Brief CV

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Gonzalo Oliván-Gonzalvo, MD

§ Paediatrician, Consultant, Researcher

§ Expert in Social Pediatrics, Child Abuse, and International Adoption Medicine

§ Director of International Adoption Pediatric Centre, Zaragoza, Spain

§ High Health Career Government Employee, Aragón Autonomous Community Administration, Spain

§ Head, Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine Services, Aragón Social Services Institute, Spain

§ Expert Consultant for Special Commission on International Adoption of Spanish Senate

§ Expert Consultant for Daphne Project Childhood, Disability & Violence of the European Commission

§ Health Expert Consultant for Spanish and Latin American Organisations, Associations and Foundations on International Adoption

§ Health Expert Consultant for Spanish and Latin American Organisations, Associations and Foundations on Child Abuse & Neglect Prevention

§ Member of The Council of Advisors of the Gerson Lehrman Group’s Healthcare Council

§ Member of the LeadPhysician Panel

§ Membership: AEP, SEPEAP, SPS, ACMA, SPARS, ISPCAN

§ Lecturer in professional conferences/meetings on International adoption/Child abuse & neglect topics

§ Author of more than 300 papers published in international and national professional journals/books on topics including:

- Child abuse and neglect

- International adoption

- Foster and residential care

- Immigration and Ethnic minorities

- Juvenile delinquency

- Adolescence and behaviour

- Infectious and parasitic diseases

- Growth

- Nutrition

- Dysmorphology and bone dysplasias

- Neurology and Developmental

- Gastroenterology

- Bone diseases

- Dermatology

- Respiratory and allergy

- Genitourinary diseases

§ Reviewer of manuscripts for professional journals:

- Anales de Pediatría [An Pediatr (Barc)]

- Gaceta Sanitaria [Gac Sanit]

- The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease [J Nerv Ment Dis]

- Acta Paediatrica [Acta Paediatr]

- Boletín Médico del Hospital Infantil de México [Bol Med Hosp Infant Mex]

- Ciencia e Investigación Médica Estudiantil Latinoamericana [CIMEL]

- Acta Pediatrica [Acta Pediatr Esp]

- Anales Españoles de Pediatría [An Esp Pediatr]

§ Medal “2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century - 2004” and Diploma of Recognition by the outstanding contribution in the field of Pediatrics, Child Abuse and Adoption

§ Diploma of Recognition and Honorary Appointment in the Research Board of Advisors of The American Biographical Institute

§ Certificate “Leading Health Professionals of the World – 2005” to the efforts made in the arena of International Adoption Medicine

§ Professional biography listed in Who’s Who in the World, 21^st Edition, 2004 (USA)

§ Professional biography listed in 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century - 2005 - 3rd Edition (England)

§ Websites: www.visualcom.es/olivan-pediatra ; http://www.docvadis.es/doctor.gonzalo.olivan.gonzalvo/index.html

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