Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Dr. Hwa Mu Lee is Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of California, Irvine College of Medicine, in Irvine, California and Clinical Professor of Medicine at Western University of Health Sciences, in Pomona, California, and is Chairman of the Dept. of Medicine at West Anaheim Medical Center in Anaheim, California

Dr. Lee is a noted authority on the relation of COPD with cardiovascular disease, including the role of cardiovascular risk assessment in patients with COPD and the role of lung function in the prediction of cardiovascular outcomes.

Dr.Yong-Xiao Wang has been a Full Professor in Albany Medical College (USA) since 2006.Dr. Wang has had extensive research experience in basic,translational and drug research concerning pulmonary hypertension, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, and cardiac arrhythmia for over 30 years. As the Principal Investigator, he has/had numerous NIH R01 research awards, AHA Established Investigator Award, and various other grants, for which he often holds/held 2 – 3 NIH R01 grants with other awards each year. As the corresponding author, first author and key contributor, he has had numerous publications in highly peer-reviewed journals including Antioxid Redox Signal (impact factor: 8.209), Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (9.432), Nature (34.480), Circ Res (9.214), etc. Dr. Wang has been the editor of academic books in the field including one entitled by “Redox Signaling in Health and Disease Pulmonary Vasculature” that has been confirmed for publication by Springer (New York). Dr. Wang has also served as the editorial board member and/or section editor for the Clinical and Translational Medicine, Pulmonary Circulation and several other journals.

Pulmonary hypertension, Asthma, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Within his academic training, he is a RRT-Respiratory Therapist graduated from Santa Paula University, and holds a master's degree in integral health and human movement / emphasis in graduate health at the National University of Costa Rica, in addition to completing the course of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation phase II in The National University of Costa Rica, and performed the certification of pediatric and neonatal critical air transport of the Asturian association of pediatric intensive care. He works in the Costa Rican social insurance fund from 2000 to the present, in 2005 until 2008 he worked in clinical research at the ICIC, during this same period also work in home care program for patients with COPD from 2013 to 2016 was coordinator of the cardiopulmonary rehabilitation center at the Adolfo Carit Eva Women's Hospital and from 2015 to date The director of the Santa Paula cardiopulmonary rehabilitation center at Santa Paula Clinic.

COPD

He 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

Neural Stem cell,Rehabilitation