International Conference on General Practice & Hospital Management December 08-09, 2016 Dubai, UAE

Professor Tania Winzenberg graduated from the University of Tasmania, Australia as a medical doctor, and went on to become a general practitioner, receiving her Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She went on the obtained her Masters degree in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Newcastle, Australia and her PhD in epidemiology from the University of Tasmania, where she is now Professor of Chronic Disease Management. She is also Chair of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Expert Committee Research.

Professor Winzenberg has published over 100 papers in scientific journals including the BMJ and JAMA. Her main area of research interest is muscusloskeletal conditions, particularly osteoporosis and improving bone health in younger people and children.

Martin Scherer, MD (certified primary care physician) is a professor at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (Hamburg, Germany), since 2011 director of the department of primary care. His main research interests are: development and implementation of guidelines and quality indicators as well as health services and clinical research in an ambulatory setting with a focus on patients’ chronic diseases and multimorbidity. He is vice president and guideline coordinator of the German College of General Practitioners and Family Physicians and board member of the European Primary Care Cardiovascular Society. He is currently principal investigator of large cohort studies in a primary setting.

General Practice, Primary Health Care

Małgorzata Palka, PhD, MD, is a family doctor and geriatrician with responsibility for and a particular interest in medical training at the Department of Family Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe where medicine has been taught for 650 years.

patient care, practice-based learning and improvement, systems-based practice, working in the healthcare system

John K Triantafillidis started his career as a research Fellow Gastroenterology Unit, University of Oxford, UK (1981-1982). Then as the Head of Department of Gastroenterology “METAXAS” Cancer Hospital, Piraeus, Greece (1988-1991) AND Head, Department of Gastroenterology: “Saint Panteleimon” General State Hospital, Greece during 1991 - 2013. Now he is the Head Inflammatory Bowel Disease Unit, “Iaso General” Hospital, Athens, Greece

Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Digestive Oncology

Dr. Hakan Yaman is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Akdeniz in Antalya, Turkey. He is specialized in Family Medicine and a clinical trainer. Dr. Yaman provides clinical services in outpatients clinics of Akdeniz University and his research interests are primarily focused on the preventive care of elderly people in Turkey. Dr. Hakan YAMAN has a strong background on family medicine and elderly care. He published articles on family medicine, elderly care, and medical gerontology in international peer-reviewed journals and gave lectures in international conferences (GSA, IAGG, WONCA) on elderly care issues. He co-authored the “WHO Age-Friendly PHC Toolkit” in 2008 and is promoting this toolkit in his academic work and worked on a pilot implementation of “Aging-Friendly City” in Döşemealtı, Antalya, Turkey in 2014.

Family medicine and preventive care of elderly people

Dr Heather Harvey received her Doctorate in Public Health from the University of South Carolina, in 1999. Since then she has served on the faculty at various universities and medical schools in the US, UAE, Saudi Arabia, West Indies and is currently in the medical school, Department of Health Administration and Policy at Jordan University of Science and Technology. She has also consulted and developed specialized curriculums as an educational consultant

General Practice Management,Behavioral risk factors

As Head Nurse of the department of General Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Psychosomatic disorders at Ghent University Hospital (Belgium), he is responsible for the administrative and technical staff. Currently, he holds a master degree in public administration and management from Antwerp University (Belgium) and an MBA from Antwerp University (Belgium) in combination with Fordham University (New York) and School of Economics (Moscow). He is currently a PhD at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Ghent University (Belgium).

health care management, communication in health care and the economic impact of quality improvement initiatives

Dr. Kelleni obtained his MBBS degree with honor in 2004. He’s chosen a career in pharmacology after feeling frustrated from the lack of effective remedies for many diseases dedicating sincere efforts in his MSc research to explore a new remedy for NAFLD and in his PhD research to decrease the toxicity of antineoplastic drugs. He's struggling to raise pharmacovigilance in Egypt as well as to ban the toxic and carcinogenic drugs which are still widely circulating in the Middle East. Dr. Kelleni is a member of the editorial boards of three international medical journals and he has received many invitations to participate as an honorable speaker in many well prestigious conferences in Greece, Spain, Taiwan, Dubai, USA, Morocco, Australia and China.

Pharmacology and general medicine