7th International Conference on
Pediatrics and Pediatrics Healthcare

Prof.Dr.Vaclav Bunc Vice dean for Sciences Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Charles University Prague, Czech Republic. His main topics are: using of biocybernetics by evaluation of physical fitness, exercise physiology, functional and physical testing in laboratory and field, body composition, BIA methods, moving regimes for prevention in patients. Author more than 400 items in scientific Journals, more than 150 in international journals, practically the same number of publications as co-author and serving as an editorial board member of repute. Referee of scientific papers with topics of physical fitness, exercise physiology and biomedical engineering. He is a member of Czech and International scientific societies, together is a lector of Ph.D. study on Charles University. He is the Head of many research projects and the author of many research reports on exercise physiology (from children to seniors, athletes, non-trained subjects, healthy subjects, or patients).

Evaluation of physical fitness and exercise predispositions, exercise physiology, functional and physical testing in laboratory and field, body composition, BIA methods, moving regimes for patient prevention.

Dr Cristine Alves da Costa is a research director (DR2) at INSERM and manages a team at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology (IPMC-CNRS, UMR7275). She is graduated in Pharmacy-Biochemistry from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University Estadual Paulista "Prof. Júlio de Mesquita Filho" Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1987 and a PhD in Toxicology from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo, USP, Brazil in 1997. Actually, she drive a team that works in the study of the implication of Parkinson’s disease associated proteins in the origin of cell death in neurodegenerative disorders and tumor suppression. Her research interests include Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease molecular and cell biology, apoptosis and p53. Moreover, she is also interested in the interplay between these two pathologies via common molecular denominators and the link between neurodegenerative disorders and human brain cancer.

Neurogenerative disorders, brain tumors, cellular and molecular biology, in vivo studies

Doctor of Medicine, Hassan II Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Casablanca, September 1991. From October 1991 to February 1994, the pediatric assistant worked at the Casablanca Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy. From February 1994 to January 2000, assistant professor of pediatrics at Ibn Rochd University Hospital and the Casablanca Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy Professor at the Marrakech Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy; Head of the Neonatal Department; Pediatric Cardiology Consultant at Mother-Child Hospital Chou January 2000 – January 2014: Mohamed VI Marrakech. Leader of University Cadi's "Childhood, Health, and Development" research team Ayyad in Morocco Former Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Marrakech Faculty of Medicine

Neonatology Pediatric cardiology Public health

Robert C. Cantu Concussion Center, Chief of Neurosurgery Service, Associate Chairman Department of Surgery, and Director of Sports Medicine at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts. He is a founder of the Center for the study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University Medical School where he is also a Clinical Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery. He currently serves as Senior Advisor to the NFL Head, Neck and Spine Committee; Section Co-Chair Mackey-White National Football League Players Association Health and Safety Committee; -Founder and Medical Director Concussion Legacy Foundation (formally Sports Legacy Institute); Member World Rugby Concussion Advisory Group; Adjunct Professor Exercise and Sport Science and Medical Director National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; Co-Director, Neurologic Sports Injury Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Senior Advisor Brain Injury Center and Adjunct Staff, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Vice President Chair Scientific Advisory Committee National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE). He also consults with numerous NFL, NHL and NBA teams. He also is a professional consultant to the USA Rugby Medical & Risk Committee sub-committee for Sports Concussion. He has published over 400 scientific articles including 33 books on Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Sports Medicine. He received his B.A. degree from the University of California Berkley. Jointly, in medical school and graduate school, he received his M.A. degree in endocrinology in 1962, and in 1963, his M.D. from the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. Following a surgical internship at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City in 1963-1964, he began a neurosurgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and simultaneous position of research fellow in physiology at Harvard Medical School. Upon completion of his residency in 1968, he joined the neurosurgery staff at MGH, where his practice and laboratory were located, while assuming the position of Acting Assistant Director of Neurosurgery and Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Boston City Hospital.

Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Sports Medicine

Dr. Oscar Garcia-Algar is a pediatrician, at the moment (1) Coordinator of Emergency Section of the Paediatrics Unit, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; (2) Director of the Grup de Recerca Infància i Entorn (GRIE), Institut Hospital del Mar d’Investigacions Mèdiques (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain, and (3) Full Professor of Paediatrics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain. He published more than 200 indexed papers, with more than 1,800 citations. His main lines of research refers to prenatal and postnatal exposure to substances of abuse and its study in alternative biological matrices. He obtained financial resources for research in more than 30 competitive calls and received several academic and research prizes during his professional life.

Prevalence of exposure and consumption studies (in pregnant women, neonates and children) especially the study of biomarkers in unconventional biological matrices. Follow-up of children exposed to substance abuse, especially prenatal exposure to alcohol. Biomarkers of damage in prenatally-exposed children. Cell cultures and animal models of the deleterious effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol.