Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Nursing

Dr. Marsha Luginbuehl, Ph.D., NCSP is a nationally certified school psychologist, CEO of Child Uplift, Inc., and author/publisher of the Sleep Disorders Inventory for Students (SDIS). Dr. Luginbuehl received the American Psychological Association’s “2003 Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award” for her interdisciplinary collaboration with pediatric health experts to develop the SDIS. Her scientific publications promote the universal screening of specific high risk groups of children whose unidentified sleep disorders impair cognition, learning, behaviors and/or long-term health. Luginbuehl promotes early screening, identification and treatment of pediatric sleep disorders to improve school performance, quality of life and long-term productivity for children.

Screening of specific high risk groups of children whose unidentified sleep disorders impair cognition, learning, behaviors and/or long-term health, early screening, identification and treatment of pediatric sleep disorders to improve school performance, quality of life and long-term productivity for children.

Guillermo Godoy graduated from San Carlos University in Guatemala, the only Medical School at that time in Guatemala. He did a residency in Pediatrics at Roosevelt Hospital and again when he came to United States of America, he repeated a Pediatrics residency at The University of Arkansas Medical Sciences/Arkansas Children's Hospital from 1980 to 1982. Then he did his Perinatal Medicine-Neonatology fellowship at The University of Alabama in Birmingham from 1982 to 1985 and stayed on the Neonatology staff for one year. He is in Tuscaloosa, Alabama at the DCH Health System NICU's since 1986. He is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. He was Chairman of the Pediatrics Department and the Chief of Medical Staff. He helped to establish the Ethics Committee at the DCH Health System Hospitals in 1987. He published many manuscripts, especially in the areas of neonatal infections and cardiopulmonary pathophysiology. He have been invited to lecture about these topics in several institutions. He is actively involved in the development of CPOE/EMR and electronic progress notes at his institution.

Research Intertest: Pediatrics BioEthics, Cardiopulmonary disorders of the newborn and Infectious diseases of the newborn.

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.

Interventional catheterization in newborns, children and adults with structural heart disease. Several clinical trials in progress and completed related to therapeutic cardiac catheterization procedures

Jos Draaisma has completed his MD at the age of 26 years from Radboudumc and PhD at the age of 29 years. He is head of the department of general pediatrics, director of the pediatric residency program, and director of the pediatric education program. He has published more than 70 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of different pediatric and medical education journals.

Pediatrics, clinical research, cardiology, surgery and treatment

Dr. Sanchez has completed his PhD at the age of 23 years from Cadiz University and postdoctoral studies from Cadiz University Hospital and School of Medicine. He is the director of the Section of Pediatric Allergy and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cadiz. He is also President of the Association of Children\'s Allergy southern Spain and belongs to the Food Allergy Committee of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Allergy.

Pediatric Allergy and Pediatrics

Dr. Weiqin Chen studied the role of dyslipidemia on diabetic retinopathy, a microvascular complication in diabetic patients with Dr. Julia Busik at Michigan State University and received her PhD degree in Molecular Genetics in 2005. Subsequently, she worked as a Postdoctoral associate for five years with Dr. Lawrence Chan at Baylor College of Medicine, where she was promoted as an instructor in 2010. At BCM, she established two animal models based on genes that are associated with non-alchoholic fatty liver disease (NALFD) and human congenital generalized lipodystrophy (CGL) and characterized their functions in energy metabolism. In 2012, she was recruited as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology at Georgia Regents University. The focus of her current research is to dissect the mechanisms underlying adipose tissue dysfunction and development of obesity and lipodystrophy using both in vivo and in vitro strategies.

Obesity and its associated health comorbidities are a worldwide epidemic with serious economic and health burden on society. Adipose tissue is an important endocrine organ that plays a key role in the development of obesity and various metabolic disorders. White adipocytes store excess energy in the form of triglycerides for future need. By contrast, brown and beige (browning-in-white) adipocytes metabolize lipid and glucose to produce heat in a process known as nonshivering thermogenesis, which is crucial in systemic energy homeostasis and thermoregulation. Functional brown and beige adipose tissues are highly correlated with body mass index in adult humans and is either reduced or absent in obese and aged individuals and rodents. The long-term research interest in the lab is to understand the regulation of white, beige and brown adipose tissue development and energy homeostasis, and use it to develop potential therapeutic approaches for obesity and related metabolic diseases.

Shawky Z A Badawy was appointed to the OB/GYN Department at Upstate Medical University in June 1972. He is Board Certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Subspecialty Certified in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. His clinical interests include endometriosis, infertility management, menstrual dysfunction, laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery, and microsurgery.

Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pathology, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility

Michael N Liebman is an Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology at Drexel College of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Drug Discovery, First Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University. Previously, he was the Director of Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center 2000-2003. He has served as Global Head of Computational Genomics, Roche Pharmaceuticals and Director, Bioinformatics and Pharmacogenomics, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Director of Genomics for Vysis, Inc. He is a Co-Founder of Prosanos, Inc., (now United BioSource) (2000). He was an Associate Professor of Pharmacology and of Physiology/Biophysics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is on the Board of Directors of the Nathaniel Adamczyk Foundation in Pediatric ARDS, the Chair of the Informatics Program and also Chair of Translational Medicine and Therapeutics for the PhRMA Foundation and a Member of their Scientific Advisory Board.

Pharmacology and Physiology

Ajay Desai is a Consultant in paediatric intensive care medicine at Royal Brompton Hospital in London, United Kingdom. He is the Lead for the paediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) programme, with a special interest in extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR).

Paediatric Intensive Care medicine

Abiodun A Oyebola has completed his Medical degree in Nigeria. He has obtained his Master’s degree in Public Health (Child and Maternal Health) in USA shortly after leaving medical school. He did his Pediatric Training at the John H Stroger Hosptial of Cook Country in Chicago. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Pediatrics. With over 15 years of experience and wealth of wisdom in the care of children, he is a passionate Advocate for kids and this shows in his expert administration of care to his ever growing patient family. He has become one of the top rated Paediatricians in the Greater Hamilton Area

Child and Maternal Health

Dani Yardeni has completed his MD in 1989 at the Faculty of health scince Ben Gurion University in Israel and did his residency in Pediatrics Surgery at Afula hospital. In the year 1998 worked at the Red Cross children hospital in Cape Town, S.A. Did fellowship in Ann Arbor Michigan in 2001-2002. In the year 2006 was sent by the Israeli Goverment to work in Ron hospital in Nauru. Since 2016 workes as a Pediatric Surgeon in Haddasa medical center in Jeerusalem.

Pediatric