24^th Pan Arab Conference on Diabetes

Mahmoud Ibrahim

Consultant Endocrinologist
Director , EDC , Center for Diabetes Education
Program Director, Emory Prevention Program
Member of the Michigan Center for Diabetes Translational Research MCDTR , Ann Arbor , Michigan

Peter Gaede

Chief Physician at Slagelse Hospital
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Chief Physician, DMSc, Specialist in endocrinology, Specialist in internal medicine at Slagelse Hospital
Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark
Chief Physician at Slagelse Hospital

Jason C Baker

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Medicine , Weill Cornell Medical College 2013 - July 2006 Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY: The role of CD8-mediated cellular immunity in the pathogenesis of Type I Diabetes. NIH, JDRF, AECOM, PI: Dr. Teresa DiLorenzo. Sept 2003 Columbia University, NY NY: Analysis of genetic markers predicting response of newly-diagnosed Type I diabetes to anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody. Columbia University, PI: Dr. Kevin Herold. April 2002 Kumasi, Ghana: International Telemedicine. Emory University, PI: Dr. Kenneth Walker. July 2000 Tbilisi, Repulbic of Georgia: HIV and HCV sero-prevalence in known TB patients. Presented at the American Federation of Research Forum, New Orleans. Analysis of Buccal Smears for the Asian haplotype of mitochondrial DNA in native Caucasians living in the Republic of Georgia. Emory University, PI: Drs. Henry Blumberg and Carlos Del Rio. March 1998 Georgia Mental Health Institute, Atlanta, GA: Novel isolation techniques for legionella. Emory University, PI: Dr. Robert Benson. March 1998 Georgia Mental Health Institute, Atlanta, GA: Dopamine pathways involved in the etiology of Major Depression. Emory University, PI: Dr. Jay Weiss.

Bjorn Richelsen

Professor, MD. Dr. Med. Sci. Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Aarhus University

Education:
He has been a member of the Danish Nutrition Council (1992 - 1995), chairman for the Danish Association for the Study of Obesity (1990 - 1994), member of the executive committee of the Danish Endocrine Society, and council member of the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) (from 1994) and member of the executive committee of EASO (from 1996 to 2000 as secretary). Member of the Danish Medical Research Council ( 2001 - 2004 ). Vice-president in the Danish Nutrition Council (2001 -2002 ) and President for The Danish Nutrition Council from 2003.

Robert H. Eckel

President elect of the American Diabetes Association.

Professor of Medicine with appointments in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, Division of Cardiology.

Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Anschutz Medical Campus, and director of the Lipid Clinic at the University of Colorado Hospital

He holds the Charles A. Boettcher II Endowed Chair in atherosclerosis at the University of Colorado Denver, where he is also a professor of medicine and professor of physiology and biophysics. In 2016 Eckel was among the recipients of the Laureate Awards of the Endocrine Society, as Outstanding Clinical Investigator. He has done significant research in the biology and pathophysiology of lipoprotein lipase.

Eckel was on the Scientific Advisory Council of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. His research area includes nutrition, insulin action, energy balance and body weight regulation.

Eckel is a former president of the American Heart Association, and a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Physicians; he received the Robert H. Herman Award from the American Society for Nutrition in 2011.

Anne Peters

Abraham Thomas

MD, MPH
Chair, Department of Medicine, Baystate Health
Chair, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate
Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate

Amy Fischl

Amy Fischl, MS, RD, LDN, BC-ADM, CDE is a program coordinator for the Teen and Adolescent Diabetes Transition Program at the University of Chicago’s Kovler Diabetes Center. She is also a certified diabetes educator, nutrition specialist, and certified insulin pump trainer.
Her professional activities include writing CE test items for the American Association of Diabetes Educators, reviewing submissions for the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, and participating on the advisory boards of Nature’s Way, Dreamfields Pasta, and Jolly Time Popcorn.
She completed her undergraduate degree at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL. While earning her Master of Science degree from Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, WI, she researched the effect evening snacks have on blood sugars of patients with type 1 diabetes.