Pediatrics Conference Keynote Speakers

Lawrence Frenkel, MD

Chair, Senior Section, NJ/AAP
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
University of llinois, IL

Gerald Katzman, MD, FAAP, CPE

Clinical Associate Professor, Wayne State University School of Medicine, MI

Sharon Cermak, EdD, OTR/L, FAOTA

Professor of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California, CA

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

Robert L. Selman, PhD

Roy E. Larsen Professor of Human Development and Education, Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Harvard University, MA

Yvonne M. Vissing, PhD

Policy Chair, United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Professor, Salem State University, MA

Howard S. Weber, MD, FSCAI

Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Interventional Pediatric Cardiology, Penn State Hershey Childrens Hospital, PA

Featured Speakers

Paul S. Visich, PhD, MPH

University of New England,
Professor/Chair, Exercise and Sport Performance Department, ME

Vesna Jevtovic-Todorovic, MD, PhD, MBA

CU Medicine Endowed Professor, Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, CO

Ann C. Halbower, MD

Professor of Pediatrics,
Director, Pediatric Sleep Research,
University of Colorado School of Medicine, CO

Ramani Ramchandran, PhD

Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Clinical Translational Science Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, WI

Sue Bennett, MB ChB, FRCP, DTM&H, DRCOG, DCH, Dip Psych

Professor Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Director Social Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Canada

Thomas Ciecierega, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY

Christos Papadelis, PhD

Assistant Professor, Division of Newborn Medicine, Harvard Medical School, MA

Galvez Cuitiva Eduardo, PhD

Professor Division of Neonatology-Perinatology, Department of Pediatrics, National university of Colombia, CO

Indira Narayanan, MD

Adjunct Professor, Pediatrics/Neonatology, Georgetown University and Consultant, Global Maternal and Newborn Health and Nutrition, Washington, D.C.

Sushitha Surendran, MD

Assistant professor, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, TN

Catherine Folker-Maglaya, DNP, APRN-CNM, IBCLC

Associate Professor
City Colleges of Chicago, School of Nursing at Malcolm X, IL

James Lyons-Weiler, PhD

President, Director & CEO
Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge, PA

Marina M Zamith, MD, PhD

Paediatric cardiologist
UNIFESP_Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Elisabeth C. McGowan, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, RI

Jimmy-Sanderson, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology & Sport Management, Texas Tech University, TX

Kimberly Frame, PhD

Assistant Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Savannah State University, GA

Melinda R. Weathers, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Sam Houston State University, TX

Andrew M. Campbell, Founder/CEO

Campbell Research & Consulting, IN

Songtian Zeng, PhD, BCBA

Assistant Professor, College of Education and Human Development, University of Massachusetts, MA

Kristen Lwin, PhD

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Windsor, Canada

Aijia Shang, MD, PhD

Chief Physician, PLA General Hospital, China

Fernando Gomez, MD

Professor of Pathology, Department of Specialty Medicine, Rocky Vista University, CO

Ayumi Nagase, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Early Childhood Studies, Sonoma State University, CA

Sunanda Gaur, MD

Professor of Pediatrics, Director Clinical Research Center, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, NJ

Christie J. Bruno, DO

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Attending Neonatologist, Yale School of Medicine, CT

Alexis R. Lauricella, PhD

Associate Professor and Director, Technology in Early Childhood Center, Erikson Institute, IL

Ahmed Mohamed Refaat, PhD

Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology,
Ain-Shams University, Egypt

James D. Cherry, MD, MSc

Distinguished Research Professor of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, CA