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Erik Boot
Erik BootDr. Erik Boot is a physician specialized in intellectual disability medicine and works at the multidisciplinary 22q11.2 clinics for adults at 's Heeren Loo and Maastricht in the Netherlands.
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Ania Fiksinski
Ania FiksinskiAnia Fiksinski (PhD) is a psychologist and researcher based in the Netherlands. She is currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow at Maastricht University and the Wilhelmina Children's Hospital / University Medical Center Utrecht (the Netherlands).
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Emily Gallagher
Emily GallagherDr. Emily Gallagher is a Craniofacial Pediatrician at Seattle Children's Hospital and an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She is the Director of the Seattle Children's 22q Program. Her research focuses on improving neurodevelopmental and academic outcomes for children with 22q Deletion Syndrome and other craniofacial conditions.
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Loydie Jerome-Majewska
Loydie Jerome-MajewskaDr. Loydie Jerome-Majewska is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Her research aims to identify genes responsible for congenital malformations in humans and to delineate the cellular and genetic pathways regulated by these genes.
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Beata Nowakowska
Beata Nowakowska is Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Cytogenetics at the Department of Medical Genetics at the Institute of Mother and Child in Warsaw. Since 2010, her research is focused on the phenotypic variability of patients with 22q11 Deletion Syndrome.
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Sólveig Óskarsdóttir
Sólveig ÓskarsdóttirDr. Sólveig Óskarsdóttir is a specialist in pediatrics and immunology. She has been following children and adolescents with the 22q11 deletion syndrome for nearly 30 years and is the leader of the 22q11-expert team at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Gabriela Repetto
Gabriela RepettoGabriela Repetto, MD is professor of Genetics at Facultad de Medicina, Clinica Alemana Universidad del Desarrollo (CAS-UDD). She leads the Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases Program, aimed at shortening the diagnostic odyssey for families with unknown disorders and implementing genomic testing in Chile.
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Maude Schneider
Maude SchneiderMaude Schneider is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Geneva and is head of the Clinical Psychology Unit for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. She also works as a psychologist and psychotherapist with children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Kathleen Sullivan
Kathleen SullivanDr. Kathleen Sullivan has been at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia since 1993. She is the Division Chief of Allergy Immunology, overseeing one of the largest North American clinics for inborn errors of immunity.
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Marta Unolt
Marta UnoltDr. Unolt is a pediatric cardiologist who currently works at the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Rome, Italy. She collaborated with Prof. Bruno Marino on research about 22q11.2DS and on developing the Program for adolescents and adults with 22q11.2DS, with the help of the Italian Association for Persons with 22q (Aidel22).
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Elfi Vergaelen
Dr. Elfi Vergaelen is an adult psychiatrist specialized in psychosomatic symptoms and intellectual disability. Her PhD research focused on a possible role for the immune system in psychiatric disorders in 22q11. She currently works at the University Psychiatric Center KU Leuven in Leuven, Belgium.
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Jacob Vorstman
Jacob VorstmanJacob Vorstman MD, PhD is an associate professor psychiatry at The Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Canada. He is originally from the Netherlands.
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