2^nd World Pediatric Conference

Bruce Buckingham, MD, is a Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at Stanford University and Packard Children’s Hospital. Dr. Buckingham received his MD from the University of California at San Diego, and his Pediatric Endocrinology training at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.

Dr. Buckingham’s research interests have focused on continuous glucose monitoring in children and “closing-the-loop”. These efforts are being funded by the JDRF and NIH and are currently focused on preventing nocturnal hypoglycemia, rapidly restoring metabolic control at the onset of diabetes, and developing ambulatory treat-to-range closed loop control.

Hee Yun Lee is a Professor and Director of Research at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in USA. Her major research areas include cancer health disparity and health literacy among immigrant and refugee populations. She is currently conducting several RCT trials to improve cancer screening behavior and health literacy funded by the National Cancer Institute, Susan Komen for the Cure Foundation, and Department of Defense. She has published more than 47 papers in reputed medical/public health journals and has been serving as an editorial board member and currently serving as an Associate Editor for a high impact journal.

Cancer health disparity and health literacy among immigrant and refugee populations

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

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 Josef Holzki is a teaching professor at the University Children´s Hospital Liège, Belgium, after retiring from being Director/Chairman of the department of Pediatric Anesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) in Children´s Hospital Cologne, Germany for 23 years. He also served as a President of the FEAPA (Federation of European associations of Pediatric Anesthesia), Lecturer in international meetings of Pediatric Anesthesia and –intensive care and airway endoscopy, honorary member of the Association of Pediatric anesthesia of Great Britain and Ireland (APA).

Pediatric Anesthesia and intensive care, Airway Endoscopy

Dr. P. Syamasundar Rao is Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine and Emeritus Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School and Professor of Pediatrics at the University Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. Dr. Rao received his medical degree from Andhra Medical College/University, Visakhapatnam, India where he subsequently served internship and began pediatric training. Following completion of pediatric training in USA, he received training in Pediatric Cardiology at Stanford University, Case-Western Reserve University and University of California at Los Angeles. After training he joined the faculty at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, USA, then rose to the rank of Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Director of Pediatric Cardiology. His subsequent positions were Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist and Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Professor and Director of Division of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin and Professor and Director, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine/Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Rao authored 360 papers, ten monographs/books and 60 book chapters. He had 230 abstract presentations at various national and international scientific societies and his invited presentations were 150. He lectured and made catheter intervention demonstrations in a number of countries including India, USA, Australia, Finland, Sweden, Germany, New Zealand, Brazil and Japan. Dr. Rao’s honors include Award for Outstanding Contribution to Pediatric Cardiology, presented by Telugu Association of North America, John Linds Lecture at Swedish Pediatric Association, Gothenburg, Sweden, Meritorious Service Award from Wisconsin Nicaragua Partners of the Americas, Outstanding Service Award from Healing the Children of Wisconsin, Outstanding Scientist Award from American Association of Cardiologists of Indian Origin and Kreidberg’s Lecture at Tufts University/New England Medical Center, Boston, MA.. He is a pioneer in interventional pediatric cardiology and made many contributions in catheterization and angiography in 1970s, balloon angioplasty/valvuloplasty in 1980s and transcatheter catheter closure of cardiac defects in 1990s, developed new pediatric cardiology/pediatric cardiovascular surgery program in 2000s and developing educational programs for physicians in 2010s.

Dr. Rao’s special interests are physiologically advantageous ventricular septal defects, tricuspid atresia and transcatheter management of heart defects in children.

Luis Beato-Fernández (MD. PhD.) has completed his MD from University of Seville (Spain) and postdoctoral studies PhD from University of Cordoba School of Medicine. He is the director of Eating Disorders Unit at the General Hospital of Ciudad Real and he is professor at the School of Medicine University of Castilla La Mancha. He has published more than 25 papers mainly related to Eating Disorders in adolescents.

Eating Disorders

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. Takehiko Ohura is a Chair & Professor at Japanese Association of Homecare for Pressure Ulcers & Wounds, Japan

Ulcers, Wounds

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.

Sheelagh Wickham qualified as a general nurse and midwife. After qualifying she worked in Intensive Care and Accident and Emergency Department. She moved from A&E to set up one of the first Diabetes Day Centres in Ireland where she worked for a number of years before moving to research in diabetes care. In the mid-nineties she developed the first accredited course in Specialist Nursing, (Diabetes) in Ireland in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. During this time she achieved an honours master from TrinityCollege and registered as nurse tutor. She completed the fellowship in the Faculty in Nursing in RCSI in 2000 and her Doctorate in the Science of Nursing from the University of Wales, Swansea. She continues to teach in the School of Nursing in Dublin City University where she is Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning.

Sheelagh Wickham research interests are chronic illness, particularly diabetes, preventive medicine and education.

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

Momcilo Jankovic has completed his Specializations in: Pediatrics and Hematology (1981) and Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (1989) at the School of Medicine - University of Milan. Since 1982 he is Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at the Department of Pediatrics of the University of Milan, Hospital S.Gerardo, Monza. Since 1994 he is Director of the General Paediatric and Haematological Outpatient Clinic in the same Department. Responsibilities: leukemias, thalassemias, platelets disorders, bone marrow transplantation Research: CNS sequelae in leukemic children; Cooperative studies with the Italian Association of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology (AIEOP) and European Countries. He has published more than 300 papers in reputed journals.

Leukemias, Thalassemias, Platelets disorders, Bone marrow transplantation

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.

Andrzej Nowicki was born in Warsaw, Poland. He graduated from Military Medical Academy in Lodz in 1975 and he got a degree as a medical doctor (MD) in Institute of Oncology in Warsaw in 1987 and postdoctoral degree in 1998. He is a winner of two individual scientific prices awarded by Bydgoszcz Oncological Foundation. In 1995 he was in University Hospital in Calgary as a visiting professor. At present he is an assistant professor in Collegium Medicum of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun and director of the Oncological Nursing Unit as well as academic teacher in the Department of Nursing. He is an author of above 107 articles published in medical magazines and he was an author of handbook under title ‘Oncological Nursing’.

Andrzej Nowicki main scientific interests are: Quality of life of oncological patients, Preventive screening systems for early detection of breast and colorectal cancers, Nutrition state and fatigue syndrome in oncological patients as well as Quality of life during final stage of neoplastic diseases.

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

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.