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.

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.   

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.   

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.

Eugene Arnold  L

United States

L. Eugene Arnold, MD, MEd, is Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Neuroscience and Vice-Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Michael H. Malloy

United States

Michael H. Malloy is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics/Division Neonatology and is the Emeritus Chair of Oslerian Education at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. He has over 40 years of clinical experience caring for infants in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Cody Arnold

United States

Cody Arnold MD, MSc is an associate professor in the Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine.