World Congress on Health and Medical Sociology September 19-20, 2016 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Robert Perrucci is professor of sociology emeritus at Purdue University. He joined the faculty in 1962, was promoted to full professor in 1967, and served as department head from 1978-87. In 1969, he was a Simon Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, England, in 1969. He has received major research grants from NSF, NIMH, and the Sloan Foundation. He is author/editor of 19 books and over 90 book chapters and research articles in leading journals, including five in the American Sociological Review, on topics related to work and occupations, complex organizations, mental illness, and the impact of the global economy on workers, communities and structures of inequality.

He has served as editor of Social Problems, The American Sociologist, Contemporary Sociology, and Associate Editor of the American Sociological Review. He has held elected positions as President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the North Central Sociological Association, and Chair of the Organizations and Occupations Section of the American Sociological Association. Two of his books have received the Scholarly Achievement Award from the North Central Sociological Association, and he has received Distinguished Alumnus Awards from the State University of New York at Cortland, and Purdue University. In 2005, he received the Lee Founders Lifetime Achievement Award from the society for the Study of Social Problems, and in 2008, from the North Central Sociological Association, the J. Milton Yinger Award for a Lifetime Distinguished Career.

James Anderson, Ph.D. earned a B.E.S. in Chemical Engineering, M.S.E. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, M.A.T. in Chemistry and Mathematics, and a Ph.D. in Education and Sociology from the Johns Hopkins University. He is the former Director of the Division of Engineering of the Evening College at Johns Hopkins University. At Purdue, he has served as Assistant Dean for Analytical Studies of the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education (1975-1978), Associate Director of the Health Services Research Training Program supported by the U.S. public Health Service (1971-1976), Director of the Social Research Institute (1995-1998), and Co-Director of the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention (1994-Present)

Author/Co-author of five books including Evaluating the Organizational Impact of Health Care Information Systems. Springer, 2005; Ethics and Information Technology: A Case-Based Approach to a Health Care System in Transition, Springer, 2002; and Evaluating Health Care Information Systems: Methods and Applications, Sage, 1994

Douglas A. Feldman, Ph.D. is Professor of Anthropology at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, former Chair of the Department of Anthropology, and former President of the Society for Medical Anthropology. He is author/editor of seven books about HIV/AIDS and anthropology, most recently AIDS, Culture, and Gay Men. He has conducted social research on HIV/AIDS in the United States, Hungary, Zambia, Uganda, Rwanda, and Senegal. He is the recipient of the Kimball Award for Public and Applied Anthropology, and the Distinguished Service Award of the AIDS and Anthropology Research Group.

He is author/editor of seven books about HIV/AIDS and anthropology, most recently AIDS, Culture, and Gay Men. He has conducted social research on HIV/AIDS in the United States, Hungary, Zambia, Uganda, Rwanda, and Senegal.

Sheying Chen is a professor of Social Policy and Administration at Pace University, USA.

Sheying Chen is a professor of Social Policy and Administration at Pace University, USA.

Shoou-Yih Daniel Lee (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1997) is Professor and Chair of Health Policy and Management at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Before, he was a Professor of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan between 2010 and 2015. He taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2001-2010 and at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1997-2001. Dr. Lee’s work has appeared in major health services research, medical sociology and management journals such as Health Services Research, Medical Care, Medical Care Research and Review, Health Affairs, Health Care Management Review, Journal of Healthcare Management, Journal of Rural Health, Journal of Urban Health, Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, The Gerontologist, Human Relations, Social Science & Medicine, Health Policy, American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Administration and Policy in Mental Health, and British Journal of Management. He has received recognitions from several regional and national associations, notably the Best Pre- and Post-Doctoral Presentation Award from the Association for Health Services Research in 1997, the John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators from the Association of University Programs in Health Administration in 2002, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research in 2008, and the Medical Care Research & Review Best Paper Award in 2009.

Dr. Lee’s main research interest is in health care organizations. In addition, he has conducted studies on issues related to health care utilization, physician manpower, and health information technology. His current research applies the theories of social capital, social support and social networks to the understanding of health care organizations and patient behavior. At the organizational level, he examines how network participation and external institutional ties affect the strategic behavior and service provision of health care organizations. At the individual patient level, his research examines how social support interacts with health literacy in affecting access to health care and health outcomes in several patient populations including Medicare beneficiaries, veterans, Spanish-speakers, demented elders and their caregivers. His recent research addresses issues related to the provision of patient-centered care, access to hemodialysis among end-stage-renal-disease patients, and adoption of health information technology in U.S. hospitals.

Professor Assata Zerai currently holds positions as Director of the Center for African Studies, Associate Dean of the Graduate College and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). Serving as faculty in Sociology at Illinois since 2002, Zerai’s research frameworks (theory and methodology) build from Black feminist thought, intersectionality, and African and Africana feminisms, and her interests have included maternal and child health, health activism, and safe water and sanitation in Africa and the African Diaspora, and in U.S. populations, as well as diversity and inclusiveness in U.S. Protestant congregations, and making the work of indigenous and marginalized scholars and activists more accessible. Dr. Zerai’s Hypermasculinity and State Violence in Zimbabwe: An Africana Feminist Analysis of Maternal and Child Health were published by Africa World Press (2014). She has just completed Intersectionality in Intentional Communities: The Struggle for Inclusivity in Multicultural U.S. Protestant Congregations (in press 2016, Lexington Books). She is author of Dehumanizing Discourse, Law and Policy in America: A Crack Mother’s Nightmare (Ash gate 2002) and her fourth book, Safe Water, Sanitation and Early Childhood Malnutrition in East Africa: An Africana Feminist Analysis of the lives of Women and Children in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, is currently under contract with Rowman and Littlefield.

Multilevel analyses of Maternal and Child Health; National and Cross Cultural Health Inequality; Adaptations of Safe Water and Sanitation Technologies; Sociology of Religion; Multiculturalism and Christianity; Race, Class and Gender analyses; Africana Feminist Methods; Black Feminist Thought; Gender Equity and Development Effectiveness; Health Activism

Dr. Arturo Alvarado has a Ph. D. in Social Science with concentration in Sociology. Since 1986, he is a full time professor at Centro de Estudios Sociológicos in El Colegio de Mexico, and director of the same Center since 2012. He is a specialist in topics of justice, human rights and security. He has done numerous investigations and evaluations related with violence, criminality and justice in Latin America. He is consultor of international programs for the UN and the World Bank. In 2009 was invited as “Maitre de Conférences” at the Institute de Hautes Etudes D’Amérique Latine (IHEAL) at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. He has been appointed Cogut Visiting Professor at Brown University (2006), Visiting Fellow for the Special Program in Urban and Regional Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT 2003 and 2004) and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars as Visiting Scholar (2004). He’s the author of “El tamaño del infierno. Un estudio sobre la criminalidad y en la Zona Metropolitana de la Ciudad de México” (2012), and “Vidas Truncadas, el exceso de mortalidad en América Latina” (2015). He was also coordinator and autor of “Violencia Juvenil y Acceso a la Justicia en América Latina” (2014). Another recent publication is related to Elections in Mexico: “Elecciones en México: cambios, permanencies y retos” (2016). Several of these titles have been publicated by El Colegio de México.

He is a specialist in topics of justice, human rights and security. He has done numerous investigations and evaluations related with violence, criminality and justice in Latin America. He is consultor of international programs for the UN and the World Bank.

Cleto Corposanto is Full Professor of Sociology at Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy. Previously he was Associate Professor at University of Trento. Chair of Sociology BA and MA, he is the scientific Director of Crisp - Research Centre On Health Systems and Welfare Policies and. He chair moreover the Italian Academic group of sociologists of Health and medicine.

His research interests are methods and e-methods in social research, sociology of health and illness, sociology of food and nutrition, social capital and health.

Marcel Lourel is Full Professor of Psychology (health and work) at the ESPE Lille Nord de France (former IUFM), an internal department of Artois University. Professor Lourel holds the Accreditation to supervise research in humanities (no equivalence English) from the University of Nancy 2 and HAS published over thirty 40 research papers in international peer-reviewed journals. He Has written a number of aussi Submitted articles, book chapters and conference papers published in international congress and conference proceedings. For over a decade, He has Focused research on the issue of psychosocial adjustment in a work environment (Including During a chronic bowel disease) and in contexts Requiring a compromised entre les private and professional spheres.

He has Focused research on the issue of psychosocial adjustment in a work environment (Including During a chronic bowel disease) and in contexts Requiring a compromised entre les private and professional spheres.

Johannes Siegrist, PhD., born 1943 in Switzerland, is Senior Professor of Work Stress Research at the University of Duesseldorf, Germany. Until 2012 he was Professor and Director of the Institute of Medical Sociology at that University. He is known as the author of one of the internationally established models of stressful work, ‘effort-reward imbalance’ and as a scientist contributing to research on social determinants of health and health inequalities by several hundred scientific publications including distinct books. Among many offices he was President of the European Society for Health and Medical Sociology in the 1990s, and his distinctions include membership of Academia Europaea.

Work Stress Research

Goran Basic has a PhD in sociology and is a senior lecturer at the Department of Pedagogy, Linnaeus University. His research concerns fieldwork in Bosnia and Herzegovina; he has written articles on the postwar society and carried out an evaluation of a project in the juvenile care. Basic’s dissertation ‘‘When collaboration becomes a struggle. A sociological analysis of a project in the Swedish juvenile care’’ is based on ethnographic material. Currently analyzing: (1) narratives of youth that have experienced war, taken refuge in Sweden, and taken into custody and placed in institutions; (2) the obscure practices and rhetoric of the war, the emotions and moral of the war, human interaction during horrific captivity and escape but also the individuals requirements on restored respect and dignity when war experiences portrayed in the life stories; (3) the collaboration between border police and coastguard and between different actors in the youth care; (4) definitions of successful intelligence and operational police work. Main research and teaching areas: Sociology, Interactionist Theory and Analysis, Ethnography, Narrative Analysis, Social Constructivism, Criminology, War Sociology, Treatment Pedagogics, Social Psychology, Special Pedagogy, Conflict Sociology, Peace and Conflict Studies, Ethnicity, Victimology, Social Work, Strategic Communication, Collaboration, Juvenile Care, Reconciliation, Concentration Camp, Sociological Theory, Substance Abuse Treatment, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods, Operational Police Work, Intelligence Police Work, Identity, Morality, Balkan History, Ethnic Conflicts, War, Youth, Institution, Interviews, Field Work, Refugee, Stigma, Social Comparison, Symbolic Interaction, Ethics, Ethnomethodology, Religion, Migration, Migrant, Diaspora, Nationality, Transition, Unaccompanied Child Refugees, Coordination, Document, Youngster, Project, Coordinator, Triad, Accounting Through Comparison, Role, Struggle, Alliance, Conflict, Conflict Point of Interest, Team, Dyad.

Youth with war experiences in institutional care. A sociological study of young immigrants’ stigma and social comparisons. 2016 - . Description: In war situations civilians are often direct targets of – and sometimes even participants – acts of war. Youth who have escaped war have directly or indirectly been involved in the war and as a result of this they will probably be affected over a large part or the rest of their life. The purpose of the study is to analyze narratives of youth that have experienced war, taken refuge in Sweden, and taken into custody and placed in institutions. The theoretical perspective is determined from an ethno-methodological influenced interactionism. Special attention will be given to the social comparisons and stories about stigma and victimization, which are expressed in the interviews. Material of the study is gathered through qualitative oriented interviews with youngsters in institutional care with war experience. Interviews with staff of the institutions is also to analyze how the organization of the possible treatment of these young people is manifested. War anomie, with David Wästerfors. 2016 - . Description: In this project the obscure practices and rhetoric of the war is analyzed, the emotions and moral of the war, human interaction during horrific captivity and escape but also the individuals requirements on restored respect and dignity when war experiences portrayed in the life stories. The project takes a different approach on ethnical and international conflicts by bringing the war back to ground level and intrusively analyze its moods, feelings, rituals and morals. Here - under the radar of usual media coverage, we car find the bizarre everyday life of the war. The material that is analyzed is mainly from field studies in the after war Bosnia and interviews with refugees and former soldiers from there. In addition, examples from other war and conflicts are used. Definitions of successful intelligence and operational police work. 2016 - . Description: This project will analyze how the police, border guards and coast guard, defines successful intelligence and operational police work. This qualitative study is based on ethnographic material collected by field observation and interviews. The fieldwork was conducted in 718 hours and seventy-three interviews were conducted with the border police, border guards and coast guard from Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. War Sociology - Renewed Analysis of Ethnographic Material from Bosnia. 2012- . Description: In this project analyzes verbally depicted experiences of survivors from the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. One aim of the project is to describe how the actors portray the social phenomenon of "war violence" "victimhood" and "reconciliation", and the second is to analyze discursive patterns that interplay in the creation of the terms “victim” and “perpetrator”. My research question is, How do the interviewees describe war violence, victimhood and reconciliation after the war? In this project, I try to access the phenomena of "war violence" "victimhood" and "reconciliation" by analyzing the interviewees’ stories, namely their own descriptions in relation to themselves and others. Successful collaboration. Described and Observed Experiences of Youth Care (financed by the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care). 2012- . Description: Previous collaboration research shows that problems and conflicts sometimes arise as a part of collaboration. This project analyzing successful cooperation, even if it unfolds during shorter interaction sequences. In this study I endeavor to describe the contributing factors that are necessary to achieve the phenomenon of a successful collaboration. I do this partially with help from studies published in the literature, but especially by analyzing my own empirical material: narratives from the interviewees and field notes. The aim is to analyze how and when the actors within youth care portray successful cooperation, and which discursive and interactive patterns are involved in the construction of this phenomenon.

Zofia Slonska , PhD, sociologist, Assistant Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski Institute of Cardiology and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Centre of Postgraduate Education. Executive Board member of the European Society for Health and Medical Sociology (ESHMS) since 2010, an expert of the European Commission, and a current member of the Polish Government Population Council since 2006. In 1991, employed as a consultant for health promotion and education in the World Health Organization, European Office for Europe. In 1993-2002 a national health promotion WHO counterpart for Poland and from 1995 to 2002, a member of the European Committee for Health Promotion Development, set up by the European Office of WHO. Former and current member of the editorial Polish and foreign scientific journals e.g. Health Promotion International (1998-2010)

Her Research areas of interest: Sociology of health and medicine and public health including health promotion. Author and co-author of more than 30 national and international research projects, including the recently awarded a European Health Award ‘the European Health Literacy Survey (HLS-EU)’. Author or co-author of about 90 peer-reviewed Polish and foreign scientific publications, including monographs, collective works and articles in scientific journals. Former advisor to the Minister of Health.

Dr. Baeg Gyeong Hun is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore. He completed his Ph.D. in Biomedical Science at Osaka University School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan and his Postdoctoral studies at Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, USA. He has also worked as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics at New York Medical College, USA. He is an Editorial Board Member for the journals of Forensic Medicine and Anatomy Research, Scholarena Journal of Forensic Science and Austin Journal of Anatomy.

Dr. Baeg’s research interests include the role of the JAK/STAT signal transduction pathway in stem cell maintenance and cancer.

Anup Dash is a development Sociologist in India. Formerly a Professor of Sociology in Utkal University, Bhubaneswar (India), his academic engagements have a strong focus on bridging research with practice and policy, and has taken him beyond the academic world of the university to the world of practice at the community level, working with NGOs and Community-Based Organizations. He has looked at the issue of Health as an important component of Human Development and Well-being, especially among the tribal communities, Women and Children in poor households in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals.

His research interests also include Cultural determinants and social dimensions of Health, Community Health, Elderly Health Care, Health Policy and Economics of Health. He is currently an Independent Director on the Board of Directors of India’s National bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).

Dr. Sarah Ralte is currently employed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS), Shillong, Meghalaya state, India. She did her MBBS from Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India and her Doctor of Medicine (M.D) in Anatomy, from University College of Medical Sciences (UCMS), Delhi, India. She completed her senior residency in UCMS in June 2011. She is interested in experimental studies of histomorphological effects of recent drugs on various tissues in albino rats, besides clinical anatomy. She has published research papers and abstracts in both Indian and international journals of repute, and presented papers in national conferences. She is currently a member of the Editorial Board of international and Indian journals which are indexed in wide databases. Her biography has been consecutively selected by the world’s most renowned Biography Directories published by American biography publisher ‘Marquis Who’s Who’ in the ‘31st, 32nd and 33rd edition of Marquis Who’s Who in the World – 2014, 2015 and 2016’; besides being included in the ‘Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering 2016-17’. She served as a member of the Scientific Committee for the prestigious ‘International Microscopic Image Contest-2015’ (IMIC-2015), held on 6th - 7th May, 2015, organized by Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. She is an invited member to the Asian Council of Science Editors, Dubai.

Observing the histomorphometrical/ teratological effects of new/ recently introduced drugs on animal tissues as part of animal experimental research studies; Clinical anatomy; Variations in anatomy; Developmental anatomy.

Johannes Siegrist, PhD., born 1943 in Switzerland, is Senior Professor of Work Stress Research at the University of Duesseldorf, Germany. Until 2012 he was Professor and Director of the Institute of Medical Sociology at that University. He is known as the author of one of the internationally established models of stressful work, ‘effort-reward imbalance’ and as a scientist contributing to research on social determinants of health and health inequalities by several hundred scientific publications including distinct books. Among many offices he was President of the European Society for Health and Medical Sociology in the 1990s, and his distinctions include membership of Academia Europaea.

Work Stress Research

Zofia Slonska , PhD, sociologist, Assistant Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski Institute of Cardiology and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Centre of Postgraduate Education. Executive Board member of the European Society for Health and Medical Sociology (ESHMS) since 2010, an expert of the European Commission, and a current member of the Polish Government Population Council since 2006. In 1991, employed as a consultant for health promotion and education in the World Health Organization, European Office for Europe. In 1993-2002 a national health promotion WHO counterpart for Poland and from 1995 to 2002, a member of the European Committee for Health Promotion Development, set up by the European Office of WHO. Former and current member of the editorial Polish and foreign scientific journals e.g. Health Promotion International (1998-2010) Former adviser to the Minister of Health.

Sociology of health and medicine and public health including health promotion. Author and co-author of more than 30 national and international research projects, including the recently awarded a European Health Award ‘the European Health Literacy Survey (HLS-EU)’. Author or co-author of about 90 peer-reviewed Polish and foreign scientific publications, including monographs, collective works and articles in scientific journals.