Pediatrics and Neonatology

Said El deib is a Pediatrician and Neonatologist whose experience in the field spans 15 years, backed by a higher education degree from royal college in UK. He is pioneering as an open and contextual evaluation model based on constructive responses, which has led in the creation of new methods to improve pediatric healthcare, neonatology and pediatric nutrition. Dr. Said has established this model following his years of experiences in medical practice, research, evaluation, and teaching in hospitals and medical universities in the region, including Egypt, Kuwait and the UAE.

Pediatrics and Neonatology

Diana Paulina Orozco Romero is a Neonatologist from Mexico City, dedicated to improve neonatal medical care, currently working in a State of the art Medical Center at the Neonatal Unit. Working side by side with ObGyn and parents, committed to provide the highest quality of family centered care. She is also dedicated to the training of the future physicians as well as lecturer for medical updates in the pediatrics and neonatology areas at all medical levels and participate in clinical research on a variety of topics. Diana Orozco also have educational activities as a teaching attending for the medical residency program for pediatrics and neonatology program at Hospital Español. She shows much interest in bioethical topics and is currently enrolled in a master's program at the Anahuac University. She is a member of the Mexican Pediatrics Society, Mexican Pediatrics Association and the Mexican Neonatologist Federation, A.C

Cardiac Screening in New born, Burn out syndrome, - Training in bioethical topics in order to become a part of the bioethical comittee

Milella L. – Milella has completed his study in Italy and Glasgow in the field of neonatal and paediatric cardiac surgery. He is the chief department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit (General and Post Cardiac Surgery), [Paediatric Hospital Giovanni XXIII – Bari, Italy]

Paediatric Anaesthesia, Pediatric Cardiac Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Unit

Peter Bernius studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg. In his orthopaedic and pediatric orthopaedic training, he went through various stages at the Surgical Clinic in Darmstadt, at the University Hospital Oskar-Helene-Heim in Berlin and the University Hospital in Freiburg. Since 2001 Dr Bernius works as chief physician of the Center for Pediatric and Neuro-Orthopedics of the Schön Klinik Munich Harlaching. He is an internationally recognized specialist in minimally invasive surgical procedures, early functional rehabilitation, functional orthotics, and specialized learning programs to support neuroplastic regeneration

Orthopaedic, Pediatric Orthopaedic and minimally invasive surgical procedures

Dr. Towner has completed his PhD at the age of 33 years from the University of Guelph in Canada and postdoctoral studies from the University of Queensland in Australia. He is the director of Advanced Magnetic Resonance Center at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, a premier biomedical research institution. He has published more than 127 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as a charter member of the National Institutes of Health Clinical Molecular Imaging and Probe development (CMIP) study section, and an editorial board member of repute.

Research interest is on to develop the vivo MRI methods that can be used in the clinic as tools for tumor grading and to predict the extent of tissue injury from toxin exposure in human patients. Having the ability to use a non-invasive technique such as in vivo MRI in both the diagnosis and therapy of cancer, among other diseases, provides great benefit to both the patient and physician.

Alan D. Rogol, MD, Ph.D is Professor Emeritus (Pediatrics and Pharmacology) at the University of Virginia. He received an undergraduate degree in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and doctorates in medicine and physiology (Endocrinology) from Duke University. He completed a residency in pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Following a fellowship in endocrinology at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), he moved to the University of Virginia (UVA), ultimately serving as Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology and Chief of the Division of Endocrinology. Since 1999 Dr Rogol has led an eclectic existence, first in the pharmaceutical industry and then as a safety monitor, but continuing to practice pediatric endocrinology and to teach at UVA and Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, IN. Dr Rogol has been a member and Chief of the American Board of Pediatrics, sub-board in endocrinology; Secretary of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society (now known as the Pediatric Endocrine Society), and has recently served as Vice-President of The Endocrine Society. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Sports Medicine and a member of the American Pediatric Society. His interests in endocrinology have included growth and puberty and lately the endocrinology of sport and exercise. Dr Rogol has published more than 500 scientific articles, is a member of several editorial boards, and was the co-editor of The Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine: An International Olympic Commission (IOC) Medical Commission Publication (vol 11): The Endocrine System in Sports and Exercise.

His interests in endocrinology have included growth and puberty and lately the endocrinology of sport and exercise

Dr. Rivard received her Ph.D. from Université de Sherbrooke in 1994 and completed a 3.5-year postdoctorate at the Centre de Biochimie-CNRS, Université de Nice, in France with Dr. J. Pouysségur in 1997. Then, she accepted a faculty position in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la santé de l’Université de Sherbrooke. Since 2008, she is the Chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology and Chair of the Cancer Axis at Université de Sherbrooke. Dr. Rivard’s research focuses on the analysis of signalling pathways that control proliferation, differentiation, tumorigenesis and inflammatory response of intestinal epithelial cells. She has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals. She is the recipient of 2013 Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Research Excellence Award and holds a Canada Research Chair.

Dr. Rivard’s research focuses on the analysis of signalling pathways that control proliferation, differentiation, tumorigenesis and inflammatory response of intestinal epithelial cells

Dr Bolduc has completed his urology residency at Université Laval and completed a fellowship in pediatric urology at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. He is chief of pediatric urology and the director of Regenerative Medicine of CHU de Québec Research Center. He has published more than 70 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as section editor of pediatric urology of CUAJ.

He is chief of pediatric urology and the director of Regenerative Medicine of CHU de Québec Research Center

Jace Pillay completed his PhD in 1996 at the Rand Afrikaans University in South Africa. He is the South African Research Chair in Education and Care in Childhood. He has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of two highly reputable international journals. His research has been presented in numerous international conferences.

Ethical considerations in educational research involving children: Implications for educational researchers in South Africa

Dinah Duarte, Pharmacist, MSc in Regulatory Affairs and Evaluation of Medicinal Products (University of Lisbon). Head of Scientific Evaluation Unit of the Portuguese regulatory authority for medicines and health products. Assistant Professor; member of Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use at European Medicines Agency; member of Human Scientific Committees Working Party With Healthcare Professionals Organisations; Member of the Portuguese scientific Evaluation Board of Medicines; Member of the Coordinating Committee for the Treatment of Lysosomal Storage Disorders. She has presented more than 30 oral communications in national and international meetings and more than 50 poster presentations.

Pediatrics

Zhi-gang Yang has completed his PhD in radiology at the Shinshu University in Japan 2001. Now he serves as the director of Medicine Administration of Sichuan University and vice dean of Office of Scientific Research Development of Sichuan University. He is also one of the editorial board member of European Radiology. His research focus on lung and esophageal cancer imaging, cardiovascular radiology, and imaging for acute trauma. He has published about 150 articles in reputed journals, such as The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Radiology, International Journal of Cardiology, American Journal of Roentgenology and European Radiology.

research interest focus on lung and esophageal cancer imaging, cardiovascular radiology, and imaging for acute trauma

Dr.UTHEN has completed his MD, Pediatrics board and Emergency board from Mahidol University, Thailand. Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship from University of Toronto, Canada and Research Fellow in Pediatric Emergency Medicine from Masaachusettes General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School. He is the first pediatric emergency physician in Thailand, and Director of pediatric simulation training center at faculty of medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. He interested in pediatric resuscitation and has been teaching Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) course across Thailand.

He interested in pediatric resuscitation and has been teaching Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) course across Thailand.

Professor Mehmet Emre Atabek has completed his PhD at the age of 37 years from Erciyes University and postdoctoral studies from Selcuk University School of Meram Medicine. He is the director of Pediatric Endocrinology, a premier pediatric endocrinolgy and diabetology service organization. He has published more than 120 papers in reputed journals. He has been interested in searching metabolic problems of obese children in most of his articles. His articles have been cited more than 1100 citations so far.

He has been interested in searching metabolic problems of obese children in most of his articles. His articles have been cited more than 1100 citations so far.

Dr. Janak Kishore graduated in medicine, did M.D. (Microbiology) in 1985. Currently he is Professor & Chief of Serology, Clinical & Molecular Virology, department of Microbiology. He was Associate Editor of Indian J Virol, elected member National Academy Medical Sciences was member of American Societies, and got JICA fellowship, Japan. Dr Kishore taught M.D./PhD students for 33 yrs; published 51 research papers which fetched awards.

Chief of Serology, Clinical & Molecular Virology, department of Microbiology

Gehan Lotfy has completed her MD at the age of 35 years from Minia University and pediatric oncology board at 2015. She is the director of pediatric hematology and oncology unit. She had published more than 10 papers in reputed journals and had shared in many international pediatric hematology and oncology congresses. She is an Egyptian pediatric board trainer since 2011.

Molecular biology, Genetics, Immunology, Oncology, Pediatrics, Hematology

Georgios Stamatakos received the Diploma degree in electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, the M.Sc. degree in bioengineering from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K., and the Ph.D. degree in physics from NTUA. He is a Research Professor at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), NTUA. He is the Founder and Director of the In Silico Oncology and In Silico Medicine Group.

His research interests include multiscale cancer modeling, patient individualized cancer treatment optimization, in silico oncology (being his primary field of activity), bioinformatics, electromagnetic propagation and scattering, bioelectromagnetics, radiation safety and biooptics.

Prof. Dr. Norbert Graf is Professor of Paediatrics and Director of the Clinic for Paediatric Oncology and Haematology and a Dean for students at the Faculty of Medicine of Saarland University in Germany. He is the chairman of the Renal Tumour Study Group of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP-RTSG). He is an Associate Member of COG (Children’s Oncology Group, North America) and closely collaborating with the COG Renal Study Group. He was the coordinator of the EU funded project p-medicine and is enrolled in several other ongoing European projects. Norbert Graf has more than 25 years of experience with clinical trials.

His research interests include pediatric oncology, especially nephroblastoma and brain tumors, clinical trials, ethical issues in medicine, eHealth, eLearning and medical education.

Annick Beaugrand Graduated in Medicine from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (2003), Medical Residency in Pediatrics by HUEC (2006) Specialization in pediatric oncology at the Federal University of Parana (PR / Brazil-2008) and the Institut Gustave Roussy (France- 2008 -2011), Degree from the University Paris XI (Paris / France, 2009) in child oncology. Currently a doctor in the House of support to children with cancer and substitute teacher at the Pediatric Department of the Federal University of RN – Brazil and Pediatric Professor of Federal University of RN, Brazil.

Health Sciences, Medicine, Pediatrics Oncology

Herman Suit was born on February 8, 1929 in Houston Texas and educated in the Houston public schools and the University of Houston obtaining a B. Sc in August 1948. He graduated from Baylor Medical School [AOA] in 1952, MD and M.Sc [biochemistry]. In 1970, Suit was brought to MGH as Chief of Radiation Oncology and a Professor at Harvard Medical School. After 30 years, Suit was exceedingly pleased to transfer the Chief’s position to Jay S Loeffler on October 1, 2000 and to observe his clear success.

Suit’s clinical interest focused on sarcomas of soft tissue as these were judged to be highly radiation resistant. He demonstrated a gain by use of pre rather than post operative radiation therapy due to the much smaller treatment volume.

Associate Professor Elizabeth Algar was awarded a PhD from Griffith University Australia in 1989 and since then has worked in the broad area of cancer genetics with a specific focus on paediatric cancer. She has led research teams at several universities and research institutes in Australia including the University of Queensland and University of Melbourne. She has authored 60 publications and holds several awards for her work. She has been a panel member of several national grant bodies and is regularly called upon to review journal articles and grant applications. She presently holds the positions of Principal Scientist at Monash Health and Assoc Professor at Monash University and the Hudson Institute.

paediatric cancers, neonatal growth disorders, and renal nephropathy syndromes

Robert P. Foglia, M.D. is Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, Chief of Pediatric Surgery at the University of Southwestern Medical Center and Surgeon-in-Chief at Children’s Medical Center Dallas. He is co-editor of a major textbook of pediatric surgery and has 30+ years of experience in Perioperative Management and Performance Improvement. Dr. Foglia is responsible for the clinical growth of surgical programs at Children’s and leads process improvement initiatives in the areas of quality, service, and stewardship

Surgery and Pediatrics

Robert E. Cilley, MD completed General and Pediatric Surgery training at the University of Michigan. He is currently Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics and Ballantine Professor of Surgery at Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA. He is the Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief at Penn State Children’s Hospital, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. He was previously the medical director of the Pediatric Trauma Program. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles and more than 30 book chapters. His areas of scholarly and professional interest include pediatric trauma, ECMO, lung development, surgical quality and safety.

pediatric trauma, ECMO, lung development, surgical quality and safety.

Bradley A. Kuch MHA, RRT-NPS, FAARC is a graduate from Ohio University with a Master in Health Care Administration and Services and Transport Team at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. His past roles included Neonatal/Pediatric Transport Therapist and ECMO Coordinator/Researcher in the Dept. of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery. Current research interests include Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Neonatal/Pediatric Severity of illness modeling during ECMO. His team’s work “First 24-h SNAP-II score and Highest PaCO2 predicts the need for ECMO in Congenital Diaphragmatic hernia” was published in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery.

Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Alejandro González, MD, is anesthetist who performed a Fellow in Pediatric Anesthesia in Melbourne, Australia, in 1999. Since then, he has been working in pediatric and outpatient anesthesia. He was Director of an Ambulatory Surgery Center for five years (2001-2005), and he also was President of The Chilean Society of Anesthesiologists (2007-2009). He has published several papers about outpatient anesthesia and pediatric anesthesia.

Outpatient anesthesia and pediatric anesthesia.

Dr. David Partrick completed his Docorate of Medicine from the University of Washington School of Medicine, and completed clinical surgical and pediatric surgical training at the University of Colorado. He is the Director of Surgical Endoscopy and Surgical Director of the Digestive Health Institute at Children’s Hospital Colorado, and Professor of Surgery at the University of Colorado. He has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals and is active in many professional societies.

Pediatric Surgical Endoscopy

Dr Bolduc has completed his urology residency at Université Laval and completed a fellowship in pediatric urology at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. He is chief of pediatric urology and the director of Regenerative Medicine of CHU de Québec Research Center. He has published more than 70 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as section editor of pediatric urology of CUAJ.

He is chief of pediatric urology and the director of Regenerative Medicine of CHU de Québec Research Center

Dr. Rivard received her Ph.D. from Université de Sherbrooke in 1994 and completed a 3.5-year postdoctorate at the Centre de Biochimie-CNRS, Université de Nice, in France with Dr. J. Pouysségur in 1997. Then, she accepted a faculty position in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la santé de l’Université de Sherbrooke. Since 2008, she is the Chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology and Chair of the Cancer Axis at Université de Sherbrooke. Dr. Rivard’s research focuses on the analysis of signalling pathways that control proliferation, differentiation, tumorigenesis and inflammatory response of intestinal epithelial cells. She has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals. She is the recipient of 2013 Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Research Excellence Award and holds a Canada Research Chair.

Dr. Rivard’s research focuses on the analysis of signalling pathways that control proliferation, differentiation, tumorigenesis and inflammatory response of intestinal epithelial cells

Hong Chun as a Paediatric surgeon he’s graduated from Guangdong Women and Children Hospital and Health Institute. He is currently working in Women and Children Hospital Affiliated to Guangzhou Medical College as a pediatric surgeon

Pediatric Surgery

Professor Mehmet Emre Atabek has completed his PhD at the age of 37 years from Erciyes University and postdoctoral studies from Selcuk University School of Meram Medicine. He is the director of Pediatric Endocrinology, a premier pediatric endocrinolgy and diabetology service organization. He has published more than 120 papers in reputed journals. He has been interested in searching metabolic problems of obese children in most of his articles. His articles have been cited more than 1100 citations so far

He has been interested in searching metabolic problems of obese children in most of his articles. His articles have been cited more than 1100 citations so far.