Pediatrics Conference Keynote Speakers
Lawrence Frenkel, MD
Clinical Professor of Biomedical Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
David H Adamkin, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Director of Neonatal Nutrition Research, University of Louisville, KY
Yvonne M. Vissing, PhD
Policy Chair, United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child,
Professor, Salem State University, MA
Diane Spatz, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN
Professor of Perinatal Nursing & Helen M. Shearer Professor of Nutrition, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, PA
Rita P. Verma, MD, FAAP
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Director of Neonatal –Perinatal Medicine, Nassau University Medical Center, NY
Andrew M. Campbell, Founder/CEO
Campbell Research & Consulting, IN
Nina Agrawal, MD
Child Abuse Pediatrician, City University of New York, NY
Featured Speakers
Mark I. Evans, MD
President, Fetal Medicine Foundation of America
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, New York, NY
Hani Najm, MD
Chair, Pediatric & Congenital Heart Surgery
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Margaret Danielle Weiss, MD, PhD, FRCP(C)
Director, Clinical Research in Child Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance, MA
Vesna Jevtovic-Todorovic, MD, PhD, MBA
CU Medicine Endowed Professor, Chair, Department of Anesthesiology,
University of Colorado School of Medicine, CO
Albert S. Woo, MD, FACS
Chief, Pediatric Plastic Surgery, Director, Craniofacial Program, Director, Lifespan 3D Printing Lab, Co-Director, Lifespan Neuroplastic Institute, Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Providence, RI
Bonnie W. Lau, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College and the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, NH
Tara Karamlou, MD, MSc
Associate Professor of Surgery, Director of Research and Education, Cleveland Clinic, Heart Vascular Institute, OH
Amy Lee, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
University of Colorado Medicine, Section of Pediatric
Anesthesiology, Children's Hospital Colorado, CO
Anesthesiology, Children's Hospital Colorado, CO
Naveen Poonai, MSc, MD, FRCPC
Scientist, Child Health Research Institute Research Director, Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Ontario, Canada
Clifford L. Craig, MD, FAAP, FACS, FAAOS
Associate Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Michigan Medical Center, MI
Roy H. Rhodes, MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of Pathology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, NJ, Clinical Professor of Pathology and Neurosurgery, LSU School of Medicine, LA
Anthony C. Chang, MD, MBA, MPH, MS
Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer, Medical Director, The Sharon Disney Lund, Medical Intelligence and Innovation Institute (MI3), Children's Hospital of Orange County, CA
Sanjay Chawla, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Central Michigan University, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI
Sangita Pudasainee-Kapri, PhD, DNP, RN, APN, FNP-BC, CPN
Rutgers University-Camden, NJ
Mauricio Barcellos Almeida, PhD
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Michael L. Moritz, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA
John R. Bach, MD
Professor of Neurology and of PM&R Rutgers University NJMS, NJ
Howard W. Mielke, MD
Research Professor, Tulane University School of Medicine, LA
Turyalai Hakimi, MD
Kabul University of Medical Science, Afghanistan
Laila A. Mahmood, MD, MPH
Interim Medical Director, Department of Hospitalist Medicine, Children’s National Medical Center, DC
Parag N. Jain, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, TX
Hillary Klonoff-Cohen, PhD, MS
Saul J. Morse & Anne B. Morgan Professor, Applied Health Sciences, Department of Community Health, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Bharath Srivatsa, MD
Northside Hospital, GA
Eric Ballman
General Surgery Resident, PGY2 at Sky Ridge Medical Center, CO
Bobbie Riley
Harvard Medical School, MA
Mounika Polavarapu, MBBS, MPH, CPH, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Population Health, The University of Toledo, OH
Jason Ohayon, MD, FRCP
Consultant Pediatric Allergist/ Immunologist, Assistant Clinical Professor, McMaster Children’s Hospital, Canada
