Dr. Robert L. Barkin is Professor of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology, and Family Medicine at Rush University Medical College in Chicago, Illinois. He is also a clinical pharmacologist in a collaborative practice with 5 physician pain specialists at the NorthShore University Health System Department of Anesthesiology Pain Center’s of Skokie and Evanston Hospitals in Illinois. Dr. Barkin’s extensive daily practice is both outpatient and in-patient. Dr. Barkin designs patient specific pharmacotherpeutic treatment plans.

Pain – Acute and chronic, Postoperative pain, fibromyalgia, migraine headache, Neuropathic & nociceptive pain, Psychopharmacology

Dr. Ashok Srivastava is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer of Cure Pharmaceuticals, and ClinFomatrix Oncology CRO, He was founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer of CareBeyond - A Radiation Therapy Cancer Center, New Jersey. USA. He has more than 15 years of experience in drug development, medical affairs and commercialization of cancer drugs including radiopharmaceutical and supportive care; Phase 1 – 4, and marketing commercialization of Hematology, Oncology and radio-immuno-oncology drugs in USA, EU and Japan.

Mircea Ciuca, MD is currently Global Head of Medical & Clinical Drug Safety at Vifor Pharma in Switzerland. He is leading a team of scientists and physicians involved in all aspects of pharmacovigilance, in both development and post-marketing settings. Mr. Ciuca has about 13 years of experience in drug safety. Prior to join Vifor Pharma he held various positions (Deputy QPPV, Senior Pharmacovigilance Medical Manager, Drug Safety Advisor) at large pharmaceutical companies in The Netherlands, after successfully establishing and leading the medical- scientific department of a medium-size CRO in Rotterdam.

Clinical Drug Safety, clinical practice,Pharmacovigilance

Prof. Dr. Heyam Saad Ali, Ph-D –She is working in pharmaceutics department in Dubai Pharmacy College, UAE. Prof. contributed more than 70 articles to reputed international scientific journals and conferences, in different conventional, controlled and targeted drug delivery systems in pharmaceutical product development. She has been invited as speaker to numerous International conferences .Reviewer and member of editorial board of many international journals.

Dr Antonini received her M.D. from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” Magna Cum Laude, with Top Honors in all examinations. She has a PhD in Clinical Pharmacology. In more than 30 years of experience in Big Pharma /CRO Industry and Dr Antonini has played a key role in many successful programs of drug development, capitalizing on her scientific leadership and on-the-job experience in the designing, implementation and interpretation of clinical trials. Among Dr Antonini’ accomplishments are a substantial contribution to the clinical development of a number of products in the cardiovascular, internal medicine, metabolism, respiratory, oncology and neuroscience area. Dr Antonini has established valuable relationships and collaborations with many key scientific leaders in a number of therapeutic areas and this allowed her to build an innovative, strong partnership with Italian and International Academia in the field of Clinical Research. As a peer interlocutor of Academy members Dr Antonini has been invited to be Lecturer at Master in Clinical Research organized by several Universities. She authored several peer-reviewed articles and has been invited as speaker in International and National events in the areas of

Pharmaceutical Medicine, Methodology of clinical trials and Pharmacology, Clinical Research

Prof Mohamed Eddouks has received his PhD in University of Liege, Belgium during the period of 1990-1993. Currently, he/she is working as Professor in Moulay Ismail University. He has successfully completed her Administrative responsibilities as founding Dean of Polydisciplinary Faculty of Errachidia. His research has included antidiabetic and antihypertensive medicinal plants. Based on this research and fellowship training he has received several awards and honors, such as The first Prize of Scientific Research in 2008 by the Moroccan Association of Research and Development. He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals like Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research, Metabolic and Functional Research on Diabetes, Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Research Journal of Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs…etc & expert Reviewers for journals like Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Journal of Food Biochemistry, Plant Foods for Human Nutrition, Diabetes Research and Clinical Investigation, Journal of Herbal Pharmacotherapy, Evidence Based Complementary and alternative Medicine, Journal of Herbs Spices and Medicinal Plants, Life Sciences, Biophysica Biochemica Acta, Phytotherapy Research, Journal of Ethnopharmacology and Journal of Medicinal Plants Research….etc. He has authored more than 70 research articles and 3 books. He is a member of American Diabetes Association, American Stroke Association, the Scientific Council for High Blood Pressure, Research and European Institute for the Ambulatory Study of Obesity and Diabetes.

Obesity, Diabetes, Pharmacology, Food Biochemistry