57^th Euro Nursing & Medicare Summit

Jean is a Principal Lecturer and has been working at Otago Polytechnic since 2003. She is a Registered Nurse, holds a BN and a Master of Arts, and completed her Doctorate in 2017. From 1994-2003, she was co-director of the National Centre for Rural Health and instrumental in the development of interdisciplinary postgraduate nursing education. In 2008, she received the Rural General Practice Network Peter Snow Memorial Award in recognition of her national contribution to rural health care.

Nursing and Health Care

Prior to joining the faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University in 2002, Dr. Folse taught at Bradley University for three years and provided 15 years of full-time eating disorder treatment with 10 years of nursing management practice at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois, where she continued to work part-time with clients and families and provide clinical supervision to clinicians in the Eating Disorders, Behavioral Health, and Psychiatric Emergency Care Programs. Dr. Folse is a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Adult Psychiatric Nursing and is an Advanced Practice Nurse with prescriptive authority in the state of Illinois. She is also a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. Dr. Folse has an extensive publication record, an ongoing program of research, and lectures nationally and internationally. She assumed the role of Director of the School of Nursing in 2009

Nursing

Khatijah Lim Abdullah currently holds a Nursing Professor post at the Department of Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya. She completed her general nursing training in University of Malaya, and her midwifery and neonatal intensive care course in the United Kingdom (UK). Khatijah obtained both her BSc (Hons) in Nursing Studies, and Masters in Health Services Management from the University of Manchester UK, and her doctoral from the University of Southampton, UK.

Non- communicable diseases (NCDs), patient safety and clinical leadership.

Jean is a Principal Lecturer and has been working at Otago Polytechnic since 2003. She is a Registered Nurse, holds a BN and a Master of Arts, and completed her Doctorate in 2017. From 1994-2003, she was co-director of the National Centre for Rural Health and instrumental in the development of interdisciplinary postgraduate nursing education. In 2008, she received the Rural General Practice Network Peter Snow Memorial Award in recognition of her national contribution to rural health care.

Nursing and Health Care

Prior to joining the faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University in 2002, Dr. Folse taught at Bradley University for three years and provided 15 years of full-time eating disorder treatment with 10 years of nursing management practice at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois, where she continued to work part-time with clients and families and provide clinical supervision to clinicians in the Eating Disorders, Behavioral Health, and Psychiatric Emergency Care Programs. Dr. Folse is a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Adult Psychiatric Nursing and is an Advanced Practice Nurse with prescriptive authority in the state of Illinois. She is also a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. Dr. Folse has an extensive publication record, an ongoing program of research, and lectures nationally and internationally. She assumed the role of Director of the School of Nursing in 2009 .

Nursing

Khatijah Lim Abdullah currently holds a Nursing Professor post at the Department of Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya. She completed her general nursing training in University of Malaya, and her midwifery and neonatal intensive care course in the United Kingdom (UK). Khatijah obtained both her BSc (Hons) in Nursing Studies, and Masters in Health Services Management from the University of Manchester UK, and her doctoral from the University of Southampton, UK.

Non- communicable diseases (NCDs), patient safety and clinical leadership.

Positions: - Professor of Cardiology, Alexandria Univ. Department of Cardiology, June 1994 - Head of the Cardiology Dept. Alexandria Univ. since 1/8/2004 till 30 August 2007. - Emeritus professor of cardiology Alexandria Univ. till now Other positions: - Vice president (Egyptian Cardiac Rhythm Association ECRA) for two years, a member now. - Fellow American College of Cardiology (FACC) - Emeritus Fellow European Society of Cardiology (FESC). - Fellow Heart Rhythm Society FHRS - Member Heart Rhythm Society EHRA - Member European Cardiac Arrhythmia Society (ECAS) - Member European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) - Member Egyptian Society of Cardiology. - Member and co-founder CVREP (Cardiovascular Research, Education and Prevention) - Founder of جمعية خدمة مرضى القلب Society of cardiac patient’s service - All my lectures are on Researchgate, Google Scholar, Publons - Assessor in National High Council for promotion of professors in cardiology.

Electrophysiology, Echocardiography, Pacemaker therapy

Carola Förster, Professor of Molecular Medicine, Academic director for basic research at Clinics of Anaesthesia and critical care, Würzburg university hospital. Diploma in Biochemistry, PhD in Biochemistry, Institute of Biotechnology, Research Centre Jülich/ Institute of Biochemistry, University of Cologne, Germany. Post doc fellow 1999-00 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, and 2000-03, Department of Medical Nutrition, Karolinska Institute. 2007 lecture qualification for subject: Histology and Cell Biology. Present position: 2008- Associate professorship for Molecular Medicine, University hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany. This position is devoted to lead and develop research in the field of molecular medicine. Her position as university professor includes supervision of MD and PhD-students and postdocs as well as teaching undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate level in the subjects of molecular medicine and molecular neurophysiology and cell biology. CF´s research has been mainly focused in studying cell physiology of the cerebral blood vessels and with a special emphasis on its permeability regulation at the level of transport processes and cellular adhesion molecules in physiology and disorders like Neuroinflammation, Ischemic brain injury, brain cancer, comorbidities of heart failure. CF is moreover devoted to characterization of the related neurovascular barriers in the eye and inner ear.

Molecular cell biology • Molecular medicine • Bioinformatics and computational biology

Michiaki Nagai has completed his graduation from the Jichi Medical University School of Medicine and has been engaged in the Cardiovascular Medicine. Using volumetric analysis in MR SPGR imaging, he has been investigating the fields for target hypertensive organ damages including the relationships among hypertension, blood pressure variability, brain atrophy, cognitive impairment and central autonomic nervous system including the insular cortex. He was engaged in the Interventional Cardiology at Hiroshima City Asa Hospital as the Vice Director. He won the Japanese Society of Hypertension Award in the International Society of Hypertension 2006, the Young Investigator’s Award in the 8th Japanese Neurocardiology Workshop 2007 and Young Scientist Award in the second annual scientific forum of clinical hypertension of the Japanese Society of Hypertension 2013.

Hypertension Interventional Cardiology Cardiovascular Medicine

Aris Lacis, cardiac surgeon, professor, MD, Ph.D. graduated from Riga Medical Institute in 1961. General and thoracic surgeon in P. Stradina University Hospital in Riga (1964–1969). Thoracic and cardiac surgeon in the Latvian Centre for Cardiovascular Surgery (1969–1994). From 1994 until 2012 – the head of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Clinic in University Children’s Hospital, Riga; since 2012 – a consulting professor of this Clinic. Vicepresident of Latvian Society for Cardiovascular Surgery. President of Latvian Association for Pediatric Cardiologists. Author of 395 scientific publications, 3 monographs, and 13 patents. Investigator in more than 10 clinical trials including cardiosurgical procedures performed under deep hypothermia, hybrid procedures, etc. In May 2009 have been used transhuman intramyocardial delivery techniques for treatment (idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy) for the first 3 months of aged patients in the world with autologous bone marrow-derived progenitor cells. In November 2010 the first patient with end-stage pulmonary hypertension received intrapulmonary implantation autologous stem cells.

Pediatric Cardiology, Cardiovascular Surgery

She was born in Zagreb. In 1972, she graduated from the School of Medicine in Zagreb. In 1980 she completed her specialization in internal medicine at the Department for Heart and Blood Vessel Diseases, Zagreb University Hospital Centre. She continued cardiology training in Stockholm, Uppsala and Pisa. She was the first person in Croatia to introduce and conduct the stress echocardiography method (1992) and has published 56 scientific and academic papers, primarily in the field of cardiology. By 2001, she had been working as an internist cardiologist specialist and chief of the Polyclinic Section at the Department for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases and Rehabilitation in Zagreb. In 2002, she founded the Saint Nicholas Polyclinic for Cardiovascular Diseases and Prevention on Korčula. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Physicians, the Croatian Cardiologic Association, European Cardiologic Association, European Association of Cardiac Decompensation (HFA), European Association for Echocardiography (EAE), and the New York Academy of Sciences. She holds the Homeland Appreciation Memorial

Cardiovascular Diseases and Prevention

Kathleen Anderson has 27 years experience as a nurse practitioner, including having served as director of advanced practice nurses at Crouse Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y. She has extensive professional experience in the community, hospital and nursing home settings and has been a regular presenter at annual nursing conferences since 1994.

Relationship between reading ability and comprehension of patient education materials.” With Judith Evers, RN, MS; Michele Masten, RN, MS; Mary Ann Middlemiss

He is P.hd in biomedical sciences in neuroscience and traumatology and neuropharmacology sector. Prof. in Human Movement Anatomy, Phd in Applied biomedical sciences, Research in Neuro Rehabilitation and Kinesiology

The lines of research on which he worked at the University of Catania, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences, section of applied physiology and kinesiology and motion control, have been in the field of neuroscience, in particular in the role of beta-amyloid and glycoprotein F3 in the synaptic plasticity of hippocampal memory of mice and then in Alzheimer's disease; he dealt with behavior and various behavioral tests in mice; of electrophysiology of in vitro slices of hippocampus, stereotaxy and cannulation implantation, administration of drugs and animal welfare.

Dr. Ulviye Gunay has completed her Ph.D. at the Erciyes University Institute of Health Sciences, Department of Pediatric Nursing in Turkey in 2014. She conducted various studies in the field of pediatric oncology, social pediatrics and nursing education. Conducts studies on art practices for children with cancer and children with psychological problems. As a recent study, her article, titled "The transfer of theoretical knowledge to clinical practice by nursing students and the difficulties they experience: A qualitative study", has been published in the Journal of Nurse Education Today in March 2018. She is a member of the Turkish Nurses Association. Currently, she serves as the Chairman of the Department at the Inonu University Department of Pediatric Nursing.

Innovations in Nursing, Pediatrics and Neonatology

Inés Llamas Ramos graduated in physiotherapy from the University of Salamanca, Nursing and Physiotherapy School in the year 2007-2010. She got her doctorate degree from the same university in the year 2015. Currently she is working as associate professor in the University of Salamanca. Experience HYGEA Physiotherapy in Salamanca (February 2018 – present). “El Telar” ASPRODES in Salamanca (November 2017 – present). Associate Professor of the University of Salamanca (September 2015 – February 2016). Physiotherapist at Medical Center MALGRAT in Benavente (December 2012 – November 2017).

Investigation Poster communication: “Fracture, section and nervous pulling in upper limb. Physiotherapy treatment for a case” in IV International Congress of Physiotherapy and Pain. Valladolid 5th and 6th May 2017. Oral communication: “Reliability and validity of the Spanish version of the “Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale” in oncology patients” in World Congress of Cancer and Infectious Diseases. Madrid 3rd, 4th y 5 th May 2017. Llamas-Ramos I, Llamas-Ramos R. Cancer and physiotherapy. Palliat Med Hosp Care Open J. 2017; 3(1): 5. doi: 10.17140/PMHCOJ-3-119. Llamas Ramos I, Llamas Ramos R, Martín Nogueras AM, Alvarado Omenat JJ, Calvo Arenillas JI, Fonseca Sánchez E, Cortés Rodríguez M. Reliability and Validity of the Spanish Version of the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale in Oncology Patients. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2016 Dec. 52 (6): 864-91. Llamas-Ramos R, Pecos-Martín D, Gallego-Izquierdo T, Llamas-Ramos I, Plaza-Manzano G, OrtegaSantiago R, Fernández-de-las-Peñas C, Cleland J. MISREPORT OF TRIGGER POINT DIAGNOSIS RELIABILITY. RESPONSE. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2015; 45 (2): 144-146. doi:10.2519/jospt.2015.0202 2014 JOSPT Excellence in Research Award for the publication “Comparison of the Short-Term Outcomes Between Trigger Point Dry Needling and Trigger Point Manual Therapy for the Management of Chronic Mechanical Neck Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial”. Llamas-Ramos R, Pecos-Martín D, Gallego-Izquierdo T, Llamas-Ramos I, Plaza-Manzano G, OrtegaSantiago R, Cleland J, Fernández-de-Las-Peñas C. Comparison of the short-term outcomes between trigger point dry needling and trigger point manual therapy for the management of chronic mechanical neck pain: a randomized clinical trial. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2014 Nov; 44(11):852-61. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2014.5229. Epub 2014 Sep 30. Poster communication: “Effectiveness of Manual Therapy and Neuromuscular Bandage in low back pain. Pilot study” in II International Congress of Physiotherapy and Pain. Alcalá de Henares 3rd and 4 th February 2012.

Claude Billeaud received his MD degree from the Medical University of Bordeaux ( France) in 1979 after a graduation in human cytogenetics (1976). He then studied pediatrics and has been the Clinical Assistant Director of Bordeaux University in the departments of Pediatrics, Neonatology and Intensive Care since 1983. He currently serves as a pediatrician in the neonatal unit at the Children’s Hospital of Bordeaux, as a scientific manager of Bordeaux-Marmande human milk bank, as a lecturer and head of research (HDR : Habilitation to direct research) in neonatal nutrition at the Medical University of Bordeaux. His particular interest in research led him to graduate in Biology and Health (1988, Bordeaux), be awarded a master in statistics applied to clinical research ( 1991, Montreal) and complete a PhD in nutrition and food science (2000, Bordeaux). Along his career he has often been invited as a guest professor specialised in nutrition and neonatology in various universities abroad ( Montreal, Corrientes in Argentina). Over the last 35 years, he has been an active member of different scientific organisations, either French, European or American, specialised in perinatal medicine (neonatology, pediatrics and nutrition). In this instance, he has served as the President of the Association for Pediatric Education in Europe (A.P.E.E) since 2008 and behalf APEE he is Member of European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP). He has also been very involved in the French human milk banking association (ADLF) for more than 10 years, sharing his academic knowledge focused in nutrition and his long clinical experience in neonatology. He is currently carrying out several researches on the composition of human milk. As an expert in nutrition and perinatal medicine, he is also the author and co-author of numerous scientific publications.

Pediatrics and Neonatology

He is the Director of Nursing for Education and Practice Development at HMGH and is a Member of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) in Qatar. He is also the Senior Adjunct Instructor, Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary in Qatar (UCQ). His current research interests include research utilization, evidenced-based practice, hematology/oncology, nursing informatics and cancer immunotherapy.

He has published more than 50 research articles in reputable peer-reviewed journals. In November 2015, he has received Award of Merit for Placing HMC at the Cutting Edge of Cancer Research as a part of Stars of Excellence Program introduced by HMC. In October 2016, he has completed a Cancer Biology and Therapeutics (CBT) Program, provided by Harvard Medical School.

Early 2016-Present, Assistant Professor in the Vice Deanship for Quality and Development and Department of Medical Education at the College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University. Multi-Disciplinary University Researcher specializing with Nursing Research and Quality Management System Author. Specializes in the Quality Assurance and Accreditation and researcher in Patient-Centeredness and quality and safety in healthcare

His research interests focus on social determinants of health and the quality and accreditation of medical education.