2025 Speakers/Moderators

Invited Speakers and Moderators

Gregor Andelfinger, MD PhD, CHU Sainte-Justine
Anton Bennett, PhD, Yale University
Jaishri Blakeley, MD, John Hopkins Medicine
Miriam Bornhorst, MD, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Pau Castel, PhD, NYU Langone Health
Katherine Chatfield, MD PhD, Children’s Hospital Colorado
Alessandro De Luca, PhD, CSS-Mendel Institute, Italy
Abdul Ekadri, MD, Children’s Wisconsin
John Fortunato, MD, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Bruce Gelb, MD, Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York
Anne Goriely, PhD, University of Oxford
Tamar Green, MD, Stanford University
Karen Gripp, MD, Nemours Children’s Health
Fabrice Jaffre, PhD, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute
Maija Kiuru, MD PhD, UC Davis
Christian Kratz, MD, Hannover Medical School, Germany
Danielle Lambert, DClinPsych, University College Hospital, London
Yong-Sook Lee, PhD, Seoul National University
Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS, UC San Francisco
Gina Ney, MD PhD, NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics
Jonathan Payne, DPsych, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Australia
Rene Pierpont, PhD, University of Minnesota
Nancy Ratner, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s
Suma Shankar, MD, PhD, UC Davis
Sarah Sheppard, MD PhD MSTR, NICHD
Keir Shiels, MA MB BChir MRCPCH FAcadMEd, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
David Stevenson, MD, Stanford University
Doug Stewart, MD, NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics
Marco Tartaglia, PhD, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Italy
Dagmar Tiemens, PhD Candidate & Parent Advocate,
Marielle Yohe, MD PhD, NCI Center for Cancer Research