7th International Conference on
Plastic Surgery & Aesthetic Medicine

Jane M. Grant-Kels has also been the director of the dermatology residency program which she helped begin in 2007. The residency was expanded from 6 to 9 residents just a few years after its inception and the Department now also offers two fellowships. She was named and remains director of the Melanoma Program in 2004 and Director of the Cutaneous Oncology Center in 2007. She was also Assistant Dean of Clinical Affairs from 2003 to July 1, 2015. Dr. Grant-Kels received her BA Degree in 1971 from Smith College and her Medical Degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1974. She trained in pediatrics and dermatology at The New York Hospital of Cornell Medical Center. She then completed a dermatopathology fellowship at NYU under the direction of A. Bernard Ackerman. She serves on numerous boards and 23 editorial boards related to her field. She has been an associate editor for the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology and the founding editor in chief of the Journal of Clinical Medicine and founding co-editor in chief of the International Journal of Women’s Dermatology. She has published over 230 papers, 83 chapters, guest edited 19 journals, and edited or co-authored 6 books. Additionally she has delivered over 440 lectures nationally and internationally. She is presently an elected member of the Board of the Women’s Dermatologic Society and the Board of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Dr. Jane M Grant-Kels Research Interests are: Dermatoethics Clinical/Pathological Correlation in Dermatologic Diseases Non-melanoma skin cancers Photo-aging New techniques in diagnosing melanoma including dermoscopy, confocal microscopy and computer assisted evaluation of pigmented lesions Pediatric Dermatology Benign Melanocytic Lesions: Congenital Nevi, Spitz Nevi, Dysplastic Nevi, Melanocytic lesions in children Malignant Melanoma

Bozena B. Michniak-Kohn is Professor in Pharmaceutics and Director of the Center for Dermal Research (CDR) and the Laboratory for Drug Delivery (LDD) at the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials (NJCBM). Dr. Michniak-Kohn has directed over 28 Ph.D. students, 5 Masters students, and 250+ undergraduates and the work resulted in over 350 abstracts, 3 patents, two books, and more than 116 papers and book chapters. Dr. Michniak-Kohn has a B.Sc. (Honors) in Pharmacy and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the DeMontfort University, U.K. Dr. Michniak-Kohn is a member of several journal editorial boards, acts as the U.S. Editor of the Controlled Release Society Newsletter and is a reviewer for over a dozen pharmaceutical and drug delivery journals. She also serves as a reviewer for the NIH, U.S. Dept. of Defense, National Medical Research Council of Singapore, and the Dutch Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) ERANET PRIOMEDCHILD programs.

Treatment & therapeutics for dermatological diseases such as atopic dermatitis, melanoma and psoriasis, Physical approaches to enhancing dermal drug delivery, Development of novel human tissue cultured skin equivalents for permeability testing, Computational approaches to predicting skin transport of drugs, Optimization of buccal drug delivery, Pharmacokinetics and ADME studies in animals and humans.

I have nearly 7 years of clinical practice and currently work as Consultant Dermatologist at my clinic (Sparsh skin hair & laser clinic, Belagavi) and faculty at Belagavi Institute of Medical Sciences .After completing my post graduate diploma from the prestigious Madras Medical College in May 2011, I joined Bangalore Medical College & Research institute, Bangalore in June 2011 and worked as a Junior Resident cum Dermatosurgery OT in-charge till August 2011. It was in March 2012 that I joined Dept of Dermatology, Belagavi Institute of Medical Sciences, Belagavi and continue to work here till date. Here I am required to look after the OPD (average 90/day), IPD, attend to emergency calls and cross references. Since I take keen interest in academic activities I am also involved in under-graduate, post graduate and inter departmental teaching programmes. I have also conducted clinical trials for superficial mycoses, acne and hairloss At my private clinic my focus is on Cosmetology and Dermatosurgery.

Dermatology, Venereology, Cosmetology and Dermatosurgery.

Dr. Sassan Sabouri, an instructor at Harvard Medical School, is a graduate from medical school in Shahid Beheshti Medical University (SBMU) in Tehran, Iran. First, he finished his anesthesiology residency in SBMU. He has gained his major experience by practicing anesthesia in different cities across Iran for 10 years. In 2006, he started his residency in General Surgery in Temple University in Johnstown PA and then Anesthesiology Residency in New York State University at Buffalo NY, where he became one of the chief residents. After graduation from residency he became one of the staff at the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), MA. His clinical innovations are primarily focused on regional anesthesia. Collaboratively, he started General Surgery Regional Service in MGH in May 2012. He has had multiple abstracts and presentations in the USA as well as internationally in Iran and India.

Regional anesthesia, Perioperative ultrasound use, Management of Difficult Airway Patients

Dr. Aaron Tan is a researcher based in University College London (UCL) Medical School, and is a visiting scholar at the Biomaterials and Advanced Drug Delivery Laboratory (BioADD) at Stanford University. He graduated with a BSc in Surgical Sciences from UCL in 2011, and was awarded his PhD in Surgery and Bioengineering from UCL in 2014. Dr. Aaron Tan is currently completing the clinical years of his MBBS Medicine degree at UCL Medical School. He has held research collaboration positions at various top institutions including Harvard University, University of Oxford, and Imperial College London. To date, he has authored in excess of 40 PubMed-indexed publications, with papers in high-impact factor journals including ACS Nano, Trends in Biotechnology, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, among many others. He has 1090 citations, and a h-index of 16. He is a Guest Editor at Frontiers in Pharmacology, and Nano Reviews and Experiments. He works on the forefront of nanotechnology and regenerative therapeutics as applied to clinical medicine and surgery.

Advanced Drug Delivery, Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Regenerative therapeutics as applied to Clinical medicine and Surgery

Pharmaceutics and Director of the Center for Dermal Research (CDR) and the Laboratory for Drug Delivery (LDD) at the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials (NJCBM). Dr. Michniak-Kohn has directed over 28 Ph.D. students, 5 Masters students, and 250+ undergraduates and the work resulted in over 350 abstracts, 3 patents, two books, and more than 116 papers and book chapters. Dr. Michniak-Kohn has a B.Sc. (Honors) in Pharmacy and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the DeMontfort University, U.K. Dr. Michniak-Kohn is a member of several journal editorial boards, acts as the U.S. Editor of the Controlled Release Society Newsletter and is a reviewer for over a dozen pharmaceutical and drug delivery journals. She also serves as a reviewer for the NIH, U.S. Dept. of Defense, National Medical Research Council of Singapore, and the Dutch Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) ERANET PRIOMEDCHILD programs.

Treatment & therapeutics for dermatological diseases such as atopic dermatitis, melanoma and psoriasis, Physical approaches to enhancing dermal drug delivery, Development of novel human tissue cultured skin equivalents for permeability testing, Computational approaches to predicting skin transport of drugs, Optimization of buccal drug delivery, Pharmacokinetics and ADME studies in animals and humans.