Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Surgery

Robert P. Foglia, M.D. is Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, Chief of Pediatric Surgery at the University of Southwestern Medical Center and Surgeon-in-Chief at Children’s Medical Center Dallas. He is co-editor of a major textbook of pediatric surgery and has 30+ years of experience in Perioperative Management and Performance Improvement. Dr. Foglia is responsible for the clinical growth of surgical programs at Children’s and leads process improvement initiatives in the areas of quality, service, and stewardship

Surgery and Pediatrics

Bradley A. Kuch MHA, RRT-NPS, FAARC is a graduate from Ohio University with a Master in Health Care Administration and Services and Transport Team at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. His past roles included Neonatal/Pediatric Transport Therapist and ECMO Coordinator/Researcher in the Dept. of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery. Current research interests include Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Neonatal/Pediatric Severity of illness modeling during ECMO. His team’s work “First 24-h SNAP-II score and Highest PaCO2 predicts the need for ECMO in Congenital Diaphragmatic hernia” was published in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery.

Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Robert E. Cilley, MD completed General and Pediatric Surgery training at the University of Michigan. He is currently Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics and Ballantine Professor of Surgery at Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA. He is the Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief at Penn State Children’s Hospital, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. He was previously the medical director of the Pediatric Trauma Program. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles and more than 30 book chapters. His areas of scholarly and professional interest include pediatric trauma, ECMO, lung development, surgical quality and safety.

pediatric trauma, ECMO, lung development, surgical quality and safety.

Hong Chun as a Paediatric surgeon he’s graduated from Guangdong Women and Children Hospital and Health Institute. He is currently working in Women and Children Hospital Affiliated to Guangzhou Medical College as a pediatric surgeon

Pediatric Surgery

Alejandro González, MD, is anesthetist who performed a Fellow in Pediatric Anesthesia in Melbourne, Australia, in 1999. Since then, he has been working in pediatric and outpatient anesthesia. He was Director of an Ambulatory Surgery Center for five years (2001-2005), and he also was President of The Chilean Society of Anesthesiologists (2007-2009). He has published several papers about outpatient anesthesia and pediatric anesthesia.

Outpatient anesthesia and pediatric anesthesia.

John Zhong has been working at Children's Health in in Dallas Texas for 12 years. He is the site lead investigator for the multi-institution QPCR study. He won 1st place research award at at 2015 of International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare in New Orleans, USA and 2014 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Simulation Summit in Toronto, Canada

Pediatric Health Care

Bahig M. Shehata, MD, is Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Shehata is a pediatric pathologist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. He is a member of the Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics Research Program at Winship.

Dr. Shehata's research interests include childhood tumors, hirschsprung disease, histiocytoid cardiomyopathy registry, neuroblastoma analysis, causes of still birth, osteosarcoma research, billiary atresia, and cardiovascular pathology.

Dr. David Partrick completed his Docorate of Medicine from the University of Washington School of Medicine, and completed clinical surgical and pediatric surgical training at the University of Colorado. He is the Director of Surgical Endoscopy and Surgical Director of the Digestive Health Institute at Children’s Hospital Colorado, and Professor of Surgery at the University of Colorado. He has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals and is active in many professional societies.

Pediatric Surgical Endoscopy

Kaye studied Bachelor of Science – Nursing, at Curtin University and graduated as a Registered Nurse in 2008. Kaye currently works as Registered Nurse (part-time) looking after babies under 28 days at Neonatal Department at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Subiaco, Perth (WA). Her previous paediatric nursing experience includes working at the Emergency Department, Gastroenterology and Immunology Departments at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children. She has also worked for Edith Cowan University as a Paediatric Clinical Facilitator. Kaye commenced at Perth Paediatrics in 2016. She brings her skills and dedicated passion of working with children, to the first multi-specialty private paediatric clinic in Western Australia

Pediatric Nursing

Marina Reznik is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a General Pediatrician and a Child Health Researcher at Montefiore Medical Center. Her research focuses on development and evaluation of community-and school-based interventions to improve the health care services and outcomes for medically underserved minority children with asthma. She teaches and mentors medical students, residents and post-doctoral students, and provides clinical care to children from 0-21 years of age. She is an author of over 60 articles, book chapters and editorials and her research has been presented both nationally and internationally.

Pediatrics

Omer Ahmed has joined The American Hospital, Dubai (in 2009), after 15 years as a Consultant Paediatrician in UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health UK. His Paediatrics training was in Sabah Hospital- Kuwait, Alder Hay Hospital-Liverpool, Great Ormond Street and The Royal Free Hospital in London before taking a Consultant post in Stevenage, Hertfordshire UK. Earlier in his career, Dr Ahmed has worked in Sudan, Libya and Kuwait. His experience covers wide areas in Child Health as a General Paediatrician. Dr Ahmed has several publications and presented/attended in several Paediatrics meetings and conferences.

Paediatrics

Ashutosh Kumar has completed his MBBS from Manipal University, India, Residency in Pediatrics from The Brooklyn Hospital Center, New York, USA and fellowship in Pediatric Neurology from University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), USA. He recently started working as a Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Neurology at Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center. He is involved in multiple clinical trials as a Principal Investigator in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in Children

Ozuah’s background includes a medical degree from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and a rotating internship at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital. He later earned a master’s degree in Education from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and a PhD in Educational Leadership and Administration from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He obtained his pediatric internship and residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, and his post-doctoral research fellowship in Medical Education at the University of Southern California, School of Medicine, Los Angeles. Dr. Ozuah joined the faculty of the Department of Pediatrics at Montefiore and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1992 and served as director of the Residency Training Program in Social Pediatrics from 1999 to 2005.

Pediatrics