Pediatrics Virtual 2020

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Steven M. Donn, MD, FAAP received his M.D. degree from Tulane University. He completed a Pediatrics residency at the University of Vermont and a fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the University of Michigan. He has been on the faculty of the University of Michigan Medical School since 1980 and is presently a Professor Emeritus. He has published more than 200 medical articles, 250 book chapters, and has written or edited 35 books and specialty journals. He is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the AAP, SPR, APS, and ESPR

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Dr. Gupta did her BS in microbiology and MS biochemical technology in India. She further obtained her PhD from Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany in the area of ribosome biology and protein translation. After that she moved to Yale University where she performed extensive studies on identification of new regulators of cancer growth and progression. Many of her studies are published in journals like eLife, PNAS, Cell Reports, Oncogene etc. Currently she is Assistant Professor in the UAB and Associate scientist at O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB.

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Ivana Haluskova Spent over 1115 years in senior position in pharma industry career in research and industry and consultancy covering complex international projects from proof of concept to phase IV in Europe, Asia and US including the oncology domain as well as having worked in various other therapeutic areas including pediatrics, rare diseases, infectious diseases, vaccines and inflammation. Gained medical, academia and industry experience in Europe, Israel but mainly in Asia and US including the oncology domain as well as having worked in various other therapeutic areas including pediatrics, rare diseases, infectious diseases, vaccines and inflammation. . Board certified in internal medicine, immunology and infectious diseases and graduated in the Slovak Republic. French Physician. increasing immune surveillance and responsiveness to treatment. accurate diagnostic and intervention empowering host immune response, The use of antibiotic inteligent fashion, microbiome as adjuvant, oncomimetics to inspire new way to tackle cancer ( v a c c i n e s - l i k e o n c o m i m e t i c b u t m o r e ) while considering acurate diagnostic,individual particularities are important and worth deeper understanding for best care of patients. Microbiome plays role in currently used immunotherapy and CAART based on scientific data. An administrative Board member of multiple scientific societies that focus on immunology, including vaccins, immuno-oncology and infectiousdiseases crosslinks: French society of immunology, the Center of Global Health India and World alliance against resistance based in Paris. Regular speaker at various conferences highlighting the role of immunology, microbiota (boosting host immunity.)

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Dr. Dilek studied B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.  She then completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry/Chemical Biology at SUNY-Binghamton, USA. After two years postdoctoral studies at Cornell University and SUNY institutions, she joined Istanbul Altinbas University, Medical School in 2013 and got her tenure. She returned to USA in 2017 and worked as a faculty in Husson University and University of St Joseph. She recently joined as a faculty to University of District of Columbia, Washington, DC. She has published more than 15 research articles, book chapters and presented in more than 35 national and international conferences

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Dr. Bojana Turic completed her MD at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina where she held the position of Assistant Professor of Medical Microbiology; She finished her fellowship in Medical microbiology at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Bojana was a part of the executive team at PMI labs; Vancouver based private spin off company from BC Cancer Agency, focused on early cancer detection. She led the company through all steps from a concept through significant clinical and regulatory She is currently an advisor to or is actively involved  with  various biotechnology companies in Vancouver  Bojana is also VP of International Affairs at Landing Medical High Tech Co – a biotechnology and laboratory service company in China. She is a part of the executive team, helped a Company in establishing Quality control in their laboratories as well as expansion outside of China.

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Prof.Dr.Jing Liu is the Director of Department of Neonatology and NICU, Beijing Chaoyang District Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital. He is good at neonatal intensive critical care, neonatal brain ultrasound. Recent 10 years, he focused on neonatal lung ultrasound research, in his NICU, the lung ultrasound has completely replaced the chest X-ray to diagnoses neonatal lung diseases for 3 years.His academic positions include the Associate Chairman of Chinese Neonatologist Association and the Editorial members of more than 30 Chinese and English Journals. Dr.Liujing has published more than 300 papers, over 12 books  and Chapters in Books.

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Shinya Tajima, MD, PhD. The man was born in Saitama prefecture near Tokyo. He graduated from Keio University School of Medicine, before working in Department of Pathology at the same institution. I received PhD in Radiologic-Pathology from St. Marianna University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan. He is currently working at the Department of Pathology and Radiology of this latter institution. His research interests are breast pathology and radiology. And he is a finder of so-called “Tajima tumor”.

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Professor Gamal Al-Saied graduated in 1986 from Al-Azhar University with Bachelor’s Degree in medicine and surgery with general grade very good with honor. Internship in 1987. Pediatric surgery Resident from 1989 till 1992. Master’s Degree (MSc) pediatric surgery in 1991. Demonstrator of pediatric surgery in 1992, Assistant lecturer in 1993. Medical Doctorate degree (MD) in 1998.  Lecturer of pediatric surgery in 1998. Assistant professor of pediatric surgery in 2004. Fellowship of European Board In 2008, Glasgow, Scotland. Full professor of pediatric surgery in 2009. 30 international publications. Chairman of sessions in international conferences. Editor in chief of many international journals.

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Roberto Menicagli M.D Senior Scientist  Researcher;  PhD with postdoctoral studies in biochemistry and molecular genetics. Assigned  for two years as University Reader ,for   lecture in biochemistry  at the faculty of Biology , Milan .After University experience is  Senior Research”, in ENIRESEARCH GROUP, the most important Italian research group in the field of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Had  the task ,and  the responsibility of  projects in  the Environment. and Public Health,  in  the scientific committee ,of  ENEA-CNR.Is author of 4 patents and 14  publications with IF

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George Zachos completed his PhD at the University of Crete in 1997. He then received postdoctoral training in the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, U.K. before moving, in 2008, to the Department of Biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece as an Assistant Professor in Cell Biology. In 2015, he became Associate Professor and continues to hold this position today. Discoveries from the Zachos lab have identified mechasnisms that regulate the fidelity of chromosome segregation in mitotic cell division in higher eukaryotic cells. He has published 37 papers in leading scientific journals and his work has received ~2,000 citations.

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Dr. Limaye received her medical degree with honors from Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, Bhagalpur, India and did her residency in Internal Medicine from New York University in 2006. She did her fellowship in Hematology& Medical Oncology from Albert Einstein University, NY in 2009 and Masters in Patient Oriented Research (Cancer Genomics and Biostatistics) from Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, NY. Dr. Limaye has worked as an Attending in Medical Oncology and at the Phase I - Early Drug Development Center - Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA in 2009 and as Attending in Medical Oncology and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York-USA. She now works at Kokilaben Hospital, Mumbai, India as the Director of Clinical and Translational Oncology Research and Consultant in Medical Oncology.

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Dr. E. Begum Gencer-Oncul graduated as a biologist in 2012 from Gazi University, Turkey. She then started Ankara University Biotechnology Institute and gained her MSc in 2014. Meanwhile she started to work as a researcher at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine Cord Blood Bank. Upon her interest in Genetics and Rare Disease field, then she started his PhD thesis project at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine Division of Genetics Department of Pediatrics and she received her PhD degree on March 2019. She has taken part 6 different projects. Her research interests are based on stem cell and rare diseases field.

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Dr. Fehmida Najmuddin, MBBS from Manipal University, Karnataka , India in 2007, MD Pediatrics in 2012 followed by fellowship in pediatric pulmonology in 2013 under my mentor Dr. Keya Rani Lahiri in Dr. D Y Patil University, Maharashtra, India. Since Past 7 years, we run a dedicated Pediatric Asthma and allergy clinic. I Have close to 18 publications in various national and international journals, and have worked on many aspects of pediatric asthma and allergic rhinitis including RCQOL, Inhaled therapy, Pulmonary function tests, Height and spirometry correlation.  currently working on control classification of pediatric asthma.  Currently working as an Assistant Professor and pediatric pulmonologist in Navi Mumbai, India