Biography

Robert A Knuppel graduated from Georgetown University in Washington DC. He received his MD from Rutgers college of Medicine, New Jersey. He matriculated to Tufts for his residency and Fellowship in OB/GYN & Maternal Fetal Medicine. He received his Masters of Public Health from Harvard University.

He was recruited out of Fellowship to establish the Division of MFM and Obstetrics at University of South Florida (USF) Tampa, Florida. He was Professor of OB/GYN and Public health for 10 years at USF. He was then recruited to become the chair and professor of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Department of OB/GYN. He held that position for 12 years and ran the 12^th largest Perinatal Center in the Country which received the ACOG award for Research Excellence.

Subsequently, he has been VP of a hospital and an Assistant/Consultant Dean at Drexel University College of Medicine. He has been recognized by several publications as one of the nation’s top 100 OB/GYNs for over 13 years. He has received over 10 million dollars in grant money. CO-authored over 200 articles, 5 monographs and 3 textbooks. He has earned an MBA from Ellis College of the New York Institute of Technology, and Cofounded Women’s Integrated Network LLC. He was Chief of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Penn Highlands Healthcare. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Health Sciences and Public Health at Florida Gulf Coast University.

Research Interest

He is working on dominant issues in systems management, namely, patient safety, collaborative commitment to hospital safety, telemedicine and rural health and multidisciplinary approach to improving hospital efficiency in Obstetrics.

Biography

Erich Cosmi was born in Rome, Italy on December 1, 1973. He entered the school of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy in the 1993-1994 academic year, and was graduated on July 13, 1999 summa with Laude, discussing his scientific work entitled: new therapeutical prevention of NRDS by in-utero surfactant administration. During his scholarship, Erich Cosmi was invited for three consecutive periods (1994-1996-1998), each period lasting three months, at the Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut, USA, where he worked with Dr. Gabor Huszar in the Physiology Sperm laboratory and entered in a Research program concerning Reproductive Medicine.

During his scholarship in Italy he attended as a student in the following Departments:
Department of Anatomy: 1994-1995
Department of Pediatric Surgery: 1996-1997
Department of Anesthesiology: 1997-1998
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology: 1998-1999

After his graduation in Medicine he attended the rotation as a Medical Doctor for 6 months in Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Pediatric and Ob/Gyn, Emergency and intensive Care Unit Departments. In the academic year of 1999-2000 he entered the residency school in Ob/Gyn at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy. In April 2001 he was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Virginia University (USA) School of Medicine for 3 years, were he was involved in many research projects in maternal-fetal medicine.

From 2001 to 2004 was appointed Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Associate Chief of MFM at the University of Sassari School of Medicine (Italy). He is assistant researcher at the Yale University School of medicine, Connecticut, USA. He is supervisor for Fetal Anemia at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy. From September 1st 2001 he was appointed as Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in University of Sassari School of Medicine, Italy. Till November 2001 he was involved with the residency program development in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Sassari School of Medicine. From November 1st 2004 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in University of Padua School of Medicine.

Erich Cosmi is author of 220 publications, with Impact Factor of 135, Citation Index of 324 and H- index of 10. From 2005 is Visiting Professor at the III University of Athens, Greece. From 13/09/05 is Tresourer and Counselor of the Italian Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine. International Member of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology from 2000; Member of The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine from 2005. Honorary Member of The Academy of Medicine of Serbia Montenegro.

Expert Referee for ECM in Medicine appointed from 2005 by the Ministry of Health. From 2007 he is listed in the following encyclopedias: Who is Who in the World, Who is Who in Science and Engineering, Who is Who in America. From 2007 he is Director of the prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapy Unit in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Padua University.

From 2014 he is an Associate Professor of OB GYN.

Research Interest

IUGR; Fetal anemia; Fetalhydrops; Fetal Doppler; Maternal and Fetal Medicine; Fetal Theraphy; Twins; Endometriosis

Biography

Yoku Kato is currently working as a human embryologist at Department of infertility, Royal Bell Clinic. Nagoya, Japan. He obtained the B.S.A and theMS.cin Facility of Agriculture in Utsunomiya University, Utsunomiya, Japan in 2005 and 2007, and his Ph.D at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in 2010, respectively. In 2010, he had joined Dr. Janice L. Bailey’s laboratory at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada, as a postdoctoral researcher. He had started his work as a clinical embryologist at Ochi Yume Clinic, Nagoya, Japan in 2011. He had published over 20 scientific papers and abstracts and over 15 scientific presentations.

Research Interest

Andrology
Embryology