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Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Aristide Le Dantec
Pediatric Suregery
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Hospital del Niño
Infectious Diseases
Xavier Sáez Llorens obtained his medical degree at the University of Panama School of Medicine, and subsequently completed postdoctoral specialisation in Paediatrics (Panama) and infectious diseases (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA). Professor Sáez Llorens has been given multiple awards from national and international paediatric societies. Notably, he was distinguished in 1991 (ICAAC, Chicago) by the American Society for Microbiology, as one of the best young investigators in the USA in the field of infectious disease, in 2013 by the National Agency of Science and Technology (Senacyt), as the Panamanian physician with more international publications, in 2017 by the Gorgas Memorial Institute, as recipient of the William Gorgas medal for outstanding contribution to public health based on numerous high-impact vaccine trials in children, and in 2021 by the Panamanian Association for the Advancement of Science (APANAC), as recipient of the Excellence in Scientific Research. Professor Sáez Llorens is member of many academic associations in paediatrics, infectious disease and clinical research within Panama, Latin America, the USA and Spain. He has published more than 200 articles in foreign (122 indexed in PubMed) and local scientific journals and 50 chapters in reputed infectious disease textbooks. In addition, he is the main editor of 8 medical books, 3 philosophical books and more than 1000 newspaper columns on social and political matters. Professor Sáez Llorens is an international consultant of several scientific journals, including The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal and the International Journal of Infectious Diseases. Currently, Xavier Sáez Llorens is Professor of Pediatrics, Chief of the Infectious Disease Department, and Director of Clinical Research at the Hospital del Niño, Distinguished Investigator of the National Research System (Senacyt) and of the Center for Vaccine Investigation (Cevaxin), member of the National Ethics Committee on Clinical Research in Panama City, Panama, honorary member of the Catalonian Institute of Biological Sciences, and Covid vaccine adviser for the Panamanian government.
Santa Casa de São Paulo School of Medical Sciences
Marco Sáfadi, MD, PhD, is the head of the Department of Pediatrics and the coordinator of the post-graduate course on health sciences at Santa Casa de São Paulo School of Medical Sciences. He has been working as a member of the Permanent Advisory Board on Immunization Practices for the Secretary of Health in the State of São Paulo and the Ministry of Health in Brazil for more than 10 years. He is currently chairman of the Department of Immunization for the Society of Pediatrics, São Paulo, and chairman of the Department of Infectious Diseases for the Brazilian Society of Pediatrics. Professor Sáfadi is an active member of many societies, including SLIPE (Latin American Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases) and ESPID (European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases). He is currently a member of the International Scientific Committee (ISC) for WSPID (World Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases) and was the first nominated liaison representative for SLIPE at the Committee on Infectious Diseases (COID) – Red Book – American Academy of Pediatrics, from 2011 to 2015. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Meningococcal Initiative (GMI) and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group of the recently merged Confederation of Meningitis Organisations (CoMO) and the Meningitis Research Foundation (MRF). He is an expert member of the SAGE Working Group on Meningococcal Vaccines and Vaccination of WHO and a liaison representative for the Brazilian NITAG in the SAGE Immunization Group from WHO. In 2021, Professor Sáfadi was nominated as a member of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) Scientific Advisory Committee. Professor Sáfadi is a member of the editorial boards of Jornal de Pediatria (JPed), Pneumonia BMC, and The Journal of Pediatrics. He has authored book chapters and original peer-reviewed scientific papers in international journals, namely on immunization, meningococcal and pneumococcal infections, influenza, RSV, coronavirus, rotavirus and norovirus gastroenteritis, pertussis, arboviruses, and congenital and community-acquired infections.
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Universidad Libre seccional Cali
Valle del Cauca
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Merck & Co., Inc.
Center for Observational and Real-World Evidence (CORE)
Philippine General Hospital
Pediatric Pulmonology
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AIIMS Bibinagar
Pediatrics
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Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor
Pediatrics Department Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor
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Pediatric infectious disease
Children's of Mississippi/ University of Mississippi Medical Center
Pediatrics
I am a pediatric infectious diseases attending at the Children’s of Mississippi now a free-standing children’s hospital since November 2020. I am a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) and I hold a secondary appointment as Professor of Population Health Science, UMMC. I am an HIV pediatric provider and heads the Teen Health Clinic at our Children’s Subspecialty Clinic for the prevention and treatment of STI including HIV among adolescents. I am also an adolescent HIV medical provider at the UMMC – TEAM (Trustworthy, Evidence-based, Affirming and Multidisciplinary Care) Clinic a multidisciplinary clinic for LGBTQ adolescent patients. I am a member of the American Board of Pediatrics – Subboard of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (2020-25) responsible for developing the initial certifying, MOC, MOCA-Peds and SITE examinations. I am a member of the credentialing exam item writer for the American Academy of HIV Medicine (2019-20) which is an HIV-focused professional certifications offered domestically and internationally to medical providers specializing in advanced level HIV care. I am a member of the newly established Inclusion, Diversity, Access and Equity (IDA&E) Task Force nationally (2020-21) and as a member of the International Affairs Committee of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society (2018-21).
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The Australian National University
Department of Global Health
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Menzies School of Health Research
Global and Tropical Health
King George's Medical University
Centre for Advanced Research (CFAR), Faculty of Medicine,
Dr. Shailendra Saxena is faculty of King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India. His research interests involve understanding the molecular mechanisms of host defense during human viral infections and developing new predictive, preventive, and therapeutic strategies for them using Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), HIV, and emerging viruses as a model via stem cell and cell culture technologies. His research work has been published in various high-impact factor journals (Science, PNAS, Nature Medicine) with a high number of citations. He has received many awards and honors in India and abroad including various Young Scientist Awards, BBSRC India Partnering Award, and Dr. JC Bose National Award of Department of Biotechnology, Min. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. Dr. Saxena is a fellow of various prestigious international societies/academies including the Royal Society of Medicine, London; Royal College of Pathologists, UK; Royal Societies of Biology and Chemistry, London, United Kingdom; and Academy of Translational Medicine Professionals, Austria. He was named a Global Leader in Science by The Scientist. He is also an international opinion leader/expert in the vaccination for Japanese encephalitis by IPIC (UK).
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Pediatric Infectious Disease Society (PIDS)
Imperial College London
Infectious Diseases
James Seddon is a Reader in Global Child Health at Imperial College London, an Associate Professor at Stellenbosch University, and a Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at St. Mary’s Hospital in London. His major area of research is that of children with tuberculosis, particularly focused on TB diagnostics, drug-resistant TB, TB meningitis, adolescent TB, TB burden modelling and the evaluation of TB biomarkers.
Pfizer
Mrs. Serra completed a post-graduate research project on the global epidemiology of staphylococcus and enterococcus resisting to antibiotics at the Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA, Portugal), before receiving her degree in Biotechnology from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. She is currently a Senior Director in the Pfizer Biopharmaceutical Group working directly with Emerging Markets and China where she is a Scientific Affairs Expert and Medical Affairs Lead for their meningococcal vaccines. Mrs. Serra has worked at Pfizer for nearly 18 years and in the past 10 years has dedicated her work to better understand meningococcal disease and meningococcal vaccines.
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68 Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh, icddrb
Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
Pediatrics