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Karen Smith

The George Washington School of Medicine & Health Sciences, United States

Biography:

Dr. Karen Smith is the chief of the Division of Hospitalist Medicine at Children’s National Health System in Washington, DC. She began her career as an army nurse before becoming a hospital based pediatrician. Her experience working with children and adults with complex medical needs led to her position as the Chief Medical Officer at The HSC Pediatric Center, a pediatric rehabilitation hospital, in Washington, DC. During this time she served as the chair for the District of Columbia Pediatric Palliative Care Collaborative and the District of Columbia Children with Special Healthcare Needs Advisory Board.

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.

I M Rogers

AIMST University, Malaysia

Biography:

I.M.Rogers is a retired surgeon with a long-standing interest in the cause. He made the earliest discovery of neonatal hypergastrinaemia and also was ,as far as I know, to document hyperacidity in the pyloric stenosis(PS) baby. He first proposed an inherited primary hyperacidity as the cause and subsequently refined this theory in the light of evidence showing insensitivity of the negative feed-back between acid and gastrin in the early weeks. He is the author of The Consequences and Cause of PS of Infancy with a survivor of PS-Dr. Fred. Vanderbom available on AMAZON ISBN 978-3-659-52125—6 and has just finished another book Pyloric stenosis of Infancy-the Great Mystery unravels- again published by Amazon all profits to the Safe Water Trust.Available 2019. He is also the author of many paers on the subject of cause.

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.