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1998
Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting
May
1-5, 1998 - New Orleans Convention Center |
HOT TOPICS
Tuesday, May 5, 10:15 am -
12:00 noon
- HIV: Current
Controversies
Chair:
Kenneth McIntosh, Children’s
Hospital, Boston
Advances in our
understanding of infection with human
immunodeficiency virus have both opened new
therapeutic opportunities and created unanticipated
dilemmas. The panel of speakers for this symposium
will address controversies in the management of
children and adolescents infected with, or at risk
for, contracting HIV. Scientific and ethical issues
will be discussed.
Dawn Smith, Center
for Disease Control and Prevention
When Should Prophylaxis Be Administered Following
Sexual Exposures?
John Sullivan,
University of Massachusetts Medical Center
How Early Should Antiretroviral Treatment Be
Given to HIV-infected Infants?
Marvin Harper,
Children’s Hospital, Boston
What is a Clinically - and Cost - Effective
Approach to the Febrile, HIV-infected Child?
Kenneth
McIntosh, Children’s Hospital, Boston
Problem Patients - Ethical Dilemmas
- Ethical Controversies
in Pediatrics
Chair:
Baruch A. Brody, Center for Medical
Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of
Medicine
Panelists
will discuss the pros and cons and ethical
implications of the following subjects:
(1) Genetic Enhancements - The use of genetic
engineering to enhance future generations,
(2) Extending Access to Needy Children -
Current legislative proposals to expand
access to uninsured children.
Panelists: To be
announced
- Neonatal Controversies
**
Chair: F. Sessions Cole, Washington
University School of Medicine &
William J. Keenan, St. Louis
University
This session will
be focused on a discussion of new or evolving
therapies for the newborn infant. In order to be as
current as possible, the final content of this
session will be determined in February.
- Task Force on Pediatric Education *
Chair:
Jimmy L. Simon, Wake Forest University
School of Medicine
The Task
Force on Pediatrics Education II provides a
new comprehensive opportunity to review and
plan for educating pediatricians in the
future. Task force efforts include
development of plans, programs and policies
related to generalist and subspecialist
education, workforce projections, financing
education. This symposium will overview task
force efforts and key elements of its
upcoming report. Representatives from each
workgroup will review controversial issues.
Jimmy
L. Simon, Wake Forest University
School of Medicine
An Overview of the Task Force on
Pediatric Education II
Russell
W. Chesney, University of Tennessee
The Task Force: View from the Vice Chair
* Sponsored jointly
by the Pediatric Academic Societies
** Sponsored jointly
by the Pediatric Academic Societies and the American
Academy of Pediatrics
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