SUNDAY, MAY 2 Saturday, May 1 Monday, May 3 Tuesday, May 4

A separate registration is required for APA Workshops and Special Interest Groups and can be requested directly from the APA National office.

WORKSHOPS

1. Evidence-Based Learning For Trainees And Practitioners
2. An Apple For The Teacher? Central Concepts And Useful Tools In Educational Evaluation
3. Learning From The New State Child Health Insurance Program (Chip): Strategies And Data Sources
4. Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Training: New Solutions For Old Problems
5. Developing Faculty In Pediatric Emergency Medicine
6. Home Visitation: History, Research And Implementation
7. The Inpatient Attending Physician: Making The Most Of Teaching Opportunities In 1999
8. A Collaboration To Improve Care In Pediatric Practice
9. Legislative Update and Grant Writing for Primary Care - Residency Training and Faculty Development

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

The APA Special Interest Groups are informal sessions organized around a specific area of interest in general pediatrics. The sessions range in format from informal discussion to guest speakers to research presentations.

A separate registration is required for APA Special Interest Groups.

1999 Confirmed Exhibitors

Posters Available for Viewing: 10:30 am - 3:30 pm
Authors will attend posters from 11:45 am - 1:45 pm
Commercial Exhibits: 10:30 am - 3:30 pm

For further information contact:
Ambulatory Pediatric Association
6728 Old McLean Village Drive, McLean, VA 22101,

A separate registration is required for APA Workshops and Special Interest Groups and can be requested directly from the APA National office.

WORKSHOPS

10. An Efficient, Patient-Oriented, Evidence-Based Learning Method For Everyday Pediatric Practice
11. Making A Pediatric Website: A Hands-On Workshop
12. Technological Trouble In The Emergency Department
13. Toxicities Of Herbal Remedies: Teaching Guidelines
14. Measuring Performance And Completing A Program Evaluation
15. Introductory Techniques For Pediatric Research
16. Structured Clinical Observations (Scos) – The Sequel
17. Culture And Clinical Care: Achieving Cultural Competency In Pediatrics
18. Research Consultations

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

The APA Special Interest Groups are informal sessions organized around a specific area of interest in general pediatrics. The sessions range in format from informal discussion to guest speakers to research presentations.

A separate registration is required for APA Special Interest Groups.

Childhood Obesity**
Chair: Patricia Donohoue, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City

The session will consist of three presentations from leaders in the field. 1) Evidence supporting a major genetic influence on obesity, as well as recent advances that suggest a major genetic influence on obesity, as well as recent advances in our understanding of genetic defects causing obesity in rodents and humans will be presented. 2) The major determinants of energy expenditure and physical activity in children from different at risk populations, including body size and body composition as well as factors such as parental obesity and gestational diabetics will be reviewed. 3) Recent epidemiologic data on childhood risk factors will be reviewed, and implications of these data for formulating obesity prevention strategies will be discussed.
** Sponsored by the American Pediatric Society, Society for Pediatric Research, American Society for Clinical Nutrition and the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society

2:30 pm --- Genetic Determinants of Obesity
Rudy Leibel, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York

3:00 pm --- Determinants of Energy Expenditure and Physical Activity in Children: Results from Pima Indians
Arline Salby, National Institutes of Health

3:30 pm --- The Epidemiology of Childhood Obesity: Implications for Prevention
Bob Whitaker, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

Mechanisms of Human Malformation
Chair: Kenneth Lyons Jones, University of California, San Diego

Recent applications of molecular genetic technologies to the study of mammalian development are providing dramatic insights into fundamental mechanisms of normal as well as aberrant development. The laboratories of each of the invited speakers are at the cutting edge of such discoveries and their presentations will provide an extraordinary view of the state-of-the-art in this dynamic and critical area, so vital to pediatric medicine.

How Do Hox Genes Specify Our Body Plan?
Mario Capecchi, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

Developmental Patterning Molecules and the Control of Conserved Functions: From Model Organisms to Man
William J. McGinnis, University of California, San Diego

Molecular Basis of Asymmetry during Vertebrate Embryogenesis
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla

State Child Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP) and Medicaid: Implications for Research
Chair: James M. Perrin, Massachusetts General Hospital

The new State Child Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP) represent a major new investment in child health insurance across the country. States have the choice of expanding their current Medicaid programs by increasing age and income eligibility or of developing new insurance programs for uninsured children not eligible for Medicaid. The next few years will see the largest expansion in children’s access to health care. What are the research agendas (access, health services, quality, outcomes) that arise from this program; what should the pediatric research community do to increase quality and quantity of research; how can pediatric researchers interact effectively with policymakers at state and Federal levels to help shape these new programs?

Monitoring Expanded Health Insurance for Children
Paul W. Newacheck, Institute for Health Policy Studies and Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco

California’s Innovations in SCHIP: Access and Monitoring
Lorraine U. Brown, Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, California Healthy Families Program, Sacramento

Implementing SCHIP: Interactions of Policy and Research
Sara Rosenbaum, George Washington University, Center for Health Policy Research, Washington, DC

• Clinical Research in Developing Countries: A New Frontier
  Featured Speaker: Fima Lifshitz, Miami Children's Hospital

• Effects of Oxygen on Lung Oxidant/Antioxidant Balance in the Developing/Neonatal Lung
  Featured Speaker: Keith Tanswell, the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

Susceptibility to Cancer
Chair: Alan D’Andrea, Children’s Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston

The speakers in this session will discuss the clinical and molecular aspects of various human genetic syndromes, resulting in increased susceptibility to cancer. Also, specific chromosome translocations underlying various human cancers will be considered. While these human syndromes are rare, they offer broad insights into stem cell biology and the development of cancers in the general population.

4:00 pm --- Tyrosinemia Type I and Fanconi Anemia: Two Inherited Cancer Susceptibility Syndromes
Markus Grompe, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland

4:40 pm --- Li-Fraumeni Syndrome and the p53 Gene
Thea Tlsty, University of California, San Francisco

5:20 pm --- Chromosome Breakage and Leukemia
Michael Cleary, Stanford School of Medicine, Palo Alto

Development in Vitamin D Metabolism and Rickets *
Chairs: Uri Alon, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City and Joseph Gertner, Serona Laboratories, Inc., Norwell, MA

This Topic Symposium will address new advances in our understanding of the pathophysiology and management of rickets.
* Sponsored by the American Pediatric Society, Society for Pediatric Research, American Society of Pediatric Nephrology, and the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society

X-linked Hypophosphatemic Rickets
Thomas O. Carpenter, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven

Molecular Regulation and Mutations of the Vitamin D 1-Alpha Hydroxylase Gene
Anthony Portale, University of California, San Francisco

Treatment of Rickets
Uri Alon, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City

For further information contact:
American Pediatric Society
3400 Research Forest Drive, Ste. B-7, The Woodlands, TX 77381

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