Steering Group

Professor of Transitional Psychiatry and consultant Psychiatrist at Maastricht University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology.
PhD on DS22q11 in 2004 at the University of Amsterdam.
Dutch adult DS22q11 clinic at Maastricht University Medical Center

Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical Faculty of the University of Geneva (Switzerland), group leader at the Clinic for Psychiatry and main person in charge of the DIP (see above) for the international long-term project on DS22q11. He heads the Geneva medical-educational office. Stephan Eliez is the Vice President of the 22q11 Europe association.

University professor and chief physician, Department of Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology, University Hospital Giessen-Marburg - Marburg location.
Hessian state doctor for people with hearing and speech impairments
Scientific advisory board member "We are 22q e.V.".
Pediatric Audiology in the 22q11 Language Competence Center.

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania (USA), Head of Genetic Counseling at the Childrens Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP), Director of the 22q and you division at CHOP and founding member of the 22q11 International Foundation. Donna McDonald-McGinn is recognized worldwide as one of the leading scientists in the field of DS 22q11.

Director of the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University Hospital of Würzburg
Deputy Chairman "We are 22q e.V."
Head of the 22q11 Competence Center Mental Health

Professor and Clinic Director for Oral-, Maxillofacial- and Plastic Facial Surgery.
Head of the Center for Cleft-Lip-Palate and Rare Oro-Cranio-Facial Malformations at the University Hospital Frankfurt / Goethe University Frankfurt
Scientific advisory board member "We are 22q e.V."
Head of the 22q11 Language Competence Center

Psychologist, assistant professor and head researcher at the DIP laboratory (Developmental Imaging and Psychopathology) of the University of Geneva (Switzerland) with a focus on the clinical and cognitive aspects of DS 22q11 (international long-term project at DIP on the interactions of genes, brain development and the environment) . Maude Schneider is the scientific coordinator of the 22q11 Europe association.

Head of Pediatric Orthopedics and Medical Director at the Altona Children's Hospital (Hamburg-Altona)
Scientific advisory board member "We are 22q e.V.".
Head of the 22q11 Orthopedic Competence Center