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Josep Panisello

Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, United States

Biography:

Josep Panisello graduated from Navarra University Medical School, Spain, in 1989. He completed his residency in Pediatrics at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, in 1994 and graduated from my Fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care and Applied Physiology at Yale School of Medicine, New Have nCT, in 1997. After graduation, he moved to the United Kingdom where he has been a consultant in Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine at the Manchester Children’s Hospitals NHS Trust and in the Oxford-Radcliffe NHS Trust where he also served as Clinical Director of Pediatric Intensive Care for almost decade. Currently, He is the medical director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital and Chief of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Yale Medical School in New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Rita P Verma

Nassau University Medical Center, United States

Biography:

Dr. Verma graduated from medical school in India at the top of her class of 210 students with honors. She was an associate professor of Pediatrics at the State University of New York and the University of Maryland Schools of Medicine before joining Nassau University Medical Center as professor. She has published over 90 peer reviewed manuscripts and abstracts and has presented her research at national and international meetings. She serves on the editorial board and is a manuscript reviewer for several journals. She is a member of the Neonatal-Perinatal, Critical Care and Epidemiology subcommittees of American Academy of Pediatrics.

Irena Bralic

University of Split,, Croatia (Hrvatska)

Biography:

Irena Bralic is a head doctor (Primarius), a specialist paediatrician, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, and scientific associate at the Medical Faculty of the University of Split, permanently employed in a Specialized Paediatric Practice. She is the author and editor of the university textbook Prevention of Diseases in Childhood, the university handbook Vaccination and Vaccines, and the sold-out handbook for parents, How to Grow Up Healthy. She has published more than forty papers in recent journals, and she has been an invited speaker at many foreign and national conferences. She is the head of the scientific project of the Ministry of Science of the RC entitled; Secular changes in growth and the appearance of obesity during puberty. She is the head of category 1 courses in the life-long education of doctors, in the series New Challenges in the Prevention of Diseases in Childhood. Her narrow field of professional and scientific interest are preventive programmes in childhood and adolescence, vaccination, growth and development, and obesity. She is a member of the Management Board and Treasurer of the Croatian Paediatrics Society.

Janet Mattsson

The Swedish Red Cross University College, Sweden

Biography:

Janet Mattsson have specifically devoted her research to complex care situations and pedagogical encounters such as how she learnt and what they learnt in clinical practice from a multimodal perspective, as well as the interaction school, clinic, student. Her field is within the pediatric intensive care context. Her research is interdisciplinary between nursing and medical education. Theoretically, she is anchored in pedagogical theories and nursing theories, especially Patricia Benner’s thoughts on holistic nursing have been of great importance to her. Methodologically, her research primarily derives from a qualitative approach with phenomenology and interpretative phenomenology as foundation. Data collection takes place through interviews, participatory observations and action research in various care-related contexts.

Karen S Fernandez

University of California San Francisco (UCSF), United States

Biography:

Karen S. Fernandez is a Pediatric oncologist with expertise in solid tumors and Hodgkin lymphoma. She currently serves as the director of the solid tumor program at Valley Children’s Hospital in Madera, California and has an academic affiliation with the University of California San Francisco. In addition to practicing pediatric oncology. Fernandez is involved in hematology/oncology global health initiatives, and has participated in educational and research projects in Guatemala, Vietnam and Uganda.

Zhan he Wu

Children’s Hospital at West mead, Australia

Biography:

Zhan he Wu graduated from Harbin Medical University, China IN 1978. He worked in cardiology/haematology clinic for 8 years. He received his Master degree on the project of hematopoietic stem cells of leukaemia in 1985 and received his PhD in 1993 from University of New South Wales on the topic of Haematology/ Immunology, identified IgG Fc receptors on 5 different types of hematopoietic cells/lines (megakaryocytic lineage). He has published more than 60 original articles and 4 chapters in books. Since 1996, he has been working in the field of human genetic disease studies, mainly on the genetic cause of early fetal loss, inherited bone marrow failure syndromes including Fanconi anemia and hematologic malignancies in the Sydney Genome Diagnostics, Western Sydney Genetics Program, The Children’s Westmead, affiliated to University or Sydney. He is a Founding Fellow of Royal College of Pathologist for Australasia (RCPA). He is working as the associate editor, editor-in-Chief and chair of the rare disease column for several medical journals currently