Francesco Chiarelli
Francesco Chiarelli is Professor of Paediatrics at the Department of Paediatrics, University of Chieti, Italy. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Siena, Italy.
His main research interests are in molecular and cellular biology of diabetic angiopathy; in insulin resistance in children; in the early detection of diabetic microangiopathy in children; in obesity and type 2 diabetes in children.
He is author of more than 380 scientific papers on impacted journals, some of which have been published in leading scientific journals such as The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Diabetologia, Clinical Endocrinology, Circulation, ATVB.
He is on the Editorial Board of Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, Pediatric Diabetes, Hormone Research, Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolism.
He is General Secretary of the European Society of Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) for the period 2004-2010 and Member of the WHO Task Force for Childhood Diabetes.
He holds membership in several professional organizations, including the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
Bettina F. Cuneo
During her fellowship, Dr. Cuneo’s research project evaluating the effects of heart rate perturbation on cardiac output in the chick embryo won the Young Investigator Award at the American Academy of Paediatrics in 1989.
Following her fellowship Dr Cuneo became the first full time cardiologist in the Chicago area specializing in diagnosis and care of the fetus with heart disease. She has collaborated with Ronald Wakai, Ph.D. and Janette Strasburger M.D. and together they have developed and advanced the field of “fetal electrophysiology”. Using the technique of magnetocardiography, the findings by this team have provided unique insight into the clinical care and understanding of fetal cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, and have improved the outcome of high risk pregnancies.
Currently, Dr. Cuneo is Associate Professor of Paediatrics and Obstetrics at Rush Medical College and Director of Perinatal Cardiology at The Heart Institute for Children & Advocate Health Care.
Mario Fulcheri
Mario Fulcheri is M.D., psychiatrist, psychotherapist, Full Professor in Clinical Psychology and President of the Master’s Degree Course in "Clinical and Health Psychology" at the University "G. D'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara (Italy). He is partner, founder and delegate adviser of the Counseling for the "University Association for the Development and Formation to the Relationship of Help and Counseling" (AURAC), founded in January 2002. He is fellow of the ICPM (International College of Psychosomatic Medicine) and member of the Italian Psychosomatic Medicine Society (SIMP). He is author of more than 250 publications on international journals and books on psychiatry, psychotherapy and clinical psychology.
Jens Haueisen
Jens Haueisen received a M.S. and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Technical University Ilmenau, Germany, in 1992 and 1996, respectively. From 1996 to 1998 he worked as a Post-Doc and from 1998 to 2005 as the head of the Biomagnetic Center, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany. Since 2005 he is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and directs the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics at the Technical University Ilmenau, Germany.
His research interests are in the numerical computation of bioelectric and biomagnetic fields and biological signal analysis.
Yoshio Okada
Yoshio Okada, PhD, Professor of Neurology and Neurosciences, Director of Biomedical Research and Integrative Neuro-(BRaIN) Imaging Center, University of New Mexico Health Science Center, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA. Dr. Okada received his PhD in 1980 in mathematical psychology from Rockefeller University. He then began his work in MEG and EEG as a postdoctoral scientist at New York University under Samuel Williamson and Lloyd Kaufman. In 1984 he started Magnetophysiology Laboratory at the NYU Medical Center in Dept. Physiology and Biophysics. In 1989 he moved to University of New Mexico as Co-Director of the Center for MEG. In 2001 he started the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence at the UNM Health Science Center. In 2005 he constructed BRaIN Imaging Center in a 1000-m2 state-of-the-art multimodal neuroimaging facility that includes 4.7T MRI, EPR 3D imager, 2-photon optical, patch-clamp electrophysiology, EEG, MEG and cellular/molecular biology. Dr. Okada is an inventor of a neonatal mobile MEG system called babySQUID.
Elina Pihko
Elina Pihko (former Kaukoranta), Ph.D., Docent. She did her PhD (1986) in the Low Temperature Laboratory of Helsinki University of Technology. After these early neuromagnetic studies on somatosensory and pain processing, she studied auditory change detection first with MEG and then with EEG in the University of Jyväskylä (1992-2000), where she got involved in infant studies. In 2000 she joined the BioMag Laboratory in the Helsinki University Central Hospital, where she continued paediatric studies with MEG. Parallel with studies on normal development of auditory language system and somatosensory cortical areas in babies and children, her group has studied, e.g., the effect of rehabilitation on brain responses in children with language and somatomotor problems. Recent focus has been on studies of newborns at risk for neurological sequelae due to preterm birth or fetal exposure to opioids. Currently she is working in the Low Temperature Laboratory.
Hubert Preissl
Hubert Preissl received the diploma in physics and the Ph.D. degree in
physics, both from the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, in
1988 and 1994, respectively. He was with the Max Planck Institute for
Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, until 1994. He then joined the
Institute for Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience, University
of Tübingen. In 1997, he became an Assistant Professor with the MEG
Center, Tübingen. In addition, since 2000, he has been a Project
Director with the Fetal Magnetoencephalography Labratory, Little Rock, AR.
Uwe Schneider
Uwe Schneider, M.D., is Senior Registrar at the Department of Obstetrics of the Friedrich – Schiller University Hospital in Jena (FSU), Germany, where he also received his medical training. In 1996-1997 he has been working at the “Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals’ Medical Schools (UMDS)”, in London (UK). His research interest has always been focused on the evaluation of fetal Auditory Evoked cortical Fields performed by means of fetal Magnetoencephalography, as well as on the study of the development of the fetal autonomic nervous system and its possible disturbances by adverse intrauterine conditions by applying beat-to-beat fetal heart rate variability analysis from fetal magnetocardiographic recordings.
Janette F. Strasburger
Janette Strasburger, M.D., is Director of Cardiac Services for Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin – Fox Valley, and a Professor of PAediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She is a graduate of the University of Nebraska School of Medicine, completed her PAediatric Cardiology and Electrophysiology Fellowships at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas, and served on the faculty of Northwestern University and Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Il. In January 2002, she accepted her present appointment at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. Her research interests are in combined imaging modalities for fetal diagnosis, as well as in fetal electrophysiology. She has collaborated with Ronald T. Wakai, PhD on fetal magnetocardiography projects for over 8 years, and she is currently evaluating simultaneous Doppler echocardiography and fMCG for beat-to-beat electromechanical characteristics of the human fetal heart.
Peter van Leeuwen
Peter van Leeuwen received a BEd in mathematics in 1971 from the Université de Montreal. After teaching, he switched to medical research in 1980 and obtained his PhD in medical science from the University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany in 1989. Here he also obtained his habilitation in electrophysiology in 2005. The main emphasis of his research work has been focused on non-invasive cardiology. Since 1992, he has been head of the Department of Biomagnetism of the Grönemeyer Institute of Microtherapy at the University of Witter/Herdecke, Germany. His research interests include biomagnetism, electrophysiology as well as nonlinear dynamics and he is presently pursuing projects in adult and fetal cardiology.
Ronald T. Wakai
Ronald Wakai is Professor of Medical Physics at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. He received a bachelor's degree in Physics in 1980 from
Cornell Univerisity in Ithaca, New York and a Ph.D. in Physics in 1987 from
the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois. His thesis research was on
the signal and noise properties of microfabricated dc SQUIDs, performed
under the direction of Professor Dale Van Harlingen. In 1987 he moved to
the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he became a postdoctoral
scientist in the Medical Physics department, working under Professor John
Cameron. He joined the faculty the following year. His group was one of
the first to apply MCG and MEG to the fetus and neonate, and he has devoted
most of his career to research in these areas. He has held a joint
appointment with the Neurology Department at UW-Madison and Visiting
Professor appointments with the University of Sao Paulo-Ribeirao Preto.