September 14-15, 2020
12:00 - 19:00 GMT

Pediatrics Virtual 2020

Theme: Boosting Recent Advances in Pediatrics and Neonatology
Speakers
Oral - Pediatrics Virtual 2020
Hanna Alonim

The Mifne Center for Treatment, Research and Training, Israel

Biography
Title:
Bridging the Gap Between Early Detection of Autism Prodrome in Infants and intervention: Clinical and Study Perspectives
Biography
Dr. Hanna A. Alonim, Ph.D in Mental Health is an expert and researcher in the autism spectrum in infancy. Founder and Head of the Mifne Center, for Treatment, Training, and Research, since 1987. Head of the Therapists' Training School for Autism at the Bar Ilan University. She developed the ESPASSI © screening scale for the detection of the autism prodrome in first year of life. Dr. Alonim is a committee member of the ICF Core Set for ASD, Stockholm 2016.
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Steven M. Donn

Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, University of Michigan, USA

Biography
Title:
Pharmacologic Management of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: Equipoise in the Era of Evidence
Biography
Steven M. Donn, MD, FAAP received his M.D. degree from Tulane University. He completed a Pediatrics residency at the University of Vermont and a fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the University of Michigan. He has been on the faculty of the University of Michigan Medical School since 1980 and is presently a Professor Emeritus. He has published more than 200 medical articles, 250 book chapters, and has written or edited 35 books and specialty journals. He is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the AAP, SPR, APS, and ESPR
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Gamal Al-Saied

Al-Azhar University, Egypt

Biography
Title:
Unusual cause of small-bowel obstructions in infants: A warning letter to the parents
Biography
Professor Gamal Al-Saied graduated in 1986 from Al-Azhar University with Bachelor’s Degree in medicine and surgery with general grade very good with honor. Internship in 1987. Pediatric surgery Resident from 1989 till 1992. Master’s Degree (MSc) pediatric surgery in 1991. Demonstrator of pediatric surgery in 1992, Assistant lecturer in 1993. Medical Doctorate degree (MD) in 1998.  Lecturer of pediatric surgery in 1998. Assistant professor of pediatric surgery in 2004. Fellowship of European Board In 2008, Glasgow, Scotland. Full professor of pediatric surgery in 2009. 30 international publications. Chairman of sessions in international conferences. Editor in chief of many international journals.
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Romi Gupta

The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Biography
Title:
Large-scale Epigenome-wide Human shRNA screen identifies candidates that confer resistance to BRAF inhibitors
Biography
Dr. Gupta did her BS in microbiology and MS biochemical technology in India. She further obtained her PhD from Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany in the area of ribosome biology and protein translation. After that she moved to Yale University where she performed extensive studies on identification of new regulators of cancer growth and progression. Many of her studies are published in journals like eLife, PNAS, Cell Reports, Oncogene etc. Currently she is Assistant Professor in the UAB and Associate scientist at O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB.
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Ivana Haluskova

French Immunology Society, France

Biography
Title:
Cancer and host immunity (microbiome)
Biography
Ivana Haluskova Spent over 1115 years in senior position in pharma industry career in research and industry and consultancy covering complex international projects from proof of concept to phase IV in Europe, Asia and US including the oncology domain as well as having worked in various other therapeutic areas including pediatrics, rare diseases, infectious diseases, vaccines and inflammation. Gained medical, academia and industry experience in Europe, Israel but mainly in Asia and US including the oncology domain as well as having worked in various other therapeutic areas including pediatrics, rare diseases, infectious diseases, vaccines and inflammation. . Board certified in internal medicine, immunology and infectious diseases and graduated in the Slovak Republic. French Physician. increasing immune surveillance and responsiveness to treatment. accurate diagnostic and intervention empowering host immune response, The use of antibiotic inteligent fashion, microbiome as adjuvant, oncomimetics to inspire new way to tackle cancer ( v a c c i n e s - l i k e o n c o m i m e t i c b u t m o r e ) while considering acurate diagnostic,individual particularities are important and worth deeper understanding for best care of patients. Microbiome plays role in currently used immunotherapy and CAART based on scientific data. An administrative Board member of multiple scientific societies that focus on immunology, including vaccins, immuno-oncology and infectiousdiseases crosslinks: French society of immunology, the Center of Global Health India and World alliance against resistance based in Paris. Regular speaker at various conferences highlighting the role of immunology, microbiota (boosting host immunity.)
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Raffaele Pilla

St. John of God Hospital, Italy

Biography
Title:
Therapeutic ketosis and the broad field of applications for the ketogenic diet: Ketone ester applications & clinical updates
Biography
Raffaele Pilla, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Doctor Europaeus, received his Master’s degree in Pharmacy at G. d’Annunzio University in Chieti-Pescara, Italy in 2005, where he also served internships at the Cell Physiology Laboratory and Molecular Biology Laboratory. Prior, he was an Erasmus Student at Faculté de Pharmacie de Reims in Reims, France. He received his Doctor Europaeus in 2010 from Pitié-Salpétrière Institute in Paris, France. Also in 2010, he received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Physiology, and Pathology of Muscle at G. d’Annunzio University in Chieti-Pescara, Italy. He was hired as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of South Florida in Tampa, on two research grants funded by the Office of Naval Research (US Navy) and Divers’ Alert Network. He has written and lectured widely worldwide. He has been involved in ongoing research at the University of South Florida with the use of ketone esters.
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Ozlem Dilek

University of the District of Columbia, USA

Biography
Title:
Design of turn off/on fluorescent probes for imaging carbonylation in cancer
Biography
Dr. Dilek studied B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.  She then completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry/Chemical Biology at SUNY-Binghamton, USA. After two years postdoctoral studies at Cornell University and SUNY institutions, she joined Istanbul Altinbas University, Medical School in 2013 and got her tenure. She returned to USA in 2017 and worked as a faculty in Husson University and University of St Joseph. She recently joined as a faculty to University of District of Columbia, Washington, DC. She has published more than 15 research articles, book chapters and presented in more than 35 national and international conferences
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Yuping Ran

Sichuan University, China

Biography
Title:
Imaging Findings of Pediatrics Infection & Parasitic Skin Diseases
Biography
TBA
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Bojana Turic

Landing Medical High Tech Co, China

Biography
Title:
The Artificial Intelligence-assisted Cytology Diagnostic System in Large-scale Cervical Cancer Screening: A Population-based Cohort Study of 0.7 Million Women
Biography
Dr. Bojana Turic completed her MD at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina where she held the position of Assistant Professor of Medical Microbiology; She finished her fellowship in Medical microbiology at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Bojana was a part of the executive team at PMI labs; Vancouver based private spin off company from BC Cancer Agency, focused on early cancer detection. She led the company through all steps from a concept through significant clinical and regulatory She is currently an advisor to or is actively involved  with  various biotechnology companies in Vancouver  Bojana is also VP of International Affairs at Landing Medical High Tech Co – a biotechnology and laboratory service company in China. She is a part of the executive team, helped a Company in establishing Quality control in their laboratories as well as expansion outside of China.
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Luigi Marongiu

University of Heidelberg, Germany

Biography
Title:
Infection with HHV-5 or HHV-4 and higher risk of colorectal cancer or inflammatory gut diseases: A systematic review
Biography
Luigi Marongiu obtained a PhD at the University College London on a work related to the use of the Human Papillomavirus genome as a biomarker for the identification of cervical cancer lesions. He worked at the University of Cambridge (England) on nosocomial noroviral infections and at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) on veterinary viruses. He is currently based at the University of Heidelberg, Faculty of Medicine in Mannheim (Germany) assessing the role of viral infections in the development of cancer and metastasis. He is combining wet lab with bioinformatics analysis to develop models that could predict oncogenesis.
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Jing Liu

Beijing Chaoyang District Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital, China

Biography
Title:
Lung Ultrasound Completely Replacing of Chest X-ray to Diagnose Neonatal Pulmonary Diseases: the Feasibility and Necessity
Biography
Prof.Dr.Jing Liu is the Director of Department of Neonatology and NICU, Beijing Chaoyang District Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital. He is good at neonatal intensive critical care, neonatal brain ultrasound. Recent 10 years, he focused on neonatal lung ultrasound research, in his NICU, the lung ultrasound has completely replaced the chest X-ray to diagnoses neonatal lung diseases for 3 years.His academic positions include the Associate Chairman of Chinese Neonatologist Association and the Editorial members of more than 30 Chinese and English Journals. Dr.Liujing has published more than 300 papers, over 12 books  and Chapters in Books.
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Neena Shilen

Sunrise Hospital, India

Biography
Title:
Successful outcomes with early intervention by combined comprehensive approach in treatment of Autism: A 10 years retrospective study
Biography
Dr. NEENA SHILEN is a Developmental Pediatrician with 12 years of expertise in autism treatment and research. She currently serves as the Head of Department and Consultant in Department of Developmental Pediatrics at Sunrise Hospital in Kochi, Kerala, India. She earned her MBBS and M.D (Pediatrics) from Pt. JNM Medical college, Raipur, India. She has also done residency in Pediatrics in Children’s National Medical Center, Washington D.C. She has also worked as a registrar in Neonatology, as Lecturer in Pariyaram Medical College and as Assistant surgeon in Govt. Health Services and certified in LEND program. She has been a clinical guide to a PhD student whose paper on” Genetic association of DNMT variants in autism”, was published in 2019. Currently a clinical guide to a post doctorate fellow for A study on ‘Early detection of autism with analysis of MRI brain using AI and machine learning”
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Shinya Tajima

St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Japan

Biography
Title:
Nuclear inverse polarity papillary lesion without myoepithelial cells in the breast
Biography
Shinya Tajima, MD, PhD. The man was born in Saitama prefecture near Tokyo. He graduated from Keio University School of Medicine, before working in Department of Pathology at the same institution. I received PhD in Radiologic-Pathology from St. Marianna University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan. He is currently working at the Department of Pathology and Radiology of this latter institution. His research interests are breast pathology and radiology. And he is a finder of so-called “Tajima tumor”.
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Sathya Elumalai

Aidar Health, USA

Biography
Title:
MouthLab Optimized for Rapid Health Assessment of COPD and Other Respiratory Conditions Among Children During COVID-19
Biography
Mr. Sathya Elumalai is a healthcare executive with 15+ years of experience working with the payers, providers, and pharmaceuticals. He is the Founder & CEO of Aidar Health, where he developed a revolutionary Tricorder-style rapid medical assessment device, MouthLab for improving health outcomes of chronic disease patients. Mr. Elumalai holds a dual master’s degree, a Master’s in Public Health and an MBA in Healthcare Management, from the prestigious Johns Hopkins University. He also serves as an Advisory Board Member at Rutgers University, Member of Forbes Business Council, and an Ambassador & Merit Reviewer at the Patient-Centered Outcome Research Institute.
Keynote - Pediatrics Virtual 2020
Gamal Al-Saied

Professor, Al-Azhar University, Egypt

Biography
Title:
Unusal cause of small bowel obstructions in infants: A warning letter to parents
Biography
Professor Gamal Al-Saied graduated in 1986 from Al-Azhar University with Bachelor’s Degree in medicine and surgery with general grade very good with honor. Internship in 1987. Pediatric surgery Resident from 1989 till 1992. Master’s Degree (MSc) pediatric surgery in 1991. Demonstrator of pediatric surgery in 1992, Assistant lecturer in 1993. Medical Doctorate degree (MD) in 1998.  Lecturer of pediatric surgery in 1998. Assistant professor of pediatric surgery in 2004. Fellowship of European Board In 2008, Glasgow, Scotland. Full professor of pediatric surgery in 2009. 30 international publications. Chairman of sessions in international conferences. Editor in chief of many international journals.
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Edith Rosana Huaman Guadalupe

National University of the Center of Peru, Peru

Biography
Title:
Nutritional food security and Neuro development in families with children under 03 years old from the Canipaco valley
Biography
TBA
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Roberto Menicagli

Senior Scientist Researcher, University of Milan, Italy

Biography
Title:
The Intestinal permeability as a possible cause in promoting of the autism
Biography
Roberto Menicagli M.D Senior Scientist  Researcher;  PhD with postdoctoral studies in biochemistry and molecular genetics. Assigned  for two years as University Reader ,for   lecture in biochemistry  at the faculty of Biology , Milan .After University experience is  Senior Research”, in ENIRESEARCH GROUP, the most important Italian research group in the field of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Had  the task ,and  the responsibility of  projects in  the Environment. and Public Health,  in  the scientific committee ,of  ENEA-CNR.Is author of 4 patents and 14  publications with IF
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Sirma Todorova Angelova,

Medical University-Varna, Bulgaria

Biography
Title:
The Problem of Candida Albicans among Children with Renal Disorders
Biography
In the year 2005 Dr Sirma Todorova Angelova graduated her higher education at the University of Economics in Varna, Bulgaria and gained a Master degree of International Financial Affairs. In the year 2011 Dr Angelova graduated her higher education and gained a Master Degree of Dental Medicine at the Medical University-Varna, Varna, Bulgaria. Since 2011 Dr. Sirma Angelova has been working as an Assistant-Professor at Medical University-Varna. Dr Angelova gained a Certificate of Specialization of Pediatric Dentistry in December 2015. In 2017 Sirma Angelova gained a postgraduate degree, PhD, after accomplishment of an independent research on the topic of “Caries Risk Assessment and Prevention in Children Suffering from Some Renal Disorders”. In the year 2018 Dr Sirma Angelova gained an academic degree of Chief-Assistant at the Medical University-Varna. In the year 2019 has been issued the monograph entitled “Epigenetic and Genetic Aspects of Oral Health in Children with Pyelonephritis” authored by Dr. Sirma Todorova Angelova. Sirma Angelova has authored and co-authored more than 70 papers. Dr. Angelova has participated in more than 50 scientific congresses.
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George Zachos

University of Crete, Greece

Biography
Title:
Bridge-building between chromosomes: Preventing chromatin breakage in cytokinesis
Biography
George Zachos completed his PhD at the University of Crete in 1997. He then received postdoctoral training in the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, U.K. before moving, in 2008, to the Department of Biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece as an Assistant Professor in Cell Biology. In 2015, he became Associate Professor and continues to hold this position today. Discoveries from the Zachos lab have identified mechasnisms that regulate the fidelity of chromosome segregation in mitotic cell division in higher eukaryotic cells. He has published 37 papers in leading scientific journals and his work has received ~2,000 citations.
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Luigi Vetri

University of Palermo, Italy

Biography
Title:
Whole Genome Sequencing as a First-Line Diagnostic Tool in Epileptic Encephalopathies
Biography
Luigi Vetri is a physician and researcher at Department of Sciences for Health Promotion and Mother and Child Care “G. D'Alessandro,” at University of Palermo. He has been collaborating for two years with Oasi Research Institute-IRCCS in Troina in the field of congenital and inborn causes of intellectual disabilities and neurodevelopmental disorders.  
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Sewanti Limaye

Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute, India

Biography
Title:
Multi-Analyte guided treatment in Personalized Therapy of Advanced Cancers
Biography
Dr. Limaye received her medical degree with honors from Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, Bhagalpur, India and did her residency in Internal Medicine from New York University in 2006. She did her fellowship in Hematology& Medical Oncology from Albert Einstein University, NY in 2009 and Masters in Patient Oriented Research (Cancer Genomics and Biostatistics) from Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, NY. Dr. Limaye has worked as an Attending in Medical Oncology and at the Phase I - Early Drug Development Center - Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA in 2009 and as Attending in Medical Oncology and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York-USA. She now works at Kokilaben Hospital, Mumbai, India as the Director of Clinical and Translational Oncology Research and Consultant in Medical Oncology.
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Mary Anbarasi Johnson

AFHSR, Saudi Arabia

Biography
Title:
Obesity among adolescents in Vellore city
Biography
Mary  Anbarasi  Johnson, Msc(N),PhD (N) Currently pursuing PhD in management and MBA in executive management. Professor in Pediatric Nursing, Deputy Nursing Superintendent for Quality (2014-2018) Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore ,India.Currently, Nurse Manager, Armed Forces Hospital ,Southern Region,Saudi Arabia. Presented and published around 60 papers in state level, national level conferences and International Conferences.Had three years of experience in USA (2005-2008).
Keynote - Pediatrics Virtual 2020
Emine Begum Gencer-Oncul

Ankara University Biotechnology Institute, Turkey

Biography
Title:
Importance of mtDNA Mutations in Patients with Leigh Syndrome
Biography
Dr. E. Begum Gencer-Oncul graduated as a biologist in 2012 from Gazi University, Turkey. She then started Ankara University Biotechnology Institute and gained her MSc in 2014. Meanwhile she started to work as a researcher at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine Cord Blood Bank. Upon her interest in Genetics and Rare Disease field, then she started his PhD thesis project at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine Division of Genetics Department of Pediatrics and she received her PhD degree on March 2019. She has taken part 6 different projects. Her research interests are based on stem cell and rare diseases field.
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Ozlem Dilek

University of the District of Columbia, USA

Biography
Title:
Bioconjugation chemistry strategies with new fluorescent probes for live cell imaging
Biography
Dr. Dilek studied B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.  She then completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry/Chemical Biology at SUNY-Binghamton, USA. After two years postdoctoral studies at Cornell University and SUNY institutions, she joined Istanbul Altinbas University, Medical School in 2013 and got her tenure. She returned to USA in 2017 and worked as a faculty in Husson University and University of St Joseph. She recently joined as a faculty to University of District of Columbia, Washington, DC. She has published more than 15 research articles, book chapters and presented in more than 35 national and international conferences
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Fehmida Najmuddin

D Y Patil Medical College, Hospital & Research Centre, India

Biography
Title:
Pediatric Asthma: “Sunshine Vitamin”As An Adjuvant Therapy??
Biography
Dr. Fehmida Najmuddin, MBBS from Manipal University, Karnataka , India in 2007, MD Pediatrics in 2012 followed by fellowship in pediatric pulmonology in 2013 under my mentor Dr. Keya Rani Lahiri in Dr. D Y Patil University, Maharashtra, India. Since Past 7 years, we run a dedicated Pediatric Asthma and allergy clinic. I Have close to 18 publications in various national and international journals, and have worked on many aspects of pediatric asthma and allergic rhinitis including RCQOL, Inhaled therapy, Pulmonary function tests, Height and spirometry correlation.  currently working on control classification of pediatric asthma.  Currently working as an Assistant Professor and pediatric pulmonologist in Navi Mumbai, India
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Marialessandra Contino

University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy

Biography
Title:
Strategies to overcome Multi Drug Resistance in Cancer Therapy
Biography
Dr Contino is a medicinal chemist with a great expertise in chemical biology. She has worked for several years for a spinoff for which she was also consulent. Recently (semptember, 2019), Dr Contino won an EMBO short-term fellowship to stay at the Center for Research in Molecular Medicine and Chronic Diseases (CiMUS) in Santiago de compostela, where she has dealt with different technologies (enzymatic, fluorescence- and radioactive-based) to study in vitro fluorescent probes and multitarget drugs. She is author of 86 international papers, a review book and two patents. She is Editor for Frontiers in Neuroscience and for International Journal of Molecular Science (Molecular Oncology Section).
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Harriet O’Mara

University College Cork, Ireland

Biography
Title:
Assessing Psychological Wellbeing in parents of infants admitted to the Neonatal Unit – A Pilot Study
Biography
Miss Harriet O’Mara, studied English, Psychology and Politics at Durham University, England and graduated with a Bsc in 2015. Throughout her degree, she has worked with research psychologists at Durham University looking at Eating Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorder and Schizophrenia. Following working in healthcare and nursing, she started a graduate degree in Medicine at University College Cork in 2017, expected graduation 2021. Whilst at UCC, she has been supervised by Professor Eugene Dempsey to develop research with INFANT.
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Sewanti Limaye

Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute, India

Biography
Title:
TBA
Biography
Dr. Limaye received her medical degree with honors from Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, Bhagalpur, India and did her residency in Internal Medicine from New York University in 2006. She did her fellowship in Hematology& Medical Oncology from Albert Einstein University, NY in 2009 and Masters in Patient Oriented Research (Cancer Genomics and Biostatistics) from Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, NY. Dr. Limaye has worked as an Attending in Medical Oncology and at the Phase I - Early Drug Development Center - Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA in 2009 and as Attending in Medical Oncology and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York-USA. She now works at Kokilaben Hospital, Mumbai, India as the Director of Clinical and Translational Oncology Research and Consultant in Medical Oncology.
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Oteyola Ayodeji Ojo

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Biography
Title:
Induction Of Abnormal Sperm Morphology And Alterations In Blood Parameters And Histopathology Of Liver, Kidney And Testis In Mice By Awba Dam Water
Biography
Oteyola Ayodeji Ojo studied Zoology and Environmental Biology in Ekiti State University, Nigeria, and then joined the research group of Prof. Bakare in Cell Biology and Genetics in the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where he obtained his M.Sc degree in 2018. He is presently a doctoral (PhD) student in cellular Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo-Horizonte, Brazil. He currently has a published paper.
Daisy Abreu Perez

MINSAP, Cuba

Biography
Title:
Neuromonitoring of severe craniocerebral trauma in paediatric patients
Biography
TBA
Danning Li

University Hospitals Birmingham, United Kingdom

Biography
Title:
 Improving Paediatric Flow: a Quality Improvement Project
Biography
TBA
Meron Shimeles Workneh

Yekatit 12 Hospital medical College, Ethiopia

Biography
Title:
Short- and Long-term Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of Term Neonates with Perinatal Asphyxia Admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit from January 2016 to December 2017, Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Biography
TBA
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