Committee
Organizing Committee
Conference Co-Chair
Fern R Hauck, MD, MS
Spencer P. Bass MD Twenty-First Century Professor of Family Medicine
Professor of Public Health Sciences
Department of Family Medicine
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia USA
Conference Co-Chair
Raffaele Piumelli, MD
Former Director
Pediatrics, Sleep Disordered Breathing and SIDS Center
Meyer Children's Hospital
Pediatrician and Neonatologist Scientific consultant for “Seeds for SIDS” Family Association - Florence, Italy
Honorary President
Gianpaolo Donzelli, MD, PhD
President Meyer Children's Hospital Foundation - Florence Italy
Honorary President
Pietro Sebastiani
Ambassador, Italy
Member
Betty L McEntire, PhD
ISPID Chair
CEO American SIDS Institute Naples, Florida USA
Member
Richard Goldstein, MD
Director, Robert’s Program on Sudden Unexpected Death in Pediatrics
Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Medicine Boston Children’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School -
Boston, MA USA
Member
Christine Ikponmwonba, MPH, CPH
Projects Director
American SIDS Institute - Naples, Florida USA
Member
Virginia Kanopa Almada, MD
Professor, Pediatrics and Neuropediatrics
Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de la República Montevideo, Uruguay
Member
Carrie K Shapiro - Mendoza, PhD, MPH
Chief, Field Support Branch Division of Reproductive Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Atlanta, Georgia USA
Co-Chair Parent Committee
Barb Himes, CD, IBCLC
Chief, Field Support Branch Division of Reproductive Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Atlanta, Georgia USA
Co-Chair Parent Committee
Conference Organizer
Allegra Bonomi
Presidente, Semi per la SIDS Onlus - Florence, Italy
Co-Chair, Scientific Committee
John Thompson, PhD
Epidemiologist/Statistician Paediatrics: Child& Youth Health University of Auckland - Auckland, New Zealand
Scientific Committee
Co-Chair
John Thompson, PhD
Epidemiologist/Statistician Paediatrics: Child& Youth Health University of Auckland - Auckland, New Zealand
Co-Chair
Rachel Y Moon, MD
Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of Pediatrics - Charlottesville, VA USA
Member
Richard Goldstein, MD
Director, Robert’s Program on Sudden Unexpected Death in Pediatrics
Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Medicine Boston Children’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School -
Boston, MA USA
Member
Barb Himes, CB, IBCLC
Director of Education and Bereavement Services
First Candle/National SIDS Alliance - New Canaan, CT USA
Member
David Tappin, MD
Professor, University of Glasgow School of Medicine
Dentistry & Nursing, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Member
Carri Cottengim, MA
Health Scientist Division of Reproductive Health Centers for Disease Control - Atlanta, GA USA
Member
Alfredo Vannacci MD, PHD
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Florence
Member
Fabio Facchinetti, MD
Full Professor Department of Maternal, Child and Adult Medical and Surgical Sciences University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Parent
Co-Chair
Barb Himes, CD, IBCLC
Director of Education and Bereavement Services
First Candle/National SIDS Alliance -
New Canaan, CT USA
