Nabil Hassan, MB. Bch. is a pediatric critical care specialist. He is visiting Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University Of Illinois School Of Medicine in Peoria Illinois, Chief of Division of pediatric critical care, and medical director of the pediatric intensive care unit. Dr. Hassan graduated from Cairo University Medical School in Egypt with honors and in 1982 immigrated to the US. At that time he passed The Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG®), exam and the Visa Qualifying Exam (VQE), followed by formal training and board certification ingeneral pediatrics, neonatal/perinatal medicine and pediatric critical care medicine.
He had been at Helen Devos Children’s hospital/Spectrum Health for the past 25 years before he took on his current post at the UOI. His areas of expertise includes pediatric critical care, pediatric sedation, pediatric patient blood management. He is also an instructor for the FCCM and PFCCM courses.
Dr. Hassan is an active member of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury & Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) and the Pediatric Critical Care Blood Research Network (BloodNet). He is a founding member of the Society for the advancement of Patient Blood Management (SABM) since 2002, during which time he has lectured extensively and served as board member, executive committee member, chairman of strategic alignment, Education, Research and Annual Meeting Planning committees. He is currently serving as the president of SABM and chair of its Board of Directors.
Patient care is an area of great interest for Dr. Hassan, as he enjoys this field of medicine, closely interacting with his patients, while also teaching residents and medical students who then benefit from his expertise. His clinical research is mainly in the area of pediatric transfusion along with blood conservation. He has several published manuscripts, and abstracts covering sedation and patient blood management.
Dr. Hassan serves as a reviewer for the following publications: Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Transfusion, Blood Transfusion, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, in addition to the Journal of Pediatric and Neonatal Care.
Research Interest
Pediatric/Neonatal patient blood conservation/management and transfusion, Pediatric trauma and Pediatric sedation, Infant apnea and Pulmonary hypertension.
Advisory Board
Dr Khaled El Atawi Latifa Hospital United Arab Emirates
Khaled El-Atawi completed PhD in Pediatrics,Faculty of Medicine at Ain Shams University, Cairo, EGYPT. He completed Master Healthcare Management at Royal College of Surgeon of Ireland. Currently Consultant Neonatologist and Clinical Quality Specialist, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Latifa Hospital, DHA (DOHMS), Dubai, U.A.E., Since 18th of November 2013. He worked as Lecturer in the Academic Department of Pediatrics, Dubai Medical College, 31st December 2011. He is Regional Trainer for NRP by AAP since 2014. Pediatric Resident Supervisor, Latifa Hospital DHA. STABLE Course director in Latifa Hospital. Editorial Board member of the journal “Pediatric and neonatal nursing”. President of Arab Neonatal Group and Congress. International Member in American Academy in Pediatrics. Board member of Pediatric Arab Union. Member in the Scientific Board of the International Academy of Neonatology. Working with team on quality improvement projects with positive results especially on reducing incidence of severe IVH and ROP as well.
Research Interest
Neonatal Ventilation; Neonatal Nutrition; Brain Injury and Protection.
Adel M Zauk received his Doctor of Medicine from the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels. Post doctorate, he received both a Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Diploma of Medical Mycology, from the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp. He moved to the United States in 1983 and completed his residency in Pediatrics at the Washington University Medical Center’s Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, and his fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York.
Since 1989, he has been an active member of the St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital in Paterson, NJ. He started as an Attending Neonatologist and became Chief of Neonatology and Director of Nurseries in 2000. Over the years, he has been an invited lecturer and has published numerous articles on his vast experience in the field of neonatology.
He currently serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics at New York Medical College and is a Clinical Associate Professor at St. George’s University School of Medicine. He received a leadership award from the Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition in 2004 and that same year received a Citation from the New Jersey State Senate 35th Legislative District. He is the 2013 Recipient of the Kendrick P. Lance, MD Distinguished Physician Award for Outstanding Service as a St. Joseph’s Physician.
Research Interest
Neonatal Infectious Disease, General Neonatology, Neonatal Pharmacology, Benefits of Breast Milk for Premature Infants.
Dr Eugene S Kim University of Southern California USA
Eugene Kim is Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, California. He has clinical expertise in pediatric surgical oncology, the management of chest wall deformities and anorectal malformations. He also has expertise in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) as it relates to newborn pulmonary and cardiac failure. He is the principal investigator of a basic science laboratory focused on novel preclinical therapeutics for the aggressive childhood malignancy, neuroblastoma. His research interests are focused on the development and discovery of new anti-angiogenic pathways and therapies for neuroblastoma. In addition, his lab is investigating a novel cancer stem cell population in neuroblastoma and its role in tumor recurrence.
Dr. Amir Horev is the head of pediatric dermatology service at Soroka university medical center, located in Beer-Sheva, Israel.
He completed his dermatology training at Soroka university medical center on 2010, and functioned as chief resident in his residency program. He completed a pediatric dermatology fellowship in Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, USA, then joint as a faculty member to the pediatric dermatology team, working as a pediatric dermatology attending. He also appointed as clinical instructor in dermatology at the University of Pittsburgh- School of medicine, department of dermatology.
In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Horev serve as clinical instructor in Ben Gurion university-faculty of health sciences, teaching medical students, residents and conducting research in the dermatology field. He is member in the American Society for Pediatric Dermatology (SPD), European Society for Cosmetic and Aesthetic Dermatology (ESCAD) and the Israel Society of Dermatology and Venereology. He is a reviewer for some international peer reviewed dermatological journals, and published and presented his work in Israel and abroad.
In the pediatric dermatology clinic, Dr. Horev provide diagnosis, treatment and management of broad spectrum of dermatology and pediatric dermatology conditions, for example: atopic dermatitis, hemangioma, acne, congenital nevus, acne, warts and molluscum, fungal infections as well as variety of dermatological procedures such as biopsies, intralesional injections, liquid nitrogen treatments, curettage and up-to-date treatments for warts and molluscum. In addition he offers patch tests for the diagnosis of allergic contact dermatitis, and biological treatments for psoriasis.
Research Interest
Hemangioma, Vitiligo, Congenital nevus, Leishmaniasis and Psoriasis
Honorable Editors
Dr Guillermo Godoy University of Alabama USA
Dr Ron Waldrop Huntsville Hospital for Women & Children USA
Assoc. Professor Thomas Havranek Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University USA
Dr Mario Ciampolini University of Florence Italy
Dr Robert Perna TIRR Memorial Hermann USA
Professor Burn Paul Sanford School of Medicine USA
Professor Robert Sacy Balamand University Lebanon
Dr Carlos Troconis Unidad Cardio Quirurgica Noreste USA
Professor Antonio Dessanti University of Sassari Italy
Dr Sohail Rana Howard University College of Medicine USA
Dr Halaba Zenon Piotr Wroclaw Medical University Poland
Assist. Professor Nicoletta Iacovidou University of Athens Greece
Dr Rita Verma Nassau County University Hospital USA
Dr Ajovi B Scott-Emuakpor Michigan State University USA
Dr Saleh Al-Alaiyan AlFaisal University Saudi Arabia
Dr Julian David Eason Al Corniche Hospital UAE
Professor Hassib Narchi United Arab Emirates University UAE
Dr Hossam Mohamed Al Tatari Tawam Hospital UAE
Dr Craig McBride Children’s Health Queensland Australia
Dr Yasser Elborai National Cancer Institute Cairo University Egypt
Dr Alexander Leung University of Calgary Canada
Dr Claude Billeaud Bordeaux Hospital University Center France
Dr Kujtim Ukeperaj European Pediatric Surgeon’s Association Europe
Dr Mahmoud Saleh Elhalik Latifa Hospital UAE
Dr Mohammed Al-Beltagi Tanta University Egypt
Dr Yan Wang Shanghai HongCi Children’s Hospital China
Professor Sami El Shimi Ain Shams University Egypt
Dr Jeffrey Shenberger Tufts University College of Medicine USA
Professor Fuyong Jiao Xi,an Jiaotong University China
Assoc. Professor Golam Hafiz Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Bangladesh
Dr Pinchi Srinivasan New York Hospital Queens USA
Dr Farida Hossain One Degree Initiative Foundation USA
Dr Eleftherios Smaropoulos Hippokration General Hospital Greece
Assoc. Professor Mohannad Mannaa University of Illinois College of Medicine-Peoria USA
Dr Gretchen Lawhon NIDCAP Federation International USA
Dr Fatma Mujgan Sonmez Turgut Ozal University Turkey
Dr Izzet Yavuz Dr Dicle University Turkey
Dr Silvana Alves Pereira Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Brazil
Professor Abdelrahman Elmashad Tanta University Egypt
Dr Yogesh Kumar Sarin University of Delhi India
Assist. Professor Ban Al-Sayyed University of Illinois College of Medicine-Peoria USA
Associate Editors
Neelakanta Kanike
Indiana University School of Medicine United States
Dr Evelyn Eisenstein
University of the State of Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Dr El Sayed Ibrahim Ali Salama
Menoufiya university and Weill Cornell university Egypt
Dr Dany A Al Hamod
University of Balamand Lebanon
Dr Nawaf Alshammari
King Saud University Saudi Arabia
Dr Ulises Garza-Serna
University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston Mexico
Dr Cynthia Abraham
State University of New York Health Science Center of Brooklyn USA
Dr Antonio Di Cesare
Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Italy
Dr Robert Skinner
MD Anderson Cancer Center USA
Dr Hardik Patel
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research USA
Dr Fabiano Nino
Salesi Children’s Hospital of Ancona Italy
Dr Danny Castro
Texas Childrens Hospital USA
Dr Tariq O Abbas
Hamad Medical Corporation Qatar
Dr Gungor Karaguzel
Akdeniz University School of Medicine Turkey
Dr Abdulrahman almaawi
King Abdullah Hospital Saudi Arabia
Dr Rakesh Handa
Max Super Speciality Hospital India
Dr Tamer Mohamed Gaber Rizk
Al-Takhassusi Hospital Saudi Arabia
Dr Mohammad Rajeh Ali Alqudimat
Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian City Saudi Arabia
Assoc. Professor Hussam S Hassan
Tanta University Egypt
Dr Ketan P Parikh
Tara Neo-Surg Hospital India
Dr Devyani Chowdhury
Cardiology Care for Children USA
Dr Priyanshi Ritwik
Louisiana State University School of Dentistry USA
Dr Brankica Vasiljevic
Clinical Centre of Serbia Serbia
Dr Deepak Sharma
Fernandez Hospital India
Assist. Professor Hulya Bukulmez
Case Western Reserve University USA
Dr Aakash Pandita
Fernandez Hospital India
Assist. Professor Mohammad Ashkan Moslehi
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences Iran
Dr Nehad Abd-Elsalam Mohammad Nasef
University of Mansoura Egypt
Dr Abdulkerim Temiz
Baskent University Turkey
Assist. Professor Masa Malenica
Clinical hospital center Sestre milosrdnice Croatia
Assoc. Professor Recep Tekin
Dicle University Medical Faculty Turkey
Dr Praveen Kumar Venkatagiri
Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health UK
Dr Kiran More
University of Otago New Zealand
Assist. Professor Parag Jain
Texas Children's Hospital USA
Dr Benedict Raj
Sagar Hospital India
Dr Aarti Raghavan
University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System USA
Dr Harish Rao
Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital USA
World Neonatal Month is celebrated in the month of September 1st to 30th, 2023 which aims to raise awareness of the maternal and infant health crisis of preterm birth and to promote lifesaving campaign by taking care of baby child after it leaves the womb. So, it is an opportunity for to all the researchers to motivate action and submit your interesting papers on raising the awareness for saving all the brave newborns among us and also to their families. The submissions received till September 1st to 30th will be offered with a best discount of 30–40% in Journal of Pediatrics & Neonatal Care.