Speakers

List of Confirmed Speakers/Chairpersons*

• Kanwaljeet J. S. (“Sunny”) Anand, Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
• Eulalia Baselga, Consultant, Hospital de la Santa Creu I. San Pau, Barcelona, Spain
• David Branski, Professor and Chair of Paediatrics, Hadassah University Hospitals, Jerusalem, Israel
  
• Charles Brook, Emeritus Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology, University College London, London, UK
• Carol Camfield, Professor Emeritus, Dalhousie University, Department of Pediatrics, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Peter Camfield, Professor Emeritus, Dalhousie University, Department of Pediatrics, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Kai-Håkon Carlsen, Editorial Board, The Clinical Respiratory Journal
• Kim Chilman-Blair, CEO / Founder, MEDIKIDZ, London, UK
• Imti Choonara, Professor in Child Health, Academic Division of Child Health, University of Nottingham, The Medical School, Derbyshire Children's Hospital, Derby, UK
• Dimitri Christakis, Professor, Center Director, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Center for Child Health Behavior and Development, Seattle, USA 
• Graham Clayden, Kings College London School Of Medicine, Retired Consultant Paediatrician, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
• David Coghill, Senior Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Lead for the Developmental Research Group, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
• Gary Cohen, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, Department of Women and Child Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
• Anthony Costello, Professor Of International Child Health, University College London, London, UK 
• Finbarr Cotter, Editor-in-Chief, British Journal of Haematology, Chair of Experimental Heamatology, Barts and the London Queen Mary School of Medicine, London, UK
• Steve Cunningham, Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician, Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 
• Adnan Custovic, Professor of Allergy, Head of Respiratory Research Group, The University of Manchester, University Hospital of South Manchester, Manchester, UK 
• Lawrence F. Eichenfield, Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine (Dermatology), Chief, Pediatric and Adolescent Dermatology, University of California,   San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center, San Diego, California, USA
• Colin Ferrie, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK
• Alberic Fiennes, Consultant Surgeon, British Obesity & Metabolic Surgery Society, London, UK
• Adam Finn, Head Of The Academic Unit Of Child Health, Bristol Medical School, Department Of Clinical Science, Honorary Consultant In Paediatric Infectious Diseases And Immunology, Bristol Royal Hospital For Children, Bristol, UK  
• Ilona J. Frieden, Clinical Professor of Dermatology And Pediatrics, Department Of Pediatric Dermatology, University Of California San Francisco, Editor-In-Chief, Pediatric Dermatology, San Francisco, USA 
• Jean Golding, Professor of Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
• Olivier Goulet, Professor of Pediatrics, University Paris Descartes-Hôpital Necker, Paris, France
• Donald Greydanus, Professor, Pediatrics & Human Development, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, Pediatrics Director, Michigan State, University/Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
• Alfredo Guarino, Full Professor of Pediatrics, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
• Alexandra Lee Haagensen, MD, Attending Physician, Department of Endocrinology, Boston, USA 
• Victoria Hall Moran, Editor-In-Chief, Maternal & Child Nutrition Journal, Preston, UK    
• Patricia Hamilton, Director Of Medical Education, The Department Of Health, London, UK
• John Harper, Professor of Paediatric Dermatology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK 
• Michael R. Hayden, MB, ChB, PhD, FRCP (C), FRSC, Canada Research Chair in Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University Killam Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, CMMT, CFRI, UBC, Canada 
• Paul Heath, Reader / Honorary Consultant, Paediatric Infectious Diseases, St George’s University of London, London, UK
• Philipp Henneke, Associate Professor, Consultant In Peadiatric Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Centre For Peadiatrics And Adolescent Medicine, Freiburg, Germany
• Eric Herlenius, MD PhD, Neonatal Research Unit, Department of Women and Child Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
• Peter H. Hoeger, Section Editor, British Journal οf Dermatology, Head, Departments of Paediatrics and Paediatric Dermatology, Catholic Children's Hospital Wilhelmstift (Academic Reaching Hospital, University of Lübeck), Hamburg, Germany
• Richard Howard, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK
• Huw Jenkins, Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, UK
• Duncan Keeley, General Practitioner, The Rycote Practice, Thame Health Centre, Thame, UK
• Thomas Keil, Senior Researcher, Epidemiologist, Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Charité University Medical Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany 
• Alison Kemp, Professor Of Child Health, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
• Terry Klassen, Director of Alberta Research Center for Health Evidence (ARCHE) and Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta and Stollery Children’s Hospital, Alberta, Canada
• Nigel Klein, Professor and Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology,  Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, London, the Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK
• Berthold Koletzko,  Dr med habil (MD PhD), Div. Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany
• Sibylle Koletzko, Head of the Division of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Dr. v. Haunersches Kinderspital of the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany
• Hugo Lagercrantz, Professor of pediatrics at the Karolinska Institute, Editor-in-Chief, Acta Paediatrica
• Philip J. 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 
• Ri Liesner, Consultant in Paediatric Haemostasis and Thrombosis, Department of Haematology, Great Ormond Street, London, UK
• Hermione Lyall, infectious diseases paeditrician, member of the steering committee of PENTA (Paediatric European Network for the Treatment of AIDS)   
• Richard Malley,Associate Professor in Pediatrics, Kenneth McIntosh Chair in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• Harvey Marcovitch, FRCPCH FRCP, Chairman of “Excellence in Paediatrics” Scientific Committee, Editorial Board Member - Acta Paediatrica
• Stephen Marks,Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, NHS Trust, London, UK
• Neil Marlow, Professor of Neonatal Medicine, Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, UK
• Ailsa McLellan Consultant Paediatrician, Royal Hospital For Sick Children, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
• Elizabeth Miller, Consultant Epidemiologist, Health Protection Agency, London, UK
• Lim Ming, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Evelina Children’s Hospital, St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK
• Douglas S. Moodie, Associate Director, Texas Adult Congenital Heart Center, Director, Faculty Development, Professor, Pediatric Cardiology, Texas Children’s Hospital  Houston, Texas, USA
• Simon Nadel, Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care at Imperial College School of Medicine, St. Mary’s, UK
  
• Anne O’ Hare, Professor, Child Life & Health and Consultant Paediatrician, University of Edinburgh and Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
• Chris Petit, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
• Christian Poets Medical Director, University οf Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany   
• Bob Philips, Locum Consultant in Paediatric Oncology, Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust, MRC Research Fellow, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York & Section Editor, Archimedes, Archives of Diseases in Childhood Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Evidence-based Child Health, London Associate Fellow, Centre for Evidence-based Medicine, Oxford, UK  
• Andrew J. Pollard, FRCPCH, PhD, Professor of Paediatric Infection and Immunity, Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford & Honorary Consultant Paeditrician, UK  
• Peter Richmond, Associate Professor, School Of Paediatrics And Child Health (SPACH), The University Of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
• Mary Rudolf, Consultant Paediatrician, Professor Of Child Health, NHS Leeds, University Of Leeds, Leeds, UK
• Mary A. Rutherford, Professor in Perinatal Imaging, Robert Steiner MR Unit, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK      
  
• David E. Sandberg, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Division of Child Behavioral Health, University of Michigan,  Department of Pediatrics & Communicable Diseases, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
  
• Glenis Scadding, Consulltant Allergist/Rhinologist, Royal National Throat, Nose And Ear Hospital, London, UK
• Ingram Schulze-Neick, Consultant, Clinical Director, UK Service for Pulmonary Hypertension in Children, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
• Christian Schweizer, Technical Officer, Noncommunicable Diseases and Environment, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Rome, Italy
• Rana Sharara-Chami, Assistant in Critical Care, Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, USA
• Mike Shields, Professor of Child Health & Consultant Paediatrician, Queen’s University Belfast & Royal Belfast hospital Sick Children, Belfast, N. Ireland, UK
  
• Nicholas Spencer, Emeritus Professor of Child Health, University of Warwick Warwick, UK
• Mark A. Sperling, Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, USA  
• Hans - Christoph Ε. Steinhausen, Professor & Chair of Child And Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychiatric Hospital Aalborg, University Hospital Aarhus, Aalborg, Denmark
• Vic Strasburger, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Chief, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Univ. of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
• Zsolt Szepfalusi, Physician, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
• Giorgio Tamburlini, Technical Advisor for Evidence Based Paediatrics & Quality of Care, International Pediatric Association, Director, Institute of Child Health Burlo, Garofolo, Trieste, Italy
• Marc Tardieu, Head Of Paediatric Neurology, Department of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Bicetre Hospital, Bicetre, France 
• Eric Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
• John Telford, Research Director & Project Leader, Research Unit At Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, Siena, Italy
• Mike Thomas, Asthma UK Senior Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen, Gloucester, UK
• Alistair Thomson, Vice President (Education), Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), London, UK
• Anne Thomson, Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Oxford Children’s Hospital, Oxford, UK
• Matthew J. Thompson, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
• Anne Vergison, MD, MPH, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
• Menno Verhave, Director, Ambulatory Gastroenterology, Children’s Hospital Boston, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
• Angela Vincent, Emeritus Professor of Neuroimmunology, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
• Russel Viner, Reader in Adolescent Health, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK
• Jerry Wales, Senior Lecturer, Department of Child Health, Children's Hospital, Western Bank, Sheffield, UK
• Winfred Wang,Hematologist, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
• Adilia Warris, Paediatric infectious diseases specialist, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Debra E. Weese-Mayer, Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School Of Medicine, Director, Center For Autonomic Medicine In Pediatrics (C.A.M.P.), Chicago, Illinois, USA 
• Magnus Wickman, M.D., PhD; Department of Paediatrics, Sachs Children’s Hospital, Karolinska Institute and Department of Environmental Health, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

*As of July 14th, 2010