Dawn M. Torrence Ireland founded CHERUBS - The Association of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Research, Awareness and Support in 1995. The world’s oldest and largest non-profit organization for CDH, it was renamed CDH International in 2017, with a more global focus on Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Research. Ms. Ireland is the current President of CDH International. She received her education at Duke University, manages the largest patient fuel natural history database for CDH, works with medical professionals and over 6200 patient families in 69 countries. Ms. Ireland also works with the National Institutes of Health NICHD as a Structural Birth Defects Liaison for the Gabriella Miller’s Kids First project, mentors several other charities, lobbies on Capitol Hill for better CDH and child health funding, is a rare disease advocate, co-authors research publications with several universities, has authored / co-authored 4 books on Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia and is a well season public speaker.

CDH Research, Patient Advocacy, CDH Awareness,Medical Terminology

Dr Jorge Enrique Moanack, Venezuelan. He is 43 years old. He trained as a doctor in Venezuela with degrees in general surgery as a first post grade and subsequently, Graduated in Urology, UCV (Caracas’s University Hospital) He Performed a fellowship in Endourology and minimal invasive surgery at the same hospital. He is the Member of the Venezuelan Society of Urology and also Member of the Pan American Trauma Society. He is currently developing as an Urologist with public and private practice focused primarily on advanced laparoscopic surgery, endourologycal surgery, green laser surgery, Endoscopic surgery, Robotic surgery as many other procedures. He performed more than 1200 surgeries since he graduated. Additionally he do activities with undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and coordinating and programming for teachers and surgical activities. He had long experience in personnel management and conflict resolution based on the principles of harmony, participation, communication and integration, as a key pillar for greater efficiency in a pleasant working environment, regularly attend national and international conferences for which he is always abreast of new procedures and techniques.

Minimal Invasive Surgery, Endourology,Green Laser Surgery,Laparoscopic Surgery,Robotic Surgery,

Dr. Manuel Wong Jaén. He is 39 years old.He obtained his degree as a surgeon in Mexico. Later a postgraduate degree in thoracic surgery and lung transplantation in Barcelona, Spain (Hospital Vall d'Hebron). And a doctoral degree in surgery and morphological sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.He is a member of the Mexican Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery, the European Respiratory Society, and the Spanish Society of Respiratory Pathology and Thoracic Surgery. He is currently assistant professor of general surgery, as well as full professor of thoracic surgery and surgeon of the Pulmonary Transplant team at the Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital of the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, in Monterrey, Mexico.

He also develops his private practice in this city, focused on minimally invasive thoracic surgery, tracheal pathology, endobronchial pathology and thoracic wall surgery and on the development of pulmonary transplantation in Mexico.

Dr Tarek Abdelkader is an assistant professor at Singapore Institute of Technology. He obtained his postdoc. and Ph.D. from Okayama university in Japan 2016 and 2014 respectively. He began his career as GP dentist in Egypt after obtaining the D.D.S. from Mansoura University 2006. After being more and more involved in implantology field he started his research in Japan to improve the retention of dental implants to the bone to avoid unnecessary implant failure. His research results were published in a number of reputable journals including BONE and he was awarded the MEXT scholarship during his doctoral course as well as JSPS scholarship during his postdoctoral work, both of which are very competitive programs for foreigners in Japan. He was also awarded the Global Research Promotion Award for Scientists from the Japan CCN Society.

His current research interests include osteoarthritis, Rehabilitation after Oral and Maxillofacial surgeries and improving angiogenesis around implant sites.

Dr. R K Sinha is a renowned senior Laparoscopic and Bariatric surgeon attached to Nanavati Hospital and Criticare Hospital (Mumbai, India), with a special interest in Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery including Bariatric and Hernia repair. He has received his MS degree (General Surgery) from Grant Medical College Mumbai in the year 2000. He has received training in Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery and Bariatric Surgery from Stanford Medical School (US, 2009) and Special Single Port Laparoscopic Surgery at The Royal Surrey County Hospital (UK, 2010). He is also trained in Robotic Surgery from Intuitive Surgicals, California. He is a fellow of International college of surgeons(FICS) and Indian association of Gastrointestinal Endo-surgeons(FIAGES). He is also a faculty at Obesity & Metabolic Surgeons Society of India (OSSI) and member of International Federation for Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic diseases (IFSO).

Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery

Currently, Deputy Head of the Department VI District Hospital of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery , Piekary Slaskie, Poland. Author of nearly 30 scientific papers. Participant, organizer and speaker at numerous scientific conferences on the international level. Participant of three scientific programs. Reviewer of scientific papers in 2 magazines.

Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery