1998 Pediatric Academic Societies’ Annual Meeting
			Full Schedule - Friday, May 1 - Tuesday, May 5
			New Orleans Convention Center, New Orleans, LA

A more detailed view of the Annual Meeting Program is available here. Days listed at the right are linked to information below.

Wednesday, April 29 Thursday, April 30 Friday, May 1 Saturday, May 2 Sunday, May 3 Monday, May 4 Tuesday, May 5

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29

AFTERNOON

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Association of Pediatric Program Directors (APPD)

• Program Coordinators Plenary
• Directors of Small Programs Plenary

EVENING

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
APPD Reception/Presentation

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THURSDAY, APRIL 30

MORNING

8:00 am - 12:00 noon
APPD Program Directors Plenary

AFTERNOON

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
APPD Luncheon

1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society (LWPES)

• Update on Diabetes Symposium

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
APPD Program Coordinators Workshop
APPD Program Directors Workshops

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
APPD Program Directors Workshops

EVENING

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
American Society of Pediatric Nephrology (ASPN)

• Opening Reception

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
ASPN Washington Issues Forum & Program Director’s Meeting

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FRIDAY, MAY 1

MORNING

7:30 am
ASPN Breakfast/Exhibit Viewing

8:00 am - 10:00 am
APPD Committee Meetings

8:00 am - 12:00 noon
APA Board of Directors Meeting

8:00 am - 12:00 noon
ASPN General Session

8:30 am - 5:00 pm
APPD Program Coordinators Plenary

8:00 am - 5:30 pm
LWPES Annual Scientific Meeting & Business Meeting

10:00 am - 12:00 noon
APS & SPR Council Meetings

10:00 am - 12:00 noon
PAS Educational Seminars

10:00 am - 1:00 pm
APA Special Interest Group

• Residency Program Directors

AFTERNOON

12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
APA Leadership Training

12:00 noon - 1:45 pm
ASPN Skills Workshops

12:00 noon - 2:00 pm
APS/SPR Joint Council Meeting

12:00 noon - 3:00 pm
PAS/AAP Joint Mini Courses

• HIV in Children and Adolescents: New Advances

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
PAS Educational Seminars

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
APS/SPR Subspecialties & Themes

• Cerebral Injury & Protection
• Neonatal Nutrition & Metabolism I
• Neonatal Outcomes
• Pulmonology: Reactive Airway Diseases

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
ASPN Public Policy Lecture

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
APA Committee Meetings

3:00 pm - 5:30 pm
ASPN General Session

3:15 pm - 4:45 pm
APS/SPR State of the Art Plenary

• Asthma
• Brain Metabolism and Injury

3:15 pm - 5:15 pm
PAS Joint Subspecialties & Themes

• Health Services Research: Vaccines

3:15 pm - 5:30 pm
APS/SPR Subspecialties & Themes

• Neonatal Pulmonology I

4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
APPD Session

EVENING

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Perinatal Nutrition and Metabolism Club

• Protein Metabolism in the Fetus & Neonate

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
LWPES Reception

9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
ASPN Dessert Reception

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SATURDAY, MAY 2

MORNING

7:30 am
ASPN Business Meeting

7:30 am - 9:00 am
APA Past Officers Breakfast

7:45 am - 10:45 am
PAS/AAP Joint Mini Courses

• Epidemiologic Research in Adolescent Medicine
• Asthma
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases

8:30 am - 10:45 am
APS/SPR Poster Session
Available for Viewing: 8:30 am - 2:00 pm
Author Attendance: 8:30 am - 10:45 am

• Brain Injury & Metabolism
• Endocrinology & Diabetes
• Development & Regulation of Cardiovascular Response
• Meconium Aspiration
• Neonatal Apnea
• Neonatal Environment & Monitoring
• Neonatal Nutrition & Metabolism
• Neonatal Outcomes - Demographic Effects
• Neonatal Oxide - Regulation of Pulmonary Blood
• Neurology
• Outcomes in Term Infants
• Outcomes in Preterm Infants - Development
• Outcomes in Preterm Infants - Growth & Health
• Outcomes in Preterm Infants - Mortality & Morbidity
• Perinatal Resource Utilization & Regionalization
• Placental Development
• Pulmonary Mechanics

9:00 am - 10:00 am
ASPN Presidential Address/Awards Plenary

9:00 am - 11:00 am
APA Workshops & Special Interest Groups

• AIDS/HIV
• Literacy Development Programs in Primary Care
• Pediatrics for Family Practice
• School & Community Health
• Women in Medicine

10:30 am - 12:00 noon
ASPN General Session

11:00 am - 12:30 pm
APS Presidential Plenary Address/Awards Plenary
Ralph D. Feigin

• John Howland Award
  Robert J. Haggerty
• Joseph W. St. Gene, Jr. Leadership Award
  Catherine DeAngelis

AFTERNOON

12:00 noon - 1:45 pm
ASPN Skills Workshops

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
LUNCH BREAK

12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Perinatal Brain Club

• Neuroprotective Strategies

1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
PAS/AAP Joint Mini Courses

• Health Screening in Adolescents: GAPS
• The Allergic Child
• Update on Foodborne & Waterborne Diseases

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
PAS Public Policy Plenary

• Developing Future Pediatric
• Academicians

2:00 pm - 5:15 pm
ASPN General Session

3:15 pm - 5:15 pm
APS/SPR Topic Symposium

• Innate Immunity: First Line of Defense

3:15 pm - 5:15 pm
APS/SPR Subspecialties & Themes

• Critical Care I: Mechanisms of Injury in Endotoxemia & Inflammation (ends 5:45 pm)
• Endocrinology & Diabetes (ends 6:15 pm)
• Genetic Basis of Disease (ends 5:30 pm)
• Molecular Aspects of Cardiovascular Development (ends 6:00 pm) *Rowe Award*
• Neonatal Nutrition & Metabolism II
• Neurology
• Predicting Neonatal Outcome
• Pulmonology: Control of Breathing I

3:15 pm - 5:15 pm
PAS Joint Subspecialties & Themes

• Epidemiology
• General Pediatrics I
• Health Services Research: Quality Improvement, Outcomes

3:15 pm - 6:15 pm
APA Workshops & Special Interest Groups

• Continuity Clinic Directors
• Emergency Medicine
• Environmental Health
• International Health
• Literacy Development Programs in Primary Care
• Medical Student Education
• Pediatric Telephone Care
• Serving the Underserved

EVENING

6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
APS Member Dinner in Honor of the Howland Award Recipient

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SUNDAY, MAY 3

MORNING

7:00 am - 8:30 am
APA Regional Breakfasts

8:30 am - 10:30 am
APS/SPR Topic Symposium

• Genes & Behavior

8:30 am - 10:30 am
APS/SPR Subspecialties & Themes

• Myocardial Function & Metabolism
• Neonatology: Disease Oriented Research
• Nephrology I
• Pulmonology: Control of Breathing II

8:30 am - 10:30 am
PAS Joint Subspecialties & Themes

• Adolescent Medicine
• Underserved Populations I
• Vaccine Development

8:00 am - 11:00 am
PAS/AAP Joint Mini Courses

• Adolescent Gynecology Update
• IgE Mediated Diseases
• Congenital and Perinatal Infections

9:00 am - 12:00 noon
APA Topic Plenary Sessions

• Behavior, Development, Chronic Illness
• Emergency Medicine
• Epidemiology
• General Pediatrics
• General Pediatrics and Pediatric Education

10:45 am - 12:15 pm
SPR Presidential Address & Awards Plenary
Maureen Andrew

• Young Investigator Award
  Michael J. Bamshad
• Student, House Officer & Fellow Awards

11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Kericterus Symposium

• Clinical & Neuropathological Aspects of Actue & Chronic Bilirubin Encephalopathy
• Mechanisms of Brain Toxicity
• Update on Avoiding Pathologic Jaundice

AFTERNOON

12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
LUNCH BREAK

APS Business Meeting

12:45 pm - 3:00 pm
APA Awards (ends 1:30 pm) & Business Meeting

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
APS/SPR State of the Art Plenary

• Fetal - Neonatal Medicine
• Gene Therapy for Pediatric Disease
• Telemedicine & New Information Technologies
• Transcription Factors in Endocrine Development

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
PAS Educational Seminars

1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Symposium

• Molecular Basis of New Vaccines

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
APS/SPR Subspecialties & Themes

• Allergy & Immunology
• Bilirubin
• Cardiology I: Clinical Aspects & Cardiomyopathy
• Molecular Control of Growth
• Nephrology II
• Pulmonary Vascular Biology

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
PAS Joint Subspecialties & Themes

• Emergeny Medicine: Trauma
• General Pediatrics II
• Health Services Research: Access, Organization, Cost
• Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
• Pediatric Education

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
SPR E. Mead Johnson Award Lectures

Jonathan D. Gitlin
James R. Lupski
Jeffrey C. Murray

 

4:45 pm - 5:45 pm
Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Business Meeting

EVENING

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
PAS Poster Session
Available for Viewing: 10:30 am - 7:00 pm
Author Attendance: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

• Allergy & Immunology
• Bilirubin
• Cardiology
• Critical Care
• Cocaine & Neurodevelopmental Outcome
• Education
• Emergency Medicine
• Epidemiology
• Gastroenterology & Nutrition
• General Pediatrics I
• Nephrology

7:00 pm
APA Awardees/Board Dinner

7:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Lung Club

• Manipulation of Alveolar Growth: A Potential for BPD

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Blood Club

• Mechanisms of Thrombosis in Newborn Infants & Children

7:00 - 10:00 pm
Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Dinner

7:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Society for Developmental Pediatrics

• "State of the Art" Presentation & Business Meeting

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MONDAY, MAY 4

MORNING

8:00 am - 10:00 am
APS/SPR Topic Symposium

• Chemokines & Cytokines in Infection & Inflammation

8:00 am - 10:00 am
APS/SPR Subspecialties & Themes

• Bioethics
• Cardiology
• Critical Care II
• Developmental Biology I
• Gastroenterology & Nutrition
• Genetic Disease: Mechanisms & Therapies
• Hematology / Oncology
• Human Milk
• Neonatal Pulmonology II
• Neonatology: Patient Oriented Research
• Oxidants and Antioxidants - Basic Mechanisms
• Rheumatology
  Featured Speaker: Catherine Wilfert
  Animal Models of Arthritis

8:00 am - 10:00 am
PAS Joint Subspecialties & Themes

• Clinical Research in Developing Countries
  Featured Speaker: Linda K. Myers
  HIV/AIDS
• Historical Perspectives

8:00 am - 12 noon
APA Presidential Plenary
James M. Perrin

Armstrong Lecture
Richard E. Behrman

10:00 am - 11:30 am
March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology

Lecture of the 1998 Recipient
Davor Solter
Imprinting and Cloaning: History and Perspectives

AFTERNOON

11:30 am - 12:30 pm
LUNCH BREAK

SPR Business Meeting

11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Milk Club

• HIV Infection and Breast Feeding &
• Breast Feeding Issues

12:00 noon - 2:00 pm
APA Luncheons

• Regional Chairs, SIG Chairs & Fellows

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
PAS State of the Art Plenary

• Cell Signaling
• Child Health Services Research
• Thromboembolic Disease in Children:
• A Product of Modern Technology

2:15 pm - 4:15 pm
APS/SPR Subspecialties & Themes

• Biology of Cytokines
• Clinical Studies in Low Birth Weight Babies
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Developmental Biology II
• Dysmorphology & Clinical Genetics
• Infectious Diseases
• Mouse Models of Human Disease
• Necrotizing Enterocolitis
• Oxidants & Antioxidants: Perinatal Clinical Trials & Cellular Mechanism

2:15 pm - 4:15 pm
PAS Joint Subspecialties & Themes

• Behavioral Pediatrics
• Emergency Medicine - Febrile Infants & Children (ends 5:15 pm)
• Pain & Sedation

2:15 pm - 4:15 pm
APA Workshops & Special Interest Groups

• Adolescent Medicine
• Advocacy Training
• Child Abuse
• Health Services Research
• Managed Care
• Medical Informatics
• Nutrition
• Pediatric Emergency Medicine Program Directors

4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
PAS Joint Poster Session
Available for Viewing: 10:30 am - 6:30 pm
Author Attendance: 4:15 pm - 6:30 pm

• Adolescent Medicine
• Behavioral Pediatrics
• Broncopulmonary Dysplasia
• Developmental Pharmacology
• General Pediatrics II
• Genetics/Dysmorphology
• Health Services & Managed Care
• Hematology/Oncology
• Infectious Diseases
• Lung Development
• Neonatal Infectious Diseases
• Neonatal Immunology & Hematology
• Oxidants & Inflammatory Responses
• Vulnerable Populations

EVENING

6:45 pm - 8:00 pm
PAS Joint Presidential & New Member Reception

8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
APA Debate

• Resolved: Clinical Practice Guidelines Will Improve Clinical Practice

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TUESDAY, MAY 5

MORNING

8:00 am - 10:00 am
APS/SPR Subspecialties & Themes

• Clinical Trials in Perinatal Medicine
• Cytokines Therapy: Rationale & Risks
• Developmental Pharmacology
• Genetics - Inborn Errors of Metabolism
• HIV
• Molecular Lung Development

8:00 am - 10:00 am
PAS Joint Subspecialties & Themes

• General Emergency Medicine
• Health Services Research: Asthma
• Medical Informatics
• Underserved Populations II
• Vaccine Delivery

8:00 am - 11:00 am
APA Workshops & Special Interest Groups

• Behavioral Pediatrics
• Division Directors in General Pediatrics
• Holistic Medicine
• Injury Prevention
• Practice-Based Research Network

10:15 am - 12:15 pm
PAS Joint Hot Topics

• Controversies in Neonatal Medicine
• Controversies in Pediatric Bioethics
• HIV: Current Controversies
• Task Force on Pediatric Education

AFTERNOON

12:00 noon - 5:00 pm
APA Board of Directors Meeting

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