Pediatrics

Dr. Marsha Luginbuehl, Ph.D., NCSP is a nationally certified school psychologist, CEO of Child Uplift, Inc., and author/publisher of the Sleep Disorders Inventory for Students (SDIS). Dr. Luginbuehl received the American Psychological Association’s “2003 Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award” for her interdisciplinary collaboration with pediatric health experts to develop the SDIS. Her scientific publications promote the universal screening of specific high risk groups of children whose unidentified sleep disorders impair cognition, learning, behaviors and/or long-term health. Luginbuehl promotes early screening, identification and treatment of pediatric sleep disorders to improve school performance, quality of life and long-term productivity for children.

Screening of specific high risk groups of children whose unidentified sleep disorders impair cognition, learning, behaviors and/or long-term health, early screening, identification and treatment of pediatric sleep disorders to improve school performance, quality of life and long-term productivity for children.

Jos Draaisma has completed his MD at the age of 26 years from Radboudumc and PhD at the age of 29 years. He is head of the department of general pediatrics, director of the pediatric residency program, and director of the pediatric education program. He has published more than 70 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of different pediatric and medical education journals.

Pediatrics, clinical research, cardiology, surgery and treatment

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

Dr. Sanchez has completed his PhD at the age of 23 years from Cadiz University and postdoctoral studies from Cadiz University Hospital and School of Medicine. He is the director of the Section of Pediatric Allergy and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cadiz. He is also President of the Association of Children\'s Allergy southern Spain and belongs to the Food Allergy Committee of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Allergy.

Pediatric Allergy and Pediatrics

Jerard Seghatchian is an internationally respected authority consulting in the field of apheresis science and transfusion science/medicine. He has particular expertise concerning quality assessment/assurance and DDR strategies of blood components, ensuring the clinical safety/efficacy and overall quality aspects of the blood supply. Currently, he serves as a senior editor of TRASCI with a particular interest in the generation of cellular derived microparticles during storage and their post-transfusion effects.

Quality assessment/assurance and DDR strategies of blood components, ensuring the clinical safety/efficacy and overall quality aspects of the blood supply.

Dr. Melnick earned his B.SC., Physics and Ph.D, Chemistry at McGill University and M.D. at Queen’s University. He completed his Pathology residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL and subsequently joined the Department of Pathology and Clinical Laboratories at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital where he serves as Department Chief. He directs research involving therapeutic development in cancer, immunology and metabolic disorders since 1999, published more than 85 papers in peer-reviewed journals and acquired intellectual property based on this research. He serves as an editorial board member of the Journal of Natural Products in Cancer Prevention and Therapy.

Pediatrics, Pathology, Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic disorders

Prof. H Michael Dosch received all his schooling & training in, then, West Germany, graduating with the German MD, PhD degree in 1970 from Phillips University in Marburg/rnLahn. In 1974 he began postdoctoral training at Toronto University, Canada, joined the Faculty 1977 and was promoted to full Professor of Pediatrics and Immunology. Hisrncore interest molecular & cellular elements of (mostly) Type-1 Diabetes documented in over 500 often high profile articles.

Pediatrics, Immunology, Diabetes.