►PAS Media Highlights

Learn the Latest in Pediatric Science at Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – More than 7,500 leaders in academic pediatrics will gather in Vancouver, Canada, May 1-4 for the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS).

Journalists will have access to hundreds of scientists who are conducting original research in children’s health. PAS represents an opportunity to learn about and discuss the latest scientific discoveries, often before they appear in peer-reviewed journals. The meeting addresses all aspects of children’s health, including basic and clinical sciences, translational and health services research, and clinical advances. The meeting will take place at the Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre.

Highlights of the 2010 meeting include:  

• Personal responsibility, sugar addiction and other factors in the obesity epidemic;
• The role of endocrine disruptors on children’s health;
• The latest research into autism spectrum disorders and implications for treatment;
• Keynote address by John M. Balbus, MD, MPH, senior advisor for public health at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, on the impact of climate change on children’s health;
• Lecture by Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, the scientist who discovered how to turn human skin cells into embryonic-like stem cells, and the winner of the 2010 March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology;
• A celebration of the Academic Pediatric Association’s 50^th anniversary, including a keynote lecture by Catherine DeAngelis, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association;
• More than 3,000 scientific abstract presentations.

Journalists are invited to cover PAS and may register to attend the meeting at http://www.pas-meeting.org/2010Vancouver/press.asp. Journalists who wish to receive embargoed press releases on scientific abstracts in advance of the meeting should contact PAS Media Relations at 847-434-7877 or dlinchesky@aap.org or ssmartin@aap.org. Embargoed press releases will be issued in late April.

Follow news of the PAS meeting on Twitter at http://twitter.com/PedAcadSoc . 

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The Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) are four individual pediatric organizations who co-sponsor the PAS Annual Meeting – the American Pediatric Society, the Society for Pediatric Research, the Academic Pediatric Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Members of these organizations are pediatricians and other health care providers who are practicing in the research, academic and clinical arenas. The four sponsoring organizations are leaders in the advancement of pediatric research and child advocacy within pediatrics, and all share a common mission of fostering the health and well being of children worldwide.

Susan Martin
PAS Media Relations
ssmartin@aap.org

Debbie Linchesky
PAS Media Relations
dlinchesky@aap.org