SPR Sessions at PAS 2022

APS/SPR Joint Presidential Plenary: Reducing susceptibility to misinformation: COVID, Climate, and Conspiracies

Friday, April 22, 2022
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

• Moderator: David Keller
• Presentation 1: Reducing susceptibility to misinformation: COVID, Climate, and Conspiracies
  Speaker: Kathleen Hall Jamieson
• Presentation 2: State Politics & Public Health: A cautionary tale
  Speaker Michelle Fiscus
• Presentation 3: It’s Not Politics. It’s Child Health.
  Speaker Judy Schaechter
• Q & A Session: David Keller with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Michelle Fiscus, and Judy Schaechter

The science of medicine offers tremendous opportunities to improve the health of children, but our ability to deliver on that promise may be thwarted by the blizzard of misinformation readily available to our patients and families. In this session, Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania will explain how pediatricians can reframe the way in which we think about misinformation. She will show how we can create a “buffer” to misinformation by proactively providing background knowledge that translates the language of science into the language of the popular culture. She will be joined on this panel by Dr. Michelle Fiscus, pediatrician and former Tennessee vaccine chief in charge of the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, and Dr. Judy Schaechter, President and CEO of the American Board of Pediatrics. They will describe how this approach can make sense of recent events in Tennessee (COVID vaccines), Florida (firearm safety) and nationally (climate change) and allow us to refocus our energy on the health of children and families.

APS SPR Journeys Reception for Alumni & Current Participants (Invitation Only)

Friday, April 22, 2022
 6:15 PM – 7:15 PM
 Location: Convention Center: TBD

SPR Grant Writing 101 Program

The Role of Tax Credits in Achieving Child Health Equity

Saturday, April 23, 2022
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM US MT
Location: Convention Center: 709/711

Chair(s)

• Lois Lee, MD, MPH
  Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Drug Pricing and Access to Medications: Impact on Child Health

Saturday, April 23, 2022 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM US MT
Location: Convention Center: 507

Chair(s)

• Punita Ponda, MD
  Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

The State of Pediatric Research – Are We Still Meeting Today’s Academic Challenges?

Chairs:

APS & SPR Joint Council Reception By Invitation Only

Joint SPR Research Showcase & Reception

Meet SPR Leaders & Top Regional Talent.
Honor Our Collective Research Success.
Celebrate & Strengthen Our SPR Network & Collaborations.

Welcome and Introductions, Beth Tarini, SPR President, Michelle Gill, Ambassador, North American Regionals, and Lila Nolan, SPR Junior Section President

Midwest SPR ~ David McCulley, President
Presentations:
Zachary Vesoulis, Washington University in St. Louis
TJ Boly, University of Iowa

Western SPR ~ Henry Lee, President
Presentations:
Kameelah Gateau, Keck School of Medicine & University of Southern California
Alicia White, University of Colorado

Eastern SPR ~ Semsa Gogcu, ESPR Treasurer
Presentations:
Lynnlee Depicolzuane, Penn State College of Medicine
Shaili Amatya, Penn State College of Medicine

Southern SPR ~ Ravi Patel, President
Presentations:
Desalyn L. Johnson, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Colm Travers, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Exclusively Sponsored by:

SPR Advocacy Committee Meeting – By Invitation Only

Introduction – Beth Tarini, MD, MS

SPR Award in honor of E Mead Johnson – Vijay Sankaran, MD, PhD, M.Phil “There Will Be Blood: Genetic Studies of Human Hematopoiesis”

Sponsored by:

SPR Young Investigator Award – Seth Rakoff-Nahoum, MD, PhD, “Bottom-up and Top-down Approaches to Understand the Host-Associated Microbiome”

SPR Bridging to Success Award – (2021) Catherine O. Buck, MD, “Metabolism and adiposity in moderate preterm infants”

SPR New Member Outstanding Science Award – Kristen Ogden, PhD “Understanding Rotavirus Outer Capsid Function through Gene Swapping and Adaptation”

Are Human Rights a Fundamental Basis for Healthcare?

Geography of pediatric health: Using geospatial analysis tools in pediatric care

Chair(s)

• Jennifer Klein, MD
  Children’s National Health System

  Attendees may have heard the public health axiom “One’s zip code is a better predictor of health than one’s genetic code,” but how is the impact of geographic location evaluated and how are the findings used to improve health outcomes? This session will explore the basic principles of geospatial analysis and provide examples of geospatial studies in pediatric health. Particular emphasis is placed on the use of geospatial analysis to address health disparities. Presenters will include Pediatricians and Epidemiologists who are using these cutting edge tools to learn more about their communities and their patient populations. Audience members of all levels of expertise are encouraged to attend – whether they are geospatial experts or simply want to learn more about this emerging field.

Individualized Neonatal Care-Sex-Specific Approach Matters!

The biological differences between the sexes manifest early during fetal life. The crown-rump length is larger in male fetuses compared to females in the first trimester. The use of sex-specific growth charts for preterm infants allows us to wonder if growth rates are sex specific, then their nutritional requirements would also be different. Sex differences in breast milk composition are noted in humans.
A recent study showed that infants receiving red blood cell transfusion from female donors had a lower risk of death or serious morbidity.
There are sex differences in the outcomes associated with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, with males having poorer neurodevelopmental outcomes with a similar degree of HIE. Preliminary evidence shows that although caffeine following preterm HI benefits both sexes, reductions in microglial activation are seen in males only, suggesting alternate mechanisms of therapeutic action in females.
Dr. Ojeda: Discuss the sex-specific influence of maternal conditions and metabolic derangement such as hypoglycemia.
Dr. Alur: Sex Differences in Nutritional intake in late Preterm Infants and breast milk composition and the sex differences in neonatal outcomes, such as respiratory outcomes.
Dr. Fitch and Rosenkrantz: Discuss sex differences in microglial activation following caffeine treatment in neonatal hypoxia-ischemia with emphasis on neonatal vulnerability to and recovery from neurologic insult.
Dr. Hussain: Discuss sex-specific pharmacological effects in the neonates-for example, sex specific effects of prophylactic indomethacin on IVH.
We believe that awareness about sex-specific analysis of the data in all the neonatal studies may help us understand the therapeutic options better.

SPR Presidential Plenary: Transforming the Culture of Pediatric Research: We Are the Problem and the Solution

Chair

• Kate G. Ackerman, MD, MBA
  University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Introduction – Beth A. Tarini, MD, MS

Invited Speaker – Damon Williams, PhD – “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in a Post-Pandemic World: Renewal, Allyship, and the Imperatives of Leadership”

Addressing Dual Loyalty in Healthcare through a Human Rights Framework

Co-Leader(s)

• Luca Brunelli, MD, PhD
  University of Utah School of Medicine

• Lisa Forman, LLB, MA, SJD
  University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Audrey Chapman, MA, StM, PhD
  UConn School of Medicine

• Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS, FAAFP
  Georgetown University School of Medicine

• Joe Kaempf, MD
  Providence Women and Children’s Services

“Dual loyalty” can be a problem for doctors and healthcare providers in any setting: duties to patients and society can conflict with obligations to employers (government, military, correctional facilities, large healthcare system) or even personal financial interests. Although these concepts can be taught to medical and healthcare students as a warning before they begin their careers, innumerable opportunities for “failure” have occurred throughout the history of medicine. Moreover, when a doctor or healthcare provider’s paycheck or job security derive from unproven or questionable clinical practices or from a prison operator or government carrying out policies that might arm patients, the conflict becomes all the more severe. Doctors and healthcare providers have in the past compromised themselves by enabling or even participating in practices like the administration of unnecessary medications, or by signing off on punishments. Lapses of omission are also a risk, where providers may recognize clear signs of abuse but neither record nor report them lest they jeopardize their own job security. This workshop will provide an opportunity to participate in three real life scenarios in which doctors and healthcare providers might find themselves entangled during the exercise of their profession. We will also discuss the legal and ethical knowledge necessary to overcome these challenges and hopefully better fulfill the calling of the medical profession toward our patients and society. Finally, we will explore possible “next steps” such as research, educational, and advocacy activities which participants could pursue to address some of the challenges discussed in the Workshop.

Eat. Greet. Celebrate: SPR Awards and New Member Reception

Celebrate the achievements of the SPR Award Recipients and welcome the SPR New Members.

Achieving Diversity in Pediatric Research: The Only Way to External Validity

Leader

• Nathalie Maitre, MD, PhD
  Emory University School of Medicine, United States

In this ‘how-to” workshop, presenters will share lessons learned from using community based participatory research and stakeholder engagement to increase participation of underrepresented populations in pediatric research. Dr. Joyce Javier will share to current state of the representation of diverse populations in clinical trials, the barriers and facilitators to recruiting minority populations, including the impact of racism, and examples from her own research addressing mental health during COVID-19. Digital stories by parent and youth research participants will also be shared as examples to outreach to diverse populations. Dr. Nathalie Maitre will share lessons learned from using parent engagement to ensure participation of diverse populations in pediatric clinical trials. Attendees will be encouraged to bring their own strategies and questions regarding how to achieve diversity in pediatric clinical trials. Case studies will also be presented to highlight practical strategies to achieve diversity in pediatric clinical trials. This workshop has been approved by the Society for Pediatric Research and Dr. Lina Chalak, from the PAS Planning Workgroup for SPR. It also falls in line with two of the PAS 2022 Highlighted Themes, Racism in Research and Medical Care and Managing the Pediatric Mental Health Crisis.

Pediatric Research: The emerging role of artificial intelligence, big data analysis and precision medicine in Pediatrics.

Chair(s)

• Cynthia Bearer, MD, PhD
  Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

• Brian Stansfield, MD
  Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University

The significance of the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in Pediatric Medicine such as machine learning, deep learning, and cognitive computing is emerging. Big data are extremely large datasets. Examples are minute-to-minute monitoring of vital signs, “omics” data, (e.g., genomics, metabolomics, and proteomics), environmental and lifestyle-related factors, socio-demographics, and data from standardized electronic health records (EHRs) or precision medicine platforms. Big data analysis by AI may facilitate identification of novel genotypes or phenotypes leading to personalized, targeted therapy, support clinical decision tools and identify unknown risk factors for childhood diseases.
The presentations in this session will be interdisciplinary in character, span multiple areas of pediatric subspecialties and presenters will range from early career to senior status.

PAS Opening General Session, Debbie Anagnostelis Keynote Speakers, and Joseph St. Geme Leadership Award

• Introduction: Patrick Brophy, MD, PAS 2022 Program Chair
• Debbie Anagnostelis Keynote Speakers:
  Grace M. Lee, MD MPH, Associate Chief Medical Officer for Practice Innovation, Stanford Children’s Health, Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine
• Shaquita L. Bell, MD, Senior Medical Director, Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic, Clinical Associate Professor
• O.N. Ray Bignall II, MD, FAAP, FASN, Assistant Chief Diversity and Health Equity Officer, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Director of Kidney Health Advocacy and Community Engagement, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Assistant Professor

A Joint Session of the Neonatal Hemodynamics Club and the Lung Club