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

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.

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.

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.

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

Dr Bolduc has completed his urology residency at Université Laval and completed a fellowship in pediatric urology at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. He is chief of pediatric urology and the director of Regenerative Medicine of CHU de Québec Research Center. He has published more than 70 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as section editor of pediatric urology of CUAJ.

He is chief of pediatric urology and the director of Regenerative Medicine of CHU de Québec Research Center

Dr. Rivard received her Ph.D. from Université de Sherbrooke in 1994 and completed a 3.5-year postdoctorate at the Centre de Biochimie-CNRS, Université de Nice, in France with Dr. J. Pouysségur in 1997. Then, she accepted a faculty position in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la santé de l’Université de Sherbrooke. Since 2008, she is the Chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology and Chair of the Cancer Axis at Université de Sherbrooke. Dr. Rivard’s research focuses on the analysis of signalling pathways that control proliferation, differentiation, tumorigenesis and inflammatory response of intestinal epithelial cells. She has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals. She is the recipient of 2013 Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Research Excellence Award and holds a Canada Research Chair.

Dr. Rivard’s research focuses on the analysis of signalling pathways that control proliferation, differentiation, tumorigenesis and inflammatory response of intestinal epithelial cells

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

Professor Mehmet Emre Atabek has completed his PhD at the age of 37 years from Erciyes University and postdoctoral studies from Selcuk University School of Meram Medicine. He is the director of Pediatric Endocrinology, a premier pediatric endocrinolgy and diabetology service organization. He has published more than 120 papers in reputed journals. He has been interested in searching metabolic problems of obese children in most of his articles. His articles have been cited more than 1100 citations so far

He has been interested in searching metabolic problems of obese children in most of his articles. His articles have been cited more than 1100 citations so far.

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.

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