Dr. Rana Sharara-Chami has completed her MD at the American University of Beirut and residency in Pediatrics and fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care from North Carolina Children’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School respectively. She is now an assistant professor at the American University of Beirut Medical center, associate program director and simulation program director. Her research interest is in Education in general and in simulation in particular. She has several publications on the field and currently has grant coverage for several educational projects

Prof Nandita Chatterjee currently works at the department of PAEDIATRICS, IQ CITY MEDICAL COLLEGE as Professor and Head. She is also Director of Udbhaas Child Development Centre. She does research in Developmental Pediatrics. Her current project is 'Convergent Early Childhood Development through training and empowerment of mothers'

Mrs. Heather Hanna studied both adult and pediatric nursing in a joint course at the Charles West School of Nursing at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London qualifying as a Registered General Nurse and a Registered Sick Children’s Nurse in 1989. She also qualified as an RN in the State of Washington, practicing there for 3 years in Infant Intensive Care Unit and then as a Research Nurse at Children’s Hospital, Seattle. Her career was mostly spent in Neonatal Intensive Care before she moved into Research at St Mary’s Hospital Paddington where she also obtained her MSc in Allergy (dist.) from Imperial College London. Some seven years ago, she moved into Medical Education and obtained her MEd in University Lecturing and Teaching from Imperial College. Her roles are now split between Undergraduate Medical Education working in the Medical Ethics and Law Team and Postgraduate Medical Education as Clinical Teaching Fellow on the new online Applied Paediatrics MSc course, both at Imperial College London.

Dr David Hutchon, a fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricitians and Gynaecologists, has 30 years experience as a consultant obstetrician in the UK. For the past 15 years he has been researching and teaching about the harm of early cord clamping, organizing conferences on the subject, publishing over 40 papers , speaking at neonatology meetings and ran an international workshop in Edinburgh on motherside neonatal resuscitation with an intact cord. He recently co-authored the chapter on cord clamping in the second edition of Golden Hours, Care of the Very Low Birth Weight Neonate.

I am a tenured Associate Professor of Nursing within the School of Nursing at Western Carolina University’s College of Health and Human Sciences and serve as the Interim Director of Nursing for the School of Nursing. I was appointed to this position on July 31, 2019. My responsibilities include the complete overall direction of the School of Nursing, including curriculum, personnel issues, financial fiscal responsibility, and overseeing faculty, staff, and student issues. Additionally, I serve as a Visiting Professor of Nursing at Edinburgh, Napier School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Social Care in Edinburgh, Scotland. I additionally teach courses in the graduate program of the School of Nursing (Research 697) and lead nursing graduate students through thesis and projects for meeting graduate school requirements each academic year.

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 in the creation of new methods to improve pediatric healthcare, neonatology and pediatric nutrition.

Gerald Katzman received his MD degree from the Wayne State University School of Medicine in 1968. He served a Pediatric Residency at the University of Chicago and the Children’s Hospital of Michigan. After serving two years as a physician in the US Navy, he completed a fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Temple University Hospital. Clinical positions have included Director of Nurseries at The Toledo Hospital, Chairman of Pediatrics at Sinai Hospital of Detroit and Chief of Pediatrics at Detroit Riverview Hospital. Dr. Katzman has been a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Wayne State University School of Medicine since 1986. He received the designation of Certified Physician Executive by the American College of Physician Executives. In recent years, Dr. Katzman has developed an interest in the teaching of hatred to children and the potentially violent actions that result from such indoctrination. Potential solutions to this problem have been suggested in a series of papers dealing with the subject. Explaining the psychodynamics of hatred development through an emphasis on recent understandings in neuropsychology has been a particular focus of these publications.  

Bittmann has started research in the area of ??"virtual reality" for the treatment of disabled children with diseases such as cerebral palsy, Down syndrome and congenital syndromes. Under the name of "Handicap Lab", initial attempts are being made on disabled children to condition and improve the cognitive and motor functions, which are for the most part severely limited in these children, using "virtual reality". The children immerse themselves in a virtual world that encourages them to perform certain tasks and movements. The first attempts by means of VR glasses are to generate motor movements to train the mostly atrophic muscles of these children and to promote cognitive abilities. In Germany, this research is still in its infancy, in the US, some studies are already on this interesting topic (see work by Judith German, University of Washington, Seattle published 2017 in the journal "Pediatric Physical Therapy": "Virtual Reality and Serious Games in Neurorehabilitation of Children and Adults: Prevention, Plasticity, and Participation "). First experiments are carried out on cerebral paretic children. We will report on the first results and experiences on the Ped Mind page.  

Adjunct professor at University of Turin and Eastern Piedmont in Nursing School She is Health Coordinator and she is working at Direction of Health Carers Professional as traineeships manager and research projects. She was been clinical tutor at Nursing School, University of Turin, managing and work groups training. In the past few years she has been training Health CME, including the organization and all aspects of logistics. As degree in Education Science at University of Turin (IT), she is PhD student and the scope of her research is educational strategies to improve the awareness level of therapeutic adherence in patient affected by chronic diseases and in polytherapies. As patient expert EUPATI, she is expert in public engagement and therapeutic adherence policies. As EPALE Ambassador, she was Project Manager in a lot European projects founded by EACEA – European Commission, Erasmus Plus program.