17^th Nurse Practitioners & Critical Care Nursing Conference December 05-06, 2016 Dubai, UAE

Heather MacDonald has completed her MScN at the University of Toronto, Canada and her PhD in Nursing at the University of Manchester, UK. She has been a Professor at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Canada, since 1990. She is the author of number of publications and presented papers at various national and international conferences. In addition to working at the University of New Brunswick, she has a Parish Nursing Practice.

Women and Child Health

Hee Yun Lee is a Professor and Director of Research at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in USA. Her major research areas include cancer health disparity and health literacy among immigrant and refugee populations. She is currently conducting several RCT trials to improve cancer screening behavior and health literacy funded by the National Cancer Institute, Susan Komen for the Cure Foundation, and Department of Defense. She has published more than 47 papers in reputed medical/public health journals and has been serving as an editorial board member and currently serving as an Associate Editor for a high impact journal.

Cancer health disparity and health literacy among immigrant and refugee populations

Dr Josef Holzki is a teaching professor at the University Children´s Hospital Liège, Belgium, after retiring from being Director/Chairman of the department of Pediatric Anesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) in Children´s Hospital Cologne, Germany for 23 years. He also served as a President of the FEAPA (Federation of European associations of Pediatric Anesthesia), Lecturer in international meetings of Pediatric Anesthesia and –intensive care and airway endoscopy, honorary member of the Association of Pediatric anesthesia of Great Britain and Ireland (APA).

Pediatric Anesthesia and intensive care, Airway Endoscopy

Luis Beato-Fernández (MD. PhD.) has completed his MD from University of Seville (Spain) and postdoctoral studies PhD from University of Cordoba School of Medicine. He is the director of Eating Disorders Unit at the General Hospital of Ciudad Real and he is professor at the School of Medicine University of Castilla La Mancha. He has published more than 25 papers mainly related to Eating Disorders in adolescents.

Eating Disorders

Hideya Kodama graduated from Akita university of Medicine in 1982, and promoted to a professor of the department of maternity child nursing at Akita university graduate school of medicine and faculty of medicine in 2000. Since them, he have studied about a human circadian rhyme, including a sleep-wake cycle, a melatonin rhythm, regulation of autonomic nervous system and a body thermal rhythm, with nurses who entered his postdoctoral course. Now, he manages several research projects of the doctoral course regarding this issue, and his research subjects include early infants, pregnant women, puerperal and adolescent girls.

Human circadian rhyme, Sleep-wake cycle, Regulation of autonomic nervous system

Professor Michael Silbermann (D.M.D.; Ph.D., and certified specialist in oral and maxillo facial surgery; Chief Resident at Boston City Hospital in Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery, Ph.D. at Tufts University Medical School (Boston, MA), Post-doc at USC in Los Angeles, CA and the NIH, Bethesda, MD) was head of the laboratory for musculoskeletal research at the Faculty of Medicine in the Technion. He has gained international reputation through multinational research projects related to skeletal development, metabolism and senescence, funded by international research agencies (Israel National Council for Research and Development, Ministry of Science; Chief Scientist Office in the Ministries of Health, and Commerce and Industry; NIH, USAID, and BSF in the United States; BMBF, GBF and GSF in Germany). Large financial support was obtained also from industries. He has been awarded research fellowship grants by the American Association of Dental Research, The Fogarty Foundation (Bethesda, MD), EMBO, Max Planck Society, and Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences. He served as the Chairman of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine; Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Technion; Chief Scientist, Ministry of Health; Chairman of the Board of Governors, the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation; Member of the Committee for the Promotion of Infrastructure in Biomedical Research, Ministry of Science, State of Israel; Member of the Foulkes Foundation (United Kingdom) Committee for Doctoral Fellowships; The Isreal Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Member of the National Committee for Ethics in Science and Intellectual Property, Israel; Executive Director, the Middle East Cancer Consortium since its establishment in 1996; First representative of the State of Israel in the European Commission in the Program Committee of Bio-Medical Research; EU, Brussels; Chairman, National Committee for Examining Academic Specialty Training in Health, Social and Education Professionals, The Council for Higher Education, State of Israel; Excellence in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, The Finnish Academy of Sciences, Helsinki, Finland. Serves as Editor of J. Palliative Care & Medicine, and Editor-in-Chief of Palliative Medicine and Hospice.

His research interests include end of life, Surviviorship research,Quality of life (Qol),And the delivery of palliative care

Momcilo Jankovic has completed his Specializations in: Pediatrics and Hematology (1981) and Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (1989) at the School of Medicine - University of Milan. Since 1982 he is Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at the Department of Pediatrics of the University of Milan, Hospital S.Gerardo, Monza. Since 1994 he is Director of the General Paediatric and Haematological Outpatient Clinic in the same Department. Responsibilities: leukemias, thalassemias, platelets disorders, bone marrow transplantation Research: CNS sequelae in leukemic children; Cooperative studies with the Italian Association of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology (AIEOP) and European Countries. He has published more than 300 papers in reputed journals.

Leukemias, Thalassemias, Platelets disorders, Bone marrow transplantation

Królak-Olejnik Barbara, Professor - Head of the Department of Neonatology at the Medical University in Wroclaw. She graduated from the Medical University of Silesia, Faculty of Medicine in Zabrze. Specialist in pediatrics, neonatology and public health. Multiple scholar and practice at the University Hospital in Bergen in 1996-2000. The main directions of research interests relate to perinatal care and maintance at the delivery room and also nutritional therapy and breastfeeding promotion. The author of over 100 medical papers published in Polish and foreign periodicals.

Pediatrics, Neonatology and Public health

She was born in 1951. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Hacettepe University in 1976. She completed her specialty training in Pediatrics at the School of Medicine, Hacettepe University between 1976 and 1980. She became an associate professor in 1985 and a professor in 1991 at Cumhuriyet University. In 1993, she was selected as a member of the European Society for Pediatric Research. In 1995, she established the Pediatrics Department of the Faculty of Medicine of Kocaeli University and Neonatology Department in 2000. Between the years 1995 and 2010, she worked as the head of Pediatrics Department of the Faculty of Medicine of Kocaeli University. She still works as the head of Neonatology Department of the School of Medicine of Kocaeli University . She is a member of ESPR, National Pediatrics Foundation of Turkey, Turkish Neonatology Foundation, Mother and Baby Health Foundation in Turkey.

Feeding of premature infants, Characteristics of breast milk and Neonatal infections.

Dr Salah T. Al Awaidy is a Communicable Diseases Adviser in Health Affairs, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman. He is a medical doctor and holds a Master’s in Epidemiology. He is currently the adviser on Communicable Disease Surveillance, Elimination and Eradication of Communicable Diseases of Public Health Importance, EPI, vaccine supply chain system and IHR

Epidemiology, Public Health

Basanti Majumdar is a professor with the School of Nursing and the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University and an internationally respected scholar who has worked to bring better health and health education to people in many countries, including South Africa, India, Thailand and Japan. Her work in Canada has focused on helping bridge communications between governments and Aboriginal Canadians. Basanti Majumdar, an internationally respected scholar, has worked to bring better health and health education to people in many countries.

Primary health care (PHC), social determinants of health and HIV/AIDS; inter/ethno-cultural health; education program evaluation; risk behaviour among adolescents in Aboriginal and immigrant populations; and migration health/policy.

Professor Ian Baldwin RN, PhD., is currently at the Austin Hospital and RMIT University (Adjunct Prof.) in Melbourne, where he has been the program coordinator and clinical educator for post registration Intensive Care Nursing for over 20 years. Ian has undertaken many research and quality activities in Intensive Care, and has presented at numerous scientific meetings in Australia, the United States, Europe and Asia.Ian has completed both a Masters and PhD by research and has over 80 publications and book chapters devoted to the application of renal replacement therapies, incident monitoring, quality and education activities in ICU.

The application of renal replacement therapies, incident monitoring, quality and education activities in ICU.

Goran Basic is an Associate Professor in sociology and a senior lecturer at the Department of Pedagogy, Linnaeus University. His research concerns fieldwork in Bosnia and Herzegovina; he has written articles on the postwar society and carried out an evaluation of a project in the juvenile care. Basic’s dissertation ‘‘When collaboration becomes a struggle. A sociological analysis of a project in the Swedish juvenile care’’ is based on ethnographic material. Currently analyzing: (1) narratives of youth that have experienced war, taken refuge in Sweden, and taken into custody and placed in institutions; (2) the obscure practices and rhetoric of the war, the emotions and moral of the war, human interaction during horrific captivity and escape but also the individuals requirements on restored respect and dignity when war experiences portrayed in the life stories; (3) the collaboration between border police and coastguard and between different actors in the youth care; (4) definitions of successful intelligence and operational police work. Main research and teaching areas: Sociology, Interactionist Theory and Analysis, Ethnography, Criminology, War Sociology, Treatment Pedagogics, Social Psychology, Peace and Conflict Studies, Ethnicity, Victimology, Social Work, Strategic Communication, Collaboration, Juvenile Care, Reconciliation, Substance Abuse Treatment, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods, Operational Police Work, Intelligence Police Work, Identity, Morality, Balkan History, Ethnic Conflicts, War, Youth, Institution, Interviews, Field Work, Refugee, Stigma, Social Comparison, Symbolic Interaction, Ethics, Ethnomethodology, Religion, Migration, Migrant, Diaspora, Nationality, Transition, Unaccompanied Child Refugees, Coordination, Project, Coordinator, Triad, Struggle, Alliance,Conflict Point of Interest, Dyad.

Health Sociology, Medical Sociology, Health Care, Health, Illness, War Sociology, Conflict Sociology, Peace and Conflict Studies, Qualitative Method, Identity, Morality, Ethnic Conflicts, War, Youth, Institution, Interviews, Field Work, Refugee, Stigma, Social Comparison, Symbolic Interaction, Ethics, Ethnomethodology, Religion, Migration, Migrant, Diaspora, Nationality, Transition, Unaccompanied Child Refugees.

Dr S.Afshin Shorofi has attained his PhD from Flinders University of South Australia, where he subsequently started working as a Research Associate in Health Care for Older People. He is currently an Adjunct Research Fellow at Flinders University (Australia), and an Assistant Professor at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences (MUMS-Iran). In addition, Afshin is the deputy head of the Traditional & Complementary Medicine Research Center and the Center for History & Ethics Studies at MUMS. Afshin is holding adjunct academic positions in two research centers at MUMS, Traditional & Complementary Medicine Research Center and Orthopedic Research Center. He is nationally well known for his publications so that he has published 17 books in the fields of Nursing, Midwifery and Medicine irrespective of his papers in peer-reviewed journals. Afshin is also serving several well-reputed journals as an editorial board member or editorial advisory board member. Afshin has been awarded prizes and honors for teaching excellence, outstanding research and overall academic achievement. Afshin's research interest is as follows: aged care; complementary and alternative medicine; holistic care; research issues in health; pain management; and palliative care.

Dr Seyed Afshin Shorofi research interests are Aged Care, Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Evidence-based Practices, Holistic Care, Research Issues in Health, Research Methodologies, Pain Management, Palliative Care.

Dr. Feras Hawari, MD, FCCP is the Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care, the Director of the Respiratory Unit and the Director of the Cancer Control Office at King Hussein Center. Before joining KHCC, he worked at the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Branch (PCCMB) at the U.S National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at the U.S National Institute of Health (NIH). He is active in research and administration in the field of Critical Care. He is board certified in internal medicine, clinical pharmacology, pulmonary diseases, and critical care medicine. He is a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians.

Critical Care Oncology Pulmonary complication of bone marrow transplantation Drug/radiation-induced pulmonary diseases Cardio-pulmonary exercise testing

Currently, Professor at the College of Health Sciences, Nursing department, University of Sharjah,UAE, 2013-till present , on sabbatical leave from the Faculty of Nursing, University of Alexandria – Egypt. Published nationally and internationally Reviewed manuscript for SAGE Open Supervised 17 Master thesis, 7 Doctoral dissertation Obtained the Best Poster Presentation Award Quality in the 10th, and 11th Emirates Critical Care Conference in Dubai 2014, 2015 Conducted several workshops

Quality Care in the ICU, Weaning Patient from Mechanical Ventilation, Delirium in ICU, Family Needs of Critically Ill, End-of-Life care Issues, Innovative Teaching-Learning Strategies, Formative Evaluation.

I have specialized expertise in Critical Care Nursing. I have finished my Bachelors Honors degree in ‘Clinical and Professional Nursing Studies’ from the Anglia University in UK and a Master’s degree in Health Care Management at the Open University of Cyprus. I have also studied a Post Graduate diploma in Emergency and Critical Care Nursing. Recently, I have finished my PhD in Critical Care Nursing at the Cyprus University of Technology. My long past experience as a nurse in Intensive Care Units and as a clinical educator in ICU has inspired me to develop research in critical care. I am currently working at the Education Sector of the Department of Nursing Services at the Ministry of Health. I am the lead co-ordinator of a Post-Graduate diploma level, 1 year, Critical Care Course, which is under the auspices of the Cyprus University of Technology. I am also, an invited lecturer at the Cyprus University of Technology, Department of Nursing. At a national level, I am the chair of the Critical Care and Emergency Nurses Department of the Cyprus Nurses and Midwives Organization; at an international level, I am a council member of the European Federation of Critical Care Nurses Associations (EfCCNa). I have been a member of the EfCCNa’s Education committee and participated in the development of the European Critical Care Nurses Competencies Tool which is being used for clinical or research purposes in many European countries and being translated into foreign languages. I am also an International Advance Life Support instructor and Generic course Instructor of the European Resuscitation Council. I have published several research articles in critical care, and I have made many presentations nationally and internationally. My research interests include Critical care Nursing, Pain assessment and management in the critically ill patient and the value of several biochemical indicators and neuropeptides for the detection of pain in the critically ill.

critical care nursing Pain Assessment and Measurement Pain Management ICU Nurses Autonomy and Co-operation with physician

Ali Ammouri has completed his PhD at the age of 30 years from Kansas University School of Nursing, USA. He is an associate professor at Hashemite University College of Nursing. He has published many papers in reputed journals related to critical care and cardivascular nursing.

Critical Care, Cardiovascular nursing.

Dr.Muhammad Muneer Amanulla done his MBBS; Dow Medical College. Karachi. Pakistan (1990). He worked in General Surgical Residency; Aga Khan University Hospital. Karachi (1991-1996). He also worked as Instructor Cardiothoracic surgery; Aga Khan University Hospital. Karachi (1997-98). He was Specialist Registrar Cardiothoracic Surgery, Northern deanery, UK (1999-2006) . He was FRCS Genaral Surgery RCS Edinburgh and Glasgow (1997) and FRCS Cardiothoracic Surgery RCS Edinburgh (2003).Currently,he was working in AGA University as a associate professor.

Adult congenital cardial surgery,Pediatric cardiac surgery, pediatric thoracic surgery,

Dr Abbas Al Mutair, RN has specialized expertise in critical care nursing. He completed his Bachelor of Nursing from the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, Master of Nursing and Ph.D in Medicine Nursing and Health sciences from Monash University, Australia. He also studied a Post Graduate Diploma in Critical Care Nursing. He has worked in a number of hospitals in Saudi Arabia and Australia as a Registered Nurse and Nurse Manager; currently he is an Assistant Professor at the Division of Nursing of Al Mana College for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia. He has a number of journal articles publications in the field of nursing in peer-reviewed journals and has presented at numerous international conferences and scientific meetings in Australia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Europe. His research interests include critical care, nursing education and training, family, cultural issues, statistics and medical writing. Dr Abbas is an Editorial Board Member in the Innovational Journal of Nursing and Healthcare and serving a number of highly reputed journals as a reviewer including: Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Infection and Public Health, Journal of Critical Care Nurse, Journal of International Nursing Review and Contemporary Nurse Journal.

His research interests include critical care, nursing education and training, family, cultural issues, statistics and medical writing.

Mrs Pushpa Parajuli is a professor in Department of Medical Surgical nursing (faculty of nursing) in B P Koirala institute of health sciences Dharan Nepal. She has twenty five years’ experience in the field of nursing; she had worked as Head of Department seventeen years and chief college of nursing more than eight years. During her career Pushpa parajuli published number of articles in national and international journals and has reviewed research papers. She had attended many conferences, workshops, symposium and training in national and international level. She is an author of book “Critical Care Nursing”.

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