International Conference on Targeting Diabetes and Novel Therapeutics September 14-16, 2015 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Dr. Liu received his BS from Xi’an Jiaotong Unviersity in and PhD of Medical Science from Okayama University School of Medicine, Japan. He completed post-doc training in Dr. Bruce Ames laboratory at University of California, Berkeley and worked as a faculty at University of California at Berkeley, Children Hospital Oakland Research Institute, University of California at Irvine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, and Shanghai Institute for Nutritional Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is a Professor and the Dean of Xi’an Jiaotong University School of Life Science and Technology and an Adjunct Professor of the School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California.

Dr. Liu’s research interests include molecular and cellular mechanisms of aging, stress, and age-/stress-associated degenerative diseases with a focus on nutritional regulation of mitochondrial metabolism.

Dr.Christian Dani, Ph.D, is an expert in human adipose-derived stem cells and differentiation of pluripotent stem cells into adipocytes. He did a Ph.D in molecular biology in Montpellier University (France). Then, he conducted a 2-year program research on the biology of embryonic stem cells in Pr. A. Smith’s laboratory (Edindurgh, Scotland). He is now director of research at the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and the director the “Stem Cells and Differentiation” laboratory at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis.

Diabetes, Stem cells

Dr. Awwad Alenezy has completed his Board at the age of 25 years from King Faisal University and postdoctoral studies from Toronto University School of Medicine. He is the vice dean of faculty of medicine in Northern border University. He has published more than 18 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as a member of reputed society.

Diabetes, Internal Medicine

Professor Mohamed El-Far, worked in biochemistry field for 40 years, published over 80 peer-reviewed papers. He received Fulbright and British council fellowships several times as well as German DAAD grant to establish PDT Program at Munchen.. He serving on the editorial boards and Hon. Editor to three international journals. He acts as UNESCO expert in science and technology. Dr. El-Far served as visiting professor to University of California as well as Utah laser center also Mayo clinic for several years. He also served as a visiting professor to Cardiff and Swansea Universities, UK. He is a member of International Photodynamic Association and Royal Society of Chemistry, UK. Selected recently as expert and consultant for biochemistry in the national committee of suprime council of Universities in Egypt, this is the highest nation honor.

Diabetes

Dr. Sullivan completed his Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky in Anatomy and Neurobiology in 2000 and immediately began a postdoctoral fellowship at the Reeve-Irvine Research Center at the University of California at Irvine under the direction of Dr. Oswald Steward. In August of 2002, he was recruited to the position of Assistant Professor in the Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center and Anatomy & Neurobiology at the University of Kentucky. Currently he is a Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology and an Endowed Chair in the Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center. Dr. Sullivan has published over 80 peer-reviewed manuscripts and his work has been cited over 4200 times.

Anatomy and Neurobiology

I am a professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy- Lebanese University, responsible of Clinical Nutrition and Fundamental Nutrition, Chronic Patient Education in the master degree . I have a PhD degree in Clinical Biochemistry and a Doctor in Pharmacy degree. I am a part of a research group at the Faculty of Pharmacy. Our work and studies are focused on Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaco-Epidemiology in different sectors (gestationel diabetic patient and quality of life of diabetic, medication errors in the lebanese hospitals, outcome of the consumption of energy drink, etc….) I am responsible of DU program which is a partnershp project between the private Pharmaceutical sector and the Public Healh sector accross the lebanese territory. We delivered a strong development to the public pharmacists in Quality Managment in pharmaceutical field as well as interpersonnel skills. I am leading the Pharm D officinal degree, delivering a formation including pharmaceutical care, patient education, and prescription analysis and intervention. I am responsible of the training program inside the community pharmacies in partnership with the pharmacists order, including the students repartition, skills and assessment of competencies. I have leaded the clinical pharmacy department managing the relation with different internal and external customers.

Nutrition