Title: Technological Frontiers in the Delivery of Life-saving

Biography

Donovan B. Yeates, Ph.D., CEO, KAER Biotherapeutics Corporation, is an internationally recognized authority in aerosol drug delivery and respiratory function. He has developed game-changing technologies to deliver aerosols to the lungs, quantify the dose delivered and evaluate the physiological mechanisms whereby they are cleared from the lungs. He was a Senior Research Career Scientist in the Department of Veterans Affairs and a Professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was a Section Chief in the Department of Medicine and Director of a university wide Occupation Health and Safety Center. Dr. Yeates is an emeritus professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago with over 90 publications and 19 issued patents. He is a past president of the Chicago Thoracic Society. He has a Ph.D. in Medical Biophysics from the University of Toronto.

Title: Family as Medicine: What the Largest Research Study to Date Tells Us About What Could Be the Most Effective Way to Treat Adolescent Mental Illness

Biography

Paul A. Sunseri, Psy.D. is the founder of three community mental health agencies in the United States serving children and adolescents with severe mental illness. His research interest is in improving treatment outcomes and he has conducted some of the largest studies to date on the relationship between family dynamics and children’s mental health. Dr. Sunseri has spoken both nationally and internationally on advanced family therapy techniques for improving family functioning and he is the developer of Intensive In-Home Family Treatment (IIFT), a science-based treatment approach for high conflict families (myIIFT.org).

Title: CONFIDENTIALITY AND ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH

Steven gained his MSc at the London School of Economics and Political Science in Social Work and Social Policy, qualified as a Psychotherapist, and completed his MPhil in Child and Adolescent Mental Health in 2008. He worked in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) services and then appointed Head of Child and Adolescent Mental Health at Anglia Ruskin University in 2002 where he designed a multi-disciplinary National award-winning training course. Steven has presented his research in Russia, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Hong Kong, Buenos Aries, Greece, Scotland and the UK. His specialist research interests are in cyber bullying, multi-cultural service provision, refugees and asylum seekers, and feminist practice.

Title: Neutropenia in Patients with Common Variable Immune Deficiency (CVID)

Dr. Reza Yazdani has completed his PhD at the age of 28 years from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran. He is a young researcher in Research Center for Immunodeficiencies (RCID), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran. He has over 90 publications that have been cited over 500 times, and his publication H-index is 17 and has been serving as an editorial board member of several journals.

Title: Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection Registry in Flanders : Opportunities and Pitfalls

Biography

Annelies Keymeulen was born in 1978. She received her master degree in medicine in 2003 at the University of Ghent. In the same year she started the specialization of pediatrics at the Ghent University Hospital during 5 years. She developed a special interest in Neonatology and started as a resident at the NICU of the Ghent University Hospital in 2009, where she became a staff member in 2011. Within the field of neonatology, congenital cytomegalovirus infection is one of her topics of interest and it has become her topic for PhD.

Title: The Feldenkrais Method and Cerebral Palsy

Biography

King’s College, University of London: PhD: Olivier Messiaen and the Culture of Modernity Supervisors: Prof. Daniel Chua, Prof. John Deathridge Central Research Fund Scholarship, London University, (1998), Lacey Bursary for French Studies (1999, 2000, 2001), Arts and Humanities Research Council Scholarship (2000-03). MMus in Theory and Analysis: Dissertation: ‘Structure and Counter-Structure, Metaphor and Multiple Meaning in Olivier Messiaen’s Couleurs de la cité céleste’. Supervisor: Prof. Arnold Whittall.

Title: Assessment of the effect of intimate partner violence on low birth weight: A community based prospective cohort study in Ethiopia

Biography

Sewhareg Belay has completed her Master of Public Health (MPH) at the age of 32 years from Addis Ababa University in 2013 and now a PhD fellow at the joint PhD program at Hawassa University, Ethiopia and the University of Bergen, Norway. She is lecturer at Hawassa University. She has published two papers in reputable journals.