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Send us Fan Mail  Dr. Hassan A. Tetteh, MD, is the Health Mission Chief, at the Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, serving to advance the objectives of the DoD AI Strategy, and improve war fighter healthcare and readiness with artificial intelligence implementations. Dr. Tetteh is also an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Heal...

Send us Fan Mail  According to the U.S. National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an estimated 20 million American adults battled a full-fledged substance use disorder in 2017. Drug abuse and addiction cost American society more than $740 billion annually in lost workplace productivity, healthcare expenses, and crime-related costs. Mr. Dan Addario spent 3 decades with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agenc...

Send us Fan Mail  Dr. Brian Kennedy is Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS), Director of National University Health System (NUHS) Centre for Healthy Ageing, Singapore, Professor, Buck Institute for Research on Ageing, Adjunct Professor, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, USC, and Affiliate Facu...

Send us Fan Mail  Dr. Lee Chae, Ph. D., is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Brightseed, a novel life sciences company, merging the tools of plant biology and artificial intelligence, with a goal of enabling a healthier future by re-illuminating and re-activating the connections between people and plants. Dr. Chae is a seasoned R&D technology developer and has designed advanced disc...

Send us Fan Mail  Donna Butts is the Executive Director of Generations United, an organization with a mission to improve the lives of children, youth, and older people through intergenerational collaboration, public policies, and programs for the enduring benefit of all, a position she has held since 1997. For more than 30 years, Ms. Butts has worked tirelessly to promote the well-being of childre...

Send us Fan Mail  Disclaimer - COL Dr. Barnes’ remarks are personal views and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Defense, the United States Army, the United States Military Academy, or any other department or agency of the United States Government. COL Dr. David Barnes is Professor, United States Military Academy (USMA) and Deputy Head of the Department of English and Philosophy...

Send us Fan Mail  Dr. Shawna Pandya MD, is a scientist-astronaut candidate with Project PoSSUM, physician, aquanaut, speaker, martial artist, advanced diver, skydiver, and pilot-in-training. Dr. Pandya is also the VP of Immersive Medicine with the virtual reality healthcare company, Luxsonic Technologies, Director of the International Institute of Astronautical Sciences (IIAS)/PoSSUM Space Medicin...

Send us Fan Mail Every year, 800,000 babies are born extremely preterm (defined as less than 28 weeks of age) worldwide. These infants are usually transferred to an air-based neonatal intensive care unit to support their heart and lung development. Exposure to air, however, leads to many complications, because the lungs are not fully developed yet. An artificial uterus, or artificial womb, is a de...

Send us Fan Mail  Progress, Potential, And Possibilities has the honor of being joined today by Emmy Award winning Television Commentator, Radio Personality, and Newspaper Columnist, Mr. Juan Williams. Mr. Williams has been a Fox News Contributor since 1997 (including being a member of the nightly, current issue discussion show known as The Five), writes for several newspapers including The Washin...

Send us Fan Mail Bawa Jain is a visionary leader in the interfaith movement throughout the world. Mr. Jain is Founder and President of The Centre for Responsible Leadership ( https://www.thecrl.org/ ​), a non-profit organization dedicated to assembling global thought leaders to find concrete solutions to the major challenges plaguing our world today. Mr. Jain is also the Chairman of the World Yout...

Send us Fan Mail  Prof Dr. Raheel Qamar, is a Tenured Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Former Rector at the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS University - Islamabad), an international organization aiming to reduce the growing gap between the developed and developing world through useful applications of science and technology...

Send us Fan Mail An estimated 40% of all global produce is wasted due to spoilage that occurs before it ever reaches consumers’ grocery bags. And this loss, not only represents loss due to quality or ripeness standards that consumers desire, but also a significant impact on global emissions and fresh water supplies that it took to produce and transport that produce, representing a combined figure...

Send us Fan Mail  Dr. Suzan Murray, D.V.M., D.A.C.Z.M. is a board-certified zoo veterinarian at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) and serves as both the Program Director of the Global Health Program and as SCBI’s chief wildlife veterinary medical officer. Dr. Murray leads an interdisciplinary team engaged in worldwide efforts to address health issues in endangered wildlife and...

Send us Fan Mail Professor Dr. Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University. He joined Harvard University in 1993 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Astronomy, where he was tenured three years later. Prof. Dr. Loeb received his PhD in plasma physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24, led the first international proj...

Send us Fan Mail Ms. Stephanie Stuckey is an American businesswoman, environmental lawyer, former 14-year member of the Georgia House of Representatives, former Director of Sustainability and Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Atlanta, and the current CEO of the Stuckey's Corporation ( https://stuckeys.com/ ​), a roadside convenience store chain found on highways throughout the United S...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. David Stoudt, is a Senior Executive Advisor and Engineering Fellow for Directed Energy at the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., where he is responsible for providing clients with leadership and guidance on the science and business of advancing directed energy capabilities for American warfighters. Dr. Stoudt is also President of the Directed Energy Professional Society...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Derek Yach, has been a global health expert and anti-smoking advocate for more than 30 years, is the Founder, President, and Board Member of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW - https://www.smokefreeworld.org/ ​), and is also a passionate advocate for health promotion and disease prevention. Dr. Yach is a former World Health Organization (WHO) cabinet director and exe...

Send us Fan Mail Dr Jane Pinelis, Ph. D. is the Chief of Testing, Evaluation, and Assessment, of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), at the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC). Dr. Pinelis has a BS, MS, and Ph. D., from the University of Michigan, in the field of statistics, where she spent time as a research assistant in their Center fo...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Hanadi Khamis Al Hamad is the Medical Director of Rumailah Hospital and the Qatar Rehabilitation Institute, Chairperson of Geriatrics and Long Term Care Department at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC - the principal public healthcare provider in the State of Qatar), National Lead for Healthy Ageing for the Qatar Ministry of Public Health, and the focal point for the elderly in t...

Send us Fan Mail Colonel (ret) Dr. Geoffrey Ling, MD, PhD is the Founder and CEO of On Demand Pharmaceuticals (ODP), an innovative pharmaceutical manufacturing company creating the world’s first distributed and reconfigurable medicine production systems to enable rapid response when conditions are uncertain and changing. On Demand Pharmaceuticals mission is to provide an adequate, safe, and reliab...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Ellen de Brabander, is Senior Vice President, Research and Development, at PepsiCo, the American multinational food, snack, and beverage company. Dr. de Brabander has broad set of responsibilities at Pepsico and currently leads their global R&D functions including the Food Safety, Quality, Strategy & Portfolio Management, and their Sensory and Regulatory Affairs teams....

Send us Fan Mail Irakli Beridze is the Head of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI). With a Master’s Degree in International Relations and National Security Studies, and a law degree, Mr. Beridze has more than 20 years of experience in leading multilateral negotiations, developing stakeholder engagemen...

Send us Fan Mail Tessy Antony De Nassau is a Social Entrepreneur, Business Woman, Philanthropist, Advocate, Public Speaker, Activist, Mother, and Jazz Aficionado (https://www.instagram.com/tessy_from_luxembourg/?hl=en​). Tessy is founder and partner of the Global consultancy Finding Butterflies Consulting LTD ( http://findingbutterflies.com/ ​), co-founder of the fashion brand Human Highness ( htt...

Send us Fan Mail As we approach the end of 2020, according to the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI), we have had approximately 1,806,590 new cases of cancer diagnosed in the United States, with 606,520 deaths. Cancer continues to be the leading causes of death worldwide. In 2018, there were 18.1 million new cases and 9.5 million cancer-related deaths worldwide. By 2040, the number of new cancer...

Send us Fan Mail As we sit here in 2020, in the middle of a major viral pandemic, we can’t forget the fact that a century after the first antibiotics were created, drug resistant bacterial infections have become a major threat around the globe, exactly at the same time that the antibiotic pipelines of pharma companies have either dried up, or they have gotten out of the business. In the U.S. alone...