Traditional and Complementary Medicine

Ahmed Hegazi is currently a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in the National Research Center, Egypt. Prof. Hegazi received his master’s degree in 1979, and his PhD in 1981. Hegazi's research work has been focused lately on bee products and their therapeutic effects. Dr. Hegazi awards; First Class Decoration of Excellence, Egypt, 1995, The Senior Scientist Prize of National Cairo, Egypt, 1996, The National Scientific Prize In Biological Sciences, Egypt, 1990, The Scientific Prize of The National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt, 1989, The Second Best Research Paper Award, International Congress of Propolis, Bones Aires, Argentina, 2000, Main Speaker Award,10th Academic Conference, PRA and NAS (Nippon Apitherapy Soc.) Japan, 2006, 2 Bronze medals from The International Innovation Fair of the Middle East, Kuwait, 2007 Awarded of Ghazi Wad Allah Salon Prize, 2008. Awarded the Merit Aware of Medical Sciences, The National Research Center, 2016.

Microbiological Sciences, Biological Sciences

Mr. De la Parra is an entrepreneur focused on Information Technology, Education and Health. He is creative, results-driven and has 16+ years of Digital Strategy experience in architecture and implementation. Mr. De la Parra serves as Chief Information Technology Officer and is a member of the Advisory Board at the Kala Institute. He is the COO and Co-founding Partner at The Solomon Brokerage Firm and leads as CEO at Mass Media Division and at De la Parra Mobile Solutions. He is the former President & Co-founder of PetroM Renewable, and served as Vice President of Operations & Strategy at PetroM Corp across all of its divisions, including PetroM Logistics. He is the former COO & Co-founder at RegenerAge Clinic & RegenerAge Beauty. Mr. De la Parra is the former CEO & Founder at Astrum Salud Móvil and its Telemedicine service Astrum Móvil, former Digital Strategy Director & Co-founder at Dr. Jois, BiorganicAging, What Skin Needs/WSN International Pty. Ltd. He also served as a member of the Board of Advisors and is former Chief Marekting Officer at ReAnima Advanced Biosciences and served as Digital Media Director at Bioquark, Inc. He also served as the Latin America Region Manager and Digital Strategy adviser at CardiacSense and is former CITO & Senior Partner at Cerezo Editores.

Neuroscience, Regenerative Medicine, Continued Medical Education, Information & Communications Technology, Biotechnology, Social Development, Nanotechnology, Education Technology, Water Technology and Renewable Energy Technologies.

Dr. Pathirage Kamaml Perera is a Senior Lecturer and consultant pharmacologist and has delivered guest lectures and keynotes in multidisciplinary conferences and symposiums . Has presented and published many papers at local and international conferences and journals in areas of Pharmacology, Clinical trials , Toxicology, Immune medicine, Traditional medicine, Ayurveda, Pharmacovigilance, Bio transformation technologies, Bio medical-clinical ethics and Medical education. Won awards for research presentations both internationally and locally for scientific publications. Received several research grants and developed a research Unit for Ayurveda products to conduct experimental studies and clinical trials in the Institute of Indigenous Medicine, University of Colombo. Supervising research and clinical degrees of Post Graduate Diploma /MSc/MD/MPhil/PhDs. Serve as a reviewer and Editorial board member of peer review International journals. Held the post of Head of Department of Allied Sciences, and Head of the Department of Ayurveda Pharmacology and Pharmaceutics. Currently hold the post of clinical coordinator in MD(Ayu) program at Institute of Indigenous Medicine, University of Colombo.

Pharmacology, Clinical trials , Toxicology, Immune medicine, Traditional medicine, Ayurveda, Pharmacovigilance, Bio transformation technologies, Bio medical-clinical ethics

Dr. Hiu Yee KWAN obtained her B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Biology from the Hong Kong University and Ph.D degree in Physiology in the Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her postdoctoral training in the Department of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the School. Dr. Kwan develops various research platforms to have new insight into the interplay between obesity and cancer, and discover novel herbal-based target therapeutics to treat cancer, obesity and its comorbid conditions. She has published over 60 research papers, review articles, editorials, and book chapter in the areas of oncology, obesity, nutrition, and vascular biology in prestigious journals like Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), Circulation Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, FASEB J, Journal of Proteome Research, Scientific Reports, The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, Molecular Cell, Nature Communication and Cell. Currently, Dr. Kwan is an editorial board member for more than 10 international Journals.

Nutritional science, and the interplay between obesity and cancer. Discover novel Chinese medicine-based target therapeutics for the treatment of cancers, obesity and its comorbid conditions

Dr. Hiu Yee KWAN obtained her B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Biology from the Hong Kong University and Ph.D degree in Physiology in the Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her postdoctoral training in the Department of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the School. Dr. Kwan develops various research platforms to have new insight into the interplay between obesity and cancer, and discover novel herbal-based target therapeutics to treat cancer, obesity and its comorbid conditions. She has published over 60 research papers, review articles, editorials, and book chapter in the areas of oncology, obesity, nutrition, and vascular biology in prestigious journals like Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), Circulation Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, FASEB J, Journal of Proteome Research, Scientific Reports, The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, Molecular Cell, Nature Communication and Cell. Currently, Dr. Kwan is an editorial board member for more than 10 international Journals.

Nutritional science, and the interplay between obesity and cancer. Discover novel Chinese medicine-based target therapeutics for the treatment of cancers, obesity and its comorbid conditions

Dr Mohammad Nazrul Islam is having vast interest to conduct research on traditional unani medicine. He has been serving to his nation more than 18 years. He has been successfully working as an Assistant Professor, Hamdard University Bangladesh since 2014. He has awarded Doctor of Medicine (Unani) from National Institute of Unani Medicine under Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science Bangalore by ICCR AYUSH Scholarship-scheme 2006-2009. He has conducted different clinical trials; field based studies and published more than 15 articles in the international and national journals. He also serves as editor and reviewer of the 5 international journals. He is a member of International Society such as IRED and BARA.

Dr Mohammad Nazrul Islam is one of the world’s most experienced researchers of Unani Medicine. He is writer of 2 books like Strategic Development of Herbal medicine: Research based approaches; Introduction to Regimenal Therapy; and contributor of a chapter of book LF: Indian Perspective edited by Prof. B.K.Tyagi.

Dr Mohammad Nazrul Islam is having vast interest to conduct research on traditional unani medicine. He has been serving to his nation more than 18 years. He has been successfully working as an Assistant Professor, Hamdard University Bangladesh since 2014. He has awarded Doctor of Medicine (Unani) from National Institute of Unani Medicine under Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science Bangalore by ICCR AYUSH Scholarship-scheme 2006-2009. He has conducted different clinical trials; field based studies and published more than 15 articles in the international and national journals. He also serves as editor and reviewer of the 5 international journals. He is a member of International Society such as IRED and BARA.

Dr Mohammad Nazrul Islam is one of the world’s most experienced researchers of Unani Medicine. He is writer of 2 books like Strategic Development of Herbal medicine: Research based approaches; Introduction to Regimenal Therapy; and contributor of a chapter of book LF: Indian Perspective edited by Prof. B.K.Tyagi.

Huang Wei Ling, born in Taiwan, raised and graduated in medicine in Brazil, specialist in infectious and parasitic diseases, a General Practitioner and Parenteral and Enteral Medical Nutrition Therapist. Once in charge of the Hospital Infection Control Service of the City of Franca’s General Hospital, she was responsible for the control of all prescribed antimicrobial medication and received an award for the best paper presented at the Brazilian Hospital Infection Control Congress in 1998. Since 1997, she works with the approach and treatment of all chronic diseases in a holistic way, with treatment guided through the teachings of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Hippocrates. Researcher in the University of São Paulo, in the Ophthalmology department from 2012 to 2013

Treatment of a variety of disease using Traditional Chinese Medicine reasoning • Excessive use of technology • Emotional relation with diseases • Dietary Therapies

1972 Doctor of medicine, Munich University, Germany, since 1998 visiting professor at NUTCM, since 2000 Professor honoris causae Chinese Academy of Science, since 2001 Professor honoris causae Nanjing University of TCM, since january 2012 Visiting-Professor Fudan University Shanghai, since 2014 Senior Professor at NUCM Honorary President of Austrian Society for Controlled Acupuncture, Honorary President of Swiss Society for Acupuncture and Auricular-Medicine

Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine

Milagrosa Chiu Shieh Liu has completed her Doctor degree in Naturopathy in 2000 from Trinity College of Natural Health, Indiana, USA. She has studied the Doctor degree of TCM from Chang Chung University of Traditional Chinese Medicine China. Presently, she is the Global Affairs Officer of COMFORT Helathy Tecnology Co.,Ltd. She has presented in more than 30 international conferences in Asia and Latin American countries. She has been serving as a Psychologist, Nutritionist and Host & Columnist in the program of alternative integrative medicine of CNR/CRI in China and Central TV in Rep Dominican.

Traditional Chinese Medicine

Bachir Raho Ghalem has completed his PhD in 2011 from Sidi bel Abbes University. He is the Co-Director of Process Engineering and Chemistry of Solutions Laboratory, University of Mascara, Mascara, Algeria. He has published more than 50 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Biology, Herbal medicine.

Major Roger Haw Boon Hong has completed his Ph.D in Alternative Medicine at The Open International University for complementary medicines in 2000 (CHARTERED BY UNITED NATIONS AND IN COLLABORATION WITH THE UNITED NATIONS PEACE UNIVERSITY). Besides that he has interest in nine academic specializations in the field of Humanities, Community Development, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental and Sustainable Development Sciences, Strategic Management, International Marketing, Cultural Arts, Distance Education and Peace Education. Presently he serves as an Honorary Executive Director of International Council of Electro homeopathy for Malaysia Chapter and an Honorary Executive Director for Education of American Nutritional Medical Association for Malaysia Chapter.

Alternative Medicine; Ayurveda; Herbal Remedies; Pharmacology

Pawan K. Agrawal obtained his PHD at the Central Drug Research Institute,Lucknow,India,in 1981,and spent Visiting Scholar stays at the Universitat des. Saarlandes,Saarbrvcken,Germany,University of Maryland,Baltimore and University of Alabama,Birmingham.For many years he worked as a scientist at Central Institute of Medicinaland Aromatic Plants,Lucknow, India.His research interest includes natural product chemistry,and he is the author of over 100 publications including a monograph and seveeral book contributions.

Natural Products Chemistry, Pharmacognosy, Aromatic Plants