David Capaldi graduated from St. George’s University School of Medicine and completed residencies in General Surgery at Nassau University Hospital in New York and in Diagnostic Radiology at John T. Mather Memorial Hospital and Stony Brook University Hospital in New York.
Clinical Applications of Human Umbilical Cord Blood-Derived Stem Cells
Ming Pei completed his PhD from Beijing University, China and Postdoc training from Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, USA. Currently he is a tenured Professor and Director of Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering Laboratory in the Department of Orthopaedics, West Virginia University, USA. He has over 100 publications that have been cited over 3100 times, and his publication H-index is 32 and has been serving as an editorial board member of reputed Journals.
Stem cells, Tissue engineering, Biomaterials
Anne Rios obtained her PhD in 2011. Her work represented a novel cell signaling mechanism that triggers the differentiation of a defined subset of cells within a stem pool (Nature, 2011). She then joined the laboratory of Professor Visvader focusing on Breast Cancer. A researcher at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) in Melbourne, she was awarded the Neil Lawrence prize at the 2016 Centenary Institute Medical Innovation Awards for her project entitled ‘A journey into the unexpected: A 3D view of breast cancer’ which represented her post-doctoral work (Nature, 2014). She has developed a new 3D imaging technique that allows scientists to visualize entire breast tissues down to a single-cell level. She is the only researcher in Australia – and one of the few in the world – to do this. In 2017, she was appointed group leader at the Princess Máxima Center and Head the Princess Máxima Imaging Centre. She is currently investigating the cellular mechanisms underlying pediatric solid tumor progression using State-of-the-art imaging technologies.
Clinical Applications of Human Umbilical Cord Blood-Derived Stem Cells
Dr Maxima Mendez Castillo, internist cardiologist, Master in lipids from The national Lipid Association, Specialist in investigation metodology, actual president of the lipid and atheroclerosis council of the Dominican Society of Cardiology and Ceo and Founder of the Cardiovascular Lipid Club Dominican Republic. Graduated from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), Training in critical post-surgical cardiovascular care and coronary care at the National Institute of Cardiology Ignacio Chavez in Mexico. Currently assistant physician of the non-invasive cardiology department of the cardiovascular center Cedimat in the Dominican Republic. Has participated in multiple national and international conferences, as well as several courses and symposiums on cardiovascular medical updating and a diploma in strategic health management.
National Lead for Dominican Republic of the collaborative study for Familial Hypercholesterolemia of the European Atherosclerosis Society.