Core Team
Lead Researcher
![Diva De Leon Crutchlow CHI](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Diva-De-Leon-Crutchlow-CHI.jpg)
Name: Diva D. De León-Crutchlow, MD, MSCE
Title: Chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes and Director of the Congenital Hyperinsulinism Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
![Diva De Leon Crutchlow CHI](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Diva-De-Leon-Crutchlow-CHI.jpg)
Name: Diva D. De León-Crutchlow, MD, MSCE
Title: Chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes and Director of the Congenital Hyperinsulinism Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lead Clinician
![Paul Thornton](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Paul-Thornton-CHI.jpg)
Name: Paul Thornton, MB, BCh, MRCPI, DCh
Title: Medical Director of the Congenital Hyperinsulinism Center, Endocrine and Diabetes Program at Cook Children’s Medical Center
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
![Paul Thornton](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Paul-Thornton-CHI.jpg)
Name: Paul Thornton, MB, BCh, MRCPI, DCh
Title: Medical Director of the Congenital Hyperinsulinism Center, Endocrine and Diabetes Program at Cook Children’s Medical Center
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Patient Leader
![Julie Raskin CHI](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Julie-Raskin-CHI.jpg)
Name: Julie Raskin, MA
Title: Chief Executive Officer at Congenital Hyperinsulinism International
Location: Glen Ridge, New Jersey
![Julie Raskin CHI](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Julie-Raskin-CHI.jpg)
Name: Julie Raskin, MA
Title: Chief Executive Officer at Congenital Hyperinsulinism International
Location: Glen Ridge, New Jersey
CRN Administrator
![Jennifer Schmidt](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Jennifer-Schmidt-CHI.jpg)
Name: Jennifer Schmitt
Title: Chief Operating Officer at Congenital Hyperinsulinism International
Location: Glen Ridge, New Jersey
![Jennifer Schmidt](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Jennifer-Schmidt-CHI.jpg)
Name: Jennifer Schmitt
Title: Chief Operating Officer at Congenital Hyperinsulinism International
Location: Glen Ridge, New Jersey
CRN Project Manager
![Tai Pasquini](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Tai-Pasquini.jpg)
Name: Tai Pasquini, MPA, PhD
Title: Chief Research Officer at Congenital Hyperinsulinism International
Location: East Longmeadow, Massachusetts
![Tai Pasquini](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Tai-Pasquini.jpg)
Name: Tai Pasquini, MPA, PhD
Title: Chief Research Officer at Congenital Hyperinsulinism International
Location: East Longmeadow, Massachusetts
Medical/Scientific Members
![Amanda Ackermann](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Amanda-Ackermann.jpg)
Name: Amanda Ackermann, MD, PHD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist, Medical Director at Novo Nordisk, Clinical Development & Research
Location: Skillman, New Jersey
![Jean Baptiste Arnoux](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Jean-Baptiste-Arnoux.jpg)
Name: Jean Baptiste Arnoux, MD, MSc
Title: Pediatric Metabolic Hospital Practitioner at Necker University Hospital
Location: Paris, France
![Indi Banerjee](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Indi-Banerjee.jpg)
Name: Indi Banerjee, MBBS, MD, MRCPCH
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Clinical Lead for the Northern Congenital Hyperinsulinism Service
Location: Manchester, England
![Oliver Blankenstein](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Oliver-Blankenstein.jpg)
Name: Oliver Blankenstein, MD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist, Medical Director at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Location: Berlin, Germany
![Henrik Christesen](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Henrik-Christesen.jpg)
Name: Henrik Christesen, MD, PhD
Title: Consultant and Professor at Hans Christian Andersen Children’s Hospital, Odense University Hospital
Location: Odense, Denmark
![Louise Conwell](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Louise-Conwell.jpg)
Name: Louise Conwell, MBBS PGCert Med FRACP PhD
Title: Head of Children’s Health Queensland Clinical Unity Faculty of Medicine
Location: Queensland, Australia
![Antonia Dastamani](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Antonia-Dastamani.jpg)
Name: Antonia Dastamani, MD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
Location: London, United Kingdom
![Sarah Flanagan](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Sarah-Flanagan.jpg)
Name: Sarah Flanagan, PhD
Title: Professor of Genomic Medicine and Sir Henry Dale Fellow at University of Exeter Medical School
Location: Exeter, United Kingdom
![Claire Gilbert](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Clare-Gilbert.jpg)
Name: Clare Gilbert, RN
Title: Clinical Nurse Specialist at Great Ormond St Hospital
Location: London, England
![David Gillis](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/David-Gillis.jpg)
Name: David Gillis, MD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist at Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
![Theis Gondolf](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Theis_Gondolf.jpg)
Name: Theis Gondolf
Title: Medical Director at Zealand Pharma
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
![Davelyn Hood](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Davelyn-Hood.jpg)
Name: Davelyn Hood, MD, MBA
Title: Director and Head of Scientific & Patient Affairs at Rezolute
Location: Brownwood, Texas
![Jelena Ivkovic](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Jelena-Ivkovic-2.jpg)
Name: Jelena Ivkovic, MD
Title: Medical Director, Medical & Science at Zealand Pharma
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
![Jen Kalish](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Jen-Kalish.jpg)
Name: Jen Kalish, MD, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor of Genetic and Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
![Nino Kheladze](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Nino-Kheladze.jpg)
Name: Nino Kheladze, MD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist
Location: Tbilisi, Georgia
![Mansa Krishnamurthy](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Mansa-Krishnamurthy.jpg)
Name: Mansa Krishnamurthy, MD, MSc
Title: Pediatric Endocrinology Fellow at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
![Sebastian Kummer](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Sebastian-Kummer.jpg)
Name: Sebastian Kummer, MD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist at University Children’s Hospital Dusseldorf, Germany
Location: Dusseldorf, Germany
![Changhong Li](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Changhong-Li.jpg)
Name: Changhong Li, MD, PhD
Title: Associate Director at Nanjing Institute of Advanced Biotechnology and Life Science
Location: Jiangsu, China
![Raphael Del Roio Liberatore](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Raphael-Del-Roio-Liberatore.jpg)
Name: Raphael Del Roio Liberatore Jr, MD, PhD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist at Ribeirão Preto Medical School- São Paulo University
Location: Ribeirão Preto-SP Brazil
![Katherine Lord](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Katherine-Lord.jpg)
Name: Katherine Lord, MD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
![Seth Marks](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Seth-Marks.jpg)
Name: Seth Marks, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist at Children’s Hospital Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg and Associate Professor at University of Manitoba
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
![Heather McKnight](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Heather-McKnight.jpg)
Name: Heather McKnight, MSN, BSN, BA, CRNP
Title: Pediatric Nurse Practitioner at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
![Thomas Meissner](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Thomas-Meissner.jpg)
Name: Thomas Meissner, MD
Title: Deputy Director Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology at University Children’s Hospital Düsseldorf
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany
![Klaus Mohnike](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Klaus-Mohnike.jpg)
Name: Klaus Mohnike, MD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist, Professor at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Location: Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
![Kate Morgan](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Kate-Morgan-GOSH.jpg)
Name: Kate Morgan
Title: Pediatric Endocrinology Advanced Nurse, GOSH
Location: London, United Kingdom
![Erin Okawa](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Erin-Okawa.jpg)
Name: Erin Okawa, MD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist, Director of the Hyperinsulinism Center at UCLA/Mattel Children’s Hospital
Location: Los Angeles, California
![Jeff Roesler](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Jeff-Roesler.jpg)
Name: Jeff Roesler
Title: Vice President of New Product Planning at Rezolute, Inc.
Location: Paoli, Pennsylvania
![Elizabeth Rosenfeld](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Elizabeth-Rosenfeld.jpg)
Name: Elizabeth Rosenfeld, MD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
![Maria Salomon Estebanez](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Maria-Salomon-Estebanez.jpg)
Name: Maria Salomon Estebanez, MD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
![Senthil Senniappan](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Senthil-Senniappan.jpg)
Name: Senthil Senniappan, MD, FRCPCH, MSc(Diab), PhD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
Location: Liverpool, United Kingdom
![Pratik Shah](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Pratik-Shah.jpg)
Name: Pratik Shah, MB BS, DCH, MRCPCH, PhD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist at Barts Health NHS and Honorary Senior Lecturer at William Harvery Research
Location: London, United Kingdom
![Show Ling Shyng](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Show-Ling-Shyng.jpg)
Name: Show-Ling Shyng, PhD
Title: Professor of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry at Oregon Health & Science University
Location: Portland, Oregon
![Charles Stanley](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Charles-Stanley.jpg)
Name: Charles Stanley, MD
Title: Founder of the HI Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
![Lisa Truong](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Lisa-Truong.jpg)
Name: Lisa Truong, CPNP-PC
Title: Nurse Practitioner at Cook Children’s Medical Center
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
![Chris Worth](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Chris-Worth.jpg)
Name: Chris Worth
Title: Researcher and paediatric doctor at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
![Daphne Yau](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Daphne-Yau.jpg)
Name: Daphne Yau, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist, Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan
Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
![David Zangen](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/David-Zangen.jpg)
Name: David Zangen, MD
Title: Director of the division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Professor at Hadassah Hebrew University Medical center and Medical School
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Patient/Caregiver Members
![Sheila Bose](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Sheila-Bose.jpg)
Name: Sheila Bose
Title: Caregiver Representative, CHI Board of Trustees, Secretary
Location: Sharon, Massachusetts
![Helen Couch](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Helen-Couch.jpg)
Name: Dr. Helen Couch, MB BChir MA (Cantab) MRCPCH
Title: HI Parent, Paediatric Registrar at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Location: United Kingdom
![Sarah Dearman](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Sarah-Dearman.jpg)
Name: Sarah Dearman
Title: Trustee of The Children’s Hyperinsulinism Charity
Location: Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
![Michael Ferguson](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Michael-Ferguson.jpg)
Name: Michael Ferguson
Title: Caregiver Representative & Biopharma Strategist
Location: Toronto, Canada
![Leo Folsom](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Leo-Folsom.jpg)
Name: Leo Folsom, MPH
Title: Patient Representative
Location: Somerville, Massachusetts
![Ciara Foy](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Ciara-Foy.jpg)
Name: Ciara Foy
Title: Trustee of The Children’s Hyperinsulinism Charity
Location: United Kingdom
![Carla Germanos](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Carla-Germanos.jpg)
Name: Carla Germanos
Title: Caregiver Representative, Senior Legal Director Operations, Global Ethics & Compliance EMEA at Raytheon Technologies
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
![Janet Lee](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Janet-Lee.jpg)
Name: Janet Lee
Title: Caregiver Representative
Location: Brighton, United Kingdom
NEW
![Sandra Melo](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Sandra-Melo.jpg)
Name: Sandra Melo, PsyD
Title: Caregiver Representative
Location: Setubal, Portugal
![Cristina Pindado](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Cristina-Pindado.jpg)
Name: Cristina Pindado Gonzalez
Title: Caregiver Representative, President of AFHICO
Location: Barcelona, Spain
![Irene Promussas](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Irene-Promussas.jpg)
Name: Irene Promussas, PhD
Title: Caregiver Representative, Pharmacist, Lobby4kids
Location: Vienna, Austria
![Ulrike Seyfarth](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Ulrike-Seyfarth.jpg)
Name: Ulrike Seyfarth
Title: Caregiver Representative, President of Kongenitaler Hyperinsulinismus e.V.
Location: Berlin, Germany
![Lora Bartocci Van Arsdel](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Lora-Bartocci-Van-Arsdel.jpg)
Name: Lora (Bartocci) Van Arsdell, PsyD, LCSW
Title: Caregiver Representative
Location: Texas
Industry Members
![Hanmi](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Hanmi-CRN.jpg)
![Rezolute](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Rezolute-CRN.jpg)
![Zealand Pharma](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Zealand-CRN.jpg)
Advisors
![Sir Al Aynsley-Green](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Sir-Al-Aynsley-Green.jpg)
Name: Sir Al Aynsley-Green, MD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist; former President, British Medical Association; former Children’s Commissioner Consultant at Aynsley-Green Consulting
Location: Salisbury, United Kingdom
![Tricia Bhatti](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Tricia-Bhatti.jpg)
Name: Tricia Bhatti, MD
Title: Attending Pathologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
![Karen Cosgrove](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Karen-Cosgrove.jpg)
Name: Karen Cosgrove, BSc, PhD, MRSB
Title: Senior Lecturer, Co-Director DClinSci Life Sciences
PBL Lead, PGDip and MSc Physician, Associate Programme at University of Manchester
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
![Deborah Harris](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Deborah-Harris.jpg)
Name: Deborah Harris, PhD FCNZ
Title: Neonatal Nurse Practicioner, Senior Lecturer, Programme Director, Nursing Science Advanced Practice
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Practice, Victoria University of Wellington
Location: Kellburn, New Zealand
![Jeffrey Kaiser, MD](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Jeffrey-Kaiser.jpg)
Name: Jeff Kaiser, MD
Title: Chief of Neonatology at Hershey Penn State Medical Center
Location: Hershey, Pennsylvania
![Lisa States](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Lisa-States.jpg)
Name: Lisa States, MD
Title: Pediatric Radiologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
![Stu Weinzimer](https://congenitalhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Stu-Weinzimer.jpg)
Name: Stu Weinzimer, MD
Title: Professor of Pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine
Location: New Haven, Connecticut