3^rd International Conference on General Practice & Primary Care August 16-17, 2018 Madrid, Spain

Dr Heike Schütze is a Associate Professor and Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong. Her research interests include health services and translational research, particularly as they relate to health inequities, indigenous and other minority populations. She has a particular interest in improving access to health services for underserved populations.

Primary care

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.

Primary Care

Dr Heather Harvey is currently, in the Faculty of Medicine, at Hashemite University, in Jordan. She received her Doctorate in Public Health from the University of South Carolina, in 1999. Since then she has served on the faculty at universities and medical schools in the US, UAE, Saudi Arabia, & West Indies. She was a Fulbright Scholar in 2006, in Singapore and Malaysia where she spent time trying to identify key public health concerns, and is currently involved in exploring the use of evidence based primary prevention in pediatric services in Jordan. Since 2014 she has consulted and developed specialized curriculums for technical health programs in Thailand, Saudi Arabia & Jordan, with a focus on student centered learning.

Primary Care

Norita is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Primary Care Medicine at the University of Malaya, Malaysia. She received her PhD in 2016 from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. Her thesis focused on preconception assessment of genetic risk in primary care setting. Her special interest is primary care genetics especially developing strategies to improve genetic risk assessment among the reproductive women. She is also involved in the teaching and training of the postgraduate Master of Family Medicine at the University of Malaya.

Family Medicine

She is an expert of the Spanish Science and Innovation Ministry and the Agency for Assessment of new technologies for research project validation in Spain, Chez Republic and Argentina Member of the WHO Guideline Development Group – Ferritin International Micronutrient Malnutrition Prevention and Control, World Health Organization; member of Analytical Hematology and Trace Elements Commissions of the Spanish Society of Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Pathology, Grupo Ibérico del Hierro and Miembro del Grupo Key Opinion Leaders in Hematology, Beckman Coulter European Scientific Division. She is particularly involved in the development of new hematological parameters applied to the study of anemia and erythropoiesis as well as Glycohemoglobin. Recently published papers in the area of automation, biological parameters in functional iron deficiency, β-thalassemia, anemia of chronic diseases and other erythropoiesis disorders, serving as an editorial board member and scientific reviewer in different Journals.

Primary Care

Vicente Rodilla Alama is a Professor at Cardenal Herrera University.

Primary Care

Abhishek Appaji is a graduate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp specialized in New Ventures Leadership and was invited to talk at MIT Beyond Food Bootcamp. He is currently working as Assistant Professor, Dept of Medical Electronics, B M S College of Engineering (BMSCE), Bangalore, India, He obtained his Bachelor's of Engineering in Medical Electronics with University Rank from BMSCE and Masters of Engineering (M.E) in Bioinformatics from University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore. He is pursuing his research in Medical Image Processing from Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He is currently the Chair of IEEE Young Professionals Bangalore Section and Advisor for IEEE EMB BMSCE Chapter. He is co-founder of Glucotek Inc, Australia, a startup in Medtech space. He is incubated in Centre for Innovation in Medical Electronics for developing affordable Digital X-Ray with funding from DST. He has collaborations with Academic Institutes, Hospitals and Industries in India and abroad for funded and research projects. He has also worked as research associate in Centre for Nanoscience and Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He has two patents filed in Medtech Space. He has more than 30 International/National journal publications and conferences to his credit. He has been a part of more than 45+ Invited expert talks in various conferences, Forums, and events. He is on the advisory board of Humaspen, Nagpur and, Viraj health foundation, Singapore. He has renowned laurels including International Best paper Award in Malaysia, MGH CamTech Jugadathon Awards, Best Nodal Coordinator award, Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award 2016 at Rastrapathy Bhavan (President of India House) New Delhi, Elderly care Hackathon (the Netherlands), Winner of Class 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, etc. He has conducted/organized more than 50 events as an IEEE and IEEE EMBS/ IEEE Young Professional initiative.

Research

Stephen Knych, MD is vice president of clinical effectiveness and chief quality and patient safety officer for Adventist Health System in Altamonte Springs, Florida. Prior to this role, he was senior patient safety officer for Florida Hospital System and the division chief of clinical excellence and patient safety for Florida Hospital Celebration Health. During an extensive military medical career, he served as chief orthopaedic consultant to the Air Force Surgeon General, chief of civil support health preparedness and plans, directorate of homeland security of the civil support division, and chief of disaster and trauma systems development. As a clinician and health care executive, he has delivered patient care in ambulatory clinics and hospitals, and also helped develop operational and strategic-level health care plans, policies and programs. Dr. Knych has served as an expert medical consultant on four national Medicare patient harm studies. In addition to his medical degree, Knych also holds a master's degree in business administration, and a master’s in Theology. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, as well as a Fellow in the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. He is a retired colonel of the United States Air Force and was awarded the Legion of Merit in May 2006.

Healthcare

Sanda Kreitmayer Peštić is a Family Practitioner and is a PhD candidate at Medical Faculty in Tuzla, working on a doctoral disertation. Currently she is the Team Leader for Family practitioners and also senior assistant at department of Family medicine at the Medical Faculty in Tuzla University, Tuzla. She completed her Post graduation study in General Medicine at the Medical Faculty Tuzla. Her area of Interest Include Psychiatry, Cardiology, Internal medicine, Endocrinology, Social medicine.

Internal medicine, Endocrinology, Social medicine

Katharina Schmalstieg-Bahr M.D. is a general practitioner. She completed her post-graduate training at the Cleveland Clinic affiliated Akron General Hospital in Ohio, USA before returning to Germany. Since 2015 she holds a research position at the Department of General Practice at the University Medical Center Göttingen. One of her research interests focuses on prescribing hypnotics in general practice. She is also the German research coordinator of the SCREEN-AF trial, an international collaboration with Canada that explores an ambulatory screening method for arterial fibrillation. Furthermore she is involved in teaching medical students.

Benzodiazepines, Z-drugs, prescribing behavior, arterial fibrillation