Conference Speakers
Cultural Speakers
Cultural practices, beliefs, and norms play a very important role not only in delivering health care to clients and patients, but also in how that health care is received and what outcomes are possible. Diversity within those beliefs and practices, and as a result of available resources or social economic/demographic circumstances, must be fully understood in order for health care professionals to provide the best care possible no matter where they are in the world, or what culture they are practicing within.
At GOLD Perinatal Care, we understand the importance of Culture and Diversity in health care, and we are working hard to bring you speakers and presentations from around the world that will help you understand the patients and clients you are working with. Discovering how health care is provided and received in other countries and cultures around the world can have a positive impact on our own professional practice. Given that culture is defined by much more than political borders, GOLD Perinatal Care invites speakers to share their knowledge and expertise about perinatal health care from a geographically-based focus or a people-group focus from within a particular set of beliefs, lifestyle or minority. This year, our Culture and Diversity speakers will be presenting on:
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Annet Mulder first became interested in breastfeeding in the year 2000, when she became a mother for the first time. During and because of her own breastfeeding experiences, in 2002 she became a volunteer with the Dutch breastfeeding Organization and in 2008 sat for and passed the exam administered by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners. As an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, she now
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Dr. Adjei’s research is focused on experimental therapeutics and clinical drug development. He received the first American Society of Clinical Oncology Drug Development Research Professorship 2012-2017, in recognition of his mentorship and his work in cancer drug development. He also received the inaugural IASLC Adi F. Gazdar Merit Award for Distinguished Service in Lung Cancer, in 2020. He has authored 290 publications dealing primarily with preclinical pharmacology and phase I trials as well as novel therapies for lung cancer.
Dr. Chandra Belani is the Chief Science Officer of the IASLC. He directs the IASLC's scientific strategy, including research projects, publications, educational content for conferences. Dr. Belani also serves as a spokesperson for the IASLC at conferences, with the media and in meetings with partners and the community. Dr. Belani is also currently a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology in the Department of Medicine at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine in Hershey, PA. He is a lung cancer expert and a recognized thought leader.
IASLC President, Dr. Tetsuya Mitsudomi, is a Professor of Thoracic Surgery at Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Japan.
Recipient of many prestigious awards, his current research interests include precision treatment of lung cancer based on cancer genotypes such as EGFR mutations or ALK translocations. He has published more than 400 papers in international peer-reviewed journals.
