Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Therapy

Guillermo Godoy graduated from San Carlos University in Guatemala, the only Medical School at that time in Guatemala. He did a residency in Pediatrics at Roosevelt Hospital and again when he came to United States of America, he repeated a Pediatrics residency at The University of Arkansas Medical Sciences/Arkansas Children's Hospital from 1980 to 1982. Then he did his Perinatal Medicine-Neonatology fellowship at The University of Alabama in Birmingham from 1982 to 1985 and stayed on the Neonatology staff for one year. He is in Tuscaloosa, Alabama at the DCH Health System NICU's since 1986. He is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. He was Chairman of the Pediatrics Department and the Chief of Medical Staff. He helped to establish the Ethics Committee at the DCH Health System Hospitals in 1987. He published many manuscripts, especially in the areas of neonatal infections and cardiopulmonary pathophysiology. He have been invited to lecture about these topics in several institutions. He is actively involved in the development of CPOE/EMR and electronic progress notes at his institution.

Research Intertest: Pediatrics BioEthics, Cardiopulmonary disorders of the newborn and Infectious diseases of the newborn.

Howard S. Weber completed his fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology at Yale New Haven Hospital in 1989 and immediately began his career as an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Penn State Hershey Childrens Hospital and also director of the catheterization lab. He has published more than 50 articles in various national and international peer reviewed cardiology journals and serves on numerous editorial boards of these same journals. He has been an invited lecturer at numerous interventional pediatric cardiology meetings both nationally and internationally.

Interventional catheterization in newborns, children and adults with structural heart disease. Several clinical trials in progress and completed related to therapeutic cardiac catheterization procedures

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.

Pediatrics,Perinatal Medicine

Steven M. Donn, MD, FAAP, FAARC is a Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, where he is a member of the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and its Sub-board of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. Dr. Donn is actively involved in teaching, writing, editing, and clinical research. He is a member of numerous professional societies and is internationally known for his expertise in the management of respiratory failure in newborns. In 2020 he was named a Fellow of the American Association for Respiratory Care for his profound and lasting contribution to the profession of respiratory care. He has authored more than 240 medical journal articles, written or edited 37 books and specialty journals, and contributed 259 book chapters. Dr. Donn’s extracurricular interests include astronomy, international travel, photography, and spectator sports.

Pediatrics and its Sub-board of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

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 teams 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

Peter Timms is Professor of Microbiology at the University of Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. He is a nationally and internationally renowned microbiologist with specific expertise in the area of Chlamydia.

Tropical Diseases, Tropical Medicine, Chlamydial Infections, Cell Biology, Pathogenicity

Graduated from Medicine School, Sassari University, Italy (1980) and Specialized in Infectious Diseases (1983), Allergology and Clinical Immunology (1986), “La Sapienza University”, Rome, Italy. Researcher at the Department of Infectious Diseases, “La Sapienza University”, Rome (1981-1992) and Associated Professor of Infectious Diseases at University of Ferrara, Italy (1992-2004)

Tropical Diseases, Tropical Medicine, HCV Infections,Tuberculosis

Professor Paul Van Buynder is a Public Health physician on the Gold Coast and holds an appointment as a Professor in the School of Public Health at Griffith University in Queensland. He is the Immediate pat president of the Australian Immunization Coalition. He has held previous senior public health positions in a number of Australian states, at the Centre for Infections in the United Kingdom and in two Canadian provinces. He has held personal appointments on the Influenza sub-committees of National Advisory committees in three continents.

Vaccine Effectiveness Studies