Long Covid Solutions Congress 2022
March 12, 2022, 1 pm ET / 6 pm UK
- This online congress, hosted by Dr Philip McMillan, takes a 360 degree view of long Covid, providing a critical bridge between cutting-edge science and patient therapies.
- It brings together experts from around the globe to discuss long Covid symptoms and solutions based on the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of the disease.
- With long Covid cases on the rise, there is no better time to learn more about new developments in this field from those who know it best.
- Joining the congress is special guest, Gez Medinger, film producer and editor, who shares a passion for helping others with long Covid.
Dr Philip McMillan
Host
International Panel and Speakers
Dr Bruce Patterson
USA
Prof Resia Pretorius
South Africa
Gez Medinger
UK
Joachim Gerlach
Germany
Dr Tina Peers
UK
Dr Philip McMillan
UK
Prof Mady Hornig
USA
Dr Shankara Chetty
South Africa
Valentina Viduto, PhD
UK
Dr Abdul Mannan Baig
Pakistan
Biographies
Dr Philip McMillan
Host
Dr Philip McMillan is a physician, researcher and international keynote speaker with an innovative approach to COVID-19 and long haulers. He was the first to outline a theory of autoimmunity in COVID-19, and shares valuable research on science and health through published papers and social media. He also hosts a series of panels and conferences which bring together international experts on COVID-19 and long Covid. Dr McMillan’s focus on long haulers is a natural evolution of his research on autoimmunity in COVID-19. He focuses on identifying the primary driver for their immune response and incorporates this into his clinical practice. Dr McMillan applies new thinking to the development of solutions for long haulers and, in the process, hopes to uncover critical links to other diseases such as CFS. One of his companies, McMillan Research Ltd, aims to fund specific research projects on taste and smell abnormalities in long Covid.
Gez Medinger
Panelist
Special Guest
Gez Medinger is a film producer and director, known for Atmospheric (2011), Attempt Seven (2009) and You Love Me (2012). As an investigative science journalist and patient advocate, he is travelling down the rabbit hole of Long Covid.
Dr Abdul Mannan Baig
Speaker
Dr Abdul Mannan Baig is a scientist from Pakistan. He is an active clinical and basic scientist in COVID-19 and Long-COVID. He has contributed towards translational research in COVID-19 from the beginning of the pandemic. His research has contributed to the recognition of loss of smell and taste in COVID-19 that he hinted in March 2020, including the proposal on SARS-CoV-2 virus using the nose to access the brain. Dr Baig was recently commissioned by Nature Reviews Neurology to write for the journal on neurological deficits caused by SARS-CoV-2 in COVID and such findings as are being reported in Long-COVID. He has over 32 papers on COVID-19 and is considered an expert in Long-COVID and neurological research in COVID-19. Dr Baig is the recipient of the national award of distinguished scientist by Pakistan Scientific Society and is the recipient of the most productive researcher at Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan in the years 2017-2020.
Dr Shankara Chetty
Panelist
Dr Shankara Chetty is a committed, experienced Family Practitioner, with a broad diversity of patients, offering a wide range of outpatient services over the past 19 years. He has a deep passion and respect for Nature and its Laws, and its little nuances that make every individual unique. He has spent his academic life studying its workings, and his life, observing its power and ultimate control. That respect and understanding is carried over to every individual patient requiring his assistance.
Joachim Gerlach
Speaker
Joachim Gerlach is a German entrepreneur and expert in research and development. He has experience in financing and coordinating multiple projects, including sustainable organic agriculture, reforestation and agroforestry projects, restoring micronutrition levels in plants, animals and humans, as well as the development and production of targeted nutraceuticals. Mr Gerlach is the Founder of GREEN INDUSTRY GROUP GmbH (Germany-Costa Rica) and VITALIS FOUNDATION SPAIN (Canary Islands), and Co-founder of VEDICINALS INDIA PVT LTD, a biotech company that recently developed a novel nutraceutical protocol to support patients with acute- and Long-Covid conditions. The resulting product VEDICINALS 9 has successfully completed extensive preclinical and clinical trials.
Prof Mady Hornig
Speaker
Prof Mady Hornig is a physician-scientist at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health where she is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology. She is internationally known for establishing animal models focused on how genes and age-related factors interact with microbes and other environmental agents to lead to inflammation and autoimmune phenomena that disrupt brain development and function. She uses immune profiling, metabolomic, proteomic, epigenetic and microbiome approaches to identify prenatal and birth biomarkers for a wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders, including autism and ADHD. She is applying similar approaches to uncover markers of disturbed immunity and metabolism that correlate with the clinical deficits of disabling diseases such as ME/CFS. Dr. Hornig has lectured globally on immune-mediated brain disorders. She has over 130 peer-reviewed publications, has edited several books, and has received many academic awards.
Dr Bruce Patterson
Speaker
Dr. Bruce Patterson received his undergraduate training in molecular biology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He then went on to Northwestern University Medical School for training in medicine. During the early stages of the AIDS epidemic, Dr. Patterson began investigating cellular reservoirs of HIV-1 using molecular and in situ technology patented in his laboratory. He went on to a residency in Pathology focusing on viral pathogenesis. While in his residency, Dr. Patterson determined that enough HIV virus was present in infected individuals to account for the massive destruction of the immune system. This paradigm altering work was published in Science in 1993. Dr. Patterson later was named Chief Resident of Pathology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He has authored over 100 manuscripts and book chapters and continues his medical work at IncellDx. Dr. Patterson was the Medical Director of Diagnostic Virology at Stanford University Hospitals and Clinics.
Dr Tina Peers
Speaker
Since qualifying in Medicine at Guys’ Hospital London in 1983, Dr. Tina Peers has developed her skills and knowledge in women’s health, first working as a GP in Surrey, then becoming a Consultant in Contraception and Reproductive Health in 1996, and leading these services in Surrey until 2018. In 2019 Dr. Peers established The Menopause Consultancy, a specialist Menopause & Women’s Health clinic and a centre of excellence to provide evidence-based care for women. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, Dr. Peers has begun treating those suffering from Long Covid, using her expertise in Histamine Intolerance and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome to inform treatment plans.
Prof Resia Pretorius
Speaker
Professor Resia Pretorius is a Physiologist, distinguished professor and Chair in the Department of Physiological Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She studies cells and proteins in the coagulation system, including platelets, erythrocytes and the coagulation plasma protein, fibrin(ogen). She also studies inflammatory biomarkers, including those that have a viral and bacterial origin, that might impact on the coagulation system. Prof Pretorius has published/in press nearly 300 papers, and has delivered various keynote and plenary lectures at international conferences, and is a regular reviewer for scientific journals. Together with Stellenbosch University, she has filed various patents, including treatment methods and biosensors for early detection of disease risk. Recently, she filed a provisional patent for a method for the diagnosis of Long COVID. In May 2021, Prof Pretorius launched the South African Long COVID registry and was on the WHO Long COVID panel in 2021.
Valentina Viduto, PhD
Panelist
Valentina Viduto, PhD, is a Founder of Long Covid-19 Foundation (UK registered Charity) who has outstanding research experience and worked for a number of leading UK Universities. Being a Long Covid sufferer herself, she has direct insight and deep understanding of medical issues and long standing symptoms people experience for months. Over the last year Dr Viduto worked tirelessly to find and bring together top experts: medics and scientists from all over the World to share leading medical and scientific findings on Long Covid in order to support sufferers in their path to recovery. Till now, Valentina has recorded more than 80 podcasts available on Long Covid-19 Foundation Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/LongCovid19Foundation and built a strong community of more than twelve thousand people who are being supported by leading experts.