Committees

Excellence in Paediatrics Scientific Committee

Chairman

Harvey Marcovitch, Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health and Editorial Board Member, Acta Paediatrica

Members

  • Carlo Acerini, Associate Editor, Diabetic Medicine
  • Robert Areci, Editor-in-Chief, Pediatric Blood and Cancer
  • Peter Baxter, Editor-in-Chief, Developmental and Child Neurology
  • Ulrike Blume-Peytavi, Assistant Editor, JDDG Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft
  • Kai-Håkon Carlsen, Editorial Board, The Clinical Respiratory Journal
  • Victor Chernick, Editor-in-Chief, Pediatric Pulmonology
  • Finbarr Cotter, Editor-in-Chief, British Journal of Haematology
  • Helen Cross, Editorial Board Member, Epilepsia
  • Mauricio De Martino, Professor of Paediatrics, Director of Department of Paediatrics, University of Florence and Anna Meyer Children's Hospital, Italy
  • Lawrence F. Eichenfield, Editor-in-Chief, Pediatric Dermatology
  • Richard Fine, Editor-in-Chief, Pediatric Transplantation
  • Ilona J. Frieden, Editor-in-Chief, Pediatric Dermatology
  • Stephen Greene, Editor, Evidence-Based Pediatrics and Adolescent Diabetes
  • Victoria Hall Moran, Editor-in-Chief, Maternal and Child Nutrition
  • Peter Hoeger, Section Editor, British Journal of Dermatology
  • David Isaacs, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Pediatrics and Child Health, Evidence-Based Paediatric Infectious Diseases
  • Andreas Konstantopoulos, President, European Paediatric Association EPA/UNEPSA
  • Hugo Lagercrantz, Editor-in-Chief, Acta Paediatrica
  • Stuart Logan, Editor-in-Chief, Child: Care, Health and Development
  • Colin Michie, Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Clinical Practice
  • Douglas Moodie, Editor-in-Chief, Congenital Heart Disease
  • Neil S. Morton, Editor-in-Chief, Pediatric Anesthesia
  • Armido Rubino, Professor of Paediatrics, University Federico II, Naples, Italy
  • Yoichi Sakakibara, Associate Editor, Pediatrics International
  • Mark Sperling, Chief Editor, Pediatric Diabetes
  • Hans-Christoph Steinhausen, Associate Editor, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
  • Giorgio Tamburlini, Technical Advisor for Evidence Based Paediatrics & Quality of Care, International Pediatric Association

Excellence in Paediatrics Expert Committees

Expert Committee on Children’s Environmental Health

  • Giorgio Tamburlini, Technical Advisor for Evidence Based Paediatrics & Quality of Care, International Pediatric Association and Research Director, Institute of Child Health Burlo Garofolo, Italy – Chairman

  • Philip Landrigan, Chairman, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine and Director, Center for Children’s Health and the Environment, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, USA

  • Christian Schweizer, Technical Officer, Noncommunicable Diseases and Environment Unit, World Health Organization, European Centre for Environment and Health, Rome, Italy

Expert Committee on Gastroenterology & Nutrition

  • David Branski, Professor and Chair of Pediatrics, Dr. Israel J. and Dena B. Zimmerman Professor of Pediatrics, Hadassah University Hospitals, Jerusalem, Israel

  • Olivier Goulet, , MD, Phd, Professor of Paediatrics, Chairman of the Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology-Hepatology and Nutrition Reference Center for Rare Digestive Diseases Intestinal Failure Rehabilitation Center, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, University of Paris, Paris, France

  • Victoria Hall Moran, Editor-in-Chief, Maternal and Child Nutrition

  • Berthold Koletzko, Dr med Dr med habil (MD PhD), Div. Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Expert Committee on Infectious Diseases and Vaccinations

  • David Isaacs, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Pediatrics and Child Health, Evidence-Based Paediatric Infectious Diseases 
  •  Nigel Klein,  BSc MBBS MRCP PhD FRCPCH, Professor of Infectious Diseases and Immunology Deputy Head of the Research Department of Infection, UCL; Honorary Consultant in Immunology and Infectious Diseases and to the Clinical Immunology Laboratory, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
EPA-UNEPSA Child Health

Expert Committee on Respiratory Medicine sessions organized by the European Paediatric Association (EPA/UNEPSA) and the Cochrane Child Health Field within the context of Excellence in Paediatrics

Chairman

Andrew Bush, Professor of Paediatric Respirology, Imperial College, Academic Director of Paediatrics, National Heart and Lung Institute, and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Chest Physician, Royal Brompton Hospital, UK

Members

  • Steve Cunningham, Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician & Part Time Senior Lecturer, Department of Respiratory & Sleep Medicine, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, UK

  • Andreas Konstantopoulos, President, European Paediatric Association EPA/UNEPSA

  • Michael Smith, Consultant Paediatrician, Director NI Clinical Research Network for Children, Craigavon Hospital, UK

  • Mike Thomas, Chief Medical Officer, Asthma UK & Asthma UK Senior Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen, UK

  • Matthew J. Thompson, Clinical Lecturer & Co-Director of Oxford Centre for Monitoring & Diagnosis in Primary Care (MaDOx), University of Oxford, UK