International Conference on Hypertension & Healthcare August 11-12, 2016 Toronto, Canada

Pollen Yeung completed his Ph.D from University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, SK, Canada) and is currently Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS, Canada. He has published more than 90 peer reviewed articles in reputed journals and is currently serving as an editorial board member for Recent Review of Clinical Trials, Drug Metabolism Open Journal, Medical Sciences Monitor, Metabolites, Cardiovascular Pharmacology Open Access, and Natural Products Chemistry and Research Open Access.

Pharmacokinetics, Drug Metabolism and Biomarker Research for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases

Abdou Elhendy is a cardiologist at Marshfield Clinic and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of WI, Madison WI. He has completed his PhD at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, NL in 1996. He has published 250 papers in peer review journals including 70 original studies as first author in the field of cardiovascular imaging. He has contributed to CME publications by the American College of Cardiology and Society of Nuclear Medicine. He served on the editorial board of Journal of American Society of Echocardiography and Euro Echo.

Hypertension, Cardiovascular imaging

Hossein Tabriziani obtained his Medical degree with honor at the age of 25. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at St. Barnabas Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. With the passion for Transplant, he accepted a clinical Nephrology and Hypertension fellowship at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and continued his education at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) with a Transplant Nephrology fellowship. He was appointed at the Medical director of Pancreas Transplantation at Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical college before moving to Loma Linda Univeristy in California to accept the position as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in Transplant Nephrology division. He is an active member of American Society of Nephrology (ASN) and American Society of Tranplantation (AST). He has multiple publications and has been involved in many clinical researches. His interests are in Hypertension and oxidative stress in patintes with chronic kidney disease and transplantaion.

His research interest includes Hypertension and oxidative stress in patients with chronic kidney disease and transplantaion.

Siddharth Shah is a consulting physician and diabetologistDr.He is an honorary consultant at Saifee Hospital S.L. Raheja Hospital, Bhatia Hospital and Global Hospital. Dr.Shah is the Emeritus Editor of the API Text Book of Medicine X edition. He is the Executive editor for Journal of Association of Physician of India (JAPI). Dr. Shah is the past president of the scientific section of the Diabetic Association of India, Association of Physicians of India and the Hypertension Society of India, Dr.Shah is the convener for the Indian Hypertension Guideline I, II and III. He was the Chairman and Convener for the International Hypertension Conference 1992, HDL Goa 1995,, APICON Mumbai 2005, DIPSI, Mumabi 2011. He is post graduate teacher in Diabetes and DNB Medicine. He is presently Organising Chairman of 2nd International HOLD Conference 2016 in Mumbai and 72nd Association of Physician of India (APICON 2017) in Mumbai.

Thyroid, Alpha Blockers, Newer Insulin and Atenolol, Human GLP-1 Analogues, Antibiotic Resistance, Indian Thyroid Guidelines 2011, Insulin Therapy, Acute Myocardial Infarction, Migraine, Community Acquired Pneumonia, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Dyspepsia, Contemporary Management of Acute Spinal Cord Injury, A1Chieve Study, Indian Guidelines on Hypertension (I.G.H.)-III, Combating Cough, Community Acquired Pneumonia, Epilepsy, Insulin Degludec, Asthma, Consensus on Oral Anticoagulants : Special Emphasis on Vitamin K Antagonists, Consensus Statement on Insulin Therapy, Re-Appraisal of Alpha blockers in Hypertension Management, Understanding Pain.

P K Sasidharan is the Vice President of Hypertension Society of India, formerly Professor of Medicine & Head, Department of Medicine Calicut Medical College. He is also the research guide of the University of Calicut, Scientific Advisory committee Member- National Institute of Immuno Hematology, Mumbai, Dean Faculty of Medicine, University of Calicut. He was also the best outgoing student of MBBS, MD from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh. His awards and fellowships are- 7; Teaching experience of – 32 years, Papers Published 73, Published 4 books and authored chapters in textbooks of Medicine and Hematology. He also has two land mark studies on Vitamin D and SLE. The papers presented are more than 500 guest speaker/Paper presentations in National & International conferences.

Health Care, Hematology

Costas Tsioufis was born in Greece in 1963. He graduated in Medicine from the Medical School of the University of Athens in 1987 and obtained his PhD from the same university in 1997. His postgraduate medical training in Cardiology and Hypertension was first at the University of Athens, Greece and later at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA. Currently, he is Associate Prof. of Cardiology, University of Athens, Hippocratio Hospital, Athens, Greece and Head of the Hypertension Unit of the same institute. In the clinical field, the topics of his competence are hypertensive disease and interventional cardiology. The last 5 years he has a special interest for the novel interventional therapies of hypertension and he is involved in major clinical trials regarding renal sympathetic denervation. He is also Secretary of ESH and Elected President of Hellenic Cardiology Society. He has published 229 papers in peer-review journals mainly in the areas of hypertension, atherosclerosis, and interventional cardiovascular disease.

Hypertension Treatment, Atherosclerosis, and Interventional Cardiovascular Disease

Mansoor Husain is executive director of the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research in Toronto, a multidisciplinary institute that aims to dramatically improve the management of heart failure across the lifespan, from children to older adults. A specialist in cardiovascular disease and nuclear cardiology, Dr. Husain is director of the Toronto General Research Institute and past affiliations include leadership positions at Heart & Stroke/Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence at the University of Toronto and Hypertension Canada. Dr. Husain's research focuses on elucidating the molecular bases of cardiovascular diseases - including diabetes and heart failure - and identifying therapeutic targets involved in pathophysiology.

Cardiovascular disease, nuclear cardiology, heart failure,

Lubna A. Al-Ansary is a Professor of Family Medicine at the College of Medicine, a part-time Consultant Family Physician at the Primary Care Centre and the head of the Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee at King Saud University, the oldest and largest university in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Her efforts in promoting evidence-based health care in KSA and the Gulf Countries since the late 1990’s, allowed her to hold Bahamdan Research Chair for evidence-based health care and knowledge translation at KSU, which focuses on evidence-generation and implementation. Lubna has always been a strong believer of the mission and objectives of G-I-N. She has been a co-opted Board Trustee for 2012/3 and an elected member thereafter. In Jan 2013, Lubna has become a member of the Consultative Council, which is the ‘Appointed Parliament’ in KSA as one of the first women MPs ever and she represented women MPs at the Inter-parliamentary Union for 2 years.

Hypertension Management