Larry Chamley

Professor, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Medical & Health Sciences, The University of Auckland

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

1992  The University of Auckland, PhD

1987  The University of Auckland, Master

1985  The University of Waikato, Bachelor in Science

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES / SERVICE

2012-onging: Director of Postgraduation study (Biomedical Science Programme)

2007-ongoing: Member of the Editorial Board, Trophoblast Research/Placenta

2006-ongoing: Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Reproductive Immunology

2009-2013: Chair of the New Investigators Poster Award Committee, International Federation of Placental Associations (IFPA).

2004-ongoiung: Member of the Executive, International Federation of Placenta Associations

Qi Chen

Senior Research Fellow, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Medical & Health Sciences, The University of Auckland

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

1996  Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan, PhD in Medicine (pathology)

1987  Shanghai Second Medical University, China, Bachelor in Medicine

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES / SERVICE

2009-current Poster Award Committee Member of International Federation of Placenta Associations (IFPA)

2012- 2013 Program organising committee member of the Society for Reproductive Biology, Australia

Reviewer: Placenta, Human Reproduction, Journal of Ovarian Research, Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, Hypertension in Pregnancy et al international peer review journals (more than 10).

Member of International Federation of Placenta Associations (IFPA)

Member of Australia New Zealand Placental Research Association (ANZPRA)

Member of Society for Reproductive Biology of Australia (SRB)

Kathleen R. Cho

Kathleen R. Cho, M.D., is the Peter A. Ward Professor of Pathology at the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Cho recently completed a term as Interim Chair of the Department of Pathology and currently serves as Vice-Chair for Academic Affairs.  Dr. Cho is an actively practicing surgical pathologist with a substantial schedule of consults and in-house cases in diagnostic pathology.  She also serves as the section head and fellowship director for gynecological pathology at the University of Michigan Hospitals.

Elizabeth Crang Svalenius

I studied nursing at the South Sweden School of Nursing, University Hospital, Lund and graduated 1975. I graduated as a midwife from the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Gothenburg 1977. My main areas of clinical work have been on the labour/delivery ward and at the Department of Obstetric and Gynaecological Ultrasound. My Ph.D. thesis, which I defended 1997 was on the use of routine ultrasound, information and ethical aspects. Since 1998, until now, I have mainly worked at the Department of Health Sciences at the Medical Faculty of Lund University and also as a clinical lecturer in Lund and Malmö. I teach undergraduates, post graduates and doctoral students. I am an associate professor since 2007.

My main area for research is the information given before making an informed choice about any aspect of care during pregnancy and delivery, with highlights on prenatal diagnosis. I am also interested in amalgamating clinical practice with academic education for midwives and also in preparing parents for parenthood.

Zhen Fan

范桢教授是国际著名肿瘤分子靶向实验治疗专家，著名抗癌新药西妥昔单抗（爱必妥）（Cetuximab, Erbitux）主要研发人员之一。1980-1988年就读于上海第一医学院临床医学专业及研究生院（现复旦大学上海医学院），毕业后在上海中山医院师从于著名肝癌专家汤钊猷院士。1991-1996年在美国纽约史隆凯特琳癌症纪念中心（Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center）学习，师从于现代肿瘤分子靶向理论奠基人之一 John Mendelsohn教授。1996年起受聘于著名的M.D. 安德森癌症中心（M.D. Anderson Cancer Center）。现仼M.D. 安德森癌症中心实验治疗系正教授和终身教授，美国德克萨斯州立大学休斯敦校区（The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Graduate School of Biosciences）博士生导师。范教授目前领导的课题组从事分子靶向肿瘤代谢，肿瘤免疫治疗，新的多功能抗体研发等多种创新研究。他作为首席项目负责人领导多项美国国家癌症研究所(NIH/NCI), 美国国防部(DOD)及多家著名民间慈善基金会,大型药厂资助的科研项目，共计获得七百多万美元科研经费。他担任或曾担任多个科研经费评审委员会专家评委，包括美国，英国，意大利，冰岛，中国，及中国香港等国家和地区；并担任多个权威杂志的论文评议人。共发表SCI收录论文80多篇，其中权威性杂志（影响因子>5.0）50余篇，如：Cancer Cell，JNCI, JCI, JCB, JBC, Cancer Research, Oncogene, 等。

Shingo Fujii

The President of the Tatsuke Kofukai Research Institute, Kitano Hospital in Osaka. He was elected as President of the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (JSOG) in 2004. He was elected Honorary Fellow of The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and The Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada in 2005, and Honorary Fellow of The Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology and The Korean Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2007, and Taiwan Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2009. From the end of October in 2010, he served as the President of International Gynecologic Cancer Society (IGCS) for two years.

Ingalill Rahm Hallberg

Ingalill Rahm Hallberg is professor emeritus at Lund University, Sweden. She is registered nurse by profession and fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and of the European Academy of Nursing Science, an organization to which she was the president for 6 years. She is also Honorary member of the Swedish Medical Society. Professor Hallberg got her PhD in medical science 1990 and since then been active researcher related to health care mainly focusing the aging population, people contracting severe diseases like cancer. She has also been doing research on health care as a system, interaction between different parts of the system as well as models to improve the effectiveness of the health care system, such as case management. 

Tasuku Harada

Professor and Chair of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Tottori University Faculty of Medicine

Vice director of Tottori University Hospital

 Professor Harada graduated from Tottori University in 1983 and he learned IVF-ET in Leeds University in England in 1985. He has been present position since 2008.Professor Harada has (co)authored over 120 articles in peer-review international journals. Among his publication, most cited paper is “Role of cytokines in endometriosis” published in Fertility Sterility in 2001. He has been one of chief investigators of drug development about low dose OC for primary dysmenorrhea or dysmenorrhea associated with endometriosis and dienogest for endometriosis in Japan. Phase III RCTs of both drugs were published in Fertility Sterility in 2008, 2009 and 2011. His main research interest includes endometriosis (both basic and clinical research), laparoscopic and robotic surgery.

Chunsheng Li

My long-standing research interests are in bridging the translation of genetically engineering on antibodies, as diagnostics and therapeutics targeted to ovarian cancer and other diseases, from research side to preclinical and clinical stages. I have strong interest in the following areas of research:

1. Develop immune-imaging(immune-optical and immune-PET) for tumor vascular and tumor cell targets

2. Develop immunotherapy using bi-specific antibodies and immunotoxins

3. Develop novel chemo-immunotherapy nanoparticles 

Göran Lingman

Göran Lingman, born 1949, Göteborg University Sweden M.D. 1976, Internship at Helsingborg Central Hospital, specialist in Obstetrics and Gynecology 1982. Ph.D.Thesis ”Human fetal haemodynamics” 1985 at Lund University Sweden, Associate professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology1987 at Lund University. Consultant at Helsingborg Central Hospital – 1988 and 1990-1997. Consultant and ActingChairmanDeptObstet and Gyn at King Faisal Specialist Hospital Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 1988-1990. Assoc Professor and consultantLund University 1998-2010.

HeadofClinicalDeptObstetrics and Gynecology Lund University Hospital 2002-2012.

Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Lund University 2011 – present.

ChairmanofacademicDepartmentObstetrics and Gynecology, Medical faculty, Lund University 2014 – present.

Research is directedintoobstetrics, ultrasound, Doppler ultrasound, fetomaternal medicine and fetal Physiology and circulationaswell as pathophysiology .Numerouspublications in peer-reviewed international journals. 

Sylvia Mechsner

PD Dr. med. Sylvia Mechsner, Endometriosis Center Charité, Department of Gynaecology, Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin,

Hindenburgdamm 30, 12200 Berlin

Sylvia Mechsner is a consultant at the Department of Gynecology, Charité University Medicine in Berlin, Germany, with expertise in the clinical and surgical management of endometriosis. She leads the Endometriosis Research Unit since 2005. Her research focuses on the investigation of pathogenetic mechanisms of pain including  inflammation, neuroimmunmodulation, smooth muscle metaplasia and lymphangiogenesis in endometriosis.

Gordon B. Mills

Gordon B. Mills, MD, PhD, was recruited to The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in 1994, where he holds the rank of Professor with joint appointments in Systems Biology, Breast Medical Oncology and Immunology; serves as chairman of the Department of Systems Biology; holds the Wiess Distinguished University Chair in Cancer Medicine. Dr. Mills is Director of the Kleberg Center for Molecular Markers; co Director of the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy and the Women’s Cancer Moonshot.  The Center and the Institute are responsible for developing and implementing personalized molecular medicine at MDACC. The Women’s Cancer Moonshot is responsible for transforming outcomes for these patients with breast and ovarian cancer Dr. Mills currently serves as principal investigator or project investigator on many national peer review grants including Stand Up To Cancer, NIH/NCI SPOREs U24 and PPGs, Department of Defense, CPRIT and Komen Foundation grants, and is a collaborator on multiple other national grants. Dr. Mills has published more than 700 papers on the molecular analysis of cancer; holds more than 20 patents related to novel technologies and molecular markers and has co-founded an early diagnostics company. He currently sits on the scientific advisory boards of multiple companies and venture capital groups. He has recently been awarded the Komen Brinker award for Scientific Excellence and the Stand up to Cancer Laura Ziskin Prize for mentoring.

Joo-Hyun Nam

 Hextan Yuen Sheung Ngan

Professor, Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Tsao Yin Kai Professor in Obstetrics &Gynaecology, Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Tsao Yin-Kai Professorship in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Clinical Professor, Honorary Clinical Professor

Research Interests: Cervical cancer screening – basic and clinical research including HPV, cytology, colposcopy studies, Gynaecological oncology – basic and clinical research including HPV, oncogenes, tumour suppressor genes, epigenetic studies and drug trials, Psychosocial studies – quality of life, psychosocial and psychosexual studies

Noriaki Sakuragi

Professor and Chairman

Department of Gynecology (Reproductive Endocrinology and Oncology)

Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine and School of Medicine

North 15, West 7, Kitaku, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan

Professor Sakuragi has been head of the Department of Gynecology at Hokkaido University Hospital, and chair of the Department of Gynecology at Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan, since 2002. Professor Sakuragi served as an executive board member of the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (JSOG) and chairman of the board certification committee from 2009 until 2011. He is also an executive board member of the Japan Society of Gynecologic Oncology (JSGO), the Japan Society of Gynecologic and Obstetric Endoscopy and Minimally Invasive Surgery (JSGOE), the Japan Society of Gynecological and Obstetrical Surgery (JSGOS), and the Japan Menopause Society. He served as the president of the 50^th Annual Meeting of JSGO in 2010, the 52^nd Annual Meeting of JSGOE in 2012, and the 65^th Annual Congress of JSOG in 2013.

Anil K. Sood

Dr. Anil K. Sood is Professor and Vice Chair for Translational Research in the Departments of Gynecologic Oncology and Cancer Biology and co-director of the Center for RNA Interference and Non-Coding RNA at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. He is also Director of the multi-disciplinary Blanton-Davis Ovarian Cancer Research Program. Dr. Sood co-leads the Women’s Cancer Moonshot Program (focused on ovarian and breast cancers). 

Peter Richard Stone    

Professor, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Medical & Health Sciences, The University of Auckland

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

1994: Fellowship in O&G RCOG London, England (英国皇家妇产科学院院士)

1988  Fellowship in O&G RNZCOG New Zealand (澳大利亚新西兰皇家妇产科学院院士)

1982  Specialist qualification RCOG London, England (英国皇家妇产科学院专科医生)

1976  The University of Auckland, Bachelor in Medicine

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES / SERVICE

1997-ongoing: Member of editorial board of Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

2001-2009: Head of Department, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, UOA

2001-2008: Member Maternal Fetal Medicine Subspeciality Committee RANZCOG

2011-2013: Chair, Health Workforce New Zealand Maternity Early Child Service Forecast

SIGNIFICANT DISTINCTIONS / AWARDS:

2012: Distinguished Service Medal RANZCOG

Sean SJ Tsai

Professor Shaw-Jenq (Sean) Tsai received his Bachelor’s degree from National Cheng Kung University in 1986. He was awarded Master’s and PhD’s degrees from Eastern Michigan University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, respectively. He then joined the Department of Physiology at the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, as an assistant professor in 1998 and was promoted to distinguished professor in 2008 in recognition of his great academic achievements. Professor Tsai’s research focuses on investigating molecular mechanisms underlying important human diseases including cancer and endometriosis. He has published nearly 100 papers in prestigious journals such as Nature, Developmental Cell, and Journal of Clinical Investigation.