Cheryl Ann Alexander graduated from the University of Mississippi where she obtained a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Nursing. She earned a dual Master’s degree in Healthcare Administration and Nursing Education from the University of Phoenix. She has worked in the medical and healthcare areas over 25 years. She has published over 50 papers in professional journals. She currently works as CEO of Technology & Healthcare Solutions, a nonprofit research firm located in Mississippi which provides patient-centered evidence-based outcomes in research for quality improvement projects as well as some consulting projects. She is currently the member of several health care organizations. She served as managing editor of the International Journal of Automated Identification Technology for four years.

Her research interests and expertise include telemedicine applications, Big Data in public health care, and healthcare administration, etc.

Lawton Robert Burns, Ph.D., MBA, is the Chair of the Health Care Management Department, the James Joo-Jin Kim Professor, a Professor of Health Care Management, and a Professor of Management in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also Director of the Wharton Center for Health Management & Economics, and Co-Director of the Roy & Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management. He received his doctorate in Sociology and his MBA in Health Administration from the University of Chicago. Dr. Burns taught previously in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago and the College of Business Administration at the University of Arizona.

Formal Organizations, Health Care Management, Hospital-Physician Relationships, Integrated Health Care, Physician Networks, Physician Practice Management Firms, Strategic Change, Supply Chain Management

Patricia Danzon is the Celia Moh Professor at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Professor Danzon received a B.A. from Oxford University, England, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. She has held faculty positions at Duke University and the University of Chicago. Professor Danzon has been an Associate Editor of the American Economic Review, the Journal of Health Economics and theInternational Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics. She has published widely in scholarly journals on a broad range of subjects related to health care, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, insurance, and the economics of law.

Health Economics and Health Care Finance

Dr.Olivia Catolico currently working as Professor in Department of Nursing, Dominican University of California and has a Faculty of Record for N4100 Advanced Medical Surgical Nursing. She has done her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from California State University, 1973, Masters of science in Nursing from Loma Linda University, 1986, Doctor of Pholosophy in Nursing from Hann School of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of San Diego, May,2005. She has around 30 research presentations and pulications.

Dr. Olivia Catolico Research Interest includes Healthcare Issues of Refugee and Immigrant women, Transcultural Nursing, Education Leadership, Vulnerable Populations.

Dr Jane Buxton is a Professor and MPH practicum director in the School of Population and Public Health, where she also teaches and supervises Masters and PhD students. She worked in family practice in the UK for seven years before completing her Public Health and Preventive Medicine specialist training at UBC. Dr Buxton directs the second year undergraduate medical program public health course (DPAS 420) and works half time as a physician epidemiologist in hepatitis and bloodborne pathogens at the BC Centre for Disease Control. Her research involves participatory methods focusing on prevention, and reducing the harms, of illegal drug use; collaborating with people who use drugs to incorporate their perspectives into research, planning and policy development. She received 2013 Faculty of Medicine Killam Teaching Prize and 2013 BC Provincial Health Officer’s Award for Excellence in Public Health

Harm reduction and illegal drug use epidemiology and knowledge translation Hepatitis A, B and C, and bloodborne pathogens Prison health participatory research Knowledge, attitudes and behaviours regarding immunization

Dr. Carolyn C. Johnson, PhD, FAAHB, NCC, LPA, FAAHB, is the endowed Usdin Family Professor in the Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She is currently the Director of the Tulane Prevention Research Center, Director of the Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health, and Chief of the Section of Maternal and Child Health within her department. Dr. Johnson earned an MS in Clinical Psychology from San Diego State and a PhD in Applied Biopsychology from the University of New Orleans. She has been in a faculty position at Tulane for 25 years. The main focus of her research is health education and health promotion for behaviors that are preventive against the development of chronic disease, specifically physical activity, nutrition, and smoking. She has been funded as PI and Co-PI by both federal and state agencies on multiple single and multisite studies. Dr. Johnson chairs the social and behavioral sciences extramural research program for the Division of Transplantation at the Health Resources and Services Administration, and formerly chaired grant review panels for the U. S. Army prostate and breast cancer programs. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Health Behavior, a nationally certified counselor and a Louisiana Professional Counselor.

Behavioral medicine

Dr. Lidong Wang was an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at Mississippi Valley State University, USA. He is a research faculty member at the Institute for Systems Engineering Research, Mississippi State University. He has conducted projects supported by the Department of Defense (DOD), NSF, and NASA, etc. He has published over 80 papers in various journals. Dr. Wang was the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Automated Identification Technology and the guest editor of five other journals. He was the President of the Electricity, Electronics & Computer Technology Division of the Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering (ATMAE) in USA. He is the Vice- President of the Safety Division of the ATMAE.

His research expertise and interest include Big Data Analytics, cybersecurity, Big Data in healthcare, telemedicine, and telehealth, etc.

Yiannis Koumpouros, Ass. Prof. in the Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Department of Informatics. Specialized in health informatics, ehealth, mhealth, telemedicine, and strategic management. Expert for the European Commission in the e-health sector, and evaluator of numerous research and development projects. Senior manager in business operations with wide expertise in design and implementation of strategic, conceptual and complex changes in an international framework. Significant experience in introducing organizational, process and IT solutions for business performance improvement. Top-level managerial experience in private and public healthcare sector (as chairman of hospitals). Teaching in several universities for almost 10 years. Project and R&D manager in IT fields with European experience. Chairman of several Permanent Committee of Experts (Ministry of Development, General Secretariat of Trade), for issues related to Electronic Scientific Equipments and Medical Equipments. Regular member of the Consultative Technical Council (Ministry of Internal Public Administration and Decentralisation) for subjects on new technologies and IT in the wider public administration, etc.

Health Informatics, e-health, mhealth

My academic experiences have been a combination of "life-long learning" resulting in six degrees which includes the M.S.W., a Doctorate in Public Policy Analysis (health and mental health policy) and professional development as a social worker. The most recent degree was a Masters in Health Science (addiction studies). I have always delighted in meeting the professional development requirements to sustain the license as a professional social worker. I have been at Lewis University for over thirteen years. I have been chair of the department since I arrived at the university. As the chair, I provided leadership to allow growth in the department's enrollment and an increase in the diversity of students in the major. In the college, my involvement in committee work has provide essential stability and continuity at crucial stages as the university has solidified an identity to the public and its students and, as a result, has experienced increasing growth. Lewis University advocates a community of learners with a focus on quality teaching but also scholarship with a culture of inquiry.

Anatomy & Physiology

Prof. Eun Woo Nam did his B.S. in Dept. of Health Administration from Yonsei University, 1979-1984 , and did MPH from Yonsei University 1984-1986, and Pursued Ph.D. on Medical Science, Dept. of Public Health, from Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Toho University, Tokyo, Japan, from1988-1991. He is also board Member for The Korea Society of Health Policy and Administration from 19883-Present. He also an Adjunct Professor at Griffith University, Australia. He is also a Vice Chairman Advisory Committee of Healthy City Wonju from 2010- 2014.

Health Administration, Healthcare

Dr. Zaman obtained his MBBS in Bangladesh; he obtained his MPH and PhD from the Johns Hopkins University in infectious disease control. He has 155 publications in international journals and more than 120 presentations in scientific conferences. Dr. Zaman also serves as Section Editor of the Journal of “Health, Population and Nutrition” and is a reviewer for more than 20 international journals.K. Zaman, MBBS, PhD, MPH, is senior scientist and epidemiologist at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b). For the last 33 years, Dr. Zaman has worked extensively in the design, implementation and analysis of data from clinical and community-based epidemiological/vaccine studies. His research primarily focuses on vaccines and infectious diseases. He has been involved with clinical studies on ORS, drug trial, vaccine studies, vitamin A supplementation and hospital surveillance. Dr. Zaman also has experience in community-based research on diarrheal and respiratory diseases, as well as other public health problems in Bangladesh. Currently he is the Principal Investigator leading several rotavirus, influenza, pneumococcal, Hepatitis E, polio and Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccine studies as well as epidemiological studies on tuberculosis in icddr,b. The vaccine studies included all of phases I, II, III, IV and with International Conference on Harmonisation Good Clinical Practice maintained.

Epidemiology, Clinical Studies and vaccines and infectious diseases.

Dr. K.R. John who is currently the Professor and Head of the Dept.of Community Medicine Apollo Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Chittoor,Andhra Pradesh. He has the following Educational Qualification M.B.B.S Medicine 1976 DPH Public health 1980 M.D Kerala Community medicine 1981 all from university of Kerala govt medical college Trivandrum. He has his MmedSc degree in health economics and clinical epidemiology from University of Newcastle Australia and had Dip. NBE National Board India Social and preventive medicine He Was a Rockefeller scholar in the University of Newcastle for training in health economics and clinical epidemiology. Currently serving as the president of India clinical epidemiology network (INCLEN). Have 57 international publications and 16 publications on health economics with policy implications. Has 10 publications on non-communicable diseases has been a resource person for several economic evaluation studies and workshops which had major policy implications has organized many conferences on health economics related subjects> he has served in many of the apex committees of the govt with policy relevance. Has served in several academic positions at Christian medical college Vellore, and SRM medical college and currently developing to build the population based research on Non communicable disease in the field practice areas of the Department of community medicine at AIMSR Chittoor dist. in the capacity as the head of the Department of co community medicine.

Community Medicine

Prof. Anisa M Durrani, is engaged in teaching and research in Human Nutrition, Nutritional Anthropometry, Community Nutrition and Reproductive health, Child Nutrition, Clinical and Therapeutic Nutrition and Nutrition education for the last 28 years. She has completed Two Research Projects, authored a book and has several research articles published in National and International refereed and indexed Journals of repute. She has been convener of many conferences and chaired many national and international conferences. She has been the Chairperson of Board of studies, Research Advisory Committee, Curriculum Development Committee. She has been member of university court, university academic council, council for academic and scientific research, faculty meeting, board of studies of the various departments. She is Life Member of many organizations related to Nutrition

Human Nutrition, Nutritional Anthropometry, Community Nutrition and Reproductive health, Child Nutrition

Prof.M. Logaraj has expertise in the field of community medicine and published several papers in the areas of non communicable diseases, epidemiology and health system. Has nearly 26 years of teaching experience in teaching for both undergraduates and postgraduates. He has been a program co-coordinator in AIDS Prevention and Control project (APAC) for Private practitioners, pharmacist and community health workers in Tamilnadu. External observer (evaluator) of the training programmes on Evidence Based Management Of Diabetes Mellitus(EBMDM) conducted by Public Health Foundation of India(PHFI), New Delhi. Guide for the postgraduate and PhD scholars in medicine under SRM University. He has delivered several guest lecturers in CME, workshops, conferences at college, university, state and international level. Presently he is the editor in chief for the National Journal Research in Community Medicine. Presently principal investigator for the mobile tribal health project funded by Tamilnadu health system project Govt.of Tamilnadu.

Non communicable diseases, GIS and epidemiology and health system

I am faculty member of Department of Computer Engineering and bio Technology, Payame Noor University, Iran. I was graduated from software engineering college of shomal University. In 2009 I got my first master degree after my graduation in Industrial Engineering-System management and productivity and 2011 second master degree in computer science -bioinformatics. My major is soft computing for medicine applications and my research field focus on the fuzzy and adaptive fuzzy influence neural network for cancer diseases prediction. I published some 30 papers in professional journals and 4 ended research projects in this regard. Secondly, I published 5 books and I conduct some research workshops About 100 hours . I am editorial manager of journal-of-cancer-open-access and reviewer of several journals and conference. I'm very interested in artificial intelligence and its application in medicine and new articles have talked about this.

• Soft computing for Medical and health • Chronic Disease • Cancer prediction • DNA • Survival prediction