European Journal of Pediatrics - Meet the Editors of EJPE
Peter de Winter, MD, PhD, Spaarne Gasthuis, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands and Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium
Editor-in-Chief
He has been involved in childcare for over twenty years, explicitly focusing on neonatology. His journey began with pieces of training in Leiden, Rotterdam and The Hague locations. He pursued a career as a neonatologist in Utrecht before finding his way to Spaarne Hospital Haarlem in 2001. His primary areas of interest include researching surfactant treatment and studying the functionality of neonatal lungs. During his PhD, he collaborated at the Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street in London. Since 2015, he has held the position of Dean at Spaarne Gasthuis Academy. In this role, his main focus is ensuring that every healthcare team member receives notch education and research opportunities. He has dedicated much of his time to teaching students and mentoring aspiring pediatricians. As Dean, he goes beyond meeting requirements and strives to implement programs that exceed standards. He actively supports the staff by fostering an environment where continuous learning and personal growth are encouraged.
Additionally, since 2018, he has served as a Visiting Professor at KU Leuven, where he imparts his knowledge and contributes to advancements in the field. He's not just limited to one area of expertise. He has a range of research interests that span topics—such as studying how doctors make essential decisions handling complex family situations.
On top of that, he holds a position as the editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Pediatrics, ensuring that exceptional medical ideas are shared with the global community. His primary responsibility is guiding the direction of the journal to guarantee its content is outstanding—relevant, timely and of quality. But his contributions don't end there; he fully dedicates himself to overseeing every aspect of the peer review process while connecting with authors, editors and influential individuals worldwide. It's more than a job to him; it's a commitment to enhancing healthcare and advancing our understanding of pediatric medicine through collaborations one step at a time.
Daniele De Luca, MD, PhD, MHA, Paris Saclay University, France and APHP- A. Beclere Hospital, France
Editor
Earned his MD and PhD degrees at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome where he also obtained his fellowship in Pediatrics and Neonatology, and two postgraduate diplomas in pediatric emergencies and neonatal pulmonology. He manages one of the largest neonatal intensive care unit in Europe. Division Chief since 2013, Associate Professor since 2015 and then Full Professor of Neonatology since 2021, at the time of appointment he was the youngest Full Professor of this discipline (43 years old).
He is main scientific interests is neonatal and pediatric critical care with particular focus on respiratory care, extra-corporeal circulation, life-threatening malformations, whole body hypothermia, monitoring and point-of-care ultrasound. From the translational point-of-view he coordinated a research group on surfactant catabolism and investigated this from several angles with various academy-industry collaborations. During the pandemics he was actively engaged and discovered the transplacental transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and collaborated as consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO). The President of the Italian Republic appointed him Knight of the Republic on 2021.
As Full Professor of Neonatology at Paris Saclay University and President of the European Society for Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC), the largest European pediatric scientific society that brings together neonatal and pediatric intensivists on the continent, he is actively involved in teaching and education. He is an advocate for increased research and development in the NICU arena.
He serves as Editor of the European Journal of Pediatrics since 2019 and manages the articles focused on neonatology, while he is engaged in promoting the image and diffusion of the journal worldwide.
Piet Leroy, MD, PhD, MHPE, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Netherlands and Maastricht University, Netherlands
Editor
Piet Leroy (Belgium, 1969), MD, PhD, MSc is a pediatric critical care specialist and director of the Pediatric Procedural Sedation Unit at Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands. He is an associate professor (domain of medical teaching) at the Faculty of Health, Life Sciences and medicine at Maastricht University and graduated in 2017 as a Master in Health Professions Education at the Maastricht School of Health Professions Education.
His main research topics concern delirium in critical care and procedural sedation in children. Within these fields he has published over 50 scientific papers, guidelines and book chapters and presented over 150 scientific lectures on international conferences. In 2013 he received the Catharina Pijls Prize for his research on the improvement of procedural sedation quality in pediatrics. He is a board member of the International Committee for the Advancement of Procedural Sedation (www.proceduralsedation.org (this opens in a new tab)) and editor for the European Journal of Pediatrics. In august 2023 he received the Blike/Cravero International Pediatric Sedation Advocacy Award of the Society for Pediatric Sedation.
In 2018, 2020 and 2022 he organized the interdisciplinary European Conference on Pediatric Procedural Sedation & Analgesia (www.PROSAconference.com (this opens in a new tab)). Supported by the Charlie Braveheart Foundation (www.charliebraveheart.com), he set up in 2019 an interdisciplinary training program for procedural comfort in children.
In May 2023 he was appointed Professor in Pediatric Procedural Sedation and Analgesia at the School of Health Professions Education (Maastricht University, The Netherlands).
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/piet-leroy-69b6b518/ (this opens in a new tab)
Gregorio Paolo Milani, MD, PhD, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda - Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
Editor
Dr. Gregorio P. Milani, MD, serves as an Assistant Professor at the University of Milan and practices as a pediatrician at the pediatric emergency department of Fondazione Ca’ Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy. Graduating with the highest honors from the Medical School of the University of Milan, he completed his Pediatrics training at the same institution. Alongside the University of Milan, he pursued his research training at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and the University of Southern Switzerland (Switzerland). Moreover, he has achieved dual master's degrees in medical biostatistics from the University of Padua, Italy. Actively engaged in research, he has secured research grants from national and international institutions and authored numerous publications on nutrition and metabolism as applied to pediatric emergency medicine. He passionately imparts knowledge and guidance to medical students and residents. Additionally, he currently holds the position of Editor at the European Journal of Pediatrics.
Tobias Tenenbaum, MD, PhD, Sana Klinikum Lichtenberg, Germany
Editor
For over 20 years I have dedicated my work to pediatric infectious diseases. First, I studied Medicine at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Germany), University of Nottingham (United Kingdom) and Mount Sinai Medical School (New York, USA). During my pediatric training at the Clinic for General Pediatrics, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, I started my research work in the field of Pediatric Infectious Diseases in 2000. In the Infectious Diseases research group I was primarily interested in the pathogenesis of host-pathogen interaction in bacterial disease. In recent years respiratory tract infections got more into my clinical research focus. For parts of my work I have received the Young Investigator Award of the European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID). I have further completed the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship of the German Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (DGPI) and received the diploma „Pediatric Infectious Diseases Specialist according to an European curriculum“. Afterwards I became consultant in Pediatrics and in 2008 I further received the national certificate for the general “Infectious Diseases” specialization. Lastly, I finalized my specialization in Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergology. In 2008 I moved to the University Hospital Mannheim, Karl-Rupprecht University of Heidelberg, where I received a Senior Physician position and is supervising the Pediatric Infectious disease and Pediatric Pulmonology unit. In 2010 I finished my habilitation and became associate professor in Pediatrics in 2012. In 2021 I finally became Head of the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Medicine at the Sana Klinikum Lichtenberg, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Charité-University Berlin. Currently I am also chair of the German Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, which gives me a deep insight into the medical, scientific and political landscape of pediatric infectious diseases. In my role as Editor in the European Journal of Pediatrics I would like to bring in my expertise to enrich the journal with high quality research in important sub-specialties of pediatrics.