Cardiology & Heart Diseases

Ljudmila Stojanovich received her Ph.D. in Medicine, with the thesis “Neuropsychiatric manifestations in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus” in 1999. She is the scientific director in the Bezhanijska Kosa, University Medical Center of Belgrade University, where she is currently a Full Research Professor. Dr. Stojanovich’s research focuses on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Antiphospholipid Syndrome, and Vaccination in patients with Autoimmune Rheumatic diseases. She is an author of three monographs and of about 250 articles on various aspects of Autoimmune Rheumatic disorders, published in international and domestic journals and in conference proceedings. She is in Editorial Boards (Editorial Boards LUPUS (LONDON). /Reviewer in the “CURRENT CONTENSTS” or “Science citation index”, like LUPUS REWIEWER DATABAS, Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, The Journal of Vaccine

•SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS •ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME •NEUROPSYCHIATRIC MANIFESTATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH AUTOIMMUNE RHEUMATIC DISEASE •VACCINATION IN PATIENTS WITH AUTO-IMMUNE INFLAMMATORY RHEUMATIC DISEASES

ACUTE CELL PHONE EXPOSURE HEMATOLOGY Acute Myocardial Infarction Coronary Angiography

Gundu H. R. Rao obtained his B.Sc degree from the University of Mysore and B.Sc (Hons) and M.Sc., degrees from the Poona University. He worked for an year with the Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control, Bangalore and five years at the Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore. He immigrated to the USA in 1965 and specialized in grain storage technology and obtained his Ph.D degree from the Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. After working as a post-doctoral fellow at the Texas A& M University and University of Minnesota, he joined department of Pharmacology as an NIH fellow to get training in toxicology. He has been with the University of Minnesota Medical School for over 40 years. He is a naturalized US citizen and a tenured professor in the department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology. He also has faculty appointments in Anesthesiology, Lillehei Heart Institute, and Biomedical Engineering Institute. He is an author or co-author of over 300 publications in the field of interest (thrombosis and stroke). In the past, he has consulted various medical device development companies in the Twin Cities including 3M, Medtronic Inc, St Jude Medical, Medical CV Inc, Vascular Solutions, APP Tech, Endocardial Solutions, PlaCor Inc., Medical Innovations Inc, Hypertension Diagnostics Inc. and Boston Scientific on problems related to biocompatibility, thrombosis and stroke.

Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis Pharmacology Anesthesiology Medical device development

Hamid Gerami is a student of PhD in physiology at age of 38 y/o from Shiraz University. He is a member of Iranian Society of Extracorporeal Technology. He is manager of clinical perfusion at Al’ Zahra hospital and was a member of scientific committee in three congresses and had been more than 5 lectures at cardiopulmonary bypass congresses.

Anesthesia Blood transfusion Coronary artery bypass graft

Paul is a Clinical Professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, and is a practicing double board-certified physician-scientist in Anesthesiology and Critical care, from the Massachusetts General Hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School. Dr Barach is a leading health services and systems researcher and medical educator with an international reputation for his work investigating and contributing to systems improvement. He has particular expertise in the culture and structure of acute settings, leadership, management and change in health sector organizations, quality and safety in health care, resilient health care, accreditation and surveying processes in international context and the restructuring of health services. He is a formally trained health services researcher, with advanced post graduate training in quality improvement and lean techniques at Intermountain Healthcare, and in advanced medical education and assessment methods from the Harvard Medical School Josiah Macy Program. He has had additional training in epidemiology and statistics including both methodological as well as applied HTA research. Paul has taught and has deep experience developing processes, systems and content around systems improvement, population health, duty of care, quality improvement, human factors, patient safety and systems re-design to undergraduate/graduate and post graduate providers and managers for over 15 years in US, Europe, and Australasia. Professor Barach is well known for bringing management and leadership concepts and evidence into the clinical arena and he has published extensively (more than 200 refereed contributions, and 300 total publications, 5 books) about organizational, social, human factors, and team approaches to care. He has presented at or chaired international and national anesthesia and other conferences, workshops, symposia and meetings on more than 500 occasions, including over 60 keynote addresses. He is interested in the organization and delivery of healthcare services and in the development and application of strategies for improving healthcare quality and outcomes, guided by theories and insights from the fields of implementation science and healthcare quality improvement research. He is involved in a variety of efforts to further develop and strengthen the field of implementation science and to facilitate more effective collaborations between researchers and policy and practice leaders interested in improving healthcare delivery. Paul has advised the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank and has served as a consultant on health care reform to governments in a number of countries focused on reducing burden of NCD's working in Asia and Africa including targeted health systems strengthening and delivery of better clinical services. Theories and ideas he has helped shape, formulate or devise, and provided research findings for, are now in common use as a result of his work: TeamSTEPPS, surgical team training, human factors tools, multimethod, triangulated approaches to research, the boundary-less hospital, clinician-managers as key players in reform initiatives, fundamental principles for the governance of health systems, and interprofessional learning and culture change rather than restructuring as a more sustainable strategy for reform. He referees for 20 journals and for international health research bodies as well as for many international conferences and symposia. He publishes in the leading journals in three convergent fields and thus expresses his work at a unique intersection of organizational studies, health services research and clinical care. His books include Surgical Patient Care Improving Safety, Quality and Value, Case Studies in Patient Safety Foundations for Core Competencies, Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care Outcomes Analysis, and Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety.

Anesthesiology Critical care epidemiology statistics Surgical Patient Care Pediatric Congenital Cardiac Care

Xiushan Wu completed his PhD from Stockholm University in 1986-1990, postdoctoral studies from Michegan University and etc in 1990-1994 and Scientist in Karolinska Institute in 1994-2000. He is the Director and Professor of The Center for Heart Development, Hunan Normal University. His research focuses on understanding the mechanisms by which embryonic heart is developed using Drosophila, zebrafish and mice as models. He has published more than 350 papers including over 110 SCI papers.

In Development, Circ: Cardiovasc Genet, Blood, Leukemia, Cancer Res, Dev Biol, Nucleic Acids Res, J Biol Chem, Endocrinology, Curr Mol Med More than 100 articles were published in international magazines such as Trends Cardiovasc Med, Oncogene, Mutat Res, and Genomics, and were cited more than 1,000 times. He has published 8 monographs in China and published more than 180 Chinese articles. Representative works and chapters: 1. Wu Xiushan: Development of vertebrate heart (Chapter XVI), P205-218, in: Zhang Hongwei, Development Biology (3rd Edition), Higher Education Press, Beijing (2013) 2. Wu X: Regulation Of Wg/Wnt signaling pathways in heart development, chapter 4, 41-79, In ​​Shaping the Heart in Development and Disease (Eds. Mikhailov A & Torrado M), Kerala: Transworld Research Network (2010). 3. Wu Xiushan (ed. ): Modern Developmental Biology Laboratory Guide, Chemical Industry Press, Beijing (2007) 4. Wu Xiushan (Editor-in-Chief): Signal conditioning and cardiac development, Chemical Industry Press, Beijing (2006) 5. Wu Xiushan (ed.): Heart Outline of Development, Science Press, Beijing (2005) 6. Wu Xiushan (Editor-in-Chief): Heart Development Research, Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha (2004)