IPA Officers and Executives

  • President

    Enver Hasanoglu, Turkey

    Secretary-General of Union of National Pediatric Societies of Turkish Republics (UNPSTR)
    Secretary-General of Turkish National Pediatric Society (TNPS)
    Secretary-General of Union of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Pediatric Societies (UMEMPS)

  • Executive Director

    Aman Pulungan, Indonesia

    President of Asia Pacific Pediatric Association
    President of Indonesian Pediatric Society
    NCD Child Governing Council

  • President-Elect

    Naveen Thacker, India

    Executive Director of International Pediatric Association (2019 – 2021)
    Member of Indian Expert Advisory Group on Polio Eradication (IEAG), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India (2002- 2012)
    CSO representative to the GAVI Alliance Board (2015-2017)

  • Treasurer

    Jonathan Klein, USA

    North American Vice President, International Association for Adolescent Health
    Associate Executive Director of American Academy of Pediatrics (2009 – 2017)
    Past Chair of NCD Child (2017 – 2020)

  • Coordinator of Development

    Linda Arnold, USA

    PI and Founding Director, IPA LEAD: Child Health Emerging Leaders Program
    Founding Co-Chair, Pediatric Academic Societies Global Scholarship in Pediatrics Across Networks (PAS G-SPAN)
    Global Health Task Force (ABP GHTF), American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) (2016-2019)

IPA Executive Committee
(Also members of Standing Committee)

  • Enver Hasanoglu, Turkey

    Secretary-General of Union of National Pediatric Societies of Turkish Republics (UNPSTR)
    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
    President of Indonesian Pediatric Society
    NCD Child Governing Council

  • Naveen Thacker, India

    Executive Director of International Pediatric Association (2019 – 2021)
    Member of Indian Expert Advisory Group on Polio Eradication (IEAG), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India (2002- 2012)
    CSO representative to the GAVI Alliance Board (2015-2017)

  • Errol Alden, USA

    Chairman of Health Constituency Professions Associations (HCPA) of the Partnership for Maternal and Neonatal Child Health (PMNCH-WHO)
    Past President of International Pediatric Associations (2019-2021)
    Executive Director of American Academy of Pediatrics (2004-2015)

  • Jonathan D Klein, USA

    North American Vice President, International Association for Adolescent Health
    Associate Executive Director of American Academy of Pediatrics (2009 – 2017)
    Past Chair of NCD Child (2017 – 2020)

  • Linda D Arnold, USA

    PI and Founding Director, IPA LEAD: Child Health Emerging Leaders Program
    Founding Co-Chair, Pediatric Academic Societies Global Scholarship in Pediatrics Across Networks (PAS G-SPAN)
    Global Health Task Force (ABP GHTF), American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) (2016-2019)

  • Bakul J Parekh, India

    Honorary Secretary-General, South Asian Pediatric Association (2018-2019)
    National President of Congress Indian Academy Pediatrics (CIAP) 2020
    Past President of Indian Academy Pediatrics (IAP) Mumbai

  • Joseph Haddad, Lebanon

    President of the Union of Arab Pediatric Societies UAPS
    Ex-President of UMEMS (2013-2017)
    Ex President of the Lebanese Pediatric Society (2012-2014)

  • Leyla Namazova-Baranova, Russia

    President of the Union of Pediatricians of Russia
    Past President of the European Paediatric Association (EPA/UNEPSA)
    Vice President of the Global Pediatric Pulmonology Alliance (GPPA)

IPA Standing Committee

  • Manzoor Hussain, Bangladesh (APPA)

    President of Bangladesh Paediatric Association (BPA)
    President of Paediatric Cardiac Society of Bangladesh (PCSB)
    President of Bangladesh Society for Paediatric Infectious Disease (BSPID)

  • M. Ashraf Sultan, Pakistan (APPA)

    Standing Committee Member of Asia Pacific Pediatric Association (APPA)
    Central Executive Committee Member of Pakistan Pediatric Association (PPA)
    Patron Infectious Diseases Group of PPA

  • Yasuhide Nakamura, Japan (APPA)

    President of Friends of WHO Japan
    Board member of National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM)
    Professor at Konan Women’s University and School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

  • Iqbal Ahmad Memon, Pakistan(APPA)

    President of Asia Pacific Pediatric Association (APPA)
    Past President of Pakistan Pediatric Association (PPA)
    Professor and Head of Department of Pediatrics in Sir Syed Medical College, Karachi

  • Kyle Yasuda, US (AAP)
  • Sam Wong, Canada (CPS)

    President of Canadian Pediatric Society
    Member at Large, Alberta Medical Association Section of Pediatrics
    Clinical Professor in Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Canada

  • Sara Goza, US (AAP)

    Chair of Committee on Development of American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
    Past President and Board Member of American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
    Primary Care Committee of The Children’s Care Network

  • Oswaldo Revelo, El Savador (ALAPE)

    President of Asociacion Latinoamericana de Pediatria (ALAPE)
    Past President of Asociacion de Pediatria de El Salvador
    Professor at Universidad de El Salvador School of Medicine

  • Carlos G A Rivera, Mexico (ALAPE)

    Vice President of Asociación Latinoamericana de Pediatría (ALAPE)
    Past President de la Confederación Nacional de Pediatría de México (CONAPEME)
    Past President of Sociedad Mexicana de Neurología Pediátrica

  • Madeleine A Folquet, Côte d'Ivoire (UNAPSA)

    President of UNAPSA
    Vice President of Ivorian Pediatric Society
    Profesor of Paediatric at Felix Houphouët Boigny University in Abidjan Côte 2017 d’Ivoire

  • Ousmane Ndiaye, Senegal (UNAPSA)

    President of Senegalese Pediatric Society (SOSEPED)
    Past- President of APANF (Association des Pédiatres d’Afrique Noire Francophone)
    Director of the African Center of Excellence for Mother and Child Health (CEA- SAMEF)

  • Adamos Hadjipanayis, Cyprus (EAP/PS-UEMS)

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

  • Mansour Bahrami, Iran (UNPSTR)

    President of Iranian Society of Pediatrics
    Editor in Chief of Journal of Comprehensive Pediatrics
    Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences

  • Koray Boduroglu, Turkey (UNPSTR)

    President of the Turkish National Pediatric Society (TNPS)
    President of the Union of Pediatric Societies of Turkish Republics (UNPSTR)
    Director of Hacettepe University Medical Genetics Research Center

  • Abdulsalam Abu-Libdeh, Palestine (UAPS)

    President of Pediatric Society – Palestine
    Secretary General of Union of Arab Pediatric Societies (UAPS) (2018)
    Senior lecturer & Consultant at Hadassah University Hospital (2014)

  • Kevin Forsyth, Australia (IPALA)

    President of International Pediatric Academic Leaders Association (IPALA)
    Co-Chair of Global Pertussis Initiative
    Chair of Scientific Committee of Children’s Research Foundation

  • Berthold V Koletzko, Germany (FISPGHAN)

    President of Federation of International Societies for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
    Chair, Secondary-Tertiary Care Council and Executive Committee Member, European Academy of Paediatrics/Union of European Medical Specialists, Section of Paediatrics
    Chair of Committee on Nutrition, German Society Paediatrics

  • Raúl G Mercer, Argentina (ISSOP)

    Editorial Board of ISSOP e-bulletin
    Committee of Social Pediatrics at ALAPE
    Coordinator of Program of Social Sciences and Health at FLACSO (Latin American School of Social Sciences), Argentina

  • Susan Sawyer, Australia (IAAH)

    President of International Association for Adolescent Health
    Council member of Royal Australasian College of Physicians
    Member of World Health Organization South East Asia Regional Office, Technical Advisory Committee on Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health

  • Mortada El-Shabrawi, Egypt (ISTP)

    President of International Society of Tropical Pediatrics (ISTP)
    Professor of Pediatrics at the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt
    American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD) and European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL)

  • Sameh Shehata, Egypt (WOFAPS)

    President of World Federation of Associations of Pediatric Surgery (WOFAPS)
    Past President Egyptian Pediatric Surgery Association (EPSA)
    Past President International Pediatric Endoscopy Group (IPEG) of Middle East Chapter