2025 HSC PRO

1. Palle Larsen, Researcher & Associate Professor, University College Lillebaelt UCL, Denmark.
   Title: Integrating Sustainability into Baccalaureate Nursing Education.
2. Yulong Gu, Associate Professor, Stockton University, USA.
   Title: How Well can University Students use Internet Information about Depression and Anxiety?
3. Mari Salminen-Tuomaala, Docent, Associate Professor, Principal Lecturer, Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, Finland.
   Title: Supporting the Health and Work Ability of Unemployed People with Long-Term Illness.
4. Daniela Taneva, Associate Professor, Head of the Nursing Care Department, Medical University – Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
   Vasilka Gyurova-Kancheva, Assistant Professor, Medical University – Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
   Yovka Zlatanova, Lecturer, Medical University – Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
   Diana Paskaleva, Senior Assistant Professor, Medical University – Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
   Angelina Kirkova-Bogdanova, Lecturer, Medical University – Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
   Title: Nurses’ and Nursing Students’ Perceptions of Electronic Nursing Records: A Pilot Study.

1. Parisa Gazerani, Professor, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.
   Title: State of Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Pharmacy: Current Tools, Benefits, and Barriers to Implementation.
2. Jeremy Johnson, Professor, University of Illinois Chicago, USA.
   Title: Xanthones from Garcinia Mangostana Target Drug-Resistant Androgen Receptor Mutants for Degradation in Prostate Cancer.
3. Beat Ernst, Professor Emeritus, Research Fellow, University of Basel, Switzerland.
   Title: Orally available of E-selectin Antagonists.
4. Saad Alkahtani, Professor, Najran University, Saudi Arabia.
   Title: Innovative Analytical Approaches for Quantifying Lipid-Lowering Drugs in Clinical and Pharmaceutical Samples.

1. Tomasz Kryczka, Head, Department of Development of Nursing and Social & Medical Sciences, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland.
   Title: The European Union Project JADE HEALTH in the Fight against Dementia – The Perspective of the Polish Participant.
2. Tim Lynskey, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Taranaki District Health Board, New Zealand.
   Title: Comparative Analysis of Suture Choice in Open Bilateral Carpal Tunnel Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
3. Nikolina Koleva, PhD Student, National Multi-profile Transport Hospital Tsar Boris III, Bulgaria.
   Valentina Mincheva-Kabakchieva, Associate Professor, National Multi-profile Transport Hospital Tsar Boris III, Bulgaria.
   Ivan Gruev, Professor, National Multi-profile Transport Hospital Tsar Boris III, Bulgaria.
   Title: The Importance of Early Detection of Transthyretin Amyloidosis – 3 Case Reports.

1. Semako Omedine Koukoui, Professor, ENSBBA/UNSTIM, Benin.
   Title: Evaluation of the Cytotoxicity, Antioxidant, Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Diabetic Activities of Extracts of Mangifera Indica L. and Parkia Biglobosa (Jacq.) R. Benth on Human Cells THP-1.
2. Inas Almazari, Associate Professor, Zarqa University, Jordan.
   Title: Curcumin Modulation of Liver Immune Cell Infiltration and Inflammatory Biomarkers in Diabetic Rat Models.
3. Marko Antonijevic, Research Associate, University of Kragujevac, Serbia.
   Title: Nature’s Pharmacy: Grape Skin Polyphenols Target Diabetic Wounds.

1. Mitra Esfandiarei, Professor, Midwestern University, USA.
   Title: Unraveling the Sex-Dependent Relationship between Central, Peripheral and Cerebral Arteries Function in a Mouse Model of Marfan Syndrome: Benefits of Exercise Training on Vascular Function and Blood Flow.
2. Roshanak Rahimian, Professor, University of the Pacific, Stockton, USA.
   Title: Sex Differences in Diabetic Vascular Dysfunction: A Deep Dive into Diabetes-Induced Vascular Aging in Males vs Females and the Impact of Exercise.
3. Nafisa Jadavji, Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University, USA.
   Title: Sex-Specific Consequences of Maternal Choline and Folic Acid Deficiency: Differential Impact on Stroke Recovery in Offspring.

1. Marzia Coltri, Extraordinary Professor, UNISA, South Africa & GUS Fellow, Lecturer, Arden University, UK.
   Title: Menopause and Perimenopause: Ethics, Rights, Well-being.
2. Ujjwal Kango, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management Sirmaur, India.
   Title: The Ethics of Gig Work: An Ethnographic Study of Food Delivery Platforms in India.

1. Mitra Esfandiarei, Professor, Biomedical Sciences Program, College of Graduate Studies, Midwestern University. Title: The Future of Medical Research in the U.S. and Canada?
2. Jun Qu, Professor and Director, Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. Title: Striking α Balance οf Funding Seeking αnd Conducting Research.
3. Steven M. Oberhelman, Professor (Holder of the George Sumey, Jr., Endowed Professorship), Texas A & M University, USA. Title: Is There a Future for Classics in an Age of Woke Culture?
4. Robert Earle, David W. Wilson Ethics Fellow & Assistant Professor of Instruction, University of Northern Iowa, USA. Title: Academic Freedom and the Right to Learn: Reflections from a US Educator.
5. Joyce Victor, Associate Professor, Wilkes University, USA. Title: Experiential and Distance Learning.

Short Interventions 

1. John Spiridakis, Chair of the Department of Education Specialties and Professor, St. John University, USA.
2. Sonia Salari, Professor, University of Utah, USA.
3. Jan Reid, President, Coast Economic Consulting, USA.

 Discussion

1. Steven Oberhelman, Professor, Texas A&M University, USA.
   Title: Medical Schools for Practical (Empirical) Doctors in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Greece: The Schools of Ioannina and Mystras.
2. Marcin Sniadecki, Assistant Professor, Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland.
   Title: How Renaissance Paintings Can be used to Teach Students to Interpret Patient Symptoms: The Example of Breast Cancer.
3. Fiona Singh, Lecturer, University of Zululand, South Africa.
   Ntombizodwa Linda, Senior Lecturer, University of Zululand, South Africa.
   Title: A Conceptual Framework for Blended Learning in Nursing Education at Historically Disadvantaged Institutions in South Africa.
4. Ingrid Brenner, Associate Professor, Trent University, Canada.
   Ayla Saiz Campomar, Student, Trent University, Canada.
   Leslie Kerr, Associate Professor, Trent University, Canada.
   Title: Effects of Training for Dragon Boat Racing on Fitness and Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Survivors.

1. Yasmine Kanaan, Associate Professor, Howard University, USA.
   Robert DeWitty, Associate Professor, Howard University, USA.
   Title: Molecular Profile of a Basal-Like Phenotype of Breast Cancer in African American Women.
2. Emily Havrilla, Associate Professor, Wilkes University, USA.
   Title: Service-Learning as an Educational Strategy to Foster Civic Engagement at the Freshmen Level.
3. Joyce Victor, Associate Professor, Wilkes University, USA.
   Title: Using DEI Shadowboxing to Improve Cultural Awareness in Nursing Students.
4. Rinat Nissim, Psychologist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada.
   Title: Challenges and Opportunities in Supporting Family Caregivers of Advanced Cancer Patients with Limited Language Proficiency: A Focus Group Study.

1. Jun Qu, Professor and Director, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.
   Title: Whole-Tissue Mapping of >10,000 Proteins and >30,000 Phosphosites by Micro-Scaffold Assisted Spatial Proteomics (MASP).
2. Iwona Inkielewicz-Stepniak, Head, Department of Pharmaceutical Pathophisiology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland.
   Title: Functionalized Silver Nanomaterials with Therapeutic Applications.
3. Hussam Murad, Professor, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia.
   Title: Evaluating the Association between Family-Related Factors and Levels of Substance use Severity as Determined by the Arabic DAST-10 Score.
4. Wenfang Chen, Professor, Qingdao University, China.
   Yu Gu, Professor, Qingdao University, China.
   Junxia Xie, Professor, Qingdao University, China.
   Title: Ginsenoside Rg1 Ameliorates LPS-Induced Neuroinflammation via G Protein-Coupled Estrogen Receptor in Experimental Parkinson’s Disease.

1. Angelos Halaris, Professor & Chair Emeritus, Loyola University Medical Center, USA.
   Title: Immunopsychiatry, Autoimmunity and Immunogenomics: Gateways to Precision Psychiatry.
2. Yongmin Xiong, Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
   Di Zhang, Assistant Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
   Xiaoli Yang, Researcher, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, China.
   Title: Study on Biological Mechanism of Selenium and Selenoprotein in Cartilage Injury in Kaschin-Beck Disease.
3. Xiong Guo, Professor, Xi’an Jioatong University, China.
   Huan Liu, Assistant Professor, Xi’an Jioatong University, China.
   Peiling Meng, PhD Student, Xi’an Jioatong University, China.
   Title: Progress in Molecular Biology of Kashin-Beck Disease in China.
4. Anita Zeneli, Lead Research and Risk Manager Nurse, Romagnolo Institute for the Study of Tumors “Dino Amadori”, Italy.
   Title: Prevalence and Characteristics of Cancer Related Fatigue: A Retrospective and Prospective Study.

1. Leilei Chen, Associate Professor, Qingdao University, China.
   Junxia Xie, Professor, Qingdao University, China.
   Xizhen Ma, Professor, Qingdao University, China.
   Ning Song, Professor, Qingdao University, China.
   Title: Linoleic Acid, a PPAR-γ Activator, Plays a Neuroprotective Role in Mouse Model of Parkinson’s Disease.
2. Huan Liu, Assistant Professor, Xi’an Jioatong University, China.
   Xiong Guo, Professor, Xi’an Jioatong University, China.
   Title: The Establishment of hiPSC-derived Disease Models of Kashin-Beck Disease and the Mechanism of HT-2 Toxin-induced Damage via PI3K/AKT/NF-κB Signalling Pathway.
3. Aysu Yurdasiper, Assistant Professor, Ege University, Türkiye.
   Title: Permeation of Dry Powders Including Peramivir as an Antiviral Agent Across Human Respiratory Epithelium: An in Vitro Study with Calu-3 Cells.
4. Andrii Pantus, Professor, Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University, Ukraine.
   Nataliіa Kovalchuk, Associate Professor, Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University, Ukraine.
   Title: Effectiveness of the Developed Biopolymeric Microfiber Matrix as a Local Drug Delivery System and a Scaffold for the Reconstruction of Bone Tissue Defects.

1. Dipane Hlalele, Professor & Chair, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
   Title: Geographies of Ethics: A Critical Analysis of Rural Tourism, Community Development, Religion and Education.
2. Robert Earle, Assistant Professor, University of Northern Iowa, USA.
   Title: Against Ignorance: The Normative Ethics Consensus Requiring Our Seeking to Know the Interests of Others.
3. Matthias Huehn, Mary S. Carey Chair in Ethics & CST, Saint Vincent College, USA.
   Title: The Common Good as the Opposite of the Collective Good: Theoretical and Practical Insights from Aristotelian and Thomistic Virtue Ethics.
4. Stavros Prineas, Head of Anaesthetics, Blue Mountains Hospital, Australia.
   Title: I Guess Therefore I Am.
5. Maria Mut Bosque, Senior Lecturer, International University of Catalonia, Spain.
   Title: The Erosion of Informed Consent: Transparency Failures and Vaccine Victims during the COVID-19 Pandemic.