Hypertension and Healthcare

Bill Boerum is in his fourth term on the Board of Directors of the Sonoma Valley Health Care District, the governing board for Sonoma Valley Hospital. Currently serving as Board Secretary, he previously served twice as Board Chair and as Treasurer including as Chair of the Audit Committee and as a member of the Finance Committee. Currently, he is Chair of the Governance Committee. He is an advocate for medical tourism as well as for medical cannabis having spoken at state, county, and city hearings including before the Medical Board of the State of California. He was Chairman of the Northern California Health Care Authority, a consortium of five hospital districts. Also, in the healthcare domain, he was a member of the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee and Vice Chairman of the Association of California Healthcare Districts and its related workers compensation insurance affiliate, the ALPHA Fund, both Sacramento-based. Boerum’ s interest in healthcare extends to the international sphere where he has toured hospitals in China, Egypt and India with a special focus on cardiology departments and patient through-put. He is an international conference speaker, having spoken at the “Healthy Life Forum – Toward 80+” held in Sochi, Russia, and has spoken on “Digital Healthcare Transformation Drives Quality of Life.” He is Chairman Emeritus of Sister Cities International, Washington, D.C., a citizen diplomacy organization with 2,200 partners in over 140 countries. Previously in the risk management domain, he had more than 15 years of experience in the decision technology industry and a 20-year career in banking. He holds an MBA degree from Cornell University and a BS degree in Economics.

the Lešnica health station, -October 2006- February 2017: Zvornik Health Center; Chief of the General Emergency Medicine and Home Care Service -September 2004- July 2006: Health Center: "Milivoje Stojkovic" Grocka, Beograd; -April 2003- April 2004: Health Center Novi Beograd; internship EDUCATION: -University of Belgrade, School of Medicine, 2003 -University of Belgrade Specialisation: GENERAL MEDICINE; 2013 -University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac School of Medicine, Doctoral studies in neuroscience ( final year) -T.A. Center - Association of transactional analysts of Serbia, psychotherapy education. HONORS AND AWARDS PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES - Assessor of Serbian health institutions within the Agency for Accreditation of Health Institutions of Serbia at the Ministry of Health (AZUS) since 2017. - Certificate of completed training in Abdominal Ultrasonography, KCS 2012 (as well as daily practice in the same from 2013 to the present.) -Psychotherapist in Supervision, T.A. Center-Association of transactional analyst of Serbia MEMBERSHIPS (Mensa) - Member of MENSA Serbia (International Association of Above-average Intelligent Persons) since 2012 - organizer of testing for Mensa in Loznica in 2014 and 2015 - Member of the Presidency of the Branch Office of Loznica of the Serbian Medical Society from 2015 to 2017 -Author of the project "Psychosocial support for talented children" sponsored by Mensa Serbia 2017. - Associate of the magazine "MozaIQ" which is the official publication of Mensa Serbia, with several published texts since 2016. -Author of the project "Writing, Research, Publishing" sponsored by Mensa Serbia, 2018.

Dr. Maria Dorobantu has worked as senior specialist in internal medicine and Senior specialist in cardiology during 1990-1996. She is Director of the Research Center of Excellency for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular emergencies and she is Director of Hypertension Center of Excellence, European Society of Hypertension. She is Initiator and Coordinator for National Studys SEPHAR (I-III). She is reviewer for multiple journals viz., American Heart Journal, Cor et Vasa, Journal of Hypertension, PLOS ONE.

Zeliha Selamoglu is a Professor in Medical Biology department of Nigde Ömer Halisdemir University, Turkey. She earned her PhD in Biology from Inonu University, She has published over 80 peerreviewed journal articles with over 700 citations and many technical reports. She is a member of Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine: Associate Membership and European association for cancer research. She has served as Editorial Board member for many Journals.

M B Jani educated from Medical College Baroda , affiliated to M S University of Baroda, Gujarat, India. He was awarded M Sc ( Medial ) and Ph D in Medical Physiology by M S University of Baroda. He worked at the same institute and department as a teacher in various academic caders. He has teaching experience of 34 years to UG and PG students. He retired as Professor & Head of Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, M S University Of Baroda.. His fields of research interest are Application of Medical therapeutic exercises in COPD, Hypertension, Obesity and PAD. He has been as a Guest speaker at National and International Conferences.