Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Nursing

Dr. Dogan has completed his degrees in Hacettepe University Medical Faculty, Ankara, Turkey. He completed Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery fellow-ship program in 2006 after adult cardiovascular surgery residency. His study is continued in Cardiovascular Surgery and Pediatric Cardiology Clinic in the same university. He is the director of Adult and Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery. He is an Editor in Chief of Case Reports in Medicine. He also is member of Editorial Board in eight international scientific journals. He had more than 70 papers in reputed journals.

Pediatric Heart Failure Pediatric Heart Surgery

Dr Silva has a Master Degree and a Doctorate Degree in Medical Sciences at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, and a Master Degree in Epidemiology at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. He also attended a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Perinatal Research in the Wayne State University,in Michigan, USA, and in the Georgetown University,in Washington DC,USA, where his focus was the fetal cardiac function, related to infections.His research field is on cardiovascular risk factors in diseases like AIDS and others with systemic inflammatory compromise,analysing mainly the cardiac and endothelium functions by means of ultrasonography.

Cardiovascular Risk Factors Cardiac Ultrasonography.

Eugen Sandica is Director and Surgeon-in-Chief, Department of Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects Medical Director, Center for Congenital Heart Defects, Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, Germany

Congenital Heart Defects Heart Surgery

David Coman MBBS MPhil FRACP is a Paediatrician, Metabolic Physician and a Clinical Geneticist working in clinical practise in Brisbane Australia. He has a public appointment at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Brisbane, and is the Medical Director of Paediatrics at the Wesley Private Hospital in Brisbane. David has an active interest in teaching and is the Academic lead for Paediatrics in the Unit Care Clinical School, Brisbane. He has a particular research interest in disorders associated with aberrant post-translational modification, epigenetics modification of single gene disorders, and novel disease discovery. David has active interests in Rare Disease Advocacy, and runs philanthropic General Paediatric Clinics to the Western provinces of the Solomon Islands.

Novel disease discovery Pediatrics Diseases Pediatric Metabolic Disorders

Director, the Sedation Service, Dept of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Cardiac Anesthesia Cardiac Surgery

Dr. Rubin Seymour Cooper, MD Specialty is Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatrics. He is a Chief - CCMC Division of Pediatric Cardiology and Professor, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine,USA

Pediatric Cardiac Diseases Pediatrics Diseases

Christopher Snyder is the Director of Pediatric Cardiology at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. His interests include general pediatric cardiology and Adult with Congenital Heart disease as well as a sub-specialty in pediatric and adult congenital electrophysiology on an inpatient and outpatient basis.

Congenital Electrophysiology Congenital Heart disease

Bryan Cannon is a pediatric cardiologist in Rochester, Minnesota and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Mayo Clinic and Mayo Clinic - Saint Marys Hospital. He received his medical degree from University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and has been in practice for 19 years. He is one of 13 doctors at Mayo Clinic and one of 8 at Mayo Clinic - Saint Marys Hospital who specialize in Pediatric Cardiology.

Radiofrequency ablation Cryoablation (Cryocath) Carto 3-dimensional mapping system

Dr van den Hoff obtained his PhD in 1994 from the University of Amsterdam:“Isolation and characterization of the rat carbamoylphosphate synthetase I gene”. After moving to the field of heart development with Prof Moorman, he established his own group focusing on heart muscle cell formation and epicardial development after the formation of the linear heart tube. As a visiting scientist he has developed a tight collaboration with the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston (US). Currently, he is vice-chair of the department of Anatomy, Embryology & Physiology and AMC Principle Investigator and has published in excess of 86 papers (H-index 29) in peer-reviewed journals.

Myocardial Diseases Ventricular Defects

Brojendra Agarwala has completed his MBBS at the age of 23 years from University of Kolkata, India and completed Pediatric cardiology fellowship from New York university medical center New York, NY, USA. He is a pediatric cardiologist and professor of Pediatrics at the University of Chicago. He has received best teacher award be the pediatric residents and the medical students. He has published 68 papers in reputed journals. He is named as one of the Top Doctors and Best pediatricians in Chicago magazine for many years.

Fetal Echocardiography Pediatric Cardiology

Umesh Dyamenahalli is a pediatric Cardiologist and Intensivist; an Associate Professor, Director of Cardiac ICU and an Associate Chief Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Chicago.He has been the author for about 40 publications in reputable journals and few book chapters. He has been working in the field of quality enhancement; the new team initiatives are multidisciplinary and have changed practice and culture and enhanced patient, family and care providers’ satisfaction along with improved outcomes. As a recognized safety and quality expert, Umesh serves on the American College of Medical Quality Board.

Pediatric cardiology Cardiac critical care Quality and outcome improvement Echocardiography

Dr. Bernstein is Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) the Cardiovascular Research Institute and the Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine Stem Cell Research at UCSF. Dr. Bernsteins research focuses on stem cell biology muscle development and tissue regeneration. He has received numerous awards recognizing his work including the Society for Pediatric Research Richard Rowe and Ross Research Awards, the Heart Failure Society of America Young Investigator Award the March of Dimes Basil O’Connor Award, and the American Heart Association Established Investigator Award. He is supported by the NIH the American Heart Association the Muscular Dystrophy Association and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Pediatric Cardiology, heart failure, cardiac development, stem cell biology

Dr. Kendra Russell serves as Associate Professor and Director of the Macon Graduate Center at Georgia College. She completed her BSN and MSN in Nursing Administration at Georgia College and Doctorate in Nursing at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Russell’s clinical background is in neonatal intensive care and pediatrics. Dr. Russell’s research focus is in maternal/infant outcomes and she has published and presented her research at local, state, national, and international conferences. She has eight years of administrative experience serving as a RN-BSN program coordinator, department chair – undergraduate nursing, and assistant director of nursing.

Maternal/infant outcomes

Hideya Kodama graduated from Akita university of Medicine in 1982, and promoted to a professor of the department of maternity child nursing at Akita university graduate school of medicine and faculty of medicine in 2000. Since them, he have studied about a human circadian rhyme, including a sleep-wake cycle, a melatonin rhythm, regulation of autonomic nervous system and a body thermal rhythm, with nurses who entered his postdoctoral course. Now, he manages several research projects of the doctoral course regarding this issue, and his research subjects include early infants, pregnant women, puerperal and adolescent girls.

Human circadian rhyme, Sleep-wake cycle, Regulation of autonomic nervous system

Dr. Shumpei Yokota is Chairman & Professor of Department of Pediatrics and Dean of Yokohama City University, Japan.

His research interests include the Pediatric rheumatic diseases, Innate immune system and inflammatory responses for human homeostasis, clinical trials for children with rheumatic and autoinflammatory diseases, Autoinflammatory diseases, Autoinflammatory bonediseases, Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. Dr. Shumpei Yokota has authored more than 120 publications in scientific journals.

Eugen Sandica is Director and Surgeon-in-Chief, Department of Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects Medical Director, Center for Congenital Heart Defects, Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, Germany.

Congenital Heart Defects Heart Surgery

Królak-Olejnik Barbara, Professor - Head of the Department of Neonatology at the Medical University in Wroclaw. She graduated from the Medical University of Silesia, Faculty of Medicine in Zabrze. Specialist in pediatrics, neonatology and public health. Multiple scholar and practice at the University Hospital in Bergen in 1996-2000. The main directions of research interests relate to perinatal care and maintance at the delivery room and also nutritional therapy and breastfeeding promotion. The author of over 100 medical papers published in Polish and foreign periodicals.

Pediatrics, Neonatology and Public health

Robert ŚLUSARZ, RN, MA, PH.D., CNS, graduated from Medical High School, Toruń and completed Nursing Studies of the Medical University, Wrocław. In 2004 he received his Ph.D. degree and in 2006 became a specialist in neurological nursing. Head of the Neurological and Neurosurgical Nursing Department CM NCU, Toruń and manager of Institute of Health Sciences WSHE, Włocławek. Member of expert groups at Ministry of Health (2007), Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (2007) and Main Chamber of Nurses and Midwives. Vice-president of national examination in neurological nursing, one of the founders and vice-president of the nursing section at the Polish Society of Neurosurgeons and member of the Polish Association of Neurological Nurses Board (PTPN) and European Association of Neuroscience Nurses (EANN) and World Federation of Neuroscience Nurses (WFNN). Reviewer and member of the following journals: Pielęgniarstwo Polskie, MEDI Forum Opieki Długoterminowej and Journal of Nursing Education and Practice.

Robert Ślusarz research interests are clinical assessment of patients with neurological disorders, post-graduate nursing training in neurosciences, and neuroprotection, hemostasis and angiogenesis in nervous system disorders. Author and co-author of articles, books and other publications on neurological and neurosurgical nursing and leader of statutory research projects.

Dr van den Hoff obtained his PhD in 1994 from the University of Amsterdam:“Isolation and characterization of the rat carbamoylphosphate synthetase I gene”. After moving to the field of heart development with Prof Moorman, he established his own group focusing on heart muscle cell formation and epicardial development after the formation of the linear heart tube. As a visiting scientist he has developed a tight collaboration with the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston (US). Currently, he is vice-chair of the department of Anatomy, Embryology & Physiology and AMC Principle Investigator and has published in excess of 86 papers (H-index 29) in peer-reviewed journals.

Myocardial Diseases Ventricular Defects

Dr Salah T. Al Awaidy is a Communicable Diseases Adviser in Health Affairs, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman. He is a medical doctor and holds a Master’s in Epidemiology. He is currently the adviser on Communicable Disease Surveillance, Elimination and Eradication of Communicable Diseases of Public Health Importance, EPI, vaccine supply chain system and IHR at the Ministry of Health, Oman. He was the Director of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Control at MoH, HQ, Oman between 1997-2011, IHR national focal point 2002-2013 and was a member in several of the professional committees namely: Strategic Advisory Group on Immunization (SAGE), WHO Geneva (2005-2007); Strategic Advisor Group on Vaccine and Store Management Training Courses (2005-2008), WHO Geneva; Strategic TB Advisory Board (STAG) 2007-2011 2014- till date.

Infectious Diseases, Public Health

David Gozal is Director of the Sedation Service, Dept of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

She was born in 1951. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Hacettepe University in 1976. She completed her specialty training in Pediatrics at the School of Medicine, Hacettepe University between 1976 and 1980. She became an associate professor in 1985 and a professor in 1991 at Cumhuriyet University. In 1993, she was selected as a member of the European Society for Pediatric Research. In 1995, she established the Pediatrics Department of the Faculty of Medicine of Kocaeli University and Neonatology Department in 2000. Between the years 1995 and 2010, she worked as the head of Pediatrics Department of the Faculty of Medicine of Kocaeli University. She still works as the head of Neonatology Department of the School of Medicine of Kocaeli University . She is a member of ESPR, National Pediatrics Foundation of Turkey, Turkish Neonatology Foundation, Mother and Baby Health Foundation in Turkey.

Feeding of premature infants, Characteristics of breast milk and Neonatal infections.