Dr. Debrework Zewdie is a globally recognized public health leader, distinguished scholar, and Honorary Professor at the Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York (CUNY), USA, and Wollo University, Ethiopia. A visionary in global health leadership, Dr. Zewdie was a Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she developed and taught a course on Leadership in Public Health, empowering future leaders to address complex global health challenges. Throughout her remarkable career, Dr. Zewdie has held several of the world's most influential leadership positions in international health. At the World Bank, she served as Director of the Global HIV/AIDS Program, where she led the development of the Bank's global HIV/AIDS strategy and directed the first-ever US$1 billion investment to combat HIV/AIDS in developing countries. From 2010 to 2013, she served as Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, playing a pivotal role in the organization's strategic transformation and strengthening its global impact. Dr. Zewdie earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Immunology from the University of London. In recognition of her exceptional contributions to global health, leadership, and public service, she has received multiple Honorary Doctorate degrees and continues to serve on the boards of several international nonprofit organizations, advancing health equity and sustainable development worldwide.

Dr. Cynthia Husted, PhD, is a medical researcher and the founder and president of the Science and Spirit Institute. She obtained a Ph.D. in physical chemistry with a focus on nuclear magnetism and quantum mechanics as a possible link to the energy concepts of traditional medicines. Prior to that she was an ICU registered nurse and has had a longstanding interest in innovative health care systems and optimizing health care delivery. She has had a varied and integrative approach to scientific research of neurological disorders during the past 40 years with approaches in physics, neuroscience, traditional, integrative, and functional medicines, including longstanding interests in the concepts of energy as relates to healing from perspectives in physics and traditional medicines, particularly from the view of Tibetan medicine. The recent formation of the 501(c)3 non-profit the Science and Spirit Institute is the culmination of her lifelong interests in physics, research, and innovative health care systems to optimize health care delivery. Herfocus is on healthy longevity and restoring balance in neurological disorders and other chronic illness, including autoimmunity, mood disorders, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and atrial fibrillation. Her approach is on the mind, body, spirit connection to all through better understanding of the universal unlimited energy. scienceandspirit.institute http://cynthiahusted.com/cv.html

Dr. Chris Stout is a licensed clinical psychologist and international humanitarian with a diverse background in various domains. He is the Founding Director of the Center for Global Initiatives (a Top-Rated Nonprofit) and is the Executive Producer and Host of the popular “Living a Life in Full” a top-ranked podcast with an audience of over 3 million. He was a Fellow in the School of Public Health and Full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois, Chicago and prior to that he held an academic appointment at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. He served as a NGO Special Representative and had the honor of speaking at the United Nations; he holds the distinction of being one of only 100 world-wide leaders appointed to the World Economic Forum’s Global Leaders of Tomorrow and was an Invited Faculty at the Annual Meeting in Davos. Learn more at: https://www.DrChrisStout.org/ and https://linktr.ee/DrChrisStout

David Wortley is CEO & Founder of 360in360 Immersive Experiences and a VP of the International Society of Digital Medicine (ISDM). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce and a global thought leader and innovator on enabling technologies for health, education and the environment. He is on the editorial board of the Digital Medicine Journal. He is an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Medicine and a Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at Bournemouth University. As the Founding Director of the Serious Games Institute (SGI) at Coventry University, his team established an International Centre of Excellence for Applied Research and Innovation in the field of serious games and immersive technologies for a wide range of applications. His areas of special interest are technologies for preventative healthcare, collaboration, virtual reality and interactive rich media knowledge sharing. He a professional virtual event facilitator, webinar host and publisher.

Lili Qiu is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 2001. She spent 2001–2004 as a researcher at Microsoft Research, Redmond, and joined UT Austin in January 2005. In 2022-2025, she was an Assistant Managing Director at Microsoft Research Asia, leading high-impact cross-disciplinary research in wireless communication, sensing, AI systems, and precision healthcare, and broadening collaborations across academia and industry. She is a National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and ACM Distinguished Scientist. She received an NSF CAREER Award and a Google Faculty Research Award, as well as Best Paper Awards at ACM MobiSys'18, IEEE ICNP'17, CCR'25, AAAI'26.

Prof. Zhenhuan Liu is a distinguished pediatrician, pediatric acupuncturist, and Professor of Pediatrics, serving as a Ph.D. tutor with extensive expertise in pediatric rehabilitation and neurodevelopmental disorders. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK) and has served as a Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for over a decade. Prof. Liu is a Standing Director of the International Association of Neural Restoration and holds key leadership roles within the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, including Vice-Chairman of both the Rehabilitation Committee for Children with Cerebral Palsy and the Professional Committee of Child Health. Recognized internationally for his contributions to pediatric medicine and neural rehabilitation, he has been featured in the Dictionary of World Celebrities published by Cambridge, UK. His research focuses on pediatric rehabilitation, cerebral palsy, child health, neural restoration, and integrative medicine.

Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 138) degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1995; USA) and in biomedical engineering from RPI (Ph.D., 2000; USA). He has formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health in over 45,000 patients. He is currently helping those companies and serves as a professor at Brown University, Saveetha University, Hebei University of Technology, UFPI, University of the Basque Country, and others. Dr. Webster has numerous awards including: 2020, World Top 2% Scientist by Citations (PLOS); 2020, SCOPUS Highly Cited Research (Top 1% Materials Science and Mixed Fields); 2021, Clarivate Top 0.1% Most Influential Researchers (Pharmacology and Toxicology); 2022, Best Materials Science Scientist by Citations (Research.com); and is a fellow of over 8 societies. Prof. Webster is a former President of the U.S. Society for Biomaterials and has over 1,350 publications to his credit with over 55,000 citations. He was recently nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Prof. Webster also recently formed a fund to support Nigerian student research opportunities in the U.S.

Mr. Angus Buchan Gordon, MBBS, FRCS is a Consultant Breast Surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, United Kingdom, with extensive experience in breast disease management, breast cancer surgery, and oncological research. He previously served as a member of the renowned Breast Unit at The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, and has been affiliated with Charing Cross Hospital since 2006. His research interests focus on breast cancer imaging, tumour measurement methodologies, and Tumour Volume Analysis (TVA), for which he holds patents and has presented internationally at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, ASCO, and the European Congress of Radiology (ECR). Mr. Gordon has authored several peer-reviewed publications in the European Journal of Surgical Oncology and other surgical journals, contributing to advancements in breast cancer assessment and treatment evaluation.

Bernd Blobel studied Mathematics, Technical Cybernetics and Electronics, Bio-Cybernetics, Physics, Medicine and Informatics at the University of Magdeburg and other universities in the former GDR. He received his PhD in Physics with a neurophysiological study. Furthermore, he performed the Habilitation (qualification as university professor) in Medicine and Informatics. He was Head of the Institute for Biometrics and Medical Informatics at the University of Magdeburg, and thereafter Head of the Health Telematics Project Group at the Fraunhofer IIS in Erlangen. Thereafter, he acted until his retirement as Head of the German National eHealth Competence Center as well as Head of the globally unique International Interdisciplinary PhD and PostDoc College at the University of Regensburg.