Egidio Barbi (MD; PhD)
Dr. Egidio Barbi, renowned pediatrician with degrees from University of Trieste and Udine, excels in pediatric emergency medicine, sedation, and allergology. Author, speaker, and director of Pediatric Clinics at University of Trieste.
Amy Baxter (MD)
Amy Baxter MD is an Associate Clinical Professor at Augusta University, and CEO of Pain Care Labs, founded in 2006 to eliminate unnecessary pain.
Maala Bhatt (MD; MSc)
Maala is a pediatric emergency physician and the Director of Emergency Research at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa in Canada.
Michael BRACKHAHN (MD)
Since 2010 Michael Brackhahn is Consultant in the Department of Pediatric Anesthesia, Pediatric Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine Department at the Pediatric Hospital “Auf der Bult”, Hanover, Germany.
Gabriel Brändle (MD)
Gabriel Brändle is a pediatric emergency doctor with training in hypnosis and a passion for non-pharmacological pain and anxiety management.
Lucy Bray (RN; MD; PhD)
Lucy Bray is a children’s nurse who has worked within acute children’s nursing for over twenty five years, specialising in children’s procedures and surgery. She works as a Professor in Child Health Literacy in the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Medicine at Edge Hill University in the UK.
Silvia Bressan (MD)
Dr. Silvia Bressan is a pediatric emergency physician and assistant professor at the University of Padova. She completed her training in pediatric emergency medicine at the Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel and at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne Australia.
Giorgio Cozzi (MD)
Pediatrician at the Emergency Department of the Institute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS Burlo Garofolo of Trieste, Italy (2014-2024).
Rose-Marie Daly
Dr Rose-Marie Daly is a Specialist in Paediatric Dentistry in private practice in Dublin. She graduated from University College Cork in 2003 and completed specialty training in Paediatric Dentistry in Leeds in the UK in 2009.
Joscha de Boever (MSc)
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Jurgen de Graaff (MD; PHD)
Jurgen is an anesthesiologist (2008) and epidemiologist (2004). He studied Medicine at the University of Maastricht (1996) and obtained his PhD at the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam (2003) on the thesis entitled: “The use of microcirculatory techniques in the assessment of pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of critical limb ischemia”.
Inge de Vlieger (MSc)
Inge de Vlieger has worked as a psychologist (GZ-psycholoog iot specialist) in Amsterdam OLVG Hospital since 2009. Her study background is Child and Adolescent Psychology as well as Neuropsychology at University of Amsterdam (2009). She is also part of research in the AMICA study, neurocognitive follow-up study for premature children.
SOPHIE EBBELER (MSc)
Sophie Ebbeler, a psychologist (GZ-psychologist in training for specialist) at Haaglanden Medisch Centrum since 2013, specializes in child and adolescent psychology from Leiden University. She treats medical trauma and functional disorders using EMDR and hypnotherapy.
Eric Fleegler (MD; PhD)
Eric Fleegler, MD MPH is a pediatric emergency physician and health services researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Stefan Friedrichsdorf (MD; PhD)
Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD, FAAP is the Elisa and Mark Stad Professor of Pediatric Pain Medicine, Palliative Care and Integrative Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine at the Benioff Children’s Hospitals in Oakland and San Francisco, California, United States.
ŞÜKRÜ GENCO (MD)
Şükrü Genco (Turkey, 1968) served as a pediatrician and several chair positions at OLVG Hospital in Amsterdam until 2023. He is the Congress co-Director for PROSA conferences and holds positions as Chairman of the foundation for pediatric sedation NL. He has extensive clinical experience in pediatric procedural sedations and collaborates in the development of nationwide guidelines in this field.
Julia Höffe (MD)
Julia Höffe, a pediatrician specializing in Pediatric Emergency Medicine from Montreal, Canada, serves as Deputy Medical Director at Inselspital Bern's Pediatric Emergency Department since 2016. She directs EPALS courses and focuses on Pediatric Sedation and Analgesia research. She's a member of Swiss pediatric societies.
Zeev Kain (MD; PhD)
Dr. Kain is a Chancellor’s Professor, an anesthesiologist and pediatrician who has an extensive background in transformational management in hospitals and operating rooms. He previously served as the Dean of Clinical Operations and Chair of Anesthesiology at UC Irvine Health and Professor and Chief of Children’s Anesthesia at Yale University.
Linda Kersten (MSC)
Linda Kersten started her career of teaching children with special needs. Wanting to do more in the field of psychology, she started to at the Radboud University of Nijmegen. After graduation in 2009, she is working as a health care psychologist (GZ-psycholoog) and cognitive behavioural therapist at ‘Maasziekenhuis Pantein’, the Netherlands.
Gigi Khonyongwa-Fernandez (Parent & Experience Expert)
Gigi Khonyongwa-Fernandez, a mother of four angel babies, is an accredited Professional Coach and founder of GKF Coaching and Consulting. She specializes in leadership, trauma-informed coaching, and NICU/maternal-infant health.
Baruch KRAUSS (MD; EdM)
Baruch S. Krauss is a pediatrician and emergency physician at Boston Children's Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
Felix Kreier (MD; PhD)
Felix Kreier MD/PhD (Germany, 1967) is a pediatrician at OLVG hospital Amsterdam, with special interest in Emergency Pediatric Medicine. He graduated in Medicine 2012 at Amsterdam Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam.
Felix is instructor for procedural sedation at the Foundation for Pediatric Sedation NL.
Pierre Kuhn (MD; PhD)
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PIET LEROY (MD; PHD; MSC)
Piet Leroy (Belgium 1969), MD, PhD, MSc is a senior consultant in pediatric critical care and director of the Pediatric Procedural Sedation Unit at Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands. He is a professor in procedural sedation and analgesia in children (PROSA chair) at the School of Health Professions Education at Maastricht University and graduated in 2017as a Master in Health Professions Education at the Maastricht School of Health Professions Education.
Mohamed MAHMOUD (MD)
He has held a faculty position at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center for the past 14 years, serving as Director of Radiology Anesthesia and Sedation for 7 years. This section delivers over 4000 -5000 anesthetic or sedation cases each year and consists of 12 faculty.
Elaine Meyer
Elaine C. Meyer, PhD, RN, MBE is a child and adolescent psychiatric nurse, clinical psychologist, and bioethicist. She is senior attending psychologist at Boston Children's Hospital, faculty at the Center for Bioethics, and associate professor of psychology (psychiatry) at Harvard Medical School.
Marijke Mulder (MSC)
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Barry M. Prizant (PhD; CCC-SLP)
Barry M. Prizant is recognized as among the world’s leading scholars on autism and neurodiversity, and as an innovator of respectful, person- and family-centered approaches in supporting neurodivergent individuals.
Mark Roback (MD)
Mark G. Roback, MD, is Visiting Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Section Head of Emergency Medicine at Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHCO). In addition to his clinical duties, Dr. Roback oversees the clinical and academic work of 180 faculty who care for over 200,00 ill and injured children each year in 7 emergency departments (ED) and urgent care sites across central Colorado; serving children in Colorado and the 7-state region.
Cyril SAHYOUN (MD)
Cyril Sahyoun is an attending physician at the Children's Hospital of Geneva. He attended medical school at Georgetown University, Residency at Columbia University's Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian and Fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital, where he developed clinical expertise in procedural sedation, anxiolysis and analgesia.
Eva SCHAFFRATH (MD; PhD)
Eva Schaffrath, MD is a consultant anaesthesiology subspecialised in paediatric anaesthesia at the MosaKids children’s hospital at the University of Maastricht.
Linda Schuiten (MSc)
She works as a nurse practitioner at the pediatric ward in a teaching hospital in Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Here job is to take care of children who are anxious, are in pain or need procedural sedation.
Jette Led Sørensen (MD; MMEd; PhD)
Jette Led Sørensen, Professor in Interprofessional Education at Copenhagen University & Mary Elizabeth’s Hospital Rigshospitalet. Specializes in ObGyn, medical education, and interprofessional collaboration.
Grant Stuart (MD; MSc)
Dr Grant Stuart MBChB, FRCA is a consultant paediatric anaesthetist at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation trust.
Anna Taddio (MSc; PhD)
Dr. Anna Taddio is a Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto, and Senior Associate Scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.
Eveline Terwindt
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Vera Tomassen-de Waal (Parent & Experience Expert)
Vera Tomassen is the proud mom of 2 daughters. Her youngest is a special needs child but remains undiagnosed. Vera is also a freelance (copy)writer, blogger and public speaker. She is the founder of ‘Mantelmama’, a Dutch online platform for families with special needs children.
Sharron van den Berg (MSc)
Sharron Van den Berg is a pediatric Nurse Practitioner (NP) in OLVG hospital, Amsterdam The Netherlands. She provides procedural sedation in the pediatric departement and emergency departement for pediatric patients. Sharron has special interest in non-farmalogical techniques such as Virtual Reality and medical hypnosis.
Philip van Haren (MSc)
I am Philip van Haren, a Physician Assistant in Pediatric Medicine at the Amalia Children's Hospital, part of Radboudumc in Nijmegen.
Koen Vanhonsebrouck (MSC)
Koen Vanhonsebrouck finished nursing school in 1997 and started his career at the University Hospital of Leuven in Belgium as a nurse in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).
Arine Vlieger (MD; PhD)
Arine Vlieger MD/PhD works as a pediatrician at the St Antonius Hospital Utrecht, NL. She has a special interest in the use of hypnotic language and hypnosis in the prevention and treatment of pain and anxiety. She is the founder of the Dutch Foundation for Hypnosis in Children.
Michèle VRANKEN (MSc)
Her whole career she has been working with children and since 2015 as nurse practitioner for the pediatric sedation and analgesia team.
Her mission is to create an environment where children and their beloved ones can feel safe and even relaxed, in order to reduce their stress and anxiety levels as much as possible. Children coming back for treatment with a smile on their face make her feel happy.
Kelsey Miller (MD)
Dr. Kelsey Miller is a pediatric emergency medicine physician and member of the pediatric sedation service at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Vanessa Olbrecht (MD)
Dr. Olbrecht is the Chair of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware, and a Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University.
Lars Mommers (DR)
Lars Mommers is a consultant anesthesiologist at the Maastricht University Medical Centre. After completing his initial training in anesthesiology, he worked in prehospital emergency care in Brisbane and Townsville (Australia) and studied aeromedical retrieval at James Cook University (Australia).
Laura Mitchell (DR)
Laura Mitchell, CCLS is a Child Life Specialist, Senior Staff at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware where she has been on staff for 23 years.
Anne Stormorken (DR)
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Pradip Kamat (DR)
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Mary Landrigan-Ossar (DR)
Dr. Landrigan-Ossar received her MD and PhD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine/City University of New York. She completed anesthesia residency at Mount Sinai, and her fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Corrie Chumpitazi (DR)
Dr. Corrie Chumpitazi is Professor of Pediatrics at Duke School of Medicine board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine. She is Division Chief of Emergency Medicine and co-manages the Sedation Unit.
Martien Humblet (DR)
Martien Humblet, MD, pediatric intensive care doctor at MosaKids children’s hospital. PhD candidate in Medical Education at SHE (School Health professions Education)
Brenda Kantering (DR)
Brenda Kantering is a pediatric anesthesiologist at the MosaKids children’s hospital at the University of Maastricht. She is part of the simulation team for the Department of Anesthesiology and provided the simulation for the 2022 PROSA.