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I have been a pediatrician since 1987. I was born and raised in Madrid Spain, where I went to Medical School. Having a dual citizenship (U.S.A. and Spanish) enabled me to do my residency in Pediatrics in the U.S.A. As most pediatricians I have been trained in a biomedical oriented way but throughout my years of training and practice, I have come to realize the importance of looking at and addressing children in a holistic manner by taking into account all the factors that surround a child’s life. 

Since I joined ISSOP in 2003 this perspective has become the mainstay of my practice. Currently I am working as an attending physician in a Community Hospital in Madrid that is part of the Spanish National Health System. Although I have participated in a few research projects and worked in different departments, for the last fifteen years, I have been dedicated to clinical care to the field of General Pediatrics and Social Pediatrics as well as education. Given the medical problems I have encountered in my day-to-day practice I have had to reach out and team up with other sectors that work with children and adolescents, mainly Social Services, professionals in the Education field, Community Services and at times with the Justice Department as well. Being an ISSOP member and later becoming ISSOP’s General Secretary in 2017, has guided me in my clinical work as well as in my advocacy towards improving the health and wellbeing of the children and adolescents in the community where I practice. 

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Dr. Catherine Farrell has practiced as a pediatric intensivist at CHU Sainte-Justine in Montréal, Québec, since 1990.  She is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Université de Montréal, and serves as Associate Department Chair for Professoral Affairs.
Dr. Farrell’s clinical and research interests include clinical ethics, organ donation, traumatic brain injury, and early warning systems in hospitalized children. She has been a co-investigator and collaborator in a number of multicentre clinical trials conducted under the auspices of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group.  She aspires to provide family-centered care in partnership with an interdisciplinary team. As a recognized organ donation physician specialist, she works closely with colleagues at Transplant-Québec and Héma-Québec.
 

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David is Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist and Public Health Specialist practicing at The Nairobi Hospital where he was Chair of Paediatrics for six years till 2007.    A graduate with an MB ChB and M.Med in Paediatrics from the University of Nairobi in 1984 and 1990 respectively.  Between 1991 and 1993, he studied paediatric cardiology at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, U.K.  He served in Kenyatta National Hospital in the same capacity as well as the Quality Assurance Manager till 1997. He obtained a Diplomate in Children’s Environmental Health in Athens Greece in 2006 and four years later,  obtained a Master of Science in Public Health from the University of London (LSHTM). 

DRA. DULCE BRISA GARCÍA GAENZA

Médica Pediatra

Posgrado en Aplicada a la Clínica Toxicología

Experta REDTOX en animales de ponzoña.

Encargada de la Clínica de Atención al paciente pediátrico intoxicado del Hospital de Pediatría Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI

Miembro de la Mexicana de Pediatría Sociedad

Profesora adjunta de Pediatría para pregrado y posgrado UNAM

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UNIVERSIDAD DE GUADALAJARA 16/jul/2023

PROFESORA DE ASIGNATURA "B" LIC. MEDICINA

ESTABLECIMIENTO DE SALUD. HOSPITAL CIVIL DE GUADALAJARA FRAY ANTONIO ALCALDE 28/ene/2016
MEDICO ESPECIALISTA "C"

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 • Founder, President/ Chairman  member & Past Chairman Respiratory chapter of IAP,

   Respiratory Chapter of Karnataka,  Environment chapter,  Allergy and Immunology chapter,

        Indian  Medical Association Bangalore East.

•Visiting Prof. U.S.A, Canada, Italy, Nepal, U.K, Australia, Bangladesh, Srilanka

•?Member WHO-NGO Climate – Health Working Group GENEVA

•Founder member and advisor Thalassemia society Bangalore.

•Adviser to WHO, UNICEF,  World Bank, COMHAD & Alliance for Global Health. GENEVA

•812 – Invited Scientific papers/talks; 51- Oration Awards ; and  many chapters in 42 textbooks;

      138 – Publications in National and International Journals

•Past National president Indian Academy of ALLERGY

•Past National President Pediatric Association of India – 2015

•Local, State, National & International Awardee for his work in Environment and Health

•Past President of PHANA-Private Hospitals & Nursing Homes Association 2008 - 2012

•Past National President COMHAD (UK) India Chapter 2021- 2022

•Received Lifetime Achievement Award from Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) 2022

•Co-Chairman International Pediatric Association on Environmental Health

White Coat Legend of India 2024 Docflix / Mankind Pharma 

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Jeffrey Goldhagen, MD, MPH is a Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Community and Societal Pediatrics at the University of Florida-Jacksonville and President of the International Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP). He has extensive experience in domestic and international maternal and child health; urban health; medical education; the core functions of public health; health care administration; hospice and palliative medicine; and in child rights and advocacy.  He has provided leadership nationally in the development of comprehensive public health systems and systems of care for children’s medical and behavioral health. 

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Jonathan D. Klein is the Marron and Mary Elizabeth Kendrick Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the
Division of Adolescent Medicine at Stanford University. He is an adolescent medicine specialist and a
health services researcher known for his leadership and expertise in preventive services, youth
development and tobacco control, and for translation of research into clinical and public health practice
and global child health policy. He serves as President of the International Association for Adolescent
Health, as Treasurer and Executive Committee member for the International Pediatric Association, as
Vice-chair of the PMNCH Evidence and Accountability Working Group, and as a member of the WHO
Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee for Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and
Nutrition (STAGE). Prior to joining Stanford in 2023, he was Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and
Executive Vice Head of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. From 2009-
2017, he was Associate Executive Director at the American Academy of Pediatrics, with oversight for the
Academy’s research, tobacco control, publishing, and global health programs.

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Profesor Adjunto, campos clínicos, Carrera de médico cirujano Facultad de estudios superiores Iztacala UNAM ? Profesor Adjunto, de la Especialidad Medicina de Urgencias Médico Quirúrgicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional. ? Ponente en diversos congresos nacionales e internacionales ? Miembro de grupo de trabajo de Toxicología y Ecografía de la Sociedad Latinoamericana de Emergencias Pediátricas ? Coautor del artículo COVID-19 and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Latin American Children A Multinational Study ? Coautor del artículo Acute Abdomen and Appendicitis in 1010 Pediatric Patients With COVID-19 or MIS-C: A Multinational Experience from Latin America ? Miembro de la Sociedad Mexicana de Pediatría ? Presidente de la Asociación Mexicana de Urgencias/ Emergencias Pediátricas, A.C. 2022-2023

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Pediatrician graduated from the Cayetano Heredia University of Lima, Peru.  Expert in Public Health, Master's degree in Government and Health Management and completed a doctorate in Public Health.  Postgraduate studies at the National Center for Higher Studies, Lima; Harvard University, Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization, IDB, with a focus on Adolescent Health and Development (Pontific Catholic University, Santiago, Chile). 

Regional Advisor on Adolescent Health for PAHO in Washington DC, (2015).

Director of Strategic Programs in Public Health (2016 – 2017).

Vice Minister of Public Health at MINSA Peru (2018)

Executive Secretary of the Andean Health Organization - Hipolito Unanue Agreement, ORAS-CONHU. (2019 up to day)

National, Latin American and Global Levels Positions:

Different management positions in Pediatric Scientific Organizations at the national (President Peruvian Society of Adolescence and Youth SPAJ, Coordinator Social Pediatrics Chapter, Peruvian Pediatric Society SPP) latin american (President Iberoamerican and Italian Confederation of Adolescence and Youth CODAJIC,  Social Pediatrics Committee in the Pediatric Latinoamerican Association ALAPE) and global levels (Vicepresident and Special Adviser International Association for Adolescent Health IAAH). Member of the Standing Committee IPA.

Distinctions:

Received major awards for her academic leadership and the development of national and international support for adolescent health, as the Hipolito Unanue medal with the degree of Grand Cross, the highest distinction that a doctor in Public Health can receive in Peru.

Also, the Medical College of Perú will grant the Distinction for Extraordinary Merit of Honorary Distinctions.

Publications:

The Health of Adolescents and Youth in the Americas

Implementation of the Regional Strategy and Plan of Action on Adolescent and Youth Health 2010-2018. PAHO

Book “Global Health and Health Diplomacy” A Vision from Latin America and the Caribbean. Latin America Alliance for Global Health – ALASAG 2021.

Original Reasearh: Response with a child rights approach to the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile, Colombia and Peru.  Pan American Journal of  Public Health 45. 2021.

The situation of overweight, obesity and the impact of the Covid 19 disease in Andean Countries – ORAS CONHU 2021.

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She was part of the team implementing Maternal Newborn and Child program in Tanzania,
Kangaroo Mother Care in Ethiopia. Currently she is the Principle investigator of SIM 4Life(A
simulation program for Uganda, Tanzania and Nigeria).
Her focus is on implementation of programs that lead to knowledge translation and quality care.
Her passion is to implement simple, affordable programs to improve the lives of babies around
the world.
She was the recipient of Teasdale-Corti award of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Canada.

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Dr Nigel Livesley is a physician who has spent 20 years’ living in Africa and Asia, working as a clinician and a public health professional. He has managed and provided technical leadership in health, nutrition, and social protection programs with budgets of over $20 million per year. Dr Livesley has led large-scale projects delivering measurable improvements in health outcomes by helping public and private facilities and communities redesign services to implement evidence-based interventions and meet client and provider needs. He is a member of the International Society for Quality in Health Care’s (ISQua’s) Expert Group and co-chaired WHO’s Implementation Technical Working Group of the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Mothers, Newborns and Children. Dr Livesley has an MD from the University of British Columbia and an MPH in Health Management from the Harvard School of Public Health

Professor Nitin Kapur is a Respiratory & Sleep Paediatrician at the Queensland Children’s Hospital in
Brisbane, Australia. He is also the Director of Paediatric Education and Director of Clinical Training at
the same hospital. He is an Adjunct Professor with the School of Medicine at the University of
Queensland.
Nitin is the current President of the Paediatric and Child Health Division of the Royal Australasian
College of Physicians. His research interests include paediatric sleep disordered breathing,
bronchiectasis, pre-school wheeze and medical education.

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Dr. Etzel is an internationally-known pediatrician and preventive medicine specialist.  She is the founding editor of Pediatric Environmental Health, an influential book that has helped thousands of doctors to better recognize, diagnose, treat and prevent illness in children from environmental pollution.  From 2009 to 2012 she led the World Health Organization’s activities to protect children from environmental hazards. She worked for 12 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she founded and directed the Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Branch.  She conducted investigations of numerous epidemics, including outbreaks of sudden deaths in Sierra Leone due to parathion poisoning and of sudden deaths in Guatemala from paralytic shellfish poisoning.  She designed and oversaw studies that identified the cause of epidemic asthma in Barcelona and New Orleans, as well as investigations of the health effects of exposure to serious air pollution in Central and Eastern Europe and Mexico City

DR. SANTOSH T.SOANS
   MD, FIAP, FRCPCH(UK)

Professor & HOD.

Chief of Pediatric Intensive Care & Neonatology

A.J Institute of Medical Sciences &  Research, Mangalore-575004

•  Member Standing Committee IPA 2023-25
•    National President 2018 Indian Academy of Pediatrics
•   Chairperson Scientific Committee International Pediatric Association Congress -  2023
•   Founder National President of the Organized Medicine Academic  Guild of India

•  National President IAP Intensive Care Chapter-2013
• Founder President I.A.P Pediatric Intensive Care Chapter – Karnataka
• Founder Chairman Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine, Canara Branch
• Founder National Chairperson IAP Medical Education Chapter. 
• Standing committee member Asia Pacific Pediatric association 2019-2021
• Executive member of National Indian Academy of Pediatrics  4 times
• Chairperson  IAP Advisory Committee on Vaccines and Immunization   Practices2018-2019
• Senior Editorial Board Member and Reviewer” Journal of Pediatric Critical Care”
• Editor -“Intensivist” Journal of IAP Pediatric Intensive Care Chapter 2005-2008
• Authored Five books and many publications in national and international journal.
• Outstanding Asia Pacific pediatrician award 2018
• National IMA Doctors Day Awardee 2019.
• Governing Council member Indian College of Pediatrics.
• Delivered more than 30 orations  and plenary talks in  state, national and International conferences
• Organized over 1000 rural pediatric health camps for poor patients through AJIMS in the past 20 years.
• Rotarian and  Freemason  more than 25 years

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DRA SILVIA F. TORRES LIRA

President-Elect 2026 – National Neonatology Forum India

Editor-in-Chief – Journal of Neonatology (NNF)

Joint Secretary – KMC Foundation of India

Chairperson 2023 IAP Medical Education Chapter

National Coordinator - IAP NNF NRP Program (2020, 2021,2022, 2024)

Member of the International Pediatric Association -  Program Area Committee on Education & Pediatric Workforce for 2023-2025.

Associate Task Force Member (NLS) – International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation

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Dr. Susan Wamithi is a Consultant Developmental Paediatrician and Assistant Professor at Aga
Khan University Medical College, East Africa. Dr. Wamithi attended Birmingham-Southern
College, Alabama for her undergraduate degree. She proceeded to St. George’s University,
Grenada for medical school. Dr. Wamithi completed her paediatric residency training at Aga
Khan University in Kenya. She proceeded to the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital -
University of Toronto for her developmental paediatrics fellowship. Dr. Wamithi is the
Chairperson - Eastern Africa Academy of Childhood Disability (EAACD) and Early Childhood
Development Project Director and technical advisor - Kenya Paediatric Association (KPA). Dr.
Wamithi is a member of the International Pediatrics Association (IPA) Early Childhood
Development Committee and the Governing Council of the International Alliance of Academies
of Childhood Disability (IAACD). Dr. Wamithi was recently appointed as the Chair of the Early
Childhood Committee for the East, Central and Southern Africa College of Paediatrics
(ECSACPACH). She established the first developmental paediatrics service at Aga Khan
University Hospital, Nairobi. Dr. Wamithi has contributed to internationally recognized
resources such as the Global Child Health section of the Nelson Textbook 22nd edition. The
Nelson's Textbook of Pediatrics is the global primary resource that pediatricians, residents and
medical students turn to for reference. Dr. Wamithi has collaborated locally and internationally
on COVID-19 taskforces, research projects and educational sessions in the field of childhood
disability.

Dr Tamar Chitashvili is MD and public health professional with over 20 years experiences in
developing, implementing, and monitoring policies and programs targeting access to and
quality of maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (MNCAH), reproductive health (RH),
family planning (FP) and non-communicable diseases (NCD) services in over 40 LMICs. 
Currently she serves as technical director of Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH) within JSI
Research and Training Institute Inc, where she provides technical direction and thought
leadership of JSI’s MNH programming. She is also leading the Center of Healthy Women,
Children and Communities Center at JSI. Dr Chitashvili is working extensively with various
global, regional, and country actors and partnerships to advance global MNCH/FP/RH policy
dialogue, quality improvement and measurement agenda across lifecourse.

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Prof Haroon Saloojee is a personal professor at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa, and curriculum head of the university’s MBBCh programme.  His past roles include heading the Wits Division of Community Paediatrics and the neonatal unit at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital. He serves on various national and international (WHO) committees involving maternal, neonatal and child health, and immunization. He is co-chair of IPA’s Education and Pediatric Workforce Programme Area Committee. He has trained under- and post-graduates in the practice of evidence-based medicine for over two decades.

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