Visionary Speakers & Conference Orators
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. . 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.
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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.
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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.
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Future Technologies in Neuro Science
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.
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Moussa Youdim
Israel Institute of Technology
Israel
Moussa Youdim
Israel Institute of TechnologyIsrael
Biography
Moussa B.H. Youdim ist ein iranisch-israelischer Neurowissenschaftler, der sich in erster Linie mit dem Enzym Monoaminoxidase und seiner Rolle bei der Entstehung der Parkinson-Krankheit beschäftigt. Durch seine Forschungen auf diesem Gebiet hat er wesentlich zur Entwicklung von selektiven Hemmstoffen dieses Enzyms beigetragen. Medikamente zur Hemmung der Monoaminoxidase B sind inzwischen eine etablierte Methode zur Behandlung der Parkinson-Krankheit. Ebenso leistete er Pionierarbeit bei der Erforschung der Rolle des Eisens für die Gehirnfunktion, seines Mangels oder Überschusses sowie bei der Entwicklung von neuroprotektiven und neurorestaurativen Arzneimitteln zur Behandlung neurodegenerativer Erkrankungen.
Der Biochemiker untersuchte bereits während seiner Promotion das Enzym Monoaminoxidase und identifizierte die Isoformen A und B und spürte deren Rolle bei neuropsychiatrischen Erkrankungen nach. Darauf aufbauend, entwickelte der Biochemiker den Arzneistoff Selegilin, einen selektiven irreversiblen MAO-B-Hemmstoff für die Therapie der Parkinson-Erkrankung. Über den verzögerten Abbau von Dopamin wird dessen Konzentration im Gehirn erhöht und so die Krankheitssymptome zurückgedrängt.
Dem Team um Youdim gelang 2005 noch eine Weiterentwicklung dieses Therapieansatzes zum Wirkstoff Rasagilin. Die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler untersuchten auch eine mögliche pathogene Rolle des Eisenstoffwechsels bei neurodegenerativen Störungen. Schon um die Jahrtausendwende setzten sie bei ihrer Forschung auch molekularbiologische Methoden, wie Proteomik und Transkriptomik, ein und kombinierten sie mit klassischer Zellbiologie.
Seit den 1990er Jahren widmete sich Moussa B.H. Youdim intensiv der pharmakologischen Grundlagenforschung in den Neurowissenschaften und etablierte am Technion – Israel Institute of Technology eine Abteilung für Pharmakologie. Später gründete er zudem das Eve Topf Center of Excellence for Neurodegenerative Disease Research und war beratend für mehrere pharmazeutische Unternehmen tätig.
Neben der Parkinson-Erkrankung widmet sich Youdim auch anderen neurodegenerativen Störungen, wie der Alzheimer-Erkrankung. Im Fokus steht dabei das bei dieser Erkrankung gestörte cholinerge Neurotransmittersystem. Moussa B.H. Youdim kombiniert bei seinem Therapieansatz die Wirkungsweise der MAO-B-Hemmer mit einer Blockade des Acetylcholins, um mit einem multimodalen Ansatz möglichst früh in die Pathogenese des kognitiven Abbaus bei einer Alzheimer-Demenz einzugreifen.
Moussa B.H. Youdim hat viele Forscherinnen und Forscher mit seiner Arbeit inspiriert und fördert bis heute den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs, um die Erforschung der in einer älter werdenden Population zunehmenden neurodegenerativen Erkrankungen voranzubringen.
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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.
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Treatment of Chronic Muscle Spasm and Pain with the CMECD® Procedure
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.
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ACE-dependent Alzheimer’s disease (AD)
Zhenhuan Liu
Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine
China
Zhenhuan Liu
Guangzhou University of Chinese MedicineChina
Biography
Zhenhuan LIU, professor of pediatrics, chief physician, doctoral supervisor, chief expert of Nanhai Maternity and Children's Hospital Affiliated to Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine. Enjoy The State Council special allowance famous children rehabilitation medical experts. The first batch of leading medical talents in Guangdong Province.He was appointed as Visiting Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and honorary director of the California Autism Treatment Center.Evaluation expert of National Science and Technology Progress Award, Vice Chairman of Child Health Care and Health Education Professional Committee of World Federation of Chinese Medicine, vice president of Children Cerebral Palsy Rehabilitation Branch of World Federation of Chinese Medicine.Vice Chairman of Children's Encephalopathy Professional Committee of Chinese Acupuncture Society. Deputy leader of Neurology Group, Pediatrics Committee of Chinese Association of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine."Chinese Acupuncture", "Chinese Child Health Care", editorial board member.
In 1997 and 1998, Professor Zhenhuan Liu went to Germany in the United States to study the rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy. He has been engaged in pediatric clinical and child rehabilitation for 40 years. Led the rehabilitation team to treat more than 40,000 cases of children with intellectual disability, cerebral palsy and autism from China and more than 20 countries including France, the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, etc. More than 26800 children returned to school and society, and became self-sufficient.The rehabilitation effect ranks the international advanced level.Professor Liu has been invited to give lectures on pediatric acupuncture and neurorehabilitation in more than 20 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, and Norway, and has a high influence in the international field.Professor Liu presided over the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology major science and technology special projects, presided over the "Clinical research on the treatment of mental retardation in children with perinatal brain injury combined with traditional Chinese and Western medicine", "Clinical application research on the comprehensive treatment of children with cerebral palsy" and other four scientific research won the second prize of provincial science and Technology Progress.Clinical and Experimental Study on the Treatment of Cerebral palsy Children by Acupuncture and Massage "" Head acupuncture therapy of Autism spectrum Disorder" won the Chinese Rehabilitation Medicine Science and Technology Award. His acupuncture technique for pediatric neurological rehabilitation has been included in the pediatric guidelines of Chinese Traditional Medicine. He has published 288 papers and obtained 6 national invention patents.Professor Liu has trained 25 doctoral and master students. He has trained 260 medical talents for children rehabilitation in China. He has authored books such as Atlas of Early Intervention Training for Children's Brain Development, Practical Acupuncture Science for Children, and Rehabilitation Training for Children with Motor retardation.Professor Liu was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Golden Needle Award in World Traditional Medicine. He was honored young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions by the Ministry of Health of China.Professor Liu was included in the Cambridge University Dictionary of Who's Who in the World in 1996.
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Scientific evaluate quantification of social and behavioral by scalp Acupuncture on children with autism spectrum
Summit Speakers
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
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Florent Pirot
Vajrayana Consulting Ltd
France
Florent Pirot
Vajrayana Consulting LtdFrance
Biography
I have published a large number of scientific articles after earlier research on depleted uranium and a Scientific baccalaureate at age 16 1/2. I have gotten diplomas from political science and economics because of my own personal interests for economics, politics and defense issues. I am also of the family of Alain Poher, former European Parliament and French Senate president as well as interim French President, on my mother's side. I have needed to take a long break from the job sector after ending a PhD attempt because of absence of agreement with local university scholars who were hellbent on their far-rightist and far-leftist propaganda project, and did my own research on my side, self-funded thanks to remains of a scholarship from the University Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and of my unemployment benefits later. This led to a stream of scientific articles that are all presented on my blog - link https://florentpirot.blog/publi/
My experience also includes internships in Brussels and a two-months professorship in economics & sociology in a high school after achieving the CAPES in "sciences économiques et sociales" in 2016.
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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.
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Novel FOUR TARGET Microsurgical Approach in Psychosurgery for Refractory Complex Multipsychiatric Disorders
Ante Tvrdeic
University in Zagreb
Croatia
Ante Tvrdeic
University in ZagrebCroatia
Biography
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The New Mechanism of Anxiolytic Drug Action and a Potential New Group of Anxiolytic Drugs.
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.
Speech Title
Prevalence and Clinical Correlates of Depression and Anxiety Among Patients with Cardiovascular Disease: A Descriptive Study in a Tertiary Hospital in the Philippines
Hannah Degen
Kings College of London
UK
Hannah Degen
Kings College of LondonUK
Biography
I hold a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Neuroscience, and I’m based in London,
UK. Early in my academic journey, I discovered my passion for
research—particularly in psychopharmacology, addiction, and behavioural sciences.
My Master’s thesis brought these interests together by examining the relationships
between cannabis use motives, consumption patterns, and psychiatric outcomes
such as paranoia. Initially, my focus was on identifying who is most at risk for
adverse effects—anxiety, depression, and psychotic-like experiences. Later, I
encountered the concept of standard THC units, developed by Dr Tom Freeman at
the University of Bath. This framework is vital: it standardises how cannabis use is
quantified and allows researchers to effectively communicate the amount of
consumed THC (the psychoactive component of cannabis) in precise, comparable
units. Beginning this September, I’ll pursue a PhD under Dr Freeman at Bath,
investigating how the risk to develop one of the most common, undesired outcomes
of cannabis use -paranoia- can be expressed in standard THC units. I’m thrilled to
contribute clarity and impact to cannabis research and looking forward to where this
area of research is developing.
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Are reasons for first using cannabis associated with subsequent
cannabis consumption (standard THC units) and psychopathology?
