6^th World Nursing and Healthcare Conference August 15-17, 2016 Crowne Plaza, Heathrow, London, UK

Jeanette Kallstrand Eriksson is a RN and ophthalmic nurse. She is also a PhD in Medical Science with a specialization in Healthcare Sciences and works as a senior lecturer at the School of Health and Welfare at Halmstad University in Sweden.

Healthcare Sciences

Dr. Shargall completed his medical school and bachelor in medical sciences and immunology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He then completed cardiothoracic residency at the Haddasah University Hospital of Hebrew University Jerusalem, followed by cardiac and thoracic surgery fellowship at the University of Toronto. Since 2004 he practiced thoracic surgery at the University of Toronto, St. Joseph’s Health Centre and St. Michael’s Hospital (both in Toronto). Between 2007 and 2010 he was the director of medical education at St. Joseph’s Health Centre and the associate director of undergraduate education at the department of surgery, University of Toronto. Since October 2010 he is the division head of Thoracic Surgery at McMaster University and St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton, Ontario Canada. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery at McMaster University and an adjunct Associate Professor of surgery at the University of Toronto. He is the local LHIN 4 (Ontario) thoracic oncology lead and serves at multiple expert panels for Cancer Care Ontario. His main research focus is on post-discharge care for thoracic surgery patients and he has received numerous grants, including the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR), Heart and Stroke Foundation and Ontario Thoracic Society. He is currently chairing the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ working group on VTE in Thoracic Surgery.

Surgery

COL Sara Breckenridge-Sproat, PhD, RN, has a broad range of clinical, administrative, operational, research and leadership positions in a variety of acute care settings. She has been an Active Duty Army nurse for over 27 years and is currently the Regional Nurse Executive for Regional Health Command Europe. She has spoken internationally and published in the areas of nurse staffing, acuity, nursing workload, change management, organizational culture, and empowering junior nursing staff. She is currently the Principal Investigator on a program evaluation appraising the effectiveness of key aspects of the Patient CaringTouch system, a comprehensive and strategic, yet patient-centered, framework for nursing practice in military hospitals.

Nursing Practice

Dr. Lori A. Loan, PhD, RN, FAAN is an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, U.S.A. She received her BSN degree from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, and her MS and PhD degrees from the University of Washington, School of Nursing in Seattle, WA. She has extensive experience as a nurse scientist and mentor. Dr. Loan has completed 48 sponsored research studies with grant funds totaling over $6,000,000, and has 33 data-based, peer-reviewed published papers. Her research efforts led to improved policies, staffing models, training programs, and other practice and health services enhancements.

Healthcare

Mary S. McCarthy, PhD, RN, CNSC, is a senior nurse scientist at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, WA. Dr. McCarthy has over 15 years of clinical nursing experience in medical-surgical, emergency, and critical care and 20 years of funded research in nutrition, bone health, and nursing quality outcomes with a bench-to-bedside focus. Her program of research, supported by over $2 million in grant funding, focuses on health and wellness for service members; she is currently leading a 3-year clinical trial funded by the TriService Nursing Research Program to evaluate vitamin D genomics and Warfighter nutritional resilience.

Healthcare

Cathy Bailey (PhD) is a Senior Research Fellow in International Ageing, at the Department of Public Health and Wellbeing , Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Her interests broadly encompass participatory approaches to working with older people, to develop preventative, enabling and cost effective, services and supports. She has managed and supported international and national research projects including those focusing on: health technologies and older adults; social aspects of falls and older adults; creating dementia friendly communities and intergenerational understanding of health and well being. Cathy has collaborated within large multidisciplinary and cross sector research teams and is widely published

Health technologies

Joaquim J.F. Soares has a PhD in clinical psychology (Uppsala University). He is professor in psychology and public health sciences (Mid Sweden University). Tutor of 12 PhD students in the areas of psychology and public health. Reviewer of such journals as quality of life research and psychosomatic medicine. He has over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals in the areas of psychology, public health and epidemiology. Awarded several research grants, including grants from the European Union.

Nursing and Healthcare

Dr. Francisca Cisneros Farrar received her Ed.D in higher education administration with a concentration in nursing, MSN, and BSN from Vanderbilt University. She has 40 years of clinical experience as a registered nurse and 35 years of experience as an educator. She has a diverse clinical background working in hemodialysis, administration, critical care, emergency room, oncology, home health, pediatrics, and mental health. She has conducted multiple research projects, developed best practice guidelines, and had several grants funded. She has authored multiple articles and made numerous presentations at the state, regional, national, and international level.

Nursing & Healthcare

Dr. Roganovic is the Full Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine Rijeka, and the Head of the Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka. At the national level, she contributed to the improvement of cure rate of children with cancer, and is interacting with regulatory bodies and parent groups. Dr Roganovic is a certified member of many national and international pediatric hematological and oncological societies. She is the author of more than 300 publications, abstracts and proceedings and several book chapters. She serves as a reviewer and editorial board member for number of journals. Dr Roganovic received several awards, including Patients' Choice Award Winner for 2011 and 2015, City of Rijeka Annual Award for outstanding contribution to the lives of children with cancer and the humanization of hospital care, and University of Rijeka Foundation Award for the contribution in biomedical and biotechnical sciences.

Pediatrics

Eileen Savage is a Chair in Nursing at the School of Nursing & Midwifery, University College Cork, Ireland. Her primary research interests relate to chronic illness management across the lifespan. She has conducted a number of funded commissioned reports, systematic reviews and studies relating to chronic illness management. She has published widely in the international literature and is on the editorial board of Chronic illness. She leads a research cluster on chronic illness management at University College Cork and has developed strong collaborative interdisciplinary research relationships both nationally and internationally.

Nursing

Anjan Bhattacharya is an Honorary Affiliate Tutor and Course Co-ordinator of DCH/IPPC of Sydney University Australia; MRCPCH UK Invigilator for India Examinations and an examiner elect of the DCH, UK examinations. He is a Fellow of the RCPCH, UK. He is ex-head DNB Program of AGH, Kolkata and DNB Centre Appraiser of NBE, New Delhi. He was awarded Pioneer Award by East Zone IAP and Bharat Jyoti Award by India International Friendship Society. He is one of the course designer and national Trainer of the Trainers (ToT) module on Emotional Intelligence as part of Presidential Action Plan 2014 of Indian Academy of Paediatrics. He is one of the first 15 Honorary Fellows of India in the subject of Disability Prevention and Early Intervention, as conferred by the President of Indian Academy of Paediatrics through its Childhood Disability Group. Appointed as one of the Royal College examiners for the Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH, UK) for MRCPCH and DCH, UK

Pediatrics, part of pioneering core standard setters of ICF for Children and lead in multi centre international validation study

Amer Kaissi joined Trinity University in 2003 after earning a Ph.D. degree in Health Services Administration, Research & Policy from the University of Minnesota. While doing his doctoral work, he worked in "Quality Measurement & Analysis" at Allina Hospitals in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Prior to that, he earned a Master of Public Health in Hospital Administration from the American University of Beirut in his native Lebanon

Amer Kaissi research interests include diabetes in primary care clinics, strategic planning, retail clinics, quality of care & patient safety, and application of organizational theories to health care settings. He has published extensively on these topics in various administrative and clinical peer-reviewed journals.

Heather MacDonald completed her MScN at the University of Toronto, Canada, and her PhD in Nursing at the University of Manchester, UK. She has been a Professor at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Canada, since 1990. In addition to having authored a number of publications, she has presented papers at various local, national, and international conferences. In addition to working at the University of New Brunswick, she has a Parish Nursing Practice.

Nursing and Healthcare

Dr. Su-Fen Cheng has completed her Ph.D. at the age of 34 years from University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in the USA. She is an Associate Professor of National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences and teaches pediatric nursing. Her research focus is on nursing education and pediatric nursing. She has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Nursing education and Pediatric nursing

Zekiye Karaçam is professor at Adnan Menderes University Aydın School of Health, Division of Midwifery. She has completed her PhD at Hacettepe University Health Science Instuties on obstetric and gyneacology nursing. She woked at Hacettepe University as lecturer and nurse up to 2004. She has worked at Adnan Menderes University since 2004. She is head of the Deparment of Midwifery. She has published 16 international papers and 21 national papers in reputed journals and has been serving as reviewers for some international and national journals

Midwifery

Dennis C. Stevens, M.S., M.D. is a graduate of the Indiana University School of Medicine. He completed post-graduate training in Pediatrics and Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine at the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis. He holds a masters degree in clinical research design and statistical analysis from the University of Michigan. He is certified in Pediatrics and Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine. Dr. Stevens joined the faculty of the Sanford School of Medicine in 1980. He is a Professor and the Interim Chairman of the Dept. of Pediatrics and the Chief of Section of Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine. He has served as an attending neonatologist and was recently appointed the Medical Director of the Boekelheide Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the Sanford Children’s Hospital, Sioux Falls, SD

Stevens has major interest in clinical research, pediatrics and neonatal care, recently investigating the impact of the NICU environment upon tiny preterm neonates and their families.

Evridiki Papastavrou is an assistant professor at the Cyprus University of Technology teaching the Fundamentals of Nursing and Nursing Science. She holds a PhD and a Masters Degree in Nursing (University of Athens and University of Manchester) and a degree in Public Administration. Dr Papastavrou served as a President of the Nursing and Midwifery regulatory body in Cyprus for 6 years (2006-2012) and is an active member of the National Alzheimer’s committee of experts. She also served as a consultant for the evaluation of nursing education programs in Cyprus and in European peer assessment missions concerning the recognition of professional qualifications. Dr Papastavrou is involved in several international research projects and is a reviewer in many nursing journals.

Dr Papastavrou research interest focus on the concept of care form several different perspectives, like the burden of care, caring behaviours, individualized care as well as the organizational and moral aspects of care.

Working as Professor at College of Nursing at Umm Al Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. She holds Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing from India and she pursued her Post-doctoral Nursing administration degree from USA. With more than twenty years of experience in nursing education, she held national credentials as a Member, Inspection committee in Indian Nursing Council, State Nursing Council and the T.N.Dr.M.G.R.Medical University from 2001 to 2012.She was awarded as best teacher in Nursing education in 2012 from the T.N.Dr.M.G.R.Medical University. She published more than 30 of her Article in national and international reputed Journals.

Major interest focusing on promoting quality nursing care among rural mothers in collaboration with national health programs.

David Randall, Ph.D. currently serves as Executive Director of the Consumer Driven Health Care Institute based in Washington, DC. (www.cdhci.org) and is Resident Scholar with the American Research and Policy Institute in Washington. Dr. Randall has testified before both U.S. House and Senate committees of Congress on a variety of health policy issues and has extensive experience as a former top insurance regulator, legislative staff member, health care lobbyist, consultant and executive with not only insurance companies, but also with several provider trade groups in Washington. He has over two dozen peer-reviewed and professional publications as well as book chapters on health care entitlements and the policy process surrounding health care reform. His research includes study of Medicaid entitlements and privatization, Health Insurance Exchanges and health care information technology. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science (Policy Analysis and Administration) from Kent State University.

Study of Medicaid entitlements and privatization, Health Insurance Exchanges and health care information technology

Working as Professor at College of Nursing at Umm Al Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. She holds Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing from India and she pursued her Post-doctoral Nursing administration degree from USA. With more than twenty years of experience in nursing education, she held national credentials as a Member, Inspection committee in Indian Nursing Council, State Nursing Council and the T.N.Dr.M.G.R.Medical University from 2001 to 2012.She was awarded as best teacher in Nursing education in 2012 from the T.N.Dr.M.G.R.Medical University. She published more than 30 of her Article in national and international reputed Journals.

Major interest focusing on promoting quality nursing care among rural mothers in collaboration with national health programs.

Professor Jeong-Sang Lee has completed his Ph.D. at Seoul National University College of Pharmacy (Biochemistry major) and postdoctoral training from Yale University School of Medicine(Comparative Medicine and Pharmacology) for 3 years. He is now serving as the Director of Food Industry Research Institute of Jeonju University. He has published 45 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of Frontier in Bioscience. He has been studying cancer prevention research especially focusing on gastro-intestinal inflammation. He expanded his expertise to translational research, utilizing human patient samples (gastritis, colitis, gastric and colon cancer).

MicroRNA, Big data mining, Target genes, Colon, Cancer prevention

Thurayya Eid has completed her Ph.D at age 35years from the University of Melbourne. She is the Director of Nursing Clinical Practice and Research Unit at King Abdulaziz University hospital since 2012. Her research interests are in decision-making, pain management and communication. She has undertaken various clinical positions, published in reputed journals and served as reviewer for abstracts of medical decision-making conferences, and manuscripts for various journals.

Nursing and Healthcare

Dr. Storfjell is Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Practice Partnerships and Policy, and is the Executive Director of the Institute for Healthcare Innovation in the College of Nursing at the University of Illinois at Chicago—a top ten ranked nursing school. She is responsible for the entrepreneurial, continuing education and clinical practice initiatives of the College and also teaches graduate classes on healthcare financial and strategic management.She is founder and past President of a diversified home health care company operating in four states and affiliated with a multi-institutional health care system

Dr. Storfjell is interested in field nursing, communicable disease, home health, and clinic services, health care costs and care management.

Wahoush is an Assistant Professor in the school of nursing at McMaster University, a recent graduate from Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto with a PhD in Health Policy Management & Evaluation (Outcomes measurement & evaluation stream). She has extensive experience in international settings in nursing practice and leadership, education and research. Dr Wahoush’s most recent international experience includes the opening of a new 160 bed pediatric cancer centre in Cairo Egypt and currently coordinating a collaborative Oncology Nursing program with the University of West Indies in Trinidad

Primary interests for education and research are in health system performance and capacity development in communities, specifically in relation to child health, immigrant health, equity, and the application of knowledge and research to practice. Dr Wahoush received two postdoctoral fellowship awards a Lawson Post Doctoral Fellowship Jan.-Jun 2008 and a CHSRF fellowship Jul 2008 – June 2010

Prof.Dr.Gülten Kaptan, PhD in Nursing from Hacettepe University Institute of Health Sciences in the field of Internal Medicine in year of 1997.2005 in the year received the title of associate professor in the same area, has been professor in 2012. Many articles in international journals in the field served as a faculty member. Prof.Kaptan,30 years, has made college and university health research and practice serves as a director of nursing at the hospital. That the author published in Turkish and internal school used as a textbook in health and geriatric diseases are nursing books. Euthanasia, pain and spritüalizm,violent in pregnancy have been published by titles in international book in English. Scientific board member one of the international open access journal. The scientific committee membership in Turkish health journals about nursing.In Turkey ,She is the Turkish Nurses Association, Oncology Nursing Society and Nephrology Nursing associations member. Currently, Istanbul Arel University Medical Nursing is a Professor.

HPV, Health Profession, Attitude

HWKim has been the professor, from Seoul National University College of Nursing.She in Director of the Research Institute of Nursing Science, Seoul National University. And she has been Editor in chief, Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing (indexed in SSCI) since 2014 and Perspectives in Nursing Science (published by Research Institute of Nursing Science, Seoul National University) since 2013.

Nursing

D. Ayman K.M. Hassan has completed his interventional cardiology Ph.D. at the age of 33 years from Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands after finishing this Master studies from Assiut University School of Medicine. He was nominated as the vice director of Assiut University Hospitals and the head of a new health care quality unite. He has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute. He is the founder of E-learning courses for under-and post-graduate students. Also as an experienced interventional cardiologist he pushed the field forward by practicing difficult cases.

Cardiology,