Witamina D – Międzynarodowa konferencja

Prof. Dr. Harjit Pal Bhattoa, MD, PhD, MSc, DSc graduated from the Medical Faculty of the University of Debrecen, Hungary and is a Specialist in Laboratory Medicine and a Sub-Specialist in Laboratory Immunology and Hematology. He is the Head of the Endocrinology Unit at the Department of Laboratory Medicine at University of Debrecen. His major research interests are markers of bone turnover and vitamin D. He has published over a 100 peer-reviewed papers, authored 1 book and 9 book chapters. He serves as an Advisor to the European Commission in the field of medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices. Apart from being the Chair of the IFCC Executive Committee of Communications and Publications Division (IFCC CPD), he is also a Consultant for the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry (IFCC) Scientific Division Committee on Bone Metabolism (IFCC C-BM). He is a Full-Member of the European Federation for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) Communications Committee (EFLM C-C) and Secretary of the Committee: European Regulatory Affairs (EFLM C-ERA). He is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Electronic Journal of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry (eJIFCC) and the Editor of the EuroLabNews, the official newsletter of the EFLM.

Carsten Carlberg is a German biochemist, who is since more than 20 years full professor at the Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio. In addition, since early 2022 Dr. Carlberg is also ERA Chair holder for Nutrigenomics in the WELCOME2 project at the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research, Polish Academy of Sciences in Olsztyn, Poland.

During his time as a postdoc at the Central Research Unit of Roche in Basel (Switzerland), Dr. Carlberg was introduced to vitamin D and focused his investigations on the mechanisms of gene regulation by the micronutrient, its metabolites and synthetic analogues. Dr. Carlberg contributed with some 200 original and review articles to the field of vitamin D, in particular to the understanding of transcriptome- and epigenome-wide effects of vitamin D in human immune cells.

Prof. N. Grygorieva is Head of the Department of Clinical Physiology and Pathology of the Musculoskeletal System in the D. F. Chebotarev Institute of Gerontology of the NAMS of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine). She is President of the Ukrainian Association on Osteoporosis, Vice President of the Ukrainian Scientific and Medical Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Board Member of the Association of Rheumatologists of Ukraine, and National Ambassador of OARSI in Ukraine.

Prof. N. Grygorieva completed her primary training in rheumatology, received her Doctor of Medical Science degree in 2007, and has been a Full Professor of medicine since 2017.

Her researches focus on the aging of the musculoskeletal system, osteoporosis and its complications, osteoarthritis, sarcopenia, and vitamin D deficiency.

She is the Editor-in-Chief of the "Pain, joints, spine" journal and a member of the Editorial Boards of several Ukrainian and foreign journals.

She is the author or co-author of over 300 publications in national and international journals and more than 10 monographs.

He is a consultant for endocrinology and for internal medicine and a general practitioner. He is the past president of the Austrian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism and works as the head of the outpatient clinic at the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology at the Medical University of Graz, Austria. His main research interests are vitamin D, and related mineral disorders, and steroid hormones with a focus on endocrine hypertension. He published over 300 Medline papers and has an H-index of 75.

Pawel Pludowski works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical Biochemistry at the Children's Memorial Health Institute in Warsaw. Pawel Pludowski is the chairman of the European Vitamin D Association (EVIDAS). He published over 280 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in books; (till date about 84 indexed in PubMed, USA).

Professor White obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Harvard University. After 4 years of postdoctoral work with Professor Pierre Chambon in Strasbourg, France studying nuclear receptor function, he obtained a faculty position in 1991 in the Department of Physiology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he is now Professor and Chair. Dr. White’s laboratory has studied the molecular genetics of vitamin D signaling for 25 years. His lab has made several fundamental insights into the role of vitamin D signaling in regulation of innate and adaptive immunity. This includes its regulation of pattern recognition receptor expression and antimicrobial peptide production. Most recently, his group has shown that vitamin D deficiency disrupts normal thymic development and aging, which has profound implications for negative selection of autoreactive T cells, a process essential for limiting autoimmunity.