Respiratory Disease and Care

Aloys Tan is a medical practitioner by profession with 40+ years of experience in the health care industry in the Netherlands and Asia. His interest lies in bridging the gap between fundamental research and its daily applications, particularly in the Healthcare realm in the European-Asia base. Between 1980 and 2000 he was chairman of the Pulmonology department of St. Joseph Hospital Veldhoven. Ever since, he has held various management positions in the areas of health care, social services and IT. Currently, Dr. Tan is partner and advisor in Landcent Europe Division and is instrumental in guiding Landcent’s regulatory initiatives in the region.

Hamid Mcheick is a full professor in Computer Science department at the University of Québec at Chicoutimi, Canada. He has more than 25 years of experience in both academic and industrial area. He has done his PhD in Software Engineering and Distributed System in the University of Montreal, Canada. He is working on smart and connected software applications; healthcare framework; smart frameworks/systems; software architectural models and frameworks; Intelligent Context-aware Applications; Intelligent Internet of Things architecture; Cloud Computing. He has supervised many post-doctorate, PhD, master and bachelor students. He has nine book chapters, more than 60 research papers in international journals and more than 150 research papers in international/national conference and workshop proceedings in his credit. Dr. Mcheick has given many keynote speeches and tutorials in his research area, particularly in Smart Healthcare systems, Pervasive and Ubiquitous computing, Distributed Middleware Architectures, Software Connectors, Service Oriented Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Smart Architectural Frameworks, Mobile Edge Computing, Fog Computing, and Cloud Computing. Dr. Mcheick has gotten many grants from governments, industrials and academics. He is a chief in editor, chair, co-chair, reviewer, member in many organizations (such as IEEE, ACM, Springer, MDPI, Elsevier, Inderscience, Wiley) around the world.

George Pule is a 3rd-year Biomedical Engineering Technology Student at Evelyn Hone College of Applied Arts and Commerce; and he is a student Member of the Engineering Institution of Zambia and IEEE, Engineering in medicine and biology society (EMBS). He is the inventor and Lead innovator of the Vent Splitting Device (VSD) under development at Evelyn Hone College with sponsorship from the National Science and Technology Council. The invention received a grant from the National Science and Technology Innovation Youth Fund. He presented an abstract on ventilator-sharing methods at the 2022 IEEE EMBS Middle East Africa international conference in Uganda.

Dr. Manoj Nargund is a trained Pharmacologist {Doctor of Medicine (MD)} from University of Mumbai, India, & also holds a Diploma in Pharmaceutical Business Management. He has earlier served as Resident Medical Officer in internal medicine & ICU in prestigious public hospitals at Mumbai for 3 years; has been on teaching faculty for Pharmacology for medical & pharmacy graduates, & has 5 publications in peer-reviewed journals. As an Asia Pacific Medical Affairs & Clinical R&D professional in pharmaceutical industry for over 21 years, he has led key products in companies like Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Zydus Cadila, Macleods, Abbott, & GSK, in multiple therapy areas, including in Respiratory & Infectious Diseases, to address unmet therapeutic needs of patients with asthma, COPD, ILD/IPF, PAH, & in various bacterial & fungal respiratory infections. Some of his key achievements in these areas include, introduction of doxofylline, montelukast & deflazacort for asthma/COPD as per GINA/GOLD guidelines; introduction of 3rd/4th generation beta-lactams & fluoroquinolones; & implementation of various digital/non-digital medical education intiatives for physicians & patients. He is passionate about learning & implementing strategies for addressing the challenges of sub-optimal control of asthma & COPD, & increasing anti-microbial resistance (AMR).

Sadia Saber, currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, at Bangladesh Medical College, Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh for the last 4 years. She completed her MBBS at the university of Dhaka in the year July 2010 with honors marks in Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, and Pathology. She also secured 4th position in the merit list during her 2nd Professional MBBS Examination. Then she completed her 5 years of Post-graduation Clinical Training at Bangladesh Medical College Hospital From January 2012 – December 2016. She acquired her Fellowship (FCPS) in Internal Medicine from the Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons (BCPS) in the session of January 2017. She obtained her MRCP (UK) & MRCP (Ireland) in the year of November 2017 & October 2019 respectively. She has passed MRCP SCE in Respiratory Medicine (UK) in the year of October 2021. She has also completed her Postgraduate Diploma in Respiratory Medicine, at the University of South Wales, Cardiff (UK) in the session of 2021-2022. She acquired European Diploma in Respiratory Medicine (Switzerland) in 2022. Currently, she is doing her Master’s Degree in Sleep Medicine at the European University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain. She is working as an active member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (UK), the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (UK), the American College of Physicians (USA) & the American College of Chest Physicians (USA). She has got more than 35 publications in both national and international levels, among those she is the 1 st author for more than 25 publications.