IPA Officers and Executives

  • President

    Naveen Thacker, India

    Executive Director of the International Pediatric Association (2019 – 2021)
    Member of the Scientific Committee of Advanced Vaccinology Course (2020 - to date)
    Member of the Steering Committee of the International Collaboration on Advanced Vaccinology training (ICAVT)

  • President-Elect

    Joseph Haddad, Lebanon

    President of the Union of Arab Pediatric Societies (UAPS) (2017-2022)
    President of Union of Mediterranean and Middle East Pediatric Societies (UMEMPS) (2013-2017)
    President of the Lebanese Pediatric Society (2012-2014, 2018-2020)

  • Executive Director

    Aman Pulungan, Indonesia

    President of Asia Pacific Pediatric Association (2018-2022)
    President of Indonesian Pediatric Society (2014-2021)
    President of Asia Pacific Pediatric Endocrinology Society (2010-2012)

  • Coordinator of Development

    Adamos Hadjipanayis, Cyprus

    President of the European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP) (2018- to date)
    Associate Professor of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, European University Cyprus (2011- to date)
    Director of Paediatric Clinic - Larnaca General Hospital, Cyprus (2020- to date)

  • Treasurer

    Jonathan Klein, USA

    President, International Association for Adolescent Health (2021 - 2025)
    Associate Executive Director of American Academy of Pediatrics (2009 – 2017)
    Chair of NCD Child (2017 – 2020)

IPA Executive Committee
(Also members of Standing Committee)

  • Naveen Thacker, India

    Executive Director of the International Pediatric Association (2019 – 2021)
    Member of the Scientific Committee of Advanced Vaccinology Course (2020 - to date)
    Member of the Steering Committee of the International Collaboration on Advanced Vaccinology training (ICAVT)

  • Joseph Haddad, Lebanon

    President of the Union of Arab Pediatric Societies (UAPS) (2017-2022)
    President of Union of Mediterranean and Middle East Pediatric Societies (UMEMPS) (2013-2017)
    President of the Lebanese Pediatric Society (2012-2014, 2018-2020)

  • Enver Hasanoğlu, Turkey

    Immediate Past President of the International Pediatric Association
    Secretary-General of Turkish National Pediatric Society (TNPS)
    Secretary-General of Union of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Pediatric Societies (UMEMPS)

  • Aman Pulungan, Indonesia

    President of Asia Pacific Pediatric Association (2018-2022)
    President of Indonesian Pediatric Society (2014-2021)
    President of Asia Pacific Pediatric Endocrinology Society (2010-2012)

  • Adamos Hadjipanayis, Cyprus

    President of the European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP) (2018- to date)
    Associate Professor of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, European University Cyprus (2011- to date)
    Director of Paediatric Clinic - Larnaca General Hospital, Cyprus (2020- to date)

  • Jonathan Klein, USA

    President, International Association for Adolescent Health (2021 - 2025)
    Associate Executive Director of American Academy of Pediatrics (2009 – 2017)
    Chair of NCD Child (2017 – 2020)

  • Amy Gray, Australia

    Deputy Head, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne (2022-to date)
    Director of the Education Hub, The Royal Children’s Hospital (2018-to date)
    Co-chair, Melbourne Children’s Global Health (2022-to date)

  • Carlos G. Alonso-Rivera, Mexico

    President of Latin American Pediatric Society (ALAPE) (2021-2024)
    President of Mexican National Confederation of Pediatrics (2014-2016)
    President of Mexican Pediatric Neurology Society (2007-2009)

  • Ana Beatriz Rosas Sumano, Mexico

    President of National Confederation of Pediatrics of México (CONAPEME) (2023-2024)
    President of Southeastern Federation of Pediatrics, CONAPEME (2016-2018)
    Vice president of National Confederation of Pediatrics of México (2020-2022)

IPA Standing Committee

  • Iqbal Ahmad Memon, APPA

    President of Asia Pacific Pediatric Association (2022-2024)
    President of Pakistan Pediatric Association (2012-2014)
    Professor and Head of Department of Pediatrics in Sir Syed Medical College, Karachi (2012-to date)

  • Muhammad Ashraf Sultan, APPA

    Standing Committee Member of Asia Pacific Pediatric Association (APPA) (2018 – to date)
    Founder and Chairman, Infectious Diseases Group of Pakistan Pediatric Association (2000 – 2012)
    Editor in Chief, Asia Pacific Journal of Pediatrics and Child Health (2015-to date)

  • Nitin Kapur, APPA

    President of the Paediatric & Child Health Division of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (2022-2025)
    Director of Paediatric Education and the Director of Clinical Training, Queensland Children’s Hospital (2013-to date)
    Professor with the School of Medicine, University of Queensland (2022 -to date)

  • Santosh T. Soans, APPA

    Professor and HOD, Department of Pediatrics, A.J. Institute of Medical Sciences, Mangalore, India (2004-to date)
    National President, Indian Academy of Pediatrics (2018)
    Founder and National President of the Organized Medicine Academic Guild of India (2017-2018)

  • Piprim B. Yanuarso, APPA

    President of Indonesian Pediatric Society (2021- to date)
    Pediatric Cardiology Consultant, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital (2011-to date)
    Founder of Rumah Echo and Rumah Vaksinasi (2012-to date)

  • Sara Helen Goza, AAP

    Chair of Committee on Development of American Academy of Pediatrics (2022-to date)
    President, American Academy of Pediatrics (2020)
    Primary Care Committee of The Children’s Care Network (2021-to date)

  • Catherine Farrell, CPS

    President, Canadian Paediatric Society (2018-2019)
    President, Scientific Steering Committee, Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program (2020-to date)
    Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Université de Montréal (2019-to date)

  • Camilla Kingdon, United Kingdom

    President, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) (2021-to date)
    Vice President for Education and Professional Development, RCPCH (2018-2021)
    Head of the London School of Paediatrics and Child Health (2014-2018)

  • Marcela Maria Fama Pereira, ALAPE

    President, Sociedad Colombiana de Pediatría (2018 – 2022)
    Vice President, Asociación Latinoamericana de Pediatría, ALAPE (2021 – 2024)
    Medical Teacher of Child and Adolescent Health, Neonatology area, Universidad del Quindío y, Universidad Alexander von Humboldt.

  • Dipesalema Joel, UNAPSA

    President, Union of National African Paediatric Societies and Associations (2021 - to date)
    Academic Head of Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana (2018-to date)
    President of the African Society for Paediatrics and Adolescent Endocrinology (2018 to 2020)

  • John Adabie Appiah, UNAPSA

    President, Pediatric Society of Ghana (2019 to date)
    Lead, WHO/AFRO Team Lead, Case Management COVID-19 in Congo-Brazzaville (2020 -2022)
    Founding Head of Unit-Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Department of Child Health (2015-onwards)

  • Massimo Pettoello-Mantovani, EPA/UNEPSA

    President, European Pediatric Association – the Union of National European Pediatric Societies and Associations (EPA-UNEPSA) (2020-to date)
    President of the "Association Pour l’Activitè et la Recherche Scientifiques". Bevaix, Neuchatel, Switzerland (2021-to date)
    Vice-President, Italian Academy of Pediatrics (2021-to date)

  • Stefano del Torso, EAP, Paediatric Section of U.E.M.S

    Primary Care Pediatrician NHS, Padova, Italy (1978 - 2017)
    Executive Director European Academy of Paediatrics EAP UEMS PS (2018-to date)
    President and Honorary President, Associazione Pediatri di Famiglia per i Bambini del Mondo – CCWWITALIA, Child Care WorldWide ONLUS (2006-to date)

  • Koray Boduroğlu, UNPSTR

    Past President of the Turkish National Pediatric Society (TNPS) (2018-2021)
    President of the Union of Pediatric Societies of Turkish Republics (UNPSTR) (2020-to date)
    Head of the Department of Pediatric Genetics, Hacettepe University Institute of Child Health. (2007-to date)

  • Erkin Rahimov, UNPSTR

    Chair, Azerbaijan Pediatric Society (2021-to date)
    Expert in the field of pediatrics to the Ministry of Healthcare of Azerbaijan (2021-to date)
    Department Head of Pediatrics, Baku Medical Plaza group, Baku, Azerbaijan (2014-to date)

  • Basim Al-Zoubi, UAPS

    President, Union of Arab Pediatric Societies (2022-2024)
    President, Jordan Pediatric Society (2022-2025)
    Head, Pediatric Directorate of MOH (2020-to date)

  • Hassan Afilal, UAPS

    President of the Moroccan Federation of Pediatrics
    President of the Moroccan Society of Pediatrics
    Former President of the Union of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Pediatric Societies

  • Barbara Rubio, ISSOP

    General Secretary, International Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP) (2017-to date)
    Associate Professor in Pediatrics: European University of Madrid (2012- to date)
    Attending Physician in General & Social Pediatrics Hospital Universitario de Getafe, Madrid, Spain (1991-to date)

  • María del Carmen Calle Dávila, IAAH

    Executive Secretary of the Andean Health Organism-Hipólito Unanue Agreement ORAS-CONH (2020-2025)
    Special Advisor. International Association for Adolescent Health IAAH (2022-2025)
    President Peruvian Society for Adolescence and Youth SPAJ (2019-2022)

  • Rajeshwar Dayal, ISTP

    Professor and Head, Department of Paediatrics, S. N. Medical College, Agra, India (2003-to date)
    Member of the Standing Committee, International Society of Tropical Pediatrics (2002-2023)
    Co-Chair of IPA SAG on Tuberculosis and HIV (2019-2021)

  • Sameh Shehata, WOFAPS

    President of World Federation of Associations of Pediatric Surgery (WOFAPS) (2020-2023)
    President Egyptian Pediatric Surgery Association (EPSA) (2015-2017)
    President International Pediatric Endoscopy Group (IPEG) of Middle East Chapter (2018-2020)

  • Manuel Ángel Correa Flores, ALAPE

    President of the Mexican Association of Pediatrics (2023-to date)
    President of the Mexican Society of Pediatrics SMP (2015-2016)
    Professor of Pediatrics National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)