MINI COURSES

The Mini Course is an exciting 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 presentations by experts, combined with individual case analyses and audience participation that is 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. Attendance is open to all PAS Registrants. The Joint PAS-AAP Mini Courses offered this year are within the broad topics of Adolescent Medicine, Immune Response to Vaccines and Infection, and Feeding and Nutritional Support of the Preterm Infant.

Adolescent Medicine*
Moderator: Donald E. Greydanus, Michigan State University, College of Medicine

Saturday, May 1, 9:00 am - 12 noon

  • Pyschopharmacology Issues in Children and Adolescents: Current Research Findings
    Glen R. Elliott, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute and University of California, San Francisco

    This 2-hour seminar will review current research findings in the psychopharmacologic management of mental health disorders in children and adolescents. Emphasis will be on depression and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders.

  • Contraception in the Sexually Active Adolescent: Issues for Clinicians
    Paula K. Braverman,     St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia

    This 2-hour seminar (split between the am & pm session) will review current concepts of contraception in the adolescent. Emphasis will be given to Oral Contraceptives, Emergency Contraceptives, Injectable Contraceptives and Barrier Contraceptives.

    • Saturday, May 1, 1:00 pm - 4:00 PM

  • Contraception in the Sexually Active Adolescent: Issues for Clinicians
    Paula K. Braverman,     St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia

    This seminar continues from the morning session. It will review current concepts of contraception in the adolescent. Emphasis will be given to Oral Contraceptives, Emergency Contraceptives, Injectable Contraceptives and Barrier Contraceptives.

  • Current Concepts of Sports Medicine in Adolescents
    Dilip R. Patel,     Michigan State University, Kalamazoo and East Lansing

    This 2-hour presentation will review important aspects of sports medicine in the adolescent for the clinician, educator and researcher. It will discuss sports performance enhancement, training of pediatric residents in sports medicine, the female athlete triad and current concepts in overuse injuries in sports.

    • Immune Response to Vaccines and Infection:
    From Polysaccharides and Intracellular Pathogens
    to Molecular Understanding of Immunodeficiencies*
    Moderator: Richard F. Jacobs, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock

    This mini course is intended to analyze and dissect important new information in the areas of immune responses to vaccines, immune protection against intracellular pathogens and immunodeficiency diseases.

    Saturday, May 1, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

  • Immune Responses to Vaccines: Activation of Innate and Adaptive Immunity
    Richard Insel, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester
  • The Cellular Immune Response to Infection: The Neonate and the Adult
    David B. Lewis,     Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto
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  • Towards a Molecular Understanding of Primary Immunodeficiencies
    Christopher B. Wilson,     University of Washington, Seattle
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    Feeding and Nutritional Support of the Preterm Infant*
    Moderators: Carol L. Berseth, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
    Richard J. Schanler, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

    This course will provide an overview for the nutritional support of the preterm infant. The course will develop a clinical pathway beginning with the initiation of nutritional support with parenteral nutrition and its issues, the sue of trophic feeding, the selection of human milk, and the general practice of feeding in the neonatal intensive care unit. there will be didactic lectures and ample time given to discussion and comment from participants.

    Saturday, May 1, 9:00 am - 12:00 noon

    • Overview
      Richard J. Schanler,       Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
    • Issues in Parenteral Nutrition
      Richard J. Schanler,       Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
    • Trophic Feeding
      Carol L. Berseth,       Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

    Saturday, May 1, 1:00 Pm - 4:00 pm

    • Nutritional Considerations in the Use of Human Milk
      Richard J. Schanler, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
    • Feeding Practices in the NICU
      Carol L. Berseth,       Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

    * Sponsored jointly by the Pediatric Academic Societies and the American Academy of Pediatrics

       

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