PAS Meet the Professor Breakfast Sessions
Sunday, May 15
7:00am–8:00am

The purpose of these sessions is to provide trainees and junior faculty the opportunity to meet with senior academic physicians who can provide insights in their field and provide career guidance in a small interactive group. Attendance at each session is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis to maintain an intimate interactive format.  

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Academic General Pediatrics
PAS Meet the Professor Breakfast

This session is designed for residents, fellows and junior faculty in academic general pediatrics and practitioners who play a teaching and/or research role in an academic department of pediatrics. Topics to be addressed include the nature of academic general pediatrics and its role(s) in academic departments. Both traditional and non-traditional paths to careers in academic general pediatrics will be considered. The format will be an interactive discussion.

Kenneth B. Roberts
Director, Pediatric Teaching Program, Moses Cone Health System, Greensboro, NC; Professor of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC

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Academic Genetics
PAS Meet the Professor Breakfast

This session should provide trainees and junior faculty with insight into the pediatrics and inborn errors of metabolism communities. Topics will include establishing genetics training programs, choosing an area of clinical or basic research and the future of genetics as a specialty.

William A. Gahl
Clinical Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
 

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Emergency Medicine
Overlooking Gilead: Pediatric Emergency Medicine (Are We There Yet?)

PAS Meet the Professor Breakfast

Emergency Medicine is one of the youngest subspecialties in pediatrics.  The performance requirements for success in academic pediatric emergency medicine vary widely among institutions.  How should we choose the right mix of clinical service, education, research, administration, and community service (broadly defined) to achieve personal success and academic recognition?  Academic productivity in PEM is growing, but there are opportunities for improvement. How do we help the scholars of the next generation to make breakthrough achievements?  How do we maintain balance between personal and professional life goals?  How do we select work environments that provide the resources, including role-models and mentors, which help us to achieve these goals?  This session will provide an informal and interactive approach to answering these questions and any others that might be of interest to trainees and junior faculty in pediatric emergency medicine. 

David M. Jaffe
Dana Brown Professor of Pediatrics and Division Chief of Emergency Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Director of Emergency Medicine, St. Louis Children’s Hospital
 

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Infectious Diseases
PAS Meet the Professor Breakfast

This interactive session is designed to provide trainees and junior faculty with insight and advice concerning the pursuit of an academic career in pediatric infectious diseases.  Infectious diseases includes a wide variety of career goals.  Specific attention will be given to describing approaches to obtaining the best possible training to match individual goals—in clinical infectious diseases, epidemiology, as well as in basic and applied research.  The discussion also will include perspectives especially useful for junior faculty on getting known, getting published and getting promoted.

Sarah S. Long
Professor of Pediatrics, Drexel University College of Medicine,
Chief, Section of Infectious Diseases, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA
 

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Neonatology I
Academic Career Paths in Neonatology

PAS Meet the Professor Breakfast

This session is designed to provide trainees and junior faculty with insights into two different academic career paths in neonatology—the Clinician-Scientist and Clinician-Educator faculty tracks. Training requirements and ongoing educational needs, academic job descriptions and job searches and new fundable areas of scholarship in neonatal-perinatal medicine will be addressed. Special emphasis will be given to seeking and obtaining appropriate career development mentoring and to issues of academic career and personal balance, particularly given the intense clinical demands of our field.

Christine A. Gleason
W. Alan Hodson Professor of Pediatrics and Head, Division of Neonatology, University of Washington, Childrens Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, WA

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Neonatology II
Foundations for a Successful Career in Academic Neonatology

PAS Meet the Professor Breakfast

This session is designed to provide trainees and junior faculty insight and advice concerning the pursuit of an academic career in neonatal-perinatal medicine. Emphasis will be placed on the steps to achieve the best possible training in clinical neonatology as well as in research in newborn medicine and in developmental biology. The main hurdles and opportunities for advancement in academic neonatology will be analyzed. Past and present trends in newborn medicine and their impact on career opportunities in this exciting field of pediatrics will be discussed.                                    

Eduardo Bancalari
Professor of Pediatrics, Director, Division of Newborn Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL

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Balancing Life as a Pediatric Nephrologist—Peeretty Great
PAS Meet the Professor Breakfast

This session is intended to provide trainees and junior faculty with optimistic, yet realistic, insights about career opportunities in pediatricnephrology and appropriate preparation for these careers. Career opportunities, both within and outside of academic departments, will be discussed.  Faculty tracks and the perspective of department chairs about these tracks also will be addressed. Topics will include how to choose the appropriate academic position for one’s interests and talents, as well as balancing career objectives with personal and family goals. 

F. Bruder Stapleton
Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics 
Ford/Morgan Endowed Chair in Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

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Pulmonology
Career Development in Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine

PAS Meet the Professor Breakfast

This session will discuss issues in career development for trainees and junior faculty who are interested in pediatric pulmonary and critical care medicine. Discussion will focus on issues regarding training in clinical research, expanding laboratory research skills, meeting clinical and research commitments, balancing career with life style, developing collaborations, mentorship and related questions.

Steven H. Abman
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Director, Pediatric Heart Lung Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children’s Hospital, Denver, CO