Consultant Neonatal Paediatrician of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne

• Dr. Berrington trained in the UK and Australia and completed an MD in neonatal immunology.
• Founder and Manager of the Great Neonatal Biobank, co-applicant member of research teams for large UK nutrition/feeding trials including SIFT, ELFIN and MAGPIE.
• Translational neonatal researcher with interest in NEC, the microbiome/metabolome, markers of health and disease, breast milk, human milk oligosaccharides and more.
• Her current interests are in maximizing learning from salvaged samples, including enteroids from preterm gut tissue. Translational research in NEC, LOS. Role of breast milk human milk oligosaccharides and secretory IgA in NEC protection/prevention. Remain a full-time clinician in a large tertiary (including surgical) neonatal unit.

Professor of Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine Medical University of Vienna (MUV)

• Researcher at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology-Medical University of Vienna (MUV)
• Senior Consultant for Neonatology and Pediatrics, MUV
• Head of Neonatal Nutrition Research Team, MUV
• Member of ESPGHAN nutrition committee and research committee
• Head of the Austrian pediatric nutrition committee of the Austrian Ped. Society
• Editorial Board of Nutrients and Frontiers in Nutrition (Associate Editor), research award of the GNPI (2013)
• Current Interests: Neonatology, enteral and parenteral nutrition, human milk

Consultant Neonatologist, Amsterdam UMC – Emma Children’s Hospital

• Besides clinical duties, Dr. van den Akker has been involved in neonatal research since 2005 when starting his PhD on fetal and neonatal protein metabolism under supervision of Prof. J.B. van Goudoever.
• Later he extended his research to other aspects of neonatal nutrition, such as lipid metabolism, human milk, and probiotics.
• He is an active co-author of several international nutritional guidelines by ESPGHAN, i.e., on parenteral nutrition (2018), probiotics (2020), and enteral nutrition (2021).

Principal Research Fellow South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, South Australia

• Involvement in large RCTs exploring the impact of DHA supplementation on pregnancy outcomes (particularly depression and preterm birth) and in preterm nutrition
• Current research activities are directed at exploring the relationship between oxylipin proKiles and clinical outcomes (particularly BPD) in our N3RO trial.
• Evolving interest also in the biology of human milk, the wider use of pasteurized human milk in preterm infants and the development of human milk-based breast milk fortifiers

Professor of Pediatrics Umeå University, Sweden

• Conducts extensive research on iron, early interventions and improvement of long-term health in children and on nutrition and brain development.
• His research involves randomized, clinical trials and cohort studies and he is currently leading several local and national clinical studies. A recently started project is a regional child cohort, “NorthPop”, aiming to include 10,000 pregnant women and follow their children from fetal life to school age.
• Chair of the Committee on Nutrition of the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
• Recent appointments include associate editor for JPGN and membership of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences National Committee for Nutrition and Food Science.
• He had developed a computer software “Nutrium”, a decision support system for improving nutrition and growth of infants in neonatal units.

Professor of Pediatrics
Chair of Collaborative Human Milk Research
Director of the Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence
University of California, San Diego.

• University Giessen, Germany
• Fellowship at the Institute of Child Health, University College London, United Kingdom.
• Postdoctoral fellowship at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in La Jolla, California
• Dr. Bode is dedicated to research on breastfeeding and human milk in general and Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMOs) in particular. He had secured more than $30M in research funding

Dr. Bode is the recipient of the numerous International Awards and have published over 120 peer-reviewed articles, including the 2012 review “Human Milk Oligosaccharides: Every Baby Needs a Sugar Mama”, which has become the most cited research article in the field of HMOs.

Professor in Pediatrics, Director of the Division of Neonatology at the Maternité Régionale Universitaire, Nancy - France

• Professor HASCOËT is the Co-founder and coordinator of the French Board of Neonatology.
• He is a Corresponding Member of the French Académie Nationale de Médecine and an Honorary Member of the American Pediatric Society.
• Author or Co-author of about 170 peer-reviewed articles
• Associate Editor in Neonatology at Frontiers in Pediatrics.
• Professor HASCOËT research interests include breastfeeding, neonatal nutrition, developmental respiratory, hemodynamics and pharmacology, neurodevelopmental outcome of prematurely born children, and public health.

Chief Medical Officer & Global Head of Nutrition Product Development Center (NPTC) – Nestlé Nutrition 

• Earned his medical degree from Bombay University, as well as completed his pediatric residency in New York and clinical fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Johns Hopkins University. Executive MBA from the Ohio State University.
• Prior to his current role, Dr. Carvalho held several positions in academia, most recently as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at The Ohio State University, USA.
• Member of the North American Society of Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
• Served on several boards and committees over the last 10 years. He has written more than 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals and contributed chapters to textbooks and many educational presentations/webinars.