WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29

Morning

Afternoon

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm ; Association of Pediatric Program Directors (APPD)

  • Program Coordinators Plenary

  • Directors of Small Programs Plenary

Evening

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm ; APPD Reception/Presentations

THURSDAY, APRIL 30

Morning

8:00 am - 12:00 noon

  • APPD Program Directors Plenary

Afternoon

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm ; APPD Luncheon

1:00 pm - 4:30 pm ; Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society (LWPES); Update on Diabetes Symposium

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

  • APPD Program Coordinators Workshop

  • APPD Program Directors Workshops

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm ; APPD Program Directors Workshops

Evening

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm ; American Society of Pediatric Nephrology (ASPN); Opening Reception

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm ; ASPN Washington Issues Forum & Program Director's Meeting

FRIDAY, MAY 1

Morning

7:30 am ; ASPN Breakfast/Exhibit Viewing

8:00 am - 10:00 am ; APPD Committee Meetings

8:00 am - 12:00 noon ; APA Board of Directors Meeting

8:00 am - 12:00 noon ; ASPN General Session

8:30 am - 5:00 pm

  • APPD Program Coordinators Plenary

8:00 am - 5:30 pm ; LWPES Annual Scientific Meeting & Business Meeting

10:00 am - 12:00 noon ; APS & SPR Council Meetings

10:00 am - 12:00 noon ; PAS Educational Seminars

10:00 am - 1:00 pm ; APA Special Interest Group

  • Residency Program Directors

Afternoon

12:00 noon - 1:30 pm ; APA Leadership Training

12:00 noon - 1:45 pm ; ASPN Skills Workshops

12:00 noon - 2:00 pm ; APS/SPR Joint Council Meeting

12:00 noon - 3:00 pm ; PAS/AAP Joint Mini Courses

  • HIV in Children and Adolescents: New Advances

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm ; PAS Educational Seminars

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm ; APS/SPR Subspecialties & Themes

  • Cerebral Injury & Protection

  • Neonatal Nutrition & Metabolism I

  • Neonatal Outcomes

  • Pulmonology: Reactive Airway Diseases

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm ; ASPN Public Policy Lecture

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm ; APA Committee Meetings

3:00 pm - 5:30 pm ; ASPN General Session

3:15 pm - 4:45 pm ; APS/SPR State of the Art Plenary

Asthma Brain Metabolism and Injury

3:15 pm - 5:15 pm ; PAS Joint Subspecialities & Themes

  • Health Services Research: Vaccines

3:15 pm - 5:30 pm ; APS/SPR Subspecialities & Themes

  • Neonatal Pulmonology I

4:00 pm - 7:00 pm ; APPD Session

Evening

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm ; Perinatal Nutrition and Metabolism Club; Protein Metabolism in the Fetus & Neonate

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm ; LWPES Reception

9:00 pm - 11:00 pm ; ASPN Dessert Reception

SATURDAY, MAY 2

Morning

7:30 am ; ASPN Business Meeting

7:30 am - 9:00 am ; APA Past Officers Breakfast

7:45 am - 10:45 am ; PAS/AAP Joint Mini Courses

  • Epidemiologic Research in Adolescent Medicine

  • Asthma

  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases

8:30 am - 10:45 am ; APS/SPR Poster Session

Available for Viewing: 8:30 am - 2:00 pm

Author Attendance: 8:30 am - 10:45 am

  • Brain Injury & Metabolism

  • Endocrinology & Diabetes

  • Development & Regulation of Cardiovascular Response

  • Meconium Aspiration

  • Neonatal Apnea

  • Neonatal Environment & Monitoring

  • Neonatal Nutrition & Metabolism

  • Neonatal Outcomes - Demographic Effects

  • Neonatal Oxide - Regulation of Pulmonary Blood

  • Neurology

  • Outcomes in Term Infants

  • Outcomes in Preterm Infants - Development

  • Outcomes in Preterm Infants - Growth & Health

  • Outcomes in Preterm Infants - Mortality & Morbidity

  • Perinatal Resource Utilization & Regionalization

  • Placental Development

  • Pulmonary Mechanics

9:00 am - 10:00 am ; ASPN Presidential Address/Awards Plenary

9:00 am - 11:00 am ; APA Workshops & Special Interest Groups

  • AIDS/HIV

  • Literacy Development Programs in Primary Care

  • Pediatrics for Family Practice

  • School & Community Health

  • Women in Medicine

10:30 am - 12:00 noon ; ASPN General Session

11:00 am - 12:30 pm ; APS Presidential Plenary Address/Awards Plenary; Ralph D. Feigin

John Howland Award; Robert J. Haggerty; Joseph W. St. Gene, Jr. Leadership Award; Catherine DeAngelis

Afternoon

12:00 noon - 1:45 pm ; ASPN Skills Workshops

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm ; LUNCH BREAK

12:30 pm - 2:30 pm ; Perinatal Brain Club; Neuroprotective Strategies

1:30 pm - 4:30 pm ; PAS/AAP Joint Mini Courses

  • Health Screening in Adolescents: GAPS

  • The Allergic Child

  • Update on Foodborne & Waterborne Diseases

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm ; PAS Public Policy Plenary; Developing Future Pediatric Academicians

2:00 pm - 5:15 pm ; ASPN General Session

3:15 pm - 5:15 pm ; APS/SPR Topic Symposium;Innate Immunity: First Line of Defense

3:15 pm - 5:15 pm ; APS/SPR Subspecialties & Themes

  • Critical Care I: Mechanisms of Injury in Endotoxemia & Inflammation(ends 5:45 pm)

  • Endocrinology & Diabetes (ends 6:15 pm)

  • Genetic Basis of Disease (ends 5:30 pm)

  • Molecular Aspects of Cardiovascular Development (ends 6:15 pm) *Rowe Award*

  • Neonatal Nutrition & Metabolism II

  • Neurology

  • Predicting Neonatal Outcome

  • Pulmonology: Control of Breathing I

3:15 pm - 5:15 pm ; PAS Joint Subspecialties & Themes

  • Epidemiology

  • General Pediatrics I

  • Health Services Research: Quality Improvement, Outcomes

3:15 pm - 6:15 pm ; APA Workshops & Special Interest Groups

  • Continuity Clinic Directors

  • Emergency Medicine

  • Environmental Health

  • International Health

  • Literacy Development Programs in Primary Care

  • Medical Student Education

  • Pediatric Telephone Care

  • Serving the Underserved

Evening

6:00 pm - 10:00 pm ; APS Member Dinner in Honor of the Howland Award Recipient

SUNDAY, MAY 3

Morning

7:00 am - 8:30 am ; APA Regional Breakfasts

8:30 am - 10:30 am ; APS/SPR Topic Symposium;Genes & Behavior

8:30 am - 10:30 am ; APS/SPR Subspecialties & Themes

  • Myocardial Function & Metabolism

  • Neonatology: Disease Oriented Research

  • Nephrology I

  • Pulmonology: Control of Breathing II

8:30 am - 10:30 am ; PAS Joint Subspecialties & Themes

  • Adolescent Medicine

  • Underserved Populations I

  • Vaccine Development

8:00 am - 11:00 am ; PAS/AAP Joint Mini Courses

  • Adolescent Gynecology Update

  • IgE Mediated Diseases

  • Congenital and Perinatal Infections

9:00 am - 12:00 noon ; APA Topic Plenary Sessions

  • Behavior, Development, Chronic Illness

  • Emergency Medicine

  • Epidemiology

  • General Pediatrics

  • General Pediatrics and Pediatric Education

10:45 am - 12:15 pm ; SPR Presidential Address & Awards Plenary; Maureen Andrew

Young Investigator Award; Michael J. Bamshad

Student, House Officer & Fellow Awards

11:30 am - 12:30 pm ; Kericterus Symposium

  • Clinical & Neuropathological Aspects of Acute & Chronic Bilirubin Encephalopathy

  • Mechanisms of Brain Toxicity

  • Update on Avoiding Pathologic Jaundice

Afternoon

12:15 pm - 1:00 pm ; LUNCH BREAK; APS Business Meeting

12:45 pm - 3:00 pm ; APA Awards (ends 1:30 pm) & Business Meeting

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm ; APS/SPR State of the Art Plenary

Fetal - Neonatal Medicine; Gene Therapy for Pediatric Disease; Telemedicine & New Information Technologies; Transcription Factors in Endocrine Development

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm ; PAS Educational Seminars

1:00 pm - 4:30 pm ; Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Symposium; Molecular Basis of New Vaccines

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm ; APS/SPR Subspecialties & Themes

  • Allergy & Immunology

  • Bilirubin

  • Cardiology I: Clinical Aspects & Cardiomyopathy

  • Molecular Control of Growth

  • Nephrology II

  • Pulmonary Vascular Biology

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm ; PAS Joint Subspecialties & Themes

  • Emergency Medicine: Trauma

  • General Pediatrics II

  • Health Services Research: Access, Organization, Cost

  • Neurodevelopmental Disabilities

  • Pediatric Education

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm ; SPR E. Mead Johnson Award Lectures

Jonathan D. Gitlin; James R. Lupski; Jeffrey C. Murray

4:45 pm - 5:45 pm ; Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Business Meeting

Evening

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm ; PAS Poster Session

Available for Viewing: 10:30 am - 7:00 pm

Author Attendance: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

  • Allergy & Immunology

  • Bilirubin

  • Cardiology

  • Critical Care

  • Cocaine & Neurodevelopmental Outcome

  • Education

  • Emergency Medicine

  • Epidemiology

  • Gastroenterology & Nutrition

  • General Pediatrics I

  • Nephrology

7:00 pm ; APA Awardees/Board Dinner

7:00 pm - 8:15 pm ; Lung Club; Manipulation of Alveolar Growth: A Potential for BPD

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ; Blood Club; Mechanisms of Thrombosis in Newborn; Infants & Children

7:00 - 10:00 pm ; Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Dinner

7:00 pm - 10:30 pm ; Society for Developmental Pediatric; “State of the Art” Presentation & Business Meeting

MONDAY, MAY 4

Morning

8:00 am - 10:00 am ; APS/SPR Topic Symposium;Chemokines & Cytokines in Infection & Inflammation

8:00 am - 10:00 am ; APS/SPR Subspecialties & Themes

  • Bioethics

  • Cardiology

  • Critical Care II

  • Developmental Biology I

  • Gastroenterology & Nutrition

  • Genetic Disease: Mechanisms & Therapies

  • Hematology / Oncology

  • Human Milk

  • Neonatal Pulmonology II

  • Neonatology: Patient Oriented Research

  • Oxidants and Antioxidants - Basic Mechanisms

  • Rheumatology

8:00 am - 10:00 am ; PAS Joint Subspecialties & Themes

  • Clinical Research in Developing Countries

  • Historical Perspectives

8:00 am - 12 noon ; APA Presidential Plenary;James M. Perrin

Armstrong Lecture; Richard E. Behrman

10:00 am - 11:30 am ; March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology Lecture of the 1998 Recipient

Davor Solter; Imprinting and Cloning: History and Perspectives

Afternoon

11:30 am - 12:30 pm ; LUNCH BREAK; SPR Business Meeting

11:30 AM - 2:00 PM ; Milk Club; HIV Infection and Breast Feeding & Breast Feeding Issues

12:00 noon - 2:00 pm ; APA Luncheons; Regional Chairs, SIG Chairs & Fellows

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm ; PAS State of the Art Plenary

Cell Signaling; Child Health Services Research; Thromboembolic Disease in Children: A Product of Modern Technology

2:15 pm - 4:15 pm ; APS/SPR Subspecialties & Themes

  • Biology of Cytokines

  • Clinical Studies in Low Birth Weight Babies

  • Cystic Fibrosis

  • Developmental Biology II

  • Dysmorphology & Clinical Genetics

  • Infectious Diseases

  • Mouse Models of Human Disease

  • Necrotizing Enterocolitis

  • Oxidants & Antioxidants: Perinatal Clinical Trials & Cellular Mechanism

2:15 pm - 4:15 pm ; PAS Joint Subspecialties & Themes

  • Behavioral Pediatrics

  • Emergency Medicine - Febrile Infants & Children (ends 5:15 pm)

  • Pain & Sedation

2 :15 pm - 4:15 pm ; APA Workshops & Special Interest Groups

  • Adolescent Medicine

  • Advocacy Training

  • Child Abuse

  • Health Services Research

  • Managed Care

  • Medical Informatics

  • Nutrition

  • Pediatric Emergency Medicine Program Directors

Afternoon (continued)

4:15 pm - 6:30 pm ; PAS Joint Poster Session

Available for Viewing: 10:30 am - 6:30 pm

Author Attendance: 4:15 pm - 6:30 pm

  • Adolescent Medicine

  • Behavioral Pediatrics

  • Broncopulmonary Dysplasia

  • Developmental Pharmacology

  • General Pediatrics II

  • Genetics/Dysmorphology

  • Health Services & Managed Care

  • Hematology/Oncology

  • Infectious Diseases

  • Lung Development

  • Neonatal Infectious Diseases

  • Neonatal Immunology & Hematology

  • Oxidants & Inflammatory Responses

  • Vulnerable Populations

Evening

6:45 pm - 8:00 pm ; PAS Joint Presidential & New Member Reception

8:00 pm - 9:30 pm ; APA Debate

Resolved: Clinical Practice Guidelines Will Improve Clinical Practice

TUESDAY, MAY 5

Morning

8:00 am - 10:00 am ; APS/SPR Subspecialties & Themes

  • Clinical Trials in Perinatal Medicine

  • Cytokines Therapy: Rationale & Risks

  • Developmental Pharmacology

  • Genetics - Inborn Errors of Metabolism

  • HIV

  • Molecular Lung Development

8:00 am - 10:00 am ; PAS Joint Subspecialties & Themes

  • General Emergency Medicine

  • Health Services Research: Asthma

  • Medical Informatics

  • Underserved Populations II

  • Vaccine Delivery

8:00 am - 11:00 am ; APA Workshops & Special Interest Groups

  • Behavioral Pediatrics

  • Division Directors in General Pediatrics

  • Holistic Medicine

  • Injury Prevention

  • Practice-Based Research Network

10:15 am - 12:15 pm ; PAS Joint Hot Topics

Controversies in Neonatal Medicine; Controversies in Pediatric Bioethics; HIV: Current Controversies; Task Force on Pediatric Education

Afternoon

12:00 noon - 5:00 pm ; APA Board of Directors Meeting

Evening