Professor Tam graduated from The University of Hong Kong in 1976, and worked in the Department of Surgery until 1986. He was the Vice- President for Research (2003-2015) and is currently Interim Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. He has been awarded grants totaling > US$20m. He serves on many international professional associations and was President of the Pacific Association of Paediatric Surgeons (2008-2009). He also serves on editorial boards of several international journals including the Journal of Pediatric Surgery as the Editor for Asia. He has given invited lectures at BAPS, EUPSA, AAPS and Days of Molecular Medicine 2012, etc. He has received numerous awards including the BAPS Prize, Lifetime Achievement Award (AAPS) and Honorary Fellowship of the American Surgical Association.

Dr. DiClemente is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Public Health at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. He holds concurrent appointments as Professor in the School of Medicine, the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Immunology, and the Department of Medicine, in the Division of Infectious Diseases, and the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. DiClemente was trained as a Health Psychologist at the University of California San Francisco where he received his PhD in 1984 after completing a ScM at the Harvard School of Public Health and his undergraduate degree at the City University of New York. Dr. DiClemente serves as a member of the NIH Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council, and previously served as a member of the CDC Board of Scientific Counselors and the NIMH Advisory Council. Dr. DiClemente’s research has four foci: (1) developing interventions to reduce the risk of HIV/STD among vulnerable adolescents and women; (2) developing interventions to enhance vaccine uptake among high-risk adolescents and women, such as influenza and HPV vaccine; (3) developing implementation science interventions to enhance the uptake, adoption and sustainability of HIV/STD prevention programs in the community; and (4) developing diabetes screening and behavior change interventions to identify people with diabetes who are unaware of their disease status as well as reduce the risk of diabetes among vulnerable populations. Dr. DiClemente has focused on developing intervention packages that blend community and technology-based approaches that are designed to optimize program effectiveness and enhance programmatic sustainability. He is the author of six CDC-defined evidence-based interventions for adolescents and young African American women and men. He has published extensively in the area of adolescent health, particularly HIV/STD prevention, among adolescents and young adults, and in adolescent vaccine programs for influenza and HPV prevention. He is the author of more than 500 peer-review publications, 150 book chapters, and 21 books.

Dr. Dario Galante is a pediatric, neonatal and obstetric anesthesiologist of the University Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, University Hospital Ospedali Riuniti of Foggia, Italy. Author of many publications indexed on PuBMed, member and Editor in Chief of editorial boards and peer-reviewer of many international journals. He is expert in ultrasound regional anesthesia and President and founder of SIAATIP, Società Italiana di Anestesia, Analgesia e Terapia Intensiva Pediatrica (www.siaatip.it), President and founder of SUA - The Society for Ultrasound in Anaesthesia - Italian Chapter (www.ultrasoundanesthesia.it) and Società Italiana di Partoanalgesia (www.partoanalgesia.it). He invented a new innovative technique in simultaneous noninvasive hemodynamic monitoring and ventilation through proseal laringeal mask airway and transesophageal doppler called TED-PLMA Technique, and a new innovative ultrasound abdominal block called "UAT - Ultrasound Abdominal Tri-block" (a combination of TAP Block and Ilioinguinal and iliohypogastric blocks).

Official member of the National Committee for Food Security (CNSA) – Section Food Safety – of the Italian Ministry of Health from April 27, 2015 for the period 2015 to 2018 (DM 23 March 2015).

Member of the International Pediatric Research Foundation (IPRF) for the period 2014-2018.

Expert of EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) since 2008; member of the EFSA NDA (Nutrition, Dietetic products and Allergy) Panel for the three year mandates 2009-2012 and 2012-2015, respectively.

Member of the ESPGHAN Committee of Nutrition (1999-2007).

His current research activities focus on lipids and fatty acids, functional nutrients, preventive nutrition and dietary management of chronic inflammatory paediatric disorders.

Author of more than 240 publications on International Peer Reviewed Journals, according to Journal Citation Report, total (1985-2016) Impact Factor is 614. H-index: Scopus 39 – Web of Science 39.

Dr. Chiang is an Associate Professor of Urology at the University of California San Diego. He is Chief of Pediatric Urology at Rady Children’s Hospital and the fellowship program director. He is board certified in pediatric urology and clinical informatics and has been a part of the Rady Children’s Institute of Genomic Medicine. He has published on spina bifida, minimally invasive surgery, pediatric stone disease and leveraging the electronic health record for population health and outcomes research. He has been funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute and is considered an expert in the care and reconstruction of the pediatric neurogenic bladder.

Dr. Denis A. Cozzi is currently Associate Professor of Pediatric Surgery at the Sapienza University of Rome and Head of the Pediatric Surgery Unit at the Policlinico Umberto I University Hospital, Rome, Italy. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Cozzi is interested in all aspects of pediatric general, thoracic, and neonatal surgery, and is internationally renowned for his pioneering clinical application of nephron-sparing surgery in children with unilateral renal tumors and normal contralateral kidney.

Dr. Giovanni Nardo has obtained Ph.D.in Pediatric Sciences (2012) and Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Digestive Endoscopy (2013) from “Sapienza” University of Rome. He is currently serving to Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit, Santobono-Pausilipon Hospital, Naples Italy. His skills and expertise are in Gastrointestinal Diseases, Gastroenterology, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Endoscopy, IBS, Ulcerative Colitis, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, EUS, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and Crohn's Disease. He has contributed more than 180 publications, having citations around 2,486.

Nemr S. Eid, MD, is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in Kentucky. He is also Division Chief of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine at both the Medical School and Norton Children’s Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Eid received his medical degree from the University of Liege in Belgium. He then completed a residency in pediatrics at the Health Sciences Center of the State University of New York in Brooklyn, where he also completed a fellowship in pediatric pulmonary medicine and intensive care medicine. As an expert in pediatric pulmonary medicine, especially childhood asthma, cystic fibrosis, and infantile wheezing.

Dr. Raffaele has obtained PhD in Pediatric Sciences in 1999 from the University of Catania. He is presently serving as a Professor at University of Catania. His subject areas are in Medicine Neuroscience Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Immunology and Microbiology Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics Multidisciplinary. He has contributed more than 132 publications, having citations around.

PIETRO IMPELLIZZERI, graduated in Medicine and Surgery at University of Messina in 1986. Achieved the Certificate of Specialist in Pediatric Surgery in 1991. Master's Degree in Minimally Invasive Pediatric Surgery, at University of Bologna in 2013. He is Associate Professor of Pediatric Surgery at Department of Human Pathology and Childhood“ University of Messina. Surgical activity, performed at the Pediatric Surgery Unit of University Hospital “G. Martino”, includes: treatment of neonatal and pediatric surgical diseases also with video-laparoscopy approach. The research activity includes the following fields: neonatal surgery, pediatric andrological surgery, clinical and experimental research.

Dr. Sandeep Jayawant M.B.B.S., M.R.C.P., M.R.C.P.C.H., F.R.C.P.C.H, is presently serving as a Consultant, Pediatric Neurology Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and also an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Pediatric Neurology University of Oxford. His skill and expertise are in Genetics and Muscle. He has contributed more than 70 publications, having citations around 1,504.

Dr. Ozgur, MD, has been serving as a Professor at Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Pediatrics, and Head of Pediatric Rheumatology Department since 2007. Dr. Ozgur research interests include Vaccine response, cytokine pathway, Medical ethics, Juvenile idiopathic arthritis, Familial Mediterranean fever, auto inflammatory diseases and juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus, dermatomyositis, and scleroderma. He is a member of Pediatric Rheumatology European Society, Pediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organization, Turkish Pediatric Association, Turkish National Society of Pediatric Rheumatology and EULAR standing committee, Pediatric Rheumatology section, Turkish representatives. He has contributed more than 300 publications,having citations around 3,350.

He is a Professor of Pediatrics since 1980-present and A Directory in Pediatric Allergy & Immunology since 1980-present in Saint Louis University, St Louis, MO.He conducted research on Primary immunodeficiency disorders Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis Mold sensitive asthma. He has worked on Project ARK (AIDS/HIV Resources for KIDS), Source: Ryan White Title IV, PI: Gregory Storch, MD (Washington University). Primary Immune Deficiency Treatment Consortium, Source: NIH U54 AI082973, PI: Morton Cowan MD Center ,PI: Alan P. Knutsen MD

Dr. Alexander K.C. Leung, a holder of MBBS, DCH(Lond & Irel), FRCPC; FRCP(UK & Irel), FRCPCH, and FAAP degrees, is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Calgary and Pediatric Consultant at the Alberta Children’s Hospital. Dr. Leung’s areas of special interest are general and ambulatory care pediatrics. Dr. Leung is the author of over 2750 scientific publications including 340 chapters and 9 books. Dr. Leung has served on the editorial boards of 37 medical journals. He is the assistant/ associate/section editor of several of these journals.

Max Liebau, MD is a consultant pediatric nephrologist, Head of Experimental Pediatric Nephrology and Head of the Center for Chronically Ill Children at the University Hospital of Cologne, Germany. His lab follows a translational approach to study genetic diseases with a focus on molecular mechanisms of cellular signaling in polycystic kidney disease and other congenital anomalies of the kidney and the urinary tract. This work is complemented by international clinical cohort studies on ARPKD and pediatric ADPKD (ARegPKD and ADPedKD). Dr. Liebau received multiple honors and awards including the Adalbert-Czerny-Award, the highest scientific award in German Pediatrics.

Dr. KATHLEEN ANN MCHALE, MD, MSEd, FACS is presently serving as a Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at George Washington University and she is also a Professor of Surgery Uniformed Services at University for the Health Sciences. Her subject areas are Medicine, Health Professions Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. She has contributed more than 40 publications having citations around 932. She has also been recognized with Chennault Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Dr. Kaushal Kishor Prasad (KKP) is a Professor and Chief of the Division of Gastrointestinal Histopathology in the Department of Superspeciality of Gastroenterology at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. His main research areas of interest are celiac disease, microscopic colitis, extrahepatic portal vein obstruction and inflammatory bowel disease. Dr. Kishor is an editorial board member of more than 60 international journals and reviewer of around 110 international journals. He has published 16 papers on celiac disease in reputable international journals and 3 articles in national journals.

Philip Rosenthal, M.D., is an internationally renowned children's liver disease specialist. Dr. Rosenthal is the Director of Pediatric Hepatology, Director of Pediatric Clinical Research, Director of Pediatric Hepatology and Liver Transplant Research and a Professor of Pediatrics and Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Gastroenterology and has a certificate of added qualification in Transplant Hepatology. Dr. Rosenthal completed his medical training at Downstate Medical Center and the Albert Einstein Medical Center in New York. He then completed a fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology at UCSF. He joined the UCSF faculty in 1995 after serving as Professor of Pediatrics at University of California, Los Angeles.

Giovanni A. Rossi is the former Chief and now the Chief Emeritus of the Pulmonary and Allergy Units and of the Regional Cystic Fibrosis Centre at the G. Gaslini Research Institute and University Hospital (Genoa, Italy). He graduated from the University of Genoa, Italy (1972) and then trained in respiratory medicine, first in the San Martino University Hospital and then in the Pulmonary Branch of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md, U.S.A. (1979-81). Giovanni Rossi was Member of the Executive Committee of the Société Européenne de Physiologie Clinique Respiratoire (1989-90), Cochairman and Chairman of the the "Lung Cell Biology" Assembly of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) (1990-1994).

Dr. Jessica M. Sales, PhD, received her PhD in Cognitive and Developmental Psychology from Emory University in 2004. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at the Rollins School of Public Health in 2007. Dr. Sales is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at Rollins School of Public Health, and she is also a Member of the Emory Center for AIDS Research and a Research Scientist for the Center for Translational and Prevention Science at the University of Georgia. She has over 100 peer-reviewed publications, and has presented her work in the United States and globally.

Dr. Tovar obtained his MD degree in Salamanca and his PhD degree in Valladolid. He trained in Valladolid, Paris, Madrid and Los Angeles and became Chief of Pediatric Surgery and Associate Professor of Pediatrics in San Sebastian in 1977. He held this position until 1992 when he became Surgeon in Chief and Professor of Pediatrics at La Paz Childrens' Hospital, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. He retired from clinical duties in 2014 and became Emeritus Professor at the University. Dr Tovar published more than 500 articles and over 100 book chapters. He mentored 23 PhD dissertations and developed 35 funded research projects. He was President of the Spanish and European Associations of Pediatric Surgeons and served as European Editor of the Journal of Pediatric Surgery until 2014.

Dr. Wagner is the Titus H. Harris Chair, Harry K Davis Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Dr. Wagner received her medical degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and her doctorate in clinical psychology from Temple University in Philadelphia. Dr. Wagner is an internationally recognized expert in the pharmacological treatment of childhood mood disorders. Dr. Wagner is past President, American Association of Directors of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and President-Elect of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.