Editors

Biography: Dr Zafar trained as medical trainee at the Princess of Wales Hospital, Grimsby.  Following this, he spent eight years in General Medicine before joining VTS (Vocational Training Scheme) General Practitioner (GP) training in Sheffield.   After completing GP training, he joined Danes Camp Medical Centre in April 2006.  He has a strong passion for Diabetes and the management of Diabetes in Primary Care and would like to see Primary Care at the forefront of Research, to build evidence for a better Healthcare service delivery.
Dr Zafar is an experienced Diabetologist with a demonstrated history of Research working in the medical practice industry.  He is a strong educational professional and is a Clinical tutor at Imperial College London and Buckingham Medical School.   He is also a Module leader and faculty member of the Leadership and Management Academy, Health Education England.
As a Clinical Director of General Practice Alliance, Dr Zafar hopes to use his research skills and passion for Diabetes to improve patient goals, with an end goal of member practices being actively involved in research for the area, achieving maximum evidence-based outcomes in Diabetes management.

Professor of Reproductive Endocrinology and Vet. OB/GYN
Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences 
Collage of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences  
Texas, United states

Research Interests: Reproductive Endocrinology, Uterus, Ovary, Prostaglandins, Steroids, Cell Signaling, Pregnancy, Luteolysis

Biography: Vincenzo Bassi was born in Naples-Italy on June 11th, 1961. He graduated in Medicine in 1986 and specialized in Endocrinology in 1989 at the University of Naples, “Federico II” (Italy).

He attended, with a grant award, University of Pisa (Italy), Endocrinology, directed by prof. Aldo Pinchera, in 1989-1990. He attended as Ph.D. student University of Naples (Italy), Endocrinology, directed by prof. Gianfranco Fenzi.

He obtained his Ph.D. in Endocrinology and Metabolism in 2004.

He specialized in Internal Medicine at the University of Naples, “Federico II” (Italy)  in 2009. From 2004 to today he is working as Chief of Internal Medicine at the S. Giovanni Bosco Hospital, U.O.C., ASL Na 1 Centro, Naples (Italy).

He is author of publications in national and international Journals and reviewer in several international journals in the field of Endocrinology.

Biography: Professor Nikolaos Papanas is Professor in Internal Medicine-Diabetes Mellitus at Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He has been specialized in diabetes and its complications in the Diabetes Center and the Diabetic Foot Clinic at King’s College Hospital, London, UK, as well as in the German Diabetes Center at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany. He has established an ongoing collaboration with the neuropathy study group of the German Diabetes Center in Düsseldorf. He has published more than 270 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He serves in the editorial board of more than 80 international journals. He has also participated with numerous presentations in Greek and European medical congresses and repeatedly served as invited reviewer in medical journals. He has served in the Executive Committee of the Hellenic Society for Angiology. He is currently a member in the Executive Committee of the Study Group on Diabetes and Nervous System of the German Diabetes Association (DDG). He is also Vice President of the Greek Society for the Study of the Diabetic Foot. He has served as Secretary General and, until very recently, as President of the Hellenic Diabetes Association. He is now the President of the ethics and administrative committee of the Hellenic Diabetes Association. He is also Vice President of the Diabetic Foot Study Group (DFSG, www.dfsg.org) of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD). He has recently become Visiting Professor in the German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf. Moreover, he is an honorary member of the Cypriot Diabetes Association and the Hungarian Diabetes Association.

Biography: Dr. Suresh Madathilparambil is Assistant Research Professor of Surgery in the Division of Acute Care Surgery, at the University of Michigan Health Systems. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degree in Biology, and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Kerala, India. In 2001, he received the Young Scientist Award from the Department of Science & Technology in India. He did his postdoctoral training initially at East Tennessee State University, Tennessee and later at the University of Michigan. In January 2012, He joined the faculty of the Section of General Surgery, University of Michigan Health Systems, as a Research Investigator.

Biography: Dr. Ike Okosun is currently an Associate Professor for the School of Public Health at Georgia State University (GSU). He received his doctorate from The University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health and has over 25 years of experience in public health. Dr. Okosun is a chronic disease epidemiologist who is an internationally recognized expert in the epidemiology of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome. Dr. Okosun’s research in diabetes, hypertension, obesity and insulin resistance syndrome has provided an understanding of the epidemiology of these diseases. His work on the role of abdominal obesity in explaining racial/ethnic variations for cardiovascular diseases has furthered understanding of lipid biology.
Dr. Okosun is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, The North American Association for the Study of Obesity and the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene. He is a member of the American Academy of Health Behavior and serves on the nutrition consultation team for the CDC Community Guide to Preventive Services. He is also a member of many scientific organizations including, American Public Health Association, Society for Epidemiologic Research, North American Association for the study of Obesity, International Society for the Study of Hypertension in Blacks and the American College of Epidemiology.

Professor, 
Department of Medical Biochemistry (Firat Hormones Research Group)
Medical School, Firat University,
23119 Elazig, Turkey

Research Interests: Gestational diabetes mellitus, Peptides, Ghrelin

Professor
Tel-Aviv Medical Center the Endocrine Institute,
The Tel Aviv University Medical School,
Israel

Research Interests: Estrogens, Vitamin D, Bone, Tumors and Vascular cells

Professor
Department of Sciences, Division of Health Sciences, 
Campus Leon, University of Guanajuato, 
Mexico

Diabetologist & Head of Diabetes Center, Hai Aljamea Hospital.
Chairman of Jeddah Diabetes Club and Jeddah Hypertension & Atherosclerosis Club.
Jeddah, SA

Research Interests: Diabetes, Insulin, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Professor, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology,
Erciyes University, 
Turkey

Research Interests: Obesity, Insulin resistance, Anthrophometry, Adrenal gland and endocrine tumours

Biography: Dr. Dragan M. Nikolic has completed his Ph.D. in 2010 from Medical Faculty, University of Belgrade. Title of Ph.D. thesis: “Examination of the parameters affecting insulin secretion capacity of human adult pancreatic islets in culture”  
He is Head of researches in the laboratory for pancreatic islets culture at the Institute for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, KCS, Serbia. 1998 – Master (Magisterijum)  of Science degree of Immunobiology sciences, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Biology.
Title of MSc thesis: “Advantages and disadvantages of RIA and ELISA techniques in detection of IA (insulin antibodies) and IAA (insulin auto antibodies) in insulin dependent and non-insulin dependent diabetic patients”
January 2011 –present  Research associate on the project of Serbian Ministry of Education and Science, No 41002, “Carotid disease in Serbia – pathological dinamics, prevention, diagnosis and innovative therapeutic procedures, Medical Faculty, University of Belgrade. Dr. Dragan Nikolic  is the member of research projects related with isolation and transplatation of pancreatic islets.
January 2006 –december 2010  Research assistent on the project „Examination of factors influencing the number and functional capacity of human fetal and adult islets in order to achieve the optimal composition of the transplantation graft in Diabetes, type 1“ , Medical Faculty, University of Belgrade, Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade. Group leader on the research in laboratory for human pancreatic islets culture
Member of EASD (European Association for the Study of Diabetes) in 2009 god.
Member Organization Commity  of Serbian Society for the Study of Diabetes since 2010.  Member of Association of University Proffesors, Serbia, since 2012. Editorial board member and reviewer of many international scientific journals.
After many years of research of pancreatic infection and influence of microbiological agens on insulin secretion of pancreatic islets, Dr. Nikolic has presented new data that could be important factors in pathogenesis of diabetes. It was established that certain bacteria and fungi  could penetrate the pancreas thus directly influencing on insulin secretion, or indirectly, by secreting certain metabolites which via blood get into pancreas, leading to insulin resistance and glucose intolerance,and finally to diabetes. These findings  will be important for the future prevention and monitoring of the patients with high risk for developing diabetes.
Dr Nikolic has published papers dealing with Diabetes, insulin secretion,  transplantation,  pancreatic islets culture and influence of microorganism on onset of the diabetes.

Biography: Prof. Giancarlo Micheletto, was born in Milan on December 31st 1953, and was enrolled in the academic year 1972-73 at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Milan.

In October 2002 Mr. Micheletto has been nominated confirmed researcher for the sector scientific-disciplinary MED / 18-General Surgery. The Council of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Milan on March 2005 appointed Dr. Micheletto as Associate Professor for the sector scientific-disciplinary MED / 18-General Surgery.

From November1st 2010 Prof. Micheletto took over the chief in the General Surgery Unit of the Istituto Clinico Sant'Ambrogio (Milan). Since October 2011 he is Scientific Director of the National Institute for Obesity Surgery of the Istituto Clinico Sant'Ambrogio di Milano. 
From November 2012 he is Director of the School of Specialization in Pediatric Surgery of the University of Milan for the academic triennium 2012-2015 and 2015-2018. The clinical activity of Prof. Micheletto is particularly focused on traditional and minimally invasive surgery for morbid obesity, abdominal wall hernia, and benign/malignant diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. 

Associate professor, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 
SK Institute of Medical Sciences, 
Jammu and Kashmir, India

Research Interests: Parathyroid disorders, Adrenal disorders, Diabetes,Thyroid disorders

National Institute of Animal Science, 
Seonghwan-eup, Cheonan, South Korea

Research Interests: Adipocyte, Apoptosis, Adipogenesis

Professor
Montclair State University
Montclair, United States
 

Research Interests: Physical education, Child obesity, Obesity and its preventive lessons
 

Associate Professor, Institute of Science, 
Banaras Hindu University, 
Varanasi, India

Research Interests: Reproductive molecular endocrinology endocrine disruptor, Neuroendocrinology

Biography: Rabindra Nath Das is a Professor in the Department of Statistics, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, West Bengal, India. He holds Ph. D., in Statistics, from The University of Burdwan, India, and Post-Doc from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. He has authored more than 100 research articles, and along with a research Monograph entitled- Robust Response Surfaces, Regression, and Positive Data Analyses, published from CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, Chapman & Hall. He wrote research articles on Design of experiments, Regression Analysis, Demography, Quality Engineering, Civil Engineering, Epidemiology, Medical sciences, Environmental, Natural sciences etc. His special area of interest is on Design of experiments, Regression analysis, Quality Engineering and Epidemiology. He has received ‘Gopal Kanji Prize 2009’ by The Journal of Applied Statistics and Routledge publications’ for the best article published in volume 36(7), pp. 755-767 of the journal, entitled– ‘A measure of robust slope-rotatability for second-order response surface experimental designs’. He has received certificate of appreciation for outstanding research by the Editor-In-Chief, Journal of Thyroid Science, given in the Journal Website (for the paper– Das, R.N. (2011). “The Role of Iodine in the Thyroid Status of Mothers and Their Neonates,” Thyroid Science, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 1-15). He is acting as Editor, Associate Editor, Executive Editor, Editorial Board Member of more than 100 Journals in Statistics, Physical Sciences, Medical Sciences. Presently he is acting as a Research Professor in Data Science for Knowledge Creation Research Center, Seoul National University, South Korea.

Senior Lecturer, 
Department of Anatomy, 
University of Ruhuna,
Srilanka

Research Interests: Reproductive Genetics, Cancer Genetics, Survey on epidemiology of genetic disorders

Biography: Dr. Alexander E. Berezin has received a PhD in 1994 in the State Medical University of Zaporozhye (Ukraine). He is currently working as Senior Consultant, Lecturer and Professor of Medicine in the State Medical University of Zaporozhye (Ukraine). His research goals are the fundamental study of biological markers, the development of cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation. Based on this research and training in heart failure he has received several awards and honors. He has published 1050 papers and more in reputed journals, 57 books/chapters and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.