Professor Higinio T. Mappala is a Full-time Medical Specialist IV and Administrator at the Jose Reyes Memorial Medical Center, Manila, Philippines, A Board-certified Internist, Gastroenterologist, Endoscopist, Clinical Nutritionist and Clinical Toxicologist; has served as a University Professor and Dean of 2 Medical Schools; a highly-regarded Researcher, with more than 70 scientific papers, and more than 30 international publications. A former Board Director of the Philippine Societies of Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy; Editorial Board member, American Journal of Biomedical Science and Reearch; Online Research rater of McMaster, Canada and Online Dynamed Research peer-reviewer; a Young Investigator’s Awardee at the World Congress and Asia-Pacific Congress of Gastroenterology; A nominee as one of the Top 100 Leading Physicians 2018, Cambridge Biographical Institute. He is a focused lecturer on NAFLD in local and international conventions for 20 years, with 51 invites as Keynote Speaker in International Conventions this year and 34 advanced invites for 2020.

NAFLD, Chronic liver diseases, Hepatitis

Andre-Jean Remy is the Head of Hepatology and Gastroenterology Unit & of Social Medicine Unit of Perpignan Hospital. He is the Medical Coordinator of Mobil Hepatitis Team and General Secretary of ANGH. He is an Administrator of AFEF (French Liver Diseases Association) and a Specialist of Viral Hepatitis in drug users, inmates and precarious populations. He has published more than 150 scientific articles.

Liver Diseases and Hepatitis

Dr.Vikas Leelavati Balasaheb Jadhav has completed Postgraduation in Radiology in 1994. He has a 19 Years of experience in the field of Gastro-Intestinal Tract Ultrasound & Diagnostic as well Therapeutic Interventional Sonography. He has four Indian Patents & an International Patent published on his name in the field of Gastro-Intestinal Tract Sonography & the Radiology, since 2008. He has delivered many Guest Lectures in Indian as well International Conferences in nearly 20 countries as an Invited Guest Faculty, since 2000. He is a Consultant Radiologist & the Specialist in Unconventional Gastro-Intestinal Tract Ultrasound & Diagnostic as well Therapeutic Interventional Sonologist in Pune, India.

Gastroenterology,Endoscopy

Dr Vinod Nikhra is a Senior Consultant Physician and Faculty at NDMC Medical College and Hindu Rao Multi-speciality Public Hospital, New Delhi, India. He is a healthcare administrator, academician and clinician. He has been a Visitor at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland and an Observing Physician at Alabama Medical Center – a tertiary care hospital in Opelika, Alabama, USA. He has been elected a Fellow by International Medical Sciences Academy and the Royal Society of Medicine, London. He has been Editor of ‘Madhya, the midage’, the official Journal of Association for Health in Middle Age during 2003-2006. He has been on Reviewer panel of, among others, the Family Practice, an Oxford University medical journal and International Journal of Obesity. His published books include, ‘Aging slowly, Living longer’ and ‘The Anti-obesity Guide’. Over the years he has contributed about hundred papers in leading national and international medical journals.

Liver Diseases, Diabetes, Gastroenterology, Endocrinology

Dr Meguid is a professor of human genetics and Children with Special Needs and Former Head of Human Genetics Unit, at the National Research Center (NRC) in Egypt. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Genetics, and she is a Senior Geneticist at the Genetics Institute, Pasadena, California; a fellow of Uppsala University, Sweden and Yale University. She was one of five selected scientists to win the outstanding L’Oreal UNESCO Award for women in Science for Africa & Middle East (2002). She has used her expertise to identify and describe several novel genetic syndromes. She was given the Distinctive Arab Female Scientist Prize Creative Women in Genetics by the Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain, 2009. Finally was awarded with the National State Award of Excellence in Advanced Medical science Technology, 2016. She is the Founder of Autistic disorders Clinic in the NRC. On the other hand she is the head of the laboratory of research in DNA in genetic behavioral disorders.

Human Genetics, Molecular Biology, Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Developmental Disabilities, Neuroscience, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Cognitive Development, Child Development, PCR

Fong Fong Chu has her expertise in gastrointestinal diseases especially in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Her team has established a mouse model of IBD which is very-early onset. These mice are deficient in two isoenzymes which reduce hydrogen peroxide named GPx1/2-double knockout (DKO). This model is a better model than chemical-induced colitis models because it is not injury based and mimic closely to human IBD. She has built this model through 20 years of research and has identified new targets for IBD therapy. She joined Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte CA USA (1987). She is currently associated with the Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology and the First Affiliated Hospital and College of Clinical Medicine of Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan, P R China since 2016.

inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)