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:


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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His research interests include surgical treatment of lung cancer and individualized treatment of lung cancer based on cancer genotypes such as EGFR mutations or ALK translocations. His group is also involved in studies of ctDNA and patient-derived organoids. He has published more than 400 papers that have featured in international peer-reviewed journals.
He is President of IASLC(2019-2021) and is an active member of AACR, ASCO, ESMO. He also served as President of Japanese Lung Cancer Society (2014-2018), Board of Director of Japanese Association of Chest Surgery (2013-2019), and Japanese Society of Medical Oncology (2013-2019). He is also a council member of the Japanese Surgical Society, Japanese Cancer Association, Japanese Association of Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Society of Clinical oncology, Japan Respiratory Society, etc.
Dr. Mitsudomi is an Associate Editor of Ann. Oncol. (2014-2019), Journal of Thoracic Oncology (2017-), Cancer Science (2007-), Surgery Today, and Lung Cancer (2008-2013). He is also an editorial board of Clinical Cancer Research.
He is a recipient of the Shinoi-Kawai Award from the Japan Lung Cancer Society (2001), JCA–Mauvernay Award from the Japanese Cancer Association (2005), Mary Matthews Award from the IASLC (2013), and Kiyoko and Paul Bourdarie-Goto Scientific Prize (2014).