Who is who in the First MSF Paediatric Days,

Stockholm 2016 Steering committee

Dr. Daniel Martinez Garcia is paediatric advisor for the MSF Spanish section and member of the MSF’s

International Paediatric Working Group. Drawing on his background in medicine (MD, Mexico National

University), paediatric residency training (National Institute of Pediatrics, Mexico City), and MPH (Johns

Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), he has focused on research in paediatrics in resource-limited

settings and disasters. He has also published research in telemedicine in paediatrics and nutrition in

critically ill children. Since 2006, he has done field missions with MSF in Niger, Chad, Guinea, Colombia,

Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Mali, Yemen, Palestine, Philippines,

Iraq, Jordan, Central African Republic and North Korea.

Jean-Christophe Dollé is currently Head of Human Resources - Field staffing in MSF, Stockholm office since

September 2015. He joined MSF in 1999 working over the past 17 years with MSF around the world, in

headquarters in Athens, Geneva and Stockholm, and in field missions. Amongst others, Dollé served as

Head of mission in Algeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Sudan, Nepal, Ethiopia and Somalia and

Burma/Myanmar. Dollé holds a Master of Laws in Administrative and Public Law and an Advanced Master

of Laws in European Studies. Born and raised in France, Dollé has moved to Sweden in 2006. Together with

his family, Stockholm is their home when they are not in a field mission.

Dr. Laurent Hiffler is the paediatric advisor for West and Central Africa for MSF OCBA at the Dakar Unit in

Senegal since July 2014. He trained in Lyon in France and has a “double path”. He worked in hospitals in

France and the UK. His last position before joining the Dakar Unit was in Necker hospital for Sick Children,

Paris SAMU 75. He has also been working with several NGOs in Africa (East, West and Central) and Haiti

and Northern Colombia, especially in the field of paediatric HIV and nutrition. He also holds diplomas of

Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from Lyon, HIV infection from Montpellier and Food, Health and

Micronutrition from Dijon. Finally he has a special interest in micronutrition.

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Dr. Laurent Hiffler – is the paediatric advisor for West and Central Africa for MSF OCBA at the Dakar

Unit in Senegal since July 2014. He trained in Lyon in France and has a “double path”. He worked in

hospitals in France and the UK. His last position before joining the Dakar Unit was in Necker hospital

for Sick Children, Paris SAMU 75. He has also been working with several NGOs in Africa (East, West and

Central) and Haiti and Northern Colombia, especially in the field of paediatric HIV and nutrition. He

also holds diplomas of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from Lyon, HIV infection from Montpellier and

Food, Health and Micronutrition from Dijon. Finally he has a special interest in micronutrition.

Dr. Marie-Claude Bottineau is a Paediatrician with DESS in Neonatology, competency in Pediatrics

Intensive Care and Master Degree in Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Bioethics. She has been

doing missions worldwide with Humanitarian NGOs and she has organisations such as WHO, Amnesty

International and UNHCR on her CV, amongst others. Mid July 2007, she was appointed by MSF-CH as

Pediatrics. In April 2011, she took the coordination of the MSF International Pediatrics Working Group

and in 2014 the coordination of the OCG Women and Children Health pool. She is currently member

of the Target Advisory Group of the International Ped Association on Children in Humanitarian

Disasters, of the Partnership for MNCH and of the Group of Tropical Ped (SFP).

Prof. Mats Blennow is a senior consultant in neonatal medicine and professor in perinatal

neurosciences at Karolinska Institutet and University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. He is much

involved in European neonatology, elected as president for the European Society for Neonatology

during the years 2008-14. He presided the scientific committee for the 2014 congress of European

Academic Paediatric Societies in Barcelona with 3800 delegates. Mats has published 70 scientific

papers and his main research interests are perinatal asphyxia and consequences of extremely preterm

birth. He is a newcomer in the MSF, and has (so far) done 2 missions working in Irbid, Jordan.

Prof. Ousmane Ndiaye – from Dakar Senegal, Pediatrician, specialist of neonatology, Diploma in

epidemiology. Chair of Pediatrics Department of Medicine Faculty- Cheikh Anta Diop University of

Dakar (UCAD). Head of Pediatrics of Albert Royer National Hospital Center. Chair of WHO-Afro

Reproductive maternal neonatal child and adolescent health (RMNCH) task force. Deputy Centre

Leader of Mother and Child Health African Center (CEA-SAMEF) of UCAD (Senegal). Teaching

experience in several African Universities (Benin, Niger, Mali, Guinea, Rwanda). Consultant for UNICEF

in Niger and Togo, Lux Development in Rwanda and CEFOREP/Aware-RH in Cameroon. Member of the

Mother and perinatal expert group of WAHOOAS. Member of the nutrition expert committee of

Danone. Author of several studies and congress lecture in Pediatrics field with more concentration on

neonatology, nutrition and public health.

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Dr. Ann Lindstrand is a public health oriented Paediatrician and expert in immunization with

experience from international NGO and medical humanitarian work, at national level and field settings.

She has a Ph.D. in pneumococcal epidemiology from Karolinska Institutet and a MPH in International

Health from Harvard School of Public Health. Focus areas of interest are maternal and child health,

humanitarian aid and immunization programs. Work experience from India, Mozambique, Angola,

Tanzania, Uganda and French Guyana. More than 25 years of experience as a lecturer in Global

Paediatrics and co-author of a textbook in Global Health.

Prof. David Southall is a retired Professor of Paediatrics at the University Hospital of North

Staffordshire. Prior to this he was a Reader in Paediatric Clinical Physiology at the National Heart and

Lung Institute and consultant paediatrician at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London. David's main

interests include: medical education and sustained improvements in the emergency medical care of

pregnant women and adolescent girls, babies and children in disadvantaged countries, critical care,

the development of techniques for managing the life-threatening abuse of children and mothers, and

advocacy against armed conflict and its effects on mothers and children. He has written extensively in

medical journals against the adverse effects of the arms trade in resource poor countries. David

founded the charity Maternal and Child health Advocacy International in 1995

Prof. Elizabeth Molyneux is an honorary Professor of Paediatrics, in the College of Medicine, Blantyre,

Malawi. Her interests include emergency care, infectious diseases and ‘tropical’ oncology. With WHO

she developed ETAT (Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment) based on the Advanced Paediatric

course (APLS) of which she is a founder. Infectious diseases and tropical oncology and health care

delivery in low income settings are areas of major interest. Liz is one of a team in the Universities of

Malawi and Rice (Texas) to develop and trial appropriate devices e.g. a low cost bubble Continuous

Positive Airway Pressure (bCPAP). Liz has chaired several technical steering committees including that

of the FEAST trial of fluids for children with shock in East Africa.

Dr. Frédéric Sorge is a paediatrician, resuscitator, infectious disease, addiction specialist and public

health physician aged 57, with 32 years of professional experience in clinical health, teaching, research

and evaluation. He speaks fluent English, French, Spanish, and understands German. He studied and

worked for 34 years in public hospitals, private assistance companies, NGOs or international

organizations on all continents. Current activities concern the medico - psychological care for migrant

children, abandoned children and those adopted in France.

Dr. Irene Adehossi – Pédiatre, MD, MPH, Hôpital National de Niamey Ministère de la Santé Publique,

Niamey

Isabelle Lessard has a B.A. in Nursing from the University of Montreal, Canada. She has worked as a

nurse in Montreal and Switzerland and she began her humanitarian career in 1998 in South Sudan.

Subsequently, she worked in East Timor, Turkey, Angola, Mozambique, Iran, DRC, Kenya, Niger, and

Cameroon. She has completed more than 24 emergency humanitarian missions, responding to natural

disasters and complex emergencies, as a nurse and field coordinator. She has been based in Geneva

since 2014 with MSF and currently holds the position of Advisor for Nursing Care and Infection

Prevention and Control in the Medical Department.

Luis Encinas is a Registered Nurse (1991) specialised in Paediatrics & Neonatology (1992), as well as

Tropical Medicine (Antwerp 1993). He holds a Master in Hospital Management (Madrid 2014). He has

worked as a paediatric nurse in ER and ICU in Belgium, has been working in the field with MSF since

1994 where he has been Operations Coordinator for the last eight years. His expertise is in VHF. He is

currently on the Board of the MSF Sweden Association.

Prof. Mariam Sylla – Paediatrician, Neonatologist, Responsible of Centre de Prise en charge

pédiatrique du VIH Département de Pédiatrie CHU Gabriel Touré, Bamako

Prof. Michael Levin is Professor of Paediatrics and International Child Health, at Imperial College

London. His research has focused on life threatening infections of childhood. He is the co-ordinator of

two European Commission awards – an FP7 award studying the genetic basis of meningococcal and

other life threatening bacterial infections of childhood, working with a consortium of colleagues from

Europe, African and Singapore (EUCLIDS), and a recently awarded Horizon 2020 award to study

Personalised Risk assessment in febrile illness to Optimise Real life Management across the European

Union (PERFORM).

Dr. Myrto Schaefer joined Médecins Sans Frontières in 1997 and worked in a number of projects in

Africa and Southeast Asia, first as a medical doctor and then in team and project coordination roles.

She then worked as a deputy program manager for Médecins Sans Frontières France with oversight

on key programs in countries including Nepal, Niger, Kenya, Thailand and Guinea. Myrto joined

Médecins Sans Frontières Australia in 2005, establishing the then-called Project Unit to provide

medical support and strategic advice on women’s health and paediatrics in Médecins Sans Frontières

field projects. Still based in Sydney, she was appointed Deputy Medical Director of Operational Centre

Paris in 2010. Myrto obtained her medical degree from Freie Universitaet, Berlin and qualified as a

paediatrician from the German College of Paediatricians. She holds a Master in International Health,

focusing on paediatric and infant health.

Dr. Patrick Imbert is a paediatrician specialized in tropical medicine. He managed the paediatric

department of a tertiary hospital in Dakar in the 90s, worked in Asia and for 15 years do paediatric

humanitarian missions in Madagascar. Actually he is the Vice-President of the Tropical Paediatric

Group of the French Society of Paediatrics, and a member of the Scientific Committee of the French

Society of Paediatrics. He is professor of tropical medicine in children in French universities. He has

published number of articles on infectious or tropical diseases in new-born or children, especially on

malaria and neonatal infections.

Organizing committee

Dr. Sahar Nejat is a paediatrician and a paediatric public health advisor for Stockholm County. She received

her Medical Degree at Karolinska Institutet (KI) and her paediatric training at Karolinska University Hospital.

She has a Master of Science in public health from LSHTM and an International Diploma in Humanitarian

Assistance from Fordham University. Between 2003 and 2008 she set up and coordinated the Iran part of

the Global health course at KI. She has worked with MSF and the UN in a number of humanitarian

emergencies across the Sahel, East Africa, in India and Pakistan. She is a frequent lecturer in Global child

health and nutrition and Tuberculosis prevention. In 2014 she presented the Paediatric motion to the GA

of MSF-Sweden and subsequently engaged in dialogue with the paediatric working-group, through which

the concept of the Paediatric Days emerged.

Eugène Bushayija is an HR professional who has worked for UNDP in Rwanda and started to work for MSF

in Sweden in 1994. He has combined HR management of Fieldworkers and Head of Department

responsibilities. He is currently the career manager for medical doctors and specialists at MSF Sweden.

Jean-Christophe Dollé is currently Head of Human Resources - Field staffing in MSF, Stockholm office since

September 2015. He joined MSF in 1999 working over the past 17 years with MSF around the world, in

headquarters in Athens, Geneva and Stockholm, and in field missions. Amongst others, Dollé served as

Head of mission in Algeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Sudan, Nepal, Ethiopia and Somalia and

Burma/Myanmar. Dollé holds a Master of Laws in Administrative and Public Law and an Advanced Master

of Laws in European Studies. Born and raised in France, Dollé has moved to Sweden in 2006. Together with

his family, Stockholm is their home when they are not in a field mission.

Dr. Daniel Martinez Garcia is paediatric advisor for the Swiss MSF section and member of the MSF’s

International Paediatric Working Group. Drawing on his background in medicine (MD, Mexico National

University), paediatric residency training (National Institute of Pediatrics, Mexico City), and MPH (Johns

Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), he has focused on research in paediatrics in resource-limited

settings and disasters. He has also published research in telemedicine in paediatrics and nutrition in

critically ill children. Since 2006, he has done field missions with MSF in Niger, Chad, Guinea, Colombia,

Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Mali, Yemen, Palestine, Philippines,

Iraq, Jordan, Central African Republic and North Korea.

Stephane Doyon – Head of West African Unit, MSF Dakar

Matilda Brzezinska is the Event Coordinator for the Paediatric Days. She has a joint honours in

Anthropology and International Development from University of Sussex, UK, with focus on Human rights,

reproductive health, religion and rituals. She joined MSF Stockholm as an intern right after her graduation

in August 2014, and has since been on different short term contracts in different departments:

Telemarketing, Reception and Field HR. She speaks French, Swedish and English fluently, and is

conversational in Spanish. She has experience from working with events from many years in service and

her job as ski-guide at Alpine Legends, a company organising tailor made conference-trips.

Speakers and chairs, in order of appearance

Dr. Kristina Elfving is a paediatrician working at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg mainly with

paediatric infections. She serves as the secretary of the board of paediatric infectious diseases in the

Swedish Paediatric Society. Kristina is also a researcher at the University of Gothenburg on malaria as well

as non-malarial febrile illness and fever aetiology in children in Zanzibar, Tanzania. She has done three

missions with MSF in Liberia (Monrovia, Island paediatric hospital), Mali (Kidal region, mobile clinics) and

Ethiopia (Sidama region, malnutrition). She was also involved in the MSF “Frontline Pediatrics” conference

held in Stockholm, January 2015.

Dr. Svante Norgren is the Director of Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital in Stockholm. He is MD, PhD and a

specialist in pediatrics with special interest in pediatric endocrinology. He was previously director of

Paediatrics at Astrid Lindgren, and started in his current position in January 2013.

Dr. José Antonio Bastos is a medical doctor and a Family Medicine specialist. He has an MSc in Public Health

from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Field work and management experience in medical

humanitarian work since 1991 with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), with field missions in Iraq, Angola,

Bolivia, Kenya, Somalia, Rwanda, Balkans, Nigeria and DRC and management of programs (Operational

Director in MSF-Spain -1997-98- and in MSF-Holland -2000-2003) in East Africa (Somalia, Uganda, Ethiopia,

Eritrea and Sudan) and Northern Caucasus (Ingushetia and Chechnya). Joined the ICRC in 2006 and worked

in Pakistan, Iraq (medical doctor of the Detention team and Afghanistan (Health Coordinator. He has been

the President of MSF-Spain from 2010 till 2016.

Dr. Marie-Claude Bottineau is a Paediatrician with DESS in Neonatology, competency in Pediatrics Intensive

Care and Master Degree in Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Bioethics. She has been doing missions

worldwide with Humanitarian NGOs and she has organisations such as WHO, Amnesty International and

UNHCR on her CV, amongst others. Mid July 2007, she was appointed by MSF-CH as Pediatrics. In April

2011, she took the coordination of the MSF International Pediatrics Working Group and in 2014 the

coordination of the OCG Women and Children Health pool. She is currently member of the Target Advisory

Group of the International Ped Association on Children in Humanitarian Disasters, of the Partnership for

MNCH and of the Group of Tropical Ped (SFP).

Dr. Sahar Nejat is a paediatrician and a paediatric public health advisor for Stockholm County. She received

her Medical Degree at Karolinska Institutet (KI) and her paediatric training at Karolinska University Hospital.

She has a Master of Science in public health from LSHTM and an International Diploma in Humanitarian

Assistance from Fordham University. Between 2003 and 2008 she set up and coordinated the Iran part of

the Global health course at KI. She has worked with MSF and the UN in a number of humanitarian

emergencies across the Sahel, East Africa, in India and Pakistan. She is a frequent lecturer in Global child

health and nutrition and Tuberculosis prevention. In 2014 she presented the Paediatric motion to the GA

of MSF-Sweden and subsequently engaged in dialogue with the paediatric working-group, through which

the concept of the Paediatric Days emerged.

Prof. Elizabeth Molyneux is an honorary Professor of Paediatrics, in the College of Medicine, Blantyre,

Malawi. Her interests include emergency care, infectious diseases and ‘tropical’ oncology. With WHO she

developed ETAT (Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment) based on the Advanced Paediatric course

(APLS) of which she is a founder. Infectious diseases and tropical oncology and health care delivery in low

income settings are areas of major interest. Liz is one of a team in the Universities of Malawi and Rice

(Texas) to develop and trial appropriate devices e.g. a low cost bubble Continuous Positive Airway Pressure

(bCPAP). Liz has chaired several technical steering committees including that of the FEAST trial of fluids for

children with shock in East Africa.

Prof. David Southall is a retired Professor of Paediatrics at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire.

Prior to this he was a Reader in Paediatric Clinical Physiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute

and consultant paediatrician at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London. David's main interests include:

medical education and sustained improvements in the emergency medical care of pregnant women and

adolescent girls, babies and children in disadvantaged countries, critical care, the development of

techniques for managing the life-threatening abuse of children and mothers, and advocacy against armed

conflict and its effects on mothers and children. He has written extensively in medical journals against the

adverse effects of the arms trade in resource poor countries. David founded the charity Maternal and Child

health Advocacy International in 1995

Dr. Lisa Umphrey Having qualified as a medical doctor and paediatrician in the US and completed a number

of international electives in East Uganda, Lisa moved to Uganda full-time. For three years she worked with

a number of international NGOs in roles including medical director, running their health clinics. Lisa joined

Médecins Sans Frontières in 2013 and has completed two field placements in large hospital projects in

southern Mali and in north-western South Sudan. Lisa joined the Medical Unit Sydney late 2015 and

provides support for paediatric and new-born care in projects in countries including Haiti, Mali, Nigeria and

Papua New Guinea, as well as specifically for emergencies.

Dr. Mark Lee is currently a paediatric registrar working in North West London. He has an interest in global

child health and completed the East African Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 2014. Following

this, he worked in an Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone and then spent six months as a paediatric

doctor in rural Kenya as part of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Global Links Programme.

Dr. Hans-Joerg Lang studied Medicine in Berlin and Freiburg (Germany). He qualified as a paediatrician in

the UK and subsequently completed the requirements for training in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine.

For several years he worked in different African countries (Namibia, Uganda/Kenya, Malawi, Guinee, DR-

Congo, Mali, and Niger). With organisations like the German Development Service (DED), Imperial College

London/Medical Research Council-UK, Centre for International Migration (CIM)/Malawian College of

Medicine and MSF, he had the chance to be involved in patient care, training programs and some research.

He has a particular interest in aspects of critical care adapted to contexts in low- resource settings. Before

the recruitment phase of the FEAST-study he participated from 2007-2009 in the training and support of

clinical teams in four paediatric units in Uganda. With colleagues, he contributed to the introduction of

bubble CPAP in two paediatric units in Malawi. Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine, MSF, Geneva

Dr. Juliet Mwanga is a Paediatrician who has worked in the department of Paediatrics of MBARARA

University Teaching hospital since 2004 and later joined EPICENTRE in 2010, initially as a researcher and

coordinator of studies until 2014, when she assumed the role of the Director of the EPICENTRE research

base in MBARARA Uganda. Research interest in childhood infectious diseases especially Malaria.

Prof. Elizabeth Molyneux is an honorary Professor of Paediatrics, in the College of Medicine, Blantyre,

Malawi. Her interests include emergency care, infectious diseases and ‘tropical’ oncology. With WHO she

developed ETAT (Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment) based on the Advanced Paediatric course

(APLS) of which she is a founder. Infectious diseases and tropical oncology and health care delivery in low

income settings are areas of major interest. Liz is one of a team in the Universities of Malawi and Rice

(Texas) to develop and trial appropriate devices e.g. a low cost bubble Continuous Positive Airway Pressure

(bCPAP). Liz has chaired several technical steering committees including that of the FEAST trial of fluids for

children with shock in East Africa.

Dr. Roberta Petrucci is an Italian Paediatrician working in the Medical Operational Support Unit as

responsible of paediatrics, nutrition and vaccination in Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva. She graduated

in medical school and attended the paediatric training in Italy. Therefore she took a Master degree in

paediatric tropical medicine at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, where she also worked as

research assistant on diagnostic tools for paediatric tuberculosis. Since 2008, she works for Médecins Sans

Frontières mainly in projects related to general paediatrics, neonatal care and malnutrition, but also in

emergencies, conflicts, outbreak response and migration, with field missions all over the world, both as

clinical paediatrician and medical coordinator. She also worked in western Africa during the Ebola

epidemics. Since 2010 she is part of the MSF International Paediatric Working Group. Since 2014 she works

as paediatrician for the MOSU (Medical Operational Support Unit) in MSF Switzerland providing technical

and strategical support to the missions and projects on the fields of paediatric, nutrition and vaccination,

spending 50% of her time as field implementer.

Prof. Joseph Carcillo is Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh who

works in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Dr. Carcillo has been the

Chair of the American College of Critical Care Medicine Taskforce on Clinical Parameters for Management

of Paediatric and New-born Septic Shock since 1998. Dr Carcillo also co-chaired the World Federation of

Paediatric Intensive Care and Critical Care Societies Global Paediatric Sepsis Initiative. Dr. Carcillo’s present

research interest in better understanding and treatment of Sepsis induce Multiple Organ Dysfunction

Syndrome.

Prof. Michael Levin is Professor of Paediatrics and International Child Health, at Imperial College London.

His research has focused on life threatening infections of childhood. He is the coordinator of two European

Commission awards – an FP7 award studying the genetic basis of meningococcal and other life threatening

bacterial infections of childhood, working with a consortium of colleagues from Europe, African and

Singapore (EUCLIDS), and a recently awarded Horizon 2020 award to study Personalised Risk assessment in

febrile illness to Optimize Real life Management across the European Union (PERFORM).

Prof. Andrew Argent completed his undergraduate training at the University of the Witwatersrand. After a

medical officer post at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, he did his paediatric registrar

training in the Johannesburg group of hospitals and completed his post graduate examinations in 1985. In

1988 he started training in Paediatric Pulmonology and Critical Care at the RCWMCH in Cape Town, and

was appointed as a consultant at the end of that year. Since that time he has worked in paediatric critical

care and pulmonology at the RCWMCH. During the period 1988 to 1996 he was the paediatrician

responsible for child abuse services at the RCWMCH. In April 1999 he was appointed as Medical Director of

the Paediatric Intensive Care unit. He was promoted to associate professor in 2002, and to full Professor in

2008. He has a particular interest in training in paediatric resuscitation, and his academic work has focused

on the care of critically ill children in the southern African context. Professor Argent is a past president of

the Critical Care Society of Southern Africa, and current president of the World Federation of Paediatric

Intensive and Critical Care societies. He is married to Sally (the best decision he ever made), and they have

3 children – Jonathan, Brendan and Lucienne; all of whom have been a source of great joy and pride.

David Issom is a Digital Health specialist and an ePatient. He recently graduated with a Master (MSc) in

Health Informatics from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He also holds a Bachelor in Software

Architecture from the Geneva School of Business Administration. He later specialized in the fields of eHealth

and Telemedicine at the Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine. He is now a PhD Student in Global Health at

the Geneva University Hospitals and is co-chairing the Swiss Sickle Cell Disease Patient Association.

Passionate by social entrepreneurship and patient empowerment, he is particularly interested in

technologies supporting patients' self-care needs and patient-driven research. His research interests are

Digital Health, Advanced Human-Machine Interfaces, the Internet of Things, Value-Based Care Models and

Chronic Disease Management.

Dr. Isabel Zuniga Paediatric advisor, MSF, Brussels

Prof. Ousmane Ndiaye from Dakar Senegal, Paediatrician, specialist of neonatology, Diploma in

epidemiology. Chair of Pediatrics Department of Medicine Faculty- Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar

(UCAD). Head of Pediatrics of Albert Royer National Hospital Centre. Chair of WHO-Afro Reproductive

maternal neonatal child and adolescent health (RMNCH) task force. Deputy Centre Leader of Mother and

Child Health African Centre (CEA-SAMEF) of UCAD (Senegal). Teaching experience in several African

Universities (Benin, Niger, Mali, Guinea, Rwanda). Consultant for UNICEF in Niger and Togo, Lux

Development in Rwanda and CEFOREP/Aware-RH in Cameroon. Member of the Mother and perinatal

expert group of WAHOOAS. Member of the nutrition expert committee of Danone. Author of several

studies and congress lecture in Pediatrics field with more concentration on neonatology, nutrition and

public health.

Prof. Mariane de Montalembert received her MD from the Paris Descartes Medical School in 1982 and her

PhD in Ethics in 1994. She specialized in paediatrics, statistics (option clinical research), and transfusion. She

is Associate Professor of Pediatrics and serves as the head of the Haemoglobin Diseases Unit at the Necker

University Hospital, and the « ROFSED » healthcare network for SCD children in the Parisian area. Prof de

Montalembert is a member of the French Society of Pediatrics, in which she chairs the Ethic Committee, of

the French Society of Haematology, the European Network for rare and Congenital Anaemias (ENERCA) the

European Association (EHA), and the American Society of Haematology (ASH). She coordinates and

participates to several clinical trials, especially on hydroxycarbamide use in SCD.

Lili-Marie Wanguru is a Clinical Offer with a Diploma in Clinical Medicine. She worked for Médecins Sans

Frontières- France from 2001 until 2008 as a Senior Clinical Officer. In 2008 she joined the University of

Maryland as an Assistant Continuous Quality Improvement Specialist where her roles included mentorship

and continuous quality improvement. She is currently working for Médecins Sans Frontières- Belgium as a

Non-communicable Disease Activity Manager. Her greatest role is to collaborate with the Ministry of Health

to advocate for provision of Non-Communicable Disease Treatment and Care.

Dr. Isaac Odame is currently the Medical Director of the Global Sickle Cell Disease Network based at the

Hospital for Sick Children Centre for Global Child Health that is committed to building enduring

collaborations between clinicians and scientists worldwide. He is Professor of Pediatrics and holds the

Alexandra Yeo Chair in Haematology at the University of Toronto. The focus of his work and clinical care are

patients with sickle cell disease and Thalassemias and other haematological disorders. Odame was

instrumental in the design and implementation of universal new-born screening for sickle cell disease in

Ontario, Canada. He founded the Canadian Hemoglobinopathy Group, a body of all hemoglobinopathy

physicians, scientists and nurses in Canada. He is a medical graduate of the University of Ghana and did his

specialty training in Paediatrics and hematopathology in the UK at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in

Glasgow and the Hammersmith Hospital in London.

Tammam Aloudat Deputy Medical Director, MSF, Geneva

Dr. Ramzi Nasir is a Developmental Behavioural Paediatrician currently working in London (Royal Free

London NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust). He specializes in working with

children with developmental disabilities and behavioural disorders. He completed his subspecialty training

at Boston Children’s Hospital (2004-2007) and practiced there until 2012. He has an MPH from the Harvard

School of Public Health (2007). He is originally from Palestine and grew up in Jordan. He travels regularly to

the Middle East to provide clinical consultations and educational activities. He has a background in clinical

research and is currently interested in developing screening and intervention strategies for children with

disabilities during humanitarian emergencies.

Dr. Christian Fabiansen is a medical doctor currently working at the University of Copenhagen as a

researcher in malnutrition in a corporation between the university, MSF-DK and ALIMA. Previously Vice

president in MSF Denmark.

Dr. Emilie Macher is a paediatrician, trained in France. After completing her specialisation, she worked with

MSF and spent two years in the field, in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2012-2013, she did the Postgraduate of

tropical medicine and international health at the Tropical Institute of Antwerp in Belgium. Afterwards, she

went back to clinical practice and worked in the paediatric unit of Mayotte’s hospital, a French overseas

department in the Comoros archipelago. Finally, in 2015-2016, she studied at the Liverpool School of

Tropical Medicine, and did the MSc in Tropical paediatrics (pending). She just finished, and is now looking

for her next job.

Fabien Schneider Since 2001, Fabien has been on many MSF field missions and assumed a number of

different roles, such as a nurse, emergency coordinator and country director. He worked with MSF in

Geneva as a Program Manager then moved to the Canadian section of MSF in 2012 in his current role as

Program Unit Manager. In this role he develops and manages innovative projects supporting MSF

operations and focused on digital learning and telemedicine. In his day to day activities he applies his

cumulated expertise as a health professional and manager experienced in Health Services delivery, medical

knowledge dissemination, and in developing, adapting, and integrating telemedicine services using medical

and operational methods.

Dr. Nadia Lafferty began training in Paediatrics in her homeland of Scotland before going on to complete a

Masters in Tropical Paediatrics at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 2012. Having always had a

passion to work in the humanitarian sector, she used this turning point in her career to begin her journey

with MSF. Although she had a good understanding of the challenges ahead, her first mission as a field

paediatrician in CAR really opened her eyes to the huge void in dedicated paediatric care in developing

countries, where under 5 mortality remains unacceptably high. Since then, she has continued to work

towards improving paediatric care with MSF in various positions, and will soon take on the post of Paediatric

Advisor with OCBA.

Jean François Saint-Sauveur, originally from Haiti, is a Medical Doctor (Universidad Autonoma de

Centroamerica, Costa Rica) with MPH (LSHTM, England) focusing on Health Services Management and

postgraduate certificates in Tropical Parasitic Diseases (Universitat de Valencia, Spain) and Cooperation for

Development (Universidad Centroamericana, Nicaragua). He has over 15 years of experience in the

humanitarian field (humanitarian assistance, emergency response, pharmaceutical quality assurance and

supply chain management), of which 8 years with MSF as Medical coordinator in various countries and

nearly 2 years now in the current position as Medical Director for MSF Spain based in Barcelona.

Dr. Wilma van den Boogard worked 10 years as a nurse in Holland before leaving for humanitarian aid in

Indonesia and deciding to join with MSF, more than 20 years ago. After a couple of emergencies in Liberia

and South Sudan, she worked as a health promoter, field coordinator followed by medical coordination

mainly in longer-term projects, where deciding on change of strategies and national health policies were of

high importance. After her Master in Public Health in 2010, she got involved more in research; first as field

epidemiologist and as of 2013 works in the operational research (OR) unit in Luxembourg (LuxOR) to

support and coach the field in performing OR in order to improve the performance of their project allowing

greater quality access to care to those in need.

Laura Acheson is a Registered Nurse from Calgary, Canada. Her career as a nurse thus far has been focused

in the area of neonatology, and she has also specialized in tropical nursing. Laura recently completed her

first mission with MSF in Kabul, Afghanistan, in a maternity hospital.

Dr. Ryan Carrol MD, MPH, is on faculty in the divisions of Paediatric Critical Care Medicine and Global Health

at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He is on faculty at Harvard Medical School and attends in

the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit in Boston for 25% of the year. After 10 years of investigating the

pathophysiology of cerebral malaria, working at the bench in the USA, and clinically in Malawi and Uganda,

Dr. Carroll now spends the remaining 75% of the year serving as the Uganda Program Director for the

Division of Global Health, MGH. While there, he oversees 15 research projects, 14 departmental

partnership development programs, and the hosting of over 150 research and development visitors per

year. He also serves as the Chief Scientific Officer for MGH’s Consortium for Affordable Medical Technology

(CAMTech), assisting in the designing of appropriate medical devices for low- and middle-income countries,

the major targets of which are India and Uganda. Dr. Carroll’s specific appropriate medical technology

ventures include the development of simple continuous positive airway pressure devices (CPAP),

thermal imaging for remote pneumonia diagnosis, and capacity building for in-country technology design

and development. Collectively, these efforts involve approximately 50 – 100 national staff and 15 ex-patriot

in-country staff and researchers, with oversight provided by a robust in-country safety and security

program.

Dr. Anne Pittet After a paediatric training in Switzerland and a tropical medicine diploma in Antwerpen,

different MSF field work in Africa and Asia during 5 years, then one year of development project in a 500

beds paediatric hospital in Southern Vietnam. Since 2006, shared work between MSF Geneva (6 months a

year as a training paediatrician on many different fields and in Geneva) and the University Hospital of

Lausanne (6 months a year as “médecin hospitalier”).

Dr. Christopher Hands is a British hospital paediatrician. In 2015-2016 he has been working with the UK

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, at Ola During Children's Hospital in Freetown. He has been

working on nurse-led improvements to emergency triage and treatment at Ola During, based on WHO ETAT

principles. In 2016-2017 he will be helping to manage a national roll-out of ETAT improvements in Sierra

Leone's district hospitals.

Dr. Myrto Schaefer joined Médecins Sans Frontières in 1997 and worked in a number of projects in Africa

and Southeast Asia, first as a medical doctor and then in team and project coordination roles. She then

worked as a deputy program manager for Médecins Sans Frontières France with oversight on key programs

in countries including Nepal, Niger, Kenya, Thailand and Guinea. Myrto joined Médecins Sans Frontières

Australia in 2005, establishing the then-called Project Unit to provide medical support and strategic advice

on women’s health and paediatrics in Médecins Sans Frontières field projects. Still based in Sydney, she

was appointed Deputy Medical Director of Operational Centre Paris in 2010. Myrto obtained her medical

degree from Freie Universitaet, Berlin and qualified as a paediatrician from the German College of

Paediatricians. She holds a Master in International Health, focusing on paediatric and infant health.

Prof. Mats Blennow is senior consultant in neonatal medicine and professor in perinatal neurosciences at

Karolinska Institutet and University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. He is much involved in European

neonatology, elected as president for the European Society for Neonatology during the years 2008-14. He

presided the scientific committee for the 2014 congress of European Academic Paediatric Societies in

Barcelona with 3800 delegates. Mats has published 70 scientific papers and his main research interests are

perinatal asphyxia and consequences of extremely preterm birth. He is a newcomer in the MSF, and has (so

far) done 2 missions working in Irbid, Jordan.

Dr. Nils Bergman qualified in Cape Town, South Africa, and later worked as doctor at Manama Mission,

Zimbabwe. Here he, with Midwife Agneta Jurisoo, developed and implemented Kangaroo Mother Care

(KMC) for premature infants right from birth, with dramatic improvement in survival of premature babies.

He now researches this fulltime, and has given keynote addresses on KMC at International Conferences in

six continents. He has a Diploma in Child Health, a Master’s degree in Public Health, and a Doctoral degree

in Clinical Pharmacology, on the effects of scorpion stings. He is married to Jill, and father to Rebecka, Simon

and Emma.

Dr. Harriet Roggeveen is a Dutch paediatrician, born in 1961, married with two daughters (17, 19). Directly

after medical school she worked for MSF in a project in Nigeria as medical coordinator. After that she did

her paediatric training in Rotterdam and worked as a paediatrician, first in a small Dutch district hospital,

later in a teaching hospital where she was responsible for paediatric infectious diseases as well as registrar

training. Since 2012 she is back where she started and wish to be: MSF-OCA paediatric advisor. She loves

the multi-faceted job, especially the interaction with the field, however, she does miss the practical

paediatric work a bit.

Dr. Ulrike Müller started working with MSF in 2010 and after a 10 months mission in Chhattisgarh, finished

her specialisation at a paediatric university hospital in Germany where she mainly worked in paediatric

diabetology and endocrinology as well as in emergency care. From December 2014 to December 2015 she

spent 1 year working as an activity manager of the neonatology department in an OCA emergency maternity

care hospital. This was followed by a job in a German refugee centre and a 3 months mission in a

malnutrition project in central Africa from which she recently returned.

Prof. Zulfiqar Bhutta is the Robert Harding Inaugural Chair in Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick

Children, Toronto, and Co-Director of the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health and the Founding Director

of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, at the Aga Khan University. He was a member of

the Independent Expert Review Group (iERG) appointed by the UN Secretary General for monitoring global

progress in maternal and child health MDGs (2011-2015). He was educated at the University of Peshawar

(MBBS) and obtained his PhD from the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. He leads large research groups based

in Toronto, Karachi and Nairobi with a special interest in research synthesis, scaling up evidence based

interventions in community settings and implementation research in health systems research In particular

his work with community health workers and outreach services has influenced integrated maternal and

new-born outreach programs for marginalized populations all over the world. Dr. Bhutta is on several

international editorial advisory boards including the Lancet, BMJ, PLoS Medicine, PLoS ONE, BMC Public

Health and the Cochrane CDPLG and ARI groups. He has published eight books, 90 book chapters, and over

700 indexed publications to date, including 135 in the world’s leading journal Lancet alone.

Dr. Mercedes Tatay is the MSF International Medical Secretary since February 2016. A specialist in

infectious diseases and tropical medicine, she joined MSF in 1998 and has worked in a number of conflict

and epidemic settings, including in Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Zambia, CAR, DRC, Liberia, Afghanistan

and Angola. She developed expertise in operational management and medical programme planning in

complex humanitarian emergency contexts. As Head of Emergency Programs with MSF France, from 2003

to 2007 she oversaw emergency responses all over the world (conflicts, epidemics and natural disasters).

Since 2007, Dr Tatay practised as an infectious diseases physician in university teaching hospitals in France.

In 2015, she worked as a WHO consultant during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa where she also took

coordination responsibilities as part of the UN Country team leadership.

Dr. Laurent Hiffler is the paediatric advisor for West and Central Africa for MSF OCBA at the Dakar Unit in

Senegal since July 2014. He trained in Lyon in France and has a “double path”. He worked in hospitals in

France and the UK. His last position before joining the Dakar Unit was in Necker hospital for Sick Children,

Paris SAMU 75. He has also been working with several NGOs in Africa (East, West and Central) and Haiti and

Northern Colombia, especially in the field of paediatric HIV and nutrition. He also holds diplomas of Hygiene

and Tropical Medicine from Lyon, HIV infection from Montpellier and Food, Health and Micronutrition from

Dijon. Finally he has a special interest in micronutrition.

Mari Mörth has a Master of Philosophy in Peace Studies from Trinity College Dublin, and a Bachelor with a

Major in Political Science from Uppsala and Stockholm University. She is the GD of MSF Sweden since 2015,

and has thorough experience from humanitarian work as the previous Humanitarian Director at Save the

Children Sweden, and extensive experience from advocacy and coordination of the organisation’s

emergency responses. Mari has done fieldwork for Save the Children in a number of countries including the

Ivory Coast, Sudan, Lebanon, Peru, Pakistan and Myanmar. She has also worked for the UN in Rwanda, for

the Organisation for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) in the Balkans, and for Kvinna till Kvinna in the Middle

East.

Jarred Halton is an intersectional diagnostic imaging adviser for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) based in

Amsterdam. He is an Australian radiographer who graduated from the University of Sydney in 2002 and has

worked in hospitals both in Australia and the United Kingdom. In 2013, he joined MSF in his current role

providing support both at the field and headquarters level to guide the implementation and improve the

quality of diagnostic imaging services in MSF missions. In addition, he provides assistance with the MSF

Telemedicine platform.

Dr. Savvas Andronikou is a paediatric radiologist in Bristol and professor at the Universities of Bristol (UK)

and Cape Town (South Africa). Previously he was head of radiology at Red Cross Children’s Hospital,

Tygerberg Hospital and Johannesburg Hospital; chair professor at the Universities of Stellenbosch and

Witwatersrand; president of the College of Radiologists of South Africa, chairman of the South African

Society of Paediatric Imaging the African Society of Paediatric Imaging and is vice chair of the international

committee (Africa and Middle East) of the Radiological Society of North America. He has published over 250

papers and books; received multiple awards and scholarships as received Honorary Membership of the

Society of Paediatric Radiology.