Keynote Speakers

Peter Hotez, MD, PhD

Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine

Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine

Endowed Chair in Tropical Pediatrics, Texas Children’s Hospital

Co-Director, Center for Vaccine Development, Texas Children’s Hospital

 

Keynote Lecture: “Vaccines and Immunizations: In a time of Global Boiling, Megacities, and Anti-science”

 

Ryan Dhindsa, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine

 

Keynote Lecture: “Bridging population and functional genomics for therapeutic discovery in neurological disease”

 

Mary Kay Koenig, MD

Associate Vice Chair for Clinical Research, Department of Pediatrics, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston

Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Child and Adolescent Neurology, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston

Director, Pediatric Neurology Clinical Research Unit, UTHealth Houston

Director, Department of Pediatrics, Center for the Treatment of Pediatric Neurology and Neurodegenerative Disease, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston

Co-Director, The UTHealth Houston – Memorial Hermann Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) Center of Excellence

Endowed Chair of Mitochondrial Medicine

 

Keynote Lecture: “Challenges in Clinical Trials Research with a focus on Rare Disease”

 

Dana DeMaster, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Learning Institute, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston

 

Kelly Vaughn, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Learning Institute, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston

 

Keynote Lecture: “Brain Development in Preterm Children: Evidence from a Parenting Intervention and Bilingual Exposure”