17^th World Neonatology and Perinatology Congress

Said Eldeib is a Pediatrician and Neonatologist whose experience in the field spans 15 years, backed by a higher education degree from Ain Shams University in Egypt, one of the oldest and top ranking universities in the MENA region. He is known for his astute skills in evaluation and strong passion for improving healthcare and wellbeing. He is pioneering an open and contextual evaluation model based on constructive responses, which has led to the creation of new methods to improve pediatric healthcare, neonatology, and pediatric nutrition. Dr. Said has established this model following his years of experience in medical practice, research and evaluation, and teaching and administration in hospitals and medical universities in the region, including Egypt, Kuwait, and the UAE. Dr. Said has published several studies in reputable international journals in neonatology and pediatric nutrition. He has also presented his findings at prestigious international conferences and symposia.

Neonatal & Pediatric Nutrition

F. Bruder Stapleton, MD is the Ford/Morgan Endowed Chair and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and Associate Dean at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and the Chief Academic Officer and Senior Vice President at Seattle Children’s. Dr. Stapleton received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Kansas. Following a pediatric residency at the University of Washington, he completed a fellowship in pediatric nephrology at the University of Kansas and served for two years in the U.S. Navy as a pediatric nephrologist. At the University of Tennessee (1979-1989), he founded a pediatric General Clinical Research Center and served as its program director and Director of Research at the LeBonheur Children's Hospital. He is currently Principal Investigator of the Child Health Research Center Molecular Biology of Development grant and co-investigator of a comprehensive cancer center grant from the NCI. Dr. Stapleton moved to Buffalo, New York, in 1989, as the A. Conger Goodyear Chair of the Department of Pediatrics as well as the Pediatrician-in-Chief and Medical Director for the Children’s Hospital of Buffalo. Dr. Stapleton served as Assistant Secretary-General and Treasurer of the International Pediatric Nephrology Association, Secretary-Treasurer and President of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology, and Co-President of the 12th Congress of the International Pediatric Nephrology Association in 2001. He is Past-President of the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Journal Watch Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and Co-Editor-in-Chief of UptoDate, Pediatrics.

Pediatric Nephrology

Liu Zhen-Huan is the deputy manager of the Affiliated Maternity and Child Care Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine. The director of the Rehabilitation Child of hospital, and the Doctoral tutor of the Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine. Prof. Liu became one of the pediatricians who received the special State Council allowance in China in 1994, was given the title of the prominent contributing youth expert by the Healthy Ministry of China in 2002, Prof. Liu got the honor of model worker nationwide.

Pediatrics, Pediatric Rehabilitation, Studies in Cerebral Palsy and Application of Acupuncture Treatment.

Heikki Juhani Lyytinen (born June 24, 1946 in Kuopio. He is a professor of psychology at the University of Jyvaskyla. He was a Professor of Psychology at the University of Jyvaskyla from 1997 to 2014. Shortly after his retirement, in 2015 he was appointed Professor of UNESCO Chair at the Agora Center at the University of Jyvaskyla‚¤ (2015-2019) with the aim of promoting international literacy. Lyytinen wrote as a student at the Kuopio Lyceum (1965). He graduated from the University of Jyvaskyla with a Bachelor of Science in Education in 1970 and a Licentiate in 1974 and a Doctor of Psychology in 1984. His doctoral dissertation (1984) was titled The Psychophysiology of Anticipation and Arousal. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Helsinki (1985). He was the second Vice Rector of the University of Jyvaskyla from 1997 to 2000. Lyytinen was Director of the Center of Excellence funded by the Academy of Finland with Professor Lea Pulkkinen from 1994 to 2005 (Human Development and Risk Factors) and with Professor Jari-Erik Nurmi (Research on Learning and Motivation) from 2006 to 2011. Lyytinen has co-authored numerous books on psychology and more than 200 scholarly articles on psychology (already by 2007). His scientific output has continued to be active even after this. Professor Lyytinen has been a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences since 2002. He has received many honors. In 2004 he received the Nokia Prize and in 2005 he was awarded the 50,000 Philips Nordic Prize in recognition of his outstanding research on children's learning difficulties. In 2012 he was awarded the Allvar Prize.

Pediatrics Neurology and Pediatrics Psychology

Brankica Vasiljevic is Head of Maternity and Child Health Services at NMC Royal Hospital DIP in Dubai, UAE. After completing her MD she completed her clinical postgraduate education (Pediatric and after that Neonatology fellowship) and academic postgraduate education (MSc in pediatric and ultrasonography field and PhD in neonatology field) at Belgrade University School of Medicine in Serbia. She has completed also the Yugoslav School of Ultrasound and different courses in ultrasonography and echocardiography in Serbia and the UK, She also finished the Post Graduate SQIL Program at Harvard Medical School, Boston USA, and the Post Graduate Program in Pediatric Nutrition at Boston University School of Medicine, USA and Visiting scholar and Internships in Greece (Alexandar Hospital, Iaso Hospital and Elena Hospital in Athens), USA (Morgan Children’s Hospital- Columbia University New York) and Austria (General Hospital of Salzburg and Regional Hospital (LKHLandeskrankenhaus) in Graz). She won the ESPNIC Educational Grant at the 5th World Congress on Pediatric Intensive & Critical Care in Geneva Switzerland (2007). She was a local coordinator for International Neonatal Immunotherapy Study-INIS for Serbia and Montenegro and participated in SIOP 93-01 Study, ITP Study, and Twin Birth Study. She has published more than 35 international publications in internationally indexed journals (more than 100 citations), 5 chapters in various fields of neonatal medicine, and more than 30 presentations at international conferences.

Pediatrics

Monika Kaushal has led the Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology Emirates specialty hospital for the past 6 years. She is also the lead of the Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology Zulekha Hospital (The first level III private hospital in Dubai). She started Fellowship of IAP Neonatology and NNF Neonatology in UAE. She has 18 years of experience in UAE plus six years’ experience abroad in intensive neonatology and pediatrics. She developed videos on Kangaroo mother care, Breastfeeding, and asepsis which were used for teaching purposes all over Asia and the WHO. She is the author of chapters in books and articles in indexed journals Faculty in national and international conferences.

Pediatrics and neonatology