Professor Sushil Dawka (born 1964, Guwahati, Assam, India), passed the MBBS examination in 1987 and the MS examination in General Surgery in 1992 from Gauhati Medical College under Gauhati University, Guwahati, India. He worked as Registrar and as Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, Gauhati Medical College from 1993 to 2003. Subsequently, he worked as Associate Professor and then as Professor in the Departments of Surgery and Anatomy, Manipal College of Medical Sciences, and as General and Laparoscopic Surgical Consultant at Manipal Teaching Hospital, Pokhara, Nepal from 2003 to 2009. At present, he is Professor of Surgery in SSR Medical College, Mauritius. Dr Sushil is a qualified instructor for Primary Trauma Care. He is also trained in Disaster Management and Hospital Preparedness. In addition, he is among the first batch of civilian doctors trained by the Indian Army and the Indian Mountaineering Foundation in High Altitude and Mountain Medicine and is an IMF empanelled Mountaineering Expedition Doctor. He has several publications to his credit and is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Gandaki Medical College, Nepal. He has a special interest in training methodology and the teaching of the craft of surgery. He is married to an Ophthalmologist. His hobbies include photography, astronomy, travelling, skiing, trekking and reading.

Professor Theeshan Bahorun has been appointed as National Research Chair in Applied Biochemistry since January 2012 and is based at the ANDI Centre of Excellence for Biomedical and Biomaterials Research, University of Mauritius. His novel research endeavors are focused on promoting public health nutrition and disease prevention. He was awarded a “Doctorat Sciences de la Vie et de la Santé” in Plant Biotechnology from the University of Lille I (France). He also holds a DEA “Génie Enzymatique, Bioconversion et Microbiologie” from Université de Technologies de Compiègne (France), a “Maîtrise” in “Biochimie Alimentaire” and a “Licence” in Biochemistry from University of Lille I (France). He has 20 years of experience in biomedical research on bioactive components of dietary/plant based factors (phytoceuticals), oxidative stress mechanisms, molecular nutrition, antioxidant pharmacology, pharmaceutical indications of antioxidant functional foods as prophylactic agents, cardioprotective, neuroprotective and chemopreventive strategies, clinical research, pathophysiological mechanisms in diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular dysfunctions. He is currently the President of the Society for Free Radical Research Africa (SFRR-Africa), the Deputy Editor in Chief of the International online journal “Internet Journal of Medical Update, a member of the Editorial Board of the World Journal of Biological and Associate Editor of the International Journal “Asian Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Environmental Science. Prof Bahorun has authored/edited 7 books/special journal issues, 10 book chapters and has to date 49 papers published in peer reviewed journals in addition to 12 conference peer reviewed proceedings and 29 peer reviewed abstracts/posters presented at international meetings. In 2010 he was awarded the CV Raman Senior Fellowship for African researchers by the Government of India.

Dr. Hossam M Ashour was born in Cairo, Egypt. He got his B.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Egypt. He ranked the first in his class of a thousand students. He was then appointed as Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cairo University. After spending two years at Cairo University and based on his accomplishments, he was offered a graduate research fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, Texas, USA. Thus, he joined University of Texas Southwestern Immunology program and got his MS degree in 2004 followed by his PhD in 2006. He was then appointed as a tenured faculty member at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Egypt. After spending a year of research and teaching at Cairo University, he was offered a research fellow position at the prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. After finishing his research fellowship, he was offered an Assistant Professor position at Wayne State University, in which he established an active research laboratory that he currently maintains. Dr. Ashour has remarkable high-impact publications and is a distinguished editorial board member and reviewer for many scientific journals. He is also a member of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Society for Clinical and Translational Science (SCTS), Belgian Immunological Society, the World Association of Medical Editors, and other prominent organizations. He has received numerous awards, and has been invited to participate in various scientific conferences and workshops in the US, Europe, and Australia.
Research Interests: Dr. Ashour’s research interests are in the areas of Microbiology and Immunology with emphasis on subjects that have broader impacts on human health and a particular focus on immune tolerance networks, Anterior Chamber Associated Immune Deviation (ACAID), and autoimmune Diseases.

He did his medical school training from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India and then went on to do his pediatric and neonatology training from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.  Subsequently, he finished a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine from the University of Connecticut, USA.  He is board-certified in both by the American Board of Pediatrics.  He is currently an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Yale University School of Medicine and an Attending Neonatologist at the Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital in the USA.  He has edited the Manual of Neonatology (Peepee Publishers and Distributors (P) Ltd. New Delhi, India. 2008 (http://www.peepeepub.com/Bookdesc.aspx?id=1613).  He has authored over 195 book chapters, original research articles and abstracts.  He has presented his research in many national and international conferences.

Dr. Lynne HY Lim is associate professor of otolaryngology department at National University of Singapore and consultant surgeon of head neck surgey at National University Hospital. She finished her graduation in medicine from National University of Singapore in 1992 and FRCS from Fellow Royal College Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1997. Subsequently, she was awarded with a Fellow Academy Medicine Singapore (ENT) in 2001 and obtained Master of Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health at Boston. She participated in more than 100 international and regional teaching faculty presentations at conferences and workshops. Dr. Lim has more than 25 publications in international peer reviewed journals and contributed in book chapters. In addition she is a primary investigator of many research grants such as EDB Singapore Proof of Concept Grant-Development and determination of the efficacy and safety of a novel drug-eluting absorbable stent for trachea stenosis, Biomedical Research Council Singapore, Agency of Science, Technology and Research grant-Genotypic and phenotypic correlations of hereditary non-syndromic hearing loss in Singapore and NUS Office Life Science and Provost Matching Grant-Role of microbes in non-allergic rhinitis and otitis media with effusion in children. She also serves as associate editor for Singapore Medical Journal and reviewer for Annals Academy Medicine Singapore Journal.

Dr Sanju George is a consultant and senior research fellow in addiction psychiatry at the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation NHS Trust and an Honorary senior lecturer in psychiatry at the University of Birmingham. He is a prolific academic with extensive research interests, mainly in areas of substance misuse and medical education, and has authored over 70 scientific papers in international, peer-reviewed journals. He is on the editorial board of 5 international journals and is a peer reviewer for 15 journals. His other academic commitments include work for the General Medical Council (as medical examiner and medical supervisor for the GMC’s fitness to practice proceedings for ‘sick’ doctors, and expert question writing panel member for the PLAB examination), expert panel member of the Solihull Research ethics committee, and Adviser for the BMJ Careers Focus Advice Zone. In recognition of his work as a clinician, service innovator and academic he has won many international awards:  BUPA foundation award (2008), two Health and Social Care Awards (2008) and Hospital Doctor Award (2007). He is also a published poet.

Dr. Chu serves as a research and diagnostic pathologist in the Department of Pathology, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan. He graduated from Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taiwan in 2002. He has published many papers in peer reviewed journals. He was also invited to review more than 100 scientific manuscripts from more than 30 peer reviewed journals. Many poster or oral presentations in many international or local conference meetings are also included in his credit. He has also served as editorial board member for many peer reviewed journals and including being an Editor-in-Chief of the Internet Journal of Pathology. He has been teaching general pathology, tumor pathology, general medicine, and neuropathology in medical colleges. His research interests include tumor pathology, comparative pathology, veterinary pathology, animal models for human diseases, and molecular pathology. He also served as grant reviewer for government and as principal investigators in several scientific projects. He hopes to shed a light in the areas of comparative medicine.

Dr. BB Gupta has a private medical practice in his home town of New Delhi, India. He graduated in medicine (MBBS) from GR Medical College Gwalior (MP), India in the year 1979. He is very much interested in administration and academics. After his graduation, he obtained MBA degree from IGNOU and Diploma in Hospital Administration from YMCA. Dr. Gupta has been involved as a medico-political worker/leader since 1984. He has been active member of Indian Medical Association and has adorned various positions. In 2000-2001, he was President of Indian Medical Association South Delhi Branch. He has been an elected member of Executive Committees of Indian Medical Association South Delhi Branch and Delhi Medical Association for last several years. At present he is Assistant Secretary IMA (Headquarters). He is also Editor of Mediworld group of publications (publishers of drug Index IDR and many other specialty medical journals like Paediatrics Today, Gastroenterolgy Today) and is Coordinating Editor of Geriatric Care. He has many publications and also contributed a chapter in Geriatric Care (Text Book of Geriatrics and Gerontology). He has attended and also organized many national and international conferences as well as CMEs. Dr. Gupta is also member of several national professional organizations such as Life Member of Indian Medical Association, Life Member of Geriatric Society of India and Founder Member of Indian Doctors' Foundation. He has received many awards such as President's Appreciation Award Indian Medical Association South Delhi Branch, IMACGP Distinguished Service Award and Distinguished Service Award 2004 presented at International Conference of Geriatrics and Gerontology.

Dr. Smriti Agnihotri (maiden name- Tewari) is working as Professor in the Department of Pathology, S. S. R. Medical College, Mauritius. She was born in 1973 and obtained M B B S (graduation in medicine) degree from G S V M Medical College, Kanpur (UP), India in 1995. She married a forensic expert in the year 1996 and has two lovely daughters (Aayushi-born 1998 and Tina-born 2003). After her marriage, she decided to make a career in pathology and got MD (post- graduation) degree from M. L. N. Medical College, Allahabad (UP), India in 2001. She became a Lecturer in the Department of Pathology of S. S. R. Medical College, Mauritius in 2002. In 2004, she moved to Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal as Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology, where she was involved in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students besides carrying out diagnostic work in the clinical pathology laboratory at Manipal Teaching Hospital. She has also attended many Conferences, workshops and CMEs in her field. Dr. Smriti also published many scientific articles in different journals.

Dr. Hari shankar Joshi was born in 1971 and graduated in medicine (MBBS) in 1997 from MLN Medical College, Allahabad (UP), India in 1997. In 1999, he joined the specialty community medicine in the same college as a junior resident and completed post graduation in 2002. In 2002, he joined the Department of Community Medicine, Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal as  lecturer and became Assistant Professor in 2004. He has also attended many workshops, CMEs and Conferences related to his field. He is actively involved in research activities and submitted a project on "Indoor air pollution as a risk factor for pulmonary tuberculosis- A Case Control Study"  in association with Fofarty International Center, through a training grant to University of California Berkeley. He has about 20 scientific publications in various national and international journals. Dr. Joshi is a life member of Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine.

Dr. KM Marya is Medical Director and CEO of a growing network of medical centers in Dubai and other emirates in UAE. He has been associated with teaching hospitals in India and Mauritius. He has been actively contributing towards medical literature and medical conferences and has more than 20 publications in international journals. He is member of many Orthopedic and Medical Societies. He was an invitee research fellow at the Academic University Groningen in the Netherlands. He was awarded Master of Surgery in Orthopedics with ‘Commendation’ from PGI of Medical Sciences Rohtak in India and was a medalist in his undergraduate career.

Dr. Vandna Jowaheer joined the University of Mauritius in January 1996, as a lecturer with MSc and MPhil in Statistics. She was sponsored by the University of Mauritius to do her doctoral studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland and was awarded PhD in statistics in January 2001. She has been teaching the subject of statistics to undergraduate and postgraduate students of various departments including Biosciences, Health and Medicine. Her research interests include modeling and analysis of medical health data. In fact, she has developed the statistical theories and models which can be applied to different fields of research including health and medicine. To be specific, besides other accomplishments, she has formulated various models to analyze the longitudinal responses in the incidence of disease, developed an estimation methodology to analyze multidimensional heath care utilization data, designed treatment allocation rults in clinical trial study which exploit accumulating past information to assign patients to treatments so that more study objects are assigned to the better treatment and developed a web-design for healthy survey. She has been invited to present papers at various international conferences and has several publications in peer-reviewed international journals. She served as head of her department for a term of two years. She is also a member of Mauritius Standards Council.

Dr. Vineet is a house staff physician in the Department of Medicine, UPMC Mercy, Pittsburgh USA. He graduated from GSVM Medical College, Kanpur, India in 2003, and joined department of Emergency Medicine at AIIMS in 2004. There he was actively involved in fostering the clinical and research skills working in various capacities. He has many publications in international peer reviewed journals, chapters, presentations and awards in many international conferences to his credit. He serves as Associate editor/Editorial board member for many established peer reviewed journals. He envisions collaborative research projects between the developed and the developing world and egalitarian approach towards dissemination of scientific knowledge by enhancing indigenous research and journals. His research interests include General internal medicine, Nephrology, Infectious diseases, Bioethics, Acute medicine and Patient education. He foresees an academic career in medicine with an international perspective and sound research background.

Dr.Vipul D Yagnik is presently working as a Consultant, Endoscopic and Laparoscopic surgeon in the Patan (Gujarat, India). He passed his MBBS in 2000 from M. P. Shah Medical College; Jamnagar (Gujarat, India). He passed his MS (General Surgery) in 2005 and obtained FMAS (Fellowship in minimal access surgery) in 2008. He is an author of book titled “FUNDAMENTALS OF OPERATIVE SURGERY”. He has been awarded certificate of honor from district collector, Jamnagar for his tremendous work in natural calamities like earth quake. He has worked as an Assistant professor in Pramukhswami medical college (Karamsad, Gujarat) for four and half year. During his career as an assistant professor, he was involved in many responsibilities in the hospital as well as universities like PG teaching coordinator, member of board of study in sardar Patel universities, executive member in the blood transfusion committee, revised the blood transfusion protocol and examiner in homeopathy as well as physiotherapy from department of surgery. He has many scientific publications in the international journals. He is presently working as an editor for many international peer reviewed biomedical scientific journals (Internet Journal of Gastroenterology, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology, and Internet Journal of Third World Medicine) and Associate editor in Internet Journal of Tropical Medicine. He is member of various professional organizations like WAME, AMASI, and ASI. His main area of interest is laparoscopic and endoscopic surgery.

Dr. Vicky Mody completed his M.Sc. degree in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Mumbai in 2001. After completing his M.Sc he was teaching Chemistry to the undergraduate students in Mumbai, India. Later, he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Houston, Houston, TX. Being Ph.D student he was involved in the synthesis of high valent oxo and nitrido metalloporphyrins and characterizing it with the unique technique of resonance Raman spectroscopy. Shortly, he worked at small scale chemical industry, Polyorganix Inc. as a Research Chemist. As a Research chemist, he acted as the project lead for the development of novel drug delivering polymers based on polyphosphazenes and several monomers. As the matter of fact, one of the polymers developed by Professor Mody has been successfully characterized in vitro and in vivo and currently is being evaluated for its efficacy. To further expand his horizons, he served as a postdoctoral research fellow for 2 years in the Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological sciences at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas. During his term as the post doctoral fellow he successfully developed MRI contrast agents based on superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for the early detection of breast and ovarian cancer. He also mentored several undergraduate students for their research projects in the development of MRI contrast agents based on superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles. Soon after, he assumed a faculty position at the Appalachian college of Pharmacy, Oakwood, Virginia in August of 2009. Being an Assistant professor, he teaches medicinal chemistry to the professional PharmD students. The research projects carried out in his lab includes the development of multimodal imaging agent which can be used for the early diagnosis and therapy of brain tumors.

Dr. M. Abdul Kareem, Senior Radiologist, resident of Malaysia, graduated his under graduation Medical degree in 1973 and post-graduation in 1978 from Madurai Kamaraj University- Tamilnadu- INDIA and obtained his fellowships in 1980 and 1981. He underwent Special training in whole-body C.T scan & Ultrasonogram, DSA and Ultrasound mammography at Tsukuba University, Japan in 1986. He worked in Various Medical Colleges and Universities since 1975. He had worked as Radiology consultant in Middle East country during 1987 to 1983. He is currently working as Associate Professor of Radiology in University Sains Malaysia since 1999.Totally >6000 students have been taught by him which includes M.B.B.S, M.D, M.Med, M.Ch, PhD, Medical, Dental, Nuclear Medicine & nursing courses. He was/is direct mentor for 24 master students and many Undergraduates in USM, supervised about 170 student’s project works, 27 research (Dissertation) theses and 72 case reports. He is a member in three research groups, involved in six international researches and Clinical trials, seven currently on-going researches and seven completed researches with research grant. He has more than 300 scientific papers on his credit including presentations on various National and International platforms. He has been editor for university research Bulletin and in WebmedCentral plus Radiology Editorial Board. He has been a reviewer/scholarly reviewer in four journals including IJMU. In the university, he had been a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) coordinator, secretary of scientific Museum Committee, research proposal assessor in departmental research, innovation and publication committee, Accreditation of Dental Degree Program DDS, Curriculum and syllabus review committee and member in research clusters.

Dr. Kadri is a trainer in the Regional Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Directorate of Health Services, Kashmir, India. After completing his graduate in medicine (MBBS), he obtained Masters in Public Health (MPH) from the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, Netherlands and offered WHO fellowship in the Field Epidemiology Training. He has also completed a certified courses in 'HIV/AIDS and STD management' and 'Geriatric Medicine' from the Indian Medical Association. Dr. Kadri has over 65 research articles published in national and international journals. In Bioterrorism agents: Plague and Hepatitis C: what clinicians and other professionals need to know, Dr. Kadri was awarded by Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Atlanta, USA.

Dr. Godfred is currently working as an Assistant Professor cum Scientist at Sree Balaji Medical College & Hospital, Chennai, India. He has worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology at SSR Medical College, Belle Rive Mauritius. He has worked as a Scientist in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He was as a Junior Research Fellow cum Research Scholar in the Institute of National Importance, JIPMER, Pondicherry, India. He has also worked as a short term research worker on nanoscience in the renowned Indian Institute of Science (IISc, Bangalore, India). He has been working extensively on molecular characterisation of Enterobacteriaceae members, particularly extended and expanded spectrum beta-lactamase producing bacteria and fluoroquinolone resistant bacteria. He has been a faculty of several Medical Institutes and also a Para-Medical Institute. He has done his post-graduation in Medical Microbiology from Kasturba Medical College (KMC- MAHE University), Mangalore, India. He has published several research articles in PubMed indexed, peer-reviewed international Journals. He has delivered talks and also presented many posters and papers, in different National and International Conferences. He is in the panel of reviewers for more than dozen and editorial board of half a dozen, reputed, peer-reviewed Medical Journals. He is also an Assistant and Associate Editor of couple of Journals. He is married to Ms. Priyadharshini, a fellow Medical Microbiologist, pursuing her PhD at Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC), Chennai, India. In recognition for research activities and medical teaching, Marquis Who's Who has published his biography in 2011 (28th) Edition of Who's Who in the World, the world-renowned reference directory by the publisher of Who's Who. (VIP Number is: 35535126).