Scientific and Medical Advisors

Sir Al Aynsley-Green, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist; former President, British Medical Association; former Children’s Commissioner
Salisbury, United Kingdom

Indi Banerjee, MD

Pediatric Endocrinologist, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital; Clinical Lead, Northern Congenital Hyperinsulinism Service
Manchester, United Kingdom

Oliver Blankenstein, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist, Medical Director, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Henrik Christesen, MD, PhD
Pediatric Endocrinologist, Consultant and Professor, Hans Christian Andersen Children’s Hospital, Odense University Hospital
Odense, Denmark

Diva De Leon-Crutchlow, MD, MSCE
Chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Director of the Congenital Hyperinsulinism Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Louise S. Conwell, MBBS, PGCert MEd, FRACP, PhD
Pediatric Endocrinologist, Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia; Head, Children’s Health Queensland Clinical Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia

Antonia Dastamani, MD, PhD
Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Lead of the Congenital Hyperinsulinism NHS Highly Specialised Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
London, United Kingdom

Husseyin Demirbilek, MD
Consultant Pediatric Endocrinologist, Hacettepe University Ihsan Dogramaci Children’s Hospital
Ankara, Turkey

Susann Empting, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist, Professor at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Magdeburg, Germany

David Gillis, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist; Associate Clinical Professor, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital
Jerusalem, Israel

Professor Khalid Hussain, MBChB MD MRCP MRCPCH MSc

Division Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology, Sidra Medical & Research Center
Doha, Qatar

Jeffrey R. Kaiser, MD, MA
Professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology; Chief of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Penn State Health Children’s Hospital
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States

Jennifer M. Kalish, MD, PhD
Attending Physician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Assistant Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Nino Kheladze, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist, M. Iashvili Children’s Central Hospital. Evex Medical Corporation
Tbilisi, Georgia

Mansa Krishnamurthy, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Endocrinology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Sebastian Kummer, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist, The University Hospital of Düsseldorf (UKD)
Düsseldorf, Germany

Changhong Li, MD, PhD
Associate Director, Nanjing Institute of Advanced Biotechnology and Life Science

Jiangsu, China

Raphael Del Roio Liberatore Jr, MD, PhD
Pediatric Endocrinologist, Ribeirão Preto Medical School- São Paulo University
São Paulo, Brazil

Katherine Lord, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Seth Marks, MD, MSc
Pediatric Endocrinologist at Children’s Hospital Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg; Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba
Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada

Klaus Mohnike, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg
Magdeburg, Germany

Erin R. Okawa, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist, Director of the Hyperinsulinism Center at UCLA/Mattel Children’s Hospital
Los Angeles, California, United States

Elizabeth Rosenfeld, MD, MSCE
Pediatric Endocrinologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Maria Salomon Estebanez, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital
Manchester, United Kingdom

Senthil Senniappan, MD, FRCPCH, MSc(Diab), PhD
Pediatric Endocrinologist, Clinical Director for Endocrinology, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
Liverpool, United Kingdom

Pratik Shah, MB BS DCH MRCPCH PhD
Pediatric Endocrinologist, Barts Health NHS, Honorary Senior Lecturer at William Harvery Research Institute
London, United Kingdom

Mark Sperling, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Hospital; Chair Emeritus of Pediatrics, The University of Pittsburgh
New York, New York, United States

Charles Stanley, MD
Pediatric Endocrinologist, Founder of the HI Center, CHOP; Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Lisa States, MD
Pediatric Radiologist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Paul Thornton, MD MB BCh MRCPI DCh
Pediatric Endocrinologist, Medical Director of the Congenital Hyperinsulinism Center, Endocrine and Diabetes Program, Cook Children’s Medical Center
Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Lisa Truong, CPNP-PC
Nurse Practitioner, Cook Children’s Medical Center
Fort Worth, Texas, United States

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

David Zangen, MD
Senior Pediatrician, Director of the Pediatric Endocrinology Unit in the Department of Pediatrics, Professor; Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center and Medical School
Jerusalem, Israel

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