Dr. Jon A Vanderhoof
Dr. Jon A Vanderhoof
MD

Pediatric Gastroenterologist at Boston Children's Hospital

Senior Lecturer in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, USA

Former Vice President, Global Medical Affairs at Mead Johnson Nutrition

Prof. Ra'anan Shamir
Prof. Ra'anan Shamir
MD, PhD

Professor of Pediatrics, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University

Chairman, Institute of Gastroenterology, Nutrition and Liver Diseases, Schneider Children's Medical Center, Israel

Past President of ESPGHAN – European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition

Prof. Carina Venter
Prof. Carina Venter
RD, PhD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Allergy/Immunology at the Children's Hospital Colorado and University of Colorado Denver

Prof. Hania Szajewska
Prof. Hania Szajewska
MD, PhD

Professor and Chair of the Department of Paediatrics at the Medical University of Warsaw

Past General Secretary of the ESPGHAN - European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition

Dr. Yvan Vandenplas
Dr. Yvan Vandenplas
MD, PhD

Head of Department KidZ Health Castle and Child Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Vrije University Hospital Brussels, Belgium

Prof. Ron Shaoul
Prof. Ron Shaoul
MD

Director of the Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit at Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital, Haifa, Israel. He is a Member of the ESPGHAN Porto pediatric IBD working group and a Clinical Associate Professor in Pediatrics at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and a member of the European Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Working Group. He has authored about 120 peer-reviewed articles, and is a reviewer for prestigious journals in the field of pediatrics and gastroenterology.

Dr. Carlos Lifschitz
Dr. Carlos Lifschitz
MD

Associate Physician at the Italian Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina. A member of International Editorial Board of the journal Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (JPGN). author of 95 peer reviewed publications and 2 books.

Dr. Olle Hernell
Dr. Olle Hernell
MD

Professor emeritus and former head of pediatrics at the department of Clinical Sciences, Umeå University, Sweden. He is a former member of the committee of Nutrition as well as the Council of the European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) and former chair of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences´ National Committee on Nutrition and Food Sciences. He is one of the founders and the present CMO of Lipum AB.

Dr. Bo Lönnerdal
Dr. Bo Lönnerdal
PhD

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Nutrition & Internal Medicine. Department of Nutrition & Program in International and Community Nutrition. He has an active research program in pediatric nutrition at University of California, Davis. He has mentored a large number of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as post-doctoral scholars and visiting scientists from all over the world.
He received his master’s and doctorate degrees in biochemistry from University of Uppsala in Sweden, and has been professor at UCD since 1980.

Dr. Susan Baker
Dr. Susan Baker
MD, PhD

Tenured professor of Pediatrics at the University at Buffalo, obtained her BS at the University of Pittsburgh, MD at Temple
University School of Medicine, and PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Baker completed her residency in Pediatrics at Children's
Hospital of Buffalo and her fellowship in gastroenterology at the Combined Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Children's Hospital of Boston. Dr. Baker is recognized as a leader, having served as Chairperson of the
American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Nutrition, Chairperson of the
American Board of Pediatrics, sub board of Gastroenterology and numerous other
national and international advisory groups including the Institute of Medicine,
USDA and the FDA. 

Most recently Dr. Baker was awarded the Murray
Davidson Award by the American Academy of Pediatrics recognizing an outstanding
clinician, educator, and scientist who made significant contributions to the
field of pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition.