EPN 2025

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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.

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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.

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Dr. Dufault completed her PhD at A.T. Still University. She retired early from her position as a US Public Health Service officer at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to publish her findings of mercury in high fructose corn syrup. As an FDA whistleblower, she could not find employment as a researcher, so she founded the non-profit Food Ingredient and Health Research Institute where she works as a volunteer. She supplements her income working as a licensed special education teacher. Dr. D is considered a leader in the field of nutritional epigenetics with 726 citations according to Google Scholar.

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Dr C. Fallet-Bianco spent the main part of her career as a Senior Consultant and in the Department of Neuropathology at the Sainte-Anne University Hospital in Paris. In 2013, she was appointed full-time Clinical Professor of Neuropathology at Sainte-Justine Hospital and the University of Montreal. She also obtained certification in General Pathology, Fetal Pathology and Dysmorphology-Developmental Abnormalities & Genetic Syndromes (University Paris VI & VII). She has collaborated in the editing of seven scientific books, the latest being "Keeling's Fetal and Neonatal Pathology" 8th edition (2022). She has also published 110 research and review articles in international scientific journals.

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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. 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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He has been engaged in pediatric clinical and child  rehabilitation for 40 years. Led the rehabilitation team to treat more than 40,000 cases of children with intellectual disability, cerebral palsy and autism from China and more than 20 countries including France, the US, Japan, UK, Germany, etc. More than 26800 children’s deformity returned to school and society and became self-sufficient. The rehabilitation effect ranks the international advanced level. He is one of the most famous pediatric neurological and rehabilitation specialists in integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine in China. He has been influential in pediatric neuroscience, pediatric rehabilitation, and traditional medicine throughout the world. Since 1993, I have given lectures at invitation in 30 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, Norway, Germany, Brazil, Turkey, Singapore, Portugal, Indonesia and Malaysia. Most sponsors will pay for my keynot speaker. He has great influence in the international pediatric neurology and traditional medicine community and is a very famous pediatric neurorehabilitation expert in the world.

Scientific research Achievements: He presided over 1 National Natural Science Foundation project and participated in 8 major projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology and provincial projects. He has won 6 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards.

Chief monograph: He has edited 10 books, including Early Intervention Training for Children's Brain Development, Rehabilitation Training Atlas for Children with Motor Retardation, Practical Acupuncture and moxibustion Science Atlas for Children (Chinese-English control), and Family Rehabilitation Guide for Children with Cerebral palsy. He has published 268 papers in international and Chinese medical journals.