Todd Ponsky is currently Professor of Surgery at the University of Cincinnati and a pediatric surgeon at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Akron Children’s Hospital. He is the Director of Clinical Growth and Transformation at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. He attended medical school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio from 1995-1999,Residency in General Surgery at The George Washington University in Washington, DC from 1999-2005, Pediatric Surgery Fellowship at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC from 2005-2007,and an Advanced Minimally Invasive Pediatric Surgery Fellowship at The Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children in Denver, CO from 2007-2008. Dr. Ponsky was the first to perform and report single port surgery in children and modernized the methods of the laparoscopic pediatric hernia repair. He has published over 125 manuscripts, edited 3 textbooks, and authored over 30 book chapters. He has directed over 50 national/international courses and has given over 200 visiting lectureships. He is the Associate Editor for The Journal of Pediatric Surgery, and serves on three editorial boards. He is the immediate past president of the International Pediatric Endosurgery Group (IPEG) and holds, or has held, leadership positions in the American College of Surgeons (ACS), the American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA), the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) and the International Society for Pediatric Innovation (iSPI). He has won numerous faculty teaching awards. He is involved in both outcomes and animal research with a focus on inguinal hernia physiology, surgical telementoring, endoscopic repair techniques for pure esophageal atresia, and innovations in education. He founded GlobalcastMD and Stay Current in Surgery, both of which serve to democratize and internationalize medical knowledge and modernize the way we teach and learn surgery.

Dr. von Allmen is the Senior Vice President of Surgical Services and Surgeon-in-Chief at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Additionally, Dr. von Allmen holds the Lester W. Martin Chair of Pediatric Surgery. His special clinical interests include pediatric surgical oncology, pediatric inflammatory bowel disease, esophageal disorders, surgical innovation and surgical robotics. He has been a long term participant in the Surgical Section of the Children's Oncology group, the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America and the International Pediatric Endosurgery Group.

Dr. Ehrlich is board certified in Pediatric Surgery. Dr. Ehrlich's is recognized as a world expert in the treatment of children with Wilms and Renal tumors. Dr. Ehrlich is the chair of Surgery for Renal tumors and Hodgkin's lymphoma for the National Institute of Health Children's Oncology Group. Dr. Ehrlich also serves as Director of Pediatric Trauma at CS Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan and Co lead of the Pediatric Colorectal Program. Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Consultant Pediatric Surgery, University of Rome, Italy.

Pediatric Surgeon at St. Jude Children's Research HospitalSt. Jude Endowed Chair in Surgical ResearchDivision Chief, General Pediatric SurgeryDirector, Surgical Research. Memphis, Tennessee.

Director of the Division of Pediatric Urology, surgeon-in-chief at Connecticut Children's Medical Center and vice chairman of the Department of Surgery at UConn Health Center. Hartford, Connecticut

University Hospital Hoppe-Seyler StrasseTuebingen, Germany

Professor of Surgery and Executive Director, Medical Innovation Center, University of Michigan Health System. Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Medical Director, Kidney and Liver Tumors ProgramCo-Medical Director, Retinoblastoma ProgramAssociate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio

Associate Professor of Surgery, Dept of Pediatric Surgery, Marciniak Hospital, Wroclaw, Poland.

Assistant in SurgeryChief of Division, Pediatric Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine. Boston, Massachusetts.

Associate Professor in both the Department of Pediatric Surgery at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston and in Surgical Oncology and Pediatrics at the University of Texas, Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Professor of Paediatric Surgery and HeadPaediatric Surgical Centre of AmsterdamEmma Children's Hospital AMC and VU University Medical CentreAmsterdam, The Netherlands

Professor of Radiology, University of Washington. Seattle, Washington

Medical Director of The Integrative Therapies Program for Children with Cancer. She is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center, Children's Hospital of New York- Presbyterian, New York, New York.

Director Divisional Research, Akron Children's Hospital, Akron, Ohio

Chief, Pediatric Surgical Service; Joseph H. Burchenal Chair in Pediatrics. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.

Pediatric Surgery, Primary Children’s Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah

Assistant Professor and Edith Briskin Emerging Scholar, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Co-Director of Neuroblastoma Research GroupSurgical Co-Investigator, Pediatric Oncology Group Professor of Pediatrics Professor of Surgery, Texas Children's Clinical Care Center. Houston, Texas

Internal Medicine, OSF Healthcare System, Pioria, Illinois

Robert Shamberger received his MD from Harvard Medical School. He completed an internship and residency in surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a fellowship in pediatric surgery at Children's Hospital Boston and a surgical oncology fellowship at the National Cancer Institute, Bathesda, MD.