2011 Final Programme Booklet

SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
Speakers & Chairs
Errol Alden 23,26,29
Executive Director/ CEO, American Academy of
Paediatrics, USA
Generoso Andria 23,26,29,30
Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics,
Federico II University, Napoli, ITALY
Michael Angastiniotis 31
Medical Advisor/ Ex Director of Paediatrics,
Thalassaemia International Federation/ Makarios
Hospital, CYPRUS
Ségolène Aymé 33
Medical Geneticist, Director of Research INSERM, French
Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM)/
Director of Orphanet, FRANCE
Valentina Baltag 29
Technical officer, World Health Organization, Regional
Office for Europe, Copenhagen, DENMARK
Shimon Barak 21,26
Senior Medical Staff (Neonatology & Pediatrics),
Department of Neonatology, Lis Maternity Hospital, Tel
Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, ISRAEL
Alexander Baranov 24
Director, Scientific center of children’s health, Russian
Academy of medical science, Moscow, RUSSIA
Tibor Baška 29
M.D., PhD, Associate Professor, Department of
Epidemiology, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine, Comenius
University Institute of Public Health, Martin, SLOVAK
REPUBLIC
Angelika Berger 33
Interim Head of Department of Neonatology, Pediatric
Intensive Care and Neuropediatrics, Department of
Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical University
of Vienna, Vienna, AUSTRIA
Günther Bernert 31
Preyer Children's Hospital, Vienna, AUSTRIA
Enoks Bikis 33
M.D., Associate Professor in Faculty of Medicine,
University of Latvia, University Children's Hospital Riga,
President of Latvian Pediatric Association, LATVIA
Robert Birnbacher 30,31
LKH – Villach, Villach, AUSTRIA
Radovan Bogdanović 25,26
Head of the Department of Nephrology, Institute of
Mother & Child Health Care of Serbia, Belgrade, SERBIA
David Branski 26,31,32
M.D., Hadassah - Professor Emeritus and Chairman,
Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah University Hospital &
Editor in Chief, Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology &
Nutrition, Jerusalem, ISRAEL
Kevin Browne 24
Head of Insitute of Work, Health & Organisations,
School of Community Health Sciences, University of
Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Jan K. Buitelaar 27
UMC St Radboud, Department of Cognitive
Neuroscience, THE NETHERLANDS
Pat Burton 23,32
Senior Research Scientist & Clinical Research Officer,
MRC Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, UCL Institute
of Child Health, London, UK
Sergio Augusto Cabral 24,25,29
President, International Pediatric Association, Health
Sciences – Estacio Higher Education, Rio de Janeiro,
BRAZIL
Xavier Carbonell-Estrany 24
Senior Consultant, Neonatology Service, Hospital Clinic,
Universitat de Barcelona and the Castrillo Study Group,
Barcelona, SPAIN
Francesco Chiarelli 26,27,30,31
Professor of Paediatrics and Paediatric Endocrinology,
Department of Paediatrics, University of Chieti, ITALY
Imti Choonara 26
Professor in Child Health, Academic Division of Child
Health (University of Nottingham), The Medical School,
Derbyshire Children's Hospital, UK
Giovanni Cioni 27,29,31
Full Professor of Child Neurology & Psychiatry, Division
of Child Neurology & Psychiatry, University of Pisa/
Head, Department of Developmental Neuroscience,
IRCCS Stella Maris, ITALY
David Cohen 31
Professor Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Groupe
Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Université Pierre et Marie
Curie, Paris, FRANCE
Fugen Çullu – Çokuğraş 26,27
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric
Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Cerrahpaşa
Medical Faculty, Istanbul University / President of
Turkish Paediatric Association, Istanbul, TURKEY
Dorica Dan 30
President Romanian Prader Willi Association, Romanian
National Alliance for Rare Diseases, BoD EURORDIS;
BoD IPWSO; member EUCERD, ROMANIA
Irina Davydova 31
Leading Researcher of Department of Perinatal
Pathology, Scientific Center of Children Health of
Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, RUSSIA
Stefano del Torso 23,33
Primary Care Paediatrician, Unita Locale Socio Sanitaria
(ULSS 16), APREF- Associazione per la Ricerca e
Formazione, Padova, ITALY
Ornella Della Casa Alberighi 26
Head of Clinical Pharmacology Unit, G. Gaslini Institute,
Genova, ITALY
Richard Delorme 27
Laboratoire De Génétique Humaine et Fonctions
Cognitives, Institut Pasteur, FRANCE
Sten Dreborg 24,29,30
Professor Emeritus of Pediatric Allergology, Department
of Women's and Children's Health, Department of
Pediatric Allergology, University Hospital, Uppsala
University, SWEDEN
Marguerite Dunitz-Scheer 31,32
Medical University of Graz, AUSTRIA
Els Duval 25,27
Medical Director PICU Department, Queen Paola
Childrens Hospital Antwerp, Schoten, BELGIUM
Ernst Eber 24
Associate Professor of Paediatrics, Deputy Director,
Respiratory and Allergic Disease Division, Director,
Teaching Unit Paediatrics, Paediatric Department,
Medical University of Graz, AUSTRIA
Jochen H. H. Ehrich 23,26,27,29,30
Professor, Department of Paediatric Kidney, Liver and
Metabolic Diseases, Children’s Hospital, Hannover
Medical School, GERMANY
Ruth Etzel 23
Senior Officer For Environmental Health Research, World
Health Organisation, SWITZERLAND
Tamás Fazekas 29
Pediatric Pulmonologist, St. Anna Kinderspital, Wien,
AUSTRIA
Ana Isabel Fernandes Guerreiro 26,27
Adviser to the High Commissioner for Health, Office of
the High Commissioner for Health, Ministry of Health,
PORTUGAL
Martha Feucht 25
Head of the Epilepsy Service and EEG Laboratory,
Department of Paediatrics, Medical University Vienna,
AUSTRIA
Hans Forssberg 25,26,27
Child Neurologist, Karolinska Institutet/ Astrid Lindgren
Children's Hospital, SWEDEN
Thomas Frischer 31
Professor, University Children’s Hospital of Vienna,
AUSTRIA
Bernard Fritzell 24
MD, Vice President, International Scientific & Clinical
Affairs, Wyeth Vaccines Research, Paris, FRANCE
Helmut Gadner 33
Director of the St. Anna Childrens Cancer Research
Institut (CCRI), Vienna, AUSTRIA
Gerhard Gaedicke 26,27,31
Director of Medical Reformed Curriculum, Charité
University Medical Center, Berlin, GERMANY
Hans Galjaard 29
Department of Cell Biology & Genetics, Erasmus MC,
Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Monika Gappa 27
Director, Children's Hospital and Research Institute,
Merienhospital Wesel, GERMANY
Marco Gattorno 33
MD, G. Gaslini Institute, ITALY
Evgeniy Genev 33
President, Bulgarian Pediatric Association, BULGARIA
Paul Goddard 29
Global Professional Relations Manager – Germ
Protection Europe and Developing Markets, Reckitt
Benckiser Group plc, UK
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