardiology from Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Endocrinology at Pleven Medical University, Bulgaria. She is a General Practitioner and Cardiologist in Trainee at Pleven Medical University, Bulgaria. She specialized in General Medicine from Pleven Medical University, Bulgaria during 1993. She has attended many international events and presented her research work. She did many researches on metabolic syndrome and myocardial infarction of heart.

Preventive Cardiology, Regenerative Biology Research, Deciphering the molecular and Cellular Mechanisms, Maintenance and Differentiation of Cardiovascular Progenitors, Translational Cardiovascular Genetics, and Proteomic Analysis of Heart Disease.

Telmo Pereira is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Coimbra Health School, and is the Head of the Clinical Physiology Department. In the last five year, he has developed research in the areas of Cardiovascular Prevention and Neurosciences, and has also collaborated in the development of new non-invasive technology options for the assessment of vascular function.

Cardiovascular Prevention

Manuela Stoicescu is the Consultant Internal Medicine, PhD, Assistant professor of University of Oradea, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Medical Disciplines Department, Romania.

Internal Medicine

He completed his under graduation in 1996 from Ashwood Medical University (Texas) and Masters (MD) in internal medicine in 1999 from Belford University (Texas).

Interventional Cardiology

He completed his masters from Sardar Patel University in Zoology/Comparative Endocrinology and his doctorate from University of Rajasthan on Male reproductive Physiology. He has more than 15 years of experience in Teaching and 12 years of experience in research. Till date, he has guided five Ph. D. students, one has submitted her thesis and four more are working. He has also guided more than 50 M. Sc. Dissertation thesis and 4 B. Tech thesis. He has published around 54 international papers of repute and 40 conference papers. He has also published three books. He has also successfully completed four research grants from various funding agencies. His current research area of interest includes, understanding the role of gut microbiota in diabetes and liver inflammation. His group has successfully developed an animal model for diet induced diabetes and have established that gut dysbiosis is one of the major causes for the induction and progression on insulin resistance resulting in type 2 diabetes and even obesity. He is also working on isolation, characterization of probiotic strains of gut origin from rats and fishes with the intention identification for its anti-diabetic and as a food preservative and food supplementations. He is also member of the editorial board of many journals and is also member in various journals as a reviewer. Owing to his expertise in bacteriocin isolation and characterization, he has been appointed as the International Grant Reviewer Panel for reviewing grant proposals on Bacteriocin and Probiotic Research of Czech Science Foundation, Czech Republic.

Cardiology

Professor Tadeusz Malinski, Ph.D.; Dr.h.c.m. is the Marvin & Ann Dilley White Chair and Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Ohio University. His research is interdisciplinary in the areas of biochemistry, biotechnology, nanomedicine. He was first in the world to measure, with nanosensors, nitric oxide concentration in single cells and neurons. His ground-breaking discovery of the regulatory role of nitric oxide in the beating heart and the mechanism of dysfunction of nitric oxide synthase are historical contributions to world science. The dysfunction of nitric oxide synthase is a common denominator of several diseases of modern civilization heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, atherosclerosis, aging, obesity and stroke. Professor Malinski’s work appears in nearly 400 publications. He has received approximately 35 Awards and Distinctions among others: International Academy of Cardiology Aaward, Maria Curie Award in Biochemistry, and the Grand Gold Medal in Medicine from the Society of Arts, Sciences and Lettres.

Role of Nitric oxide in endothelium dysfunction,Cardiovascular diseases,Heart failure, Hypertension, Diabetes, Atherosclerosis, Aging,Obesity and stroke,Biochemistry,Biotechnology,Nanomedicine

Dr Mari Aparici, MD is an Associate Professor in Residence at UCSF. She is a Nuclear Physician with residencies in both Europe (Barcelona) and US (Stanford), and with Molecular imaging fellowships from Stanford University. She is a physician-scientist in the development of Molecular Imaging. She has about 20 years of clinical and research experience in the field, and 10 years of a leadership position as Chief Nuclear Medicine at the San Francisco VAMC as part of her faculty position at UCSF. She has published 100 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Molecular imaging,PET/CT and SPECT/CT, atherosclerosis, vulnerable plaque, intravascular catheter, cardiovascular disease, heart transplant, lymphoma, lymphoscintigraphy, sentinel node,molecular targeted treatment, translational research

Marco Picichè (MD, Ph.D.) graduated with a degree in medicine from the University of Florence in 1995 and completed his cardiac surgery residency at the Tor Vergata University of Rome in 2000, both summa cum laude. He held regular teaching appointments at the university of Montpellier school of medicine, obtained certification by the French Board in cardiac surgery (Paris, 2007), earned his research master in surgical science (Paris, 2007), and received a university diploma in vascular surgery (Paris, 2007). In May 2009 he had the honor of opening the 44th Congress of the European Society for Surgical Research with a lecture on ‘‘The history of surgical research.’’ In September 2011 he received a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) in therapeutic innovations from Paris-Sud University. He is the Editor in Chief of the book : « Dawn and evolution of cardiac procedures : research avenues in cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology » (Springer-Verlag publishing house, September 2012). He patented a new surgical instrument. Currently he is a cardiac surgeon in Italy.

Cardiac Surgery,Interventional cardiology

Dr. Anna Rekhviashvili MD, PhD is currently working as a cardiologist, chief of the Outpatients and Diagnostics Department at Archangel St Michael Clinical Hospital. She is leading Arterial Hypertension and Vascular Study Center, Tbilisi, Georgia. She completed her M.D. in Tbilisi State University, Georgia in 2002. She was resident in cardiology and PhD student from 2003-2008. She worked as a cardiologist at the Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Hospital, Tbilisi, Georgia. She was Visiting Research Fellow at the Continuum Heart Institute, Beth Israel Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York, NY in 2010 and Visiting Professor at the AMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands in 2016. She is a member of many professional national and international societies in cardiology, hypertension and atherosclerosis. She has many publications in national and international journals.

Arterial Hypertension, diurnal variation of BP, endothelial dysfunction, micro- and macrocirculation in hypertension.

Dr. Pierre Tibi is a thoracic and cardiac surgeon in Prescott, Arizona and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Banner University Medical Center Phoenix and St. Luke's Medical Center. He received his medical degree from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years.

Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery.

Andrey Kuznetsov has worked on the problems of delicate mechanisms of energy metabolism in the heart and their changes under pathophysiological conditions. He studied mitochondrial function and regulation in normal cells and in various pathological states, in particular in the field of mitochondrial cardiac system, mitochondrial interactions with other intracellular structures and systems, performing analysis of mitochondria in situ and in vivo. Also, he studied the roles of mitochondrial damage in ischemia reperfusion injury, apoptosis, calcium homeostasis, oxidative stress, mitochondrial ROS production, cardiac and muscle diseases with imaging of mitochondria and mitochondrial function, mitochondrial dynamics (fission, fusion, motility) in various living cells. He has extensive knowledge in cardiac bioenergetics and mitochondrial physiology and experience in optical imaging (fluorescent, two-photon) of single cell and single mitochondria, imaging of mitochondrial Ca2+, ROS, membrane potential, mitochondrial dynamics for basic science and in clinically oriented studies.

Cardiac bioenergetics,Mitochondrial physiology,Optical imaging

Sekib Sokolovic is professor of Internal Medicine at Medical Faculty of Sarajevo and cardiologist at Sarajevo University Clinical Center. He is European Hypertension Specialist and director of National Training in Cardiology and director of the Excellence Center in Arterial Hypertension.

Arterial stiffness, vitamin D. arterial hypertension,Microcirculation and pulmonary arterial hypertension

As international Member of Ukrainian Academy of Science he participate in scientific meetings of the Academy and hold some lectures. His education he got in many universities worldwide starting from Gdansk, mainly Vienna and partially Chicago. His interested was always with regards to biochemistry and pathophysiology of humans cells. In Vienna he became one of the famous surgeon , as his rector mentioned it recently, by doing tounsed of organ transplantations and vascular procedures. He was always interested in developing and introduction of new procedures and was first who invented ukrainian vascular surgeon and friend Volodos who invented as pioneer worldwide stenting of aortic aneurysms. Since 1984 he performed more than 550 kidney, liver transplantation Vascular Surgery: Clinical, experimental Research (SPACE-Study), (L-arginine study). From his experimental laboratory at Medical University of Vienna many exciting papers were published in top journals e.g. Circulation, Stroke, EJVES, JVS etc.

Vascular surgery,Aortic aneurysms,Biochemistry and pathophysiology

Federico Scarfiello, technician radiologist and technician in cardiology, with academic training in the area of oncology. Currently chair of the committee of technicians and nurses of the Argentine Federation of Cardiology. Member of the committee of Technicians and Graduates of the Argentine Society of Radiology. Member of several national associations as international and in constant training - Lecturer in several conferences related to Nuclear Medicine. Former lecturer at the Universidad Del Salvador

Cardiology,Nuclear Medicine

Sekib Sokolovic is professor of Internal Medicine at Medical Faculty of Sarajevo and cardiologist at Sarajevo University Clinical Center. He is European Hypertension Specialist and director of National Training in Cardiology and director of the Excellence Center in Arterial Hypertension

Arterial stiffness, vitamin D. arterial hypertension, Microcirculation and pulmonary arterial hypertension