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SONIR R. ANTONINI

Professor Sonir R. Antonini is the Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at the Ribeirão Preto Medical School of Medicine - University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.

He studied Medicine at Federal University of Santa Maria - Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and did his medical residency in Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology at Ribeirão Preto Medical School. His PhD on the Genetics of Corticotrophic Tumors from Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo was followed by Post-doctoral study on the Genetics of Adrenal Diseases, a the University of Montréal - Laboratory of Endocrine Pathophysiology – Hôtel-Dieu under Prof. André Lacroix.

A Translational Researcher in endocrine diseases with focus on adrenal, neuroendocrine and developmental diseases, he is strongly motivated and committed to undergraduate and graduate medical education, including his role as Supervisor of Master in Science and PhD students. He has strong experience in research grant coordination and co-ordination of a Laboratory of Molecular Endocrinology. He is a Lecturer at National and International Scientific Meetings.

Prof. Antonini is actively involved in the Latin American Society of Pediatric Endocrinology (SLEP) as coordinator of the Continuous Education Committee, including the organization of the Summer and Winter Schools. He is one the Directors of the regional chapter (São Paulo state) of the Brazilian Endocrine Society.

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STEVEN G. WAGUESPACK

Steven G. Waguespack, MD is a Professor in the Department of Endocrine Neoplasia and Hormonal Disorders at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX, USA. A native of Louisiana (USA), Dr. Waguespack graduated summa cum laude in 1990 from Loyola University in New Orleans, where he also participated in the presidential scholars honor program. He graduated with honors in 1994 from the University of Texas-Houston Medical School Houston (now known as the McGovern Medical School at UT Health) and subsequently pursued training in internal medicine/pediatrics at Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis. He completed a combined adult and pediatric endocrinology fellowship at Indiana University in 2002 and is board certified in both subspecialties. Since 2002, Dr. Waguespack has been on the faculty at MD Anderson Cancer Center and is recognized as one of "America's Top Doctors for Cancer" in endocrinology. His major clinical and research interests are thyroid cancer, hereditary endocrine tumor syndromes, and pituitary tumors. He is an active member of several professional societies (American Thyroid Association, Endocrine Society, and Pediatric Endocrine Society), serves on the medical advisory council of ThyCa (Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association, Inc.), and has participated in the Thyroid Carcinoma Panel of the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. Furthermore, he served as a member of the ATA task force that revised the medullary thyroid cancer guidelines in 2015 and was also a co-chair of the inaugural 2015 ATA guidelines for pediatric thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer.

FRANCESCA ANNAN

I qualified as a dietitian in Cardiff, UK in 1990, and completed an MSc in Sport & Exercise Nutrition in 2013. I currently work as Clinical Specialist Paediatric/Adolescent Diabetes Dietitian at University College London Hospitals having previously been the lead Paediatric Diabetes Dietitian at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool.  In addition to working alongside MDT colleagues in diabetes clinics I run a specialist exercise and diabetes management clinic. 

Previous roles and expereince include teaching post graduate Masters programmes in diabetes management and paediatric dietetics,  I was a member of the The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Guideline development group for the Diabetes in Children Guideline (NG18) published in 2015. I have been a member of the JDRF Peak expert group and was part of the writing group for the consensus paper on Exercise and Type 1 Diabetes Management published in Lancet, Diabetes & Endocrinology May 2017

I am currently a HCP member of the International Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD) Advisory Council and am involved in the writing of ISPAD consensus guideline chapters due to be published in 2018. 

BILL E. RUSSELL

Dr. Bill Russell is a graduate of the University of Michigan (1972) and Harvard Medical School (1976). He completed a residency in Pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric endocrinology at the Massachusetts General Hospital (1979, 1982) as well as postdoctoral training at the  University of North Carolina (1982-1984). He then joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School at the Massachusetts General Hospital.  (1984-1990). He moved to Vanderbilt University in 1990 and became Director of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes in 1999. The Children’s Diabetes Program at Vanderbilt cares for over 2800 children with diabetes. From 1982 to 2017 his laboratory focused on the role of growth factors in the regeneration of mammalian liver. He is the Principal Investigator of the Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet Clinical Center at Vanderbilt and study PI for the Abatacept T1D prevention trial. In 2009 and 2010 he was Team Doctor for Team Type 1, an all-diabetic cycling team, as they won and set course records on the 3,000 mile Race Across America.

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