Keynote Forum
Sergey Suchkov
RussiaTitle: Health Economics and Healthcare Services
Abstract:
A new systems approach to diseased states and wellness result in a new branch in the healthcare services, namely, personalized medicine (PM). To achieve the implementation of PM concept into the daily practice including clinical cardiology, it is necessary to create a fundamentally new strategy based upon the subclinical recognition of bioindicators (biopredictors and biomarkers) of hidden abnormalities long before the disease clinically manifests itself. Each decision-maker values the impact of their decision to use PM on their own budget and well-being, which may not necessarily be optimal for society as a whole. It would be extremely useful to integrate data harvesting from different databanks for applications such as prediction and personalization of further treatment to thus provide more tailored measures for the patients and persons-at-risk resulting in improved outcomes whilst securing the healthy state and wellness, reduced adverse events, and more cost effective use of health care resources. One of the most advanced areas in cardiology is atherosclerosis, cardiovascular and coronary disorders as well as in yocarditis. A lack of medical guidelines has been identified by the majority of responders as the predominant barrier for adoption, indicating a need for the development of best practices and guidelines to support the implementation of PM into the daily practice of cardiologists
Biography:
Sergey Suchkov is a Director, Center for Personalized Medicine and Professor, Department of Pathology, Sechenov Univer-sity. Dr Suchkov is a Co-Supervisor over the Russian-American Agreement on scientific and clinical collab-oration in the field of ocular
Title: Health Economics and Hospital Behaviour
Abstract:
Prostate cancer is one of the main diseases affecting men worldwide. The gold standard for diagnosis and prognosis is the Gleason grading system. In this process, pathologists manually analyze prostate histology slides under microscope, in a high time-consuming and subjective task. In the last years, computer-aided-diagnosis (CAD) systems have emerged as a promising tool that could support pathologists in the daily clinical practice. Nevertheless, these systems are usually trained using tedious and prone-to-error pixel-level annotations of Gleason grades in the tissue. To alleviate the need of manual pixel-wise labeling, just a handful of works have been presented in the literature. Furthermore, despite the promising results achieved on global scoring the location of cancerous patterns in the tissue is only qualitatively addressed. These heatmaps of tumor regions, however, are crucial to the reliability of CAD systems as they provide explainability to the system's output and give confidence to pathologists that the model is focusing on medical relevant features. Motivated by this, we propose a novel weakly-supervised deep-learning model, based on self-learning CNNs
Biography:
Adrian Colomer Winter is the CEO of Productos agrícolas del alto Piura (Agricultural products of the high Piura) and working under the project “Introduction of a preenzymatic treatment and a rapid vacuum cooking system ".
Samer Ellahham
United Arab EmiratesTitle: International Healthcare and Marketing
Abstract:
Sildenafil (100 mg) vasodilated epicardial coronary arteries (+6.9 ± 1.3%, p < 0.0001). Coronary epicardial and microvascular responses with acetylcholine and cold-pressor testing improved, with a greater enhancement in patients with CAD and endothelial dysfunction. Verapamil responses were unchanged. Both resting and adenosine diphosphate-stimulated platelet IIb/IIIa receptor activation was inhibited by sildenafil (p < 0.05). Brachial arteries dilated in response to sildenafil in controls. Peak flow-mediated dilation was similar, but the duration of hyperemia was prolonged after sildenafil administration (p < 0.001). Compared with placebo, ISDN improved myocardial ischemia during exercise (p < 0.05), whereas the effect of sildenafil was intermediate between the two.
Biography:
Samer Ellahham has served as Chief Quality Officer for Sheikh Khalifa Medical City since 2009. He has led the development of the quality and safety program that has been highly successful and visible and has been recognized internationally .
Speakers
Prem Jagyasi
IndiaTitle: Health Informatics
Abstract:
From the Bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health." - Catalan Proverb India is a leading player in the medical tourism industry. It is increasingly emerging as the destination of choice for a wide range of medical procedures. The medical tourism market in India was estimated at $333 million in 2004. It is anticipated to grow by 25 percent annually and to become a $2 billion-a-year business opportunity by 2012. Andhra Pradesh is slowly picking up the heat of Medical Tourism. Hyderabad is the 1st City in AP to catch the fire. To gain more from health tourism, the state government has to be in search of opportunities. Alternative Medicine (AM) is one such avenue which has proven to be a great contributor in Kerala.
Biography:
Dr Prem is an award winning strategic leader, renowned author, publisher and highly acclaimed global speaker. Aside from publishing a bevy of life-improvement guides, Dr Prem runs a network of 50 niche websites that attracts millions of readers .
Jailan Mahmoud Gabr
KuwaitTitle: Chronic Diseases
Abstract:
Egypt’s recent economic reform agenda has been particularly advanced by a newly composed regime that reflects a modified overlapping of politics and business. Politicians with a business background are certainly not a new phenomenon in Egypt’s long history of authoritarian rule. This time we rather witness the prominent role of entrepreneurs with political and economic interests which they are seeking to implement by gaining a stronghold in the ruling élite and by taking over key posts in politics, business and society. Their role in politics differs from each other but they all have one thing in common: they are more or less close associates of Gamal Mubarak, second son of President Hosni Mubarak and strong advocates of Egypt’s economic turnaround.
Biography:
Jailan Gabr is a cytology specialist at the Kuwait cancer control center. In 2012, she has been appointed as the quality and safety officer at the cytology lab.
Keynote Forum
Danielle Riverin-Simard
CanadaTitle: Rural Healthcare and Technologies
Abstract:
The ontological and epistemological questions underlying the various paradigms and methodological debates of the decade from 1980 to 1990. It specifies how the constructivist position we adopt is present in our research on adult vocational development and it shows in what way this is subject to interrogation.
Biography:
Danielle Riverin-Simard, Ph.D., is professor emeritus at Université Laval (Canada) and editorial member of many scientific journals. From 1989 to 1992, she was the founding scientific director of the Centre for Research in Career Development.
Speakers
Title: Health Promotion, Lifestyles and Behavior
Abstract:
Curricular strategies constitute pedagogical approaches to the educational teaching process, which are carried out with the purpose of achieving general objectives related to knowledge, skills and modes of professional performance that are key to the training process and impossible to achieve from a single discipline or subject . Those of the exercise of the profession are essential to achieve knowledge, skills and modes of action that effectively contribute to the profile of the graduate. The fundamentals to achieve them were analyzed: mechanisms of execution, direction and control of the Educational Teaching Process, not always executed multilaterally in an intentional, effective and systematic way for the fulfillment of these and that can be incorporated as essential tools of performance during the career, particularly in agricultural economic training in the technical accounting medium, as part of the Teaching-Learning Process. Essential actions were proposed, in specific aspects that should not be forgotten in order to achieve them
Biography:
Alejandro De la Parra is the COO and Co-founding Partner at The Solomon Brokerage Firm. He currently leads as CEO at Mass Media Division and De la Parra Mobile Solutions and is former CEO & Founder at Astrum Salud Móvil .
Workshop
Cristina Gomes
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro MexicoTitle: Remote Patient Monitoring , M-Health.
Abstract:
Humans are well known for their ability to keep track of social debts over extended periods of time, and for their tendency to preferentially cooperate with closely bonded partners. Non-human primates have been shown to cooperate with kin and non-kin, and reciprocate helpful acts. However, there is ongoing debate over whether they keep track of previous interactions and, if so, whether they can do it over extended periods of time, or are constrained to finalize exchanges within a single encounter. In this study, we used 3000 hours of all-day focal follows of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) to investigate whether both females and males reciprocate grooming within a single interaction, throughout the day, or over longer periods of time. We found that grooming was reciprocated more symmetrically when measured on a long-term, rather than on an immediate or short-term basis. Random giving, general allocation of grooming efforts, similarities among individuals and kinship do not appear to explain these highly reciprocal exchanges. Previously collected consecutive focal follows of single individuals revealed that dyads groomed an average of once every 7 days. Our findings strongly suggest that chimpanzees, similar to humans, are able to keep track of past social interactions, at least for a one-week period, and balance services over repeated encounters.
Biography:
Dr. Cristina Gomes is a graduate in Medicine from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, I studied specialties in Public Health, Worker Health and Human Ecology at the National School of Public Health of Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. I studied the Master's degree in Population and Development at Flacso Mexico and the doctorate in Population from the Colegio de México. I graduated in Executive Management, Negotiation and Strategic Thinking from Cornell University. In 2011, I was nominated for the Marquis Who's Who in the World Award and was elected to the International Committee of the Conference on Family Research (CFR) of the International Association of Sociology (ISA) for the period 2006-2010. My experience is concentrated in the area of Population and Development, particularly in public policies aimed at young people, women, indigenous people and the elderly, in the areas of poverty, inequality, family, protection and social security. In the last 18 years I have worked in various international organizations. From 2006 to 2010 I worked at the United Nations as Regional Advisor on Population and Development for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); from 1998 to 2008 at FLACSO-Mexico, for the Ford Foundation and the Population Council. His topics of interest are poverty, inequalities, discrimination, racism and social policies. He has developed evaluations of social policies in Mexico and Brazil, the most recent on the National Policy on Health of the Black Population.