Plenary Lecture 1: Tobacco products and global sustainability
Luciano Ruggia, Swiss Association for Tobacco Control
Luciano Ruggia is Managing Director of Swiss Association for Tobacco Control
“In January 2020, I took over the management of AT Switzerland. My goal is to strengthen and better position AT with regard to the developments in the consumption of nicotine products as well as the structural changes that are taking place, especially at the legal level. Our country is still one of the laggards in terms of protection from smoking and the influence of the tobacco industry. There are very competent, committed people working both in the AT and in our network. I would like to lean on them to advance the cause and values of AT Switzerland.”
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Plenary Lecture 2: Illuminating the Mind: The Impact of Light on Mental Health
Maria Basta, University of Crete, Greece
Maria Basta has a MD & PhD Diploma forn the School of Medicine, University of Crete (UoC),Greece and had a postdoctoral fellowship for sleep medicine at the Sleep Research & Treatment Center, PennState Univ, USA. Her current position is Professor of Psychiatry, University of Crete and she is Director of Departments of Adult and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the University Hospital of Heraklion, Greece. She has more than 100 articles (citations> 3,900 , h-index:32) and her research is is mainly focus on elderly, cognitive disorders and sleep.
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Plenary Lecture 3: The Mediterranean Diet: a healthy and sustainable dietary pattern, an intangible cultural heritage
Mary Yannakoulia, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Mary Yannakoulia is a Professor of Nutrition and Eating Behaviour in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece. Her research interests are related to factors that influence human eating behavior, adherence to diet and lifestyle interventions, as well as diet and aging/cognitive decline. Dr Yannakoulia has been the Principal Investigator in studies funded by the EU, national or other international agencies and a Co-Investigator in multiple others. She has co-authored 310 scientific publications in highly esteemed journals (including New England Journal of medicine, Lancet Neurology, Metabolism, Heart) (>10000 Scopus citations, H-index = 49) and multiple presentations in internationally acclaimed scientific conferences – meetings. She has been the recipient of the EFAD Honorary European Dietetic Fellowship Award (2023).