APS Roadmap to PAS 2024

🔵= sessions related to the APS Issue of the Year: Improving Healthcare for Incarcerated Children and Adolescents

Friday, May 3

APS SPR Journeys- Mini-Gordon Conference & Lunch

Friday, May 3
 7:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET

Description: The Power of Grit, Passion, Resilience, and Perseverance in Researcher Success.

By Invitation Only

Leading and Collaborating with Emotional Intelligence

Friday, May 3
9:00 AM -11:00 AM ET
Intercontinental Toronto Centre: Ballroom B

Presenter(s)

  • Jennifer Friedman
    Hasbro Children’s Hospital at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University
    Providence, Rhode Island, United States

  • Coleen Cunningham, MD (she/her/hers)
    Chair of Pediatrics and Pediatrician in Chief
    University of California, Irvine and Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC)
    Orange, California, United States

  • Craig Robinson, BS, MS, MFT
    Learning and Organizational Development
    CHOC University
    Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC)

Description: This event is targeted toward mid and early career faculty interested in enhancing their emotional intelligence as leaders, colleagues and collaborators. A guest speaker will moderate the session with a goal toward enhancing individuals’ ability to lead and collaborate. An overview of key approaches to cultivating emotional intelligence will be provided including consciousness (being mindful of your emotions), self-awareness (identifying how your emotions impact others, and compassion (being empathetic towards others). Effective leaders have the ability to identify with and understand the wants, needs, and viewpoints of those others and incorporate these in decision making.

APS Advocacy Policy Committee Meeting (invitation only)

Friday, May 3
12:00 PM -1:30 PM ET
InterContinental Toronto Centre: Visionary

APS Committee on Diversity Equity and Inclusion- CODIE (invitation only)

Friday, May 3
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM ET
InterContinental Toronto Centre: Conquest

PAS Opening General Session, Debbie Anagnostelis Keynote Speaker, and Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. Leadership Award

Friday, May 3
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET

  • 2:00 PM – 2:05 PM ET
    Welcome & Reading of PAS Land Acknowledgement
    Speaker: Judy S. Shaw, EdD, MPH, RN (she/her/hers) – Robert Larner, M.D., College of Medicine at the University of Vermont
  • Introduction of Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. Leadership Award
    Speaker: Judy S. Shaw, EdD, MPH, RN (she/her/hers) – Robert Larner, M.D., College of Medicine at the University of Vermont
  • Introduction of Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. Leadership Awardee
  • Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. Leadership Award Recipient
    Speaker: Benard Dreyer, MD (he/him/his) – NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  • Introduction of Debbie Anagnostelis Keynote Speaker
  • Debbie Anagnostelis Keynote Speaker: “Optimizing Newborn Health & Survival Globally: Bridging the Science to Policy Gap”
    Speaker: Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, MB,BS, PhD – The Hospital for Sick Children
  • Closing Remarks
    Speaker: Judy S. Shaw, EdD, MPH, RN (she/her/hers) – Robert Larner, M.D., College of Medicine at the University of Vermont

Maternal and Parental Incarceration and its Impact on Child Health – Bridging Across Generations

Friday, May 3
3:45 PM – 5:15 PM ET

Chair(s)

  • Mark Schleiss, MD (he/him/his)
    Professor of Pediatrics
    Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology
    University of Minnesota Medical School, Department of Pediatrics
    Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
  • Rebecca Shlafer, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers)
    Associate Professor
    University of Minnesota | Department of Pediatrics
    Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Description: In this “Hot Topics” symposium, the impact of incarceration of pregnant persons and parents on the health of children will be reviewed. The issue of youth incarceration stands as the “issue of the year” for the 2024 PAS meeting, and this session will extend the topic of youth incarceration to the analysis of the impact of parental and pregnant person incarceration on child health. With the US having the highest incarceration rate in the world, these barriers currently place more than 5 million children who have experienced incarceration of a parent at risk of worse mental and physical health outcomes. This session will take a lifecourse approach to explore how the criminal legal system impacts pregnant people and children with incarcerated parents. Dr. Rebecca Shlafer, co-chair of the session, will focus on the health and health outcomes of pregnant people and their infants. Dr. Nia Heard-Garris will share data about how young children and adolescents exposed to parental incarceration have worse access to primary care and more unmet dental and mental health care needs than their peers. Dr. Matthew Aalsma will focus on the impact of parental incarceration on the mental health of children. Taken together, their work explores strategies to improve child health, through public health care collaboration, transformation in the public sector, and reforms in criminal justice, mental health, and policy. APS President Dr. Michael DeBaun will conclude the symposium by considering intergenerational impacts of incarceration, bridging the impact of parental incarceration to long-term health outcomes for children.

Learning Objectives:

  • …recognize parental incarceration is disproportionately concentrated among Black, poor, and rural children and that inequitable and racialized parental incarceration produces adverse outcomes, including child poverty.
  • …describe how innovative community-university-corrections partnerships for families impacted by the criminal legal system can reduce risk factors and promote health equity.
  • …explore multiple ways families experience forms of marginalization, engaged across different systems (child welfare, juvenile and criminal justice) and identify solutions that promote health equity.

Presentations:

  • Impact of Parental Incarceration on Child Health and Development
    Speaker: Rebecca Shlafer, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota | Department of Pediatrics
  • The Importance of Longitudinal Treatment Engagement for Youths in the Juvenile Justice System
    Speaker: Matthew Aalsma, PhD (he/him/his) – Indiana University School of Medicine
  • Health Care Access and Use Among Children and Adolescents Exposed to Parental Incarceration
    Speaker: Nia J. Heard-Garris, MD, MBA, MSc (she/they) – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago/Northwestern University
  • Increasing Access to Quality Healthcare for Children who are Incarcerated and the Impact of Parental Incarceration History
    Speaker: Michael DeBaun, MD (he/him/his) – Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Saturday, May 4

APS Presidential Plenary: Embracing the Diversity of our Mission & the 2024 Norman J. Siegel, Mary Ellen Avery, & David G. Nichols Awards

Saturday, May 4
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET

Chair

  • Michael DeBaun, MD (he/him/his)
    Professor
    Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
    Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Description: Presentation of the 2024 Norman J. Siegel New Member Outstanding Science Award to APS new member Dr. Rachel Katzenellenbogen for her considerable contribution to pediatric science. Presentation of the 2024 Mary Ellen Avery Award to Dr. Donna Ferriero for her research contributions to neonatal health. Presentation of the 2024 David G. Nichols Health Equity Award to Dr. Glenn Flores for his demonstrated excellence in advancing child and adolescent health, well-being and equity. Includes awardee lectures.

Presentations:

  • Welcome
    Speaker: Michael DeBaun, MD (he/him/his) – Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
  • Introduction, 2024 Norman J. Siegel New Member Outstanding Science Award Recipient
    Speaker: Clifford Bogue, MD (he/him/his) – Yale School of Medicine
  • 2024 Norman J. Siegel Award Recipient Presentation: The Patchwork Quilt of Academic Pediatrics
    Speaker: Rachel Katzenellenbogen, MD (she/her/hers) – Indiana University School of Medicine
  • APS SPR Mary Ellen Avery Award Overview
    Speaker: Cristina M. Alvira, MD (she/her/hers) – Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Introduction, 2024 Mary Ellen Avery Award Recipient
    Speaker: Steven P. Miller, MDCM FRCPC (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
  • 2024 Mary Ellen Avery Award Recipient Presentation: Brain Focused Care: advances from the development of a neuro NICU
    Speaker: Donna M. Ferriero, MD MS (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
  • Introduction of David G. Nichols
    Speaker: Tamera Coyne-Beasley, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – University of Alabama at BirminghamSpeaker: Joseph Wright, MD MPH (he/him/his) – University of Maryland School of Public Health
  • Introduction, 2024 David G. Nichols Health Equity Award Recipient
    Speaker: David G. Nichols, MD, MBA – American Board of Pediatrics
  • 2024 David G. Nichols Award Recipient Presentation: The Pediatrician’s Imperative: the relentless pursuit of equity
    Speaker: Glenn Flores, MD (he/him/his) – University of Miami School of Medicine
  • Closing Remarks with APS President, Michael DeBaun
    Speaker: Michael DeBaun, MD (he/him/his) – Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

PAS Enhancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Reception

Saturday, May 4
9:30 AM – 10:50 AM ET

Co-sponsored by all four PAS Partner societies – the AAP, APA, APS and SPR – and hosted by the President of the PAS Board of Directors the PAS Enhancing Diversity Equity and Inclusion Reception is designed to highlight key DEI initiatives and leaders of the PAS and the Partner Societies and to provide attendees time to network and share DEI-related insights, concerns, experiences and encouragement.

APS Presidential Plenary: Academic Activism: Choosing the Right Time and the Right Place, Special Guest Speaker Bryan Stevenson, JD, and the 2024 John Howland Award

Saturday, May 4
 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET

Chair

  • Michael DeBaun, MD (he/him/his)
    Professor
    Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
    Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Description: The John Howland Award is the highest honor given by the American Pediatric Society. This prestigious award is bestowed annually upon an esteemed pediatric leader whose significant contributions have advanced child health and the profession of pediatrics. The 2024 Howland Award Recipient is Dr. Alan Jobe.

As the American Pediatric Society President (2023-24), Dr. Michael R. DeBaun will describe his journey in confronting healthcare disparities after he shifted from being a pugilist against bigotry while a medical student and pediatric resident to eventually spearheading a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team-based approach as a pediatric faculty member at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville. His evolution in strategy required a focus on clinical research and a deeper understanding of the complexities of healthcare disparities that required a multidisciplinary team approach for a sustainable improvement in our children’s health.

Bryan Stevenson leads the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), which is a human rights organization based in Montgomery, Alabama. EJI is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the U.S., to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society. EJI launched a program to provide health care services to poor and low-income people in Alabama. The program is designed to address some of the biggest challenges for people leaving the state’s prisons, and offers free healthcare services to people released from prisons and provides additional care and services to promote successful re-entry.

Presentations:

  • APS President’s Address – Academic Activism: Choosing the Right Time and the Right Place
    Speaker: Michael DeBaun, MD (he/him/his) – Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
  • Special Guest – Bryan Stevenson, Founder & Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative
    Speaker: Bryan Stevenson, J.D. – Equal Justice Initiative
  • Introduction, 2024 John Howland Award Recipient
    Speaker: James M. Greenberg, MD (he/him/his) – Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
  • 2024 John Howland Award Presentation: Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS) is the Poster Child Disease for Neonatology
    Speaker: Alan H. Jobe, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
  • Closing Remarks by APS President, Michael DeBaun
    Speaker: Michael DeBaun, MD (he/him/his) – Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

APS Member Networking Luncheon

Saturday, May 4
 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM ET

Description: All APS members are cordially invited to the 2024 Member Networking Lunch. Drop in for lunch and discussion. No RSVP required!

“I don’t really belong here” ….Establishing Your Place at the Table and Fostering a Sense of Belonging as a Leader

Saturday, May 4
 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET

Leader

  • Elaine Schulte, MD, MPH, PCC, BCC (she/her/hers)
    Vice Chair, Academic Affairs and Faculty Development – Professor of Pediatrics
    Children’s Hospital at Montefiore – Albert Einstein College of Medicine
    Briarcliff Manor, New York, United States

Co-Leader(s)

  • Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)
    Professor and Vice Dean
    Pediatrics
    University of California, San Francisco
    San Francisco, California, United States
  • Maryellen Gusic, MD
    Senior Associate Dean for Education
    Medical Education
    Lewis Katz School of Medicine
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Description: What are your first thoughts when you are asked to become a medical director, lead a research collaborative, administer an educational program, or oversee a community project? Many of us believe that we are not the right person to sit at the table, join the committee or lead the team. This leads us to feeling isolated and lonely. Threats to our identity may come from bias, discriminatory experiences and institutional structures that create an unwelcoming environment; leaving us to believe that we do not belong, when in fact, we are able to make significant contributions. As a leader, it is also important that we create an inclusive environment in which the members of our teams also feel like they belong so that they feel empowered and able to meet their goals.

During this workshop, participants will learn the five keys to feel a sense of belonging and examine the barriers that get in the way. Through skill building exercises, participants will explore practical tips to combat self-doubt, and ready themselves to take on the responsibilities, challenges, and opportunities as a leader. Using small group discussion and dyad practice, participants will discover how to create a sense of belonging for others and will be able to implement specific actions to enhance the success of their teams.

Workshop leaders are senior academic pediatric leaders who will share their expertise and facilitate discussion. By the end of the workshop, participants will be ready to implement specific strategies to enhance their connections at work.

Learning Objectives:

  • Explore five critical factors that are necessary to establish a sense of belonging at work
  • Examine how to use individual unique strengths to combat feelings of self-doubt
  • Identify ways to create a sense of belonging for team members

Providing Care For Youth in Legal Settings and Preventing Entry and Re-entry for Youth in Communities

Saturday, May 4
 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET

Chair

  • Tamera Coyne-Beasley, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)
    Vice-Chair, Community Engagement, Division DIrector, Adolescent Medicine
    University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Description: Children and adolescents who become involved with the justice system often do so with complex medical, mental health, developmental, social, and legal needs. Most have been exposed to childhood trauma or adversity, which both contribute to their involvement with the justice system and negatively impact their health and well-being. Whether youth are held in confinement or in their home communities, pediatricians play a critical role in promoting the health and well-being of justice-involved youth. Having a working knowledge of the juvenile justice system and common issues facing justice-involved youth may help pediatricians enhance their clinical care and advocacy efforts.

Including lead and co-authors from the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) Policy statement, Advocacy and Collaborative Health Care for Justice-Involved Youth, and a chapter on Youth In Legal Settings in an upcoming AAP book entitled Untangling the Thread of Racism, as well as a youth formerly involved the legal system (virtually), this presentation will discuss: (1) the role of pediatricians and adolescent medicine providers in advocating for youth legal systems that are trauma informed and developmentally appropriate, (2) innovative community engaged strategies to prevent youth entry and re-entry into the legal system; and (3) discuss the importance of engaging youth with lived experience in youth legal system advocacy efforts.

Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the social determinants, health and mental health status of justice-involved youth, and identify advocacy actions for juvenile justice reform.
  • Discuss challenges and opportunities for providing healthcare for justice-involved youth from the perspectives of a medical director and facility director of a youth detention facility
  • Discuss innovative community engaged strategies including youth to prevent youth entry and reentry into the legal system.

Presentations:

  • Social Determinants, Physical and Mental Health of Youth In Legal Settings and Advocacy Needs
    Speaker: Mikah Owen, MD, MPH, MBA – UCLA-UCSF Aces Aware Family Resilience Network
  • Challenges and Opportunities for Providing Health Care for Youth in Detention Facilities
    Speaker: Monique T. Grier, Master of Science (she/her/hers) – Jefferson County Youth Detention Center
  • Community Engaged Strategies Including Youth to Prevent Youth Entry and Re-entry Into the Legal System
    Speaker: Brandon Johnson, JD (he/him/his) – City of Birmingham

Sunday, May 5

Improving Access to Quality Healthcare for Children and Adolescents in Custody

Sunday, May 5
 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET

Chair

  • Michael DeBaun, MD (he/him/his)
    Professor
    Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
    Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Description: Despite widespread recognition of health inequity facing the hundreds of thousands of children and adolescents (youth) detained or incarcerated yearly, the population remains invisible to most pediatric trainees, practitioners, and scholars. As its Issue of the Year, the American Pediatric Society has established “Improving Access to Quality Care for Children and Adolescents Who Are Detained or Incarcerated.” We will describe the role of pediatric professionals in improving access to quality care for children and adolescents detained or incarcerated. First, the American Pediatric Society president, Dr. Michael R. DeBaun, will provide introductory remarks, and will moderate the session. Second, a young person with lived experience in Canada’s youth justice system and a parent-adolescent dyad will discuss firsthand accounts of navigating care, along with their treating child health provider, Dr. Amy Gajaria. Third, youth justice expert Dr. Elizabeth Barnert will discuss the health equity context of the US juvenile legal system, emphasizing barriers and solutions for improving access to quality care relevant to generalist and specialist child health providers. Fourth, youth justice researcher Dr. April McNeill-Johnson, in partnership with Dr. DeBaun, will lead audience response activities identifying current knowledge gaps for improving access to quality medical care for children and adolescents incarcerated or held in custody.

Learning Objectives:

  • Upon completion, participants will better understand experiences of youth with chronic disease or other unmet health needs in accessing care in the youth justice system.
  • Upon completion, participants will be able to identify gaps in evidence-based healthcare for children and adolescents detained, incarcerated, or under court supervision in the community.
  • Upon completion, participants will be able to identify three actionable strategies to address the quality of care for children and adolescents detained or incarcerated.

Presentations:

  • Experiences in Providing Health Care to Adolescents Involved in the Youth Justice System: Provider, Youth, and Parent Voices
    Speaker: Amy Gajaria, MD, FRCPC (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine
  • How to Improve Access to Quality Health Care for Children and Adolescents Detained or Incarcerated
    Speaker: Elizabeth Barnert, MD, MPH, MS – University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine
  • Audience Participation: Actionable Solutions for Improving Access to Quality Health Care for Child and Adolescents in Custody
    Speaker: April D. McNeill-Johnson, MD (she/her/hers) – Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics

Who Owns Child Health?: Financing Pediatric Health Care in the Post-COVID Era

Sunday, May 5
 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET

Chair

  • David Keller, MD (he/him/his)
    Professor
    Pediatrics
    University of Colorado School of Medicine
    Aurora, Colorado, United States

Description: The structure of health care is changing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to the pandemic, market forces and the Affordable Care Act were driving clinical practice toward consolidation, team-based care and value-based payment. During the pandemic, health care providers faced tremendous challenges as rules were suspended, encounter volumes fluctuated wildly, Medicaid enrollment boomed and many pediatric hospital beds were converted to adult care. As the pandemic ebbed, new trends emerged within a disrupted system. Rapid shifts in Medicaid enrollment impacted access to care for many clinically and socially vulnerable children. Federal support for hospitals through the Disproportionate Share payments remained tenuous, and commercial payers moved to value-based payments emphasizing management of adults’ – rather than children’s – chronic health conditions. Finally, venture capital moved into the pediatric space, impacting access to and the delivery of pediatric health care services. This symposium will introduce the audience to the challenges faced by both academic and non-academic pediatricians and child-focused hospitals and health care systems in each of these areas, along with evidence for how these changes will likely impact our practices, the care received by children and child health outcomes.

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will be able to describe at least three ways in which shifts in Medicaid policy have changed practice since 2015.
  • Participants will be able to describe at least two forces that are driving the consolidation of pediatric inpatient units and threatening their viability
  • Participants will be able to discuss at least one potential positive and one negative impact of venture capital on pediatric practice

Presentations:

  • Introduction
    Speaker: David Keller, MD (he/him/his) – University of Colorado School of Medicine
  • Medicaid Unwinding and Reform: Building a Financing System that Works for Children, Youth, and Health Care Providers
    Speaker: James M. Perrin, MD (he/him/his) – MassGeneral for Children; Harvard Medical School
  • Extend, Partner, Consolidate: Options and Imperatives for Children’s Hospitals Facing Today’s Financial Strains
    Speaker: Matthew M. Davis, MD, MAPP (he/him/his) – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
  • Private equity and Pediatric care: A neonatal care study
    Speaker: Scott A. Lorch, MD, MSCE (he/him/his) – The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania
  • Q & A
    Speaker: David Keller, MD (he/him/his) – University of Colorado School of Medicine

Coaching – A Key Tool to Promote Vitality in Academic Pediatrics

Sunday, May 5
 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM ET

Presenter(s)

  • Elaine Schulte, MD, MPH, PCC, BCC (she/her/hers)
    Vice Chair, Academic Affairs and Faculty Development – Professor of Pediatrics
    Children’s Hospital at Montefiore – Albert Einstein College of Medicine
    Briarcliff Manor, New York, United States

  • Maryellen Gusic, MD
    Senior Associate Dean for Education
    Medical Education
    Lewis Katz School of Medicine
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

  • Karen Wilson, MD, MPH
    Professor
    University of Rochester School of Medicine
    Rochester, New York, United States

Description: APS members and their colleagues are invited to participate in this 90-minute session to engage in a discussion about coaching and how it differs from mentoring and advising. Session faculty will discuss basic coaching fundamentals and participants will practice applying coaching principles in small groups. Further discussion will include a conversation about establishing and advancing coaching within academic pediatrics.

Maximizing the Impact of Your Publication!

Sunday, May 5
 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET

Leader

  • Cynthia Bearer, MD, PhD (she/her/hers)
    Professor of Pediatrics
    Pediatrics
    CWRU
    Cleveland Hts, Ohio, United States

Description: OK, you’ve just published your paper! Now you want to maximize the impact your paper has on the field, your team, your patients and you! There are several methods that will have this effect, some better done before you submit your paper.

This workshop will provide the methods used, both pre- and post- publication, that can increase the impact of your paper. Pre-publication methods include tailoring your reference list to include highly cited authors, writing a good article abstract that includes MeSH terms, making your title short and to the point, and using recommendations in ASEO (Academic Search Engine Optimization).

Post publication methods include various actions by journal editors that include general strategies, as well as ones focused on your paper. General strategies include promoting authenticity of the journal (projecting clear standards for publications, listing affiliations of all key staff of the journal with contact information, including Managing Editor, Editors-in-Chief and all Editorial Board members, clear ethics policies and a process to reinforce them (membership in COPE), short turnaround times, free access. Journal methods that target your publication are press release nominations, journal social media communications, collections and pediapods.

Workshop participants will be invited to bring their manuscripts hopefully on a laptop in preparation for on hands assistance with using these tools to increase impact. Nearly all topics involve interaction and the social media editors will also be actively engaging both inside and outside of the session to demonstrate some of the principles involved in information dissemination in real-time.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe 3 ways to increase the citations to their article
  • Self promote their published article (social media, chair, public relations team, development team)
  • Understand how articles are “found” to be cited

Pediatric Subspecialty Workforce 2024: State, Needs, Barriers, and Solutions

Sunday, May 5
 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET

Chair(s)

  • Christiane Dammann, MD (she/her/hers)
    Professor of Pediatrics
    Tufts Medical Center, Boston Children’s Hospital
    Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  • Barrett Fromme, MD, MHPE (she/her/hers)
    Professor of Pediatrics
    University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine
    Chicago, Illinois, United States

  • Maria Trent, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)
    Professor of Pediatrics, Public Health and Nursing
    Pediatrics
    Johns Hopkins Medicine
    Baltimore, Maryland, United States

  • Satyan Lakshminrusimha, MD FAAP (he/him/his)
    Professor and Chair
    UC Davis Children’s Hospital
    Sacramento, California, United States

Description: Understanding the changing composition of the pediatric workforce is important for preparing for the growing demands of our pediatric population. Multiple factors impact the vitality of our workforce: First, inequity in physician salaries for adult vs pediatric care leading to prolonged student debts and lower lifetime earnings. Second, the pediatrics workforce is predominated by women, who face inequity in all areas of their career. Third, intersectionality prevents the needed diversity in the pediatric workforce. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine announced the forming of an ad hoc committee to examine pediatric subspecialty workforce trends related to health care needs of infants, children, and adolescents, and impact of those trends on child health and well-being.

Leaders of AAP, NMA, AMSPDC, ABP, NICHD, SPR, and APS will discuss:
1. Workforce vitality: How can the vitality of our workforce collaboratively be promoted. Who does need to sit at the table. Do we need state and federal policies to develop and support the pediatric workforce?
2. Gender/intersectionality: How can diversity of the pediatric population and geographic needs be mirrored by pediatric subspecialists and how can we promote women and minorities into pediatric leadership?
3. Work environment: How can we create a safe work environment, which is inclusive and healthy, that provids working parents with childcare, PFML, and part time work options?
4. Financing: How can we finance providing salaries to cover the debt burden (cost of training) and increase lifetime earning potential, which would increase the attrition of trainees into pediatric subspecialties?

Learning Objectives:

  • Appreciate the impact of inequality of physician salary, of gender, and intersectionality have on the sustainability and vitality of the pediatric subspecialty workforce
  • Describe the current challenges and barriers facing this workforce
  • Identify 1-2 things they can do to enhance the pediatric workforce

Presentations:

  • 2:00 PM – 2:10 PM ET
    Introduction
    Speaker: Christiane EL Dammann, MD (she/her/hers) – Tufts Medical Center, Boston Children’s Hospital
  • 2:10 PM – 2:20 PM ET
    The Pediatric Subspecialty Workforce 2024-Perspective of the AAP
    Speaker: Benjamin Hoffman, MD (he/him/his) – Oregon Health and Science University
  • 2:20 PM – 2:30 PM ET
    The Pediatric Subspecialty Workforce 2024-Perspective of the NMA
    Speaker: William C. Golden, MD (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • 2:30 PM – 2:40 PM ET
    The Pediatric Subspecialty Workforce 2024-Perspective of AMSPDC
    Speaker: Joseph W. St. Geme, III, MD (he/him/his) – Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
  • 2:40 PM – 2:50 PM ET
    The Pediatric Subspecialty Workforce 2024-Perspective of the ABP
    Speaker: Laurel K. Leslie, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – American Board of Pediatrics
  • 2:50 PM – 3:00 PM ET
    The Pediatric Subspecialty Workforce 2024-Perspective of the NICHD
    Speaker: Karen Winer, MD (she/her/hers) – National Institutes of Health
  • 3:00 PM – 3:10 PM ET
    The Pediatric Subspecialty Workforce 2024-Perspective of the SPR
    Speaker: Cristina M. Alvira, MD (she/her/hers) – Stanford University School of Medicine
  • 3:10 PM – 3:20 PM ET
    The Pediatric Subspecialty Workforce 2024-Perspective of the APS
    Speaker: Catherine M. Gordon, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – Bethesda, MD

2024 APS Howland Gala

PAS 2024 Meeting ~ Sunday, May 5
Reception 6:30 pm ET | Program & Dinner 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Art Gallery of Ontario

*Prior ticket purchase required

APS Members are invited to attend the APS Howland Gala honoring the 2024 Howland Award Recipient,

Alan Jobe, MD, PhD
Emeritus Professor
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Monday, May 6

APS Career Support Committee Meeting – By Invitation Only

Monday, May 6
 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET
InterContinental Toronto Centre: Visionary

Description: APS Career Support Committee Meeting