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Peter Averkiou

Florida Atlantic University, United States

Biography:

Dr. Peter Averkiou is a pediatrician and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University. He is the Co-Director of the four Foundations of Medicine Courses, the Director of the Service Learning Projects, the Director of the Newborn Nursery Clinical Rotation and the Director of the Synthesis and Transition Course at the medical school.

Magdy W Attia

Nemours Children's Health Care System, United States

Biography:

Magdy W. Attia, MD trained in pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine at New Youk University medical center from 1987-1992. He has served as a pediatric emergency Medicine physician at Nemours Children’s Health system for over 30 years. He is a professor of Pediatrics at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of the Thomas Jefferson University, in Philadelphia.

Kate Tauber

Albany Medical Center, United States

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.

Heather Hanna

Imperial College, United Kingdom

Biography:

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.

Jeanne Magagna

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, United Kingdom

Biography:

Dr. Jeanne Magagna, Tavistock trained child, adult and family psychotherapist, has worked with children and their parents as a nursery teacher, secondary and university teacher as well as subsequently being Head of Psychotherapy Services at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children for 24 years. She has also worked as a consultant to Family Futures Adoption and Fostering Consortium and previously  Coordinator of Training at Centro Studi Martha Harris in Florence and Venice, Italy, where she now  continues to teach.
Throughout her professional life her aim is to help parents and professionals observe the deeper aspects of infants’ personality in order that infants can be better understood and have more rights to good parenting.  Her books The Silent Child: Communication without Words and Being Present for Your Nursery Age Child discuss how important it is to collaborate with parents to support and understand their children and parents have been involved in these writing projects. With the collaboration with Roz Read  she has edited Contemporary Child Psychotherapy.  Other collaboratively edited books include: Psychotherapy with Families, Intimate Transformations,  Creativity and Psychotic States and A Psychotherapeutic Understanding of Children and Young People.  Jeanne currently works on most continents teaching infant observation, discussing collaborative work with parents, and engaging in clinical discussions.

Hanna A Alonim

The Mifne Center and Bar Ilan University, Israel

Biography:

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.

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.