Global Meet on Neonatal and Perinatal Nursing November 16-17, 2019 Edinburgh, Scotland

Dr. P. Syamasundar Rao is Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine and Emeritus Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School and Professor of Pediatrics at the University Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. Dr. Rao received his medical degree from Andhra Medical College/University, Visakhapatnam, India where he subsequently served internship and began pediatric training.

Dr. Rao’s special interests are physiologically advantageous ventricular septal defects, tricuspid atresia and transcatheter management of heart defects in children.

Dr Hamish B Wallace is a consultant in Paediatric Oncology at the RHSC, Edinburgh since 1992. He became a Leukaemia Research Fund Research Fellow under the guidance of Professor Steve Shalet in Manchester in the late 1980s when he developed my research interest in the late endocrine effects of the treatment of childhood cancer and completed my MD thesis. His main research interest is in fertility outcome and fertility preservation for cancer patients. He is the Chair of the CCLG Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Working Group (since 2002) and President of the European Network for Paediatric Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (since 2007). Wallace is a co-author of over 130 peer-reviewed publications, and four books. Most recently he co-edited with Prof Dan Green a multi-author book on “Late effects of the treatment of Childhood Cancer” and with Prof Chris Kelnar a book on “Endocrine complications of the treatment of childhood cancer”. He is the the co- founder and organiser for ESLCCC, a biannual conference on the late effects of the treatment of childhood cancer. Dr Wallace was Lead Clinician for the Children’s and Young Peoples MCN for Cancer in Scotland “CATSCAN” from 2007 to 2010. He is currently the Registrar of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Fertility outcome and fertility preservation for cancer patients.

Specializing in respiratory disorders in children, Basil graduated from the University of Khartoum, Sudan and then went on to complete his PhD thesis at the University of Birmingham (UK) on the control of breathing in children. He then completed his training in General Pediatrics and Pediatric Respiratory Medicine in the UK and Ireland. He began practicing as a Pediatric Respiratory Consultant in 2002.He was appointed in one of the leading hospitals in Ireland, as Consultant in Pediatric Respiratory Medicine at the National Children’s Hospital/Our Lady’s Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin. During his medical career in Dublin, Basil worked as a Consultant Pediatric Pulmonologist, with clinical and research interests in asthma, chronic cough, cystic fibrosis and sleep disordered breathing in children

Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics

Ph.D .Pietro Sciacca was born on June 12th, 1961. Since 1985 he works in the Department of Pediatrics of the University of Catania (Italy) as Pediatrician and Neonatologist with main interest in Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Pulmonology. He’s a professor of Clinic of heart Malformations in Neonatologic Cardiology postgraduate Course, of BAN of the University of Catania and of the Pediatric Cardiology Master of University of Messina. Since 1989 is the chief of Pediatrc and neonatological Cardiovascular Clinic of Department of Pediatrics

Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Pulmonology

Zhi-gang Yang has completed his PhD in radiology at the Shinshu University in Japan 2001. Now he serves as the director of Medicine Administration of Sichuan University and vice dean of Office of Scientific Research Development of Sichuan University. He is also one of the editorial board member of European Radiology. His research focus on lung and esophageal cancer imaging, cardiovascular radiology, and imaging for acute trauma. He has published about 150 articles in reputed journals, such as The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Radiology, International Journal of Cardiology, American Journal of Roentgenology and European Radiology.

His research focus on lung and esophageal cancer imaging, cardiovascular radiology, and imaging for acute trauma.