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.

Director, Heart Institute Digital Media and 3D Modeling Program, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati

Telehealth Consultant, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Member, Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics, University of Cincinnati

Member, Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics, University of Cincinnati

Assistant Director, Pediatric Residency Training Program, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati

Pediatrician, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI)

Associate Director of Research, Department of Anesthesia; Director of Accreditation and Quality Improvement for Procedural Sedation; Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (Cincinnati, OH)

Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer, Sharon Disney Lund Medical Intelligence and Innovation Institute (MI3), Medical Director of the Heart Failure Program, CHOC Children’s (Orange, CA)

Member, Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Immune Deficiency, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (Cincinnati, OH)

Global Lead for Hospitals and Clinical Partnerships, NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA)

Senior Director, Center for Telehealth, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, OH)

Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine; Vice President of Education, CSurgeries; Vice President, Medical Director, Level Ex, Inc. (Chicago, IL)

Assistant Professor of Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine (Philadelphia, PA)

Assistant Professor, The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)

Director, Congenital Heart Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Heart Institute; Clark-Helmsworth Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (Cincinnati, OH)

Staff Physician, Director of Translational Engineering, Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children; Project Investigator Translational Medicine, Research Institute; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

Divisions of Immunobiology and Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (Cincinnati, OH)

Vice Chair of Operations and Quality, Department of Radiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (Cincinnati, OH)

Meghan Rauen has been involved in Rare disease, birth defects, patient advocacy and healthcare communications for ongoing 11 years. Meghan serves as the CEO/Founder of Avery's Angels Gastroschisis Foundation in addition to being a practicing Clinical Mental Health Counselor specializing in Palliative Care. Meghan received her Masters in Bioethics ('15) and Clinical Mental Health Counseling ('19) from Wake Forest University. Meghan resides in North Carolina with her husband and 3 children.

Stanford Ascherman Professor and Chair of Genetics, Director of the Center of Genomics and Personalized Medicine, Stanford University (Stanford, CA)

Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Center for Healthcare Innovations, Wake Forest School of Medicine (Winston-Salem, NC)

Attending Physician, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (Cincinnati, OH)

Attending Physician, Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (Cincinnati, OH)