13^th International Conference on Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine November 07-08, 2022 Singapore City, Singapore

Dr. Ravishekar Kannan is a Principal Scientist at CFDRC. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2008 from the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University. His research interests include particle transport methods, computational drug delivery, moving boundary problems, parallel programming, algorithm development for high order methods, fluid structure interactions and High Performance Computing (HPC). He has published a series of research papers on the above in well-known international journals. Some of his latest contributions include the development of the Wind-Kessel algorithm for truncated lung models, the Q3D model for lung airways, novel high order viscous flux schemes, optimized partitioning and communication routine for HPC and development of an algorithm to detect and quantify blast injuries. Currently Dr. Kannan works on the multiscale modelling of the pulmonary drug particle deposition, dissolution, clearance and systemic circulation, collaborating with the FDA, NIH and Merck teams. Dr. Kannan has been invited to present his research at several universities worldwide in the above mentioned areas. Dr. Kannan is in the editorial board of “Journal of Aerospace Engineering and Technology” and “International Journal of Biomedical Engineering”.

particle transport methods, computational drug delivery, moving boundary problems

Dr. Zuo is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. He has OSU-P status with the Graduate School and is advising MS or PhD students at The Ohio State University. Zuo is also a faculty member of OSU Biophysics Graduate Program. Zuo’s research objective is to study the biological function of respiratory muscle using noninvasive methodology and preconditioning therapies. Zuo’s group is developing the stem cell treatments for respiratory muscle dysfunction in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Zuo’s research emphasizes on the molecular and cellular mechanism of stress-induced free radicals formation in skeletal and cardiac muscle. Particularly his team aims at identifying new roles of free radicals on diverse disease models such as cardiovascular ischemia/reperfusion injuries, skeletal muscle dysfunction in hypoxia, and COPD induced damage on respiratory muscle. Currently, Dr. Zuo serves as the Academic Editor for PeerJ and Associate Editor for Frontiers in Striated Muscle Physiology and Frontiers in Physiology.

biological function of respiratory muscle using noninvasive methodology and preconditioning therapies

Flavio Fontes Pirozzi; endocrinologist of Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism; master degree in Genetic by State of Sao Paulo University (UNESP/IBILCE - Sao Jose do Rio Preto/Brazil) and professor on Endocrinology Department of Unilago Medical School (Sao Jose do Rio Preto/Brazil). Speaker on World Congress of Diabetes 2015 (Kaohsiung/Taiwan).

His research interest on Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Dr. Hwa Mu Lee is Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of California, Irvine College of Medicine, in Irvine, California and Clinical Professor of Medicine at Western University of Health Sciences, in Pomona, California, and is Chairman of the Dept. of Medicine at West Anaheim Medical Center in Anaheim, California

Dr. Lee is a noted authority on the relation of COPD with cardiovascular disease, including the role of cardiovascular risk assessment in patients with COPD and the role of lung function in the prediction of cardiovascular outcomes.

Dr.Yong-Xiao Wang has been a Full Professor in Albany Medical College (USA) since 2006.Dr. Wang has had extensive research experience in basic, translational and drug research concerning pulmonary hypertension, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, and cardiac arrhythmia for over 30 years. As the Principal Investigator, he has/had numerous NIH R01 research awards, AHA Established Investigator Award, and various other grants, for which he often holds/held 2 – 3 NIH R01 grants with other awards each year. As the corresponding author, first author and key contributor, he has had numerous publications in highly peer-reviewed journals including Antioxid Redox Signal (impact factor: 8.209), Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (9.432), Nature (34.480), Circ Res (9.214), etc. Dr. Wang has been the editor of academic books in the field including one entitled by “Redox Signaling in Health and Disease Pulmonary Vasculature” that has been confirmed for publication by Springer (New York). Dr. Wang has also served as the editorial board member and/or section editor for the Clinical and Translational Medicine, Pulmonary Circulation and several other journals.

Pulmonary hypertension, Asthma, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Within his academic training, he is a RRT-Respiratory Therapist graduated from Santa Paula University, and holds a master's degree in integral health and human movement / emphasis in graduate health at the National University of Costa Rica, in addition to completing the course of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation phase II in The National University of Costa Rica, and performed the certification of pediatric and neonatal critical air transport of the Asturian association of pediatric intensive care. He works in the Costa Rican social insurance fund from 2000 to the present, in 2005 until 2008 he worked in clinical research at the ICIC, during this same period also work in home care program for patients with COPD from 2013 to 2016 was coordinator of the cardiopulmonary rehabilitation center at the Adolfo Carit Eva Women's Hospital and from 2015 to date The director of the Santa Paula cardiopulmonary rehabilitation center at Santa Paula Clinic.

COPD

He is a President, International Biophilia Rehabilitation Academy and is a Professor at Biophilia Institute,The Designated and Registered Institute by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Neural Stem cell,Rehabilitation

Dr. Hikmet Jamil is a professor in the Department of Family Medicine. He received his medical degree from the University of Baghdad, Iraq and his PhD from the University of Manchester, England. He joins us from the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences at Wayne State University, where he was the director of Translationary Community Outreach Research. Dr. Jamil will continue working on Community Outreach Research in our department. Dr. Jamil’s research interests include the impact of environmental exposure (work and home) on the health and wellbeing of new Americans (immigrants and refugees) in particular Arab/Chaldean people. He is also engaged in studies of the health effects from tobacco and waterpipe (hookah), and means to counteract the spread of waterpipe smoking among adolescents.

The effects of Gulf war on Lung in general and asthma in particular

Dr. Mishra received his DVM and MS from India before completing his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from Oklahoma State University in 2011. Dr. Mishra completed his post-doctoral training from National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), before joining as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine in 2017.

With obesity increasing to epidemic levels, understanding the implications of caloric restriction and excess on immune responsiveness may better focus our therapeutic interventions towards obese asthmatics. While previous studies have offered a fundamental understanding of immunological pathways in airway inflammation, our lab is focused to better understand the contribution of progenitor cells to the molecular mechanisms cardinal to obesity-associated airway inflammation. A specific objective of his research theme is to identify novel endogenous signaling pathways and druggable targets in committed progenitors. His lab investigates obesity-associated changes in dendritic cell function and airway inflammation. Dr. Mishra’s lab is currently developing a new research line at the interface between immunology and metabolism.

Alexander D Verin has completed his PhD from Moscow State University, Moscow Russia and Postdoctoral studies from University of Indiana, School of Medicine. Currently he is a Professor of Vascular Biology and Medicine at Vascular Biology Center and Pulmonary Division at Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA. He has published more than 135 papers in reputed journals and serving as an academic editor of Cardiology and Angiology and an Editorial Board Member in several other journals in the field of pulmonary and cardiovascular research such as Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Journal of Multidisciplinary Pathology, Journal of Vascular Diagnostics, The Journal of Bio pharmaceutics Sciences, Tissue Barriers, World Journal of Respirology. In addition, he served as Editorial Board Member in American Journal of Physiology (Lung) from 2006 to 2011 and was a reviewer for a number of highly regarded journals.

Biochemical basis of endothelial cytoskeletal regulation and permeability. Structure and function of contractile proteins and protein phosphatases. Phosphorylation/ dephosphorylating as mechanism regulation of endothelial cytoskeletal contractility. Relationship between endothelial cytoskeletal contractility/cytoskeleton and barrier function. Crosstalk between microtubules and microfilaments in endothelial cytoskeletal barrier regulation. Contractile responses to bioactive mediators and receptor/signal coupling in endothelial cytoskeletal.

Dr. Robert Buckingham is an internist in Ojai, California and is affiliated with Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. He received his medical degree from University of Illinois College of Medicine and has been in practice for 40 years. His specialities include Internal Medicine, Sleep Medicine, Non-invasive Cardiology, Critical Care and Intensive Care, Consultant in Internal Medicine, author and writer on vascular inflammatory prevention and life extension. My passion is treating patients by providing individualized strategies to help them succeed. Robert Buckingham practice career spanning 4 decades has offered a rarified perspective of health care delivery, as I have been responsible for patients requiring intensive care, managed care and then those that require comfort care. The gamut of care delivery has enabled me to have access to all the advances in medical diagnostics and treatments as well as first -hand experience in evaluating hundreds if not thousands of cardiac and carotid ultrasounds and sleep studies. These experiences in health care delivery have given me an unprecedented perspective on inflammatory risk factors to health and has motivated me to write books addressing the cause and effect of inflammatory lifestyles to many of the chronic illnesses we face as we age. My goal is to make as many people as I can aware of these toxic risks and make adjustments before getting boxed in by spirals of inflammation that require multiple medications and limit activity. This message of prevention becomes more important to health care delivery with each passing day.

Health Care Delivery to treat different chronic illness and specialists in many fields such as diabetes, the metabolic syndrome, hypertension, cigarette smoking, alcohol and drug abuse, elevations in LDL cholesterol and other lipoproteins, inactivity, poorly managed diet, excessive stress and inadequate sleep from sleep apnea or insomnia.