8th Cardiovascular Nursing & Nurse Practitioners Meeting August 08-09,2016
(10Plenary Forums - 1Event)
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Associate Professor Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Critical Care Hannover Medical School Germany

Vascular Biology, Pulmonary Hypertension, Chronic Lung Disease, Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatric Critical Care, Neonatology, Neonatal Resuscitation

Lee-Ing Tsao has completed her PhD from Universioty of San Diego, CA. Curreltly, she is professor, Dean and Vice presiodent in National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences.

Nursing and its Line

Christine Colella is a Associate Professor of Clinical and Director of NP programs (Adult-Gero Acute Care NP

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Dr. Ellahham has served as Chief Quality Officer for SKMC since 2009. In his role, Dr. Ellahham has led the development of a quality and safety program that has been highly successful and visible and has been recognized internationally by a number of awards. As Chief Quality Officer and Global Healthcare Leader, Dr. Ellahham has a focus on ensuring that that implementation of this best practices leads to breakthrough improvements in clinical quality and patient safety.Dr. Ellahham is a recognized leader in quality, safety, and the use of robust performance improvement in improving healthcare delivery. He serves on a number of US and international committees and advisory bodies. Dr. Ellahham is Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) by The National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ). He is Certified in Medical Quality (CMQ) by The American Board of Medical Quality (ABMQ). He is the recipient of the Quality Leadership Award from the World Quality Congress and Awards and the Business Leadership Excellence Award from World Leadership Congress in 2015. He is one the nominees for Safe Care magazine Person of the Year in the United States. He is the recipient of SKMC Infection Prevention Award in 2011 and 2012.

Cardiology and its line

Linda Cowan, PhD, FNP-BC, CWS, is a Research Health Scientist for the CIDRR8 at NF/SG VHS and holds a Courtesy Associate Professor faculty position with College of Nursing, University of Florida. She completed a three year nursing diploma program at Jackson Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in the early 1980's. She obtained her masters' degree in Nursing in 2004, and doctorate in Nursing Sciences in 2010. She holds a minor in Epidemiology and completed a Public Health Certificate in 2008. She is a board certified Family Nurse Practitioner, and is a wound & ostomy specialist. She currently serves as Liaison to the VA Evidence Based Practice & Research Council, and is an active member of AMSUS (Society of Federal Health Agencies), Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (as a board member), American Board of Wound Management, the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society, Wound Healing Society (four years as a member of the Education Committee), VA Nursing Research Advisory Council, Southern Nursing Research Society, Improvement Science Research Network (ISRN), and Sigma Theta Tau. In addition to speaking nationally on wound, research, ostomy, and evidence-based practice topics, she has been the PI on several research studies such as an industry-funded research study, "Disruption of Dynamic Reciprocity by Bacterial Biofilms and Proteomic Analysis," a VA QUERI-funded study, "Predicting Pressure Ulcer Risk in VHA Facilities," and VA funded projects such as investigating curvilinear relationship between BMI and pressure ulcers and exploring agreement between Braden sub-score assessment of nutrition and other nutritional assessments. In addition, she has been a part of a research team investigating microbial biofilm in chronic wounds and antibiofilm strategies such as larval (maggot) debridement therapy. Her research interests include: wound healing, antibiofilm strategies, larval therapy, pressure ulcer prevention and management, predictive modeling and improving patient outcomes/safety.

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Dr. Stevens’ unwavering desire is to build bridges between education, research and practice for excellence. Dr. Stevens has been a nurse scientist and educator since 1973. This long-standing devotion to research application has positioned her as one of today’s top experts in evidence-based practice. She is a professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas and has a funded program of research that emphasizes evidence-based quality improvement and patient safety through knowledge transformation, workforce preparation including instrument development research, and workforce engagement in evidence-based quality improvement. She has been part of multidisciplinary investigative teams examining occupational exposure of health professionals to hazardous work environments. She also the NIH funded Improvement Science Research Network and guides development of research collaboratives among the Network’s members. She has published dozens of peer-reviewed articles and presented her research widely.

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Dr. Wenger is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine. She is a Consultant to the Emory Heart and Vascular Center. Coronary heart disease in women is one of Dr. Wenger’s major clinical and research interests. She chaired the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Conference on Cardiovascular Health and Disease in Women. Dr. Wenger has expertise in cardiac rehabilitation. She chaired the World Health Organization Expert Committee on Rehabilitation after Cardiovascular Disease, and co-chaired the Guideline Panel on Cardiac Rehabilitation for the U.S. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Dr. Wenger has had a longstanding interest in geriatric cardiology, is a Past President of the Society of Geriatric Cardiology and was Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Geriatric Cardiology for more than 15 years.

Cardiology and its line

Dave Fornell is a medical journalist who has covered the latest advances in cardiology and radiology for the past nine years for Diagnostic and Intervention Cardiology (DAIC) and Imaging Technology News (ITN). He attends numerous medical conferences each year to to see what vendors are developing, attend key technology sessions and late breaking clinical trial presentations. In addition to his articles, he is a regular blogger on new medical innovation, a moderator for several technology webinars, and produces more than 40 videos a year on the new technologies, trends and interviews with late breaking trial principle investigators.

latest advances in cardiology

Abdallah Almaghraby is currently working as a faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt.He is a Resident of Cardiology & Angiology,Member of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Member of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI),Member of the European Heart Failure Association (HFA),Member of the European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (EACPR),Member of the European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS).

Cardiology and its line.

Editor of nursing in cardiology Journal

Cardiology and Nursing

Dr. Umit Yuksek is a cardiologist (M.D.) at Odemis State Hospital, Izmir, Turkey. He graduated from Hacettepe University Medical Faculty at 2003. He became a cardiology specialist from Izmir Ataturk Education and Research Hospital at 2010. Between 2010-2014 he studied at Kastamonu State Hospital Cardiology Clinic. He currently studies as a director of Cardiology Clinic at Odemis State Hospital, Izmir, Turkey. His studies mainly focus on coronary artery disease and heart failure. He is a member of Turkish Society of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Academy and European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure Association.

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He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Clinical Health Sciences Tract. In addition to an active clinical practice in consultative general clinical cardiology, He is also medical director of the Electrocardiography Lab at Moffit/Long Hospitals, and the nation's first UCSF Asian Heart & Vascular Center located on the Mount Zion Campus on the 2nd floor of the Hellman Building.

Cardiology and its line

Dr. Nadia Al-Kandary, PhD, obtained her bachelor degree in Kuwait University, Faculty of Allied Health and continue her 5th year in University of Central Florida, USA. She obtained her M.Sc degree in University of Lancashire, UCLAN, UK and her doctorate in Forensic and Investigative Science from Forensic School in University of Lancashire, UK in 2011. She join General Department of Criminal Evidence since 1996 and she is currently assigned as chairman of Forensic Pathology Lab in Kuwait. She has undergone other Certificate and courses in various branches of forensic field. She has conducted several studies and published on diverse topics ranging from medico legal aspect of infant deaths to un-natural cause of death. Dr. Nadia was a guest speaker at the Medicolegal conference in Detroit, Michigan, USA in 2010. She was coordinating the first Forensic Medicine Conference in Kuwait in 2001 and a member of Identification project in Kuwaiti Jail and also a member of the Prison of War project. Member of the World Suicidoogy Net, WHO. Member of Editorial board of the Journal of Advance Practices in Nursing.

Nursing and its line

Prof. Sidney Chocron Cardiac surgeon University Hospital of Besancon France

Cardiovascular Research,Cardiology,Coronary artery Diseases

Dr. Kaluski is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories & Invasive Cardiology. Dr. Kaluski earned his medical doctorate at Ben-Gurion University Medical School in Beer-Sheva, Israel. Dr. Kaluski post-doctoral training was at Rambam University Medical Center, Bat-Galim, Haifa, Israel; Morristown Memorial Hospital, Morristown, NJ; Tel-Aviv Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel; and Hospital of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.

Atrial fibrillation, invasive & non-invasive hemodymamic assessment and monitoring, heart failure and cardiogenic shock

Luigi Gianturco has completed his graduation in Medicine and Surgery at the age of 25 years from Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) and post-graduation specialty in Cardiology from the same Sapienza University University School of Medicine. In 2009 he has achieved the Master fo Sciences in Echocardiography practice for clinic from Milan University School of Medicine. He is actually the Assistant Director of Cardiology Unit in Galeazzi Orthopedic Institute of Milan (Italy) and Assistant Clinic Director in the same Hospital. He has published more than 10 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute. Moreover, he is the Chief of Biomedical Commission in Italian Soccer Referees Association.

Cardiology and its line

ardiology Unit, Department of Health Technologies, IRCCS Galeazzi Orthopedic Institute, Universita di Milano, Milan, Italy.

Cardiology and its line

Head of the Clinic Cardiology Operating Unit/ Unit of Intensive Coronary Care, second-level Professor of Cardiology at Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele of Milan (from 2012) Head of Clinic Cardiology at the Cardiothoracic-Vascular Department of IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele of Milan (from 2001) Head of the Clinic Cardiology Operating Unit and Coronary Unit at the Cardiothoracic-Vascular Department of IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele of Milan.

Cardiology and its line

Jill M. Berg is a President & Dean of Columbia College of Nursing,Washington.She has published many articles in top reputed journals

Biobehavioral interventions to improve outcomes in cardiovascular populations,Telehealth,Heart rate variability,Exercise

Sek Ying Chair Director and Professor, The Nethersole School of Nursing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Nursing Practice,Nursing Standards,Advancement in Nursing

John C Lewin President and CEO Cardiovascular Research Foundation New York

Cardiovascular Research,Cardiovascular Inventions,Cardiovascular diseases

Cardiac surgeon Montreal Heart Institute Surgery Department Canada

Cardiology,Cardiovascular Diseases,Cardiac Surgeries

University Professor of Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, and Director of Cardiovascular research Institute, Rutgers University- New Jersey Medical School.

Cardiovascular Research,Cardiology,Coronary artery Diseases

Michele Nanna, MD, FACC completed his training in Cardiovascular Disease at the USC/LAC Medical Center. He has been on the faculty of the University of Rochester from 1986 to 1988 and subsequently joined the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1988 where he is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine. He is the former Director of the CCU at Jacobi Medical Center from 1988 to 1992 and former Director of the Noninvasive laboratory at Montefiore Medical Center from 1992 to 2002.

Cardiology,Cardiovascular Diseases,Angiography

Annika Odell has completed a Master of Science in Health Care Science in Nursing 2006. PhD, 2014, at the Institute of Medicine at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg. With Tite: “Aspects on Revascularisation for coronary artery disease- from a patient, health care provider and societal perspective”. She is Head of the research unit, the development unit and the Tobacco preventive unit at the department of Cardiology at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg Publications in American Journalof Cardiology, Cardiology and European Journal of Cardivacular Nursing.

Cardiology and its research

Xiao-hua Wang has completed his PhD majored in immunology from Soochow University. She has been the director of Medical Nursing over ten years. She has published more than 30 papers in impact journals and has been serving as a reviewer of some journals.

Nursing standards,Nursing Practice,Nursing Stimulation