PRESIDENT OF THE CONGRESS
Mehmet Vural
Past President Turkish Pediatric Association, Treasurer of EPA-UNEPSA
CONGRESS HONORARY PRESIDENTS
Enver Hasanoğlu
Immediate Past President International Paediatric Association (IPA)
Esin Koç
President Turkish Neonatal Society (TNS)
Yıldız Camcıoğlu
President Turkish National Pediatric Society (TNPS)
Massimo Pettoello-Mantovani
President of the Union of National European Pediatric Societies and Associations (EPA-UNEPSA) - Berlin, Germany
Naveen Thacker
President of the International Pediatric Association (IPA)
Joseph Haddad
President Elect of the International Pediatric Association (IPA)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Massimo Pettoello-Mantovani
President of the Union of National European Pediatric Societies and Associations (EPA-UNEPSA) - Berlin, Germany
Mehmet Vural
Past President Turkish Pediatric Association, Treasurer of EPA-UNEPSA
Hilary Hoey
Vice President & Chair Scientific Advisory Board & Programs of EPA - UNEPSA, Emeritus Professor
of Paediatrics University of Dublin Trinity College, Director of Professional Competence Royal College
of Physicians of Ireland and Past Dean Faculty of Paediatrics, Past President European Society for
Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE).
Esra Şevketoğlu
Council Member and Advisory to Educational Projects of EPA - UNEPSA
Chief of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Sadi Konuk Education and Research Hospital
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
President
Hilary Hoey
Vice President & Chair Scientific Advisory Board & Programs of EPA - UNEPSA, Emeritus Professor
of Paediatrics University of Dublin Trinity College, Director of Professional Competence Royal College
of Physicians of Ireland and Past Dean Faculty of Paediatrics, Past President European Society for
Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE).
Co - Chair
Esra Şevketoğlu
Council Member and Advisory to Educational Projects of EPA - UNEPSA
Chief of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Sadi Konuk Education and Research Hospital
Members
Angel Carassco - Sanz
Council Member of EPA - UNEPSA
Past President European Confederation of Primary Care Pediatricians
Robert Cohen
Council Member of EPA - UNEPSA
President of the French Group of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Gottfried Huss
Past President of the European Confederation for Primary Care Paediatricians (ECPCP)
Georgios Konstantinidis
Council Member of EPA - UNEPSA
President Pediatric Association of Serbia
Christine Magendie
President Elect of the European Confederation for Primary Care Paediatricians (ECPCP)
Leyla Namazova Baranova
Past President and Council Member of EPA-UNEPSA
Tudor Lucian Pop
Secretary General of EPA - UNEPSA
President Romanian Society of Social Pediatrics; Secretary General EPA UNEPSA
Laura Reali
President of the European Confederation for Primary Care Paediatricians (ECPCP)
Eli Somekh
Vice President of EPA - UNEPSA
Past President Israeli Pediatric Association
Sir Terence Stephenson
Council Member of EPA - UNEPSA
Past President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and
Child Health (UK) and Chair of the UK Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
Mehmet Vural
Treasurer of EPA-UNEPSA
Past President Turkish Pediatric Association
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
Alessandro Aiuti
Deputy Director Clinical Research, San Raffaele University -Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-Tiget)
Massimo Pettoello-Mantovani
President of the Union of National European Pediatric Societies and Associations (EPA-UNEPSA)
Ash Allan
Elsevier: Executive Publisher in Health & Medical Sciences
Nick Brown
Archives of Disease in Childhood
Giuseppe Buonocore
Editor in Chief of "Global Pediatrics" (Elsevier)
Past President of the Union of European Neonatal and Perinatal Societies (UENPS)
Garry Butler
Honorary Chair in Clinical Paediatrics at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Robert Cohen
Council Member of EPA - UNEPSA
President of the French Group of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Erwan Engel
Leader of the European Commission Consortium of the Horizion 2020 Program "Safe food for infants"
(SAFFI) - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement,
France (INRAE)
Fatih Ezgü
Head of the Department of Pediatric Genetics at Gazi University, Ankara, Türkiye
Khalaf Gargary
President of the Joint Iraqi-Italian Pediatric Association
College of Medicine, University of Duhok, Iraq
Jeffrey Goldhagen
President of the International Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health
Joseph Haddad
President Elect of the International Pediatric Association (IPA)
Enver Hasanoğlu
Immediate Past President International Paediatric Association (IPA)
Gottfried Huss
Past President of the European Confederation for Primary Care Paediatricians (ECPCP)
Hou Jianbo
China Consortium of the Program "Safe food for infants" (SAFFI)
Camilla Kingdom
Immediate Past President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, UK
Esin Koç
President Turkish Neonatal Society (TNS)
Corinne Levy
Director, Association Clinique et Thérapeutique Infantile du Val de Marne (ACTIV)
Christine Magendie
President Elect of the European Confederation for Primary Care Paediatricians (ECPCP)
Arnold Munnich
Head of the Department of Medical Genetics at the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, Paris, France
Aman B. Pulungan
Executive Director of International Pediatric Association Project Lead Changing
Diabetes in Children Indonesia NCD Child Governing Council
Immediate Past President Asia Pacific Pediatric Association
Laura Reali
President of The European Confederation for Primary Care Paediatricians (ECPCP)
Damian Rowland
Head of Service of Children’s Emergency Department of the Leicester Royal Infirmary, UK
Farhana Sharif
Midland Regional Hospital; Royal College of Surgeons, Mullingar, Dublin, Ireland
Sir Terence Stephenson
Council Member of EPA - UNEPSA
Past President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and
Child Health and Chair of the UK Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
Naveen Thacker
President of the International Pediatric Association (IPA)
Martin Weber
Team Lead, Quality of Care, WHO Regional Office for Europe
LOCAL ORGANIZING AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Nuray Aktay Ayaz
Zeynep Alp Ünkar
Hilmi Apak
Koray Boduroğlu
Perran Boran
Ali Bülbül
Merih Çetinkaya
Oya Ercan
Ömer Erdeve
Melike Ersoy
İhsan Kafadar
Evrim Kıray Baş
Tufan Kutlu
İlke Mungan Akın
Nejat Narlı
Neslihan Önenli Mungan
Beyhan Tüysüz
Ersin Ulu
Fatih Varol
Dinçer Yıldızdaş
EPA-UNEPSA Scientific Board of Member Societies Presidents, Delegates and Experts
Ulrika Ådén
Sweden
Doina Anca Pleşca
Romania
Nagy Anikó
Hungary
Donjeta Bali
Albania
William Balistreri
USA
Alexander Baranov
Russia
Jiří Bronský
Czech Republic
Francesco Chiarelli
Italy
Danojla Dakić
Montenegro
Ülle Einberg
Estonia
Pietro Ferrara
Italy
Paul Graham Fisher
USA
Zachi Grossman
Israel
Matjaž Homšak
Slovenia
Gottfried Huss
Germany
Flavia Indrio
Italy
Lia Jorjoliani
Georgia
Manuel Katz
Israel
Nebojša Kavarić
Montenegro
Georgios Konstantinidis
Serbia
Georgina Kuli - Lito
Albania
Hajrija Maksić
Bosnia and Herzogovina
Marina Mamenko
Ukranie
Gianluigi Marseglia
Italy
Judith Meehan
Ireland
Georgios Mitsiakos
Greece
Aida Mujkić
Crotia
Peter Najdenov
Slovenia
Luigi Nigri
Italy
Marc Rudi
Moldova
Asshot Sarkissian
Armenia
Fahrija Skokić
Bosnia and Herzogovina
Aspazija Sofijanova
Macedonia
Ecaterina Stasii
Moldova
László Szabó
Hungary
Tomasz Szczepański
Poland
Tarana Taghi-zada
Azerbaijan
Stephen Turner
UK
Gianvincenzo Zuccotti
Italy