Prof. Şenol KOBAK, MD

Internal Diseases and Rheumatology

Medical Interests and Activities

• Sarcoidosis

• Rheumatoid Arthritis

• SLE

• Sjögren Syndrome

• Systemic Sclerosis

• Myositis

• Ankylosing Spondylitis

• Psoriatic Arthritis

• Behçet’s Disease

• FMF

• Vasculitis

Education and Experience

• 2016 İstinye University / Liv Hospital - Currently

• 2016 Professorship

• 2011 2016 Chief of Department of Rheumatology in Private Foundation University

• 2011 Associate Professor

• 2010 Founder and Chief of Department of Rheumatology in Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University

• 2005 – 2010 Compulsory Service in Manisa State Hospital

• 2002 – 2005 Subspecialty Education in Ege University Rheumatology Department

• 1998 – 2002 Internal Diseases Specialty in Ege University

• 1996 graduation from Varna University Medical Faculty

Memberships

• Turkish Society of Rheumatology

• Turkish Medical Association

Researches and Publications

• International Articles: 52

• National Articles: 11

• Arbitration in International Journals: 12

• International Conference Presentations: 53

Dr. Yunus Keser YILMAZ is a Cardiovascular Surgeon Specialist and Complementary and Integrative Medicine Physician with extensive experience and expertise in the fields of Cardiovascular Surgery and Complementary and Integrative Medicine.

Nikolay Polischuk is a PhD candidate and director of the chronomedicine clinic “Resonance” in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Education

• Naval Faculty at the Kirov Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia.
• Faculty of Medicine at the Kiev Medical Institute named after A.A. Bogomolets, Ukraine.

Dr. Venus Rawat is an ENT Specialist Surgeon with MS in ENT and MBBS. She has experience working in Indian hospitals and a fellowship in sleep apnoea surgery from Singapore. Her special interests include endoscopic and microscopic ear surgery, myringotomy and grommet insertion, endoscopic sinus surgery, septoplasty, turbinoplasty, removal of tonsil and adenoid using coblation technique, snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea surgery, microlaryngeal surgery, and vertigo management.

Dr. Adel M Jibril is an expert in treating complex autoimmune diseases with extensive experience in Rheumatoid Arthritis, Osteoarthritis and Ankylosing Spondylitis. He is fluent in Arabic, English and Russian and has an MBBS, MD, PhD, FACRM, ACPM, AAP, UFR, SH.

Dr. Vivek Sharma is an experienced Orthopedic & Joint Replacement Surgeon with 14+ years of experience. He is a D.Ortho and DNB qualified surgeon and has performed over 5,000 primary complex and revision surgeries. He has expertise in performing primary & revision hip/knee arthroplasty, knee osteotomy, as well as treating osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and pain. He is also a founding member of the Rajasthan Arthoplasty Center of Excellence.

Dr. Saurabh Singh is an experienced Ophthalmologist with 11+ years of experience and expertise in Comprehensive Eye Checkup, Computerized Eye Testing, Lasik, Cataract Surgery, Cornea Transplant, Ocular Surface Reconstruction, Keratoprosthesis, Keratoconus Management, and Glaucoma Management. He has both national and international publications and is a regular guest speaker in scientific meetings and CDE's.

Professor Carlo Selmi is leading the Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit at Humanitas Research Hospital. 

Since 2009, he is the responsible of the Autoimmunity and Metabolic Laboratory, dedicated to the study of the possible mechanism linked to the progression of autoimmune diseases. 

The research focuses on four main areas: 

• - The epigenetic mechanisms that regulate the environment-genomic interface by influencing the susceptibility and the phenotype of chronic autoimmune and inflammatory diseases in the model of discordant monozygotic twins for disease. To date, the laboratory has biological sample of discordant couples for numerous diseases.
• - The target antigens of autoimmunity modifications that affect the development of the course of autoimmune diseases. In particular, the laboratory studies the post-translational modifications of joint collagen in rheumatoid arthritis.
• - The prevalence of non-organ autoantibodies, such as anti-nucleus and anti-ENAs and disease specific autoantibodies, such as anti-citrulline and anti-endomysium in a non-specific population of health adults and the significance of the positive founds over time.
• - Gender medicine in real-life, through the analysis of administrative databases.

The team holds dedicated clinics also for, spondiloarthritis and connetcive tissue disease, and it is active in articular ultrasound, videocapillaroscopy, arthrocenthesis and joint injection of steroid or hyaluronic acid.  The Division includes an inpatient clinic for complex cases. All group members are fluent in spoken and written English

Current Teaching Activity: Professor Selmi works as Assistant Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Milan since 2006. Furthermore, he holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Division of Rheumatology of the University of California at Davis since 2005.

He is member of the American College of Rheumatology, American Association of Allergists and Immunologists, and the Italian Society of Rheumatology. He serves on the International Group for Research on Psoriatic Disease (GRAPPA) and the working group for autoantibody standardization within the ACR (ASC).

Publications: Selmi C[Author] - Search Results - PubMed (nih.gov)

Biography

Dr. Mehdi Afrit is a Medical Oncologist who practices at Burjeel Specialty Hospital in Sharjah. He has over 11 years of experience caring for and managing cancer patients. He has extensive experience providing chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, immunotherapy, and targeted therapy to patients. He earned a Certificate of Medical Oncology from the Gustave Roussy Institute in Paris, France, where he received training in antitumor chemotherapy and cancer medical treatment. Additionally, he holds an international certificate in breast diseases. He also has a certificate in Good Clinical Practice from Trans Celerate Biopharma Inc. and a certificate in Clinical Trial Management: Good Clinical Practice from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians. He previously worked for over five years as an Assistant Professor of Medical Oncology at Tunis’s Faculty of Medicine. He later practiced as a Consultant, Medical Oncologist for six years at Arianna’s hospital in Tunisia. He later worked for two years as a Specialist Medical Oncologist at Zulekha Hospital. He was also an investigator in three international clinical trials and holds clinical trial auditing and CRO certifications and a GCP Training Certificate from 2016. He is a member in good standing of the Emirates Oncology Society (EOS), the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO), and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). His clinical expertise includes but is not limited to the following:

• Oncology care and treatment for chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, immune therapy, and target therapy
• Breast cancer
• Solid tumor diagnosis
• Digestive cancer
• Gynecological cancer
• Lung cancer
• Genitourinary cancer
• Sarcoma

Awards & Achievements

• Award from Himaya Foundations and University of Sharjah

Research & Publications

• Clinicopathological Features of Gastric Cancer in a Cohort of Gulf Council Countries' Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study of 96 Cases. Journal of Oncology Research Reviews & Reports Volume 2(2): 1-3.
• The Burden of Gynecologic Cancers in the UAE. Journal of Oncology Research Reviews & Reports Volume 2(4): 1-6.
• The Emirates Oncology Task Force Clinical Practice Guideline on Screening for SARS-CoV-2 in Asymptomatic Adult Cancer Patients Before Anti-Cancer Therapy. Journal of Oncology Research Reviews & Reports Volume 2(4): 1-6.
• The State of Cancer Care in the United Arab Emirates in 2020: Challenges and Recommendations, A report by the United Arab Emirates Oncology Task Force. Humaid Al-Shamsi, Humaa Darr, Ibrahim Abu-Gheida , Jawaher Ansari, Martine, Mehdi Afrit, Mohamad H Masri, Mohamed Abuhaleeqa. Gulf J Oncology 2020 Jan;1(32):71-87.
• Primary Bone Lymphoma: Tunisian Multicentric Retrospective Study About 32 Cases. Ben Ayed C, Laabidi S, Said N, Afrit M, Ben Ahmed S, Boussen H. Tunis Med. 2018 May;96(5):269-272.
• First Site of Recurrence After Breast Cancer Adjuvant Treatment in the Era of Multimodality Therapy: Which Imaging for Which Patient During Follow-up? Nesrine M, Mehdi B, Houda EB, Soumaya L, Mehdi A, Bechir Z, Hamouda B. Breast Dis. 2017 Nov 21

Dr. Eduardo Braga is a plastic surgeon based in Brazil. He completed his residency in plastic surgery by SOBRAPAR in Campinas and is a specialist in Plastic Surgery by the Ministry of Education (MEC) as well as the Regional Council of Medicine and the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery. He has also completed training with Professor Ivo Pitanguy and Professor Foad Nahai in Atlanta, USA. He is a member of several prestigious medical associations including the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery, the Paulista Medical Association, the Brazilian Medical Association, the International Confederation for Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (IPRAS), the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS), and the International Society of Plastic Surgeons American (ASPS).

• Specializes in managing Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus, and Osteoarthritis.
• International practice includes extensive work abroad.
• Provides remote consultations for patients with rheumatic diseases.
• Holds certifications in internal medicine and rheumatology.
• Member of prestigious rheumatology associations.

Professor Dr. MD. Peter Heering works on the EU Kalsey centre of the Academic Prostatic Cancer Research Unit Munich, Germany, in the treatment of prostate cancer. He is a member of the German, European, American and International societies of medicine. He has a busy clinical in Europe and USA, works here as a visiting professor and consultant.

Dr. Albert Nadal is a rheumatologist, a specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the musculoskeletal system.

Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, Autonomous University of Barcelona (1984)

Diploma in Immunorheumatology from the University of Aix-Marseille II (France)

Member of the Spanish Society of Rheumatology and the Spanish Society of Bone and Mineral Metabolism Research SEIOMM.

Title of Director of the Bone Densitometry Department.

Member of the International Society of Bone Densitometry ISCD.
Author of the book "A Brief Handbook of Rheumatology" (1997), intended for medical students and general practitioners.
Author of the book “Living without pain is possible” (2012)