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2006 PAS Annual Meeting

April 29–May 2 
San Francisco, California

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Saturday, April 29

1:00pm–3:00pm
2625—Nephrology I
PAS/ASPN Platform Session
Room 2003-2005, Moscone West
Chairs: Patrick D. Brophy and Deepa H. Chand

Includes:

  • ASPN Basic Research Trainee Award: Deletion of FGFR2 from the Metanephric Mesenchyme Results in Ectopic Ureteric Bud Induction
    David Sullivan Hains, Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH

  • ASPN Clinical Research Trainee Award: Prevalence of the Stages of Hypertension (HTN) in Adolescents
    Karen L McNiece, University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston, TX

3:15pm–5:15pm
2749—Medical Education
PAS Platform Session
Room 2009, Moscone West
Chairs: Robyn J. Blair and William V. Raszka

  • APA Ray E. Helfer Award for Innovation in Pediatric Education

5:15pm–7:15pm
Poster Session I and PAS Opening Reception
PAS Poster Session
Levels 1 and 2, Moscone West

Includes

  • SPR Student Research Award: Resuscitation of Non-Viable Infants: Will Neonatologists[apos] Practice Change After the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act?
    Mya Sendowski, University of California, San Francisco, CA

Posters Available for Viewing: 4:00pm–7:30pm
Author Attendance: 5:15pm–7:15pm

Level 1:
– Developmental Biology
– Endocrinology
– Hematology–Oncology
– Neonatal Infectious Diseases
– Neonatology
– Nephrology

Level 2:
– Cardiology
– Developmental–Behavioral Pediatrics
– General Pediatrics
– Medical Education
– Neurology


Sunday, April 30

8:00am–9:30am
3150—Hematology/Oncology II
PAS/ASPHO Platform Session
Room 3016-3018, Moscone West
Chairs: Yigal Dror and James A. Whitlock

Includes:

  • SPR Fellow's Clinical Research Award: DNA Repair Polymorphism and Outcome of Treatment for Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)
    Deepika Bhatla, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

  • CXCR4 Inhibition Leads to Decreased Adhesion and Fewer Metastases in Osteosarcoma
    Su Young Kim, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

8:00am–10:00am
3145—Genetic Basis of Disease: Pathogenesis and Treatment
PAS Platform Session
Room 3000, Moscone West
Chairs: George A. Diaz and Brendan H. Lee

Includes:

  • SPR Fellow's Basic Research Award: Conditional Mutagenesis of the Homeobox Gene [italic]Hhex[/italic] Reveals Novel and Essential Roles in Development of the Liver and Extrahepatic Biliary Tract
    Michael Hunter, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

  • SPR Student Research Award: Germ Line [italic]KRAS[/italic] Mutations Encoding Proteins with Novel Biochemical and Functional Properties Cause Disorders of the Noonan Syndrome Spectrum
    Suzanne Schubbert, University of California, San Francisco, CA

9:00am–10:00am
3290A—LWPES Presidential Lecture
LWPES Presidential Plenary
Room 3007-3011, Moscone West
Chair: Alan D. Rogol, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Target Audience: Endocrinologists.

  • Judson J. Van Wyk Prize
    Melvin M. Grumbach

  • Pediatric Endocrinology Past and Present: Are We Ready for the Future?
    Lynne L. Levitsky, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

10:15am–12:00pm
3350—APS Presidential Plenary and Awards
APS Presidential Plenary
Room 3002-3008, Moscone West
Chair: David K. Stevenson, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA

  • 2006 APS Presidential Address
    David K. Stevenson, Harold K. Faber Professor of Pediatrics, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Stanford University School of Medicine; Director, Charles B. and Ann L. Johnson Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Services; Chief, Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, CA

  • New Member Outstanding Science Award—Epithelial Branching and the Origins of Kidney Malformation
    Norman D. Rosenblum, Professor of Paediatrics and Canada Research Chair in Developmental Nephrology, Division of Nephrology & Program in Developmental Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • 54th Annual John Howland Award
    Kurt Hirschhorn, Professor of Pediatrics, Human Genetics and Medicine, Chairman Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

    • Introduction, John Howland Awardee
      Frederick J. Suchy, Herbert H. Lehman Professor of Pediatrics and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

  • Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. Leadership Award*
    Carol D. Berkowitz, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Torrance, CA

    • Introduction, Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. Leadership Award
      Carol Carraccio, Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Chair for Education, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

*The Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. Leadership Award is presented by the Federation of Pediatric Organizations on behalf of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics, American Pediatric Society, Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairmen, Association of Pediatric Program Directors and Society for Pediatric Research.

12:00pm–1:30pm
3430A—ASPN Business Meeting, Luncheon and Presidential Address
ASPN Presidential Lecture
Yerba Buena Gardens Salon 7, SF Marriott

  • ASPN Presidential Address
    Sandra L. Watkins, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, WA

12:00pm–2:00pm
Poster Session II
PAS Poster Session
Levels 1 and 2, Moscone West

Posters Available for Viewing: 11:00am–4:00pm
Author Attendance: 12:00pm–2:00pm

Includes:

  • SPR Fellow's Basic Research Award: Myopalladin Mutations and Inherited Cardiomyopathies
    Enkhsaikhan Purevjav, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

  • SPR Clinical Research Award: Accelerated Development in the Visual Areas of Preterm Infants? A Voxel-Based Morphometry Study on Diffusion Tensor MR Imaging (DTI)
    Maria Miranda, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark

  • SPR Fellow's Clinical Research Award: Novel Genotyping Technology To Classify Childhood Leukemia
    Joshua D. Schiffman, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

  • SPR House Officer Research Award: Erythropoietin Protein Expression in the Developing Human Eye
    Shrena Patel, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Level 1:
– Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology
– Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
– Endocrinology
– Infectious Diseases
– General Pediatrics
– Hematology–Oncology

Level 2: 
– Cardiology
– Neonatal Neurology
– Neonatology

2:00pm–4:00pm
3714—Clinical Research in Emerging Countries
PAS Platform Session
Room 2006, Moscone West
Chairs: William J. Keenan and Cliff O'Callahan

Includes:

  • APA International Health Award—Prevalence of Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Seropositive Children Aged Between 2 and 24 Months Admitted with Severe Pneumonia at the Kenyatta National Hospital
    Judy Zeruya-Kose,

  • SPR House Officer Research Award: Risk Factors Associated with Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the Economic Migrant Population of the Dominican Republic Bateyes
    Keri Anne Cohn, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA

2:00pm–4:00pm
3728—Nephrology II
PAS/ASPN Platform Session
Room 2003-2005, Moscone West
Chairs: Jeffrey Leiser and Scott K. Van Why

Includes:

  • ASPN Basic Research Trainee Award: Insulin-Like Growth Factor Receptor (IGF1-R) and Glomerular Integrity
    Janis Dionne, British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver, CA

  • ASPN Clinical Research Trainee Award: Characterization of a Novel Biomarker Panel for Acute Kidney Injury
    Mai Thanh-Thuy Nguyen, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH

2:00pm–4:00pm
3732—Pulmonary and Cardiac Development: Transcriptional Control and Stem Cells
PAS Platform Session
Room 2004, Moscone West
Chairs: Lawrence M. Nogee and George A. Porter

Includes:

  • SPR Student Research Award: Critical Requirement of C/EBP[alpha] for Lung Maturation and Function
    Prithy Martis, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

  • Role of MicroRNAs in Cardiogenesis
    Yong Zhao, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California San Francisco

2:00pm–5:00pm
3740—AAP Presidential Plenary and First Annual Silverman Lecture
AAP Presidential Plenary
Room 3007-3011, Moscone West
Chair: Errol R. Alden, American Academy of Pediatrics, Elk Grove Village, IL

Target Audience: Scientists and clinicians interested in the translation of research and evidence-based principles into health policy and practice.

  • AAP Presidential Address
    Eileen M. Ouellette, President, American Academy of Pediatrics, Elk Grove Village, IL

  • The Community Pediatrics Training Initiative: Quality Resident Education in Community Pediatrics
    Jeffrey M. Kaczorowski, University of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, NY

  • The Scientific Underpinnings of Preventive Services for Children: The Bright Futures Project
    Paula M. Duncan, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

  • The Evidence Base Underlying Pay-for-Performance Initiatives
    Paul V. Miles, The American Board of Pediatrics, Chapel Hill, NC

  • Introduction
    Gerald B. Merenstein, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO

  • First Annual William A. Silverman MD Lecture:
    From Disasters to Triumphs—Lessons Learned in the Evolution of Neonatology as a Subspecialty
    Avroy A. Fanaroff, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH

The Silverman Lecture is sponsored by the AAP Section on Perinatal Pediatrics

4:00pm–6:00pm
3800A—ASPHO Presidential Symposium and Awards
ASPHO Presidential Lecture
Yerba Buena Gardens Salon 7, SF Marriott
Chair: F. Leonard Johnson, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR

  • Welcome
    F. Leonard Johnson, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR

  • ASPHO Young Investigator Award Lectures: 

    • Rac GTPases Regulate the Morphology and Deformability of the Erythrocyte Cytoskeleton
      Theodosia A. Kalfa

    • Phosphorylation-Mediated Control of Transcriptional Repression by the Myeloid Translocation Gene Protein, MTG16: Implications for Hematopoietic stem Cell Self-Renewal and Leukemogenesis
      Michael Engel

  • Frank A. Oski Memorial Lecture:
    Cell–Cell Interactions in the Bone Marrow: How Basic Studies in Stem Cell Biology Informed New Therapeutics in Cancer and Gene Therapy
    David A. Williams, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

  • Distinguished Career Award
    Archie Bleyer, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

4:15pm–6:15pm
3870—Neonatal Public Health
PAS Poster Symposium
Room 3014, Moscone West
Chairs: Henrietta S. Bada and Robert A. Sinkin

Includes:

  • Douglas K. Richardson Award for Perinatal and Pediatric Healthcare Research
    Marie C. McCormick, Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

5:00pm–7:00pm
3900—APA Business Meeting, Armstrong Lecture and Awards
APA Business Meeting
Yerba Buena Gardens Salon 9, SF Marriott

George Armstrong Lecture
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

APA Ludwig-Seidel Award
Lise Edelberg Nigrovic

APA Ray E. Helfer Award for Innovation in Pediatric Education
Mark Adler

APA Miller-Sarkin Award
Stephen Ludwig, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

APA National Pediatric Community Teaching Award
Bronwen J. Anderson,

6:30pm–7:00pm
3960A—ASPHO Distinguished Career Award Reception
ASPHO Reception
Golden Gate Hall C1, SF Marriott


Monday, May 1

10:15am–12:15pm
4300—SPR Presidential Plenary and Awards
SPR Presidential Plenary
Room 3002-3008, Moscone West
Chair: Philip W. Shaul, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

  • SPR Award Presentations

    • Student Research Awards
      Allison Blatz, Case Western Reserve University, Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH
      Mya Sendowski, University of California, San Francisco, CA
      Karin Batalden, Mayo Medical School, College of Medicine, Rochester, MN
      Prithy Martis, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
      Silvia Gonzaga, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA
      Suzanne Schubbert, University of California, San Francisco, CA

    • House Officer Research Award
      Keri Anne Cohn, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA
      Sallie R Permar, Children's Hospital and Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
      Shrena Patel, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

    • Fellow's Basic Research Award
      Camille Fung, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
      Michael Hunter, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
      Enkhsaikhan Purevjav, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

    • Fellow's Clinical Research Awards
      Deepika Bhatla, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
      Maria Miranda, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark
      Joshua D. Schiffman, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

    • David G. Nathan Award in Hematology/Oncology
      Su Young Kim, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

    • Japan Pediatric Society Fellow Awards
      Hiroyuki Ishiguro, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan
      Kyo Okada, Hino Municipal Hospital, Hino, Tokyo, Japan
      Yuka Wada, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

    • Douglas K. Richardson Award for Perinatal and Pediatric Healthcare Research
      Marie C. McCormick, Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    • Richard D. Rowe Award in Perinatal Cardiology
      Yong Zhao, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California San Francisco

  • Young Investigator Award and Lecture:
    Protective and Non-protective Immune Responses Against Paramyxoviruses: Understanding Atypical Measles and Enhanced Respiratory Syncytial Virus Disease
    Fernando Pedro Polack, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

  • Maureen Andrew Mentor Award and Lecture
    Donna M. Ferriero, University of California, San Francisco, CA
    Frances J. Northington, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

  • SPR Distinguished Service Award
    Thomas A. Hazinski, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN

  • E. Mead Johnson Awards for Research in Pediatrics and Lectures: 

    • Molecular Basis for Development of Human B Cell Responses to Viruses
      James E. Crowe, Professor of Pediatrics, Microbiology and Immunology, Ingram Professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

    • Cell Division, Genome Stability and Cancer
      David Pellman, The Ted Williams Senior Investigator, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

  • Presidential Address
    Philip W. Shaul, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

*The E. Mead Johnson Awards are supported by an educational grant from Mead Johnson Nutritionals

12:00pm–1:00pm
4400A—ASPN Awards Luncheon
ASPN Luncheon
Yerba Buena Gardens Salon 7, SF Marriott

  • American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Nephrology – Henry L. Barnett Award

    • Introducer:
      Steven J. Wassner, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA

    • Presenter:
      Richard N. Fine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

    • Recipient: American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Nephrology—Henry L. Barnett Award
      Jose Strauss, Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Founder and Program Chairman, Pediatric Nephrology Seminar XXXIII, Miami, FL

  • American Society of Pediatric Nephrology Founder's Awards

    • Introduction:
      Eileen D. Brewer, Professor and Chief, Pediatric Nephrology, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX

    • Presenter:
      Sandra L. Watkins, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, WA

    • Recipient:
      Barbara Cole, Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, Washington State Univeristy, St. Louis, MO

     

    • Introduction:
      Lisa M. Satlin, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

    • Presenter:
      Sandra L. Watkins, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, WA

    • Recipient:
      Adrian Spitzer, Professor of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

1:00pm–2:45pm
4500—March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology Lecture
PAS Award
Room 3002-3008, Moscone West

Dr. Varshavsky is a pioneer in the study of ubiquitin, a tiny protein that has a very big job. Ubiquitin (from the Latin ubique meaning "everywhere," the source of the word "ubiquitous") is so named because it is essential to nearly every major activity in the life cycle of cells, including cell growth and division during embryo development, DNA repair, programmed cell death, immune response, and the nervous system. The ubiquitin system is the housekeeping mechanism by which the cell maintains a proper and healthy balance of proteins. Ubiquitin's role was unknown until the 1980s, when Dr. Varshavsky and colleagues elucidated it. This discovery revolutionized our understanding of the control of human cells, and ubiquitin quickly became one of the major areas of study in genetics, developmental biology, cell biology, and biochemistry. Today ubiquitin is a cornerstone of medical research into the causes and treatments of birth defects, neurodegenerative disease, infections, and cancer. Dr. Varshavsky receives the 2006 March of Dimes Prize for revealing and characterizing the biological significance of the ubiquitin system in the regulation of living cells.

  • Regulation by Proteolysis: The N-End Rule Pathway in Yeast and Mammals
    Alexander Varshavsky, Smits Professor of Cell Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Presented by the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation

1:45pm–5:15pm
4550—APA Presidential Plenary and Awards
APA Presidential Plenary
Room 2003-2007, Moscone West
Claibourne I. Dungy

Includes selected original science abstract presentations, as well as the Presidential Address, APA Outstanding Teaching Award and APA Research Award.

  • APA Outstanding Teaching Award
    J. Lindsey Lane

  • APA Research Award
    Neal Halfon, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

3:00pm–5:00pm
4670—Brain Metabolism and Injury
PAS Platform Session
Room 3020, Moscone West
Chairs: Steven P. Miller and Frances J. Northington

Includes:

  • SPR Fellow's Basic Research Award: The Neuron-Glia Lactate Shuttle Protects Neurological Function in Neuron-Specific Glucose Deficiency
    Camille Fung, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

4:00pm–5:00pm
4700A—PIDS 3rd Annual Stanley A. Plotkin Lectureship in Vaccinology
PIDS Alliance Society
Room 3003-3005, Moscone West
Chair: Joseph W. St. Geme, III, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC

The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society has established the Stanley A. Plotkin Lectureship in Vaccinology to honor Dr. Plotkin, the Society's "Founding Father." The lecture, which takes place at the annual PIDS meeting, is sponsored by Sanofi Pasteur. Dr. Plotkin was medical director at sanofi pasteur and remains a medical and scientific advisor. The inaugural lecture was delivered by Dr. Plotkin in 2004.

  • Introduction
    Larry K. Pickering, National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

  • The Role of Measles Elimination in Development of a National Immunization Program
    Walter A. Orenstein, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from sanofi pasteur

6:15pm
4950A—PIDS Annual Awards Dinner and Banquet
PIDS Dinner
Ralston Ballroom, Palace Hotel

Ticket Required - inquire through the PIDS Office at 703-299-6764


Tuesday, May 2

8:00am–10:00am
5150—Cardiology—Genetics and Development
PAS Platform Session
Room 3000, Moscone West
Chairs: H. Scott Baldwin and Marlene Rabinovitch

Includes:

  • SPR Student Research Award: Mutations in [italic]JPH2-[/italic]Encoded Junctophilin 2 as a Novel Pathogenic Mechanism in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
    Karin Batalden, Mayo Medical School, College of Medicine, Rochester, MN

8:00am–10:00am
5166—Lung Development and Alveolarization
PAS Poster Symposium
Room 3003-3005, Moscone West
Chairs: Lawrence S. Prince and A. Keith Tanswell

Includes:

  • SPR Student Research Award: FGF10 Gene Transfer to the Fetal Lung Induces Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation-Like Lesions
    Silvia Gonzaga, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA

12:00pm–1:30pm
Poster Session IV
PAS Poster Session
Levels 1 and 2, Moscone West

Posters Available for Viewing: 10:00am–2:00pm
Author Attendance: 12:00pm–1:30pm

Level 1:
– Adolescent Medicine
– Emergency Medicine
– Epidemiology
– General Pediatrics
– Infectious Diseases
– Neonatal Epidemiology and Follow Up

Level 2:
– Neonatal Pulmonology
– Neonatology

Includes: 

  • SPR Student Research Award: Metal Contamination of Blood Bank Blood
    Allison Blatz, Case Western Reserve University, Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH

  • SPR House Officer Research Award: Pathogenesis of Measles Virus Infection in Simian Immunodefiency Virus-Infected, Measles Virus-Vaccinated Rhesus Monkeys
    Sallie R Permar, Children's Hospital and Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA

 

   
 

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