7^th International Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Conference October 22-23, 2018 Rome, Italy

Takizawa Shigeo is a President, International Biophilia Rehabilitation Academy and is a Professor at Biophilia Institute,The Designated and Registered Institute by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Rehabilitation

Prof. Dr. Lyubima Despotova-Toleva, PhD is university professor and the chairman of the Bulgarian Long-term and Palliative Care Society. She holds diplomas for acquired specialties in pediatrics, general medicine, health management, certificate of medical law, she has also completed a specialization in pediatric cardiology. She has specialized, conducted research and was a guest lecturer at leading universities in a number of European countries, England, USA, Japan, Iceland, etc. Prof. Lyubima Despotova-Toleva is the author of over 30 monographs, textbooks and manuals, over 130 scientific publications and about hundred quotes in Bulgarian and foreign specialized publications. She has been a scientific supervisor of successfully defended PhD students and others at a different stage of their doctoral studies. She teaches general medicine to medical students and specialist doctors, conducts postgraduate training courses aimed at a wide range of specialists, incl. in the field of pain management and palliative care. She speaks German, English, Russian, uses French. Prof. dr. Lyubima Despotova-Toleva is a permanent member of the World Organization of General Practitioners WONCA, a Board Member of EMA and EGPRN, a permanent member of the International Association of Hospice and Palliative Care /IAHPC/, World Hospice and Palliative Care Alliance /WHPCA/, National Association of General Practitioners in Bulgaria /NAGPB/, Bulgarian Medical Association and others. She is an organizer of international and national scientific congresses, conferences, seminars, etc. and editor-in-chief of the Folia Palliatrica journal.

Pediatric cardiology,Health management,General medicine

Mohamed Eddouks is Professor at Moulay Ismail University, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques Errachidia, Morocco. He is a researcher in Physiology and Pharmacology with a Master Degree in Metabolic and Molecular Endocrinology from University of Paris vi, a specialized certificate in Endocrine Pharmacology from University of Paris vii and PhD degrees in Physiology and Pharmacology from University of Liege, Belgium and Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco. After his post-doctoral fellowship at Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine of Montreal, Canada, he is working for the last 16 years on medicinal plants. His work on antidiabetic and antihypertensive plants is well recognized globally. His research focuses on ethnobiological as well as pharmacological issues in the use of Moroccan medicinal plants for the treatment of diabetes mellitus, obesity and hypertension. His contribution to this field includes four international books and more than 80 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters of international repute. He is Guest Editor of American Journal of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Lead Guest Editor of an annual special issue published by Evidence-Based and Complementary Alternative Medicine, Regional Editor of the Following journals: American Journal of Food Technology, Journal of Applied Sciences, Trends in Applied Sciences Research and Singapore Journal of Scientific research, Member of Editorial Board of several international journals. He has been honored with the first Prize of Scientific Research in 2008 by the Moroccan Association of Research and Development and the first Prize of the Federation of Arab Scientific Councils in 2016. He has been the Dean of Polydisciplinary Faculty of Errachidia from 2008 to 2012.

Physiology,Pharmacology,Metabolic and Molecular Endocrinology

Takizawa Shigeo is a President, International Biophilia Rehabilitation Academy and is a Professor at Biophilia Institute,The Designated and Registered Institute by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Rehabilitation

Dr Marousa Kouvela is a Pulmonologist. She completed her residency in one of the largest general hospitals in Greece and achieved her speciality board degree in 2013. She has completed her Master of Science in Thoracic Oncology. She has participated in many National and International scientific and educational seminars, and published in national and international journals. Her special scientific interests are COPD, lung cancer and interventional pulmonology. She has worked as a Medical Manager Respiratory in Boehringer Ingelheim Ellas, Greece. She currently works as a Clinical Fellow at Oncology unit of General Hospital of Thoracic Diseases "Sotiria", Medical School, University of Athens, Greece.

Thoracic Oncology,COPD,Interventional Pulmonology

Laushkina Zhanna works as a leading senior researcher and a physician in the Novosibirsk Tuberculosis Research Institute. At the age of 28 she successfully presented results of her PhD research work. In 2016 she defended her doctoral dissertation. The areas of her research work are the problems of differential diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis and other lung diseases and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. She is has published 35 papers in reputed journals.

Pulmonary tuberculosis,Lung diseases