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- Professor of Internal Medicine in Italy - Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine in the USA for more than 10 years - Executive Committee of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Study Group, EASD - Past Executive Board Member of MGSD (Mediterranean Group for the Study of Diabetes) - Current and Former Visiting Professor in many Universities in Europe, USA and the Middle East - Chief Editor in several journals with Impact Factor - H-Index: 60 (Scopus)

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Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic diseases specialist, senior specialist in health food hygiene, competence in general ultrasonography. Since 2019 she has been Associate Profesor in Diabetes, Nutrition and metabolic diseases and the Chief of the Hygiene Department. Currently, she is the President of the Romanian Committee of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases and The National Coordinator for the National Diabetes Programme, where started to implement politics in the diabetes field. She also manages the only Romanian patient platform for diabetes education, RODiabet. Furthermore, she is involved in scientific work with national and international teams and develops an international scholarship programme for PhD students. She is currently engaged in new therapy and new technology tools for screening and diabetes prevention, patient education, and technologies in diabetes. She is a m ember of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, Cardiometabolic Academy, Romanian Society of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, Romanian Diabetes Federation and Association for Renal Metabolic and Nutrition studies, Central European Association of Diabetes, EASD, ADA. She authored more than 300 papers in the areas of diabetes, nutrition, lipid disorders, in national and international peer-reviewed journals, with 22 H-index and Academic Editor or Associate editor and reviewer for more than 15 national and international journals.

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Dr. Khalid Al-Rasadi was born in Oman where he studied medicine and obtained his Medical Degree in 1998. Dr. Al-Rasadi obtained his postgraduate training in Medical Biochemistry at McGill University in Canada during 2002-2006. He spent another two years in Canada, working as scientist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, under the supervision of Prof. Jacques Genest. There he performed a number of studies on the molecular genetics of familial hypercholesterolemia and hypoalphalipoproteinemia. In that period Dr. Al-Rasadi also received training at the lipid clinic of the Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University. He was also awarded a certificate in Clinical Lipidology by the National Lipid Association in the United State in 2008. Dr. Al-Rasadi is currently working as associate professor at the department of biochemistry at the College of Medicine & Health Sciences at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman (SQU), he is the director of the medical research Center at SQU. He a founder member of the Oman Society for Lipid and Atherosclerosis (OSLA) and the current president. Dr. Al-Rasadi has led several studies nationally and regionally like the Gulf Familial hypercholesterolemia Study, the Oman FH Cascade Screening Study and more. Dr. Al-Rasadi is a member of national and international medical associations and a member of the editorial board for Oman Medical Journal. He has more than 100 publications.

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Professor Nikolaos Papanas is Professor in Internal Medicine-Diabetes Mellitus at Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He is Head of the Diabetes Centre-Diabetic Foot Clinic of the Second Department of Internal Medicine at Democritus University of Thrace. He has published more than 420 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds. Moreover, he serves in the editorial board of other international journals (more than 90). He has been Guest Editor in 9 special issues of international journals. He has also participated with numerous presentations in Greek and European medical congresses and repeatedly served as invited reviewer in medical journals. He has been invited to deliver lectures in 9 foreign countries. He has served in the Executive Committee of the Hellenic Society for Angiology. Furthermore, he is currently a member in the Executive Committee of the Study Group on Diabetes and Nervous System of the German Diabetes Association (DDG). He is also Vice President of the Greek Society for the Study of the Diabetic Foot. He has served as Secretary General and as President of the Hellenic Diabetes Association (HDA). He is now the President of the ethics committee of HDA. Additionally, he is the President of the Diabetic Foot Study Group (DFSG, www.dfsg.org) of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) and Vice-President of D-FOOT INTERNATIONAL (https://d-foot.org/). He is Visiting Professor in the German Diabetes Centre, Düsseldorf. Finally, he is an honorary member of the Cypriot Diabetes Association and of the Hungarian Diabetes Association.