3rd International Conference on
Orthopedics

Margo K. Apostolos, PhD, is the Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Cedars-Sinai/USC Glorya Kaufman Dance Medicine Center, as well as an Associate Professor of Dance at USC. Apostolos holds a PhD in Physical Education with a minor in Philosophy from Stanford University, an MA in Dance from Northwestern University, and a BS in Physical Education with a minor in Dance from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. Her practice-based work in training dancers and athletes has spanned over four decades, and she has trained numerous Olympians and professional athletes. Furthermore, Apostolos was a pioneer in the development of Robot Choreography and received a prestigious NASA/JPL Faculty Fellowship for work in space telerobotics. She collaborates with humans as well as robots.

Dance Medicine

Diana graduated from the University of Hertfordshire with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in solid state gyroscopes (UH). Diana has received 30 patents on solid-state sensors and, more recently, on medical applications involving the use of these sensors. Diana was awarded an MBE in 2000 for services to SMEs in the region, and in 2002 she was named Women Inventor of the Year for Industry. Diana received an honorary doctorate from the University of Hawaii in 2005 for her contributions to innovation. Diana and her husband started their own business in 1995, and in 2009 they released GaitSmart, a sensor-based gait monitoring product. This system is now used in a variety of medical and sporting applications. 

Diana has a strong research interest in developing tools to improve diagnosis of hip and knee OA and to improve the functional outcomes of those people who have received a hip or knee joint replacement.

Dr. Jike Lu is an orthopaedic surgeon and the Chairperson and Professor of the Department of Orthopaedics at Wenzhou Medical University, BJU, in Beijing, China. His doctorate was completed at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Dr. Lu was a qualified orthopaedic spine surgeon and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Xinjiang Medical University prior to his doctoral studies in Australia. Dr. Lu has a decade of experience in orthopaedic trauma, tumours, joint replacement, and spinal surgeries. He has worked in a number of hospitals in Melbourne and Sydney. Dr. Lu's primary clinical interest is adult and paediatric orthopaedic surgery. Dr. Lu has also taught orthopaedic surgery as a visiting professor at Wenzhou Medical University. Dr. Lu has more than 30 years of clinical experience in the treatment of cancer.

Low back pain, Spinal stenosis and inter vertebral disc degeneration, CT and myelography, MRI, Surgical intervention for cervical & lumbar degenerative diseases, Clinical and image analysis relating to diagnosis of spinal disorders

Dr. Jeong, the new Chairperson of World Taekwondo's medical and anti-doping committee, is the Director of Sports and Musculoskeletal Medicine at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and was the first to introduce point-of-care ultrasound to World Taekwondo. He has extensive experience with point-of-care ultrasound in primary care, sports medicine, emergency and critical care medicine. He is certified in diagnostic musculoskeletal (RMSK), abdominal (RDMS), and EM POCUS sonography (APCA). He has authored three book chapters on the subject and created curriculum for international Taekwondo team doctors, attending physicians, fellows, resident physicians, and medical students. He has been invited to teach nationally recognised ultrasound workshop programmes at the UC Irvine Annual Ultrafest.

Point-of-care ultrasound is used in primary care, sports medicine, emergency and critical care medicine.

Human Performance, Human Movement Anatomy, PhD in Neuroscience, Research Psychology, Traumatology& Orthopedics, Project Manager , Strength and Conditioning specialist Physical Therapy, Skynesiology and Spinology, Exercise Physiology, Spa Therapist Physiology Support Health Worker, aesthetic medical, sports masseur, expert in postural gymnastics, psychology and psychomotion for the elderly and special children or with learning disabilities. Coach and athletic trainer of various sports (football, swimming, volleyball, basketball, hockey, tennis, swimming). Spa &Clinical Manager, Lecture in neuro rehabilitation kinesiology, specialist in aesthetic gymnastics, weight-loss and pre and post-natal, Osteopathy, Psicomotricist, aesthetic and lymphatic drainage. The lines of research on which I worked at the Department of Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences, section of applied physiology and kinesiology and motion control, have been in the field of neuroscience, in particular in the role of beta-amyloid and glycoprotein F3 in the synaptic plasticity of hippocampal memory of mice and then in Alzheimer's disease; I dealt with behavior and various behavioural tests in mice; of electrophysiology of in vitro slices of hippocampus, stereotaxy and cannulation implantation, administration of drugs and animal welfare. In addition, I have helped other laboratories in the analysis of human movement, in neuropharmacology, in motor learning and control, in the performance of elite athletes in training programming, in rehabilitation, in the measurement of lactate in the physiology physical exercise.

Human Movement Anatomy, Neuroscience, Research Psicology,Traumatology & Orthopedic

Dr. Karena Wu is Owner and Clinical Director of ActiveCare Physical Therapy® in NYC and Mumbai. She is a native of Los Angeles, California and has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of California at Riverside. She has been practicing physical therapy for over 19 years in New York City. She graduated with a Masters Degree in Physical Therapy from the Program In Physical Therapy at Columbia University and received her Clinical Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Temple University. She has advanced training in manual therapies, specifically in the Maitland Australian Approach and Myofascial Release. She is a Board-Certified Clinical Specialist in Orthopedic Physical Therapy. Karena is also a Certified Orthopedic Manual Therapist, Strength and Conditioning Specialist, Kinesiology Tape Practitioner and Pilates Instructor. She holds LSVT BIG, FMS and SFMA Level 1 certifications as well.

Physical Therapy

Dr. Jennifer R. Grandis earned her medical degree and completed her internship at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania. Dr. Grandis received his residency and fellowship in infectious diseases from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania. Dr. Grandis was the UPMC Endowed Chair in Head and Neck Cancer Surgical Research and Distinguished Professor of Otolaryngology, Pharmacology, and Chemical Biology at the University of Pittsburgh before joining UCSF. She was the Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Otolaryngology and oversaw the Head and Neck Cancer Program.

Dr. Grandis' research focuses on signal transduction in the development and progression of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), with the ultimate goal of targeting key pathways for therapeutic benefit. By taking key clinical findings and investigating mechanisms in a series of preclinical models, as well as developing novel therapeutic approaches in the laboratory and conducting innovative clinical trials that use these treatment strategies.

Dr. Poessel earned his PhD in 2011 from Middleham University and went on to study postdoctoral medicine at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. He works at Mediclinic Middle East, a top player in global healthcare, as Senior Consultant of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine. He has served as an editorial board member, published numerous papers in respected publications, and participant in an online journal

A new Way of Hallux Valgus Fixation for early Weightbearing? The European (GER-S-AUSS) Stoffella Osteomy for Hallux Valgus-Case presentations -

Chief Scientific Officer at CKF Di Giorno Excellence Rehabilitation Medical Center, Alfonso Di Giorno

Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine

From 1987 through 2017, Christos Kosmidis worked as an orthopaedic physician at Private office. He oversees general orthopaedic and osteoporosis patients at the primary healthcare facility "Alexandras" 1st Health Division in Attica, Greece. Since 1993, he has served as a primary care physician for the Department of Orthopedics and Osteoporosis at the Alexandras Medical Center. He has been a professor of anatomy and orthopaedics at the Technological School of Paramedics for approximately 19 years (Nurses, physiotherapists etc.). He has been a member of the Hellenic Association of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology since 1986, the Hellenic Society for the Study of Bone Metabolism since 1997, and the Hellenic Osteoporosis Foundation since 1997. He served on the board of the former organisation as secretary general from 2009 to 2012, vice president from 2013 to 2014, and president of the board from 2015 to 2016.

General surgery, Orthopaedics

Ash Harkara is a founding director of the British company VOLMO Pvt. Ltd. He received his PhD from India's Pune University. He finished his postdoctoral studies at Leeds University in the UK's School of EE. He has twenty years of professional and academic experience. He has published numerous papers in reputable publications and presented papers at numerous conferences throughout the world. Since previous ten years he has been engaged on medical image processing and patient specific implants

TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT, Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Osteoporosis.