Senior Editor

Sat Bir Singh Khalsa

Assistant Professor

Department of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Dr. Khalsa is a researcher in the field of body mind medicine, specializing in yoga therapy. Originally from Toronto, he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto, where he also began his practice of Kundalini Yoga under the tutelage of Yogi Bhajan. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Neuroscientist in the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, at the Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston Massachusetts. Since 2007, he has served as the Director of Research at both the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Massachusetts and the Kundalini Research Institute in New Mexico.The major focus on his research interest lies in the field of Mind-Body Medicine. His main focus is on the evaluation of the clinical effectiveness and basic psychophysiological mechanisms underlying the practice of yoga and meditation techniques.

http://www.hms.harvard.edu

Rakesh Biswas

Professor

Department of Medicine

Kamineni Institute of Medical Sciences

Hyderabad

Dr. Biswas is a professor of Medicine in the Kamineni Institute of Medical sciences, Narketpally near Hyderabad, India His interests include clinical problem solving applied to patient centered health care and health education. He is currently engaged in developing a health care blended-learning ecosystem through a network of global multiple learner stakeholders that includes medical student and health professionals from diverse disciplines. It also includes patients along with their relatives in rural and urban India so that they may benefit from this global learning toward their local caring. His primary focus is on optimization of costs in a manner thatcan still provide highest quality of care in low resource settings.

https://www.kimsmedicalcollege.org

Ashish Bhalla

Professor

Department of Internal Medicine

PGIMER, Chandigarh

Prof. Bhalla is presently working as Professor (Internal Medicine) with Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. His Special Interests – Emergency medicine and Toxicology. He is associated with Fellow International Medical science academy FIMSA (Awarded in October 2009). International Advisor MENATOX (Middle East and North African Toxicology initiative). Board Member and Secretary General for Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology. Commonwealth fellowship (Clinical toxicology) for 2014-15 at St Thomas’ hospital, London. President Elect for Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology (January 2017 till Dec 2018).

http://pgimer.edu.in/PGIMER_PORTAL/PGIMERPORTAL/home.jsp

Fatima Al Mansoori

Founder and Executive Director

Sustainable Humanitarian Development(SHD Bahrain)

www.fatimaalmansoori.com

Dr. Mansoori is the Founder and Executive Director of Sustainable Humanitarian Development Est. (SHD Bahrain), and a Consultant for integrated health and community wellbeing at Al Hilal Hospital. She is an Adjunct Professor at the Human Consciousness & Yogic Sciences Department at Mangalore University, as well as SDGs Ambassador, and a Yoga Therapist with over six years of clinical experience at several health centers. She has guided hundreds of patients in adopting a healthy life style, that resulted in finding relief from chronic conditions and improving quality of life. Fatima is also an international speaker and a columnist who has received many awards and certificates of appreciation from Global Organizations, Ministries, Universities, and Institutes for her humanitarian contribution to society.

Rima Dada

Professor

Department of Genetics

AIIMS, New Delhi

Dr. Dada, an MD from Maulana Azad Medical College and PhD (Genetics) from AIIMS, New Delhi, she is presently working as Professor at AIIMS, New Delhi, where she established Molecular Reproduction and Genetics facility. She is actively engaged in teaching, research and genetic diagnostic services. Dr. Dada is a Fellow of National Academy of Medical Sciences and International Medical Science and Academy of Standards and Ratings. She has received ICMR national award for outstanding contribution in the field of Genetics of infertility. Her research on genetics of glaucoma is amongst the top 4% in the world in 2019, she received the award for excellence and innovation in Yoga research at Symposium on Yoga research at Albany, USA, and over 15 awards for her work on Yoga in complex diseases like glaucoma, depression, male factor infertility, aging and rheumatoid arthritis.

https://www.aiims.edu/en.html

Amarjeet Singh

Head

Department of Community Medicine

PGIMER, Chandigarh

Dr. Singh is Professor & Head of Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health with Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. He has done his M.B.B.S. from Kanpur University, Post-Graduation M.D. S.P.M from Bundelkhand University U.P. His area of Interest are Health Promotion, Women’s health and Elderly Care. He is member of Indian Association of P.S.M., Indian Society for Medical Statistics, Indian Association for Adolescent Health, Indian Society for Communicable Diseases, Indian Public Health Association, Indian Medical Association, IJPSM, Indian Menopausal Society, Manushi, International Epidemiological Association and International Menopausal Society.

http://pgimer.edu.in/PGIMER_PORTAL/PGIMERPORTAL/home.jsp

Amy Price

Sr. Res Scientist

Stanford University, California

Dr. Price is working in Neurocognitive Rehabilitation and in International Missions before sustaining serious injury and years of rehabilitation. She emerged with a goal to build a bridge between research methods, research involvement and public engagement, where the public is trained and empowered to be equal partners in health research. Amy's goal is to mentor others to build clear channels to propel evidence into practice by supplying the public, and those in low resource areas, with tools to make evidence-based healthcare choices. Amy’s experience has shown her that shared knowledge, interdisciplinary collaboration and evidence-based research will shape and develop the future.

https://www.stanford.edu

Ante L. Padjen

Faculty of Medicine

McGill University

QC, Canada

Dr. Padjen is Dean’s Office, Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. He has completed his MD from University of Zagreb, Croatia. He has served as Professor at McGill University, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics from 1976. His primary research interests include neuroscience, information technology and knowledge translation in biomedicine with a particular interest in developing areas. He is active in national, international professional and public organizations and is one of the active leaders in IBRO

https://www.mcgill.ca/medicine/

Burra V L S Prasad

Professor

Department of Bio-Technology

K L University, Andhra Pradesh

Dr. Prasad is an experimental structural biologist, software developer and a bio-theoretician with his doctoral degree in Structural Bioinformatics - Protein Crystallography from Molecular Biophysics Unit (MBU). He holds B. Tech degree in Agricultural Engineering and a Master’s degree in Biotechnology. He has approximately 15 years of research experience with around four years of Postdoctoral experience at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (BIMR), University of California (UCSD), San Diego, USA; four years of industry experience, as a first generation bioinformatics techno-preneur and eight years of regular teaching experience. His current focus is on bringing together the best of available traditional knowledge, alternative schools of medicine (AYUSH) and modern molecular information to create an Integrative Translational System of Medicine, which solves the ailments permanently.

https://www.kluniversity.in

Gurudutta Gangenahalli

Head

Division of Stem Cell & Gene Therapy Research

DRDO, Delhi

Dr. Gangenahalli is Ph.D. (Biochemistry), M.Phil. (Life-Sciences), M.Sc. (Biochemistry) and B.Sc. He received his first Post- Doctoral researchas an FAPESP research fellow in the Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. Subsequently he did a second Post-Doctoral research as research fellow of NSBRI/NASA (USA). He was also awarded third Post-Doctoral fellowship of the National Research Council (NRC, Canada). He is a Founder of the Stem Cell Research program which is highly relevant to Defence applications for the first time in DRDO & he is founder of the Division of Stem Cell Research in DRDO/INMAS, Defence Science Forum, selection committees of Research Fellows, DRDS-Scientists in RAC (DRDO) and Outside organizations and Core-member of DRDS assessment committees/Board at RAC (DRDO, Delhi).