Organizing Committee
Luisa Maria Arvide Cambra
University of Almeria
Spain
Luisa Maria Arvide Cambra
University of AlmeriaSpain
Biography
Luisa Maria Arvide Cambra, Spanish is now Professor with Chair at the University of Almeria (Spain) and she was Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the University of Granada from 1979. Forty nine years of the teaching and researching experience. She is the Director of Research Group HUM113-Estudios Filológicos from Program of Research of Andalusian Government. She is author of a many works on several aspects of the Arabic science and literature in the middle ages, as well as Arabic language and linguistics. She has also participated in different prestigious international scientific Conferences. She published over 13 books and over 90 articles and papers published in prestigious international journals and proceedings. Her research interests are Medieval Arabic Science, Humanities, Arabic Philology. She was included and enlisted in Marquis Who´s Who in the World, USA, and also enlisted in 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century 2011. International Biographical Centre. Cambridge, UK.
Research Interest
Roy Beran
Macquarie University
Australia
Roy Beran
Macquarie UniversityAustralia
Biography
Roy G. Beran, is a consultant neurologist and accredited sleep physician. His qualifications include: MBBS, MD, FRACGP, FRACP, FRCP(Ed), FAAN, FANZAN, FAFPHM, Grad. Dip. Tertiary Ed., Grad. Dip. Further Ed., FACBS, B Leg. S, MHL, FACLM, FRNS, FSASS and FFFLM (Hon). Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) registration includes: Neurology; Public Health; and Sleep Medicine. He was: a Designated Medical Examiner re the Civil Aviation Safety Authority; medical assessor for Dispute Resolution re NSW State Insurance Regulatory Authority; assessor re NSW Workers Compensation Commission; and List 1 Consultant in Neurology for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). He is a Conjoint Professor of Medicine, University of NSW; Professor, School of Medicine, Griffith University, Queensland; Conjoint Professor, Medical School, Western Sydney University; and was Professor, Chair, Medical Law, Sechenov Moscow 1st State University, Moscow, Russia; After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he refused to re-sign with Sechenov University. He was the inaugural Visiting Professor at the International Research Institute of Health Law Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China and completed a teaching lecture tour, as Visiting Professor, to the East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, China in 2024.
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He is: a founding Fellow of the Australasian College of Legal Medicine (ACLM); a Past President thereof, having stepped down in 2011, remains on Council and awarded its second Honorary Life Fellowship. In 2019, he was appointed ‘Co-Head of Faculty’, co-ordinating ACLM training courses throughout Australia. He is the Australian Governor and Immediate Past President of the World Association for Medical Law (WAML), (previously President, Secretary General, Executive Vice President and Regional Vice President) and served on Organising Committees of many World Congresses for Medical Law, being Programme Chair in 2004 and 2022, both in Australia. He was the first Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians (London). He helped negotiate, with Bond University, to create a programme in Legal Medicine, in conjunction with the ACLM.
In Neurology, he is: a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians; a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh; Corresponding Fellow of the American Academy of Neurologists; and a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists. He is a Member of the Australasian Sleep Association, having served on various committees thereof. He pioneered clinical trials and research in private practice, being principal author in publications which included leading academic/tertiary referral institutions. He has published: >400 papers, book chapters and letters to the editor; presented ~450 papers at national and international meetings; written or edited 17 books; is on numerous editorial boards; and was the Editor-in-Chief of the WAML international journal, Medicine and Law.
In 2022, he was invited to be a founding member of the newly formed Australian Magnetic Resonance Imaging Association and was elected Vice President of the foundation Board of Management.
His research interests include: Concussion; Epilepsy; Legal Medicine; Stroke; Sleep; Neuroepidemiology; Neurological Imaging; and Medical Education.
He was an officer in the RAN Reserves (holding the rank of Commander) and was awarded membership of the general division of the Order of Australia, in 2015. His Orcid ID is: 0000-0002-5884-0606.
Research Interest
Ivan Maksimovich
Moscow Russian Federation
Russia
Ivan Maksimovich
Moscow Russian FederationRussia
Biography
Ivan V. Maksimovich graduated from I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University in 1979 specializing in cardiovascular surgery. After the graduation, he worked in leading research institutes and clinics of the country. Since 1993, Dr. Maksimovich has been the head of the Clinic of Cardiovascular Diseases named after Most Holy John Tobolsky in Moscow (carvasc@yandex.ru). In 2004, Dr. Maksimovich earned his doctorate in medicine. His thesis was entitled "Transluminal Laser Angioplasty in the Treatment of Ischemic Brain Lesions". He is the author of more than 300 scientific papers on transcatheter treatment of vascular diseases.
Research Interest
Sam Vaknin
Southern Federal University
Russia
Sam Vaknin
Southern Federal UniversityRussia
Biography
Sam Vaknin is a professor of clinical psychology and business management in CIAPS (Commonwealth Institute of Advanced Professional Studies), Cambridge and Birmingham, UK; Ontario, Canada; and Lagos, Nigeria; a Visiting Professor of Psychology and Economics in South East European University (SEEU), North Macedonia, and a former Visiting Professor of Psychology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited and other books about personality disorders. He maintains YouTube channels with close to 500,000 subscribers.
His work is cited in hundreds of books and dozens of academic papers.
Research Interest
Personality disorders
Ante Tvrdeic
University in Zagreb
Croatia
Ante Tvrdeic
University in ZagrebCroatia
Biography
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Research Interest
Roger H Coletti
Interventional Health
USA
Roger H Coletti
Interventional HealthUSA
Biography
Dr. Coletti did a fellowship in interventional cardiology in New York and had a career in interventional
cardiology in New Jersy and Delaware, USA. He was board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular
disease, interventional cardiology, and nuclear cardiology. He had an interest in chronic muscle spasm
and found that chronic muscle spasm had an ischemic etiology and developed a technique using EMG
guidance to reverse the ischemia and resolve the chronic muscle spasm. His publication in this area is 12
abstracts, a book and 2 recent articles. He is currently retired from clinical practice and no longer has
institutional affiliations.
Research Interest
Michal Schwartz
Weizmann Institute of Science
Israel
Michal Schwartz
Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael
Biography
Michal Schwartz is a professor of neuroimmunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science. She is active in the field of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly utilizing the immune system to help the brain fight terminal neurodegenerative brain diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
Schwartz's studies have shown that the immune system supports a healthy brain's function and is vital for healing and protecting the brain in case of injury or disease.
Schwartz coined the term protective autoimmunity and discovered roles for immune cells in repair and neurogenesis. She has been the elected chair of the International Society of Neuroimmunology (ISNI) since 2016.
In 2023 Schwartz received the honorary Israel Prize for Life Sciences.
Research Interest
Moussa Youdim
Israel Institute of Technology
Israel
Moussa Youdim
Israel Institute of TechnologyIsrael
Biography
Moussa B. H. Youdim is an Israeli neuroscientist specializing in neurochemistry and neuropharmacology. He is the discoverer of both monoamine oxidase (MAO) B inhibitors l-deprenyl (Selegiline) and rasagiline (Azilect) as anti-Parkinson drugs which possess neuroprotective activities. He is currently professor emeritus at Technion - Faculty of Medicine and President of Youdim Pharmaceuticals.
Research Interest
Luiz Moutinho
University of Suffolk
England
Luiz Moutinho
University of SuffolkEngland
Biography
Professor Luiz Moutinho (BA, MA, PhD, MAE, FCIM) is the Visiting Professor of Marketing at Faculty of Arts, Business and Applied Social Science, Univ. of Suffolk, Ipswich, England, UK, and IPAM, Marketing Business School.
In 2020 he was elected as the member of The Academia Europaea. In 2017 he received a degree of Prof. Honoris Causa from the Univ. of Tourism and Management Skopje, North Macedonia. In 2025 was rated among the top 85 in 100 best scientists in Business and Management by Research.com.
During 2015 - 2017 he was a professor of BioMarketing and Futures Research at the DCU Business School, Dublin City University, Ireland. This was the first Chair in the world on both domains - BioMarketing and Futures Research. Previously, and for 20 years, he had been appointed as the Foundation Chair of Marketing at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
He completed his PhD at the University of Sheffield in 1982. He has been a Full Professor for 36 years and held posts at Cardiff Business School, University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cleveland State University, Ohio, USA, Northern Arizona University, USA and California State University, USA. He has held Visiting Professorship positions at numerous universities in China, Lithuania, Austria, New Zealand, Denmark, Slovenia, Portugal, Hungary, Taiwan, Brazil, Colombia, Fiji and Cyprus.
Between 1987 and 1989 he was the director of the Doctoral Programmes at the Confederation of Scottish Business Schools and at the Cardiff Business School between 1993 and 1996. He was director of the Doctoral Programme in Management at the University of Glasgow between 1996 and 2004.
Professor Moutinho is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Modelling in Management (JM2) and Co-editor-in-Chief of the Innovative Marketing Journal. He has another 4 associate editorships as well as being in the editorial boards of another 47 international academic journals.
His areas of research interest encompass marketing and management futurecast, artificial intelligence, biometrics and neuroscience in marketing, futures research algorithmic self, EmoWear - a wearable tech device that detects human emotions, evolutionary algorithms, human-computer interaction, the use of artificial neural networks in marketing, modelling processes of consumer behaviour and tourism futurecast.
He has developed a number of conceptual models over the years in areas such as tourism destination decision processes, automated banking, supermarket patronage, among other areas. The testing of these research models has been based on the application of many different statistical, computer and mathematical modelling techniques ranging from multidimensional scaling, multinomial logit generalised linear models (GLMs) and linear structural relations to neural networks, ordered probit, simulated annealing, tabu search, genetic algorithms, memetic algorithms and fuzzy logic.
Prof. Moutinho has given keynote speeches, lectures, seminars, talks, etc. in 63 countries worldwide.
Prof. Moutinho has 40 books published, over 161 articles published in refereed academic journals.
Research Interest
Francesco Greco
University in Rome
Italy
Francesco Greco
University in RomeItaly
Biography
Francesco Greco – Academic in Neuroscience
Contract Professor Master in Marketing-Management and Industrial Processes at the Niccolò Cusano University of Rome, as well as Associate Professor of Behavioral Economics and Emotional Marketing at the ISFOA University of Lugano (Switzerland). He has five years of experience in the fight against money laundering, corruption and financial crimes related to organized crime, with a focus on transparency and Compliance. Accounting expert specialized in international accounting standards for public entities and in Change Management. Author of the books: Complex Simplicity and Cognitive Deception: How the Mind Influences Our Decisions and of numerous international scientific publications in the field of Behavioral Economics
Research Interest
Sergei M Danilov
University of Illinois
USA
Sergei M Danilov
University of IllinoisUSA
Biography
Sergei M. Danilov, MD completed his PhD and postdoctoral studies from the National Cardiology Research Center, Moscow, Russia. He is the Principal Investigator and Head of the laboratory of ACE biology in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, (Department of Medicine in the University of Illinois at Chicago). His laboratory developed more than 40 mAbs to ACE. He has published more than 200 papers on ACE biology and ACE immmunochemistry in highly respected journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of Biomedicines.
Research Interest
Horng Dar Wang
National Tsing Hua University
Taiwan
Horng Dar Wang
National Tsing Hua UniversityTaiwan
Biography
Dr. Horng-Dar Wang currently is a Professor and Chairman in the Department of Life Science and the Institute of Biotechnology and an adjunct Professor in both the Institute of Systems Neuroscience and Department of Life Science at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. Dr. Wang previously served as a Director at the Institute of Biotechnology from 2015 to 2021. Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. degree from Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Southern California and did his post-doctoral scholar with Professor Seymour Benzer in the Biology Division at California Institute of Technology. His research interest focuses on the identification of novel genes to extend lifespan and promote healthspan in Drosophila and C. elegans, and applying the anti-aging gene effect on neurodegeneration and cancer research. Several longevity related genes have been identified not only able to extend lifespan but also prevent neurodegeneration and cancer proliferation.
Research Interest
Mehmet Erkan Ustun
Ankara University
Turkey
Mehmet Erkan Ustun
Ankara UniversityTurkey
Biography
After completing my medical education at Hacettepe University, School of Medicine, in 1986, I pursued my career in neurosurgery at Ankara University, Avicenna Hospital, where I trained under renowned experts in functional neurosurgery and graduated in 1992. I became a Professor of Neurosurgery in 2009 and earned my PhD in Anatomy in 2011. In addition to performing standard neurosurgical procedures, I specialize in functional neurosurgical operations, including surgeries for migraine and vertigo, stroke and cerebral palsy, epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease, spasticity, tremor, and restless legs, as well as dementia and psychiatric disorders (psychosurgery). I also conduct reinnervation surgery for traumatic spinal cord injuries and peripheral nerve palsies. I have over 500 citations in journals listed in the Science Citation Index (SCI) or SCI-Expanded.
Research Interest
Vincent A Manuel
Philippine Mental Health Association
Philippines
Vincent A Manuel
Philippine Mental Health AssociationPhilippines
Biography
Dr. Vincent A. Manuel is a specialist in Internal Medicine with subspecialty focusing in Mental Health and Cardiology. He is known for integrating a multidisciplinary approach in managing the complex relationship between cardiovascular health and mental well-being, ensuring holistic, patient-centered care.
He is a Fellow of the Philippine College of Physicians, Philippine College of Cardiology, Philippine Society of Hypertension and Philippine Society of Medical Specialists. Internationally, he is recognized as an Affiliate Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a Member of the American Psychiatric Association.
