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Claudio Andaloro

Dr. Claudio Andaloro is MD at Department of Surgery, Otolaryngology Unit, Latisana-Palmanova Hospital, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Friuli Centrale (ASUFC), Udine, Italy. His research interests focus on rhinology, laryngology, pediatric otolaryngology and sleep medicine.

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Dawn E Bowles

Dr. Dawn Elizabeth Bowles, PhD is Assistant Professor in Surgery within the Division of Surgical Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. She obtained her Ph.D. in Microbiology from Louisiana State University.

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Chengming Fan

Prf. Chengming Fan is a Surgeon in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Central South University. HIs current basic research interests include treatment of ischemic heart disease with human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC)-related strategy and with preclinical animal models.

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Robert Fruscio

Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the University of Milan-Bicocca, in Monza, Italy and staff physician in the general Gynecological Unit of San Gerardo Hospital. Before MD graduation and during the residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology he conducted an intense preclinical research activity at Mario Negri Institute (Milan) and at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston). In 2010 he acquired a PhD in Gynecologic Oncology. His research interests are focused on molecular biology of ovarian cancer, and on prevention and treatment of gynecological malignancies.

2001: Degree in Medicine and Surgery
2006: Specialization in Obstetrics and Gynecology
2010: PhD in Gynecologic Oncology
2014: Associate Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Lei Huang

Dr. Lei Huang is a cancer epidemiologist, translational oncologist, digestive surgeon, surgical oncologist, and gastroenterologist. He has published about 50 papers in SCI(E)-indexed journals including Gut, Annals of Surgery, BMC Medicine, JAMA Surgery, Clinical Cancer Research, Cancer Immunology Research, International Journal of Cancer, EBioMedicine, and Gastric Cancer. His works have been cited for about 1000 times.

Dr. Huang has served on the editorial board of Frontiers in Oncology, World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology, PeerJ, Medicine, and Translational Cancer Research, and Frontiers in Surgery. He has been peer reviewer for about 50 SCI(E)-indexed journals including Annals of Internal Medicine, Annals of Surgery, Clinical Cancer Research, Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network-JNCCN, Cancer Letters, Oncoimmunology, and Oncologist. He was selected as Best Reviewer for Annals of Internal Medicine twice in 2017 and 2019.

Dr. Huang has been invited to give oral presentations in the ASCO Annual Meeting and International Gastric Cancer Congress (IGCC), and has received Merit Awards in the ESMO Annual Meeting and Awards for Young Investigators in the IGCC.

His research interests majorly cover the epidemiological, clinical, and translational aspects of digestive cancers. He has successfully coordinated several large international investigations with participants from the US and about 20 European countries.

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Consolato Sergi

Dr. Consolato M. Sergi is Chief of Anatomical Pathology of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and Emeritus Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics of the University of Alberta, Canada. Dr. Sergi was born in Rome (Italy), obtained his MD degree with honors at the University of Genoa, Italy, his Human Pathology degree at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, the title of the hon. Clinical Reader of the University of Bristol, UK, his Ph.D./Habilitation at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, his MSc Public Health in Austria, and his FRCPC degree at the Royal College in Ottawa. Dr. Sergi’s specialty areas of interest are congenital heart disease and metabolic diseases, obstructive cholangiopathies, carcinogenesis (bone/soft tissue/liver), gut microbiome, and mitochondrial DNA related cardiomyopathies.