8 th International Conference on
Healthcare and Medicine

Sean Hall is MD, Chief Executive Officer, Medlab Clinical LTD, Sydney Australia. He founded Medlab in August 2012. He has over 20 years’ experience in nutraceutical sales and development, as well as early drug discovery in Australia, Asia and the US. He has led and inspired his teams to author multiple patents, write peer reviewed articles and deliver lectures at scientific conferences. His passion is leading his researchers into novel areas and strong commercialisation opportunities. He was a founder of FIT-BioCeuticals. Under his management and guidance BioCeuticals became the most innovative, research driven, practitioner brand in Australia. For his sale of FIT-BioCeuticals to Blackmores in 2012, he was nominated as a finalist in the inaugural Australian Exit CEO of the Year Award. He is a Medical Doctor with an MBA in clinical pharmaceutical management, and focuses on the research to pioneer innovation and commercialisation. He is an active member of Medicines Australia, the European Medical Association, the American Federation for Medical Researcher, The World Medical Association, A4M and Special Operations Medical Association.

He focuses on the research to pioneer innovation and commercialization

Dr. Robert Jamison is a Professor at Harvard Medical School with appointments in the Departments of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Psychiatry, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. His professional time is spent teaching and actively engaging in research. His recent research has focused on the examination of predictors of opioid abuse in chronic pain patients, patient engagement using telemedicine, and numerous clinical trials funded by the NIH and industry. He has been research mentor to several attending physicians and graduate students at Harvard and other institutions. He also has assisted the coordination of clinical research within the Pain Trials Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He has been principal investigator on several NIH-funded projects. He is currently a member of five scientific journal Editorial Boards. He has authored two books, and over 300 peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and abstracts in the areas of innovative technology, behavioral medicine and chronic pain. He has been active and held board positions in many regional, national, and international organizations such as the American Pain Society and the International Association for the Study of Pain. He has been the past president of the New England Pain Association and have served on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the American Pain Society. He is committed to the clinician teacher/trainer model and is a very important figure in clinical research.

Examination of predictors of opioid abuse in chronic pain patients, patient engagement using telemedicine, and numerous clinical trials

Felice L. Gersh, M.D. is a rare combination of an award winning physician who is dual Board Certified in OB/GYN and in Integrative Medicine. Her educational background includes an undergraduate degree from Princeton University, a medical degree from the University of Southern California School of Medicine, a residency at Kaiser LA, and a 2 year Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona School of Medicine. Dr. Gersh has dedicated her career to women, focusing on the aspects of women’s health which are unique, under-appreciated, and poorly managed. She sees patients regularly and is the Medical Director of the innovative Integrative Medical Group of Irvine. Dr. Gersh is a sought-after national and international speaker, a published writer of book chapters and a prolific blogger. She has been featured on numerous web summits, podcasts, and radio shows, has her own segment, A Healthy Perspective, heard weekly on Los Angeles AM radio, KRLA 870 and is heard monthly on iHeart radio on the “Parents are Hard to Raise” show. Her first book will be out in late 2018 - on the women’s health topic of PCOS.

PCOS,allopathic medical treatments, Gastrointestinal Health,diabetics

Joseph Tan, PhD, formerly Wayne C Fox Chair of eBusiness Innovation, and currently, Professor of eHealth Informatics, De Groote School of Business, McMaster University is the founding and on-going Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems & Informatics with a professional background that spans a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary research area. A lead investigator in re-defining the frontiers of multidisciplinary Business and Health IT knowledge development, management and expansion, including active involvement in collaborative research and multidisciplinary joint grant submissions, Dr. Tan has demonstrated skills and ability to serve in both academia and industry. He has achieved recognized scholarship in teaching and learning with students’ nominations for teaching excellence awards.

His overall career focus is on reshaping the landscape of IS/IT applications and promotion in e-Health informatics through cross-disciplinary thinking/project partnering with diverse practitioners, clinicians, researchers and a variety of user communities.

David Wortley is a Vice President of the International Society of Digital Medicine (ISDM) and the Founding President of the European Chapter of ISDM. He is a recognised global authority on the practical application of emerging and enabling technologies in areas such as health, environment, business development and education.

Health, Environment, Digital Medicine

Vance Shaffer, an experienced President with a demonstrated history of working in the medical device industry. He is having strong business development professional skilled in Customer Service, Medical Devices, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Planning, and Business Development. He was the inventor of Tube-Evac. Quick, easy, and safe! Give your patients and their caregivers the peace of mind they deserve after surgery. Tube-Evac is an award winning device that makes stripping surgical drainage tubes fast and easy, allowing for better patient outcomes. He studied Computer Science and Mathematics at University of Cincinnati and worked at various companies in data base and various commercial enterprises. In last 20 years, he was working with Cray Research and IBM Research where he taught PhD’s, Post Docs, and Professors how to optimize computer programs to run on High Performance Computer systems with hundreds or thousands of computers. These codes were for molecular modeling, environmental modeling, stellar modeling, radioactive conversion to inert glass, optimization of materials management, keeping track of materials, and many other codes.

Surgical Drainage Tubes

Danielle Riverin-Simard, Ph.D.,is professor emeritus at University of Laval (Canada) and editorial member of many scientific journals. From 1989 to 1992, she was the founding scientific director of the Centre for Research in Career Development, and, from 1995 to 1998, a Council member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada. She has contributed significantly to the field of adult vocational education and of career transitions, development and management, through the publication of books (Phases of Working lives; Careers and social classes; Career Transitions: choices and strategies; Work and Personality; Key roles in the revolution of work) and of more than 150 articles in peer review.Danielle Riverin-Simardâs work, well-known in Quebec, Canada and internationally, has received many prestigious rewards. She continues her research in this area by working with senior business executives, public managers and career practitioners to improve the lifelong learning and the lives of workers in the knowledge economy.

Educational Psychology

Dr Sinisa Franjic is among the law professionals with high level of contribution to the fields of Healthcare and Legal law involved in Healthcare. He is among the list of Senior most faculties with great level of expertise in Europe.

His research expertise is mainly focused on Healthcare Law and Ethics.