Traditional & Alternative Medicine

Mr. De la Parra is an entrepreneur focused on Information Technology, Education and Health. He is creative, results-driven and has 16+ years of Digital Strategy experience in architecture and implementation. Mr. De la Parra serves as Chief Information Technology Officer and is a member of the Advisory Board at the Kala Institute. He is the COO and Co-founding Partner at The Solomon Brokerage Firm and leads as CEO at Mass Media Division and at De la Parra Mobile Solutions. He is the former President & Co-founder of PetroM Renewable, and served as Vice President of Operations & Strategy at PetroM Corp across all of its divisions, including PetroM Logistics. He is the former COO & Co-founder at RegenerAge Clinic & RegenerAge Beauty. Mr. De la Parra is the former CEO & Founder at Astrum Salud Móvil and its Telemedicine service Astrum Móvil, former Digital Strategy Director & Co-founder at Dr. Jois, BiorganicAging, What Skin Needs/WSN International Pty. Ltd. He also served as a member of the Board of Advisors and is former Chief Marekting Officer at ReAnima Advanced Biosciences and served as Digital Media Director at Bioquark, Inc. He also served as the Latin America Region Manager and Digital Strategy adviser at CardiacSense and is former CITO & Senior Partner at Cerezo Editores.

Neuroscience, Regenerative Medicine, Continued Medical Education, Information & Communications Technology, Biotechnology, Social Development, Nanotechnology, Education Technology, Water Technology and Renewable Energy Technologies.

Dr. Pathirage Kamaml Perera is a Senior Lecturer and consultant pharmacologist and has delivered guest lectures and keynotes in multidisciplinary conferences and symposiums . Has presented and published many papers at local and international conferences and journals in areas of Pharmacology, Clinical trials , Toxicology, Immune medicine, Traditional medicine, Ayurveda, Pharmacovigilance, Bio transformation technologies, Bio medical-clinical ethics and Medical education. Won awards for research presentations both internationally and locally for scientific publications. Received several research grants and developed a research Unit for Ayurveda products to conduct experimental studies and clinical trials in the Institute of Indigenous Medicine, University of Colombo. Supervising research and clinical degrees of Post Graduate Diploma /MSc/MD/MPhil/PhDs. Serve as a reviewer and Editorial board member of peer review International journals. Held the post of Head of Department of Allied Sciences, and Head of the Department of Ayurveda Pharmacology and Pharmaceutics. Currently hold the post of clinical coordinator in MD(Ayu) program at Institute of Indigenous Medicine, University of Colombo.

Pharmacology, Clinical trials , Toxicology, Immune medicine, Traditional medicine, Ayurveda, Pharmacovigilance, Bio transformation technologies, Bio medical-clinical ethics

Dr. Hiu Yee KWAN obtained her B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Biology from the Hong Kong University and Ph.D degree in Physiology in the Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her postdoctoral training in the Department of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the School. Dr. Kwan develops various research platforms to have new insight into the interplay between obesity and cancer, and discover novel herbal-based target therapeutics to treat cancer, obesity and its comorbid conditions. She has published over 60 research papers, review articles, editorials, and book chapter in the areas of oncology, obesity, nutrition, and vascular biology in prestigious journals like Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), Circulation Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, FASEB J, Journal of Proteome Research, Scientific Reports, The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, Molecular Cell, Nature Communication and Cell. Currently, Dr. Kwan is an editorial board member for more than 10 international Journals.

Nutritional science, and the interplay between obesity and cancer. Discover novel Chinese medicine-based target therapeutics for the treatment of cancers, obesity and its comorbid conditions

Dr. Hiu Yee KWAN obtained her B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Biology from the Hong Kong University and Ph.D degree in Physiology in the Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her postdoctoral training in the Department of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the School. Dr. Kwan develops various research platforms to have new insight into the interplay between obesity and cancer, and discover novel herbal-based target therapeutics to treat cancer, obesity and its comorbid conditions. She has published over 60 research papers, review articles, editorials, and book chapter in the areas of oncology, obesity, nutrition, and vascular biology in prestigious journals like Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), Circulation Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, FASEB J, Journal of Proteome Research, Scientific Reports, The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, Molecular Cell, Nature Communication and Cell. Currently, Dr. Kwan is an editorial board member for more than 10 international Journals.

Nutritional science, and the interplay between obesity and cancer. Discover novel Chinese medicine-based target therapeutics for the treatment of cancers, obesity and its comorbid conditions

Dr Mohammad Nazrul Islam is having vast interest to conduct research on traditional unani medicine. He has been serving to his nation more than 18 years. He has been successfully working as an Assistant Professor, Hamdard University Bangladesh since 2014. He has awarded Doctor of Medicine (Unani) from National Institute of Unani Medicine under Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science Bangalore by ICCR AYUSH Scholarship-scheme 2006-2009. He has conducted different clinical trials; field based studies and published more than 15 articles in the international and national journals. He also serves as editor and reviewer of the 5 international journals. He is a member of International Society such as IRED and BARA.

Dr Mohammad Nazrul Islam is one of the world’s most experienced researchers of Unani Medicine. He is writer of 2 books like Strategic Development of Herbal medicine: Research based approaches; Introduction to Regimenal Therapy; and contributor of a chapter of book LF: Indian Perspective edited by Prof. B.K.Tyagi.

Huang Wei Ling, born in Taiwan, raised and graduated in medicine in Brazil, specialist in infectious and parasitic diseases, a General Practitioner and Parenteral and Enteral Medical Nutrition Therapist. Once in charge of the Hospital Infection Control Service of the City of Franca’s General Hospital, she was responsible for the control of all prescribed antimicrobial medication and received an award for the best paper presented at the Brazilian Hospital Infection Control Congress in 1998. Since 1997, she works with the approach and treatment of all chronic diseases in a holistic way, with treatment guided through the teachings of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Hippocrates. Researcher in the University of São Paulo, in the Ophthalmology department from 2012 to 2013

Treatment of a variety of disease using Traditional Chinese Medicine reasoning • Excessive use of technology • Emotional relation with diseases • Dietary Therapies