Organizing Committee
Biography
Howard S. Weber completed his fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology at Yale New Haven Hospital in 1989 and immediately began his career as an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Penn State Hershey Childrens Hospital and also director of the catheterization lab. He has published more than 50 articles in various national and international peer reviewed cardiology journals and serves on numerous editorial boards of these same journals. He has been an invited lecturer at numerous interventional pediatric cardiology meetings both nationally and internationally.
Research Interest
Interventional catheterization in newborns, children and adults with structural heart disease. Several clinical trials in progress and completed related to therapeutic cardiac catheterization procedures.
Biography
Dr Su-Boon Yong is the Chief of Department of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology at Show Chwan Memorial Hospital. Dr Yong had wide-ranging research interests with primary focus on the safety of biological therapy for autoimmune diseases, childhood rheumatology diseases. Dr Yong has received several awards for his work, including Best abstract in (2017 ASPR, Hong Kong) and best oral presentation (2015 Taiwan).
Research Interest
Pediatrics Allergy & Pediatrics Immunology
Biography
Specialising in respiratory and allergic disorders in children, Dr Basil Elnazir is based in the Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at the National Children's Hospital (Tallaght). He began practice as a Paediatric Respiratory Consultant in 2002 having trained in Birmingham, Dublin and Wales. He completed his PhD thesis at the University of Birmingham. He is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Paediatrics at Trinity College Dublin. He is also a Member of the Royal College of Physicians UK, a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health UK, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland. He has presented and published his research both nationally and internationally, and has given a number of invited presentations. Dr Elnazir is a member of several societies including the British Paediatric Respiratory Society, the European Respiratory Society, and the American Thoracic Society. He is the Chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee of the Asthma Society of Ireland.
Research Interest
Paediatric Respiratory Medicine
Biography
Roberto Menicagli has completed his Ph.D. at the age of 25 years from Milan University. Postdoctoral studies in biochemistry and molecular genetics, the faculty of biology at Milan University. In this university, he has been professor to Contract, and became responsible for the Project ENEA-CNR for Environmental Pollution and Biomarkers ,after thirty years ,in industrial biochemistry experience ,as Senior Research in ENIRESEARCH, the most important group of the research in Italy, now, for five years, he is the director of Roma Biomed Research Lab a Private Medical Service Organization. He has published, in this field, more than 20 papers, in many journals, some with Impact Factor, he is also the principal author of 4 international patents, in the field of the environment and biomarkers, and has been serving as an editorial board member of some magazines, concerning the medical sciences.
Research Interest
Medicinal Chemistry, industrial biochemistry, biochemistry and molecular genetics
Biography
Dr. Pashankar completed his basic medical training in India and in the UK. He completed fellowship training in Pediatric Gastroenterology at BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada. He directs the Pediatric Gastroenterology Postdoctoral Fellowship Training Program at Yale. He is the director of Yale Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program. He runs a multidisciplinary Inflammatory Bowel disease clinic on Tuesday morning at Yale New Haven Children's Hospital in New Haven.
Research Interest
Pediatric Gastroenterology