General Pediatric Surgery, Tumors, Trauma and Transplantation

Thyroglossal and Branchial Cysts, Sinuses and Fistulas. - Surgical Manifestations of Parasitic Disease. - Complications of Immunosuppression in Pediatric Surgery. - Surgical Treatment of Severe Head Trauma. - Thyroid and Parathyroid Tumors.

Prem Puri, MS, FRCS, FRCS (ED), FACS, FAAP (Hon.), is Newman Clinical Research Professor at University College Dublin and President of the National Children's Research Centre, Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Dublin. He is also a Fellow at UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, Dublin and Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at Beacon Hospital, Dublin. Professor Puri is President of both the World Federation of Associations of Pediatric Surgeons and the European Paediatric Surgeons Association and Secretary of the International Board of Pediatric Surgical Research. He is Visiting Professor to many universities across the world, including Harvard, Columbia, Indianapolis, Michigan, Colorado, Hong Kong, Toronto, Wisconsin, Atlanta and Fukuoka and has been a Distinguished Overseas Guest Lecturer at 186 scientific meetings. He is Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Surgery International, Associate Editor of the Journal of Pediatric Surgery and the Journal of Medical Case Reports and a member of various other editorial boards. He has authored 9 books/monographs, 105 chapters in textbooks and more than 440 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Franco Soave Gold Medal for his outstanding contribution to Hirschsprung's disease and related disorders; the Gandhi Gold Medal, Denis Brown Gold Medal and Kafka Medal for outstanding contributions to paediatric surgery and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Indian Association of Paediatric Surgeons and the Asian Association of Paediatric Surgeons.