Clinical Operational Research Unit, London, United Kingdom
Rubita Sudirman
Rubita Sudirman
Malaysia
Rubita Sudirman holds a Bachelor's (Hons) and Master's degree from the University of Tulsa, USA, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). She is a professor and a certified professional engineer at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, UTM. Her research interests focus on the application of soft computing in biomedical engineering, particularly in speech processing, electroencephalography (EEG) and electrooculography (EOG) signal analysis, medical electronics, and rehabilitation engineering.
Orestis Ioannidis
Orestis Ioannidis
Greece
Dr. Ioannidis is currently an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Medical School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He studied medicine in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and graduated at 2005. He received his MSC in “Medical Research Methodology” in 2008 from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and in “Surgery of Liver, Biliary Tree and Pancreas” from the Democritus University of Thrace in 2016. He received his PhD degree in 2014 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki as valedictorian for his thesis “The effect of combined administration of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in ulcerative colitis. Experimental study in rats.” He is a General Surgeon with special interest in laparoscopic surgery and surgical oncology and also in surgical infections, acute care surgery, nutrition and ERAS and vascular access. He has received fellowships for EAES, ESSO, EPC, ESCP and ACS and has published more than 180 articles with more than 3000 citations and an H-index of 28
Tom Treasure
Clinical Operational Research Unit, London
United Kingdom
Keynote speech on The beginnings of effective heart surgery: History of an Anglo-American collaboration from 1947-1950