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Children Webinar | Children's Day - Focus on Children's Health
18 Nov 2022, 16:00 (CET)
Pediatric Epilepsy, Encephalopathy, Children
Welcome from the Chair
1st Children Webinar
Children's Day - Focus on Children's Health
Dear Colleagues,
World Children's Day is celebrated on the 20th November to commemorate the Declaration of the Rights of the Child by the UN General Assembly on 20 November 1959. Children would like to take this opportunity to call related experts here to share the updated theoretical and medical research trends. The topic covered about all related to childhood health and disease in developed and developing countries.
The publication focuses on sharing clinical, epidemiological and translational science relevant to children’s health.
It is a pleasure to invite you all to a webinar covering the topics from the opened 178 Special Issues.
Kind regards.
Date: 18 November 2022
Time: 4:00 pm CET | 10:00 am EST | 11:00 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 827 7085 0821
Webinar Secretariat: children.webinar@mdpi.com
Chair
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Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Child Health, University of Missouri at Columbia, 404 Keene Street, Columbia, MO 65201, USA
Paul R. Carney is Professor of Child Health, Neurology and Chief of Pediatric Neurology Division, and also Director of Comprehensive Pediatric Epilepsy Program. His research is focused on Epilepsy, Epilepsy surgery/neuromodulation, Neurogenetics and Sleep disorders.
Invited Speakers
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Intestinal Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Regenerative Unit, Meyer Children's Hospital, Florence, Italy
Prof. Dr. Antonino Morabito is the Professor of paediatric Surgery at the University of Florence. Clinical Chair of The Department of Paediatric Surgery and Clinical Chair of the Paediatric Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Unit at Meyer Children's Hospital Florence, Italy
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University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, United States
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. His research interests are: congenital heart disease; pediatric cardiology; tricuspid atresia; physiologically advantageous ventricular septal defect; interventional pediatric cardiology; neonatal cardiology; echocardiography.
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Department of Psychiatry, Tower Health/Phoenixville Hospital · Phoenixville, USA,
Department of Psychiatry, Drexel University College of Medicine · Philadelphia, USA
Dr. Saral Desai is a Resident Physician from Tower Health/Phoenixville Hospital and Drexel University College of Medicine. His research interests are: Psychiatry, Behavioral Science, Addiction Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
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Epidemiology and Cancer Control Department, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, USA
Dr. Madeline Horan is a postdoctoral research associate at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control. Her research focuses on patient-reported outcomes in childhood cancer survivors. Dr. Horan’s research in her postdoctoral training focuses more specifically on utility-based approaches to assessing health-related quality-of-life and the associated late effects and other health outcomes among childhood cancer survivors.
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Professor of Child Health and Neurology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Zhao Liu, MD is a Pediatric Neurologist in Columbia, MO. Zhao Liu completed their Residency at Medical College Of Ga School Of Medicine. Following their education, Zhao Liu was board certified by the American Board of Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology.
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Professor of Child Health and Neurology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Professor Ng loves working in the field of paediatric neurology, with clinical interests in all general neurology, including epilepsy, seizures, epilepsy and antiepileptic drugs, childhood headaches and migraine, developmental delay, cerebral palsy and abnormal movements including tics and Tourette syndrome.
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Professor of Neurology and Radiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Dr. Beversdorf graduated from Indiana University and completed Neurology residency at Dartmouth. After his fellowship in Behavioral Neurology at University of Florida, he joined the Ohio State University faculty. He has published on memory disorders, autism, cognitive neuroscience, fMRI, neurpsychopharmacology and drug addiction. He joined the University of Missouri (Radiology, Neurology, Psychology and the Thompson Center) to focus on autism, with particular interest in pharmacofMRI as a potential treatment marker, and gene/stress interactions in autism.
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Professor and Chair, Department of Child Health, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
David Gozal, MD, MBA, PhD (Hon) is the Marie M. and Harry L. Smith Endowed Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Child Health, and Pediatrician-in-Chie of MU Women’s and Children’s Hospital at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. Dr. Gozal’s research focuses primarily on bench to bedside approaches to pediatric sleep disorders.
Webinar Content
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Registration
This is a FREE webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information on how to join the webinar. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized.
Certificates of attendance will be delivered to those who attend the live webinar.
Can’t attend? Register anyway and we’ll let you know when the recording is available to watch.
Program
Speaker/Presentation |
Time in CET |
Chair Professor Paul R. Carney Chair Introduction |
10:00 – 10:10 am |
Professor Paul R. Carney Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy |
10:10 – 10:20 am |
Prof. Dr. Antonino Morabito Surgery for Short Bowel |
10:20 – 10:30 am |
Prof. Dr. P. Syamasundar Rao Role of Echocardiography in the Diagnosis and Management of Atrial Septal Defects |
10:30 – 10:40 am |
Dr. Saral Desai Adverse Childhood Experiences and Their Impact on Children’s Health |
10:40 – 10:50 am |
Dr. Madeline Horan Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Childhood Cancer: Measurement and Integration into Clinical Practice |
10:50 – 11:00 am |
Dr. Zhao Liu Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy |
11:00 – 11:10 am |
Professor Yu-Tze Ng Lennox Gastaut Syndrome |
11:10 – 11:20 am |
Professor David Beversdorf Update on Autism Spectrum Disorders |
11:20 – 11:30 am |
Professor David Gozal Sleep Disorder Breathing and Cognitive Impact |
11:30 – 11:40 am |
Q&A |
11:40 - 11:55 am |
Closing of Webinar Chair Professor Paul R. Carney |
11:55 am – 12:00 pm |
Relevant SI
Find the list of Special Issues here.