Philip Spiller

United States

Philip Spiller retired from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2014.  During his tenure he served as Director of FDA’s Office of Seafood, where he led the development of preventive safety controls for seafood processing (known as “Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point”).  He also led the development of an assessment that estimated “net effects” from eating seafood during pregnancy.  Net effects took into account the total contents of fish, including both nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids and methylmercury.  FDA’s net effects concept was adopted in 2010 by an Expert Consultation convened by the WHO and FAO.   

Richard M. Kostrzewa

United States

 Prof. Kostrzewa has worked in research for 50 years, having trained Doctoral- and Post-Doctoral-students and Visiting Scientists. He’s authored 200+ publications, he has an H-Index of 38, and 6,500 citations. He is listed in “Top Neuroscience Rankings” in the USA. Through collaboration and more than 70 co-authored papers with colleagues at the Silesian Medical Univ in Katowice Poland, he was awarded an honorary Doctoral Degree, Dr. h.c. He is co-Founding Editor and served 25 years as Editor-in-Chief of the int’l journal Neurotoxicity Research. He likewise was co-Founder / President / Treasurer / Secretary – sequentially – of the int’l Neurotoxicity Society

Jorge Sales Marques

Portugal

Jorge Sales Marques is pediatrician, with subspecialties in pediatric endocrinology, medical genetics and metabolic diseases. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto. He received praise from the Portuguese and Macau Government for his work. He was Director of Pediatrics in Macau and Vila Nova de Gaia. He was a speaker at more than 270 meetings in different countries. He has published more than 150 articles. He won a total of 34 awards in Portugal and abroad. He published 8 books. He has Fellowship of the European Academy of Clinical Leadership. He is currently Clinical Director at Hospital Cuf Trindade.

Raed Mualem

Israel

Dr. Raed Mualem is Head of the Educational Neuroscience (Eco-Neurobiology) and Brain Development Research Group at Oranim Academic College of Education and a Research Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities at the University of Haifa, Israel. His research focuses on the interaction between environment, brain development, learning, stress, and child development, integrating neuroscience, education, and public health. His work develops the econeurobiological model, which examines how environmental factors shape brain development, learning, and child well-being across educational and community settings.

Young J. Juhn

United States

Dr. Young J. Juhn, MD, MPH, is a board-certified pediatrician and clinical informatician and a Professor of Pediatrics at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. He serves as Research Chair of the Mayo Clinic Health System, Co-Director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Clinical and Translational Science, and Director of the Precision Population Science Lab. His research focuses on asthma epidemiology, computational phenotyping using artificial intelligence, digital biomarkers, and the influence of socioeconomic environment on health outcomes, including development of the HOUSES index. This work was funded by the National Institutes of Health (R01 HL126667; R21 AI116839-01; R21 AI142702).