Gary Nieman

United States

Gary is a Professor and Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Surgery at the Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y. He is also the Director of the Translational Critical Care Laboratory with a research focus on the pathogenesis and treatment of the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), ventilator induced lung injury (VILI) and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS).

Gary has over 140 publications and 5 patents. His main research focus is investigating the pathogenesis of ARDS and the role of ventilator induced lung injury (VILI) in this pathogenesis. Gary’s work has been instrumental in identify the mechanism of dynamic alveolar inflation using an innovative in vivo microscope to observe subpleural alveoli in real time during mechanical ventilation. Their studies have shown that alveoli open and collapse as a viscoelastic system such that the Time of the mechanical breath at both inspiration and expiration is critical to keep the acutely injured lung open and stable. Gary and his collaborators have shown that their Time Controlled Adaptive Ventilation (TCAV) method to set and adjust the APRV mode to be very lung protective.

Miles Weinberger

United States

Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa; currently Visiting Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Rady Children’s Hospital, University of California San Diego.

Board Certifications in Pediatrics, Allergy & Clinical Immunology, and Pediatric Pulmonology.

A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, pediatric training at the University of California in San Francisco. Two years in a research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. Fellowships in Pediatric Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Pulmonology, and Clinical Pharmacology at the National Jewish Hospital and University of Colorado.

Dr. Weinberger began the Pediatric Allergy & Pulmonary Division at the University of Iowa in 1975 and chaired it for most of his 40-year tenure there.

Michael Freemark

United States

Michael Freemark is the Atkins Professor of Pediatrics and former Chief of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology at Duke University Medical Center.  In addition to directing a research laboratory focusing on the endocrinology of pregnancy and islet beta cell development, he and his colleagues have played leading roles in the fields of clinical pediatric obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, and severe acute malnutrition.  He is the editor of the textbook Pediatric obesity: etiology, pathogenesis, and treatment (Springer Humana Press), now in its second edition.   

Rogelio Perez-D'Gtregorio

United States

Rogelio Perez-D'Gregorio, MD, MS, is a Research Assistant Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology, at the University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester, New York. He is and Obstetrician and Reproducive Toxicolgist as weel as the Director of the National Lactation Study Center, University of Rochester, Associate Director of the MotherToBaby UR Medicine, a Teratogen Information Service that provides counseling to pregnant and lactating women and their families as well health care providers. He is Clinical Coordinator of the Finger Lakes Children's Environmental Health Center.

Bernard A Cohen

United States

Dr. Cohen is Professor of Pediatrics and Dermatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  He is Pediatric Dermatology Editor for Contemporary Pediatrics and a member of the Transitional Retirement Program focusing on teaching, clinical studies, and publications with students and residents.