CHI Collaborative Research Network Council Members – Congenital Hyperinsulinism International

Core Team

Lead Researcher
Diva De Leon Crutchlow CHI

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

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

Name: Julie Raskin, MA
Title: Chief Executive Officer at Congenital Hyperinsulinism International
Location: Glen Ridge, New Jersey

CRN Administrator
Jennifer Schmidt

Name: Jennifer Schmitt
Title: Chief Operating Officer at Congenital Hyperinsulinism International
Location: Glen Ridge, New Jersey

CRN Project Manager

Name: Tai Pasquini, MPA, PhD
Title: Chief Research Officer at Congenital Hyperinsulinism International
Location: East Longmeadow, Massachusetts

Medical/Scientific Members

Name: Amanda Ackermann, MD, PHD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist, Medical Director at Novo Nordisk, Clinical Development & Research
Location: Skillman, New Jersey

Name: Jean Baptiste Arnoux, MD, MSc
Title: Pediatric Metabolic Hospital Practitioner at Necker University Hospital
Location: Paris, France

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

Name: Oliver Blankenstein, MD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist, Medical Director at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Location: Berlin, Germany

Name: Henrik Christesen, MD, PhD
Title: Consultant and Professor at Hans Christian Andersen Children’s Hospital, Odense University Hospital
Location: Odense, Denmark

Name: Louise Conwell, MBBS PGCert Med FRACP PhD
Title: Head of Children’s Health Queensland Clinical Unity Faculty of Medicine
Location: Queensland, Australia

Name: Antonia Dastamani, MD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
Location: London, United Kingdom

Name: Sarah Flanagan, PhD
Title: Professor of Genomic Medicine and Sir Henry Dale Fellow at University of Exeter Medical School
Location: Exeter, United Kingdom

Name: Clare Gilbert, RN
Title: Clinical Nurse Specialist at Great Ormond St Hospital
Location: London, England

Name: David Gillis, MD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist at Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital
Location: Jerusalem, Israel

Name: Theis Gondolf
Title: Medical Director at Zealand Pharma
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

Name: Davelyn Hood, MD, MBA
Title: Director and Head of Scientific & Patient Affairs at Rezolute
Location: Brownwood, Texas

Name: Jelena Ivkovic, MD
Title: Medical Director, Medical & Science at Zealand Pharma
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

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

Name: Nino Kheladze, MD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist
Location: Tbilisi, Georgia

Name: Mansa Krishnamurthy, MD, MSc
Title: Pediatric Endocrinology Fellow at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio

Name: Sebastian Kummer, MD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist at University Children’s Hospital Dusseldorf, Germany
Location: Dusseldorf, Germany

Name: Changhong Li, MD, PhD
Title: Associate Director at Nanjing Institute of Advanced Biotechnology and Life Science
Location: Jiangsu, China

Name: Raphael Del Roio Liberatore Jr, MD, PhD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist at Ribeirão Preto Medical School- São Paulo University
Location: Ribeirão Preto-SP Brazil

Name: Katherine Lord, MD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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

Name: Heather McKnight, MSN, BSN, BA, CRNP
Title: Pediatric Nurse Practitioner at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Name: Thomas Meissner, MD
Title: Deputy Director Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology at University Children’s Hospital Düsseldorf
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany

Name: Klaus Mohnike, MD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist, Professor at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Location: Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Name: Kate Morgan
Title: Pediatric Endocrinology Advanced Nurse, GOSH
Location: London, United Kingdom

Name: Erin Okawa, MD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist, Director of the Hyperinsulinism Center at UCLA/Mattel Children’s Hospital
Location: Los Angeles, California

Name: Jeff Roesler
Title: Vice President of New Product Planning at Rezolute, Inc.
Location: Paoli, Pennsylvania

Name: Elizabeth Rosenfeld, MD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Name: Maria Salomon Estebanez, MD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom

Name: Senthil Senniappan, MD, FRCPCH, MSc(Diab), PhD
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
Location: Liverpool, United Kingdom

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

Name: Show-Ling Shyng, PhD
Title: Professor of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry at Oregon Health & Science University
Location: Portland, Oregon

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

Name: Lisa Truong, CPNP-PC
Title: Nurse Practitioner at Cook Children’s Medical Center
Location: Fort Worth, Texas

Name: Chris Worth
Title: Researcher and paediatric doctor at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom

Name: Daphne Yau, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Title: Pediatric Endocrinologist, Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan
Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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

Name: Sheila Bose
Title: Caregiver Representative, CHI Board of Trustees, Secretary
Location: Sharon, Massachusetts

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

Name: Sarah Dearman
Title: Trustee of The Children’s Hyperinsulinism Charity
Location: Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Name: Michael Ferguson
Title: Caregiver Representative & Biopharma Strategist
Location: Toronto, Canada

Name: Leo Folsom, MPH
Title: Patient Representative
Location: Somerville, Massachusetts

Name: Ciara Foy
Title: Trustee of The Children’s Hyperinsulinism Charity
Location: United Kingdom

Name: Carla Germanos
Title: Caregiver Representative, Senior Legal Director Operations, Global Ethics & Compliance EMEA at Raytheon Technologies
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Name: Janet Lee
Title: Caregiver Representative
Location: Brighton, United Kingdom

NEW

Name: Sandra Melo, PsyD
Title: Caregiver Representative
Location: Setubal, Portugal

Name: Cristina Pindado Gonzalez
Title: Caregiver Representative, President of AFHICO
Location: Barcelona, Spain

Name: Irene Promussas, PhD
Title: Caregiver Representative, Pharmacist, Lobby4kids
Location: Vienna, Austria

Name: Ulrike Seyfarth
Title: Caregiver Representative, President of Kongenitaler Hyperinsulinismus e.V.
Location: Berlin, Germany

Name: Lora (Bartocci) Van Arsdell, PsyD, LCSW
Title: Caregiver Representative
Location: Texas

Industry Members

Advisors

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

Name: Tricia Bhatti, MD
Title: Attending Pathologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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

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

Name: Jeff Kaiser, MD
Title: Chief of Neonatology at Hershey Penn State Medical Center
Location: Hershey, Pennsylvania

Name: Lisa States, MD
Title: Pediatric Radiologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Name: Stu Weinzimer, MD
Title: Professor of Pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine
Location: New Haven, Connecticut