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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers
Pages 83-100
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She has introduced programs and international standardized instruments for screening, diagnosing, providing quality treatment services, and increasing professional capacities for children with autism spectrum disorder, and she has developed academic editions to strengthen inclusive programs and multiple efforts at the international level coordinating and establishing a sustainable national model 83
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, the Expert Advisory Group for Vaccine Research, the Advisory Committee for Health Research of WHO EMRO, and a cochair of its apex Regional Committee for Maternal and Child Health. He has won several awards, including the Aga Khan University Awards for Research (2005)
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Dr. Borisova obtained her doctoral degree in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University and prior to joining Save the Children, worked as an international consultant with numerous development agencies, including World Education and the International Rescue Committee.
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. Ariel Como, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Tirana Medical University, is currently clinical Head of Psychiatry Division, Department of Neuroscience, Tirana University Hospital Center "Mother Tereza." Since November 2014 he has been Deputy Dean for Continuing Medical Education at the Faculty of Medicine, Tirana Medical University; a member of the Directors' Council of postgraduate schools in Neurosciences (including General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
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She is the past president of the Early Researchers Union of the European Association of Developmental Psychology and current representative of the Early Career Council at the Society for Research in Child Development, the Society for the Study of Human Development, European Association for Research on Adolescence, the Society for Research on Adolescence's Study Group Committee, Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood Early Career Committee, and Advisory Board of the Global Network for Human Development. Lidija Dojcinovska, M.A., has a bachelor's degree in special education and rehabilitation and a master's degree in social policy with focus on inclusive education.
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Dr. Greger has been involved in many national and international projects and served as an advisor for the European Commission, OECD, Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, and for several nongovernmental organizations.
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Dr. Hix-Small was formerly with Open Society Foundations in London, England, where she managed the organization's early childhood intervention portfolio in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia from 2011 to 2014.
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She is currently co-investigator on a project to develop an international tool for monitoring child development, funded by the National Institutes of Health. Vesna Kutlesic, Ph.D., is the Director of the Office of Global Health at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
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She held different positions within the district level, the Institute of Mother and Child Health Care, the Ministry of Health, and UNICEF Moldova. She was involved in national and international projects regarding child protection and the residential child care system, and she coordinated the evaluations of all residential institutions from Moldova (during 1998– 1999, 2006–2007, and 2013)
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She formerly served on the BCYF Committee on the Impact of Mobility and Change on the Lives of Young Children, Schools, and Neighborhoods and planning committee on Investing in Young Children Globally. She also has served as President of the Society for Research in Child Development and President of Division 7 (Developmental)
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Eskinder Negash is a recognized senior executive leader and brings more than 35 years of proven not-for-profit management experience working on behalf of refugees and immigrants, and managing nonprofit social service agencies.
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and Tourette's syndrome and related comorbidities. She is the Project Director of Legacy for Children, CDC's national program to promote optimal child development outcomes in low-income families.
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She was recently involved in a mapping of services for young children with disabilities or develop mental difficulties in CEE/CIS. With a doctorate in developmental psychology and master's degree in International Public Health, she has managed maternal and child health communicable and noncommunicable disease programs in the nongovernmental organization sector for more than 20 years.
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She is actively seeking to change the system of care for vulnerable children in the Czech Republic. She participated in the preparation of the nongovernmental organization report on the United Nations Children's Rights Convention, and presented it at the Committee on the Rights of the Child meeting in 2011.
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from Columbia Law School. Emily Vargas-Baron, Ph.D., directs The RISE Institute, a global authority on policy development and research in early childhood development (ECD)
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He currently coordinates the Early Childhood Development Task Force for the Global Partnership on Children with Disabilities providing access to an international network of policy, program, and research advocates for inclusive early childhood development. He has served as senior consultant since 1998 at the Educational Resource Center for Children with Disabilities in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, providing professional development for Ukrainian colleagues' pioneering efforts in communitybased services for children with disabilities and their families.
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In 2009, Dr. Zorcec was appointed as National Coordinator for Autism by the Macedonian Ministry of Health.
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