Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Bachelor and Master in Clinical and Health Psychology at Aveiro University (Portugal) and internship in Coimbra Hospital University Centre (e.g., Intervention in Sleep Disorders and Pain Disorders). Later, worked as a psychologist and neuropsychologist. Also performed a research project in Biofeedback/Neurofeedback by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Is currently working with the Institution of Solidarity Projecto Homem / Braga in the additions field. In parallel, also conducts outpatient consultations in various psychological disorders. Concomitantly, made several national and international communications in various Congress as Guest Speaker in the field of Neuroscience and Editor – Journal of Neurology & Stroke (JNSK); ISSN: 2373-6410 Author of several articles in peer review journals. At the moment, is a PhD student in Neuroscience at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Salamanca – Neurosciences Institute of Castilla y León

Experimental Psychology, Neuropsychology and Biological Rhythms, particularly in: Assessment and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Drug Abuse and Addiction, Behavioural Neuroscience, Behavioural Management, Biofeedback/Neurofeedback, Sleep Disorders, Pain Disorders

Hans von Holst received his Medical Doctor´s degree in 1976 and specialist in Neurosurgery 1982 at Karolinska University Hospital. In 1985 he earned his PhD and Associate Professorship in Neurosurgery, Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet. During 1991-1996 he was appointed as Chairman of the Dept of Neurosurgery and Division Manager of the Neuroclinics at Karolinska University Hospital, respectively. He has been appointed as senior neurosurgeon from 1974 to 2015. Between 1995-2015 he was appointed as Professor in Neuroengineering at the Royal Institute of Technology. He has published around 150 original papers in reputed journals, reviews and books and has been serving as an editorial board member in several journals

Stroke, TBI, Dementia

Felipe Padilla Vazquez Specialist in Neurointervention, Neuropathic Endovascular Therapy, Cerebrovascular Diseases, Column Surgery, CNS Oncological Surgery, Headaches, Neuropathic Pain and present time he is Member of the Mexican Society of Neurological Surgery AC.

Stroke, TBI, Dementia

Dr. Rajendra D. Badgaiyan, MD, is a psychiatrist and cognitive neuroscientist. He is Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Richmond University Medical Center, and Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. He received formal training in psychiatry, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, molecular imaging and neuroimaging. He was awarded the prestigious BK Anand National Research Prize in India and Solomon Award of Harvard Medical School. His research is focused on the study of neural and neurochemical mechanisms that control human brain functions. He developed the single scan dynamic molecular imaging technique (SDMIT) to detect, map, and measure neurotransmitters released acutely in the human brain during task performance. This technique is now used in laboratories all over the world. Using this technique, he studies dopaminergic control of human cognition and behavior. He is also interested in learning the nature of dysregulated dopamine neurotransmission in psychiatric and neuropsychiatric conditions. His research is funded by NIMH, NINDS, VA, and various foundations. Previously he served in the faculty of Harvard Medical School, SUNY Buffalo and University of Minnesota. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals.

Neural and Neurochemical mechanisms in Human Cognition and Behavior

Dr Jerzy Leszek is Professor of Psychiatry, Vice-Head of the Department of Psychiatry , Head of Alzheimer’s Disease Lab at the Medical University in Wroclaw , and Scientific Director of Alzheimer’s Disease Center in Scinawa near Wroclaw, Poland. He graduated at Medical University of Wroclaw in 1979, was awarded a doctorate in Wroclaw in 1981 and in 1999- examination for the degree of associate professor of psychiatry and since 2005 he is working as full professor of psychiatry at Wroclaw Medical University. He is author and co-author more than 240 papers (especially from old age psychiatry), some chapters to the books published in reputed Polish and international journals and serving as an editorial board member of several journals .He is Editor –in-Chief of Journal of Yoga and Physical Activity. He is Scientific Editor and co-author of first Polish academic handbook on Alzheimer’s disease and nine another academic handbooks from old age psychiatry(Polish and internationals) , member a lot of scientific associations e .g founder and president of Lower Silesian Association of Alzheimer’s Families, first of its kind in Poland ,President of the Scientific Council of Alzheimer’s Disease Center in Scinawa, near Wroclaw , Former President and founder of Polish Psychogeriatric Association, Former Secretary(now member) of European Old Age Psychiatry and Former Member of Board of Directions of International Psychogeriatric Association

Neurodegeneration processes/Alzheimer’s disease

Miguel JA Láinez is a Chairman and Professor atCatholic University of Valencia Department of Neurology

Neurology, Neurodegeneration, Neurological Diseases

Dr. Pant received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Agra University, Agra, India. His postdoctoral studies were conducted on the mechanisms of electron and ion transport in model membrane systems at the Department of Biophysics at Michigan State University. He joined the Laboratory of Neurobiology in the NIMH as a senior staff fellow in 1974 with Dr. Ichiji Tasaki where he studied the function of the axonal cytoskeleton in the squid giant axon. In 1979 he moved to the NIAAA extending his studies on the neuronal cytoskeleton and the effects of alcohol on its regulation. Dr. Pant moved to the NINDS, Laboratory of Neurochemistry in 1987 where he is presently chief of the section on Cytoskeleton Regulation. His laboratory is studying the mechanisms of topographic regulation of neuronal cytoskeleton proteins by post-translational modification, including the role of kinase cascades in normal brain and during neurodegeneration.

Neuronal Cytoskeletal Protein Regulation Section.

Amina S. woods is an investigator at integrative neuroscience branch, structural biology unit, NIDA. Woods obtained her B.Sc degree in chemistry at Loyola College. After graduation, she joined Department of Pathology and went to University of Maryland Medical School and obtained her M.S. She received a Ph. D in Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She has undergone Post-doctoral training in Oncology Immunology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Advisor Elizabeth Jaffee). Dr. Woods received “Woman Scientist Achievement Award” from NIDA in 2011.

Neuroscience branch, structural biology unit.

Ljudmila Stojanovich received her Ph.D. in Medicine, with the thesis “Neuropsychiatric manifestations in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus” in 1999. She is the scientific director in the Bezhanijska Kosa, University Medical Center of Belgrade University, where she is currently a Research Professor.

NEUROPSYCHIATRIC MANIFESTATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS

Dr. Cho was the Professor of Radiological Science as well as professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at University of California at Irvine since 1985. From 2005, Prof. Cho served as University Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Research Institute, Gachon University of Medicine & Science, Incheon, till he joined as a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Adavanced Institute of Convergence Technology (AICT), Seoul National University, Seoul,Korea. Since 2017, Professor Cho is concurrently serving as a director of Neuroscience Research Institute, Suwon University, Suwon, Korea. Prof. Cho was the first who pioneered world’s first "Ring PET", the first molecular imaging device, in 1975. Professor Cho has also been a pioneer in the field of MRI. Since 2005, world’s first 7.0T MRI coupling with super resolution PET (HRRT) for the world’s first PET-MRI fusion system professor Cho developed. Among the many honors and awards, Professor Cho was elected as a member of US National Academy of Science, Institute of Medicine in 1997 (Now US National Academy of Medicine).

Radiological Science

Prof. Sen (Qian) has 30 years continuous experience in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) research and application in bioengineering. He has worked in the field of circulatory assist and was instrumental in the development of the artificial heart program in Japan and in Australia. (Left Ventricular Assist Device, LVAD). He primarily developed the CFD technique which was employed for blood pump design. He used computational haemodynamic techniques to improve the problems related to haemolysis of the VentrAssit artificial heart which has been implanted in over 450 patients around world. He also has developed novel methodologies based on the CFD techniques for improvement cardiovascular and cerebrovascular surgical method, and estimation the risk of cerebral aneurysms. The system has been applied for over 300 patients, and validated by the results from in-vitro and in-vivo. He has more than 10 years work experience in global industry and has worked for eight universities in three different countries.

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Cerebral vascular and cardiovascular haemodynamics research, Engineering-based surgical training, Medical imaging and molecular imaging, Heart assistant device (Artificial heart) and endovascular treatment devices R&D, Intracranial aneurysm molecular features and biomarkers

Ljudmila Stojanovich received her Ph.D. in Medicine, with the thesis “Neuropsychiatric manifestations in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus” in 1999. She is the scientific director in the Bezhanijska Kosa, University Medical Center of Belgrade University, where she is currently a Full Research Professor. Dr. Stojanovich’s research focuses on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Antiphospholipid Syndrome, and Vaccination in patients with Autoimmune Rheumatic diseases. She is an author of three monographs and of about 250 articles on various aspects of Autoimmune Rheumatic disorders, published in international and domestic journals and in conference proceedings. She is in Editorial Boards (Editorial Boards LUPUS (LONDON). /Reviewer in the “CURRENT CONTENSTS” or “Science citation index”, like LUPUS REWIEWER DATABAS, Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, The Journal of Vaccine

Systemic Lupus Erythematous, Antiphospholipid syndrome, Neuropsychiatric manifestations in patients with systemic Lupus Erythematous, Vaccination in patients with auto-immune inflammatory rheumatic diseases

Dr. Rajendra D. Badgaiyan, MD, completed his MD from Harvard Medical School and had postdoctoral training in neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience. He is the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Richmond University Medical Center, and Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. His research is funded by NIMH, NINDS, VA, and various foundations. Previously he served in the faculty of Harvard Medical School, SUNY Buffalo and University of Minnesota. He has published over 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Dr Badgaiyan’s research is focused on the study of neural and neurochemical mechanisms that control human brain functions. He developed the single scan dynamic molecular imaging technique (SDMIT) to detect, map, and measure neurotransmitters released acutely in the human brain during task performance. This technique is now used in laboratories all over the world. Using this technique, he studies dopaminergic control of human cognition and behavior. He is also interested in learning the nature of dysregulated dopamine neurotransmission in psychiatric and neuropsychiatric conditions

Dr Schmidt is a member of the European Force on Age-related White Matter Changes. He is also a member of the Austrian Society of Neuroimaging, and the Austrian Society for Stroke Research, and the president of the Austrian Alzheimer Society, and of the Working Group Neuroepidemiology and Prevention of the Austrian Neurological Society. He is a member of the VITATOPS-Steering Committee: a worldwide project on homocysteine-lowering multivitamin therapy in patients with recent ischaemic attacks or stroke. Dr Schmidt is or has been a principle investigator in the CASCADE study on diabetes and cortical atrophy stratified by abscence and presence of hypertension, in the Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, and in the Austrian Stroke Prevention Study.

Dr Schmidt`s clinical and research interests focus on the managing and treatment of vascular dementia combined with cerebrovascular diseases, in the pathophysiology of vascular cognitive impairment and Alzheimer`s Disease, in white matter lesion progression in patients with small vessel diseases, and in the prevention of diabetes.

Dr. Pragatheswaran is currently working as a Medical Director at Madurai Medical Centre with comprehensive services of specialists in ENT, Ophthalmology, Neurology, Neuro surgery, Psychologist, Sociology counselling for the past 28 years (1988 to 2016). He is an honorary medical Director in Guru Cancer Institute and also a senior medical director at public health care foundation, he has taken his doctorate in Hospital Management at European Continental University. He has his special training in general medicine and completed his MBA in health care and Hospital Administration from South Californian University.

Senior administrative medical officer in a large super speciality hospital with more than 3200 beds in south India. With a blend of meticulous surveillance over quality of the services of the medical / Para medical/ non-medical/ technical personnel rendering unblemished services. Done more than 700 tonsillectomies/ hundreds of Smr, Septoplasties and assisted hundreds of head and neck and facio -maxillary surgeries.

Linu has completed her PhD from Manipal University. She has completed her MS in Counseling and Psychotherapy. Currently she is working as Professor in Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal University, India.

Bipolar Disorder, Psycho-education, Quality of life, Bio psychosocial aspects of breast cancer patients.

Professor WK Tang was appointed to professor in the Department of Psychiatry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011. His main research areas are Addictions and Neuropsychiatry in Stroke. Professor Tang has published over 100 papers in renowned journals, and has also contributed to the peer review of 40 journals. He has secured over 20 major competitive research grants. He has served the editorial boards of five scientific journals. He was also a recipient of the Young Researcher Award in 2007, awarded by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Psychiatry, Addictions and Neuropsychiatry , Stroke

Natural from Portugal, did her nursing training in Lisbon where worked for 8 years in a central hospital in an acute medical ward with a stroke unit. During this time she did her Post graduation in Elderly/Geriatric and a Specialization and Master in Rehabilitation with training in Alcoitao Rehabilitation center. In 2014 decide to challenge herself and moved to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia where worked in a Stroke Unit in King Fahad Hospital – National Guard Health Affairs Hospital for one year and half. Here experienced to be a charge nurse and clinical resource nurse and worked with 52 different nationalities in a specific cultural context. In February’16 joined Amana Healthcare Hospital in UAE as a rehabilitation nurse. Helped the team to achieve the CARF accreditation and became Stroke Coordinator.

Neuro Rehabilitation, Stroke

Aakriti Gupta is a medallist in Food and Nutrition with specialization in public health nutrition from Delhi University. She is a PhD Scholar from Delhi University, India. She has worked extensively as a research scientist at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. She has worked on various national level research projects in the area of Vitamin D deficiency, Pediatric Metabolic Syndrome and Geriatric Nutrition, Maternal and Child health and Iron deficiency anemia. She has attended several national and international conferences and has spoken as an international guest speaker on the topic of ‘Vitamin D deficiency in India’ at the 12th SEA Regional Scientific Meeting of the International Epidemiological Association 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand. She has an expertise in the area of micronutrient deficiencies amongst different age groups. She has several publications in indexed journals in diverse topics in the area of public health nutrition. She has written a chapter on Nutrition and Health in the 4th edition of Textbook of Community Medicine by Dr. Piyush Gupta for medical and postgraduate students.

Nutrition, Public Health, Macro and Micronutrient deficiencies, Non communicable diseases, Metabolic Diseases

Chairman & CEO at Alzheimers Disease International, London, United Kingdom Studied M.B.B.S at University of Mysore Past: st.marys high school,thalacode Lives in Trichur, Kerala, India

Alzheimers and related diseases

Professor WK Tang was appointed to professor in the Department of Psychiatry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011. His main research areas are Addictions and Neuropsychiatry in Stroke. Professor Tang has published over 100 papers in renowned journals, and has also contributed to the peer review of 40 journals. He has secured over 20 major competitive research grants. He has served the editorial boards of five scientific journals. He was also a recipient of the Young Researcher Award in 2007, awarded by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Stroke, Psychiatry and Psychology

Neuroscience Research NEUROHEALTH NEUROCIENCIAS Aplicadas (NEURONA) at Neurohealth Neurociencias Aplicadas, Senior management - Founder and researcher Neuroscientist at Fundacion Neurona and rotating internship - applied researcher at UNCIP Unidad de Neurocirugía Pediátrica

Neuroscience, Neurology

Graduated in Medicin from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (1988), medical residence in internal medicine and clinical neurology (1989-93); masters in internal medicine by Universidade Federal do Paraná (2003); PhD by Universidade de São Paulo (2008); Post- Doctoral by University of Edinburgh, UK (2011). Has experience in Neurology, Collective Health, focusing on Epidemiology, acting on the following subjects: stroke epidemiology, primary and secondary prevention of atherosclerosis, biobank and stroke units. Professor of Neurology and pos-graduation program at University of Joinville, Brazil. Coordinator of Joinville Stroke

Clinical Neurology, Internal medicine

Professor WK Tang was appointed to professor in the Department of Psychiatry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011. His main research areas are Addictions and Neuropsychiatry in Stroke. Professor Tang has published over 100 papers in renowned journals, and has also contributed to the peer review of 40 journals. He has secured over 20 major competitive research grants. He has served the editorial boards of five scientific journals. He was also a recipient of the Young Researcher Award in 2007, awarded by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Stroke, Depression, Neurology

Neuroscience Research NEUROHEALTH NEUROCIENCIAS Aplicadas (NEURONA) at Neurohealth Neurociencias Aplicadas, Senior management - Founder and researcher Neuroscientist at Fundacion Neurona and rotating internship - applied researcher at UNCIP Unidad de Neurocirugía Pediátrica

Neuroscience, Neurology

Neurologist and board certified Neurointensivist, currently pursuing further training in Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology. My research expertise is in the pathophysiology of subarachnoid hemorrhage and especially in cerebral vasospasm as well as acute ischemic stroke. My goal is to synergize my clinical training and research skills; to gain in depth understanding of subarachnoid hemorrhage and ischemic stroke and to better treat various other devastating neurological diseases. I strive to improve patient outcomes by early identification of novel treatment targets and enable innovations in precision medicine.

Neuroradiology, Neurosurgery

Dr. Suhail Rasool has expertise in evaluation and passion in identifying therapeutic modalities for various Neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease. In the last 6 years Dr. Suhail has published more than 20 papers in peer reviewed and high impact factor journals. I have put forth significant contributions to my field. I have screened various conformation antibodies and I also have studied the effects of various antibodies and antigens for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. I studied the various transgenic mouse mice models and Alzheimer’s disease human brains by utilizing various conformational antibodies and antigens

Alzheimer’s disease, Neurodegenerative diseases

Research Associate at CHU Sainte-Justine, CEO at Neurotechsr and Postdoctoral Researcher at Montreal Neurological Institute. Studied Sciences neurologiques at Université de Montréal

Neurosceince and Neurology

Professor WK Tang was appointed to professor in the Department of Psychiatry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011. His main research areas are Addictions and Neuropsychiatry in Stroke. Professor Tang has published over 100 papers in renowned journals, and has also contributed to the peer review of 40 journals. He has secured over 20 major competitive research grants. He has served the editorial boards of five scientific journals. He was also a recipient of the Young Researcher Award in 2007, awarded by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Psychiatry, Addictions and Neuropsychiatry , Stroke

Bruno Giometto, MD, is the director of Dept. of Neurology in Padova and was coordinator of the PNS Euronetwork. He has published more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is Vice-President of the Italian Neurological Society.

NeuroOncology,Neurology

Nancy Ratner, PhD, is interested in understanding mechanisms of peripheral nerve tumor (neurofibroma) formation in neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a common inherited disorder in which children are predisposed to cancer of the nervous system, to learning problems, bone disorders, and other cancers. She identified EGFR and MEK as potential therapeutic targets in NF1 peripheral nerve tumorigenesis, and has developed cell culture and mouse models of NF1 nerve tumorigenesis. Her laboratory has also used analysis of gene expression to identify critical genes in neurofibroma and their malignant derivatives, MPNST.Dr. Ratner received her bachelor's from Brown University, her doctorate from Indiana University, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. She was a member of the faculty at the University of Cincinnati from 1987 to 2004.

Molecular Biology, Cancer Biology and Neural Tumors.

Guido Cavaletti, MD, is a certified neurologist since 1990. He is the Head of the Experimental Neurology Unit at the University of Milano-Bicocca and has a long-lasting experience in the preclinical and clinical assessment of CIPN. He has published more than 200 full papers in peer-reviewed journals, he is is consulted by the FDA, NIH and EMA and has been serving as associate editor of the Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System and as editorial board member of Experimental neurology and Current medicinal Chemistry.

Neurology

Dr. Aizenberg is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She is Board Certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery. Dr. Aizenberg has completed fellowship training in Neurosurgical Oncology at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and has a special interest in primary and metastatic tumors of the brain and spine.

NeuroOncology and Neurosurgery

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She is Board Certified by the American Board of Ammirati Mario is an expert in Neurological Surgery.He has completed fellowship training in Neurosurgical Oncology at The The Ohio State University and has a special interest in primary and metastatic tumors of the brain and spine.

Primary and metastatic tumors of the brain and spine.