EPN 2023

Biography:

Steven M. Donn, MD, FAAP, FAARC is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at the Michigan Medicine and a member of the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. Dr. Donn is actively involved in teaching, writing, editing, and clinical research.  He is a member of the SPR, APS, and ESPR, and is internationally known for his expertise in the management of respiratory failure in newborns. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Respiratory Care for his contributions to the profession of respiratory care. He has authored more than 255 articles, written/edited 38 books and specialty journals, and contributed 260 book chapters.

Biography:

Kate Tauber MD, MA FAAP is an Associate Professor at The Bernard and Millie Duker Children’s Hospital at Albany Medical Center in Albany NY.  She is the Director of the Mother’s Own Milk program in the NICU as well as the NeuroNICU. She is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and its Sub-board of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. Dr. Tauber is actively involved in the clinical care of neonates, teaching and mentoring of medical students, residents, and fellows, and regularly conducts clinical research with a focus on nutrition and breastmilk. She has presented her work at regional and national meetings. Outside of work Dr Tauber enjoys spending time with her family, skiing, traveling, and cooking.

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Mrs. Heather Hanna studied both adult and paediatric nursing in a joint course at the Charles West School of Nursing at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London qualifying as a Registered General Nurse and a Registered Sick Children’s Nurse in 1989. She also qualified as an RN in the State of Washington, practicing there for 3 years in Infant Intensive Care Unit and then as a Research Nurse at Children’s Hospital, Seattle. Her career was mostly spent in Neonatal Intensive Care before she moved into Research at St Mary’s Hospital Paddington where she also obtained her MSc in Allergy (dist.) from Imperial College London. Some ten years ago, she moved into Medical Education and obtained her MEd in University Lecturing and Teaching from Imperial College. Her roles are now split between Undergraduate Medical Education working in the Medical Ethics and Law Team and Postgraduate Medical Education as Clinical Teaching Fellow on the online Applied Paediatrics MSc course, both at Imperial College London.

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Dr David Hutchon, a fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricitians and Gynaecologists, has 30 years experience as a consultant obstetrician in the UK. For the past 15 years he has been researching and teaching about the harm of early cord clamping, organizing conferences on the subject, publishing over 40 papers, speaking at neonatology meetings and ran an international workshop in Edinburgh on motherside neonatal resuscitation with an intact cord. He recently co-authored the chapter on cord clamping in the second edition of Golden Hours, Care of the Very Low Birth Weight Neonate.

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Dr. Hanna A. Alonim, is an expert and researcher in the autism spectrum in infancy. Founder and Head of the Mifne Center Israel, for Treatment, Training, and Research, since 1987. Head of the Therapists' Training School for Autism in infancy at the Bar Ilan University.  Alonim developed the ESPASSI © screening scale for the detection of autism prodrome in first year of life and established the pioneer infant’s detection Unit at the Ichilov Hospital in TLV. Dr. Alonim is a member of the Norland Journal Editorial Bord, Consistent Reviewer of JADD, and a committee member of the ICF Core Set for ASD, WHO, Stockholm 2016.

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Professor Gamal Al-Saied had been graduated from Al-Azhar University with Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine and Surgery with a general grade very good with honor. His rank was the 9 th in the top 10 graduate list of Faculty of Medicine Al-Azhar University Cairo, Egypt. In 1991, He has been completed his Master’s Degree (MSc) in pediatric surgery (1st part, thesis, and 2nd part). Then, he was appointed as a demonstrator of pediatric surgery in 1992, then, an assistant lecturer of pediatric surgery in 1993 at the Pediatric Surgery Department. In 1998, he has been accredited with a Doctorate Degree in Pediatric Surgery (M.D). Then, he was promoted to a lecturer of pediatric surgery at the Pediatric Surgery Department. In 2004, he was promoted to assistant professor of pediatric surgery at Pediatric Surgical department at Al-Azhar University Hospitals. In 2008, he was certified a Fellowship of European Board in Pediatric Surgery (FEBPS), Glasgow, Scotland. In 2009, he was promoted to a full professor of pediatric surgery at Pediatric Surgical department by Al-Azhar University Hospitals. In 2022, he is certified as a Fellowship of American College of Surgeons (FACS) USA. He had two published theses (MSc and M.D) and he supervised many thesis of a Master’s Degree and Doctorate Degree. Also, he has published 37 international researches in international journals of pediatric surgery and one chapter in international text book (CURRENT CONCEPTS OF URETHROPLASTY) Edited by Donkov I. 2011, pp 35-42. He has been invited as an international speaker and chairperson in many international conferences on pediatric surgery. Currently, He is an Editor-in- Chief for two international pediatric surgery journals and editor of thirteen international pediatric surgery journals. He is also reviewer for many international pediatric surgery journals. In 2003, he was the founder and head of pediatric surgery unit at King Abdul Aziz Specialist Hospital Taif, Saudi Arabia. He has a great and long term experience in neonatal and pediatric surgery field (open and laparoscopic). Recently, in the era of COVID-19 and afterwards, he has been invited as an international keynote speaker to many international pediatric surgery webinars.

Biography:

Selim Oncel received his medical education from Ankara University Faculty of Medicine. He completed his specialization in Pediatrics and Child Health, as well as Family Medicine, at the Ministry of Health Ankara Training and Research Hospital, and received his fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases from Ankara University Faculty of Medicine.

Following his positions as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health and as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Kocaeli University Faculty of Medicine, he currently serves as a Professor Doctor at the same university. Dr. Oncel serves as the Head of the Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, a member of the Pre-graduate Education Committee, and a member of the Infection Control Committee at Kocaeli University Faculty of Medicine.

His research focuses on pediatric infectious diseases, the integration of generative artificial intelligence into pediatric infectious diseases, diagnostic methods, medical education, clinical decision support systems, and vaccinology.

He is also a former Eurovision contestant and a choral tenor. He produces and hosts a program on Radio Kİ, the radio station of Kocaeli University's Faculty of Communication. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on progressive rock and hybrid music genres at the university. He holds a 2nd Dan (Nidan) black belt in Aikido and has supervised aikido training programs at the university. Additionally, he holds international certificates from institutions such as Michigan, Yale, and Berklee in clinical skills, music theory, and music production