39^th Global Experts Meeting on Neonatal Nursing and Maternal Healthcare July 29-30, 2025 Paris, France

"Iâm a graduate student in medicine and surgery at University of Padua (Italy) in September 2020. In November 2021, I started attending the specialization course in pediatrics and neonatology at the University of Ferrara (Italy). My first work experience was at the Polyclinic of Abana Terme (Padua,Italy) where I was able to witness the use of home phototherapy in the treatment of hyperbilirubinemia in full-term babies

Neonatology

She is Consultant in Neonatal Pediatrics at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London UK (Dec 2000 – date) , Honorary Senior Lecturer in Child Health; Division of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK and also Lead of Specialist Training and the current Neonatal College Tutor. Their unit is a specialist perinatal tertiary center and designated unit in the sector for neonatal surgery. Her area of interest is research and clinical care aimed at enhancing the brain development of high risk babies is focused on factors such as nutrition especially essential lipids of the mother and newborn infants in relation to their developmental and health outcomes - Nutritional intervention in the pre-conception period, pregnancy, newborn period in baby and assess the effect on brain development and disorders in infants.

Neonatal-Pediatrics

Prof., Ph.D., M.D., Head of Department and Clinic of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland. Specializations in pediatrics and rehabilitation. Member of scientific bodies: Bioethics Commission and Program Council of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Senate Ethics Commission, Experts Team at the Ministry of Health for developing a Posture problems prevention program for children and adolescents in the educational environment, National Examination Committee in the field of Medical Rehabilitation and Medical Experts Team of National Accreditation Commission. Polish Annals of Medicine Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Elementology (ISI Master Journal List Impact Factor – 0,643) Editor/Scientific Committee member, The Journal of Spine Surgery Scientific Council member, Polish Journal of Rehabilitation Research Consultants Team member, National Report for Disabled Scientific Consultant. Director of 4 Research Projects founded by Scientific Research Committee and Ministry of Science and Higher Education, 3 European Union’s Projects member, author of 312 scientific articles and 3 academic textbooks. Awarded the Silver Cross of Merit for achievements in research, teaching and social activities, posted in Who is Who in Poland, Verlag fur Personenezyklopedien, Schweiz and Who's Who in the World, 21st Edition, NJ, USA. Chairman for 8 terms of Warmia and Mazury Department and General Board of the Polish Rehabilitation Society member, as well as member in other numerous scientific organizations: International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Baltic & North Sea Forum on Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine – Board and Scientific Committee, Society on Scoliosis Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Treatment, Society on Scoliosis Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Treatment – founder of the Polish Group, Section of Spondyloorthopedics of the Polish Society of Orthopedics and Traumathology and Polish Society of Spinal Surgery.

Pediatrics and Rehabilitation

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. Donna Mendez is a board certified Pediatrician and Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician. She completed her pediatric residency at University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHSC) in San Antonio, and a fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas. She is currently an attending at McGovern Medical School in Houston. She is the director of the pediatric emergency fellowship established in 2014. She has received her Doctorate in Professional Leadership with an Emphasis in Health Science Education from The University of Houston in 2016. She has published more than 20 papers in journals and online resources.

Pediatrics Critical Care and Emergency Medicine

Dr. Andreas Petropoulos graduated from Aristotle University’s Medical School, Greece in 1989. Followed 30 year career as a medical officer, senior Flight Surgeon in the Hellenic Air-Force. Specialized in Aviation & Hyperbaric Medicine, Pediatrics, Fetal, Pediatrics and Congenital Cardiology in USA and Europe. Holds M.Sc in Preventive Cardiology. An AEPC Prevention and Heart Failure/Pulmonary Hypertension, working group’s member. Worked and lectured in Athens and Brussels universities. Currently consults in Fetal, Pediatrics and Congenital Cardiology in Merkezi Klinika and is Associate Professor at the State University and Post Graduate and CME Center in Azerbaijan. His research focuses on prevention, CVD imaging techniques, fetal cardiology, and heart failure.

Aviation & Hyperbaric Medicine, Pediatrics, Fetal, Pediatrics and Congenital Cardiology

David James Riddell Hutchon has 28 years of experience as a Consultant Obstetrician. In 2003, he realized that clamping the umbilical cord quickly after birth severely disrupted neonatal circulation and interfered with transition. He has published and lectured extensively on the subject and co-operating with UK and international colleagues developed equipment and ways of providing neonatal resuscitation at the side of the mother without clamping the cord. He has co-authored a chapter on neonatal care immediately after birth, co-authored two Cochrane systematic reviews, and has organized five international conferences on the subject of mother side neonatal resuscitation.

Pediatrics, neonatology, neonatal resuscitation