8th World Congress on
Gastrointestinal & Digestive Disorders

Gerard E. Mullin, MD, is a board-certified internist, gastroenterologist and nutritionist. He is an associate professor of medicine and director of Integrative GI Nutrition Services at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Mullin is regarded as an authority in integrative gastroenterology. Dr. Mullin teaches medical professionals at international conferences on the role of nutrition and lifestyle and the gut microbiome in digestive health and weight control. He is the author of several professional desk references and trade books (http://thefoodmd.com/books) including his latest The Gut Balance Revolution: Boost Your Metabolism, Restore Your Inner Ecology, and Lose the Weight for Good!

Elimination Diets in Gastrointestinal Disease; Nutrition; Gut Microbiome; Probiotics; Integrative Medicine; Celiac Disease; Spectrum of Gluten Intolerance; Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth; Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

Fellowship *Gastroenterology: Washington University School of Medicine-Barns & Jewish *Hospital-St. Louis Advanced and therapeutic endoscopy: Medical College of Wisconsin and affiliated hospitals – Milwaukee

Pancreatic and biliary disease,Advanced endoscopy, Diagnosis and treatment of esophageal diseases

Dr. Mayank Singhal is a graduate from University College of Medical Sciences and currently working as an Academic Hospitalist at Cape Fear Valley Hospital, NC, USA and affiliated with Methodist University as Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine. He is also teaching faculty for Internal Medicine Residency at Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine, USA. He is Board Certified in American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). He is a member of Society of Hospital Medicine and American College of Physicians. He is also active as a Reviewer for scholarly articles and member of Editorial board for journals.

Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolic Disorders.

Ashktorab has completed his Ph.D at the age of 28 years from Utah University and postdoctoral studies from Indina University and University of Florida, School of Medicine. He is the director of Microarray lab, a member of Gastrointestical Research group. He has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of many Journal including DDS, GUT, PlosOne and others.

Gastrointestinal genetic, epigenetic and epidemiology including population based, translational and clinical research

Shunlin Ren is an Associate Professor at McGuire VA Medical Center/Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. He is Reviewer of Grant Application 2009-2012 Department of Veterans Affairs Joint Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Scientific Merit Review Board USA; IAR Reviewer Meeting 2009/10 ZRG1 DKUSA 58 National Institute of Health Bethesda MD; Co-Chairman 2001 Present Medical Service Safety Committee McGuire VA Medical Center Richmond, VA, USA. He received his PhD in Biochemistry from Medical College of Virginia Richmond Virginia in 1992; and his Master of Medicine from School of Medicine Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai, China in 1986. He is serving as an editorial board member of 2 reputed journals; and as a reviewer of 10 journals. He has published 41 peer reviewed papers and 57 abstracts

Structural characterization of lipids by HPLC, enzymatic digestion, MS, MS-MS, NMR analysis. Cholesterol and triglyceride metabolism and regulation. Oxysterol chemical synthesis. Lipid metabolic disorders. Atherosclerosis. Drug research and development.