DR. dr. Arend L. Mapanawang, Sp.PD, Finasim is the director of Health Medical College in Halmahera, North of Maluku, Indonesia as well as the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Health Medicine and Current Research (www.ijhmcr.com), Chairman International Arend Index (IAI), and International Conference on Health Medicine (ICCHM) dr. Arend (usual nick name) is an expert in herbal medicine including for the curing of malaria, HIV virus, and hepatitis, as well as a practical doctor for healing many other internal body parts of human being deceases with more than 20 years experiences. He had written various books including history and the cause of world wars books. His publications in various international journals have made him as a prominent invited speaker in the world such as in South Korea, United Kingdom, and USA. Curently, Dr. Arend is the best scientist in the whole North Maluku province of Eastern Indonesia. On 27th February 2018, Dr. Elim and Dr Arend gave a quest lecture in the best and oldest university of Indonesia in Jakarta: a new history in Indonesia that scientists from a small university provided their best knowledge to a huge prominent university scientists and students.

Medicinal Plants

Uswatun Hasanah Zaidan has completed her PhD from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) at Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science in 2011. She was appointed as a Senior Lecturer in 2012 at the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia. She has pursued for Postdoctoral studies at School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (2013-2015). Her research field of interest in food and nutritional biochemistry and bioactive compounds. She is a member of Malaysian Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (MSBMB), Formulation and Applied Science Research Group, UPM and also an Associate Researcher of Halal Product Research Institute, UPM.

Medicinal Plants

Professor Oladunmoye M.K. is a Professor of Pharmaceutical Microbiology at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. His research interest is in Natural Products Derived Antimicrobial agents for therapeutic and prophylaxis purposes with emphasis on the mechanism of actions, anticarcinogenic properties as well as their Immunomodulatory potentials. He is an Associate Director at the University Centre for Research and Development and has served as External Examiner and Assessor for many other universities. He has published over seventy articles in reputable journals, contributed chapters to three books and attended several international scientific conferences. He is a member many Professional Academic Societies and served as member of editorial board of academic journals. He has successful supervised over one hundred undergraduate stents and over thirty graduate students in his over two decade of teaching and research in the university. He has won several research grants and may other academic awards.

Alternative Medicine

Massoud Kaykhaii is a professor of analytical chemistry, working at the University of Sistan and Baluchestan (Zahedan, Iran) since 1989. His research work is focused on modern sample preparation techniques including µ-solid phase extraction, solid phase microextraction, liquid phase microextraction and stir bar sorptive extraction. He has published over 100 research articles; presented ca. 120 seminars/conferences; authored two textbooks, and (co)supervised more than 100 MSc and PhD thesis. He is secretary of three national mirror committees of ISO/TC and member of editorial advisory board of 84 journals. He finished 25 industrial projects and has been counsellor in 10 companies in Iran. In 2017 he awarded the best researcher of the University of Sistan and Baluchestan. Publons introduced him as one of the "top 1 percent of top reviewers in multidisciplinary" in 2017. Currently, he is the chairman of Smartphone Analytical Sensors Research Centre.

Herbal Medicine

Prof. Mallikarjun completed his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences with specialisation in Medicinal Chemistry from Andhra University, India. He has authored more than 60 research papers in national and international indexed journals and his publications receive about 1000 citations. He also has patents for the development of herbomineral formulations. At present he is working as Associate Dean (Research & Consultancy) for School of Pharmacy, in International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Medicinal Chemistry

Dr. Ying Wang was awarded PhD degree in 2002 in Clemson University in US, then work as a postdoc in Cornell University for 3 years. She has been a faculty member at South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SCBG-CAS) since 2015 after working at Wuhan Botanical Garden for about 10 years. She has been working on genetics and genomics of Chinese medicinal plants, especially biosynthesis and regulation of secondary metabolites. She has published 162 papers and 10 patents.

Phytochemistry and Traditional Chinese Medicine

Raj Kumar Dham B.E.,D.I.I.Sc;MD(AM) is a Healer, Motivational Trainer and Life Coach. He is the Founder Member of ATAMABODH, Centre for Learning and Healing. He is alumnus and guest faculty at I.I.Sc. He worked as Head of Management Services Department of Bharat Electronics Ltd., Ghaziabad. He is a Trustee of People’s Trust, an NGO which has adopted 18 villages for total development. At the Trust, he looks after Health, Education and Environment. He is in charge of Holistic health and is planning for setting up a International Holistic Health/ Healing Centre. He is also the Trustee of the Institute of Health and Cosmic Harmony dedicated to spreading Holistic Health Movement through camps, talks workshops. He is member of Integrative Oncology Group at NH Hospitals, Mazumdar Shah Cancer Centre, Bangalore. Fellow member Yoga and Meditation Group at Linkedin and is a top contributors. His book “Your Back is the Backbone of Your Health” published in 1996 by IOHCH and he was awarded a Gold Medal by IHMA for his contributions to the society for the cause of Holistic Health in 2001. Based on the research work of more than two decades jointly with Prof.Dr.K.N.Krishnaswamy, developed BMP (Body Mind Programming) for Self – Development/ Self – Transformation aimed at living a Healthy and Happy Life. Based on BMP he has also developed Heart – Mind Yoga; BMP KRIYA , and Cellular Level Healing. He has published more than a dozen papers, two books, presented papers at International Conferences and has won many medals and awards. His paper “Application of IE in the Hospital” was declared as the best paper presented at the IIIE Conference and was awarded Silver Medal. His main goal is to improve the Quality of Life of people through BMP and Holistic Health and Living.

Did his D.I.I.Sc., from Indian Institute of Science and did research work in “Application of Learning Curves in Aircraft Manufacturing in India and “Cellular Manufacturing Systems”. His interest in research includes application of Heart – Mind Yoga based on BMP, Swara Yoga and Holistic Health approach, for Integrative Oncology for improving the quality of Life. He is currently working on Hypertension problems amongst younger people; stress management and Cellular Level Healing. He is also interested in application of Swara Yoga in assessing the likely health problems at physical, mental and emotional level. As a trustee of People’s Trust, which has adopted 18 villages, he has been working on health problems in rural areas and Social Innovations.

Professor Pete Works as Nutritionist in clinics of the Marche County regarding to Sport Nutrition, Aesthetics Nutrition and AntiAging Nutrition. He is author of over 50 international publications on peer-reviewed journals, of 1 International Patent, of several chapters of scientific books and hundreds of conferences and meetings.

Prof. Pete currently working on - Intracerebroventricular cannulation - Culture cells - Microsurgery - Stem cells manipulation - In situ hybridization - PCR

Prof. Vaidya Kartar Singh Dhiman assumed the charge of Director General for Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences, under Ministry of AYUSH, with effect from 9th March, 2015. He is a highly accomplished Academician, Ayurvedic Practitioner, Researcher and Administrator with a distinguished career spanning over two and half decades in reputed Ayurvedic Organizations like IPGT&RA and Gujarat Ayurved University, Jamnagar and also held the additional charge of the post of Director General, Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine from 01.02.2017 to 31.7.2017.Prof. Vaidya K. S. Dhiman holds a Ph.D. in Ayurveda (Shalakya) from SSU Varanasi and MD, Ayurveda (Shalakya) from Gujarat Ayurveda University, Jamnagar, Gujarat, India.

His specialized field of Research is Ayurvedic Ophthalmology. He has a proven record of scientific contribution with sufficient published work to his credit. He is also the author of five books and had authored many research bulletins, technical reports, course materials and monographs.Since his joining in this Council as Director General, he has put his best in furtherance of the objectives of the Council, which is an apex body in India for formulation, co-ordination, development and promotion of research in Ayurveda on scientific lines.

Zhou is presently a Professor, Associate Vice President of Global Medical Development, Associate Dean of International Research, and Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy & Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33612. Professor Zhou completed his clinical medical training in China in 1989 and obtained his PhD in 2001 from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. He continued his postdoctoral training at the University of Auckland until November 2002. Since 2002, Dr Zhou has served as a faculty member for the National University of Singapore, Queensland University of Technology (Australia), RMIT University (Australia), and now University of South Florida. Dr Zhou’s major research interests are drug discovery/systems pharmacology, drug metabolism/drug transport & pharmacokinetics, pharmacogenomics/pharmacogenetics, nanomedicine and Chinese medicine. Professor Zhou has published more than 330 peer-reviewed papers in various pharmacology and medical journals including New England Journal of Medicine, Cancer Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Carcinogenesis, JPET, Drug Metabolism & Disposition, and Clinical Cancer Research. He has also published 16 books and book chapters and more than 310 conference abstracts. His work has been cited more than 8,600 times by other colleagues with a H-index of 46. He has received more than US$22.0 million grants from various funding bodies and industries. To date, he has trained 24 PhD students, 12 MSc/Honors students, 14 postdoctoral fellows and 25 visiting faculty. Dr Zhou serves as an editor-in-chief or editor for 16 journals including Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety, Drug Metabolism Letters, and Current Drug Metabolism and is the editorial board member of more than 50 medical and pharmacological journals. Dr Zhou has given more than 100 invited seminars/keynote presentations to a variety of academic institutes, government agencies, and high-profile international conferences. He is a recipient of several teaching and research awards, a member of numerous national and international professional societies, and a visiting professor of many reputable research universities.

Hongcai Shang, Deputy Director of the Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is also Head to the Tianjin Research Center for Evidence-based Medicine and the Tianjin Institute of Clinical Evaluation for TCM. Shang, an expert on clinical evidence translation and methodology research for clinical evaluation of TCM, established the framework of an individualized clinical evaluation method for TCM. His work, highlighting assessment of outcome and effectiveness, paved the way for objective evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine. Shang was active in academia, home and abroad. He joined the “Patient Reported Outcome Method Group” for the Cochrane Collaboration in May 2008, and was a member of the drafting group of CONSORT for TCM. Nationally, Shang is on the coordination committee of the Chinese Clinical Trial Registration and Publishing Collaboration (ChiCTRPC), and is the expert reviewer of a number of influential academic journals.

Traditional Chinese Medicine

Azza El-Medany has completed her PhD at age of 32 years from Alexandria University and postdoctoral studies from Alexandria University College of Medicine. She is a Prof. of pharmacology &Vice head of department of pharmacology, College of Medicine , KSU. She published more than 40 papers in the areas of GIT, CVS, Natural products & toxicological researches in reputed journals and serving as a memberships of a number of Professional Bodies, was a speaker in a number of international conferences, the last ones in Singapore , Japan , Brazil & USA . She is a recipient of special awards in scientific research & teaching.

Anirban Sukul completed his PhD from Visva-Bharati University and Research Associateship from the same University. He studied homeopathy and obtained Bachelor degree. Presently he is the Director of Sukul Institute of Homeopathic Research at Kolkata, India. He has published 22 papers in international journals and co-authored a book published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands. He has lectured on homeopathy in 12 countries across Europe and UK. He has been conferred the Junior Scientist Award, Life Time Achievement Award, Gold Medal Award, Man of Excellence Award etc from abroad. Dr Sukul is also Member, Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationalis (LMHI), Germany

Pr. Rachid soulimani, president of AGRESS association, responsible of "Neurodevtox" anr/europe-feder program, responsible of "Arf Tempus, Europe/Tempus program, header of Research Team Neurotoxicology and Development /Inra, University of Lorraine, France.

Mohammad Zashim Uddin obtained Ph. D. at the age of 32 years and trained from USA on tropical biodiversity. His current position is Professor in the University of Dhaka and supervised 25 M.S. research students and presently guiding one Ph. D student. By this time, he published 56 research articles in different scientific journals. Recipient of numerous awards and grants, Dr. Zashim has participated at least 41 events of training program/ workshop/ international conference. He served as biodiversity expert in 20 research projects here in Bangladesh. His current research focuses are on threatened ethnomedicinal plants and conservation of forest biodiversity.

His current research focuses are on threatened ethnomedicinal plants and conservation of forest biodiversity.

Mukesh Singh Sikarwar is currently working as Senior lecturer in Faculty of Pharmacy, AIMST University, Malaysia. He received his PhD in Pharmacy from K.L.E. University, Belgaum India in year 2011. His current area of research is herbal antioxidants, antidiabetics and antihyperlipidemics, novel drug delivery in herbal drugs, formulation and evaluation of herbal drugs and food safety. He has more than 8 year of experience in mentoring students in Pharmacognosy and chemistry subjects. He has published 53 research and review papers in various peer reviewed internationals and national journals and also serving as reviewer for many international journals. He has presented 23 research papers in various national and international conferences. He has attended many MOOC courses and Online CME from online learning programmers. He is a life member of APTI, member of Asian Council of Science Editors, annual member of Society for Ethnopharmacology, India and registered as pharmacist with M. P. State Pharmacy Council.

His current area of research is herbal antioxidants, antidiabetics and antihyperlipidemics, novel drug delivery in herbal drugs, formulation and evaluation of herbal drugs and food safety.

Zhou is presently a Professor, Associate Vice President of Global Medical Development, Associate Dean of International Research, and Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy & Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33612. Professor Zhou completed his clinical medical training in China in 1989 and obtained his PhD in 2001 from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. He continued his postdoctoral training at the University of Auckland until November 2002. Since 2002, Dr Zhou has served as a faculty member for the National University of Singapore, Queensland University of Technology (Australia), RMIT University (Australia), and now University of South Florida. Dr Zhou’s major research interests are drug discovery/systems pharmacology, drug metabolism/drug transport & pharmacokinetics, pharmacogenomics/pharmacogenetics, nanomedicine and Chinese medicine. Professor Zhou has published more than 330 peer-reviewed papers in various pharmacology and medical journals including New England Journal of Medicine, Cancer Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Carcinogenesis, JPET, Drug Metabolism & Disposition, and Clinical Cancer Research. He has also published 16 books and book chapters and more than 310 conference abstracts. His work has been cited more than 8,600 times by other colleagues with a H-index of 46. He has received more than US$22.0 million grants from various funding bodies and industries. To date, he has trained 24 PhD students, 12 MSc/Honors students, 14 postdoctoral fellows and 25 visiting faculty. Dr Zhou serves as an editor-in-chief or editor for 16 journals including Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety, Drug Metabolism Letters, and Current Drug Metabolism and is the editorial board member of more than 50 medical and pharmacological journals. Dr Zhou has given more than 100 invited seminars/keynote presentations to a variety of academic institutes, government agencies, and high-profile international conferences. He is a recipient of several teaching and research awards, a member of numerous national and international professional societies, and a visiting professor of many reputable research universities.

Hongcai Shang, Deputy Director of the Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is also Head to the Tianjin Research Center for Evidence-based Medicine and the Tianjin Institute of Clinical Evaluation for TCM. Shang, an expert on clinical evidence translation and methodology research for clinical evaluation of TCM, established the framework of an individualized clinical evaluation method for TCM. His work, highlighting assessment of outcome and effectiveness, paved the way for objective evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine. Shang was active in academia, home and abroad. He joined the “Patient Reported Outcome Method Group” for the Cochrane Collaboration in May 2008, and was a member of the drafting group of CONSORT for TCM. Nationally, Shang is on the coordination committee of the Chinese Clinical Trial Registration and Publishing Collaboration (ChiCTRPC), and is the expert reviewer of a number of influential academic journals.

Traditional Chinese Medicine

Azza El-Medany has completed her PhD at age of 32 years from Alexandria University and postdoctoral studies from Alexandria University College of Medicine. She is a Prof. of pharmacology &Vice head of department of pharmacology, College of Medicine , KSU. She published more than 40 papers in the areas of GIT, CVS, Natural products & toxicological researches in reputed journals and serving as a memberships of a number of Professional Bodies, was a speaker in a number of international conferences, the last ones in Singapore , Japan , Brazil & USA . She is a recipient of special awards in scientific research & teaching.

Anirban Sukul completed his PhD from Visva-Bharati University and Research Associateship from the same University. He studied homeopathy and obtained Bachelor degree. Presently he is the Director of Sukul Institute of Homeopathic Research at Kolkata, India. He has published 22 papers in international journals and co-authored a book published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands. He has lectured on homeopathy in 12 countries across Europe and UK. He has been conferred the Junior Scientist Award, Life Time Achievement Award, Gold Medal Award, Man of Excellence Award etc from abroad. Dr Sukul is also Member, Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationalis (LMHI), Germany

Dr. Palanichamy Mehalingam completed his Ph.D Degree in Botany from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai in 2000. Currently he is working as Assistant Professor in Botany, Virudhunagar Hindu Nadars’ Senthikumara Nadar College (Autonomous), Virudhunagar, Tamilnadu (India). He has produced 25 M.Phil and 7 Ph.D Scholars and also guiding 6 Ph.D Scholars. He has published more than 65 research papers in reputed journals. He has participated and presented his research papers in International Conferences held in The Netherlands, Malaysia and Thailand, China and Lao PDR. His Post Doctoral Research Experience (University Grants Commission Research Award) at the Research Department of Botany, Virudhunagar Hindu Nadars’ Senthikumara Nadar College (Autonomous) in Virudhunagar includes Antioxidant Properties of Selected Medicinal Plants during 2014-2016.. He has edited two books published by VHNSN College Publishers, Tamil Nadu. He has been actively engaged research on Ethnobotany, Pharmacognosy, Pharmacology and Phytochemistry. He was the recipient of NSS Best Programme Officer Award by Madurai Kamaraj university (2007-2008) and Government of Tamil Nadu (2009-2010) for his outstanding contribution to the Society.

Ethnobotany, Pharmacognosy, Pharmacology and Phytochemistry.

Professor, in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Natural products Department and Chief Academic Officer, Dubai Pharmacy College, Dubai, UAE. Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Egypt. Graduated from Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Egypt and received the PhD from the same college. I am member in American society of Pharmacognosy and in Italo-Latin American Society of Ethnomedicine and as editorial board member in Natural Products Chemistry and research.Also I am reviewer for many international Journals concerning chemistry and biological activity of medicinal plants.I published at least 30 scientific papers also contribute in publication of scientific book. My interest field is in bioactivity of medicinal plants.

Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Natural Products

Giulio Maria Pasinetti is The Saunders Family Chair and Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Geriatrics and Adult development at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is also the Program Director of the NIH funded P50 Center on Molecular Integrative Neuroresilience focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms and pathophysiology that may be at the basis of stress-induced mood disorders, including anxiety, depression, and other neuropsychiatric disorders and their influence on cognitive dysfunction. He is the recipient of several academic awards, including the prestigious Zenith and Temple awards and the Foundation Queen Sofia of Spain Research Center Award on Alzheimer’s disease

pathophysiology Molecular Integrative Neuroresilience Neuropsychiatric Disorders Alzheimer’s disease

Grace Y. Sun emeritus obtained B.S. in Chemistry from Seattle Pacific University and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Oregon State University. After holding a research scientist position in Cleveland for 7 years, she was recruited to the Biochemistry Department in University of Missouri. As an internationally renowned neuroscientist, Dr. Sun is recognized for her research on brain lipids and signaling pathways in relation to neurodegenerative diseases and aging.

Her research experience included serving as director of the MU Alzheimer’s disease research program, and project leader in the MU Center for Phytonutrient and Phytochemistry.

Zehra Gok Metin has completed her PhD in 2015 from Hacettepe University and worked for one year at University of Alabama at Birmingham for Post-doctoral studies. She is an instructor at Hacettepe University Faculty of Nursing. She is working on symptom management especially for pain for five years. She has several publications in reputed journals and has been serving as a reviewer for reputed journals

She has several publications in reputed journals and has been serving as a reviewer for reputed journals.

Arthur yin Fan,PhD,CMD,LAc. An active researcher in Acupuncture and Oriental medicine(AOM).Director of McLean Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, PLC. Research adviser for Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine program,Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland.

AOM Basic study, acupuncture mechanism, herb safety evaluation, AOM clinic trial design and methodology,and AOM history

Professor Pete Works as Nutritionist in clinics of the Marche County regarding to Sport Nutrition, Aesthetics Nutrition and AntiAging Nutrition. He is author of over 50 international publications on peer-reviewed journals, of 1 International Patent, of several chapters of scientific books and hundreds of conferences and meetings.

Prof. Pete currently working on - Intracerebroventricular cannulation - Culture cells - Microsurgery - Stem cells manipulation - In situ hybridization - PCR

Dr. Nozomi Donoyama, Ph.D is a massage, acupuncture, and moxibustion therapist and an associate professor in Tsukuba university of Technology. She has been teaching massage (Japanese massage called Anma-massage therapy and Western massage), acupuncture, moxibustion, and Oriental medicine. She obtained Masters degree of physical education and Doctoral degree of human care sciences at University of Tsukuba. She is now working as a principal investigator of a randomized controlled trial to provide evidence of effects of Anma-massage therapy receiving the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Massage, including especially Japanese massage called Anma-massage therapy, somato-psychotherapy, imagery, and rehabilitation education.

Dr Xiang-Qun (Sean) Xie is an Associate Dean for Research Innovation at School of Pharmacy and a Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences/Drug Discovery Institute, and a PI of an integrated Medicinal Chemistry Biology laboratory of CompuGroup, BioGroup and ChemGroup (www.CBLigand.org/XieLab) at University of Pittsburgh. He is a charter member of the Science Advisory Board to the US FDA. He is a Founding Director of Computational Chemical Genomics Screening Center (www.CBLigand.org/CCGS), and a Director/PI of NIH National Center of Excellence for CDAR (www.CDARCenter.org). He holds joint positions at Dept of Computational Biology and Dept of Structural Biology, and Pitt Cancer Institute MT/DD Program. He is an Editorial Advisory Board member for AAPS Journal and American Journal of Molecular Biology, and Associate Editor of BMC Pharmacology Toxicology. He was a Charter Member of NIH BPNS Study Section, and an ad hoc expert reviewer for UK MRC foundation; the Wellcome Trust Fund; the Netherland Organization for Scientific Research Council; the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship; and the Chinese Natural Science Foundation. He holds/held honorary professorship in top institutes and colleges of pharmacy in China, including Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin Stem Cell Medical Center; Zhejing University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and Sun Yat-Sen Univesity and Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was an invited International Assessment Panelist for Fudan University, a member of the Board of Directors of the Chinese Association of Professionals in Science and Technology, and a Chair of the CAPST-Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Society. Prof Xie and his team are known for their pioneering research for the development of internationally recognized diseases domain-specific chemogenomics knowledgebases, which is an integrated platform of “Big Data to Knowledge” computational chemogenomics-based target identification and system pharmacology for translational research. His recent work on Alzheimer’s disease specific chemogenomics database (www.CBLigand.org/AD/) was on 2014 coverpage story of a top peer-reviewed ACS journal. The innovation work includes GPU-accelerated cloud computing TargetHunter program for drug target identification (www.CBLigand.org/TargetHunter) (2013 AAPS special theme issue). His lab was the first discovered/patented INK4C-targeting small molecule inhibitors for hematopoietic stem cell expansion (Nature Comm 2015), was the first discovered/patented p62ZZ chemical inhibitors for multiple myeloma (Nature Leukemia 2015), and also reported/patented novel ligands specific to cannabinoid CB2 receptor for osteoporosis and cancers. His invention discovery patents have been successfully licensed out to Biotech/Pharma. Overall, his developed integrated cloud computing knowledgebases help to bridge the knowledge gap between biology and chemistry, and to facilitate target identification, drug repurposing, and system pharmacology analyses in a chemogenomics scale for precision medicine drug discovery. As a result, he is a recipient of 2014 AAPS Award for Outstanding Research Achievements. Dr Xie received MD in Pharmacy from the Second Military Medical University in Shanghai China, PhD in Medicinal Chemistry from the School of Pharmacy, University of Connecticut, and Executive MBA degree, and the Shared Leadership Cohort Development Experience Workshop Training by JPorcari & Associates.

Hawa ZE Jaafar completed her PhD in 1995 from Nottingham University, United Kingdom in the area of Plant Environmental Physiology. She is very active both in environmental manipulation of herbal secondary metabolism research, and in community development of herbal materials and products. Currently, she is the Director of the University Community Transformation Centre (UCTC) UPM, and a member of the National Herbal Implementation Committee. She has published about 150 papers mostly in high impact journals, more than150 other articles in bulletin, monographs, books and chapters, and presented more than 130 papers nationally and abroad. She is very active in professional activities as a President, Vice President, Chief Editor and Editorial Member. She is also very involved in the development of Roadmap of the National Herbal Industry in Malaysia in 2010. She established the Controlled Environment System in Malaysia in 1991, and had assisted Sana’a University Yemen to establish the Protected Agriculture Centre (2006-2010).

Environmental manipulation of herbal secondary metabolism research and Community development of herbal materials and products

Zhou is presently a Professor, Associate Vice President of Global Medical Development, Associate Dean of International Research, and Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy & Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33612. Professor Zhou completed his clinical medical training in China in 1989 and obtained his PhD in 2001 from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. He continued his postdoctoral training at the University of Auckland until November 2002. Since 2002, Dr Zhou has served as a faculty member for the National University of Singapore, Queensland University of Technology (Australia), RMIT University (Australia), and now University of South Florida. Dr Zhou’s major research interests are drug discovery/systems pharmacology, drug metabolism/drug transport & pharmacokinetics, pharmacogenomics/pharmacogenetics, nanomedicine and Chinese medicine. Professor Zhou has published more than 330 peer-reviewed papers in various pharmacology and medical journals including New England Journal of Medicine, Cancer Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Carcinogenesis, JPET, Drug Metabolism & Disposition, and Clinical Cancer Research. He has also published 16 books and book chapters and more than 310 conference abstracts. His work has been cited more than 8,600 times by other colleagues with a H-index of 46. He has received more than US$22.0 million grants from various funding bodies and industries. To date, he has trained 24 PhD students, 12 MSc/Honors students, 14 postdoctoral fellows and 25 visiting faculty. Dr Zhou serves as an editor-in-chief or editor for 16 journals including Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety, Drug Metabolism Letters, and Current Drug Metabolism and is the editorial board member of more than 50 medical and pharmacological journals. Dr Zhou has given more than 100 invited seminars/keynote presentations to a variety of academic institutes, government agencies, and high-profile international conferences. He is a recipient of several teaching and research awards, a member of numerous national and international professional societies, and a visiting professor of many reputable research universities.

Ian Ferguson Hamilton has been teaching and is in Homeopathic Practice since 1989 with successful practices in all parts of the UK. He was Editor of The Homeopath for nearly 5 years and is the Founder of the Art and Homeopathy Group.

Art and Homeopathy

Hongcai Shang, Deputy Director of the Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is also Head to the Tianjin Research Center for Evidence-based Medicine and the Tianjin Institute of Clinical Evaluation for TCM. Shang, an expert on clinical evidence translation and methodology research for clinical evaluation of TCM, established the framework of an individualized clinical evaluation method for TCM. His work, highlighting assessment of outcome and effectiveness, paved the way for objective evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine. Shang was active in academia, home and abroad. He joined the “Patient Reported Outcome Method Group” for the Cochrane Collaboration in May 2008, and was a member of the drafting group of CONSORT for TCM. Nationally, Shang is on the coordination committee of the Chinese Clinical Trial Registration and Publishing Collaboration (ChiCTRPC), and is the expert reviewer of a number of influential academic journals.

Traditional Chinese Medicine

Azza El-Medany has completed her PhD at age of 32 years from Alexandria University and postdoctoral studies from Alexandria University College of Medicine. She is a Prof. of pharmacology &Vice head of department of pharmacology, College of Medicine , KSU. She published more than 40 papers in the areas of GIT, CVS, Natural products & toxicological researches in reputed journals and serving as a memberships of a number of Professional Bodies, was a speaker in a number of international conferences, the last ones in Singapore , Japan , Brazil & USA . She is a recipient of special awards in scientific research & teaching.

Mukesh Singh Sikarwar is currently working as Senior lecturer in Faculty of Pharmacy, AIMST University, Malaysia. He received his PhD in Pharmacy from K.L.E. University, Belgaum India in year 2011. His current area of research is herbal antioxidants, antidiabetics and antihyperlipidemics, novel drug delivery in herbal drugs, formulation and evaluation of herbal drugs and food safety. He has more than 8 year of experience in mentoring students in Pharmacognosy and chemistry subjects. He has published 53 research and review papers in various peer reviewed internationals and national journals and also serving as reviewer for many international journals. He has presented 23 research papers in various national and international conferences. He has attended many MOOC courses and Online CME from online learning programmers. He is a life member of APTI, member of Asian Council of Science Editors, annual member of Society for Ethnopharmacology, India and registered as pharmacist with M. P. State Pharmacy Council.

His current area of research is herbal antioxidants, antidiabetics and antihyperlipidemics, novel drug delivery in herbal drugs, formulation and evaluation of herbal drugs and food safety.

MVDr. Martina Načeradská is the owner of private veterinary practice, Krymská 23, Prague since 2008. She is the Winner of Falling Walls Lab Prague 2015 with research “Breaking the wall of treatment of dermatophytosis”. she has Many publications in Czech scientific journals and active participations on congresses in Czech Republic and abroad, speaches for pet owners and breeders and cooperation with several local TV channels on educational series for people about animals.

Special interests in cats, dermatology, resolving behavioral problems and use of herbs in therapy of animals.

Anirban Sukul completed his PhD from Visva-Bharati University and Research Associateship from the same University. He studied homeopathy and obtained Bachelor degree. Presently he is the Director of Sukul Institute of Homeopathic Research at Kolkata, India. He has published 22 papers in international journals and co-authored a book published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands. He has lectured on homeopathy in 12 countries across Europe and UK. He has been conferred the Junior Scientist Award, Life Time Achievement Award, Gold Medal Award, Man of Excellence Award etc from abroad. Dr Sukul is also Member, Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationalis (LMHI), Germany

Sandeep Roy has completed his MD (Practice of Medicine) in 2012 from Bharti vidyapeeth, pune. He is the chairman of cancer care foundation and head of the department of mistletoe therapy for Cancer Management at Rishikesh hospital and research center, India. His Experience spans over a period of 15 years of practice during which more than 40000 cancer patients have been dealt with excellent results in palliation and cure. He presented several research and review papers in national and international conferences. He has been appointed as the chairman for several paper presentations in various national and international conferences. Being conferred the honour of PRIDE OF INDIA – BHASKAR AWARD 2016 felicitated by the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for being a part of one of the world’s biggest medical camp held in jalgaon in January 2016. He has extended his valuable service towards the scientific community with his extensive research work.

Mistletoe Therapy for Cancer Management

Ali Ghasemzadeh completed his PhD in 2011 from University Putra Malaysia in the area of environmental plant physiology. The principal focus of his research is to understand how eco-physiological factors alter phytochemical constituents and pharmaceutical quality of herbs. He has expertise in natural products, bioassay, pharmaceutical quality of Herbs and drug discovery. He published more than 40 ISI papers, chapters, monographs, and presented more than 60 papers nationally and abroad. He is reviewer of some journals such as Journal of natural products, Food chemistry, Journal of food science and technology, Plant food for human nutrition, etc. Currently, he is research fellow at Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture University Putra Malaysia and member of Malaysian Herbal Monograph project (2010-2020).

Herbal Monographs, Natural products, Dpharmaceutical quality of Herbs and drug discovery

Muhammad Tayyab Akhtar has done his PhD in 2013 from Leiden University, Netherlands. During his PhD research, he used zebrafish as a model organism to study the toxicological, behavioral and metabolic effects of cannabinoids. Currently, he is working as a post-doc researcher at Institute of Bioscience of University Putra Malaysia.

Somashekar Shetty was awarded the Ph.D. by Manipal University in 2005. He has nearly 19 years of experience teaching Biochemistry to medical students in Melaka Manipal Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, India, AIMST University Malaysia and American University of Antigua, West Indise. He is experienced in medical curricula with PBL and other self-directed learning approaches He has 13 scientific publications and 21 conference presentations to his credit. He is a reviewer for many journals and is a recognized Ph.D. guide for Manipal University, India. His main research area has been Wound Healing and Indigenous Drugs: Role as Antioxidants

Mohammad Zashim Uddin obtained Ph. D. at the age of 32 years and trained from USA on tropical biodiversity. His current position is Professor in the University of Dhaka and supervised 25 M.S. research students and presently guiding one Ph. D student. By this time, he published 56 research articles in different scientific journals. Recipient of numerous awards and grants, Dr. Zashim has participated at least 41 events of training program/ workshop/ international conference. He served as biodiversity expert in 20 research projects here in Bangladesh. His current research focuses are on threatened ethnomedicinal plants and conservation of forest biodiversity.

His current research focuses are on threatened ethnomedicinal plants and conservation of forest biodiversity.

Bhairav Kulkarni Tawshikar is the Director of Shree Siddhivinayak Ayurved Panchakarma centre and also he is currently working as an eminent Faculty member at CSMSS Ayurved College, Aurangabad. He has published numerous research papers and articles in reputed journals and has various other achievements in the related studies. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his expert research works in related fields.

Ayurveda, Panchakarma

Frank Yurasek completed his PhD in Traditional Chinese Medicine at Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, PRC, and his MSOM at Midwest College of Oriental Medicine, Chicago. In addition to being in Practice since 1985, he is past Chair of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at National University of Health Sciences, and Professor of Tuina at Midwest College of Oriental Medicine. He has presented Posters on Acupuncture at several Society of Acupuncture Research Conferences in the U.S. and China, as well as the World Federation of Society of Acupuncture Conferences in Houston, Texas and Toronto, Canada, as well as The Midwest Pain Medicine Society. He was appointed Vice President of WFAS in Beijing in 2014. Dr. Yurasek is Director of Acupuncture for Cook County Health & Hospital Systems, Stroger Hospital Pain Clinic. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Notre Dame University, where he also taught for several years.

Using a mix of Alternative Medicine techniques Acuwerks will find the best method for you to learn well and help others. We are dedicated to finding the best possible method for you and teach you how to administer this solution, if viable and you are capable of the proceedures

Zhang-Jin Zhang is a Professor and an Associate Director (Clinical Affairs) of the School of Chinese Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He received his Chinese medicine and Western medicine training and earned his Ph.D. in neuroscience in China. During 1994-2006, He continued his research work in psychopharmacology and clinical psychiatry at Vanderbilt University and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in USA. His long-term research interest focuses on developing effective treatment strategies from herbal medicine and acupuncture for neuropsychiatric disorder, including depression, anxiety, dementia, and schizophrenia. He has authored over 90 research papers and 7 book chapters and delivered numerous seminars introducing herbal medicine and acupuncture for mental health and wellbeing. he has active clinical practice in Hong Kong with specialty in the use of acupuncture and Chinese medicine for neuropsychiatric problems.

Zhang-Jin Zhang research interests focused on has authored over 90 research papers and 7 book chapters and delivered numerous seminars introducing herbal medicine and acupuncture for mental health and wellbeing. he has active clinical practice in Hong Kong with specialty in the use of acupuncture and Chinese medicine for neuropsychiatric problems.

Wen-Long Hu is Vice Director, Department of Chinese Medicine at Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, an assistant professor at Fooyin University, Kaohsiung Medical University, and Chang Gung University. He is invited to write a chapter entitled “Acupuncture for Disorders of Consciousness” in Acupuncture - Clinical Practice, Particular Technics and Special Issues (2011) and one entitled “Explore Laser Acupuncture’s Role” in Acupuncture in Modern Medicine (2013). Prior to his current position, he was chief of division of acupuncture at Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital. He has the experiences of clinical practice in low level laser therapy (LLLT) for 20 years and in acupuncture for 25 years. He is invited speaker for lectures in LLLT at many symposiums held by some medical associations. Recently, he is invited to instruct physicians to practice LLLT in workshops. He also involves researches in LLLT, e.g. obesity, metabolic syndrome, stroke, dementia, Parkinsonism, myofascial pain, arthralgia, radiculopathy, etc.

Wen-Long Hu also involves researches in LLLT, e.g. obesity, metabolic syndrome, stroke, dementia, Parkinsonism, myofascial pain, arthralgia, radiculopathy, etc.

John Howard completed his degree in acupuncture from the Maryland Institute of Traditional Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. John holds two professorships; one in Traditional Chinese Medicine and the other in Western Medicine from George Washington University (GWU). Professor (Prof) Howard lectured on suturing and minor trauma management. Upon completion of his degree Prof Howard entered into a five-year fellowship with the US military under the direction of Dr. Richard Niemtzow, MD, PHD. Prof Howard is both a clinician and an academician. As an academician, he provides international lectures in acupuncture and auriculotherapy. He has authored five books and 21 articles on these two fields. He is also dedicated to the promotion of knowledge and has been awarded the dissemination of seminal works of Dr. Raphael Nogier (The RAFT (Radial Artery Food Test)) and of Dr. René Bourdiol (Elements of Auriculotherapy). In 2014 Prof Howard served as the vice president of the 8th International Symposium of Auriculotherapy in the United States. In 2016 Prof Howard became a consultant for ZeroMed (a holistic medical goods company) to design auriculotherapy protocols.

John is currently conducting studies on the use of Auriculotherapy in distance runners to enhance performance. Some of men on team USA who won the world 100k gold medal in the Nederland’s in 2011 used his protocol.

Leanne Zaver and I bring more than 25 years’ experience in natural medicine to the Sunshine Coast. Assisting people achieve quality in their lives has been my passion since qualifying as a therapist in Acupuncture and Natural Therapies in 1989. In 2001, I upgraded my qualifications to a Bachelor of Health Science Acupuncture and 2012 was registered with APHRA. I believe in natural therapies as a safe and effective way to maintain optimum health. My aim in the clinic is to enable you to establish a balanced state of body, mind and emotions. This will allow for a healing process to occur naturally. My approach is to listen to and focus on individual health needs and I place top priority on ensuring you and I work together to acheive your health objectives. I am a former National Board Member, State Committee Chairperson for the Australian and Chinese Medicine Association (AACMA). I have also lectured at Australian Colleges of Natural Medicine (Endeavour Colleges) and am currently registered with the Chinese Medicine Board, a Fellow and Membership Assessor with AACMA.

Acupuncture, Electro Acupuncture, Moxa and Liniment, Cupping, Dietry Advice, Herbs Vitamins and Minerals.

Yibin Feng is currently an Associate Professor cum Associate Director in School of Chinese Medicine, the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Feng awarded Bachelor degree in Chinese Medicine from Mainland China. He awarded his PhD degree in molecular medicine from Hokkaido University School of Medicine and finished postdoctoral research in the same University in Japan.

Feng’s research interest focuse on clinical trial and experimental study for cancer, diabetes, hepatic and renal diseases by using recently developed techniques. He has published over 200 publications in in these areas and serve as editor and reviewer for over 50 international journals.

Yu-Chiang Hung has completed his PhD from graduate institute of clinical medical sciences, Chang Gung University. He is the director of Department of Chinese medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital. He specializes in Chinese medicine and has published about 21 papers in reputed journals

Intrested in Chinese Medicine

Rong Peijing is a professor and an academic leader of acupuncture in China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (CACMS). Her research interests are involved in mechanisms underlying acupuncture and the therapeutic effects of acupuncture. She has made series studies of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on depression, epilepsy, diabetes, insomnia, and the invention of acupuncture instruments. The research team investigated that the mechanism of auricular acupuncture is the correlation between auricular and the vagus nerve. Currently she is the Associate Director of the Committee of Auricular Acupuncture and the secretary general of the Academic Committee of China Association of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (CAAM). She’s got the financial supports from the International Association on the study of Pain (IASP), the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) and the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO). She was awarded the Distinguished Young Investigator by the Federation of the Asian and Oceania Physiological Societies (FAOPS). She’s served more than 20 international conferences as a chair/pc member and offered about 10 keynotes/talks in high ranking conferences or universities, and has also served as editor/guest editor in about 10 peer reviewed journals in professional science. So far, she has published more than 100 academic papers, including Biological Psychiatry, PLoS One，et al. SCI journals. She has won 7 Scientific Awards of the Provincial and Ministerial-level.

Research interests are involved in mechanisms underlying acupuncture and the therapeutic effects of acupuncture. She has made series studies of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on depression, epilepsy, diabetes, insomnia, and the invention of acupuncture instruments. The research team investigated that the mechanism of auricular acupuncture is the correlation between auricular and the vagus nerve.

Grace Y. Sun emeritus obtained B.S. in Chemistry from Seattle Pacific University and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Oregon State University. After holding a research scientist position in Cleveland for 7 years, she was recruited to the Biochemistry Department in University of Missouri. As an internationally renowned neuroscientist, Dr. Sun is recognized for her research on brain lipids and signaling pathways in relation to neurodegenerative diseases and aging.

Her research experience included serving as director of the MU Alzheimer’s disease research program, and project leader in the MU Center for Phytonutrient and Phytochemistry.

Dr. Andrasik received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Ohio University in 1979, after completing an Internship at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, under the direction of Drs. Michel Hersen and Samuel M. Turner. He then joined the Psychology Faculty of the State University of New York at Albany (beginning as an Assistant Professor and then promoted to Associate Professor), where he also held the positions of Research Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Family Practice at Albany Medical College

Dr. Frank currently working on Abnormal Psychology Careers in Psychology Clinical Biofeedback Health Psychology

Pete Works as Nutritionist in clinics of the Marche County regarding to Sport Nutrition, Aesthetics Nutrition and AntiAging Nutrition. He is author of over 50 international publications on peer-reviewed journals, of 1 International Patent, of several chapters of scientific books and hundreds of conferences and meetings.

Dr. Pete currently working on -Intracerebroventricular cannulation - Culture cells - Microsurgery - Stem cells manipulation - In situ hybridization - PCR

Wang Qiong has finished her Master degree in neuropharmacology in Peking Union Medical College. She is currently working as an Associate professor in Southwest Medical University. She has published numerous research papers and articles in reputed journals and has various other achievements in the related studies.

Wang currently focused on Ethnopharmacology, Pytotherapy research, Medical Oncology.

Mr. Zhang Jian Guo has finished his bachelor degree of Chinese Medicine in Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He had worked as an Associate Chief Chinese Medicine Practitioner and Associate professor in Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine affiliated hospital (Lai Wu Shi Zhong Yi Yi Yuan). Then he became a lecturer in the School of Chinese Medicine at the Hong Kong Baptist University. He is now a Professional Consultant in the School of Chinese Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Zhang currently focused on Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tuina, Chinese Medicine

Armenia Nazar currently working as Professor at Department of Pharmacy, University Of Andalas, Padang, Indonesia. She completed her doctorate in Physiology and Pharmacology at University of Science Malaysia. She gave her presentations in many international conferences, She is the Vice Dean for the Cooperation and Students Affairs.

Armenia currently working on 1. Potency of Cassytha Filiformis L. by Fundamental Research Grant 2. Antihypertensive Drug effects 3. Pathogenicity Assay 4. Acute and delayed toxicity studies

Jeena , Associate Professor & Head, Department of Head and Neck, Ophthalmology & ENT, VPSV Ayurveda Medical College, Kottakkal, India. She is Specialized Practitioner in Ayurvedic Ophthalmology and ENT for the past 12 years and Member of panel of experts. She is the Principal Investigator for clinical trial in proving the efficacy of new medical products as directed by the Drugs Controller, Government of Kerala.

Currently doing research work in 1. Efficacy of Leech therapy in controlling intra-ocular pressure in glaucoma patients. 2. Efficacy of herbal medicine gargle in Radiotherapy induced oral mucositis in Head and Neck Cancer. 3. Efficacy of herbal medicine in correcting refractive errors in children.