Associate Professor of Pediatrics at:

• University of Buenos Aires (U.B.A.)
• Medical Career of the University Institute of Hospital Italiano, Buenos Aires (IUHI)
• Post Graduate Training Program for Adult & Pediatric Gastroenterology at the Universidad del Salvador (USAL), Buenos Aires

 

Past President of LASPGHAN (2011- 2014)

FISPGHAN Secretary Treasurer (2012-2016)

President, FISPGHAN (2021-2024)

 

Professional interests: Food allergy, celiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease are my main areas of interest.

 

I am an author of 29 peer reviewed publications.  Trained multiple fellow from Argentina and other Latin American countries. Pioneered the introduction of pH probe and intraluminal impedance in Latin America.

Dr. Baumann is a subspecialist in pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology. He studied in Essen and Birmingham (GB), worked for six years as a clinician and scientist at Birmingham Children's Hospital (Consultant Pediatric Hepatologist).

In 2008 he was appointed to the W2 Chair of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Hannover Medical School. Focusing on the field of childhood liver diseases, in particular, rare metabolic diseases of the liver, autoimmune hepatitis, portal hypertension and liver transplantation.

Professor Baumann is Principal Investigator at the EnprEMA-recognized European Pediatric Liver Transplantation Network and leads the international ChilSFree study.

In 2012, the German Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine appointed him as a member of the working group on transplant medicine.

From 2010 to 2016, Professor Baumann was elected to the Hepatology Committee of the European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.

Since 2014, he is Associate Editor of the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and Liver Transplantation, specializing in pediatric hepatology.

In 2019, Professor Baumann was elected to the board of the European Liver and Intestinal Transplantation Association (ELITA).

Sanja Kolaček is chief of the Referral Center for Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition in the Children's Hospital Zagreb.

Prof. Kolaček is the current ESPGHAN President, and is/was also serving in different ruling and educational bodies of the ECCO, ESPEN, UEG and in various Croatian medical associations. Her editorial activities include being Associate Editor of the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (JPGN), and membership of the Advisory Board for the Journal of Crohn's and Colitis.

Her main clinical interests include chronic enteropathies and chronic intestinal failure, clinical nutrition and nutrition of healthy infants, while her present research activities are in the field of IBD, Coeliac disease, Probiotics and Disease-related malnutrition.

Associate Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at Boston Children’s Hospital.

She was previously the Division Chief of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center, where she also served as Vice-Chair of the Department of Pediatrics.

She is a graduate of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, NY, and completed her residency at the University of California in San Francisco, a post-graduate fellowship at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, and fellowships in Pediatric Gastroenterology and Health Services Research at Harvard University.

Dr. Lightdale received her Master's degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Benjamin D. Gold is a popular clinician with a loyal following of patients. Dr. Gold is one of those rare “quadruple threats” who can do it all: research, teach, provide excellent clinical care to his patients, and manage healthcare programs involving research or clinical-care delivery.

Dr. Gold received his medical degree from The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC. He completed an internship and a residency in Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, followed by a fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, where he also completed his research fellowship at the Research Institute as a Medical Research Council of Canada Research Fellow.

He went into private practice in 2009, joining GI Care for Kids after more than 17 years in academic medicine. Prior to joining CCDHC, Dr. Gold had an outstanding traditional academic career at Emory University where he had been an endowed Chair of Pediatric Gastroenterology, a tenured Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and the Director of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.

Dr. Gold is a national leader in the pursuit of critical questions regarding the epidemiology and pathobiology of acid-related diseases in children, in particular, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and other esophageal disease (i.e. Eosinophilic Esophagitis, EoE). He has been a key organizer and participant in all of the national and trans-Atlantic, clinical practice guidelines for treatment of pediatric H. pylori infection. He was former Medical Director of the Helicobacter pylori Laboratory at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, facilitated setting up anti-microbial resistance testing of H. pylori infections at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and has been involved in NIH-funded studies of the impact, transmission, and epidemiology of H. pylori in children living in the U.S., as well as in other countries, and the impact of this gastric pathogen in underserved populations in the world (Bolivia, Guatemala, and Tanzania).

In addition, 2005, he established the Aerodigestive Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and has been the Director of Quality for this multidisciplinary center that now follows almost 300 fragile, medically-complex children with Aerodigestive disease. He is the co-Director of GI Care for Kids site for the Improve Care Now Quality Improvement Collaborative which follows almost 1,100 children with IBD, and, is co-investigator on multiple national pediatric inflammatory bowel disease consortia as well as the evaluation of dietary approaches (i.e. specific carbohydrate diet; SCD) in the management of pediatric IBD. He was a member of the FDA panel establishing GRAS status for Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium probiotics, and he has been actively involved in characterizing the gut microflora and its relationship to diet and the development and management of IBD, as well as GI allergy and eosinophilic esophagitis, EoE. Dr. Gold has diligently served the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) in numerous capacities including being committee chair, being elected to counsel, and is currently the NASPGHAN President-elect.

Dr. Gold has published over 165 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 35 book chapters, and over 65 manuals, videos, webinars, teaching aids and other CME, CEU related enduring materials. Dr Gold is a sought-after lecturer on upper GI disease in children, as well as, is an international thought leader on pediatric esophageal disease (gastroesophageal reflux disease, GERD; eosinophilic esophagitis, EoE), Helicobacter pylori infection, as well as gut-microbial interactions leading to intestinal inflammation, allergy and immune-mediated disease, including pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis).

Finally, Dr. Gold has diligently served the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) in numerous capacities throughout his career, including being committee chair, being elected to counsel, and is the current president of NASPGHAN.

Doctor of Pediatrics, specialist in Gastroenterology and Pediatric Nutrology

Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the PUCRS

Pediatric Residency Preceptor at Moinhos de Vento Hospital, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Professor Kim, Kyung-mo (M.D., Ph.D.) form South Korea is the new president of APPSGHAN. Prof Kim is Bachelor of Medicine, Master of Medicine and Doctor of Medicine for the Seoul National University.

He is Assist Professor, Associate Professor, Professor in Pediatrics, UUCM AMC.

Clinical fellowship in Pediatrics, UUCM AMC. Clinical fellowship in Pediatrics, Seoul National University Hospital. Residency in Pediatrics, Seoul National University Hospital.

Dr. Suporn Treepongkaruna is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok. In her years of dedicated work, she has become an expert in pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology. Her research interests include functional GI disorders, IBD, and liver transplantation, and she has published several peer-reviewed papers on these topics.

Dr. Treepongkaruna also dedicated herself to the growth of the Ramathibodi Liver Transplantation Center, which she was a chairperson of between 2017 and 2019.

 

In 2017, Dr. Treeponkaruna became the President of the Thai Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology (TSPGH). She is not only active in the domestic scientific community but has also made significant contributions to pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology through her involvement in several international conferences. She organized the 14th APPSPGHAN Congress in 2018, which garnered attention and positive feedback. In the same year, she was nominated as the President of the APPSPGHAN. In her role, Dr. Treepongkaruna continues to shape the future of the society towards higher sustainability through new initiatives and promoting collaboration between member countries and partnering societies.