2^nd World Congress on
COPD, Asthma and Lung Health

Flavia Mafra de Lima received her degree in Physiotherapy from Claretiano University in 2005, Brazil. During the four years of the degree in all the vacations period, she used to work as a voluntary physiotherapist in a General Hospital in Passos-MG, Brazil, in ambulatory and intensive care, and in a cancer hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with the ambulatory patients. When she finished her degree, she did a Specialization in a Sao Francisco Hospital in Brazil working in ambulatory, UCI, and Coronary Unit Intensive Care, and at the same time she did a Pos Graduation at Claretiano University in Intensive Care. In 2010, Mafra de Lima finished her Master’s in Biomedical Engineering with an emphasis in Respiratory Medicine - Working with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and Low-Level Laser Therapy (LLLT). Mafra de Lima started her Ph.D. in 2011 in Rehabilitation Science, she continued working with ARDS and LLLT but at that time, she did a dose-response investigation, which is still relevant today for all communities that works with LLLT and Lungs. In her first Post Doctoral studies, she worked with lung fibrosis and LLLT during one year at the Department of Immunology at the University of Sao Paulo -USP, Brazil. In her second Post Doctoral studies, she has been working with kidney fibrosis and LLLT at Federal University of Sao Paulo- UNIFESP, Brazil, at the Department of Immunology and Nephrology, her studies was to compare if the treatment with LLLT is effective in another type of fibrosis as detected in the lungs. Nowadays, she is Postdoctoral Fellow, at the Queen Mary University of London, at the Department of Biopharmacology, working with endogenous mediators of inflammation, with Prof. Dr. Mauro Perretti and Dr. Lucy Norling, finishing her second PostDoctoral.

Lung diseases, ARDS, lung fibrosis, asthma, chronic diseases, COPD, mechanical ventilation, bioengineering, Low-Level Laser Therapy, Resolution of inflammation and GPCR’s mediators, Stem Cells, Regeneration, Lung Disease by pollution, Diseases pathways for resolution and regeneration.

Dr.Joanna Santeliz is a professor of Respiratory Physiology at the Lisandro Alvarado Central Western University. She obtained her medical degree in 1995 and a Ph.D. degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in 2003 with a thesis called Amba 1-linked CpG oligodeoxynucleotides reverse established airway hyperresponsiveness in a murine model of asthma. In 2010, she received her specialization in pulmonary medicine at the Los Andes University (Venezuela). She recently finished a short postdoctoral residency at the Universidad Autonoma of Madrid (Spain).

Epidemiology of COPD and nutritional assessment of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Dr. Matiur Rahman is the Director of healthcare quality management, Pakistan. He is also a consultant Pulmonologist. He graduated in medicine from DOW Medical College, Karachi.

Tuberculosis, COPD and bronchial Asthma

My name is Dr. Muhammad Irfan Malik currently working as Associate professor in the field of pulmonology at Lahore General Hospital. I am the Director of sleep research lab in Postgraduate medical institute/ AMC / Lahore General hospital Lahore. I am Running the sleep lab at Lahore general hospital in a government set up and at niazi hospital Lahore in a private set up since 2014. I am Member of Pakistan chest society and a Member of the board of studies in pulmonology at king Edward medical university Lahore. I am the Associate Editor of the Pakistan Journal of chest medicine. I am the chairman of sleep guideline and chairman of NIV guideline. I am also a member of asthma guideline committee of Pakistan chest society.

Sleep Medicine, Asthma, Ventilation.

Dr. Ekram W. Abd El-Wahab has expertise in early detection, prevention, and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases. Her main research focus is studying the epidemiological trend of endemic diseases and the factors associated with their occurrence, development of simple tools and models for risk assessment and prediction of communicable and non-communicable diseases. She has a passion for improving health and wellbeing. Her open and contextual evaluation model based on responsive constructivists creates new pathways for improving healthcare. She has built this model after years of experience in research, evaluation, teaching, and administration both in health and education institutions. She adopts a methodology for developing disease containment strategies and targeted intervention policies that utilize evaluation, measurement, description, and judgment. It allows for value-pluralism. This approach is responsive to all stakeholders and has a different way of focusing.

Molecular and Cellular Biology