Athena Transactions in Health and Medical Sciences is an open access book series dedicated to publishing proceedings of academic conferences and workshops in the broad fields of Health and Medical Sciences. Proceedings articles published in this series describe the research presented and discussed at conferences and workshops in these fields and all undergo a rigorous peer review process prior to publication. This series offers conference organizers a fast, versatile and cost-effective publication process including production and hosting on Athena’s international STM publishing platform. The subject areas and sub-topics covered by this series are listed below.