Dr. Eva Stephens, Associate Professor, Director of Nursing Education Track, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, School of Nursing. Earned Doctorate Degree Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio , Masters Science Nursing, Howard University, Washington, DC , Bachelor Science Nursing , Texas She has over 36 years of professional nursing experience, 20 years as a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner encompassing nursing education and clinical practice.

Her research has focused on the health consequences and management of obesity among Nurses, African American women and people of color.

At present Elisabeth Govers is president of the Dutch Knowledge Centre for Dietitians on Overweight and Obesity. She worked as a researcher for the Institute of Health Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She chairs the Specialist Network on Obesity of the European Federation of Dietetic Associations (EFAD). As a Registered Dietitian Elisabeth Govers runs clinics in primary care on obesity and its comorbidities.

She wrote articles on obesity management by dietitians, a guideline on the management of insulin resistance, as well as four books on nutrition and obesity for the general public. She is a reviewer for two journals

Dr. O'Keefe is a lawyer (JD) and a registered nurse (RN), with a doctor of philosophy (PhD) in nursing and a licensed professional counselor (LPC). She has a certification as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing (CNS Psych/Mental Health) and has extensive training in alternate dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration. Dr. O’Keefe is a Professor in the UTMB School of Nursing, Galveston, Texas, where she has been awarded the Constance Brewer Koomey Endowed Professorship in Nursing and is recognized as an University of Texas Distinguished Teaching Professor. She is also a Professor in the UTMB Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, a Clinical Associate Professor in the UTMB School of Medicine, and a Visiting Professor in the Shantou University Schools of Medicine and Nursing, Shantou, China.

Dr. O’Keefe has published a series of textbooks known as Nursing Practice and the Law: Avoiding Malpractice and Other Legal Risks. She has a pending publication entitiled Policy, Power, & Politics: Creating the Leadership Potential in Nursing Practice.

Dr Satish Chandra is the Director for Medical Research at Tawam Hospital- Johns Hopkins Medicine International in Al Ain UAE. He has Bch.Med and later PhD, faculty of Medicine from the USA. He has authored more than 54 papers in international scientific peer-reviewed publication besides 2 book chapters on Molecular Medicine and Genetic Susceptibility of Diseases (Mary Ann Liebert, NY). He is involved as an investigator for clinical trials, chairs the ethics committee and continues to teach medical residents. He is currently the associate clinical professor, college of medicine, UAE University

Study focuses on the factors important to close the gaps to enable primary care and advanced care to be integrated through a research platform to generate better outcomes for patients.

Roderick S. Hooker is a health policy consultant with an interest in organizational efficiency. He spent two decades with Kaiser Permanente as a health services researcher, as a PA, and then moved to the University of Texas and the Department of Veterans Affairs in Dallas, Texas. Following the VA he became a Senior Director with The Lewin Group in Washington, DC, a health policy-consulting firm. He is a cofounder of the International Health Workforce Collaborative that meets biennially to discuss medical organizational economics. Over the past decade Dr. Hooker served as a consultant to the Ministry of Health in Ontario and New Brunswick. A similar consultancy was in Queensland and Scotland developing their PA corps. He is now retired and lives in Southwest Washington State.

As a health workforce researcher with a career focus on organizational efficiency I am interested in access to care, and task transfer. My research goal is to develop a maximum substitution model for all aspects of healthcare. This work employs economics, policy analysis, medical anthropology, sociology, history and industrial engineering. Such work is collaborative and could not be done without the invaluable input of many colleagues and students over the years.

Seamus Ryan is a practising Clinical Psychologist in Primary Care, working in the Health Service Executive, Ireland. Seamus completed his undergraduate degree at Trinity College Dublin; He completed a PhD at the University of Manchester, UK, where he researched the role of Primary Care Medicine in promoting recovery from psychosis. Seamus subsequently completed his professional training in Clinical Psychologist, during which time he undertook research into rheumatoid arthritis pain.

He researched the role of Primary Care Medicine in promoting recovery from psychosis.His research has been published in internationally-renowned journals.

Peter Trice, a founder and vice president of the Innova Group, has spent more than 30 years developing his expertise in healthcare planning. As an industry leader in the integration of new concepts in healthcare strategy and clinical operations into hospital and health system design, Peter’s passion is finding creative data driven solutions to current obstacles to the delivery of effective healthcare.

Mr. Trice is dedicated to improving the quality of care worldwide, project by project. His recent work has been in the Middle East, Latin America, the United States, Mainland China, Viet Nam, Singapore and most recently Brunei.

Leslie S. Zun, M.D., M.B.A. is the System Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine in the Sinai Health System in Chicago, Illinois and Chairman & Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine and a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science/Chicago Medical School in North Chicago, Illinois. His background includes a medical degree (M.D.) from Rush Medical College and a business degree (M.B.A.) from Northwestern University's JL Kellogg School of Management. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Zun was a chief operating officer and acting chief executive officer for a 200 bed hospital in Chicago. He is a board member of American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the President Elect for the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry. He is the chief editor of the Behavioral Emergencies for Emergency Physicians textbook and course director for the past five years for the National Update on Behavioral Emergencies conference.

Dr Zun’s research interests include healthcare administration, violence prevention and behavioral emergencies. His publications have addressed the administration of the hospitals and emergency departments, physicians’ bonus and incentive plans and quality improvement topics. He has presented his research and lectured on these topics both nationally and internationally.

Maha A. Al Turki obtained a Master of Medical Sciences in Human Nutrition in 2006 and PhD of Human Nutrition in 2014, both from the University of Sheffield/UK. Upon her return to Saudi Arabia, she joined King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS) in Riyadh as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Nutrition. In her pursuit of academic excellence she is currently studying for a Master Degree of Medical Education at KSAU-HS.

At present, she is holding a position of Assistant Dean at the College of Applied Medical Sciences at KSAU-HS.

Ms. Ann K. Peton established and is the Director of the National Center for the Analysis of Healthcare Data (NCAHD) located in Blacksburg, Virginia. The mission of NCAHD is to provide data mapping and analysis support of advocacy, healthcare education planning/expansion, research, and other healthcare workforce planning at the national, state and local levels using the nation’s most complete collection of physician and non-physician data, demographic, socio-economic, and political data

With over 30 years’ experience in both the public and private sectors creating unique healthcare workforce datasets and tools to share with the public.

Bettie Coplan is Clinical Associate Professor at Arizona State University in the School for the Science of Health Care Delivery where she leads the online MS degree program. She also serves as adjunct faculty for Northern Arizona University’s physician assistant (PA) program and practices clinically part-time at a medical respite center for patient’s experiencing homelessness. Ms. Coplan has been a physician assistant since 1999 and an educator since 2006. She is a leader in her profession and has published several articles addressing PA and primary care issues. In 2012, she received the national Physician Assistant Education Association Research Achievement Award.

Bettie has practiced clinically since 1999; her experience includes correctional health, family medicine, and gastroenterology. Bettie has published in a number of journals and presented on a national level on various topics including the use of technology in education.

David K. Jones is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at Boston University’s School of Public Health. His research examines the political and policy issues surrounding the ACA’s implementation. He is working on a book about how states made decisions about what type of health insurance exchange to establish. His work has appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association, The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, and The American Journal of Public Health among other places. He has been cited in media outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal

He is a part of multiple organizations focused on developing and disseminating research on the ACA. Dr. Jones is the winner of Academy Health’s Outstanding Dissertation Award for his doctoral thesis completed at the University of Michigan

Johannes Bircher has completed his professional formation at the University of Zürich, and his postgraduate education at the Mayo Clinic and the University of Zürich. Then he worked at the Department of Clinical Phar-macology of the University of Bern, at the Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa and at the University of Gottin-gen before he became dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Witten/Herdecke

His research interest is Clinical Pharmacology, Hepatology, Internal Medicine (General Medicine). He published 253 papers partly in high ranking scientific journals, and seven books.

1969 Graduation in Medicine in Hamburg, Germany. 2002 Master of Medical Education in Bern. 1987-2009 Professor of Medicine and Director of Clinical Departments at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA and Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. 2009-2011 Past Dean of the Faculty of Health, Univer-sity of Witten/Herdecke. 2011-2013 Past Founding Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Uni-versity of Oldenburg. He is currently Founding Adviser for a Center of Integrative Medicine and Health, Bam-berg.

His research interest is in fibrogenesis in liver cirrhosis, gastrointestinal endoscopy and ultrasound, carcinogenesis, clinical oncology, hospital management, integrative medicine and medical education. 745 published papers since 1974 (SCI-listed).

Yumatov Evgeny A. MD, Doctor Med. Sci., Professor, academician of International Academy of Sciences (ICSD/IAS), Corresponding member of the Ukrainian Academy of Technology & Cybernetics. The Chief Researcher Scientific Research Institute of Normal Physiology P.K. Anokhin. Professor in chair of the General Radio Engineering Department of National Research University «Moscow Power Engineering Institute». Major research interest: neurophysiology, neurochemistry, physiology of emotions & emotional stress, medical instrument-making. Scientific pedagogical activities in the field of normal physiology, biophysics, social psychophysiology.

He is the author of more than 300 scientific publications, and author and co-author of 14 monographs and of a number of manuals. He has 9 patents for his inventions. Awarded an I.M. Sechenov Medal, P.K. Anokhin Medal, Medal of All-Russia Exhibition Center, and Gold I.P. Pavlov Medal of International Academy of Sciences, Diploma di Merito European and Gold Medal of the Eurochambres for his contribution to fundamental scientific and applied research activity.

Dr Hasan Al Khaldi has completed his PhD in physical education specialized in sport management, He has worked in al Hashemite University in Jordan as assistant professor. He was chair of sport administration and training Department, He was chair of sport rehabilitation department.

He published more than 17 articles in field of sport administration, training and health. Beside that he has worked as fitness instructor in FIFA, AFC, JFA