12th World Congress on
Primary Healthcare and Medicare

Kate ONeill, DNP, RN has over 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry and is Sr. Advisor in Practice, Education, and Innovation at iCareQuality.us. Over the past 6 years, she has served as a Subject Matter Clinical Expert collaborating with engineers and informatics teams with practice innovation, project development, and system implementation at the learning labs in Philadelphia and Toronto. As a healthcare leader, Dr. Oneill works with key industry stakeholders to develop evidence-based solutions to improve provider engagement with a focus on reducing ALL CAUSE HARM. Dr. Oneill also has deep expertise in frontline clinical practice with over 20 years in emergency medicine where she was awarded textbook of the year for Pediatric Triage Guidelines; served as ER Staff Development Educator; and developed the first clinical ladder program to measure skills, competencies, and nursing performance. She served as the Senior Nursing Editor for PEMSoft and the journal Pediatric Emergency Care. Kate received a US patent for designing a medical device bite block for cervical spine radiography; and in 2009, she received the Bayaida Business Award at Drexel University for new technology development. Additionally, while at Drexel, she collaborated with nursing faculty and led the simulation team to develop an online platform for evidence-based practice to measure competencies in the student practice setting. Kate has other advanced skills and capabilities including hospital compliance, patient safety, risk management, quality improvement, LEAN, and health information technology (HIT).

Nursing Education,Patient safety, Healthcare,Clinical Research

Greg Gurican is the Principal Consultant and founder of GMG & Associates LLP, a HealthCare Quality Consulting firm. After 25 years in the Power industry as a Sr. Nuclear Safety & Licensing Engineer, Technical Consultant, and Project Mgr. Greg has added nearly 20 years of experience in HealthCare as a Registered Nurse in PA & NJ, and as the former Manager of Nursing Quality Mgmt. & Innovation for Wellspan Health at York Hospital. Greg has been certified by HQCC as a Certified Professional of HealthCare Quality (CPHQ) and is both an ASQ Sr. Member for more than 10 years and has held both current and past officer-ships in the ASQ Section 503 and membership since 2002. He is also a member of the National Association of HealthCare Quality (NAHQ) specialists, and long-term member of the PA Organization of Nurse Leaders (PONL) and its affiliate the South-central Organization of Nurse Leaders (SCONL).

Healthcare

Yehuda Shoenfeld is the founder and head of the Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases, at the Sheba Medical Center, which is affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine in Tel-Aviv University in Israel. Professor Shoenfeld’s clinical and scientific works focus on autoimmune and rheumatic diseases, and he has published more than 1750 papers in journals such as New Eng J Med, Nature, The Lancet, Proc Nat Acad Scie, J Clin Invest, J Immunol, Blood, FASEB, J Exp Med, Circulation, Cancer and others. Professor Shoenfeld is on the editorial boards of 43 journals in the fields of rheumatology and autoimmunity and is the founder and the editor of the IMAJ (Israel Medical Association Journal), the representative journal of science and medicine in the English language in Israel, and also is the founder and Editor of Autoimmunity Reviews (Elsevier) (Impact factor 7.9) and co-Editor of the Journal of Autoimmunity (Impact factor 8). For the past twenty years Yehuda has been the Editor of The Israel Journal in Medicine (Hebrew).

Clinical Immunology, Hospitals, Internal Medicine, Public Health, Life sciences, Healthcare Management, Medical Research

Prof. Nevzat Tarhan became a Psychiatrist in GATA in 1982. He became a professor of psychiatry in 1996. In 1998, he became the representative of Turkey in Memory Center of America. As Tarhan closely observes the social life due to being a psychiatrist, he makes an accurate analysis of the social life and touches on the importance of "Community Psychology" in every media platform. Prof. Nevzat Tarhan has always targeted investment in people and used his material-spiritual resources towards this direction. He expresses through his actions that he will continue the same objectives until the end of his life, under his approach of the faith. Currently, he is the Founder and Rector of the Aar University and carries out the NPÄ°STANBUL Brain Hospital Chairman of the Board of Directors, which is Turkey's first neuropsychiatry hospital. He has more than 100 publications, of which 31 are internation-al. He speaks English and German.

Psychiatry, Neurology