Prof Anders Juul

Clinical Professor, Head of Department of Growth and Reproduction at Rigshospitalet University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Anders Juul is a clinical professor at the University of Copenhagen, and head of the department of growth and reproduction at Rigshospitalet; Copenhagen, Denmark. He is trained as a Paediatric Endocrinologist and EAA-certified Andrologist.

Professor Juul’s research interests include growth and pubertal disorders as well as genetic, epigenetic, and environmental influences on gonadal and adrenal function throughout life. He has published more than 400 scientific papers (H index 71) and supervised more than 20 PhD students.

In 2015, Professor Juul received the prestigious ESPE (European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology) Research Award.

Prof Jovanna Dahlgren

Pediatric Endocrinology and head of Department of Pediatrics as well as Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg, ,

Jovanna Dahlgren is Professor in Pediatric Endocrinology and head of Department of Pediatrics as well as Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg. She has a position as senior consultant in endocrinology, diabetes and obesity at Queen Silvia Children´s Hospital. She has been chair of Swedish Paediatric Endocrine association (BES) and a Member of the CPC at European Society of Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE). She is since a decade the responsible for the Swedish registry for growth hormone treatment in children. Her interest has been to predict the growth response on growth hormone treatment in children born SGA as well as children with rare diseases such as Noonan, Turner, Silver-Russell and Prader-Willi syndrome.

Moreover, her scientific field of interest is perinatal and infancy factors for the metabolic syndrome and obesity. She has coordinated large longitudinal population-based Swedish studies from birth to teenage with different nutritional and growth patterns and mapping changes in the gut and oral microbiota. The focus is to predict the metabolic syndrome in preschool children for early identification and treatment. She is involved in two Swedish national-wide clinical trials on gastric bypass treatment of teenagers.

María Verónica Mericq Guilá

Institute of Maternal and Child Research, Department of Pediatrics, Clinica Las Condes, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Dr. Verónica Mericq is Full Professor at the Maternal and Child Research Institute of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile. She completed her residency in paediatrics at the Hospital Luis Calvo Mackenna Paediatric Hospital (University of Chile) and a fellowship in endocrinology at the Maternal and Child Research Institute (Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile).

She has published over 180 publications in specialized journals and has contributed to nine chapters in endocrinology books.

Dr. Mericq has received several awards during her career. She was recognized as the Outstanding International Physician 2021, in recognition of an outstanding contribution and lifelong commitment to the practice of paediatric clinical endocrinology in a country outside of Europe and the basin of the Mediterranean.