Reza Hakkak is working as a faculty member in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, is a nutritionist, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Dietetics and Nutrition in the College of Health Related Professions, Professor of Pediatrics in the College of Medicine, and Professor of Maternal Child Health in the College of Public Health. His research is primarily in the areas of basic nutrition science research and nutrition education. His basic nutrition research interests include the influence of nutrition on cancer prevention, the influence of obesity on cancer promotion, and the effects of differing diets and nutrition on chemical carcinogenesis. For past 10 years, his research interests have focused on links between obesity, diet and breast cancer promotion.

Influence of diet and nutrition on cancer prevention, obesity and breast cancer promotion, animal modelling for cancer research, nutrition education, interactions of diet and drug metabolism, and alcohol as a risk factor for cancer development.

Jana Parizkova, Professor (2003), M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc. She is currently working in Obesity Management Centre, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic. Published 580 articles in reputed journals, monographs, Proceedings etc, , and 20 monographs in the USA, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic etc. on body composition, functional capacity, obesity as related to nutrition and dietary intake, physical activity and exercise during life span, especially during growth and development.

Body composition (fat and lean, fat-free body mass, using hydrodensitometry and skinfolds); first measurements during childhood, adolescence, up to advanced age; also in athletes and obese subjects of all age categories), as related to dietary intake, physical activity regimes, functional capacity, physical performance and fitness, lipid metabolism variables, gross and fine motor skills. Special focus - preschool children, followed up from mentioned points of view, with regard to environmental conditions including physical activity, and health prognosis. - Experiments in laboratory animals focused on the actual and delayed consequences of various levels of physical activity (spontaneous and/or induced; exercise and/or hypokinesia), starting with earliest periods of life including fetal one. Delayed consequences concerning lipid metabolism in various organs, total body fat and lean, fat-free body mass ratio, size of different organs, cardiac microstructure and its sensitivity to noxi, etc.were studied up to the adult age. – Studies of obese subjects with joined metabolic and clinical problems as related to diet, physical activity level, biochemical and hormonal characteristics, psychological traits, etc..and the results of reduction treatment and prevention, especially during growth were also conducted.

Samuel Stein is an Attending in Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry. He graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School in 1986, and undertook his psychiatry training in Oxford, Cambridge and at St. Mary\\\'s Hospital in London. Prof Stein is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and has edited several books including: Disorganized Children. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Health Research at the University of Bedfordshire and the Post-Graduate Medical Institute at Anglia Ruskin University. Prof Stein has a commitment to service-oriented research and many of his initiatives have been implemented nationally as examples of accessible and effective good practice

He is a Consultant in Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry in Bedfordshire. In addition to a number of articles within these fields, he has edited several books including: Disorganized Children, National CAMHS Dataset, Essentials of Psychotherapy; Psychotherapy in Practice: A Life in the Mind and Beyond Belief:Psychotherapy and Religion.

William G. Haynes is a Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa (Divisions of Endocrinology and Cardiology). Dr. Haynes’s NIH-funded research focuses on the mechanisms of hypertension and vascular damage in obesity. He provided the first description of the sympathoexcitatory effects of leptin. He has published over 150 papers, reviews and book chapters. Dr. Haynes is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, has won awards from the International Society of Hypertension, and the American Heart Association, and was Associate Editor of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology.

This include studies on the effects of homocysteine, diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia on endothelial function in humans. He is also interested in the cardiovascular and autonomic effects of obesity, focusing on novel mediators such as leptin and the melanocortins. He has a particular interest in vascular medicine, focusing on prevention and regression of atherosclerosis through management of cardiovascular risk factors including hyperlipidemia, hypertension and high homocysteine.

Amin Roshdy Soliman joined as a House officer at Cairo Hospitals then became Resident of Renal Unit. He had served as an Assistant Lecturer then Lecturer in Cairo University, faculty of medicine. Then he also served as an Assistant Professor and finally Professor of medicine and Nephrology. He was then Editor-in-chief of Journal of Arab Society of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, 1995-2001 and then Director of Kasr El Ainy nephrology and dialysis unit, faculty of medicine at Cairo University during December 2006-2008 and finally Chairman of Nephrology, department of medicine at Cairo University, 2011 to present.

He is interested in Obesity, Renal transplantation, Dialysis, surgical skills in medicine and Nephrological care.

Edita Stokic, MD, PhD, Professor of Endocrinology, Medical Faculty, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Author/coauthor of 320 publications, coauthor of “Practical guide for obesity treatment,” Practical guide for cardiovascular risk factors treatment” and “Practical guide for treatment lipid and lipoprotein disorders.” National SCOPE Fellow (Specialist Certification of Obesity Professionals in Europe), 2005. Education and training: Diabetes Expert Forum, (Marseille, France) 2012, Obesity Management Course for Clinicians working in the field of Diabetes” - IOTF SCOPE (Prague, Czeh Republic), 2004, CMEF Cardiometabolic education Forum (Paris, France), 2005, Postgraduate Clinical Endocrinology Course (European Federation of Endocrine Society, Geneva, Switzerland), 1995.

Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 (complications, therapy) Humans, Hyperlipidemias (complications, therapy) Hypertension (complications, therapy), Metabolic Syndrome X (complications, therapy), Obesity (complications, therapy) and Cardiovascular risk Risk Factors

George G S Sandor is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Paediatrics, UBC, and Director of the Echolab, BC Children’s Hospital. His interests are the non-invasive assessment of cardiac and vascular function in congenital and acquired paediatric cardiac disease.

Shuji Inoue has completed his M.D. at the age of 26 years old and got Ph.D from University of Tokyo, School of Medicine. He is the vice-president and dean of Faculty of Health Care. He has published more than 200 English papers in reputed journals and serving as Editor-in-Chief of Obesity Research & Clinical Practice.

Giulio Maria Pasinetti’s research on lifestyle factors and metabolic co-morbidities influencing clinical dementia, neurodegeneration and Alzheimer’s disease has made him a top expert in his field. He has received over 30 grants and published over 160 groundbreaking research articles. Dr. Pasinetti is a Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Geriatrics and Adult Development, and is Director of the Brain Institute Center of Excellence for Novel Approaches to Neurotherapeutics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He also serves as Director of the Basic and Biomedical Research and Training, Geriatric Education and Clinical Center at the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

To investigate the biological processes which occur during aging. subjects with normal cognitive functions convert into the very earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and then to frank dementia.

Nobuko Yamada-Goto, Professor and Chairman for the Department of Medicine and Clinical Science at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan.

He is engaged in the research activity aiming at the establishment of frontier medicine, in addition to the investigation on classical endocrine and metabolic diseases. Our goal is to achieve the elucidation of pathogenesis and the prevention of “life style-related diseases,” such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and their complications, and to develop new therapeutic strategies.

Current: Coach Poids Sante par ® Etapes Faciles, Blogue Coach Poids Sante, Fédération des kinesiologues du Quebec Previous: CIHR Obesity Research Chair, Canadian Obesity Network – Reseau Canadien en Obésité (CON-RCO), Canadian Council for Food and Nutrition (CCFN) Education: Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)