IPA Officers and Executives
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President
Naveen Thacker, India
Executive Director of the International Pediatric Association (2019 – 2021)
Member of the Scientific Committee of Advanced Vaccinology Course (2020 - to date)
Member of the Steering Committee of the International Collaboration on Advanced Vaccinology training (ICAVT) -
President-Elect
Joseph Haddad, Lebanon
President of the Union of Arab Pediatric Societies (UAPS) (2017-2022)
President of Union of Mediterranean and Middle East Pediatric Societies (UMEMPS) (2013-2017)
President of the Lebanese Pediatric Society (2012-2014, 2018-2020) -
Executive Director
Aman Pulungan, Indonesia
President of Asia Pacific Pediatric Association (2018-2022)
President of Indonesian Pediatric Society (2014-2021)
President of Asia Pacific Pediatric Endocrinology Society (2010-2012) -
Coordinator of Development
Adamos Hadjipanayis, Cyprus
President of the European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP) (2018- to date)
Associate Professor of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, European University Cyprus (2011- to date)
Director of Paediatric Clinic - Larnaca General Hospital, Cyprus (2020- to date) -
Treasurer
Jonathan Klein, USA
President, International Association for Adolescent Health (2021 - 2025)
Associate Executive Director of American Academy of Pediatrics (2009 – 2017)
Chair of NCD Child (2017 – 2020)
IPA Executive Committee
(Also members of Standing Committee)
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Naveen Thacker, India
Executive Director of the International Pediatric Association (2019 – 2021)
Member of the Scientific Committee of Advanced Vaccinology Course (2020 - to date)
Member of the Steering Committee of the International Collaboration on Advanced Vaccinology training (ICAVT) -
Joseph Haddad, Lebanon
President of the Union of Arab Pediatric Societies (UAPS) (2017-2022)
President of Union of Mediterranean and Middle East Pediatric Societies (UMEMPS) (2013-2017)
President of the Lebanese Pediatric Society (2012-2014, 2018-2020) -
Enver Hasanoğlu, Turkey
Immediate Past President of the International Pediatric Association
Secretary-General of Turkish National Pediatric Society (TNPS)
Secretary-General of Union of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Pediatric Societies (UMEMPS) -
Aman Pulungan, Indonesia
President of Asia Pacific Pediatric Association (2018-2022)
President of Indonesian Pediatric Society (2014-2021)
President of Asia Pacific Pediatric Endocrinology Society (2010-2012) -
Adamos Hadjipanayis, Cyprus
President of the European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP) (2018- to date)
Associate Professor of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, European University Cyprus (2011- to date)
Director of Paediatric Clinic - Larnaca General Hospital, Cyprus (2020- to date) -
Jonathan Klein, USA
President, International Association for Adolescent Health (2021 - 2025)
Associate Executive Director of American Academy of Pediatrics (2009 – 2017)
Chair of NCD Child (2017 – 2020) -
Amy Gray, Australia
Deputy Head, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne (2022-to date)
Director of the Education Hub, The Royal Children’s Hospital (2018-to date)
Co-chair, Melbourne Children’s Global Health (2022-to date) -
Carlos G. Alonso-Rivera, Mexico
President of Latin American Pediatric Society (ALAPE) (2021-2024)
President of Mexican National Confederation of Pediatrics (2014-2016)
President of Mexican Pediatric Neurology Society (2007-2009) -
Ana Beatriz Rosas Sumano, Mexico
President of National Confederation of Pediatrics of México (CONAPEME) (2023-2024)
President of Southeastern Federation of Pediatrics, CONAPEME (2016-2018)
Vice president of National Confederation of Pediatrics of México (2020-2022)
IPA Standing Committee
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Iqbal Ahmad Memon, APPA
President of Asia Pacific Pediatric Association (2022-2024)
President of Pakistan Pediatric Association (2012-2014)
Professor and Head of Department of Pediatrics in Sir Syed Medical College, Karachi (2012-to date) -
Muhammad Ashraf Sultan, APPA
Standing Committee Member of Asia Pacific Pediatric Association (APPA) (2018 – to date)
Founder and Chairman, Infectious Diseases Group of Pakistan Pediatric Association (2000 – 2012)
Editor in Chief, Asia Pacific Journal of Pediatrics and Child Health (2015-to date) -
Nitin Kapur, APPA
President of the Paediatric & Child Health Division of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (2022-2025)
Director of Paediatric Education and the Director of Clinical Training, Queensland Children’s Hospital (2013-to date)
Professor with the School of Medicine, University of Queensland (2022 -to date) -
Santosh T. Soans, APPA
Professor and HOD, Department of Pediatrics, A.J. Institute of Medical Sciences, Mangalore, India (2004-to date)
National President, Indian Academy of Pediatrics (2018)
Founder and National President of the Organized Medicine Academic Guild of India (2017-2018) -
Piprim B. Yanuarso, APPA
President of Indonesian Pediatric Society (2021- to date)
Pediatric Cardiology Consultant, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital (2011-to date)
Founder of Rumah Echo and Rumah Vaksinasi (2012-to date) -
Sara Helen Goza, AAP
Chair of Committee on Development of American Academy of Pediatrics (2022-to date)
President, American Academy of Pediatrics (2020)
Primary Care Committee of The Children’s Care Network (2021-to date) -
Catherine Farrell, CPS
President, Canadian Paediatric Society (2018-2019)
President, Scientific Steering Committee, Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program (2020-to date)
Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Université de Montréal (2019-to date) -
Camilla Kingdon, United Kingdom
President, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) (2021-to date)
Vice President for Education and Professional Development, RCPCH (2018-2021)
Head of the London School of Paediatrics and Child Health (2014-2018) -
Marcela Maria Fama Pereira, ALAPE
President, Sociedad Colombiana de Pediatría (2018 – 2022)
Vice President, Asociación Latinoamericana de Pediatría, ALAPE (2021 – 2024)
Medical Teacher of Child and Adolescent Health, Neonatology area, Universidad del Quindío y, Universidad Alexander von Humboldt. -
Dipesalema Joel, UNAPSA
President, Union of National African Paediatric Societies and Associations (2021 - to date)
Academic Head of Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana (2018-to date)
President of the African Society for Paediatrics and Adolescent Endocrinology (2018 to 2020) -
John Adabie Appiah, UNAPSA
President, Pediatric Society of Ghana (2019 to date)
Lead, WHO/AFRO Team Lead, Case Management COVID-19 in Congo-Brazzaville (2020 -2022)
Founding Head of Unit-Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Department of Child Health (2015-onwards) -
Massimo Pettoello-Mantovani, EPA/UNEPSA
President, European Pediatric Association – the Union of National European Pediatric Societies and Associations (EPA-UNEPSA) (2020-to date)
President of the "Association Pour l’Activitè et la Recherche Scientifiques". Bevaix, Neuchatel, Switzerland (2021-to date)
Vice-President, Italian Academy of Pediatrics (2021-to date) -
Stefano del Torso, EAP, Paediatric Section of U.E.M.S
Primary Care Pediatrician NHS, Padova, Italy (1978 - 2017)
Executive Director European Academy of Paediatrics EAP UEMS PS (2018-to date)
President and Honorary President, Associazione Pediatri di Famiglia per i Bambini del Mondo – CCWWITALIA, Child Care WorldWide ONLUS (2006-to date) -
Koray Boduroğlu, UNPSTR
Past President of the Turkish National Pediatric Society (TNPS) (2018-2021)
President of the Union of Pediatric Societies of Turkish Republics (UNPSTR) (2020-to date)
Head of the Department of Pediatric Genetics, Hacettepe University Institute of Child Health. (2007-to date) -
Erkin Rahimov, UNPSTR
Chair, Azerbaijan Pediatric Society (2021-to date)
Expert in the field of pediatrics to the Ministry of Healthcare of Azerbaijan (2021-to date)
Department Head of Pediatrics, Baku Medical Plaza group, Baku, Azerbaijan (2014-to date) -
Basim Al-Zoubi, UAPS
President, Union of Arab Pediatric Societies (2022-2024)
President, Jordan Pediatric Society (2022-2025)
Head, Pediatric Directorate of MOH (2020-to date) -
Hassan Afilal, UAPS
President of the Moroccan Federation of Pediatrics
President of the Moroccan Society of Pediatrics
Former President of the Union of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Pediatric Societies -
Barbara Rubio, ISSOP
General Secretary, International Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP) (2017-to date)
Associate Professor in Pediatrics: European University of Madrid (2012- to date)
Attending Physician in General & Social Pediatrics Hospital Universitario de Getafe, Madrid, Spain (1991-to date) -
María del Carmen Calle Dávila, IAAH
Executive Secretary of the Andean Health Organism-Hipólito Unanue Agreement ORAS-CONH (2020-2025)
Special Advisor. International Association for Adolescent Health IAAH (2022-2025)
President Peruvian Society for Adolescence and Youth SPAJ (2019-2022) -
Rajeshwar Dayal, ISTP
Professor and Head, Department of Paediatrics, S. N. Medical College, Agra, India (2003-to date)
Member of the Standing Committee, International Society of Tropical Pediatrics (2002-2023)
Co-Chair of IPA SAG on Tuberculosis and HIV (2019-2021) -
Sameh Shehata, WOFAPS
President of World Federation of Associations of Pediatric Surgery (WOFAPS) (2020-2023)
President Egyptian Pediatric Surgery Association (EPSA) (2015-2017)
President International Pediatric Endoscopy Group (IPEG) of Middle East Chapter (2018-2020) -
Manuel Ángel Correa Flores, ALAPE
President of the Mexican Association of Pediatrics (2023-to date)
President of the Mexican Society of Pediatrics SMP (2015-2016)
Professor of Pediatrics National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
