Pediatrics Conference Keynote Speakers

Lawrence Frenkel, MD

Clinical Professor of Biomedical Sciences
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

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

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