1998 Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting
May 1-5, 1998 - New Orleans Convention Center

SUBSPECIALTY SOCIETIES AND CLUBS

The clubs and societies listed below will host activities and programming in conjunction with the Pediatric Academic Societies.
Detailed contents of these programs will be published in the Pediatric Academic Societies’ pocket program.

® American Society of Pediatric Nephrology

Thursday, April, 30, LeMeridien Hotel

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm   Opening Reception
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm   Washington Issues Forum
    Program Directors’ Meeting follows

Friday, May 1, LeMeridien Hotel

7:30 am   Breakfast/Exhibit Viewing
8:00 am - 12:00 nn   General Session
12:00 nn - 1:45 pm   Skills Workshops
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm   Public Policy Lecture
3:00 pm - 5:30 pm   General Session
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm   Dessert Reception

Saturday, May 2

7:30 am   Business Meeting
9:00 am - 10:00 am   General Session
    Awards Presentation
    Presidential Address
10:30 am - 12:00 nn   General Session
12:00 nn - 1:45 pm   Skills Workshops
2:00 pm - 5:15 pm   General Session

Contact for information:
Ellis D. Avner, M.D., ASPN Secretary-Treasurer
Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
11100 Euclid Avenue, MS 6003
Cleveland, OH 44106-6003
Phone: (216)844-3884 Fax: (216)844-1479
E-Mail: edu@po.cwru.edu

® Association of Pediatric Program Directors

Wednesday, April 29, Hilton Riverside

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm   Program Coordinators
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm   Reception/Presentation
    Plenary & Program Directors of Small Programs Plenary

Thursday, April 30, Hilton Riverside

8:00 am - 12:00 nn   Program Directors Plenary
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm   Luncheon
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm   Program Coordinators Plenary
    Program Directors Workshops
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm   Program Directors Workshops

Friday, May 1, Hilton Riverside

8:00 am - 10:00 am   APPD Committee Meetings
8:30 am - 12:00 nn   Program Coordinators Plenary
10:00 am - 1:00 pm   APA/APPD Program
    Directors SIG
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm   Program Coordinators
    Workshops

Contact for information:
Laura Degnon
6728 Old McLean Village Drive
McLean, VA 22101
Phone: (703)556-9222 Fax: (703)556-8729
E-Mail: DEGNON@aol.com

® Blood Club

Sunday, May 3, Hilton Riverside

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm   Topic: Mechanisms of Thrombosis in Newborn Infants & Children

Contact for information:
Pedro A. de Alarcon, M.D.
University of Virginia Hospital
Pediatrics, Box, 386, Hematology/Oncology
Charlottesville, VA 22908
Phone: (804)982-1930 Fax: (804)982-1927
E-Mail: pad8w@virginia.edu

® Kernicterus Symposium

Sunday, May 3, Convention Center

11:30 am - 12:30 pm   Clinical & Neuropathological Aspects of Acute
    & Chronic Bilirubin Encephalopathy
    Mechanisms of Brain Toxicity
    Update on Avoiding Pathologic Jaundice

Contact for information:
David K. Stevenson, M.D.
Neonatal & Developmental Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
750 Welch Road, Suite 315
Palo Alto, CA 94305
Phone: (415)723-5711 Fax: (415)725-8351
E-Mail: mn.dks@forsythe.stanford.edu
Audrey K. Brown, M.D. (516)883-3032

® Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society

Thursday, April 30, Hilton Riverside

1:00 pm - 4:30 pm   Update on Diabetes (Joint with Endocrine Section of the AAP)

Friday, May 1, Hilton Riverside

8:00 am - 4:30 pm   Annual Scientific Meeting
4:45 pm - 5:30 pm   Annual Business Meeting
6::00 pm - 9:00 pm   Reception

Contact for information:
Ms. Mari McKay (Administrative Contact)
Barbara Lippe, M.D., Secretary-Treasurer
c/o ONYX
6100 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1150
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Phone: (213)938-5128 Fax: (213)9383-8326
E-Mail: blippe@ucla.edu

® Lung Club

Sunday, May 3, 1998, Hilton Riverside

7:00 pm - 8:15 pm   Topic:To be announced

Contact for information:
Thomas A. Hazinski, M.D.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
21st & Garland Aves. , S-0119 Medical Ctr.
North Nashville, TN 37232-2586
Phone: (615)343-7617 Fax: (615)343-7727
E-Mail: tom.hazinski@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu

® Milk Club

Time to be announced   HIV Infection and Breast Feeding & Breast Feeding Issues

Contact for information:
Robert H. Yolken, M.D.
Dir., Div. of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Johns Hopkins University
600 N. Wolfe St., Blalock 1111
Baltimore, MD 21287-4933
Phone: (410)955-3271 Fax: (410)614-1491
E-Mail: yolken@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu

® Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

Sunday, May 3, Convention Center

1:00 pm - 4:30 pm   Symposium - Molecular Basis of New Vaccines
4:45 pm - 5:45 pm   Business Meeting
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm   Dinner Symposium (Location to be determined)

Contact for information:
Carol J. Baker, M.D., PIDS Secretary
Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Baylor College of Medicine
One Baylor Plaza
Houston, TX 77030-3498
Phone: (713)798-4790 Fax: (713)798-7249
E-Mail: cbaker@bcm.tmc.edu

® Perinatal Brain Club

Saturday, May 2, Convention Center

12:30 pm - 2:30 pm   Neuroprotiective Strategies
    Brain Temperature Strategies:
Selective Vs Cooling a part of the Brain Temperature Strategies
    Therapies Targeting the NMDA-NOS systems
    Anti-oxidant Strategies

Contact for information:
Jeff Perlman, M.D.
Department of Pediatrics
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75235-9063
Phone: (214)648-2060 Fax: (214)648-2481
E-mail: JPERLM@MEDNET.SWMED.EDU

® Perinatal Nutrition and Metabolism Club

Friday, May 1, Hilton Riverside

5:30 pm   Protein Metabolism in the Fetus & Neonate

Contact for information:
William W. Hay, Jr., M.D.
Pediatrics/Section of Neonatology
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Campus Box B195, 4200 East Ninth Avenue
Denver, CO 80262
Phone: (303)315-5981 Fax: (303)315-3851
E-Mail: Bill.Hay@UCHSC.edu

® Society for Developmental Pediatrics

Sunday, May 3, Hilton Riverside

7:00 pm - 10:30 pm   "State of the Art" Presentation & Business Meeting

Contact for information:
Frank R. Brown, III, M.D., Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children’s Hospital
6621 Fannin Street
Houston, TX 77030-2399
Phone: (713)770-3425 Fax: (713)770-3399