16^th World Congress on Nutrition and Food Chemistry September 18-20, 2017 Zurich, Switzerland

Dae Young Kwon completed his Bachelor degree in Department of Food Science and Engineering at Seoul National University; MS and PhD in Biological Science and Biotechnology at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). After completing his Post-doctoral training at Whitehead Institute, MIT, Cambridge, he has started his research as Research Scientist at Korea Food Research Institute (KFRI). He worked at KFRI in the field of Food Biological Chemistry. He worked as Adjunct Professor at Sookmyung University in 1997-2003. He is a Professor of United University of Science and Technology since 2004. He worked as a Vice-President of KFRI. He is a Fellow of Korea Academy of Science and Technology since 2011. He is a President of Korean Society of Food-Health Communication and Vice-president of Korea Society of Nutrition, Korean Society of Metabolomics, Korean Society of Food and Nutrition and Korean Forum of Fermentation and Food Culture. He has worked on the health effect for metabolic syndrome, anti-aging food and food culture and history. He has published more than 250 research papers in several renowned SCI international journals in the areas of ethnic foods and bioactive food components and those papers were cited about 1,000 times in SCI journals.

Department of Food Science and Engineering

Reiko Suzuki completed his PhD degree in 2006 at Karolinska Institute, Sweden. Her research area is a hormone-related dietary factors and estrogen-receptor and progesterone receptor defined breast cancer risk. She was a Post-doctoral student at Cancer Research UK, Oxford University (2007), and National Cancer Center in Japan (2008-2011). Now, she is a Professor at Tokyo Healthcare University (2011-2017).

dietary factors

Robert Buist completed his PhD in Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology. He spent eight years in Asthma and Cardiovascular Drug Research at Macquarie University, followed by a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at New York State Health Department. He is presently acknowledged as one of the founders of Nutritional Medicine in Australia. He is currently a Nutritional Educator for pharmacists, doctors, and other health professionals, and is a formulator of nutrition products and functional foods.

nutrition products and functional foods.

Muhammad A Jawad is a board certifi ed through the American Board of Surgery and serves as the Medical Director of Orlando Regional Medical Center’s Bariatric Program. He has been an expert in Laparoscopic Surgery since 1989, where he has been performing complicated biliary, colon and endocrine surgery. He has performed more than 4,000 laparoscopic bariatric surgical cases since 2000, safely and with great success. He specializes in the laparoscopic gastric bypass, the adjustable Lap- Band, and sleeve gastrectomy procedures. He has presented more than 45 presentations both nationally and internationally on laparoscopic and bariatric surgery.

Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery.

Shougang Wei serves as Professor, PhD supervisor and Deputy Director in Department of Children’s and Women’s Health, School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Peking, China. He has been engaged in the study of child and adolescent health, mainly focused on the field of childhood obesity about its health risks, pathogenic factors, and preventive and treatment measures.

Childhood obesity about its health risks, pathogenic factors, and preventive and treatment measures.

Damien Byas is serving as an Associate Faculty member in a Master of Public Health (MPH) Program. He is currently working as a senior research fellow for the Centre for Organizational Research in Chicago, IL. He is currently serving as an Associate Faculty Member in a Master of Public Health (MPH) Program. He is the president of the North American Scientific Committee on Cardiovascular Health, a part-time Public Health Researcher, Senior Research Fellow, and an adjunct Professor for an MPH program. He has done his PhD in University of New Mexico and he is expertise in Global Health Research Epidemiology Biostatistics Quantitative Research.

Global Health Research Epidemiology Biostatistics Quantitative Research.