PhD and MD, I am a Pediatrician and Clinical Researcher in Pediatrics since 2005. I have worked as a care provider in pediatric intensive care units, and since 2008 I work in Hospitalization, Emergency and Clinics with a special interest in Infectious Diseases. I'm a Senior Lecturer of Pediatrics at the European University of Madrid. I have been combining research with the clinics since 2005. Since 2016, I have been incorporated in the Research Institute 12 de Octubre, where I participate in several projects related to COVID-19, pneumonia, and HIV. I am the co-PI of the National Cohort of COVID-19 in Children in Spain (EPICO-AEP) and a national project on pneumonia in children (VALS-DANCE).Co-researcher of Small Grant Award of ESPID 2018 CAPRI Study,  EU-EDCTP-funded EMPIRICAL Clinical Trial in Africa and Europe, and PENTA Foundation-funded EPIICALProject.I am incorporated into multiple research networks.I am part of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Board, and within this one, I am coordinator of the Working Groups of Respiratory Infections and Research. 

I am a medical doctor since February 2019 and I have worked as a junior doctor at Pediatrics for a year. In January 2020 I started my PhD at General Pediatrics in Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. My PhD is about improving diagnosis and management in children with fever visiting European Emergency Departments.

He is currently working as Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and neonatology at S.P.Medical College, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India. He is a member of the various prestigious pediatric associations at the national as well as international level. His main research interest areas are pediatric infectious diseases and pediatric neurology. He has published 40 publications in various pubmed indexed national and inernational journals. He has presented various research papers at national and international plateforms. He is author of chapter on Vivax Malaria in Post graduate text book of Medicine.

Currently working in Pediatric Infectious disease research with a special interest in Malaria, Dengue, and Brucella, etc.

Sarah Tawfik, RCPCH Dr Sarah Tawfik was born in Cairo Egypt. She earned her medical degree from Ain Shams University and completed residency training in Aldemerdash University Hospital in Cairo. Dr Sarah has special interest in neonatal medicine. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, cooking, and biking. Dr Sarah has more than ten years experience in paediatric, and neonate. She is a member of Bahrain medical society, and registered in Egyptian medical syndicate, British General Medical Council , and Bahrain national medical chamber. She is currently a paediatric and neonatal registrar in Basingstoke Hospital in Hampshire, and worked previously in Nottingham University Hospital.

Amanda is a New Zealand advanced trainee in General Paediatrics and Infectious Diseases. She is currently working at St Mary's, London as a Clinical Fellow in Paediatric Infectious Diseases.

Dr Marc Tebruegge is an honorary Associate Professor in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, and a Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne. His main research interests are tuberculosis (TB) diagnostics and non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections. During the first pandemic wave, he co-led a large multicenter study on COVID-19 in children and adolescents, which involved 82 hospitals across 25 European countries. He is currently the Research Officer of the Paediatric Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group (ptbnet), and a member of the World Health Organization’s New Diagnostics Working Group. He is serving on the Editorial Board of several journals, including PLoS ONE, Frontiers in Pediatrics, and the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal (ESPID Reports and Reviews). To date he has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters.

Dr Marc Tebruegge is an honorary Associate Professor in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London and a Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne. His main research interests are TB diagnostics and non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections. He is currently the Research Officer of the Paediatric Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group (ptbnet), and a member of the WHO New TB Diagnostics Working Group. He is serving on the Editorial Board of several journals, including PLoS ONE, Frontiers in Pediatrics, and the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal (ESPID Reports and Reviews). He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, mainly on TB and NTM infections.

Anne Marleen ter Haar is a PhD student at the department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases of the Amsterdam Academic University Centre, location AMC. She holds a Master’s degree in clinical neuropsychology with a special interest in medical psychology. After her medical psychology internship at the pediatric department of the Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis, she joined the neurological, cognitive and visual performance in hiv infected children (NOVICE)-study group in the AUMC. Her research focuses on the cognitive development, the quality of life and sexuality of perinatally hiv (phiv) infected children and adolescents. Marleen has combined her PhD research with a bachelor’s degree programme in medicine. Her ambition is to integrate her knowledge on psychology and medicine to contribute to the improvement of wellbeing of the pediatric population.

Valtyr Thors is a specialist in paediatric infectious diseases (PID). He completed his medical degree from the University of Iceland in 2003. He entered his training in paediatrics in 2004 and completed his training in the Netherlands (2006-2011) and the UK (2011-2016). He defended his PhD from the University of Bristol, UK on the relationship between viral respiratory infections and colonising bacteria of the nasopharynx. In addition, his other research interests are vaccine preventable infections, clinical vaccine studies, and congenital CMV. He moved back to Iceland in 2015 and is currently the lead for PID in Iceland and works at the Children’s Hospital, Reykjavik-Iceland. He is the director for a two-year paediatric training programme at the Children´s Hospital Iceland as well as an associate professor at the University of Iceland. He is the primary investigator in several studies and currently supervising two PhD students. He is an active member of the ESPID as a member of the Committee for Scientific Affairs and Awards (since 2018). He is one of the founders, organiser and teacher of the “Iceland Course – a practical approach to serious infections in children”, an annual international course held in Reykjavik Iceland since 2015.