Skin and Dermatological Applications of Stem Cells: LATE-BREAKING SESSION

Allan Wu, Chief Scientific Officer, The Morrow Institute Dr. Allan Wu is an Aesthetic Reconstructive Cosmetic Surgeon with formal fellowship background training in Surgical Molecular and Cellular Biology from UCLA and Molecular Embryology from the Bourn Hall Clinic in Cambridge U.K. (home of the world’s first “test tube baby”). He is also a board certified tissue banking specialist and cryobiologist. He has worked extensively with the American Association of Tissue Banks in formulating early recommendations for proper tissue banking of adult mesenchymal stem cells. He is currently tenured as director of Women’s Health and Surgery, Regenerative Medicine and Chief Scientific Officer at Regenerative Surgery Institute
Sheila Barbarino, Founder, Barbarino Surgical Arts Sheila Barbarino, MD, FAAO, FAACS, F.A.C.S., a board certified surgeon who is fellowship trained in oculo-facial plastics/cosmetic plastic surgery, specializing in full body cosmetic surgery and a full face specialist. Dr. Barbarino is a fellow of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery and a member of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Dr. Barbarino brings her expertise to the practice of cosmetic, corrective and reconstructive surgery of the eyelids, face and body. She applies her ophthalmic plastic surgical skills to rejuvenate the eyelid and forehead complex and to repair a myriad of eye problems including tear trough deformities, eye socket defects and skin cancer to restore both the natural shape and health to the eye.
Ron Shane, Medical and Research Director, Millennia Concepts Biotech LLC Dr. Shane graduated with high honors from CSU Northridge studying Psychology and Philosophy and completed a Masters in Educational and Counseling Psychology. His PhD blended visionary literature with social psychology where he did his dissertation on William Blake and the English Romantics concerning the activation of the etheric body. Dr. Shane completed post-doctoral study at UCLA in the Renaissance Institute where he did advanced research in the mystical aspects of William Shakespeare and Edmond Spencer under the aegis of Dr. Michael Allen, a visiting professor from Oxford University; and likewise completed a MSA training in theater and experimental video during his tenure as post-doc at UCLA. Dr. Shane was a faculty member in the Department of English at UCSB and SDSU. Furthermore, he studied cross-cultural shamanism under the aegis of Dr. Donald Tuzin, a world authority on this aspect of cultural anthropology; and for many years he had an academic relationship with Dr. Norman O. Brown who is the original founding member of UCSC’s history of consciousness program. Dr. Shane, as a research scholar at UCSD, did advanced studies in Western Medicine, Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Neuroendocrinology under the tutelage of Dr. Koob, a leading authority in neuroendocrinology in the department of psychology as well as Scripps Research Institute.