Editorial Office
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Sari Acra
D. Brent Polk Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, 2200 Children’s Way, 9214 Doctors’ Office Tower, Nashville, TN 37232-9175, USA
Tel. +1 615 343 9034
E-Mail: sari.acra@vanderbilt.edu
Interests: diarrheal disorders; functional dyspepsia; GERD; aerodigestive disorders; inflammatory bowel diseases; nutritional disorder
Managing Editor
Ms. Delia Costache
MDPI AG, Klybeckstrasse 64, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 683 77 35
E-Mail: costache@mdpi.com
Production Editor
Dr. Martyn Rittman
MDPI AG, Klybeckstrasse 64, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
E-Mail: rittman@mdpi.com
Editorial Board
Prof. Dr. Thomas J. Abramo
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 2200 Children’s Way, 1014 VCH, Nashville TN 37232-9001, USA
Tel. +1 615 936 8158; Fax: +1 615 322 4374
Interests: sepsis; transport; trauma; noninvasive monitorin; near infrared spectroscopy; ETCO2; NIPPV/BiPAP; asthma; critical care; pediatric airway/RSI
Dr. Alison Anderson
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, The University of Western Australia, P.O. Box 855, West Perth, Western Australia, 6872, Australia
Tel. +61 9489 7781
Interests: developmental origins of health and disease; health impacts of in utero exposure to environmental contaminants; bioinformatics approaches to investigating complex toxicity modes of action and health impacts of climate change
Contribution:
Special Issue: Impact of Climate Change on Child Health
Dr. Vineet Bhandari
Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, Yale Child Health Research Center, Rm: 219, 464 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520-8081, USA
Tel. +1 203 785 2613; Fax: +1 203 785 6974
Interests: bronchopulmonary dysplasia;non-invasive ventilation; neonatal sepsis
Prof. Dr. Lynne M. Borden
Division of Family Studies & Human Development, The University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210033, Tucson, Arizona 85712, USA
Tel. +1 520 621 1063
Website: http://www.cehd.umn.edu/fsos/people/faculty/BordenL.asp
Dr. Andrew A. Bremer
Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases, The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892-2560, USA
Tel. +1 301 827 2555
Interests: pediatric endocrinology; diabetes; nutrition; sugar-sweetened beverages; fructose; obesity; insulin resistance
Prof. Dr. Paul R. Carney
Departments of Neurology, Pediatrics, Neuroscience, and the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, 1600 SW Archer Road, PO Box 100296, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0296, USA
Tel. +1 352 273 9328; Fax: +1 352 392 9802
Interests: pediatric neurology; epilepsy; seizures; sleep disorders; circadian disorders; developmental delay; autism; brain imaging
Prof. Dr. Godfrey Chi-Fung Chan
Department of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, 102 Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Tel. +852 2255 4481; Fax: +852 2855 1523
Prof. Dr. Dai H. Chung
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2200 Children's Way, DOT 7100, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
Tel. +1 615 936 1050; Fax: +1 615 936 1046
Interests: pediatric solid tumor; neuroblastoma; Wilm's tumor; hepatoblastoma; necrotizing enterocolitis; pediatric surgery; pediatric trauma; ECMO; short bowel syndrome
Prof. Dr. Karen Dineen Wagner
Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd., Galveston, Texas 77555-0188, USA
Interests: childhood psychiatric disorders
Dr. Joseph Gigante
Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, Division of General Pediatrics, 8232 Doctor’s Office Tower, Nashville, TN, USA
Tel. + 1 37232-9225
Interests: general pediatrics, faculty development, medical education, feedback, direct observation, clinical reasoning
Prof. Dr. Anders Hjern
Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholms universitet/Karolinska Institutet, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel. +46 8 16 39 83
Interests: child public health; perinatal epidemiology; life course epidemiology; inequity; children in care; migrant children; allergic disorders
Prof. Dr. Reto Huber
University Children’s Hospital Zurich, Child Development Center, Steinwiesstrasse 75, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 266 81 60; Fax: +41 44 266 78 66
Website: http://www.kispi.uzh.ch/sleep
Interests: sleep regulation; electrophysiology; neuroimaging; cortical maturation; synaptic plasticity; synaptic pruning
Dr. Afua Twum-Danso Imoh
Department of Sociological Studies, The University of Sheffield, Elmfield, Northumberland Road, Sheffield, S10 2TU, UK
Tel. +44 114 22 26444; Fax: +44 114 2768125
Interests: children's rights; Convention on the Rights of the Child; parent-child relationships; child-rearing practices the persistence of culture vs. social and economic changes and globalization; construction of childhood; geographic focus: Africa
Dr. Nicola Klein
Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center, 1 Kaiser Plaza, 16th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Tel. +1 510 267 7540; Fax: +1 510 267 7524
Website: http://vaccines.kaiser.org
Interests: vaccine effectiveness; vaccine safety; vaccine epidemiology; immunization of special populations; immunology and genetics of vaccine responses
Prof. Helen Leonard
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6872, Australia
Tel. +61 8 9489 7790; Fax: +31 30 253 7417
Website: http://www.childhealthresearch.org.au/our-people/staff-student-index/l/helen-leonard.aspx
Interests: rare diseases; epidemiology of intellectual disability; autism; Down syndrome; Rett syndrome; preterm birth; climate change; cohort studies; international registers
Contribution:
Special Issue: Impact of Climate Change on Child Health
Prof. Dr. Tracie Miller
Department of Pediatrics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, 1580 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL 33101, USA
Tel. +1 305 243 1422; Fax: +1 305 243 8475
Interests: pediatric HIV; cardiometabolic disease; obesity; inflammatory bowel disease; exercise rehabilitation
Prof. Dr. Paul Monagle
Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Royal Children’s Hospital, 50 Flemington Road, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
Tel. +61 9345 5161; Fax: +61 9345 6667
Interests: developmental haemostasis; thromboembolic disease in children; coagulation during pregnancy: impact on fetal outcome
Dr. Paul Nathan
Director, AfterCare Program, Division of Hematology/Oncology, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada
Tel. +1 416 813 7654 x.208454
Website: http://www.sickkids.ca/AboutSickKids/Directory/People/N/Paul-Nathan.html
Interests: childhood cancer survivorship; health care utilization; anthracycline cardiotoxicity
Contribution:
Special Issue: Acute and Long-Term Sequelae of Childhood Cancer Therapy
Prof. Dr. Markus Neuenschwander
School for Teacher Education, Institute for Educational Research and Development, Obere Sternengasse 7, Postfach 1360, 4502 Solothurn, Switzerland
Tel. +41 32 628 66 84; Fax: +41 32 628 67 80
Website: http://www.fhnw.ch/people/markus-neuenschwander/profile/
Interests: vocational behavior; school to work transition; school transition; vocational education and training VET; school achievement; socialization in school; development of motivation in school; school quality; family socialization and school achievement; parental involvement in school
Dr Son-Nam Nguyen
The World Bank, 1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20433, USA
Interests: global health, health system strengthening, health financing, implementation science, quality of care
Prof. Dr. Theresa Ann Nicklas
Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, 1100 Bates Avenue, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Tel. +1 713 798 7087; Fax: +1 713 798 7130
Website: http://www.bcm.edu/cnrc/faculty/index.cfm?pmid=9557
Interests: children's nutrition; nutritional epidemiology; childhood obesity; nutrition interventions targeting children; environmental factors influencing children's nutrition
Dr. Lucia Pacifico
Department of Pediatrics and Child Neuropsychiatry, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale Regina Elena, 324, 00161 Rome, Italy
Tel. +39 06 4997 9215; Fax: +39 06 4997 9216
Interests: pediatric gastroenterology; pediatric liver diseases; nutrition and metabolism
Prof. Dr. Lori Pbert
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Medicine, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
Tel. +1 508 856 3515; Fax: +1 508 856 3840
Website: http://profiles.umassmed.edu/profiles/ProfileDetails.aspx?From=Pinfo&Person=321
Interests: adolescent tobacco use; pediatric obesity; behavioral interventions
Prof. Dr. Usha Raj
Department of Pediatrics, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Clinical Sciences Building, 840 S. Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Tel. +1 312 413 2867; Fax: +1 312 996 8204
Interests: neonatal pulmonary hypertension; pulmonary vascular smooth muscle; neonatal lung injury and repair
Prof. Dr. P. Syamasundar Rao
UT-Houston Medical School, 6410 Fannin Street, UTPB Suite #425, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Tel. +1 713 500 5738; Fax: +1 713 500 5751
Interests: congenital heart disease; pediatric cardiology; interventional pediatric cardiology
Prof. Dr. Mario A. Rojas
Neonatology Division of Pediatrics, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Medical Center Blvd., Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
Tel. +1 336 716 4663
Prof. Dr. Maria Serratto-Benvenuto
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, 840 S. Wood St., Chicago, IL 60612-7324, USA
Tel. +312-996-6606
Website: http://chicago.medicine.uic.edu/departments___programs/departments/uic_pediatrics/meet_the_faculty/serratto
Interests: children obesity; children hypertension; children pulmonary hypertension; children congenital heart disease; children exercise
Prof. Dr. Alan D. Stiles
Department of Pediatrics, UNC School of Medicine, CB#7220, 322A MacNider Building, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7220, USA
Tel. +1 919 966 5570; Fax: +1 919 966 7299
Interests: neonatal intensive care; diaphragmatic hernia; pulmonary hypertension; health policy for children with chronic illness; medicaid and children; primary care and pediatric subspecialist co-management; telemedicine
Prof. Dr. Anneloes van Baar
Department Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 2, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 30 253 4601; Fax: +31 30 253 7417
Interests: perinatal risk factors like prematurity; antenatal maternal stress; diagnostic assessments of infants and toddlers
Dr. Yvonne Zurynski
Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit, Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia
Tel. +61 2 9845 1202; Fax: +61 2 9845 3082
Website: http://www.apsu.org.au
Interests: epidemiology; rare diseases; disease surveillance; health services utility and costs; transition from paediatric to adult health services; injury
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