International Conference on
Mental Health and Rehabilitation

Dr. Lidia Martinez earned her Ph.D. from Nova Southeastern University in 2004. Her credentials include Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Qualified Supervisor, and Master Level Addiction Professional (MCAP). She is also an Alcohol and Drug counselor with the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium Alcohol and Drug Counselor. She is also part time core faculty in the online Mental Health Therapy and Addiction Education Programs at The Center for Psychological Studies, Nova Southeastern University. For more than 20 years, she worked to bring a holistic approach to treatment, combining a broad array of evidence-based therapeutic strategies in collaboration with the medical components for wellness. Her specialties include working in the areas of anxiety disorders, parenting challenges, obesity and weight loss, addictions, adjustment issues, and trauma. She enjoys seeing her patients flourish and maintain their goals as they incorporate new insights and strategies learned on their therapeutic journey that help to grow their resilience. She offers innovative services through text, phone, video, or online chat sessions as part of her telemedicine platform.

Mental health, Women and mental health, children, and adolescents and mental health, Addiction

Dr. Oscar Hernandez finished post-doctoral training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Michigan State University. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, American Board of Pediatrics and has been in private practice for over 30 years in Miami, Florida, USA. He has passed the Certifying Examination of the American Board of Obesity Medicine and is the founder of Florida Bariatrics and Nutrition. He practices primary care and obesity medicine helping thousands of patients who suffer from cardiometabolic illness. His background as a private practitioner in primary care provides an excellent example of how collaboration between primary care physicians and psychiatrists can be achieved in a community setting.

Primary Care, Eating disorder

Eva Andersson is an associate professor, MD, PhD at the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences and the Department and Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Sport and Health Sciences, Neuroscience.

Gosta Alfven is associate professor, MD, PhD at Karolinska Institute and has studied different aspects of stress related pain in children since over 30 years and published more than 20 studies in the field

Stress related pain in children

Dr. Alireza Heidari is a Full Professor and Academic Tenure of Chemistry at California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. He has got his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. Furthermore, he has double postdocs in Project Management, Oncology, Human Cancer Tissues and Synchrotron Radiation from Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and also in Nanochemistry and Modern Molecular Electronic–Structure Computations Theory from California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. His research interests include Biophysical Chemistry, Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry, Nanochemistry, Modern Electronic Structure Computations, Theoretical Chemistry, Mathematical Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Vibrational Spectroscopy, Molecular Modelling, Ab initio & Density Functional Methods, Molecular Structure, Biochemistry, Molecular Simulation, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Oncology, Synchrotron Radiation, LASER, Anti–Cancer Nano Drugs, Nano Drugs Delivery, ATR–FTIR Spectroscopy, Raman Spectroscopy, Intelligent Molecules, Molecular Dynamics, Biosensors, Biomarkers, Molecular Diagnostics, Numerical Chemistry, Nucleic Acids, DNA/RNA Monitoring, DNA/RNA Hypermethylation, Human Cancer Tissues, Human Cancer Cells, Tumors, Cancer Tissues, Cancer Cells, etc. He has participated at more than two hundreds reputed international conferences, seminars, congresses, symposiums and forums around the world as yet. Also, he possesses many published articles in Science Citation Index (SCI)/International Scientific Indexing (ISI) Journals. It should be noted that he has visited many universities or scientific and academic research institutes in different countries such as United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Russia, Estonia, Turkey, France, Swiss, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea, China, India, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, etc. as research fellow, sabbatical and volunteer researcher or visitor and so on heretofore. He has a history of several years of teaching for college students and various disciplines and trends in different universities. Moreover, he has been a senior advisor in various industry and factories. He is expert in many computer programs and programming languages. Hitherto, he has authored more than twenty books and book chapters in different fields of Chemistry. Syne, he has been awarded more than seven hundreds reputed international awards, prizes, scholarships and honors. Heretofore, he has multiple editorial duties in many reputed international journals, books and publishers. Hitherward, he is a member of more than two hundred reputed international academic–scientific–research institutes around the world. In addition, he is member of the Nobel committee for Chemistry. It should be noted that he is currently the President of American International Standards Institute (AISI), Irvine, California, USA and also Director of the BioSpectroscopy Core Research Laboratory at California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA.

Neurology

Sarah Crawford received a Masters Degree in Biochemistry from Princeton University in 1982 and a PhD Degree from the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1987. She has been affiliated with Southern Connecticut State University for over 20 years and is currently the Full Professor in the Department of Biology where she teaches Genetics and Medical Genetics. She is the Director for Cancer Biology Research Laboratory and Autism Research Laboratory. In 2013, she was awarded a patent by the US Patent Office for novel cancer treatment for brain cancer, glioblastoma.

Neuroscience

Dr. Paulo Eduardo Benzoni - Psychologist (USP) - Specialist in Business Administration from FEA – USP. - Master's degree in Health Promotion (UNIFRAN) - Doctorate in Psychology working with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (PUC-Camp). - Expert in study of mechanisms of psychological stress, occupational stress and sick leave stress. - Coordinator of Professional Master Degree in Psychology, full professor and researcher at Universidade Paulista – UNIP/Brazil - Leader of Research Group of Mental Health in Institutional Contexts. - Participant of Individual Research Program for Professors of Vice-Rectory of Research and Postgraduation at Universidade Paulista-UNIP. - Collaborator in research in the "Centre D´Etude et de Recherche en Santé Mentale et Travail" of Canada and Universidade Autônoma de Lisboa. - Visiting Professor at Zagreb School of Business – Croatia – (Eramus+) - With a lot of articles, tools, books and chapters about stress and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy published.

Psychology

Michel Bourin has held the position of Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Nantes since 1985. After completing his pharmacist and medical training at Tours University he was awarded degrees in neuropsychopharmacology, clinical pharmacology and general pharmacology in Paris and completed his psychiatric training in Nantes. Since 1988, Professor Bourin has been Head of Research: Neurobiology of Anxiety and Depression. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Edmonton (Alberta) since 1995 and visiting Professor at University of Craiova (Romania). He is Doctor Hononoris Causa of the University of Tartu (Estonia) and University of Craiova (Romania). He is now Psychiatrist in a centre for mental handicapped adults in Montredon (near Narbonne). He has published more than 300 original papers in the field of psychopharmacology and more than 250 educational/review papers both in French and English.

Neurobiology of Anxiety and Depression, Psychiatry