MINI COURSES Jointly sponsored by the Pediatric Academic Societies and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Special registration is required. The special Mini Course Registration Form must accompany the Meeting Registration Form. The Mini Courses will be held at the Hilton Riverside. The New Mini Courses are...Timely...Topical...Interactive...Flexible. The Mini Course is an exciting new initiative for the Pediatric Academic Societies’ Annual Meeting that is jointly sponsored with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Each Mini Course is a mixture of three or four seminar presentations by experts, combined with individual case analyses and audience participation that are directed by a moderator. Each Mini Course will explore specific topics that are timely and controversial and weave them within a common theme. This interactive format is designed to provide a meaningful, in-depth learning experience on current issues important to both the practicing and academic pediatrician. This format also is flexible, since attendees may attend all components of an entire Mini Course, or they may choose to attend any combination of the seminars within the entire Mini Course series. The Joint PAS-AAP Mini Courses offered this year are within the broad topics of Adolescent Medicine, Allergy, and Infectious Diseases in children. ADOLESCENT MEDICINE Moderator: Donald Greydanus, Michigan State University, Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies The Adolescent Medicine Mini Courses will update the physician on the latest findings in epidemiologic research that is relevant to adolescents, including new knowledge about cigarette smoking prevention, hypertension, diabetes control, and management of chronic illness. Continuing the theme of prevention, approaches to teen health screening will be explored. The challenges of contraception and menstrual disorders on the female adolescent also will be highlighted. * Epidemiologic Research in Adolescent Medicine Saturday, May 2, 7:45 am - 10:45 am Robert W. Blum, University
Hospitals in Minneapolis Health Promoting and
Health Rish Behaviors of Adolescents * Health Screening in Adolescents: GAPS (Guide to Adolescent Preventive Services) Saturday, May 2, 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Arthur B. Elster, American Medical Association * Adolescent Gynecology Update: Contraception & Menstrual Disorders Sunday, May 3, 8:30 am - 11:30 am Susan M. Coupey, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center ALLERGY Moderator: Richard Evans III, Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago The Allergy Mini Courses will focus on the practical aspects of the identification and management of the allergic child. Topics that will be discussed include the familiar challenges of food allergies, atopic dermatitis, asthma, drug allergies, and anaphylaxis. * Asthma Saturday, May 2, 7:45 am - 10:45 am Laurie J. Smith, Walter
Reed Army Medical Center * The Allergic Child Saturday, May 2, 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Dennis Ownby, Henry
Ford Hospital * IgE Mediated Diseases Sunday, May 3, 8:30 am - 11:30 am Dennis Ownby, Henry
Ford Hospital INFECTIOUS DISEASES Chairs: Richard F. Jacobs, Chief, Infectious Disease, University of Arkansas, Arkansas Children’s Hospital & Gail J. Demmler, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital The Infectious Disease Mini Courses will highlight such important issues as foodborne and waterborne diseases, with emphasis on the identification and management of congenital infections, with updates on toxoplasmosis, herpes simplex virus, and congenital syphilis; HIV with discussions on new tools for diagnosis, new advances in treatment, and recent recommendations for prevention of perinatally-acquired HIV infection; and sexually transmitted diseases, especially those caused by viruses or associated with sexual assault and abuse, with special emphasis on the use of new diagnostic methods that are available to the clinician. * HIV in Children and Adolescents: New Advances - Friday, May 1, 12:00 noon - 3:00 pm Moderator: Cathy Wilfert, Duke University Medical Center & Pediatric AIDS Foundation Paul E. Palumbo, University
of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey * Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Saturday, May 2, 7:45 am - 10:45 am Moderator: Margaret Hammerschlag, State University of New York HSC Brooklyn Charlotte Gaydos, Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine * Update on Foodborne and Waterborne Diseases - Saturday, May 2, 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Moderator: Larry K. Pickering, Center for Pediatric Research, Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughter Larry K.
Pickering, Center for Pediatric Research,
Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughter * Congenital and Perinatal Infections: New Issues in Management & Prevention- Sunday, May 3, 8:30 am - 11:30 am Moderator: Richard F. Jacobs, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Arkansas Children’s Hospital Kenneth M. Boyer, Rush
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