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.

• 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.

• MSEF Chair Professor in Medicine and Professor in Paediatrics, M Kandiah Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Selangor, Malaysia.
• Honorary Professor in Paediatrics, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• Graduated from Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Trained in University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur as well as Children’s Hospitals in London and Birmingham, UK. He was also a Commonwealth Scholar and a Fulbright Scholar.
• Practicing pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition for more than 30 years. Main research interest is pediatric inflammatory bowel disease, neonatal and childhood liver disease, and childhood nutrition.
• Edited 4 textbooks in general paediatrics and paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition.
• He is a past President of College of Paediatrics, Academy of Medicine of Malaysia (2006-2011). He was the Secretary General of Asia Pacific Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (APSPGHAN; 2023-2024).
• Elected as Fellow of Academy of Sciences, Malaysia in 2016.

• 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.

• Director & HOD Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Liver Transplantation; Incharge Pediatrics at Medanta Medicity – Gurgaon (Delhi NCR), India

• Advisor to National Authority  of India
• Advisor to National Board of Examinations (India)
• Academic council member of Indian College of Pediatricians
• National coordinator : Indian Academy of Pediatrics – Women’s Wings  North Zone

Past Posts

• Executive member of Central IAP  2020 ( an organization of 30,000 pediatrics doctors)
• Founder Chairperson of Women Wings of Global Association of Physicians of Indian Origin
• National Convener for Diarrhea Module -2018, Nutrition module 2020-2021 & Gastroenterology Module 2021-2022
• Associate editor of ‘Transplantation’ Journal International Liver Transplant Society .

Awards & Achievements

• Dr B C Roy National Award” by Hon’ble, President of India.

• “Distinguished Teacher Award by NBE ( National Board of Examinations), 2021

• Zee Swasth Bharat Samman Award (2012), DMA Centenary Award  (2014)  and National Healthcare Award (2017) given  by Health Minister of India

• 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.

• Pediatric gastroenterologist and nutritionist
• Subdirector of Research at Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez (HIMFG)
• Certified by the Mexican Board of Certification in Pediatrics and by the Mexican Board of Gastroenterology (CMG).
• Masters and PhD degree in Research in Medical Sciences by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
• Master in Microbiota by Universidad Europea of Madrid
• Professor of Pediatrics at UNAM
• Cochrane® collaboration member
• Member of the Research Committee at HIMFG
• Chief Editor of Latin-American Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.
• President of Latin American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
• Scientific publications in national and international journals (65), book chapters (15).
• Tutor of more than 40 postgraduates and master

• 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

• Dr. Ng is Medical Director of Pediatric Liver Transplantation at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Professor of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Canada. She is Co-Chair of the Career Development Committee for the Department of Pediatrics at SickKids. She is Past-President of the Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT).
• Dr. Ng received her MD from the University of Toronto. She was a resident and Associate Chief Resident at SickKids. She completed her clinical and research fellowship training in Pediatric Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
• Dr. Ng’s scholarly interests focus on optimizing health outcomes following pediatric liver transplantation, frailty and sarcopenia assessment in children awaiting liver transplantation, and live donor liver transplantation. She is the co-creator of the PeLTQL (Pediatric Liver Transplant Quality of Life), the first disease-specific PROM (available in over 10 languages) for teens and children who have undergone isolated liver transplantation.

• Professor and Head of the of Pediatrics’ Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition Department at Academic Chidren Hospital- Ibn Sina - University Mohammed V- Rabat- Morocco.

• Previous General Director of the University hospitals Ibn Sina.

• Specialization/Clinical experience at Necker Children Hospital-Paris, and Great Ormond Street Hospital-London.

• Academic positions: Director of Training and Research department in Nutrition and Food Sciences - Medical School of Rabat.

• National Expert: For the Ministry of Health, the ministry of high education and research; WHO- EMRO (Child and adolescents Public Health Programs).  

• International Expert: CCNFSDU Committee member (Codex Alimentarus), SAG expert group member (IPA), previous Vice-President of Scientific board of NNIA (Nestle Nutrition Institut Africa).

• Scientific Societies: President of the Moroccan Society of Pediatrics’ Gastroenterology hepatology Nutrition, former vice-president of Francophone Group of Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition. 

• Recognition award: Royal decoration, national order of merit- exceptional level (2020), Recognition from the Moroccan Society and the Mauritanian of Pediatrics (2018).

• Main area of interest: Infant Nutrition- micronutrients deficiency, Gastroenterology Hepatology Diseases, Endoscopy, Metabolic diseases.

• Articles, National and international Conferences: In collaboration with different national, regional and international scientific societies and medical Centers.

• Former Vice Dean National Liver Institute Menoufiya University
• President Egyptian Society Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology & Nutrition GS PASPGHAN

• Director of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Liver Transplant at Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
• Professor of Paediatric Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, University of Queensland; Adjunct Professor, Centre for Childhood Nutrition Research, Queensland University of Technology; Brisbane, Australia
• Professor Nikhil Thapar is Director of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Liver Transplant at Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, leading a specialist clinical service for children with gastrointestinal motility and functional disorders. He has published widely and is co-editor of the textbook of Paediatric Neurogastroenterology.
• He sits on the executive council of the Asia Pacific Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ASPGHAN) and chairs its Disorders of Neurogastroenterology, Motility and Gut-Brain interaction sub-committee. Prof Thapar sits on the council of the Commonwealth Association of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, is chair of the paediatric faculty of the Gastroenterology Society of Australia and sits on the Rome V committee, the 1o international body for the diagnosis and clinical management of disorders of gut brain interaction.