Professor Claudia Stefanutti received her Ph.D. in Experimental Medicine (Atherosclerosis) from the University of Siena, Italy, with specializations in Liver and Metabolic Diseases and Emergency Surgery from the Sapienza University of Rome. During her surgical training, she was the first to introduce the autologous blood recovery from the wound or surgical site.

Claudia is the Head of Extracorporeal Therapeutic Techniques, Lipid Clinic and Atherosclerosis Prevention Centre, Department of Molecular Medicine and Department of Immunohematology and Transfusion Medicine, and serves as a Professor of Internal Medicine at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; and a Visiting Professor at the University of Nis, Serbia & Medical University of Vienna, Austria. She is also a Full Member of the International Society of Cytokines (2010) and European Board Trustee of the International Society for Apheresis (2011). She led the Italian Multicenter Study on LDL apheresis Working Group (2006-2012) and founded the Multidisciplinary International Group for Hemapheresis Therapy and Metabolic Disturbances Contrast (MIGHTY MEDIC).

Professor Gerald Watts, DSc, MD, Ph.D., FRCP, FRACP, is a graduate of the University of London and received his clinical and research training in the UK. He is Director of the Cardiometabolic Clinical Service at Royal Perth Hospital and Winthrop Professor of Medicine in The School of Medicine, University of Western Australia. He has delivered lectures to learned societies and academic bodies worldwide.

He has authored over 600 published works, encompassing lipid disorders, obesity, and cardiovascular prevention. He is on the editorial board of Clinical Science, Atherosclerosis, Metabolism, Journal of Clinical Lipidology, International Journal of Clinical Cardiology and Current Opinion in Lipidology, and is the present Chair of the FH Australasia Network.

Sara El Baba is a clinical dietitian in a well-known medical center in Abu Dhabi. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition and Dietetics from the prestigious American University of Beirut, Lebanon in 2011 and then completed her dietetic internship at the American University of Beirut Medical Center.

Sara has more than 5 years of experience in nutrition and health. She specializes in weight loss, nutrition in childhood, pregnancy, and lactation, and medical nutrition therapy for obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases. Her interest also expands to the field of health promotion and preventive nutrition. She is a member of the American Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics and the Lebanese Association for Nutrition & Food Sciences.

Psychologist Florentina Sanmartino graduated from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina, in 2014. In 2012 this same University awarded her with a Scholarship to study at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, for six months.

With a long curriculum of academic and research courses, she has participated in conferences as a collaborator and exhibitor. She has worked and volunteered at different institutions, both public and private, such as the Neuropsychological Assessment Service of the Córdoba Hospital, the “Rita Bianchi” Neurorehabilitation Clinic, and the “Independencia” Medical Center, among others. She also served as a mental health support worker.

Currently, she is dedicated to private practice, mostly conducting Neuropsychological Assessments, Group Workshops and Online Psychotherapy. She uses a comprehensive approach that includes Cognitive-Behavioral therapies, mainly third wave Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, but also other techniques from a number of orientations to provide the most unique treatment for every individual. As a 200-hour yoga teacher, she also incorporates yogic tools for the management of diseases.