Neuroscience and Neurochemistry

Dr Jerzy Leszek is Professor of Psychiatry, Vice-Head of the Department of Psychiatry, Head of Alzheimer’s Disease Lab at the Medical University in Wroclaw , and Scientific Director of Alzheimer’s Disease Center in Scinawa near Wroclaw, Poland. He graduated at Medical University of Wroclaw in 1980, was awarded a doctorate in Wroclaw in 1981 and in 1999- examination for the degree of associate professor of psychiatry and since 2005 he is working as full professor of psychiatry at Wroclaw Medical University. He is author and co-author more than 540 papers (especially from old age psychiatry), some chapters to the books published in reputed Polish and international journals and serving as an editorial board member of several journals .He is Editor –in-Chief of Journal of Yoga and Physical Activity. He is Scientific Editor and co-author of first Polish academic handbook on Alzheimer’s disease and ten another academic handbooks from old age psychiatry(Polish and internationals) , member a lot of scientific associations e .g founder and president of Lower Silesian Association of Alzheimer’s Families, first of its kind in Poland ,President of the Scientific Council of Alzheimer’s Disease Center in Scinawa, near Wroclaw , Former President and founder of Polish Psychogeriatric Association, Former Secretary(now member) of European Old Age Psychiatry and Former Member of Board of Directions of International Psychogeriatric Association.

Psychiatry,Alzheimer’s disease

Segundo Mesa Castillo a specialist in Neurology, he worked for 10 years in the Institute of Neurology of Havana, Cuba. He has worked in Electron Microscopic Studies on Schizophrenia for 32 years. He was awarded the International Price of the Stanley Foundation Award Program and for the Professional Committee to work as a fellowship position in the Laboratory of the Central Nervous System Studies, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke under Dr Joseph Gibbs for a period of 6 months, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, Washington DC USA, June 5, 1990. At present, he is a member of the Scientific Board of the Psychiatric Hospital of Havana and gives lectures to residents in psychiatry

Neurological Diseases and Stroke

Radu Mutihac got his PhD in Physics at the University of Bucharest in 1994 and became full professor in 2000. His main research fields have been Neuroscience, Signal Processing, Microelectronics, and Artificial Intelligence. As postdoc/research associate/visiting professor/full professor he run his research and didactic activity at the University of Bucharest, 1981-on, at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy, 1993-2004), Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France, 1993), Institut Henri Poincare (Paris, France, 1998), K.U. Leuven (Belgium, 2000-2001). During 1993 through 1994, he acted as Deputy General Director in the Higher Education Department of the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research (MEC), being nominated as the representative of the MEC in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Professor Radu Mutihac has won the position of PhD student supervisor since 2008 and is currently working with an average of 8 PhD students per year. Data mining and exploratory analysis of neuroimaging time series were the topics which he dealt with during two Fulbright Grants in Neuroscience: at the Yale University School of Medicine (New Haven, CT, 1999-2000) and at the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM, 2010-2011). Most of his significant research in fused biomedical imaging modalities was carried out at the Johns Hopkins University and Kennedy Krieger Institute, F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging (Baltimore, MD, 2003-2005), National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD, 2011-2013), and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (Silver Spring, MD, 2011-3013). Professor Radu Mutihac is member of the ISMRM, ESMRMB, OHBM, Romanian US Alumni Association, and fellow of Signal Processing and Neural Networks Society IEEE, as well as referee for several journals of the Institute of Physics (London, UK), Neural Networks (Elsevier), IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, and evaluator/expert for the ISMRM, OHBM, ARACIS, CNCSIS, UEFISCDI, the Romanian – U.S. Fulbright Commission. and the European Commission (FP7, H2020).

Neuroscience

Ljudmila Stojanovich received her Ph.D. in Medicine, with the thesis “Neuropsychiatric manifestations in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus” in 1999. She is the scientific director in the Bezhanijska Kosa, University Medical Center of Belgrade University, where she is currently a Research Professor. Her research focuses on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Antiphospholipid Syndrome, and Vaccination in patients with Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases.

She is an author of three monographs and of about 250 articles on various aspects of Rheumatic disorders, published in international and domestic journals and in conference proceedings

Erythematosus, Antiphospholipid Syndrome,