Biography
Beniamino has completed his graduation in Medicine in 1972 from the University of Modena. He completed his post-graduation studies in Hematology, Surgery, Maxillo-facial, Plastic Surgery from University of Modena and University of Milano from 1975-1985. Present he is working as a Professor in University of Modena in the department of Surgery. More than 12.000 surgical operations in the field of: General Surgery (coloproctology oncological and general, , laparoscopic and hepatobiliary surgery), Breast (oncological- sentinel and oncoplastic)Head and neck (specifically thyroid-parathyroid), Maxillo facial and emergency surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Laser Surgery, Expert of second opinion in surgery
Research Interest
Surgery, oncology, clinical investigations
Biography
Bilkis Vissandjée is a Full Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Montreal. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. She is a researcher at the Institute of Public Health Research at the Université de Montréal. Her research work is carried out in partnership with frontline community health services organizations attending to the needs of migrant populations in Montreal as well as at the provincial and national levels. Her contributions to the scientific community along with nationally and internationally-based partners highlight the importance of accounting for sex, gender, migration and ethnicity when deriving strategies for providing quality and equity sensitive care within a diversified socio-cultural context. Her research work’s focus is to address the challenges associated with providing quality of care in a multiethnic context within a gender, migration and equity sensitive perspective. Dr. Vissandjée has conducted research on fundamental health issues of women from both Canada and other countries. Dr. Vissandjée is also involved in educational projects abroad to reinforce nursing skills seeking to enhance frontline line and public health nursing profession to a level of excellence. She is involved in encouraging student mobility and collaborative research on issues such as TB, T2DM and training with overseas partners.
Research Interest
Public Health and Nursing
Biography
Qualifying in 1961, I spent 4 years in Nigeria alternating with training posts at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School. In 1969 I switched to psychiatry, training at the Institute of Psychiatry. From 1983-2001 I held the Chair of Psychiatry in the University of Birmingham, and was visiting professor in Chicago, St Louis, Nagoya and Kumamoto. My published work is on African heart diseases, the classification of the psychoses, the methodology of clinical research and the psychiatry of childbearing. I have published 4 authored monographs: Motherhood and Mental Health (1996), Eileithyia’s Mischief: the Organic Psychoses of Pregnancy, Parturition and the Puerperium (2006), Menstrual Psychosis and the Catamenial Process (2008) and What is Worth Knowing about ‘Puerperal Psychosis’ (2014) .
Research Interest
Psychiatry