Panel of Speakers

Diabetes

Prof. Naveed Sattar

MD

Phd. Professor / Honorary Consultant (Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences) Prof. Sattar is an Honorary Consultant in Metabolic Medicine at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary

Prof. Filip K Knop

MD, PhD

Professor of Endocrinology and Director of Center for Clinical Metabolic, Research at Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Consultant Endocrinologist at Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen

Dr. Om Ganda

MBBS, MD

Senior Staff Physician Medical Director of the Lipid Clinic Clinical Investigator Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School

Dr. Raimund Weitgasser

MD

Professor of Medicine, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Head Endocrinology and Diabetology, Deputy Medical Director of the Privatklinik Wehrle-Diakonissen, Austria

Prof. Melanie J Davies

CBE, MB, ChB, MD, FRCP, FRCGP

Diabetes Research Centre/ Department of Health Sciences Professor of Diabetes Medicine

Prof. Clifford Bailey

PhD FRCP, FRCPATH

Professor and Head of Diabetes Research, Aston University Director Biomedical Sciences Research - Nutritional Biomedicine Research Group

Dr. Peter Rossing

MD, DMSc

Head of Complications Research, Chief Physician, Steno Diabetes Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Prof. Paul Franks

PhD

Genetic Epidemiology and Deputy Director at Lund University Diabetes Center in Sweden, Adjunct professor at Harvard university

Dr. Richard E Pratley

MD

Senior Investigator at Florida Hospital Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes

Dr. William F. Young

Jr.,MD, MSC

Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism & Nutrition Tyson Family Endocrinology, Prof. of Medicine - Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Rochester, MN Ex-President Endocrine Society (2012)

Dr. David Cherney

CM, PhD, MD, FRCPC Scientist (TGHRI)

Currently Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto and a Clinician Scientist at the University Health Network & Mount Sinai Hospitals, where he is director of the Renal Physiology Laboratory

Cardiology

Dr. Deepak L. Bhatt

MD, MPH

Executive Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Programs Professor, Harvard Medical School Ex. Chief Interventional Fellow at Cleveland Clinic

Prof. Philippe Gabriel Steg

MD

Professor of Cardiology, Universite de Paris Chief, Department of Cardiology Hopital Bichat Paris, France

Dr. Raymond R. Townsend

MD

Director, Hypertension Program, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Prof. Franz Messerli

MD, FACC, FACP

ICAHN School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA

Prof. John Camm

FRCP, FESC, FAHA, FACC

St George's University of London, London (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland)

Nephrology

Prof. Guido Grassi

MD

Professor of Internal Medicine at the Clinica Medica of the University of Milano-Bicocca, and Director of the Clinica Medica Institute at St Gerardo Hospital-Monza/Milano (Italy).

Dr. David C Wheeler

MB, ChB, MD, FRCP

Professor of Kidney Medicine at University College London, UK and Honorary Consultant Nephrologist at the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust

Dr. Matthew R. Weir

MD

Professor and Director Division of Nephrology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore

Infectious Diseases

Matteo Bassetti

Prof.

Head of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino-IST University Hospital in Genoa Professor of Infectious Diseases of the University of Genoa, Italy

Prof. David Paterson

MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FRCPA, FAHMS

Director - UQ Centre for Clinical Research Faculty of Medicine - The University of Queensland

Timsit Jean-François

Dr.

Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit in Infectious Diseases University Hospital-Bichat (APHP)

Dr. Rajesh Tim Gandhi

MD

Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School

Dr. Osama Hamdy

MD, PhD

Senior Staff Physician, Medical Director, Obesity Clinic Program and Inpatient Diabetes Program Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Todd McCarty

MD

Assistant Professor(P), Medicine - Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine University of Alabama, Birmingham

Neurology

Dr. Hans-christoph Diener

MD, PhD

Professor of Neurology and Chairman of the Department of Neurology and Co-Chairman of Non-Surgical Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Dr. Cynthia L. Harden

MD

Neurologist at New York, Affiliated to Glen Cove Hospital, New York, USA

Audiology

James (Jay) Wilbur Hall III

BS, MA, PhD

American International College, B.A., 1970 (Biology) Northwestern University, M.A., 1973 (Speech Pathology) Baylor College of Medicine, PhD., 1979 (Audiology)

Dermatology

Dr. Aditya K Gupta

MD, PhD, MBA, FRCPC

Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is also visiting professor in the department of Dermatology at Tel Aviv University and an adjunct professor in the department of Dermatology at the University of Rome "G. Marconi"