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DR. ALAIN L. FYMAT, BA, BS, MA, MS, PhD, PhD, MYNAS, MEUAS is a medical-physical scientist and an educator. He is the current President/ CEO and Institute Professor at the International Institute of Medicine & Science with a previous appointment as Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer and Professor at the Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine, both Institutes located in California, U.S.A.

He was formerly Professor of Radiology, Radiological Sciences, Radiation Oncology, Critical Care Medicine, and Physics at several U.S. and European Universities. Earlier, he was Deputy Director (Western Region) of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Office of Research Oversight). At the Loma Linda Veterans Affairs Medical Center, he was Scientific Director of Radiology, Director of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center and, for a time, Acting Chair of Radiology. Previously, he was Director of the Division of Biomedical and Biobehavioral Research at the University of California at Los Angeles/Drew University of Medicine and Science.

He was also Scientific Advisor to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, for its postdoctoral programs tenable at the California Institute of Technology and Member of the Advisory Group for Research & Development, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). He is Health Advisor to the American Heart & Stroke Association, Coachella Valley Division, California.

He is a frequent Keynote Speaker and Scientific Organizing Committee member at several international scientific/medical conferences. He has lectured extensively in the U.S.A, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He has published in excess of 600 scholarly scientific publications and books. He is also Editor-in-Chief, Honorable Editor or Editor of numerous medical/scientific Journals to which he regularly contributes.

He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and the European Union Academy of Sciences, a Board member of several institutions, and a reviewer for the prestigious UNESCO Newton Prize, United Kingdom National Commission for UNESCO.

Dr. Fymat's current research interests are currently focused on neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, dementias, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, multiple system atrophy, Huntington's, and other diseases); oncology (glioblastoma); genetics, epigenetics & ecogenetics; nanomedicine & nanobiotechnology; infectious, fungal and parasitic diseases (Lyme), endemics, epidemics, and pandemics (COVID); and physics. These are represented in part in his latest books:

A. Neurodegenerative disorders collection:

“Alzhei ...Who? Demystifying the Disease and What You Can Do About It” (2019).

“Dementia: Fending-off the Menacing disease and What You Can Do About It” (2020).

"Parkin... ss..oo..nn: Elucidating the Disease... and What You Can Do About it (2020).,

"Multiple Sclerosis: The Debilitating Autoimmune Disease " (2023).

"Multiple System Atrophy: The Chronic, Progressive, Neurodegenerative Synucleinopathic Disease" (2023).

“Huntington: The Neurodegenerative, Hyperkinetic, and Neuropsychiatric Disease” (2024).

B. Neuroscience collection:

“From the Heart to the Brain: My Collected Works in Medical Science Research" (2016-2018)” (2019)

“The Human Brain: Wonders and Disorders” (2021).

"Epilepsy: The Electrical Storm in the Brain" (2022).

"Tourette: The Self-Under-Siege Neurodevelopmental and Neuropsychiatric Motor Syndrome" (2023).

"Memory: The Enchanted Loom's Property in Search of Self" (2023).

"Aging: From Evolution to Modern Biology to Anti-Aging" (2024).

C. Infectious and non-infectious diseases collection:

“The Odyssey of Humanity's Diseases: Epigenetic and Ecogenetic Modulations from Ancestry through Inheritance, Environment, Culture, and Behavior” Volumes 1, 2, and 3 (2020).

"Lyme disease: The Dreadful Invader, Evader, and Imitator" (2020).

"Pandemics: Prescription for Prediction and Prevention" (2021).

"COVID-19: Perspectives across Africa" (co-authored and co-edited with N.R.A. Romm and J. Kapalanga) (2022).

D. Chronic diseases collection:

"Glioblastoma: Management and Treatment" (an e-Book) (2017).

“Cancer: The Pernicious, Clonally-Evolving Disease Braided in our Genome” (2021).

E. Medical physics collection:

“Lectures on the Physics of Radiology: I. Diagnostic Radiology”, Loma Linda University Medical Center, 321 pp, 1995.

“A Guide for the Teaching of Clinical Radiological Physics to Residents in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiology”, American Institute of Physics / American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), 1998. (with A. C. H. McCollough et al.)

“Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy”, American Institute of Physics / American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Press, 1998. (with M. R. Willcott)

"Nanomedicine: My Collected Works in Nanomedicine Research (2018-2021)“ (2021).

… and other books

"Epigenetic Perspectives on Prevalent Human Diseases in Africa: The Impact of Genomic Variability and the Environment on Disease Epigenesis" (co-authored and co-edited with S. Singh and J. Kapalanga) (in preparation).

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