Breastfeeding and Metabolic Programming

Despina Briana
MD, Associate Professor in Pediatrics-Neonatology, Consultant in Neonatology, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Third Department of Pediatrics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She graduated from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School with an “Excellent” degree at 2000. She was licensed in Full Clinical Practice at UK in 2008, in General Pediatrics by Board of Pediatrics in 2009, and in Neonatal Intensive Care in 2012. She was participated in several funded national and international research protocols and clinical trials since 200^50 Greek Congresses as an Invited speaker. She had participated more than 100 studies in International Congress and 80 studies in Greek Congresses.She is working as associate editor for the “Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine” and Editor for “Frontiers in Reproductive Health” journals. She has many awards and administrative skills. Her ongoing responsibilities are teaching medical students and pediatric residents at Third Department of Pediatrics, NKUA, teaching in the Master’s Degree PhD programs.

Gian Carlo Di Renzo
MD, PhD, FRCOG (hon) FACOG (hon) FICOG (hon); Secretary General of NESA, Universities of Perugia, Italy and Moscow, Russia. Prof. Di Renzo is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maternal Fetal Medicine, Coordinator of the Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine Center at the University of Perugia and Founder and Director of the Permanent International and European School of Perinatal and Reproductive Medicine (PREIS) in Florence. He is also full Professor at the Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the I.M. Sechenov First State University of Moscow since 2019 and at Ott Research Institute of St Petersburg, Russia since 2022. He is coordinating the Women’s Library (GLOWM) Educational platform of FIGO after being General Secretary for two terms (2012-2018. He is Secretary General of the New European Surgical Academy (NESA) since 2010. He holds multiple other positions including Founder & Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Maternal Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, corresponding Editor of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Hon Editor in Chief of the Chinese Journal “Maternal Fetal-Medicine”. He was an Advisory Board Member for the March of Dimes Foundation based in New York (2012-2018). Further, he is honorary member of 42 different scientific societies among which a fellow ad eundem of RCOG and a Honorary Fellow of American ACOG and of Indian ICOG. He is also member of the WHO Strategic Committee on “Maternal and Perinatal health”. Prof. Di Renzo is an Honorary Professor and Doctor Honoris Causa in Medicine and Surgery at respectively 15 and 6 different Universities throughout Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States. He is an Academic Member of the Romanian and Russian Academy of Sciences. Prof. Di Renzo has received six awards for his work in human reproduction and maternal-infant's health, scientific research, and teaching. He has organized more than 400 international congresses and courses, some of these are held regularly as Diabetes in Pregnancy: DIP, Birth, World Congress of Maternal Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, TWINS. His scientific production comprises over 1,500 papers of which more than 470 have been published in peer reviewed international journals and more than 100 books. He has been an invited speaker in over 1,500 national and international congresses and meetings and in academic courses in over 115 countries.