4^th Global Surgery and Transplantation Congress (715th Conference) October 03-04, 2016 Atlanta,Georgia, USA

Dr.Hisham Hussein Mohamed Ahmed was General Director of the emergency Department. Currently he serves as an Associate professor at Faculty of Medicine, Department of General Surgery, Benha University. His research interests include General and Pediatric surgery.

General and Pediatric surgery

Dr. Al Salihi was an attending cardiac surgeon at Ibn Al Bittar Cardiac Surgery in Baghdad; held several positions at the Iraqi Center for Heart Diseases, including general director; and worked as a cardiac surgeon at Al-Issra General Hospital in Amman, Jordan. Upon arriving in the states in 2008, he studied for the three steps of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) and recertified his credentials at Kaplan Institute, Akron, Ohio. He then joined the Cleveland Clinic as a clinical associate staff surgeon while completing fellowships in cardiac surgery and heart and lung transplantation. He joins Emory as its first surgeon dedicated primarily to heart and lung procurement for transplantation. His clinical interests also include minimally invasive valve surgery and VATS thoracic surgery, and his research focus is ex vivo lung perfusion.

Minimally invasive valve surgery, Adult cardiac surgery, Heart and lung transplantation

Edward Chin graduated from Dartmouth College and the Suny Stony Brook School of Medicine. During his medical school education, he was awarded membership into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. At the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, he completed his General Surgery Residency and subsequent fellowship training in Minimally Invasive Surgery and Laparoscopy. He is board certified in Surgery, and has been active in research, publishing on these topics in peer-reviewed journals, and presenting at national meetings. His clinical interests include colectomy for benign and malignant disease, hiatal hernia and antireflux surgery, achalasia, abdominal wall hernia repair, weight loss surgery, and solid organ removal, including laparoscopic donor nephrectomy. He also serves as a mentor for surgical residents and medical students, and holds positions on departmental and hospital-wide committees.

Laparoscopic surgery and nephrectomy

Dr Newton Howard is the Chairman of the Brain Sciences Foundation and currently serves as Associate Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Functional Neurosurgery at the University of Oxford, where he manages the newly-formed Computational Neuroscience Lab. He is also the Director of the Synthetic Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, where he had served as the Founder and Director of the MIT Mind Machine Project from 2008 to 2012.

Neurosurgery

Chitra Hosing is a professor graduated from Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh, India, MD; Pathology Clinical She completed her Post graduate training in Clinical Fellowship, Bone Marrow Transplantation, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. She is certified American Board of Internal Medicine-Hematology.Her clinical interests include Stem cell transplantation. She also served as Vice Chair, Clinical Safety and Effectiveness Committee, 9/2014-present.

Stem cell transplantation

Gerhard Carl Hildebrandt, MD, FACP, is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Kentucky and Division Chief of the Division of Hematology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation and Certified in Internal Medicine, Hematology and Oncology, Germany. He received his medical degree from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz Medical School, Germany, in 1997. Upon completing his doctoral research thesis, he was awarded the "doctor medicinae" with magna cum laude. He then completed a residency in Internal Medicine and a Hematology and Oncology fellowship at the University of Regensburg, Germany and became Bone Marrow Transplant and Hematologic Malignancies Attending at the University of Regensburg. In 2009 he was awarded the "Habilitation", the highest academic qualification a scholar can achieve by own pursuit in Germany. Hildebrandt was faculty member at the Louisiana State University in Shreveport, and at the University of Utah. He was the director of the bone marrow transplant program at LSUHSC Shreveport and director of the Utah Blood and Marrow Transplant program at the Huntsman Cancer Institute/University of Utah. Hildebrandt is member of ASH, ASCO, ASBMT, AACR, the author of more than 40 articles, books and book chapters, and strongly involved in clinical trials.

Hematology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation