World Summit on Infectious Diseases and Therapeutics

Dr. Nebiyu Lera Alaro obtained his PhD in public health from Central University of Nicaragua (in academic partnership with Texila American University). He is an International Public Health Specialist with more than 10 years of experience in humanitarian affairs associated with Maternal, New born and Child Health (MNCH), Research, Project Monitoring and Evaluation, Health System Strengthening, Quality Assurance and Capacity Building, with teaching/mentoring experience for public health students, staff and volunteers. He worked for Doctors with Africa – CUAMM Lake state, South Sudan as Technical Project Manager where he was responsible for providing leadership and overall guidance in project planning, implementation and monitoring/evaluation including direct technical support; (training and mentoring) to staff, towards achieving effective participatory and sustainable implementation, of primary and secondary health care system at all levels. He presently works Health Support Organaization – THESO as Country Program Director, South Sudan. Dr. Nebiyu has been involved in many public health field works and operational researches. He has research publications on various medical and public health issues to his credit. He is known for commitment to excellence that is evident through all aspects of his work. He is innovative, demonstrates respect for others, passionate about his work and has a strong sense of accountability. His contributions have helped dramatically improve the reproductive health, child health, Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI), surveillance, prevention and treatment of Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), health promotion, nutrition therapy program (as funded by USAID, HPF, WFP, UNICEF, Japan Plat fourm and Italian Cooperation funds) including evaluation system in South Sudan. The improvements reported in the external quality scores under his leadership have been simply dramatic. Importantly, Nebiyu is dedicated to mentoring students, interns, staff and volunteers.

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Dr. Leon G. Leanse is currently appointed as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School working within the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a molecular microbiologist by training, with an MSc from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD in molecular microbiology from Imperial College London. Dr. Leanse’s research is current is currently focused on synergistic light-antimicrobial interactions for the elimination of multidrug resistant localized infections.

Hejer Harrabi is Born in 20 June 1980, Kairouan,Tunisia; Single Medical Studies: University of Medicine Sfax, Tunisia; François Rabelais University of Tours, France; El Manar University Tunis, Tunisia Diploma: Doctor in medicine in 2009, specialist in infectious diseases in 2010, University diploma (U.D) “Vaccinology”, U.D of Washington University “ Clinical Management of HIV”, UD “Reanimation in infectious diseases”, U.D “Antibiotherapy”, U.D “Geriatric medicine”, U.D. “Medical pedagogy” Career: Referring doctor in infectious diseases and clinical researcher in the infectious diseases department, CHRU Tours, France (2009-2011); Public health doctor specialized in infectious diseases, CHU Ibn ElJazzar (2012-2014); University hospital assistant in the infectious diseases department, CHU La Rabta, El Manar University, Tunis (2014 - to now).

Stefania Lauzi is a Veterinarian, University Researcher of the Veterinary Medicine Department, University of Milan, Italy. Specialist in Animal health, breeding and production, in the field of Public Health and Infectious diseases of animals, her scientific and research activity focused on the epidemiology and molecular diagnostics of zoonoses and bacterial and viral veterinary infectious diseases such as bovine tuberculosis, bovine viral diarrhea virus, vector-borne pathogens, feline coronavirus, feline morbillivirus and colibacillosis. To date her studies and activities are also focused on the influence of the microbiome on animal diseases. She is author and co-author of several publications on national and international scientific peer-reviewed journals. She is also teacher of university courses on emerging zoonoses and infectious diseases in animals for Veterinary Medicine degree students and for post-graduate students at the University of Milan, Italy.

She is a Fellow Oral Surgery department, C.C.D.T, Faculty of dentistry,University Mohamed V Suissi,Rabat, Morocco. 2002-2005 : Baccalaureat Experimental Sciences, Mention : Very good. 2005-2011 : Doctorate of Dental Surgery (DDS), Faculty of Dentistry of Rabat, Mohammed V University, Morocco 2011-2012 : General pratitionner Dentist in Oral Health Center of Guelmim City, Morocco January 2013-July 2017 : Resident Oral Surgeon in the Center of Consultation of Dental Treatments of Rabat, Faculty of Dentistry of Rabat, Mohammed V University, Morocco 2013-Present: International Speaker (Oral speaker and Keynote Speaker) in different meetings of Oral Surgery and Head & Neck Oncology in Europe and the USA.

French Medical professional specialized in infectious diseases, internal medicine covering various therapeutic axes, certified in Immunology and Pediatric, MBA vaccinology and years of active clinical practice. Certified in Health and diplomacy (Geneve) Lived multi-country medical “field “experience in Southeast Asia (India in particular), West/Central/East Europe. Speaking French, English, Russian, Italian, Czech, Slovak with notion of Mandarin. Over 15 years of experience in senior position in various industry companies in research and development for European and USA for vaste and complexe international programs and therapeutic areas for adults and children including infectious and tropical diseases, vaccins, metabolic and CVS, neurodegenerative diseases,inflammation, onco/oncoimmunology and orphan indications.

Dr. El Hadji Seydou Mbaye was born in 1978 in Kaolack a region of Senegal. During 2008-2013, he earned his PhD in Biology and Human Pathologies with the collaboration of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) /WHO, Lyon (France); He has Masters of Life and Health, Specialty Biology of microorganisms, Immuno-physiopathology; Virology; a License of Biochemistry in Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg (France); and a General Degree in Sciences and Technologies in University of METZ (France). He was certified Grade 10/10 by the FIGO, the Accreditation Council of Oncology in Europe (ICO), the Institute Catalan of Oncology. Recognized as Physician’s Recognition Award by the American Medical Association, he was certified, by the United Nations, by IARC/WHO. He has published 1 Book with a style of philosophical story. Author of the world program against cancer in low and middle incomes countries, he is lead author of more than 90 peer-reviewed research articles published in reputed journals. He is Editorial Board Member of 75 international Journals, Editor in Chief of 2 journals, associate membership of the World Society for Virology and also, member of BCNet International Working Group, IARC/WHO. Dr. MBAYE has formed for free, more than 250 healthcare professionals for the techniques of cervical cancer screening in Senegal.

Student Research Centre, Überlingen, Obertorstrasse, Germany.

Priyatam khadka is a young, ebullient laboratory scientist; passionate on clinical microbiology, cell biology and cancer cell research; looking for a PhD. opportunity in the relevant topics of tropical and infectious disease, cancer cell and immune-therapy. Academically, he completed his Postgraduate in Medical Microbiology with a sound academic background. Currently, has been working as Medical Laboratory Professional in Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Institute of Medicine, and Nepal for last 6 years and extra 3 yrs on other Health research institutes.

Jemal Hassen Ali is Medical Laboratory technologist by profession. He Masters of Public Health in Field Epidemiology laboratory track supported by CDC-Ethiopia. He has 10 years of work experience as laboratory technologist and one years of experience as Field Epidemiologist. Due to current issue of 90-90-90, He has presented his finding at US Embassy, Ethiopia with coordination of CDC-Ethiopia and PEPFAR. In the years he worked as technologist, he participated in different areas of specialties including experience in provide training for health professionals working in primary health care across the country, conduct supportive supervision in zonal, Hospital and health centers. He has also working experience in clinical and public health laboratory diagnosis in areas of TB (liquid and solid) culture, clinical microbiology, Immuno-heamatology and food and water quality test. He is currently working as coordinator for public health laboratory, Adama public health rsearch and referral laboratory service, Adama, Oromiya, Ethiopia.

Dr. Freda Loy Aceng is a Veterinarian strongly interested in Infectious Diseases Management. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Veterinary Medicine from Makerere University and a Master’s degree in International Infectious Diseases Management from Makerere University and North Dakota State University. She is currently a Senior Epidemiologist at the Uganda Ministry of Health, Department of Integrated Epidemiology, Surveillance and Public Health Emergencies. She has investigated multiple disease outbreaks most notably ‘Cutaneous anthrax outbreak in Arua district, Uganda.’ Her work involves weekly analysis of public health surveillance data, publication of a weekly Epi-bulletin, preparedness, investigation and response to public health emergencies.

Segundo Mesa Castillo. As Specialist in Neurology, he worked for 10 years in the Institute of Neurology of Havana, Cuba. He has worked in Electron Microscopic Studies on Schizophrenia for 32 years. He was awarded with the International Price of the Stanley Foundation Award Program and for the Professional Committee to work as a fellowship position in the Laboratory of the Central Nervous System Studies, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke under Dr. Joseph Gibbs for a period of 6 months, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, Washington D.C. USA, June 5, 1990

Sladjana Pavic has been a specialist in infectious and tropical diseases and a master's degree in immunology since 2001. She has been employed at the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases of Uzice General Hospital since 1995, and since 2009 has been the department head. It is the only infectious disease treatment unit in the county with over 300,000 residents. During her many years of work, she has gained extensive experience in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with infectious diseases, as a ward doctor and as a consultant in other wards. Sladjana Pavic is Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the Uzice Health Center, President of the Commission for Intrahospital Infections of Uzice General Hospital, Member of the Medicines Commission of Uzice General Hospital and member of the Uzice Health Center Council. She has participated in many domestic and international professional gatherings.

Dr. Mojtaba Mafi M.D., Medical Doctor/ Physician, graduated from Tehran university, School of Medicine with honor. I studied in neurosurgery ward and graduated with A score with thesis on Meningioma Brain Tumor during 6 years. With continuing my practice with special consideration on psychosomatic disorders, I completed many post graduate courses on health psychology, addiction medicine, sexual disorders therapy successfully. I passed many post graduate courses in Neuro, approved by Medical sciences university. As well, I have been passed post graduate courses on Nutrition, Gastroenterology and hepatology, Obesity treatment and diabetes approved by Tehran University of Medical sciences. I successfully passed more than 10 programs with certificates and membership in Iranian Association of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Princess Alexandra B. Duque-David completed Doctor of Medicine at the age of 24 years at Far Eastern University- NRMF, Quezon City, Philippines. Recently, completed her residency training in Pediatrics at Jose B. Lingad Memorial Regional Hospital, Pampanga, Philippines.

Dr. Maria Lourdes Gozali has completed her Medical degree at the University of Santo Tomas, Philippines. She finished her pediatric residency and fellowship in infectious diseases in Makati Medical Center in the Philippines. She served as a former chairman of the Department of Pediatrics of Asian Hospital and Medical Center and was also chief of the section of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases in Makati Medical Center and Asian Hopsital and Medical Center. She is an active consultant in both hospitals, as well as in St. Luke’s Medical Center Global City.

Dr. Guirakhoo joined GeoVax as Senior Vice President R&D in October 2015. Dr. Guirakhoo was named one of the ‘50 Most Influential People in Vaccines’ in Vaccine Nation’s 2014 list. His previous assignment was Chief Technology Officer at Vaxess Technologies, a Cambridge, MA, based biotechnology company researching thermostabilization of vaccines and biologics using silk fibroin protein. Prior to this, he served as Chief Scientific Officer at Hookipa Biotech in Vienna, Austria, developing vaccines against Cytomegalovirus and cancers based on a novel replication deficient viral vector platform. Prior to that, Dr. Guirakhoo held the position of Executive Director of External R&D at Sanofi Pasteur from 2007-20012. Before joining Sanofi Pasteur in 2007, Dr. Guirakhoo was Head of Virology Research at Acambis for 15 years. During this time, he co-invented the ChimeriVax TM -technology platform in association with St. Louis University. This platform utilizes the YF 17D vaccine virus as a vector to develop chimeric live viruses. The ChimeriVaxTM vector platform was successfully used in the development of innovative vaccines such as: a) a single dose vaccine against Japanese encephalitis (IMOJEV™), marketed in Asian countries by Sanofi, b) a single dose veterinary vaccine for the prevention of West Nile encephalitis (PREVNILE™), marketed by Merck Animal Health, and c) DENGVAXIA®, the world’s first dengue vaccine approved in Mexico and Brazil in December 2015 and marketed by Sanofi. This tetravalent vaccine represents a historic milestone for half of the world population who lives at risk of dengue. Dr. Guirakhoo has over 30 years of experience in developing vaccines against infectious diseases. Dr. Guirakhoo holds a BSc in Biology, a MSc in genetics, and a PhD in Virology from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, and was awarded a National Research Council post-doctoral fellowship at the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Fort Collins, CO, from 1990-1992.

K C Santosh worked as a research fellow at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH). He worked as a postdoctoral research scientist at the LORIA research centre, Universite de Lorraine in direct collaboration with industrial partner ITESOFT, France, for 2 years. He also worked as a research scientist at the INRIA Nancy Grand Est research centre for 3 years, until 2011. K C Santosh has demonstrated expertise in pattern recognition, image processing, computer vision and machine learning with various applications in handwriting recognition, graphics recognition, document information content exploitation, medical image analysis and biometrics. He published more than 60 research articles, including a book section in encyclopedia of electrical and electronics engineering.

Dr. Theresa I. Dale, Ph.D., CCN, NP Founder & Dean, California College of Natural Medicine, Ventura, CA. President & CEO, The Wellness Center for Research & Education, Inc. Author * Inventor * Researcher * Biological Medical Consultant Dr. Dale’s interest in non-invasive therapies became her passion when she was diagnosed with a uterine tumor at 22 years of age. After healing herself of the tumor by herself in six months using only natural medicine, she decided to make natural medicine her career. She completed her Naturopathic Studies in Europe. In 1992 Dr. Dale founded The Wellness Center for Research and Education, Inc. The California College of Natural Medicine (501C3) was then founded to train health providers in advanced Biological Medicine. A Winning Combination! Dr. Dale is the “Pioneer of Hormone Rejuvenation” with over 20,000 case studies using her advanced formulas NuFem & EndoPure for Men and Women and her “Five Element Salivary Test” panel with her custom Wellness ProgramMoreover, Dr. Dale’s organic herbal and clean nutritional formulas have been proven successful in clinical testing. Furthermore, Advanced Homeopathic research lead to her formulation of the first Fibonacci Sequenced Homeopathic product line. She offers lectures and workshops to medical professionals and speaks at various conferences. Dr. Dale has authored two books “Revitalize Your Hormones; Dr. Dale’s 7 Steps to a Happier, Healthier and Sexier You” and "Transform Your Emotional DNA, Understanding the Blueprint of Your Life”.

Eugenie Bergogne-Berezin is a Professor of Clinical Microbiology at University Diderot, Paris. She has studied MD in Medicine and PhD in Sciences in the early 1970s. She is a Chief of Department of Clinical Microbiology and research group, University Bichat Claude-Bernard and developed research on Acinetobacter spp., (nosocomial pathogen, pathogenicity, resistance), pharmacology of antibiotics, tissue distribution (lungs, brain, bronchi), research on intestinal ecology, jejunal flora and bacterial adhesion. She is an Adviser to pharmaceutical companies, expert in pharmacology-toxicology for the Ministry of Health, expert for international journals. She has developed a journal Antibiotics, (Elsevier). She has published 6 medical books, many chapters in international infectious diseases books, 200 articles in scientific journals.

Adhanom Gebreegziabher Baraki is a lecturer and researcher in university of Gondar, Ethiopia. He holds a BSc in public health and masters degree in masters of public health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Adhanom has work experiences of 2 years of clinical practice and more than 4 years as a lecturer. He advises master’s students of field epidemiology during their field work of outbreak investigation and surveillance. He has presented an abstract on Effect of Perinatal Depression on Birth and Infant Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Observational studies from Africa during the Ethiopian public health association, Ethiopia. He has published researches several researches in peer reviewed journals and several others are also under review. Adhanom lives in a low income country, Ethiopia, where infectious diseases are major public health problems and he is passionate about controlling infectious diseases.

Oumer Abdu Muhie is an Internist and Assistant professor of medicine by profession and works in one of the teaching tertiary hospitals in Ethiopia. He holds a doctor of medicine degree and certificate of the specialty training in internal medicine. Oumer has 5 years of public practice and 1year of private practices as a medical doctor and academician. He has also been involved in clinical researches in Ethiopia. He has attended a research course concerned in clinical research and evidence based decision making at the institute of tropical medicine held at Antwerp, Belgium. Oumer grew up in one of the remote villages of Ethiopia and is concerned about controlling infectious diseases and containing antibiotic resistance.

Dawit Kumilachew Yimenu is A pharmacist by profession. He has a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy and a master’s degree in pharmaceutical supply chain management. He is currently working as a lecturer at department of pharmaceutics and social pharmacy, school of pharmacy, university of Gondar. Aside from his professional duty as a lecturer, Dawit is a devoted researcher currently having five researches published in international journals with other three to be soon published. Dawit has participated in many professional trainings and workshops.

Abrham Belachew Muluye is a Pharmacologist by profession and works as lecturer and researcher within College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. He holds a B. Pharm degree in Pharmacy from Jimma University, Ethiopia and MSc degree in Pharmacology from University of Gondar, Ethiopia. Abrham has a total of 9 years of teaching, advising and research experiences at higher Ethiopian public educational institutions as a pharmacist and/or pharmacologist. He has also been carried out different community service activities in his community. He has published his research findings in different peer-reviewed journals. He has also presented his research findings in different local and national research conferences. Abrham grew up in one of the remote villages of Ethiopia with traditional herbalists (‘debtera’ and ‘mergeta’) and is highly interested in the research of indigenous traditional medical practices.

Atsbeha Gebreegziabxier Weldemariam is a Nanoscience by profession and He complete his MSc in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Spain. Currently He works in Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Ethiopia for Ten years which involved as a researcher in clinical and biomedical research and Nanomedicine research (focused on infectious diseases including HIV, TB, and HBV/HCV) and as a public health professional coordinating and participating in national HIV and HIV/TB survey and surveillance, and in evaluating national programs related to HIV, HIV/TB and HCV/HBV. He has published scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and more than 16 training awards in USA, Europe, Japan, Africa etc. Travel experience in Europe, USA, Japan, and Africa.

Doreen Anna Mloka is a medical microbiologist by profession, she is also a senior lecturer in the School of Pharmacy, University Curriculum Chair and Director of Continuing education and Professional Development, at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) , Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She holds a PhD in Medical Microbiology and a fellowship in medical Education. She has broad background in Microbiology and molecular biology, with specific training and expertise in PCR, drug resistance testing including for HIV .

Dr. Jane Mpapalika is an economist by professional and a research Fellow at the Economic and Social Research Foundation (Think-Tank Institute) in Tanzania. I pursued M.A. Economics at Leeds University Business School in Leeds, UK and PhD in Economics at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Dr. Mpapalika has been working at ESRF for almost two years now. I was involved in a multi-year project in collaboration with Muhimbili National Hospital and University of Dar es Salaam under the Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF/GAHSI) as a Co-Investigator for Tanzania.