WHO WE ARE

Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Meeting connects thousands of leading pediatric researchers, clinicians, and medical educators worldwide united by a common mission: Connecting the global academic pediatric community to advance scientific discovery and promote innovation in child and adolescent health. This international gathering offers opportunities for a global audience to share research, explore new ideas, build career opportunities, and collaborate on future projects. Presentations cover issues of interest to generalists as well as topics critical to a wide array of specialty and sub-specialty areas. The PAS Meeting is produced through the partnership of four leading pediatric associations; the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Academic Pediatrics Association (APA), the American Pediatric Society (APS), and the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR).

OUR MISSION

Connecting the global academic pediatric community to advance scientific discovery and promote innovation in child and adolescent health.

OUR VISION

A world with healthy children, adolescents, and families through advances in pediatric scholarship.

OUR STRATEGIC PLAN

Over the last year, the PAS Board of Directors has been hard at work creating a new Strategic Plan. As we continue the development of our new Strategic Plan we would like to share with you the five finalized Domains.

If you have any questions contact info@pasmeeting.org.

OUR PARTNERS

The PAS Meeting is produced through a partnership of four pediatric organizations that are leaders in the advancement of pediatric research and child advocacy. These partners, designated below, are pleased to celebrate ongoing collaborations with the Alliance and Affiliate supporters of the PAS Meeting denoted below.

  • American Pediatric Society (APS) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of child health through the promotion of pediatric research, recognition of achievement, and cultivation of excellence in pediatrics through advocacy, scholarship, education, and leadership development and to honor those who, by their contributions to pediatrics, have aided in its advancement.
  • Society for Pediatric Research (SPR) is an international society whose purpose is to cultivate a diverse network of child health researchers through collaboration, community, mentorship, and advocacy. SPR promotes the exchange of ideas and provides opportunities for investigators to present and be honored for their work.
  • Academic Pediatric Association (APA) is a national organization dedicated to improving the health of all children and adolescents through leadership in the education of child health professionals, research, dissemination of knowledge, patient care, and advocacy, in partnership with children, families, and communities. This is accomplished through membership activities, funded research, teaching programs, and advocacy to affect public and governmental opinion positively for children.
  • American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is an organization of primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists, and pediatric surgical specialists committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental and social health for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.

OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Susan Bostwick, MD, MBA -President
Weill Cornell Medicine

Vineet Bhandari, MD, DM, FAAP– Secretary/Treasurer
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

Lee Savio Beers, MD, FAAP
Children’s National Hospital

Todd Florin, MD, MSCE
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH
Association of American Medical Colleges

Hannah Glass, MD
UCSF Departments of Neurology, Pediatrics and Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Weill Institute for Neurosciences

Nia Heard-Garris, MD, MBA, MSc
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital

Teri Turner, MD, M.P.H, M.Ed.
Baylor College of Medicine

Ex officio

Wendy Hobson-Rohrer, MD, MSPH, FAAP
Associate Vice President for Health Sciences Education
Executive Clinical Director
South Main Clinic at University of Utah Health

Daniel Rauch, MD, FAAP, SFHM – Program Chair
HMH Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital at HUMC
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

Thomas J. Coté, MBA, CAE
PAS Executive Director

OUR PROGRAM COMMITTEE LEADERSHIP TEAM

Daniel Rauch, MD, FAAP, SFHM
PAS Program Chair

HMH Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital at HUMC
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

Wendy Hobson-Rohrer, MD, MSPH, FAAP.
PAS Program Chair-elect
Associate Vice President for Health Sciences Education
Executive Clinical Director
South Main Clinic at University of Utah Health

Susan Bostwick, MD, MBA
PAS Board of Directors President
Weill Cornell Medicine

Caroline R. Paul, MD
PAS Workshop Chair
Associate Dean
University of Kentucky, College of Medicine
Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Milissa Jones, MD, MPH
PAS Workshop Chair-elect
Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Deputy Director of the Translational Medicine Unit
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Glenda Minshew
PAS Meeting Director

Jaclyn Huff
PAS Director, Content and Conference Planning

Caroline R. Paul, MD
PAS Workshop Chair
Associate Dean
University of Kentucky, College of Medicine
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Affiliation: APA

Milissa Jones, MD, MPH
PAS Workshop Chair-elect
Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Deputy Director of the Translational Medicine Unit
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Affiliation: AAP, APA, PIDS

Salathiel Kendrick-Allwood, MD
Emory University School of Medicine
Affiliation: AAP, APA, SDBP

Andria Tatem, MD, MEd 
Baylor College of Medicine
Affiliation: AAP, APA

Rebecca Tenney-Soeiro, MD, MSEd
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Affiliations: AAP

Adam Wolfe, MD, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Affiliations: APA

Sonja Ziniel, PhD, MA 
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Affiliation: APA

Gail Demmler-Harrison, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Affiliation: AAP, PIDS

Matthew D. Garber, MD
UFCOM-JAX Pediatric Hospitalists
(Wolfson and UF Health)
University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville Wolfson Children’s Hospital
Affiliation: AAP

Kathryn King, MD, MHS
Telemedicine/General Pediatrics
Medical University of South Carolina
Affiliation: AAP

Chris Peltier, MD, FAAP
President, Ohio Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Affiliation: AAP

Hugo Ruben Martinez, MD, FAAP, FACC
Cardiology
The Heart Institute-Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Affiliation: AAP

Alan Schroeder, MD
Critical Care, Hospital Medicine
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University School of Medicine
Affiliation: AAP, APA

Shabana Yusuf, MD, MEd, FAAP
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Faculty
Texas Children’s Hospital Emergency Center, Houston
Affiliation: AAP

Arvin Garg, MD, MPH
APA President
General Pediatrics, Advocacy, Medical Education
UMass Chan Medical School
Affiliation: AAP, APA, APS

Michael Steiner, MD, MPH
APA Treasurer
General Pediatrics, Hospital Medicine, Adolescent Medicine
University of North Carolina
Affiliations: AAP, APA, APS, SPR, PHM

Lisa DeCamp, MD, MSPH
APA’s Chair of the Research Committee
Health Equity / Social Determinants
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Affiliation: APA

Karen Wilson, MD, MPH
APA President-Elect
University of Rochester School of Medicine
Affiliations: AAP, APA, APS, SPR, CHTRC, PHM

Su-Ting Li, MD, MPH
APA Education Committee Chair
University of California Davis
Affiliations: AAP, APA, APS, SPR

Jennifer Rosenthal, MD, MAS
University of California Davis
Affiliations: APA, SPR

Stephen Daniels, MD, PhD, MPH
APS President
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Affiliation: AAP, APA, APS, SPR

Catherine M. Gordon, MD, MS
APS Secretary/Treasurer
Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD
National Institutes of Health
Affiliation: AAP, APS, SPR, SAHM

Lise Nigrovic, MD, MPH
Emergency Medicine
Boston Children’s Hospital
Affiliation: AAP, APS, SPR

Yasmin Pedrogo, MD, MSc MEdL
APS Program Committee Member
Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico
Affiliation: AAP, APS

Christine Gleason, MD
APS Secretary-Treasurer Emerita
University of Washington
Affiliation: APS, SPR

Tamera Coyne-Beasley, MD, MPH
APS President-Elect
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Affiliation: AAP, APA, APS, SAHM

Eric Austin, MD, MSCI
SPR President
Pediatric Pulmonology Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Affiliation: AAP, APS, SPR

Joyce Javier, MD, MPH, MS
SPR President-Elect
Kaiser Permanente
Affiliation: AAP, SPR

Brenda Poindexter, MD, MS
SPR Past President
Neonatology
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University
Affiliation: AAP, APS, SPR

Daniel Moore, MD
SPR PAS Working Group Chair
Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Affiliation: AAP, SPR

Jacqueline Ho, MD, MSc
SPR PAS Working Group Member
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Affiliation: AAP, APS, SPR

John Ibrahim, MD
SPR PAS Working Group Member
University of Pittsburgh
Affiliation: AAP, SPR

Danielle Soranno, MD
ASPN Program Committee Chair
Riley Children’s Health
Affiliation: ASPN

Amrish Jain, MD
ASPN Program Committee Co-Chair
Children’s Hospital of Michigan
Affiliation: ASPN

Joshua Wolf, PhD, MBBS
Infectious Diseases
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Affiliation: PIDS

Gail Demmler-Harrison, MD
Infectious Diseases
Baylor College of Medicine
Affiliation: AAP, PIDS

Tetsuya Isayama, MD, MSc, PhD
JPS International Relation Committee Adviser
National Center for Child Health and Development
Affiliation: SPR, ASPR/JPS

Noriko Iwamoto, MD, PhD
Infectious Disease, Public Health
National Center for Global Health and Medicine
Affiliation: ASPR/JPS

Maya Suzuki, MD, PhD
Vice Chair of International Relations Committee in JPS
Kyushu University Hospital
Affiliation: ASPR/JPS

Sylvia Lim, MD
Co-Chair – Wellbeing and Vitality Special Interest group
Children’s Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM) -Einstein
Affiliation: AAP, APA, CHTRC

Karen Warman, MD, MS
The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein
Affiliation: AAP, APA, CHTRC

Dawn L. Gano, MD, MAS
Pediatric Neurology
University of California San Francisco
Affiliation: SPR, CNS

Emily Tam, MCDM, MAS, FRCPC
Neonatal Neurology
Hospital for Sick Children
Affiliation: APS, SPR, CNS, NBS

Gary Darmstadt, MD, MS
Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine
Affiliation: SPR, CCGCH, PIDS

Rishi Mediratta, MD, MSc, MA
Stanford University School of Medicine
Affiliation: AAP, APA, CCGCH, PHM

Daniel Feig, MD, PhD, MPH
University of Alabama, Birmingham, Children’s of Alabama
Affiliation: AAP, APS, ASPN, IPHA

Andrew Tran, MD, MPH, MS
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Affiliation: AAP, IPHA

Ruth Etzel, MD, PhD
George Washington University
Affiliation: AAP, ISCHE

Jonathan Cherry, 
Senior Director, Research Operations
Affiliation: MOD

Rita Ryan, MD
PAS Neonatology Lead
Case Western Reserve University
UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Affiliation: AAP, APS, SPR

Cami Martin, MD, MS
Weill Cornell Medicine
Affiliation: AAP, APS, SPR

Tara Randis, MD, MS
University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine
Affiliation: AAP, APS, SPR

Alexa Craig, MD, MSc, MS
Maine Medical Center & Maine Medical Partner Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital Scholarship Academy
Affiliation: NBS

Sarah Mulkey, MD, PhD
Children’s National Hospital and The George Washington University School of Medicine
Affiliation: SPR, CNS, NBS

Thomas Ciecierega, MD
New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Affiliation: NASPGHAN

Javier J Monagas, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
Affiliation: NASPGHAN

Ricardo Quinonez, MD
Division of Hospital Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital
Affiliation: AAP, APA, APS, PHM

Jacqueline Walker, MD, MHPE
Children’s Mercy Hospital and University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Affiliation: AAP, APA, PHM

Jillian Cotter, MD, MSCS
University of Colorado
Affiliation: AAP, APA, PHM

Sara Buckelew, MD, MPH
Adolescent Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Affiliation: AAP, APS, SAHM

Oriaku Kas-Osoka, MD, MeD
Adolescent Medicine
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Affiliation: AAP, APA, SAHM

Deborah Winders Davis, PhD
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
University of Louisville School of Medicine
Affiliation: APA, APS, SPR, SDBP

Douglas Vanderbilt. MD, MS, MBA
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Affiliation: AAP, APS, SPR, SDBP

Juan Boriosi, MD
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Affiliation: SPS

Becky Burger
Emory University School of Medicine, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Affiliation: AAP, SPS

Kate G. Ackerman, MD, MBA
Critical Care
Golisano Children’s Hospital

Fran Balamuth, MD, PhD, MSCE

Emergency Medicine
University of Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Affiliation: AAP

David Cooper, MD, MPH
Critical Care
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Affiliation: APS, SPR

Natalja Stanski
Critical Care

Stephanie Ford, MD
Neonatology and Nephrology
UH Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital

Amy Hair, MD
Neonatology
Baylor College of Medicine
Affiliation: APS, SPR

Suhas G. Kallapur, MD
Neonatology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital
Affiliation: APS, SPR

Heather Kaplan, MD, MSCE
Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Ken Michelson, MD
Emergency Medicine
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Affiliation: AAP, APA, SPR

Michael Posencheg, MD
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Perelman School of Medicine-University of Pennsylvania
Affiliation: AAP, SPR

Rebecca Scherzer
Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology
Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Shylaja Srinivasan, MD
Endocrinology
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital

Zachary Vesoulis, MD
Technology
St. Louis Children’s Hospital

Justin Yu, MD, MS
Palliative Care
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburg

PAS EXECUTIVE STAFF

Thomas J. (“TJ”) Coté, MBA, CAE
PAS Executive Director

Glenda Minshew
PAS Meeting Director

Kate Culliton
CFO – APS, SPR, PAS

Antonio Moreno
Director, IT

OUR MEETINGS

Past Meetings

2025 ~ Honolulu, HI ~ April 24 – 28

2024 ~ Toronto, Canada ~ May 2 – 6

2023 ~ Washington, D.C. ~ April 27 – May 1

2022 ~ Denver, CO ~ April 21 – 25

2021 ~ VIRTUAL ~ Phase I – April 30 – May 4 | Phase-II – May 10 – June 4

2020 ~ Philadelphia, PA ~ April 29 – May 6 – CANCELED

2019 ~ Baltimore, MD ~ April 24 – May 1

2018 ~ Toronto, Canada ~ May 5 – 8

2017 ~ San Francisco, CA ~ May 6 – 9

2016 ~ Baltimore, MD ~ April 30 – May 3

2015 ~ San Diego, CA ~ April 25 – 28

2014 ~ Vancouver, Canada ~ May 3 – 7

2013 ~ Washington, D.C. ~ May 4 – 7

2012 ~ Boston, MA ~ April 28 – May 1

2011 ~ Denver, CO ~ April 30 – May 3

2010 ~ Vancouver, Canada ~ May 1 – 4

Future Meetings

2026 ~ Boston, MA ~ April 23 – 27

2027 ~ Minneapolis, MN ~ April 29 – May 3

2028 ~ Salt Lake City, UT ~ May 4 –  8

2029 ~ Chicago, IL ~ April 26 – April 30

2030 ~ Phoenix, AZ ~ May 2 – 6

2031 ~ Denver, CO ~ April 24 – 28

2032 ~ Toronto, Canada ~ April 23 – 26

HOST CITY CRITERIA

Some of the key criteria PAS uses when selecting host cities are:

  • Available:  End of April/First of May
  • Safe:  Host City Is Perceived As Safe
  • Environment: City is Welcoming & Values DEI
  • Affordable: Convention Center & Hotels are affordable
  • Size: Large Exhibit Hall and 70+ Meeting Rooms in the Convention Center
  • Convenience: 40% of contracted PAS hotels are within 1 Block of the Convention Center
  • Airport Size & Location: 50+ Non-Stop Flights per day minimum and no more than 15 miles from Convention Center

If you have any further questions or suggestions for future cities please contact info@pasmeeting.org.