Biography

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.

Biography

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.

Biography

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 35^th 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.

Biography

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.

Research Interest

Neuroblastoma, Pediatric cancer, Angiogenesis, Cancer stem cells, Vascular biology, Vascular endothelial growth factor, MDM2.

Biography

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