Philip D Houck, MD MSc is a Cardiologist and Associate Professor of Medicine Texas A&M University. Currently, he is working at Baylor Scott & White Healthcare. He started his academic career in Engineering Science at Penn State University and received an MSc in Biomedical Engineering and MD from Northwestern University. He has been retired from the Air Force serving at the Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, School of Aerospace Medicine, and Wilford Hall Medical Center. His research interests includes weather and myocardial infarction, increasing circulating stem cells with EECP, electrical remodeling of the heart, peripartum immune disease, lymphatics role in decompensated heart failure, and fundamental laws of biology.

Research interests includes weather and myocardial infarction, increasing circulating stem cells with EECP, electrical remodeling of the heart, peripartum immune disease, lymphatics role in decompensated heart failure, and fundamental laws of biology.

Gregory Lee received his Ph. D from the California Institute of Technology and completed his postdoctoral studies at the University of California, San Diego. He became a full Professor at the University of British Columbia in 1989, and retired in 2012 with the title of Professor Emeritus. He is the co-founder of Vancouver Biotech Ltd. He has published more than 200 papers, including 30 papers in cancer research. He has been serving as an editorial board member of the Journal of Carcinogenesis and Mutagenesis, and the Journal of Cancer Science and Therapy since 2012.

Cancer research

In 1985 Giuseppe d’Annunzio has completed his degree in Medicine, in 1989 post-graduate School in Preventive Pediatric and Puericulture, and in 1994 post-graduate School in Endocrinology at the University of Pavia. He is the responsible of Regional Center for Pediatric Diabetes, Giannina Gaslini Institute, Genoa. At present he is author/co-author of 104 papers in reputed journals (H index 17), has been serving as reviewer of several journals, and as an editorial board member of repute.

Pediatric Diabetes

Jose Mario is the Deputy Editor for Diabetes at the Community Forum of healthcare professionals in British Medical Journal. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Universidade Federal Fluminense, and a Senior Staff Physician in the Intensive Care Unit-Adults at Hospital Federal da Lagoa, all in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He also has been a principal investigator, and has published clinical studies & Letters to Editors about the mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus in peer reviewed journals like British Medical Journal, Hypertension, New England Journal of Medcine, and American Journal of Hypertension. He was also a post-doctoral Clinical & Research Fellow in the Endocrinology-Diabetes and Hypertension Division of the Brigham & Women´s Hospital at Harvard Medical School where he did many angiotensin II infusions in humans, normotensive, hypertensive, and diabetic individuals. When at Harvard Medical School, he also became certified in the Principles of Epidemiology by the Harvard School of Public Health. He expect for the newer future better prevention and treatment strategies for macrovascular and microvascular diabetic complications, based on more rational and effective strategies. In the University, he is proud of running a busy Hypertension and type 2 diabetes clinic. At British Medical Journal, he enjoy the freedom and internationality of opinions. And also expect a brighter debate about all the clinical future research pathways and controversies surrounding diabetes mellitus.

He has a special interest in type 2 Diabetes, Preventive Cardiology, Hypertension, the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and Cardiovascular Diseases associated with Chronic Kidney Diseases.

Robert Zorec is Professor of Patho-physiology at the University of Ljubljana, Medical Faculty, a Full Member of Academia Europaea (London) and Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, as well as a past Member of the Committee for Advanced Medical Products at the European Medicine’s Agency (London). He received his PhD from the University of Ljubljana in 1986 for his work conducted at the Newcastle Medical School and at the MRC Neuro-endocrinology Unit in Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. His Post-doctoral experience was at Cambridge in Dr. W T Mason’s laboratory. He has lectured at over 100 distinguished Universities, International Meetings and Research Institutions worldwide. He has been a Reviewer for leading scientifi c journals including Nature, Science, PNAS, J. Neurosci., J. Physiol., Biophys J., Brain Res. and others.

Neuro-endocrinology

Joshua Barzilay, MD is an Endocrinologist in Atlanta GA who works for the Kaiser Permanente of Georgia. He is a Professor of Medicine in the division of Endocrinology at the Emory University School of Medicine. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers.

Endocrinology

Eloisa da S Loss has completed her PhD in Physiology from Ferderal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. She is specialized in Electrophysiology of Endocrine Tissues. Currently, she is Head of Department of Physiology in this University. She has published more than 18 papers in reputed journals.

Electrophysiology of Endocrine Tissues

Dr. Mandal is is board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology (Kidney disease and hypertension). He is an author of many books and published articles on research on diabetes and kidney disease. He is a two-times Fulbright Scholar and a visiting professor of 23 countries which permitted him to lecture on diabetes, high blood pressure and kidney diseases in all five continents of the world. Dr. Anil K. Mandal received Men and Women of Science in 1976, Who’s Who Frontiers in Science and Technology inFebruary 1983, Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Belgrade, Yogoslavia in October 1985, Received the Fulbright Award 1992-1993 for India in December 20, 1991, Who’s Who in America in 1997, Distinguished Service Award by National Kidney Foundation Of the USA. Philadelphia, PA in October 22, 1998.

The research interest of Mandal is Sugar diabetes is the most common cause of kidney failure in the USA and world wide. This strong association between diabetes and kidney failure has inspired Dr Mandal to develop the frame work of Mandal Diabetes Research foundation to assist diabetic patients to live a good life with medical treatment, and not go to dialysis.

Melissa Johnson received her PhD in Integrative Biosciences from Tuskegee University and currently serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences at Tuskegee University. She has published several papers in peer-reviewed journals, as well as served as co-author of chapters in edited books. Her research interests include cardiovascular and other chronic diseases, health promotion, disease prevention, and health disparities.

Cardiovascular and other chronic diseases, health promotion, disease prevention, and health disparities

In 1982 Prof. Alessandro Antonelli has completed his degree in Medicine, cum laude; in 1985 Post-graduate Specialization in Endocrinology, in 1987 in Occupational Health and in 1992 in Oncology from University of Pisa, Italy. In 1995 he was Visiting Professor, Allegheny-Singer Research Institute of the Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahneman University in Pittsburgh (USA). He is Associate Prof., Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Pisa, Italy. He has published more than 240 articles on international journals (Impact Factor > 800; HI 44) and has been serving as an editorial board member and reviewer for several international journals.

Endocrinology