Yoshiyuki Takami, MD is a cardiovascular surgeon and is currently Division Director of Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital. He will be Professor of Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kansai Medical University Takii Hospital at June 2013. He graduated from Kanazawa University School of Medicine in 1989. He received his PhD degree at Nagoya University School of Medicine in 2000. He was one of the members of the center for Artificial Organ Development, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine during 1995 to 1997. He has performed over 1,500 cases of cardiovascular surgery.

Srikant Agrawal received his MBBS degree from Rajshashi Medical College, Rajshahi University and is currently in his final year of residency of MS General Surgery at Bir Hospital, National Academy of Medical Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal.
He previously served as Chief District Health Officer and Medical Superintendent at District Hospital Dolpa, a government hospital at one of the most remote districts of Nepal. In the devastating earthquake of 2015, he was serving as Medical Officer at Charikot Primary Health Care Centre under Ministry of Health and Population of Nepal.

Biography
Medical degree in 2005 and Specialization in Maxillofacial Surgery with first-class degree in 2010 at the University of Verona, Italy.
Current position: Researcher and Assistant Professor at the Unit of Maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Neurosciences, University of Padua, Italy.
Postgraduate training as fellow at the Center Klinik für Mund-, Kiefer- and Gesichtschirurgie, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany, and attending physician at the Unit of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, Paediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy.
Author of scientific publications in international journals, and reviewer for international scientific journals.


Main research areas:
Head and Neck reconstructive microsurgery, treatment of radio and medication-related jawbone diseases, Head and Neck oncology, craniofacial malformations, computer-assisted surgery and computer-aided design of biomedical devices for bone reconstruction.

Despoina Kakagia is an Associate Professor in Plastic Surgery at the Medical School of Democritus University of Thrace in Greece.
Professor Kakagia Studied Medicine at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and was trained in Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery in prestigious Centres in Greece and Europe including Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in the UK, Institut de Chirurgie Plastique CHU Sart Tilman del Universite de Liege-, Liege, Belgium and the Center of Excellence in Plastic Surgery, Hand Surgery and Burn Center, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
Professor Kakagia has participated as an invited speaker in numerous Greek and International Meetings and is the author of many scientific publications including articles in peer-reviewed international journals, books, and book chapters. Professor Kakagia is also a member of the European Association of Plastic Surgeons and many other Hellenic and International scientific societies in the field.

Research fields and publications:

Wound Healing-Trauma
1. Monography: Modern Wound Dressings and advances in Wound and Trauma healing
2. Thirty published Papers in Pubmed Journals
3. Two Chapters in books
Surgical oncology of the skin and breast
1. Eighteen published Papers in Pubmed Journals
Methods to increase the survival of free flaps
1. Two published Papers in Pubmed Journals
Local infiltrations of anesthetics in operative models
1. Five published Papers in Pubmed Journals 
Adipose tissue Metabolism (in progress) Adipose-derived stem cells- efficacy and safety
1. Three published Papers in Pubmed Journals

Prof. Dr. Ricardo Hsieh is a doctor in Dental Surgery at School of Dentistry, the University of São Paulo, Brazil (2004) and first scientific research started during undergraduate education, followed the graduation education (Master and Ph.D. degree) at Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo (2012). Completed Post-doctoral program at Department of Pathology and Stomatology of School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo (2016), Brazil. In 2015, I was an Associate Research Scientist at the Department of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine developing multicenter collaboration research. All my research projects and subject have been involving photo-protected sites melanomas (mainly Oral mucosal and Acral lentiginous types); Fetal melanocytes and Salivary glands development; our research group had built a Primary Oral Mucosal Melanoma cell lines by cell culture; and others Dermatological and Stomatological diseases research studies (as Oral squamous cell carcinoma, mucoepidermoid carcinoma, and Oral Lupus). Currently, I am a Researcher at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of São Paulo, Brazil, and Professor of General Pathology at Federal University of Alfenas, Brazil. I have some research grants from the Brazilian Funding Agency (CNPq, FAPESP, and FUNADERM) and several awards from many international conferences. Currently, join as a member of Editorial and/or Reviewer Board from different international journals.

Dr. Igor M. Ignatyev is Chief of the Department of Vascular Surgery, Interregional Clinical and Diagnostic Center, Russian State Medical University, Russia.

He regularly attended and participated with scientific reports in Russian National Cardiovascular Congresses (1991-2016), scientific-practical conferences of the Russian Phlebologists’ Association (1998-2016).

Attended and participated in a number of International Conferences: International Conference of the World Phlebologists’ Society (Australia, Sidney, 1998); Mediterranean Congress of Angiology and Vascular Surgery (Cyprus, Paphos, 2002); Symposium “The management of reflux and obstruction in the deep venous system” (UK, London, 2003); World Congress of Angiology (Italy, Rome, 2004); Annual meetings of the European Society for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (Helsinki, 2005, Madrid 2007); Vascular Annual Meeting (Baltimore, 2007), XVII World Congress of the International Union of Phlebologists (Boston, USA, September 8-13, 2013), Controversies and Updates (2013, 2014, Paris, France), Charing Cross International Symposium, 2013, 2014, London, UK), ESVS Meeting(2013, 2014, 2017 Budapest, Hungary;Bolongna, Italy; Lyon, France), VEITHsymposium (2016, New York, USA) and others.

Research interest:

1.     Carotid surgery and investigation in this field

2.     Reconstructive deep venous surgery

3.     Endovascular treatment of chronic venous obsrtructions

Having M. B. B. Ch. in General Medicine & Surgery, Faculty of Medicine (Kasr Alainy Medical School), Cairo University, Egypt. Having Master and MD Degrees in Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt. Having B. CH in Anatomy and Physiology, Cairo University, Egypt. Author in many scientific papers published in National and International journals. Having practical experience in different diagnostic techniques in the field of radiographic and endoscopic anatomy and experimental Embryology with special emphasis to those of the vertebral column. Organizing many scientific training courses, workshop in the field of Human Histology, Anatomy and Developmental Biology. Participating in many scientific training courses, workshops, national conferences in the field of Anatomy, Molecular Biology and Electron Microscopic studies. Member in many Scientific and Medical societies. Supervisor on many MD and Master Theses. Member of editorial board and reviewer in many Scientific Journals (National & International).

Dr. Yu Guo is a professor of surgery at the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University who is engaged in the surgical treatment of hepatobiliary system diseases and the development of nanomedicines for malignant tumor. Dr. Yu Guo is the editor of various surgical and molecular biology journals. In the field of nanomedicine, his research is focused on improving the distribution efficiency of nanoparticle by active targeting technology. He has received several provincial academic honors in Guangdong Province for his contributions in clinical medicine and basic medical research. His academic home page is https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8886-0106.

Edoardo Maria Muttillo is a medical doctor in specialty training in hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery at the University of Rome La Sapienza. The main field of research interest is oncologic and transplantologic hepatobiliary surgery, oncologic pancreatic surgery, benign diseases and transplantology. He is also active in research for liver regeneration, liver diseases and biliary diseases.

He was born in 1980 in Istanbul. He graduated from Istanbul University Istanbul Faculty of Medicine in 2003 and started his career as a physician. He graduated from Istanbul Goztepe Training and Research Hospital in 2009 as a General Surgery Specialist. Between 2009 and 2010, he worked as a military physician at Ankara Gulhane Military Medical Academy and Kosovo NATO-KFOR as a General Surgery Specialist. He worked as Chief Physician and General Surgery Specialist at Sivas Susehri State Hospital between 2010-2013. While working as a General Surgery specialist at Goztepe Training and Research Hospital between 2013-2016, he received Liver and Kidney transplantation training at Akdeniz University Organ Transplantation Institute between 2014-2015. Since 2016, he has been working in the academic staff of Istanbul Medeniyet University Faculty of Medicine, Department of General Surgery, as an Assistant Professor and Chief of The Organ Transplantation Department. He received the title of Associate Professor in the field of General Surgery in October 2021.

Professional Experience:I performed about 8000 cardiac operations including the corrections of
GUCH. Extensive experience in coronary surgery both on pump and off-pump. All interventions are
perfomed wtih a minimally invasive approach when it is possible (J-upper ministernotomy, Heart Port
Acess; anterior mini-thoracotomy for aortic valve surgery; TAVI through trans-femoral and transapical
approaches) Extensive experience in mitral and aortic valve repair. I'm intersted in aortic root
surgery by remodelling or re-implantation technique and by CAVIAAR techniqueI'm also interested in
LVAD implantation and heart transplantation. Extensive experience in aortic arch surgery by Frozen
Elephant Trunk and Debranching techinques

Eduardo Domínguez-Adame Lanuza studied for a degree in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Seville, 1983-89. He was a Resident Physician by competitive examination in the specialty of General and Digestive Surgery at the Virgen del Rocío University Hospital in Seville (1991-95), obtaining the title of Specialist Physician in General and Digestive Surgery. He holds a PhD from the University of Seville with a grade of Outstanding Cum Laude by unanimous vote (2009). In his medical career, he has held a position as Area Specialist Physician, in chronological order, at the Virgen Macarena University Hospital in Seville, the Merced Hospital in Osuna (Seville), the General Hospital of Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) and the Virgen Macarena University Hospital in Seville. Since 2005 he has held the position of Statutory Area Specialist Doctor at the Virgen Macarena University Hospital through a national competitive examination. In the field of healthcare management, he has been Coordinator of the Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery Unit of the General Surgery and Digestive System Service at the Hospital of Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz). At this hospital he has been a member of the Hospital Ethics and Research Committee. Since 2008 he has been Head of Section through a competitive examination at the Virgen Macarena University Hospital in Seville. He is responsible for the Esophagogastric, Metabolic and Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery Unit of the General Surgery and Digestive System Service at the Virgen Macarena University Hospital. He is a member of various Hospital Clinical Commissions (Ethics and Research, Bariatric, Mortality and Autopsies, Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Esophageal-Gastric Tumors) of the Virgen Macarena University Hospital in Seville. He has been a member of the evaluation committee for intermediate management positions in the Andalusian Health Service. His administrative, teaching, clinical and care management in the Esophageal-Gastric, Metabolic and Advanced Laparoscopy Surgery Unit has been consecutively evaluated as excellent by the Quality Subdirectorate of the Management of the Virgen Macarena University Hospital in Seville. From the hospital teaching point of view, he has been a Tutor of Residents in the Specialty of General Surgery and the Digestive System at the Virgen Macarena University Hospital in Seville. He has been an Honorary Collaborating Professor of the Department of Surgery at the University of Seville from 1991 to 1996. Since 2007 he has been a Clinical Associate Professor (ACIS), by competitive examination, of the Department of Surgery at the University of Seville, teaching uninterruptedly at the Centers; Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Dentistry of the University of Seville. He is currently Associate Professor of the Department of Surgery at the University of Seville, competitive examination prior to accreditation, since April 24, 2024. He has been Coordinator in Charge of the Optional Subject Morbid Obesity. Director of multiple Advanced Studies Diplomas (DEAs), Tutor of Master's Final Projects and Final Degree Projects at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Seville. His teaching activity has been positively evaluated by both students and the University of Seville. To date, Director of 7 Doctoral Theses, 4 pending defense and reading. He has been a member of Doctoral Thesis Tribunals. He has also been a Professor of the Master in Endoscopic Surgery organized by the University of Granada and by IAVANTE – Health Department of the Junta de Andalucía. He has been a member of the CTS-348 Research Group (formerly 3306 of the Health Department of the Junta de Andalucía). He is currently a research member of the CTS-544 Research Group participating in several research projects subsidized by the Health Department of the Junta de Andalucía, Ministry of Health and Consumption. His Research Lines are: Portal Hypertension, Morbid Obesity Surgery, Functional and Neoplastic Pathology Surgery of the Esophagus, Inflammatory Response. He has carried out stays in National and Foreign Centers, highlighting those carried out at the St. Mark's Hospital (Prof. RJ Nicholls) in London in the United
Kingdom, whose objective has been the improvement in diagnostic-therapeutic techniques in coloproctological surgery, with the obtaining of a Certificate in Coloproctology (St. Mark's Hospital, London University), as well as the one carried out at the Regional University Hospital Center of Montpellier - Hôpital Saint Eloi (Prof. JM Fabre, University of Montpellier) in France, whose objective has been the improvement in diagnostic-therapeutic, laparoscopic and thoracoscopic surgical techniques in esophageal-gastric care processes. Director of National and International Surgery Courses carried out jointly by the University of Seville (Department of Surgery) and the Andalusian Health Service, which have been accredited by Scientific Societies (Andalusian Association of Surgeons, Spanish Association of Surgeons, Spanish Society of Bariatric Surgery and Associated Metabolic Diseases, among others) and by the Health Quality Agency of Andalusia (ACSA). He has been General Director of Teaching and Academic Training of the Royal and Illustrious College of Physicians of Seville, and is a Member of the Committee of Scientific Experts of said Institution. He is a Corresponding Academician of the Royal Academy of Medicine and Surgery of Seville and an elected member of the Board of Trustees of its Foundation. He has published 184 articles in national and international journals. Reviewer for the Spanish Journal of Surgery, the Spanish Journal of Digestive Diseases, the Andalusian Journal of Digestive Pathology, the Andalusian Surgery Journal, the Ibero-American Bariatric & Metabolic Journal, the Annals of Mediterranean Surgery and the Spanish Journal of Public Health. He has participated in 232 invited presentations and/or conferences, as well as 409 contributions to national and international scientific conferences and meetings. He has participated in the writing of 30 books and/or book chapters.
He has obtained recognition with national and international awards for his research activity (Spanish Association of Surgeons, Andalusian Association of Surgeons, Andalusian Society of Digestive Pathology, Royal and Illustrious Official College of Physicians of Seville, Royal Academy of Medicine and Surgery of Seville-University of Seville, Spanish Association of Video-Surgery, Baxter Prize). Diploma of Competencies, as well as the Diploma of Expert in Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery endorsed by the Spanish Society of Bariatric Surgery and Associated Metabolic Diseases (SECO) as well as by the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO). Member of the Andalusian Association of Surgeons (ASAC), Spanish Association of Surgeons (AEC), Spanish Society for Obesity Surgery and Metabolic Diseases (SECO), holding positions in different sections of the same. Quality Accreditation EXPERT Level by the Health Quality Agency of the Andalusian Government.
He is currently a full-time Professor of Surgery at the University of Seville linked to the Virgen Macarena University Hospital in Seville.
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