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Sonja Alabakovska, MD, PhD
Institute of Medical and Experimental Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine,
Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.
alabak@freemail.com.mk
D-r Alabakovska was born in 1965 in Skopje, where she has completed primary
and secondary school. She has graduated from the Faculty of medicine in
Skopje in 1989, and the next 1990 year she was employed at the Institute for
Medical, Experimental and Applied Biochemistry. She has completed the
specialization in medical biochemistry in 1995 and received her MSc degree
in 1997. In 1998 she stayed at South West Foundation for Biomedical Research
in San Antonio, USA, where she started research resulting in obtaining PhD
degree in 2000. She is author of 76 scientific papers (21 published), and
coauthor in several student books in the field of biochemistry. At present,
she is responsible for a national scientific project in the field of
lipoprotein metabolism.
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Neli Basheska, MD, PhD
Institute of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, Skopje,
Republic of Macedonia.
nbaseska@yahoo.com
D-r
Neli Basheska was born in Belgrade in 1957. She has graduated from the
Faculty of Medicine in Skopje in 1985, and has received her PhD in pathology
in 1999. She completed the specialization in pathology during the period
1988-1992 and at present, she is Head of the Division of Histopathology at
the Department of Histopathology and Cinical Cytology at the Institute of
Radiotherapy and Oncology in Skopje. She holds position of associate
professor of pathology at the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje. She has
attended several seminars in the field of genetics, molecular pathology and
oncology. D-r Basheska also took active part in the postgraduate courses in
gynaecological pathology at the University of Ioannina, Greece in 2004. She
has participated in several scientific projects, and has published more than
110 scientific papers and publications. For her continuous contribution in
the development of medical science, d-r Basheska has received
acknowledgements and awards from numerous professional societies which she
participates in.
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Doncho M. Donev,
MD, PhD
Professor and Director of the Institute of Social Medicine, Joint
Institutes, Medical Faculty in Skopje, 50 Divizia 6, 1000 Skopje, R.
Macedonia. Tel. +389 2 3147 056, Fax: +389 2 3298581.
donev@freemail.org.mk
Dr. Donev received his MD at the St. Cyril and Methodius University Medical
School, Skopje, Macedonia, in 1973, where he completed his specialization in
social medicine in 1981. From 1983 to 1985 he had his postgraduate studies
of social medicine in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and later on
received his PhD in 1993 at the Skopje Medical School. He realized his
postdoctoral studies in public health (Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship
Program) at Emory University School of Public Health in Atlanta, GA, USA, in
the academic year 1993/94. Since 2003 he has been Regular/ full-time
Professor of Social Medicine at the Skopje University School of Medicine.
His professional and research interest include broad scope of activities
related to prevention and control of non-communicable diseases and other
priority health problems, health status and needs for health care of the
vulnerable population groups, organization of health systems and health care
reforms, health economics and quality of health care, health education, and
health care management.
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Iva Ivanovska Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, NRB
room 239, Boston, MA 02115 USA. Phone: +1 617-432-7557; fax: +1 617-432-6506
ivanovska@genetics.med.harvard.edu
Dr. Ivanovska graduated in 1998 from Smith College in Northampton,
Massachusetts, USA with high honors in Biochemistry. That same year, she was
elected to the Smith Chapter of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society.
She received her Ph.D. in 2005 from the Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine under the tutelage of Dr. J. Marie Hardwick. Her doctoral work on
programmed cell death in yeast was one of the pioneer studies on apoptosis
in unicellular organisms and helped set the groundwork for utilization of
yeast in the study of programmed cell death. Since 2005, Dr. Ivanovska has
been a Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Fred Winston in the
Genetics Department at Harvard Medical School. Her current research
focuses on the molecular mechanisms of chromatin dynamics in the regulation
of eukaryotic gene expression. She is the author and co-author of numerous
scientific publications in peer reviewed journals. Dr. Ivanovska is a member
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has presented
her work at numerous international conferences.
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Jovan
Jovanovski, PhD
Professor at
Faculty of Physical Culture, University "Ss Kiril and Metodij", Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.
jovanovskijovan@yahoo.com
He
has realized sports and recreational programs at Center of
Rehabilitation Skopje form 1972-1982. Dr. Jovan Jovanovski graduated
from the Faculty of Physical Culture at the University "St Kiril and
Metodij" in
Skopje,
Macedonia in 1982.
He has completed
postgraduate level at the Faculty of Physiacla Education in Belgrade,
serbia. In 1988 he
obtained his
Ph.D. degree at the Faculty of Physical Culture
at the University "St Kiril and Metodij" in Skopje.
Antropomotorics.
fitness & bodybuilding are the main filds in his teaching activity. In his
professional and scientific career, prof. Jovanovski has published more
then150 publications and has been holding various organizing positions, such
as: Dean of Faculty of Physical Culture, member of
University Senat and member of several professional and non-guvermental
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Mirjana Kocova, MD, PhD
Pediatric Clinic, Faculty of Medicine, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
mirjanakocova@yahoo.com
Prof. Mirjana Kocova is a full professor of Pediatrics at the Faculty of
Medicine in Skopje since 1999. She has
graduated
from the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje in 1975, and in 1988 she has received
her PhD at the University St Cyril and Methodius in Skopje. After
graduation, she has passed two research stays in USA, as a Fulbright fellow,
in 1983/84 and 1991/92, while during 1991 she was awarded a Finish
government fellowship. In her reach professional career, she has been
holding various leading positions, such as Head of the Department of
Endocrinology & Genetics and Chief of the Cytogenetic Laboratory at the
Pediatric Clinic, Director of the Pediatric Clinic, Skopje, Macedonia,
Coordinator of the WB Perinatology project, Head of the Thyroid screening
laboratory and Chair of the Pediatrics. She is a member of all important
professional societies, a member of the editorial board of the
Balkan
Journal of Medical Genetics,
and also
editor of the Macedonian medical journal “Pediatria-annual review “. She has
published more then 400 publications which have been cited more then 1700
times. Under her mentorship, 8 Master theses, 5 specializations and 2 PhD
theses have been successfully defended.
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Petar Miloshevski, MD,
PhD
Institute of Preclinical and Clinical Pharmacology with Toxicology, Faculty
of Medicine, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.
pharma@on.net.mk
Prof.
Milosevski currently is professor of pharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine
in Skopje. He has graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, St Cyril and
Methodius University in Skopje in 1973. In 1983 he has completed
specialization in clinical pharmacology, and in 1985 he has finished the
postgraduate studies. In 1990 he received his PhD at the Medical Faculty in
Skopje. D-r Milosevski has extensive experiences in pharmacological,
toxicological and clinical expert reports as well in bioequivalence
investigations. He is highly computer literate, and heavily experience in
medical writing and data analysis, advanced use of spreadsheets, statistical
and data analysis software, word processing, database and presentation
packages. He has published more then 18 publications in medical and
scientific journals. His good
Team
leadership and interpersonal skills
lead him to a position director of Institute of Preclinical and Clinical
Pharmacology and Toxicology at Medical Faculty in Skopje during 1985 and in
2001 he was Minster of Health in the Government of Republic of Macedonia.
In
2005,
he
took part of the seminar training “Ethical
and Regulatory Aspects on Good Clinical Practice in Investigators’
Practices”
in Skopje.
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Elida Mitevska, MD, PhD
Institute of Histology and Embriology, Faculty of Medicine, Skopje, Republic
of Macedonia.
elida_mitevska@yahoo.com
D-r
Mitevska has graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje, in 1983. She
has obtained her MSc degree in 1996 and PhD in 2005 in the field of
morphological sciences. She is author or coauthor of numerous scientific
papers, published in scientific journals or presented at congresses. Since
1985, she works at the Institute for Medical, Experimental and Applied
Histology and Embriology. She is a member of Association of Anatomists and
Morphologists of Macedonia.
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Vesna Nikolova-Krstevski, PhD
Harvard Institutes of
Medicine, HIM-201, 4 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA, 02134, USA. Tel:
617-667-0728; Fax: 617-975-5299.
vnikolov@bidmc.harvard.edu
Dr. Nikolova-Krstevski
completed her undergraduate studies at the University of New South Wales (UNSW)
in Sydney, Australia, and graduated in 2000 as Bachelor of Biomedical
Science with Honors in Biochemistry. Following completion of her
undergraduate studies she enrolled as a PhD student with the Faculty of
Medicine, at the UNSW. Under the supervision of Dr. Diane Fatkin she started
working on a project investigating the molecular mechanisms of a specific
type of dilated cardiomyopathy and conduction system disease caused by
mutations in the nuclear lamin A/C proteins. Dr. Nikolova received her
doctoral degree in Medicine with specialization in Molecular Cardiology in
2005. Based on her doctoral studies she had several peer-reviewed
publications including an outstanding first-author paper published in the
Journal of Clinical Investigations, and several awards for abstract
presentations. She was also an invited speaker at the XII Scientific Meeting
of the Australian Society for Medical Research (2004) and 53rd
Annual Scientific Meeting of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New
Zealand (2005). Dr. Nikolova is an active affiliate member of the Cardiac
Society of Australia and New Zealand since 2004. In 2006, Dr. Nikolova moved
to Boston, USA, to join the laboratory of Dr. Peter Oettgen at the Harvard
Institutes of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, as a postdoctoral fellow.
She is currently working on a project that involves investigations of the
transcriptional regulation of endothelial differentiation and vascular
development by using differentiating embryonic stem (ES) cells as a model
system of endothelial differentiation. Over the past two years Dr.
Nikolova’s work has made a major contribution to the understanding of the
molecular mechanisms that regulate endothelial differentiation in ES cells,
which should ultimately lead to isolation and therapeutic applications of
the ES cell-derived endothelial-progenitors for better management of
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Nikola Panovski, MD,
PhD
Institute of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Skopje,
Republic of Macedonia.
n_panovski@yahoo.com
Prof. Panovski is a Full Professor of Microbiology and Parasitology since
2002. In 1979 he has graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje, and
in 1990 he has received his PhD at the University St Cyril and Methodius in
Skopje. In 1983 he has completed medical microbiology specialisation, and in
the following years he has performed research activities in different
foreign educational centres (in Ljubljana- 1987, Zagreb-1989, Pittsburgh-
2001 and Boston- 2003). In his professional and scientific career, Dr.
Panovski has published more then 200 publications and has been holding
various organizing positions, such as: Chief of Laboratory of Serology,
Chief of Cathedra of Microbiology with Parasitology (1994-96), Director of
the Institute of Microbiology and Parasitology (1998), Deputy Minister of
Health of Republic of Macedonia (2002), General Menager of the Health
Insurance Fund of Macedonia (2003). Dr. Panovski is member of several
professional governmental and non-governmental societies. For his
contribution in promotion of science, Dr. Panovski has been awarded several
awards among which The highest Acknowledgement of the Macedonian medical
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Iva Petkovska, MD. BIDMC
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterRadiology W CC - 3 330
Brookline Ave. Boston, MA 02215, USA.
ipetkovs@bidmc.harvard.edu
Dr. Iva Petkovska graduated from the Medical School in
Skopje in 1998. In 2001 she moved to USA where she completed 5
years of postdoctoral research fellowship (Massachusetts General Hospital,
Stroke Service,
Boston, Massachusetts and Department
of Radiology, UCLA,
Los Angeles ,
California ).
Her current field of research is early diagnosis of lung
cancer with CT, PET and CAD (Computer Aided Diagnosis), developing methods
for early detection of lung cancer using computer vision analysis on
radiological images. She is a member of several scientific international
societies, published author and serves as a reviewer on several
international scientific Journals.
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Gorazd B. Rosoklija, MD, PhD
Professor at
Columbia University and member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and
Arts
gbr2@columbia.edu
Dr. Gorazd B. Rosoklija graduated from the Medical School at the University
"Ss Kiril and Metodij" in Skopje, Macedonia in 1976. After several years of
residency in the University Clinical Center in Skopje, he has been awarded
several successive fellowships in neuropathology field in prestigious
laboratories, such as
Laboratoire de Neuropathologie Raymond Escourolle, Hôpital de la
Salpetriere, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris VI,
Department of Neurology, College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia
University, and Department of Pathology-Division of Neuropathology, College
of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University, New York. In 1990 he has
received his PhD at the University “Ss. Kiril & Metodij”, Republic of
Macedonia. Since 2006 till present he holds position of
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry,
College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University, New York. Dr.
Rosoklija has hosted in his laboratory many young scientists from Macedonia
and other countries. For his outstanding scientific, but also sport
achievements he has been awarded many prizes. In 2006 he was awarded the
title academician of Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Dr. Rosoklija
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Aleksandar Sikole, MD, PhD,
Professor of Medicine
Clinic for Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
asikole@hotmail.com
Aleksandar Sikole graduated at the Medical Faculty-University "Sv. Kiril i
Metodij" of Skopje, with MD degree in 1980. Specialized internal medicine in
and subspecialized nephrology. Completed PhD thesis in 1994, entitled: “The
effect of erythropoietin therapy on the heart and bone marrow of end-stage
renal disease patients on maintenance haemodialysis”. Since 2006 is
Professor of Medicine at the Chair of Internal Medicine. He spent six months
on postgraduate medical research at the Department of Nephrology of the
University of Leiden , The Netherlands. In 2003 he had three months
sabbatical at Laiko hospital, Athens, Greece. He was chief of hemodialysis
unit at the Clinic of Nephrology and at present Director of the Clinic.
Published and/or presented over 150 papers in national and international
journals, books, and national and international congresses, symposia,
proceedings etc. Involved in the organisation of several national and
international congresses and symposia. Has conducted several clinical
prospective multicentre studies in patients with chronic kidney disease. Was
invited lecturer at several national and a few international meetings.
Member of several medical and nephrological societies.
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Mirko Trajkovski, PhD
ETH Zürich,
Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 16/HPT D57, 8093 Zürich-CH. tel. +41 (0)44 633 3147;
fax. +41 (0)44 633 1051
trajkovski@imsb.biol.ethz.ch
Dr. Trajkovski
graduated at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Skopje in 2000, and started his
research career at the
Research Center
for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Macedonian Academy of Sciences
and Arts.
In 2001 he won a Max Planck predoctoral fellowship and continued his
research at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
in Dresden working on the cell cycle regulation under supervision of Dr.
Wolfgang Zachariae. Winning the MedDrive grants from the Medical School in
Dresden, he then moved to the lab of Prof. Michele Solimena MD, PhD, where
he worked on regulated secretion and gene expression in
β-cells.
In 2005 he received his PhD in the frame of the Max Planck Research School
for Molecular Cell Biology and Bioengineering (Max Planck Institute of
Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) and the Medical Faculty “Carl
Gustav Carus” at the
University of
Technology Dresden, Germany), with the grade awarded Summa Cum Laude*
(*Outstanding). His thesis was awarded with numerous awards including the
the Dr. Walter Seipp Preis for the best dissertation at the Dresden
University of Technology for 2005, best research doctoral thesis at the
Medical Faculty “Carl Gustav Carus”, and others. At the end of 2005 he
started his postdoctoral work until the end of 2006 in the same lab, when he
was awarded with a JDRF postdoctoral fellowship and moved to the ETH Zürich
for his 2nd postdoc in the lab of Prof. Markus Stoffel, MD, PhD.
He is currently interested in the filed of miRNA regulation in metabolic
diseases. He is author of numerous publications in highest impact factor
journals, and winner of many prestigious international awards. |
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Igor Tulevski, MD,
PhD
Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, 1100 DD,
T 020 707 2930; F 020 707
2931, The Netherlands.
www.cardiokliniek.nl
i.i.tulevski@amc.uva.nl; i.i.tulevski@cardiokliniek.nl
D-r Igor
Tulevski was born in 1967in Skopje where he has completed medical high
school in 1986, and Faculty of medicine in 1992. During the period 1993-1996
he continues his education in Medical University “University of Amsterdam”,
where he starts internship 1996-1998. From 1998-2002 he does research, and
since 2002 he starts residency in cardiology. In 2003 he received his PhD.
He was or currently is a member of the NVVC Working Group Nuclear Imaging,
MRI and CT (2001-2005), member of the Working Group on Pulmonary Circulation
and Right Ventricular Function of the European Society of Cardiology (WG12)
(2005- ) and in 2006 he has founded the Heart for Health and Cardiology
Center Netherlands. He has participated many international congresses in
Europe, USA and Australia as invited speaker. For his research he has been
awarded several prizes from Dutch Society of Cardiology and Working Group on
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Zoran Zdravkovski, PhD
Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural
Sciences and Mathematics, University Ss Cyril and Methodius, Skopje,
Macedonia.
zoranzdr@gmail.com
Prof. Zoran Zdravkovski is
full professor at the Institute of Chemistry since 2000. He has graduated
chemistry from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics where he also
obtained his masters degree in the area of natural products. He received his
PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1989.
He spent two years at the University of New Orleans, LA, USA. In his career
he has been teaching various chemistry courses for undergraduate, as well as
graduate students. He has been on the editorial board of Molecules
from the beginnings of this open access journal. For the past two mandates
he is Secretary General of the Macedonian Society of Chemists and is a
member of the American Chemical Society. He has published more than 40
peer-reviewed papers in international journals, some of them with the
highest impact factors in the area of organic and theoretical chemistry. He
has published books on chemical nomenclature, use of spreadsheets for
chemistry and scientific calculations and the latest, on gas chromatography.
His present research interest is the area of chromatographic and mass
spectrometric analysis of organics in the environment, especially endocrine
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Nikola Angelov, DDS, MS, PhD,
Associate Professor
Director of the Pre-Doctoral Periodontics
Clinic,
Loma Linda University School of Dentistry, Department of Periodontics.
Loma Linda, CA, 92350, USA.
http://www.llu.edu/llu/faculty/directory/faculty.html?uid=nangelov;
Tel:
(909) 558-4643; Fax:
(909) 558-7959.
nangelov@llu.edu
Dr. Nikola
Angelov was born in Skopje, Macedonia in 1968. He earned his DDS, MS and PhD
degree from the University “St. Cyril and
Methodius” and has been teaching for the Department of Oral Pathology and
Periodontology in
Macedonia since
1993.
In 2001, he received a postdoctoral fellowship at the
National Institute of Health, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial
Research (NIH/NIDCR). At NIH/NIDCR, Dr. Angelov successfully developed a new
model of oral mucosal wound healing and was also involved in collaborative
clinical studies clinical trial evaluations, as well as other studies. In
2004, Dr. Nikola Angelov joined the faculty at Loma Linda University School
of Dentistry, Department of Periodontics where he is currently an Associate
Professor and a Director of the Pre-Doctoral
Periodontics Clinic. Dr. Angelov also holds an U.S. Certificate of
Specialty in Periodontics and is licenced to practice dentistry in two U.S
states. In 2008, Dr. Angelov received the prestigious annual Educator of the
Year Award from the American Academy of Periodontics, for outstanding
results in teaching in the area of Periodontics. Dr. Angelov has several
other academic awards and is actively involved in teaching and research. His
research area includes oral infection and immunity, mucosal wound healing,
periodontal microbiology, as well as dental implants. Dr. Angelov has
extensively published in peer review articles, has been invited speaker to
prominent professional and research meetings, such as the American Institute
of Oral Biology (2007), among others. He is a member of numerous
professional societies in the USA and abroad. Dr Angelov also serves as a
reviewer on the Journal of Periodontology, an official journal of the
American Academy of Periodontology, as well as a School of Dentistry
representative to the Institutional Review Board and the Institutional
Animal Care and Use Committee at Loma Linda University. He lives in
Redlands, CA with his wife Dragana, son Ivan and daughter Angela.
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Pei-Yi Chu, MD
Diagnostic and research pathologist, Department of
Surgical Pathology, Changhua Christian Hospital,
Taiwan
Address: 135 Nan-Shiao Street, Changhua 500-06, Taiwan, R.O.C. TEL:
+886-4-7238595-4840
129803@cch.org.tw;
chupeiyi@yahoo.com.tw
Dr. Pei-Yi
Chu is a research and diagnostic pathologist in the Department of Pathology,
Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan. He has published many
scientific papers in prestigious professional journals, and several book
chapters in the field of medical pathology in Chinese and English. He was
also invited to review more than 100 scientific manuscripts from more than
40 peer reviewed journals. He has been teaching general pathology, tumor
pathology, general medicine, and neuropathology in medical colleges. His
research interests include tumor pathology, comparative pathology,
veterinary pathology, animal models for human diseases, and molecular
pathology. He is currently member of several professional societies. Since
2009, he serves as the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal-
Internet Journal of Pathology. He hopes to shed a light in the areas of
comparative medicine.
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Aleksandar Dimovski, MD, PhD
Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University
"Ss Kiril and Metodij", Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.
adimovski@ff.ukim.edu.mk
D-r Dimovski currently
holds the position Full Professor and Vice Dean of the Faculty for Pharmacy,
where he is teaching molecular biology, immunology and pharmacogenetics. He
graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje in 1987 and has received
his PhD in the field of molecular medicine in 1993, in the Faculty of
Medicine, University of Limiburg, Maastircht, The Netherlands. He has hold
the position head of DNA diagnostic laboratory at the Research Center for
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and
Arts in 1989-1990, and position Visiting Scientist at the Medical College of
Georgia, Augusta GA USA 1989/90 and 1992/93. He is head of the
Pharmacogenetic laboratory at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Skopje with
research interest in molecular genetics of solid tumors, in particular
colorectal and prostate cancer. He is member of several international
societies, including the COST Domain Committee for Biomedicine and
Biomolecular Sciences and Liason Officer of the International Centre for
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy.
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Ivo Donkov, MD, PhD
Staff Urologist,
Lincoln County Hospital, UK
idonkov@hotmail.com
D-r Ivo Iliev Donkov was born in 1967. He has graduated from the Sofia
Medical University in 1994. In 1997, he has passed the ECFMG USA licensing
exams – USMLE. and in 1999, he has completed the specialist training in
urology at the Sofia Medical University. D-r Donkov has been affiliated or
attached to different positions in prestigious institutions all over the
world, such as:
Department
of Urology and Department of Renal Medicine at St. George’s Hospital, London
(1996 and 1999),
Connecticut Medical Center, John Damsey Hospital, Farmington, USA; (1998),
Institute of
Urology, University College London, UK (2002). His main interests are: tissue
engineering, bio-substitutes and iso-transplants in reconstructive urology,
laparoscopic and mini-invasive techniques, urinary incontinence in males and
females, penile reconstructive techniques and innovations, procurement and
logistics in health care management.
In 2003, he has completed
a course in business administration and management and in 2006, he has
received his PhD at the Medical University in Sofia, Bulgaria. For his
fruitful work, d-r Donkov has been awarded numerous awards, among which
Pfizer’s Award – for excellence in medical teaching (2001), best Resident’s
Audit Presentation – Bulgarian Urological Association Award (1999), Visiting
student award - the British Council Exchange Programme St. George’s
Hospital, London (1992). He has published more then 50 articles in peer
review scientific journals and is author of chapters in 5 medical textbooks.
D-r Donkov is a member of all important professional associations in his
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Andrew J Dwork, MD, PhD
Departments of Pathology and Cell Biology and Psychiatry, College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University; Division of Molecular
Imaging and Neuropathology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Unit 62,
722 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA. Telephone 001 212 543 5563;
fax 001 212 543 6017
ajd6@columbia.edu
Dr. Andrew J. Dwork was born in 1951 in New York, USA. He graduated from the
New Jersey Medical School in 1977. After several years of pathology and
neuropathology residency he was certified in neuropathology in 1984. Since
1994, he has held the position of Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology
(in Psychiatry) at Columbia University. He directs the Laboratory of
Neuropathology at New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Dwork has
conducted as principal investigator many scientific projects supported by
NIMH and other leading scientific organizations. In his fruitful carrier,
Dr. Dwork has published more than 40 in extenso articles in prestigious
scientific journals. He is member of the most important scientific
neuropathological societies and member of advisory boards of several
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Dimitar Efremov, MD, PhD
Molecular Hematology, International Centre for Genetic
Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Rome, Italy
efremov@icgeb.org
Dr. Dimitar Efremov is Staff Scientist and Head of the Molecular Hematology
Group of ICGEB in Rome, Italy. Dr. Efremov obtained his M.D. degree in 1986
at the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje, Macedonia, where he also completed his
specialization in internal medicine and training in hematology. He received
postdoctoral fellowships from the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA,
USA and ICGEB, Trieste, Italy, and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1994 at the
Faculty of Medicine, Limburg University, Maastricht, The Netherlands. He is
co-founder of the bone marrow transplantation program at the Faculty of
Medicine in Skopje and internationally renowned for his research on chronic
lymphocytic leukemia and HCV-associated lymphomas. Dr. Efremov has authored
or co-authored more than 50 original publications in some of the most
prestigious international peer-reviewed journals (Blood, J Clin Invest, J
Exp Med, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A), and over 150 abstracts, articles in
national medical journals or review papers. He has been awarded research
grants from several international and national funding agencies, including
the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of America.
He is a member of the Kunkel Society, the American Society of Hematology and
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Adriana
Galan
Department of Health Programmes and Health Promotion, Institute of
Public Health,
Bucharest, Romania.
agalan@ispb.ro
Adriana Galan field of work is public health and health management. She
graduated Computer Science University, with
intensive post-graduate specialisation in public health and health
management, both in Romania and abroad. Her current position is vice-head of
the Department of Health Programmes and Health Promotion at the Institute of
Public Health,
Bucharest,
Romania, and short-term consultant for WHO and other private consultancy
companies. Main areas of interest and expertise: Public Health Strategies
design, Human Resources Research and Planning, Training Programmes
Development, Health Policy Development and Analysis, Design and
Implementation of Health Information Systems, Health Status Evaluation
(Situation analysis, Needs Assessment, Priority Setting). She is a member of
European Public Health Association, Forum of Public Health in South Eastern
Europe and last but not least, regional editor for Croatian Medical Journal.
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Jerzy
Jabłecki, MD, PhD
Associate Professor,
Division of General Surgery St. Jadwiga of Silesia Hospital, Trzebnica;
Head, Subdepartment of Hand Surgery an Replantation St Jadwiga of Silesia
Hospital, Trzebnica; Professor, Department of Public Health, State Higher
Professional Medical School, Opole, Poland. 55-100
Trzebnica, ul. Prusicka 53, Poland.
jerzy.jablecki@interia.pl
Professor Jerzy Jabłecki
was born in Wrocław in 1953, graduated from Wrocław’s Medical University (WMU)
in 1978, he completed his specialization in general surgery in 1986, hand
surgery 1988 . He received his doctoral degree in 1986 at WMU on
replantation of hands, it’s continuation was the PhD dissertation on
reconstructive procedures in replanted limbs. Since 1978 he worked in The
Center of Replantation of Limbs in Trzebnica, of which he is the head now,
since 2003. With his team he performed the first Polish hand
transplantation in 2006, followed by two others hand transplantations. Board
member of Polish Society of Hand Surgery, member of all Polish surgical, traumatological and transplantological societies. International
membership: International Composite Tissue Allotransplantation Society,
American Society of Reconstructive Transplant Surgery – founding member.
Editorial board member of: Polish Hand Surgery.
His professional and
research interest include: hand surgery and hand traumatology, hand
transplantation, AIDS prevention.
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Radka Kaneva, PhD
Department of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Medical
University - Sofia, Bulgaria.
kaneva64@yahoo.com;
kaneva@medfac.acad.bg;
kaneva@mmcbg.org
Dr Radka Kaneva, PhD is an assistant professor at the Department of Medical
Chemistry and Biochemistry, MU - Sofia. Since 2005 she is an executive
manager of the Molecular Medicine Center, Medical University - Sofia. Dr.
Kaneva graduated from Faculty of Biology, Sofia University and obtained her
PhD in Molecular Biology in 2000. She has been research assistant at the
National Oncology Centre, the Neuroscience and Behaviour Research Foundation
and from 1998 till 2008 biochemist and research associate at the National
Genetic Laboratory. Dr Kaneva specialised cell and molecular biology at the
Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford in 1993-94. She was awarded
a Humboldt research fellowship and specialized molecular genetics at the
Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn in 2001-03. The main
research interests of Dr. Kaneva are in the field of molecular medicine,
complex genetic disorders, psychiatric and cancer genetics, pharmacogenomics.
She has participated in numerous national research projects and as co-PI in
large scale international studies of affective disorders, addiction and
prostate cancer. Dr. Kaneva is an author and co-author in more than 50
publications in peer reviewed journals and has presented her work at many
international scientific congresses. She is a member of the European Society
of Human Genetics; the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics, the
European Association for Cancer Research, FEBS and a head of the Youth Union
”Molecular Genetics in Medicine”.
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Branko
Malenica MD, PhD
Department of Immunology,
Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb University School of Medicine,
Zagreb, Croatia.
b_malenica@yahoo.com
Branko Malenica is professor of
Immunology and Oncology at the Faculty of Biochemistry and Pharmacy and the
Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Zagreb. He obtained his MD and
PhD degrree from the Zagreb University School of Medicine and postdoctoral
training at the Max-Planck Institute for Biology-Jan Klein s Laboratory for
Immunogenetic, Tubingen, Germany. His research interest is
immunopathogenesis and immunodiagnostic of systemic and organ-specific
autoimmune diseases. Branko Malenicaa has published more than 100 scientific
and professional articles mainly in peer-revieuw journals and has presented
his work at many international conferences and congresses. He is a member of
several professional societies.
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Marija
Mostarica-Stojković, MD, PhD
Institute of Microbiology and
Immunology, University of Belgrade School of Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia.
mostarica@med.bg.ac.rs
Marija
Mostarica-Stojković
is professor of Immunology at the University of Belgrade School of Medicine.
She obtained her MD and PhD degree from the University of Belgrade and
postdoctoral training at Max-Planck-Society-Clinical Research Unit for
Multiple Sclerosis, Wurzburg, Germany and Laboratory for neuroimmunology,The
Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Her research interest is
immunoregulation and pathogenesis of organ-specific autoimmune diseases of
the central nervous system. Marija Mostarica- Stojković has published more
than 70 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, and participated in
international meetings as invited speaker. She is a member of several
professional societies.
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Gianfranco Sinagra, MD, FESC
Professor Sinagra was born in Palermo in 1964 where he has graduated from
the Faculty of Medicine in 1987. He has completed the specialization in
Cardiology in 1992 at the University of Trieste. He attended the
Department of Cardiological Sciences of the St.George's Hospital of London
and the Wallenberg Laboratory for Cardiovascular Research of the
Sahlgrenska Hospital, Gothenburg University, Sweden. After several years of
residency in the Cardiology Department of “Ospedali Riuniti” and University
of Trieste in 1999 he became a Head of this department. Since 2004 is
director of the Inter-agency Department of Cardiology of the
Isontina-Giuliana area. In 2004 he became associated Professor of Cardiology
for the faculty of Medicine and the faculty of Biotechnologies of the
University of Trieste. Professor Sinagra is fellow of the European Society
of Cardiology and of the National Italian Association of Hospital
Cardiologists. Also he is a member of the editorial committee of the Italian
Heart Journal and of the Scientific Board of the Journal of Cardiovascular
Medicine, official revisor of the 2005 Guidelines for the “Chronic Heart
Failure” of the European Society of Cardiology, member of the Superior
Council of Health Expert Group and vice-coordinator of the Study Group of
Cardiovascular Anatomy and Pathology of the Italian Society of Cardiology.
Up to date he is coordinating the Research Activity of the Study Group of
the Heart Muscle Diseases and the clinical activity of the Research Team in
Molecular Cardiology of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and
Biotechnology, Research Area of Trieste. He has published more than 400
scientific papers, 200 of them under Structural Work form, published on
National and International Text Books and Scientific Magazines.
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Rumen
Stefanov, MD, PhD
Information Centre for
Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs (ICRDOD), Bulgaria; Department of Social
Medicine, Medical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
stefanov@raredis.org
Dr. Rumen
Stefanov (born in 1972) is director of the Information Centre for Rare
Diseases and Orphan Drugs (www.raredis.org) in Bulgaria and an
associate professor/head of department of social medicine and health
management at the Medical University of Plovdiv. His professional and
research interests are in public health, epidemiology and clinical trials on
small populations. Author of more than 40 scientific papers and project
coordinator/member of several European and national projects. Dr. Stefanov
is an active member of the European Task Force on Rare Diseases (DG SANCO,
European commission) and board member of the Central & Eastern European
Genetic Network (CEE-GN).
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Milenko Tanasijevic,
M.D., M.B.A.
Director, Clinical Laboratories Division and Clinical Program
Development, Pathology Department, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana Farber
Cancer Institute, Associate Professor of Pathology,
Harvard Medical School. Tel:
617-732-6360; Fax:
617-713-3056.
mtanasijevic@partners.org
Dr. Tanasijevic is the Director Clinical Laboratories and Clinical Program
Development of the Department of Pathology of Brigham and Women's Hospital
and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and an Associate Professor of Pathology at
the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Tanasijevic is also a member of the Senior
Management Team of Brigham and Women's Hospital. He oversees the operation
of the clinical laboratories, performing over 8 MM tests annually, and he is
responsible for coordination of translation research, advanced diagnostics,
and program and business development. His research interests include cardiac
biomarkers, laboratory informatics, tumor markers and fetal lung maturity
testing. Dr. Tanasijevic is the Chairman of the American Society of Clinical
Pathology Expert Review Panel. He serves on the Editorial Board of the
American Journal of Clinical Pathology and the Journal of Thrombosis and
Thrombolysis.
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Marina Titlic, MD PhD
Department of Neurology, University Hospital Split, Split,
Croatia.
marina.titlic@gmail.com
Born on 16 November 1965 in
Sinj, Croatia. Graduated from the University of Zagreb, School of Medicine
in Split, in 1991. Master's Degree received from the University of Zagreb,
School of Medicine in Zagreb, in 2000, with the thesis Correlation of
Change of the Optic Nerve Diameter in Retrobulbar Neuritis in Multiple
Sclerosis. Neurology Specialization Examination passed in 2001, since
when employed with the Split University Hospital, Split, Croatia. Doctor's
Degree awarded in 2006, with the doctoral thesis Influence of Arg-506-Gln
(Factor V Leiden) and Prothrombine G20210A
Mutations to Presence of the Ishemic Cerebrovascular Disease.
Assistant Professor at the Neurology Department, School of Medicine,
University of Split, since 2003, and at the School of Medicine, University
of Zadar since 2008. Holding the scientific title of a Senior Research
Scientist.
Closer field of interest are thrombotic changes in
neurological diseases, painful syndromes and cognitive functions. Active
participant in numerous international scientific and professional
conferences. Publishes her research results and expert papers in the field
of Neurology in various international journals. Reviewer in four
international medicine journals. As a researcher participated in
scientific-research projects Cognitive Damages in Patients Following
Cerebrovascular Insult, and Early Diagnostics and Thrombolytic
Therapy of Ishemic Brain Stroke. In cooperation with the Croatian
Technology Institute, heads the project System for Measuring and Training
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Kiril Trpkov MD, FRCPC
Associate Professor,
University of Calgary, Department of Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine, Calgary Laboratory Services.
7007 14 st, Calgary SW, AB,
Canada, T2V 1P9. Phone:
(403) 943-3443; Fax:
(403) 943-3333.
kiril.trpkov@cls.ab.ca
D-r
Kiril Trpkov has graduated from the in Faculty of Medicine in Skopje,
Macedonia in 1987 and in 1989 started his professional career working with
Dr. George Stavrić in the Department of Histopathology and Cytology, Faculty
of Medicine, Skopje. He continued his professional training in 1993 at the
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada as a research fellow in kidney and
transplant pathology and as a resident in Anatomical Pathology. His
postgraduate training included study visits to Brigham and Women's Hospital
in Boston (1999) and to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore (2001). D-r
Trpkov is a member of numerous international pathology associations and
societies. He has published extensively in the areas of urologic and kidney
pathology and presented at many international pathology meetings. He has
received numerous teaching awards and was
featured at
the Great teachers at the University of Calgary Web-site (http://greatteachers.ucalgary.ca).
His
areas of expertise and research interest include urological pathology
(prostate cancer) and kidney and transplant pathology. Currently he holds
the rank of Associate Professor with the Department of Pathology and
Laboratory Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary,
Alberta, Canada. D-r Trpkov is a peer reviewer for the journals: European
Urology, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Pathology Research
and Practice and a grant reviewer (Medicine) for the Ministry of Science,
Republic of Macedonia. Dr Trpkov
is an avid
movie and sports buff (downhill skiing, cycling, yoga, resistance training,
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