Prof. Anne Bassett
Psychiatrist
Toronto, Canada

“The patient’s needs always come first.”

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Dr. Patricia H. Beals
Craniofacial Orthodontist
Phoenix, USA

“Walk by faith, not by sight.”

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Dr. Madeline A. Chadehumbe
Pediatric Neurologist
Philadelphia, USA

“I will stay in the moment and savor it because the future will be waiting for me to face it then.”

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Prof. Brenda Finucane
Genetic Counselor
Lewisburg, USA

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Dr. Paula Goldenberg
Clinical Geneticist and Parent
Boston, USA

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Prof. Richard Kirschner
Pediatric Plastic Surgeon
Columbus, USA

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be beaten.”
– G.K. Chesterton

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Dr. Michele Lambert
Pediatric Hematologist
Philadelphia, USA

“The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

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Prof. Bruno Marino
Pediatric Cardiologist
Rome, Italy

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Prof. Maria Mascarenhas
Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Nutrition Pediatrician, and Integrative Health
Philadelphia, USA

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Prof. Donna McDonald-McGinn
Genetic Counselor
Philadelphia, USA

“It always begins with a patient”

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Prof. Bernice Morrow
Basic Science Geneticist
New York, USA

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Dr. Edward Moss
Neuropsychologist
Bryn Mawr, USA

“Ad astra per aspera” [To the stars, through difficulty]!

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Dr. Sólveig Óskarsdóttir
Pediatrician
Goteborg, Sweden

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Prof. Peter Scambler
Basic Science Geneticist
London, United Kingdom

“The childish urge to understand everything doesn’t necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.”
Clive James

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 Cynthia Solot, MA, CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathology
Philadelphia, USA

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Prof. Kathleen Sullivan
Immunologist
Philadelphia, USA

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” – Heraclitus

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Prof. Ann Swillen
Educational Psychologist
Leuven, Belgium

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Dr. Marta Unolt
Pediatric Cardiologist
Rome, Italy

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Dr. Jacob Vorstman
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Toronto, Canada

“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”
(Mother Theresa)

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