Advisory Board for Asian Parents of Children with Down syndrome

The Advisory Board for "Global Connection

Medicine :

Dr. Siegfried Pueschel:

Dad to Chris

Advisory board for NDSC

Professor of Pediatrics Brown University School of Medicine , Rhode Island

Maria Sustrová:

Mom to Jurko

Advisor and Honorary President of Slovak Down Syndrome Society

Board Member of EDSA - European Down Syndrome Association

Director of Down Syndrome Centre of Slovakia in Bratislava

Professor of Social Work in University Health and Social Services of St. Elisabeth: Bratislava, Slovakia

Dr Balbir Sing:

Dad to Jaspreet

Immediate Past President of Down Syndrome International [DSI]

Advisor & Founding Chairman of Down Syndrome Association

Singapore Board Member National Council of Social Services

Singapore Member of Various Governmental Consultative Committees on Disability / Social Services

Chairman, Local Organizing Committee of 2nd Asia Pacific- IASSID 2009

Dr. Laura Cifra-Bean:

Mom to Christopher

Director NDSC and co-chair of the Professional Advisory Council

Dr. Bhavani:

Medical Advisor for DSA of Singapore

Dr. Naveen Mehotra:

A Child Health Advocate

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UMDNJ

Co-Director SATHI (South Asian Total Health Initiative)- A Program of UMDNJ

Dentistry :

Dr. Sindoor Desai:

Mom to Sujeet

Advisory board on NDSC

Advisory Board on Potential Unlimited Productions

American Academy of Developmental Medicine & Dentistry Board member

Dr. Sharad Desai:

Dad to Sujeet

Specialized in Endodontia & Esthetic Dentistry

American Academy of Developmental Medicine & Dentistry Board Member

Our group web site designer, advisor and support manager

Homeopathy :

Dr. Rajshree Rele:

Homeopathic Practitioner treating patients with various disabilities

Psycologist :

Sue Buckley:

Parent

Emeritus Prof.of Developmental Disability Psychology Department, Univ.Portsmouth UK

Director of Research & Training The Down Syndrome Educational Trust.UK

Laura Cockburn:

Chartered Educational Psychologist

Worked in Singapore & Malaysia for 10 years before returning to London

Haringey Children and Young People's Service

Speech Pathologist :

Dr. Libby Cumin:

Professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology at Loyola College, Maryland.

Founder of the Loyola College Speech and Language Down Syndrome Center for Excellence

Therapies Editor of Down Syndrome Quarterly

Physical Thearpist :

Patricia Winders

Specializeed in the gross motor development of children with Down syndrome

23 years experience at Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, MD

Currently with The Children's Hospital Colorado, USA

Minister :

Bill Gaventa:

Associate Professor,Director The Elizabeth M. Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Resource co-coordinator :

Ms. Zoila Martinez:

parent

Diversity Outreach Resource Coordinator for NDSC

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