PRIMER IN PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY - COMMON DIAGNOSES: AN OVERVIEW FOR THE PROVIDER
August 5 - 7, 2010 • Dallas, TX

Our inaugural conference mission is to provide neonatal, pediatric and family providers current clinical information in the field of pediatric neurosurgery.

During our conference, we will focus on concussions and other sports injuries related to pediatric neurosurgery, as this is an issue in the national forefront. This session will work to inform coaches, trainers, and school nurses, while the emergency room and trauma providers will learn the important parts of workup and treatment from the neurosurgeon's perspective.

The main two day conference will highlight common neurosurgical diagnoses, their presentation, workup, treatment and follow up specific to pediatric neurosurgery. The general, emergency and intensivist provider will be provided knowledge in each of these diagnoses as it pertains to their field of practice.

The conference will also be geared to residents, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, other allied health professionals, nurses and students. Whether you are in private practice, school based clinics, hospitals or triage centers, this information will only help you to better understand, identify and appropriately refer the pediatric neurosurgical patient.

Pre-Conference: Children's Medical Center designates this educational activity for a maximum of 5.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Conference: Children's Medical Center designates this educational activity for a maximum of 7.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

For more information or to register for the conference online:   http://childrens.com/HealthcareProfessionals/Conferences/PediatricNeurosurgery/

26th INTERNATIONAL PEDIATRIC ASSOCIATION CONGRESS OF PEDIATRICS
August 5 - 9, 2010 • Johannesburg, South Africa

We promise you a scientific program to fulfill the needs of all our discerning colleagues, with a wide spectrum of the latest information ranging from the most avant-garde science to the priorities facing our least endowed. Occurring just 5 years before the due date of the Millennium Development Goals, with their target of reducing child mortality by two thirds by 2015, this congress will provide crucial insight into vital issues of child health throughout the world.

For more information:
Call: +41 22 908 0488  or Email: IPAcongress@ipa-world.org
Visit our Website: http://www.ipa-world.org/IPAcongress/

2ND CONFERENCE ON CLINICAL RESEARCH FOR RARE DISEASES (CCRRD)
September 21, 2010  • Bethesda, Maryland

The Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN) and the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) program of the NIH are sponsoring the 2ndConference on Clinical Research for Rare Diseases (CCRRD) on Tuesday September 21, 2010 in Bethesda, Maryland.  This unique conference will focus on research methodology for rare diseases and should be of particular interest to trainees and junior faculty engaged in research in rare diseases.  For more information about the conference, including details about the program, applying for travel awards, and conference logistics and registration, visit the conference website:https://rarediseasesnetwork.epi.usf.edu/conference/index.htm

HUMAN NATURE & EARLY EXPERIENCE:  ADDRESSING THE 'ENVIRONMENT OF EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTEDNESS'
October 10 - 12, 2010 • Notre Dame, Indiana

The University of Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology and Center for Children and Families invites you to a multidisciplinary symposium entitled “Human Nature and Early Experience: Addressing the ‘Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness’” October 10-12, 2010. This symposium brings together an international audience interested in innovative approaches to human development, children, families, parenting, and human evolution. Speakers will present their research on the relationship between caregiving practices and outcomes. See the schedule and speaker list below. Please share this information with your colleagues.

RATIONALE: It is becoming increasingly clear that the ways we are rearing our children today are not the ways humans are designed to thrive. The ill effects of these missing ancestral practices are becoming evident as children’s well being in the USA is worse than 50 years ago (Heckman, 2008) and is among the worst in the industrialized world (20th in family and peer relationships and 21st in health and safety; UNICEF, 2007). We have epidemics of ADHD, anxiety and depression among the young, and, indeed, all age groups (USDHHS, 1999). Too many children are arriving at school with poor social skills, poor emotion regulation, and habits that do not promote prosocial behaviors. Rates of young children whose behavior displays aggression, delinquency, or hyperactivity are estimated to be as high as 25% (Raver, & Knitze, 2002). The expulsion rate of prekindergarten children (Gilliam, 2005) and the number of children under age 5 with psychosocial problems (Powell et al., 2003) or on psychotropic medications have increased dramatically in recent years (Zito et al., 2000).

Mammals require nurturing care-giving for optimal post-natal development. Animal, human psychological and anthropological research provide converging evidence for the importance of conditions related to the "environment of evolutionary adaptedness" (EEA; Bowlby, 1951) for optimal brain and body system development in human beings. At the same time, epigenomic studies are beginning to better demonstrate the influence of caregiver behavior on offspring. Despite the growing evidence for the effects of particular childrearing practices on brain development, scientific theory and policy recommendations do not match up with the findings.

HOST: This symposium is being sponsored by Notre Dame’s Center for Children and Families (CCF), the Collaborative for Ethical Education (CEE) and the Department of Psychology. The Center for Children and Families brings scholars together to conduct innovative, interdisciplinary research in support of healthy development across the human lifespan. The center encourages basic and translational research that can have a broad impact in three key areas: income and health disparities; developmental disabilities and psychopathology; and optimization of development, education, and learning.

GOALS: It is anticipated that the symposium will lead to new theory and research designed to shed light on which practices are most essential to child rearing and development. There is an increasing amount of converging evidence across animal, human psychological, neurobiological and anthropological research demonstrating the later vulnerability of brain and body systems among those with poor early care. Even when medicines are available to alleviate symptoms of dysfunction, the underlying suboptimal structures remain. Examining closely what types of care are essential for optimal development will inform not only scientific research and theory, but public policy and inform translational research.

For more information, check out the symposium website: http://ccf.nd.edu/symposium

II SYMPOSIUM ON FUNCTIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY AND NEONATAL HAEMODYNAMICS
October 18 - 19, 2010 • Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Topics:

• Role of functional echocardiography in transitional haemodynamics
• Relationship between blood pressure and blood flow in newborn preterm infants
• Neonatal shock
• High resolution CT and MR: Role in assessment of cardiac function
• Haemodynamically Significant Ductus Arteriosus
• Inhaled nitric oxide in preterm oxygenation failure
• Congenital heart disease: Ethical issues, collateral morbidities and long term outcomes
• Optimum nursing strategies in infants with cardiovascular compromise including arrhythmias
• Cutting edge research in haemodynamics: What’s on the horizon
• Hands on workshop on basic functional echocardiography

Invited international faculty-John Kinsella (US), Istvan Seri (US), Alan Groves (UK), Jon Skinner (NZ)

Conference Information and Registration Form

Fore more information:
Contact Dr. Arvind Sehgal at Email: Arvind.sehgal@med.monash.edu.au

NEONATAL UPDATE 2010
November 15 - 19, 2010 • London, United Kingdom

This annual 5-day international meeting was initiated over 20 years ago by Professor David Harvey, Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics, Imperial College London. It has grown to become one of the largest speciality meetings in neonatal medicine and now regularly attracts a capacity audience of around 250 senior clinicians from around the world. The meeting is a forum for the presentation of new research data and state-of-the-art clinical practice. The speakers are active researchers and internationally acknowledged experts. This is a meeting where basic science meets clinical expertise. There is ample time for discussion and these are usually spirited and lively.

A new feature this year is the offer of two awards for outstanding young investigators, giving them the opportunity to present a 20 minute résumé of their research achievements at the Neonatal Update 2010, and discuss the relevance of their past and future work to neonatal medicine.  

Program Information
Award Information

Fore more information:
Email: sympreg@imperial.ac.uk
Visit our Website: http://www.symposia.org.uk/neonatal/default.html?sti=NaN&sts=Now booking.

EXCELLANCE IN PEDIATRICS
December 2 - 4, 2010 • London, United Kingdom

“Excellence in Paediatrics” aims to present an up-to-date and authoritative overview of paediatrics & child health using a variety of innovative sessions designed to interest general paediatricians and general practitioners, including trainees as well as specialists in the field.

Wiley-Blackwell, presenters of the conference, publishes many of the world’s leading journals and textbooks in the field and the Scientific Committee of “Excellence in Paediatrics” has been drawn from its international group of journal editors.

This year’s thematic streams include infectious disease and immunisation, respiratory medicine (in collaboration with the European Paediatric Association - EPA/UNEPSA and the Cochrane Child Health Field) and neurological and neurodevelopmental paediatrics, as well as sessions devoted to adolescent medicine, nutrition and many other fields of interest.

Distinguished speakers from many countries will present plenary sessions and there will be parallel workshops, round table discussions and debates on controversial areas. Interactive case reports will involve the audience as will sessions on how to solve problems while seeing patients using immediate technology aids to discover the available evidence-base. Those with work in progress will be invited to book for a special ‘Meet the Editor’ session, while poster sessions will feature all accepted abstracts. The authors of those of highest quality will be offered an oral presentation and receive “Excellence in Paediatrics Awards”. Abstracts will be published as a supplement to the Journal Acta Paediatrica and should be submitted at www.excellence-in-paediatrics.org for consideration.

For more information:
Email: eip-info@candc-group.com
Visit our Website: http://excellence-in-paediatrics.org/

6th WORLD CONGRESS ON PEDIATRIC & CRITICAL CARE - One World, Sharing Knowledge
March 13-17, 2011 • Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, Australia

For Pediatric Intensivists, Neonatologists, Adult Intensivists, Anaesthesiologists, Pediatric Anaesthesiologists, Pediatricians, Emergency Specialists, Fellows, Pharmacists, Scientists, Trainees, Students, PICU Nurses, NICU Nurses, Adult ICU Nurses, Emergency Nurses, Pediatric Nurses, Student Nurses, Nurse Researchers, Nurse Practitioners, Allied Health Care Workers, Physiotherapists, Speech Therapists and Occupational Therapists.

An innovative program is currently being designed by our Scientific Committee, supported by an International Committee of experts from all regions of the world.  Members have worked collaboratively to develop a program that builds on our congress theme, “One World Sharing Knowledge.”  An extensive list of topics will be covered including breathing, circulation, infection & immunity, psychosocial, nutrition, the brain, injury, training, networking, conducting research, quality improvement, the older child, intensive care outside the ICU, research dilemmas, improving partnerships, simulation, e-ICU, and the genome.  The new ILCOR guidelines (released in late 2010) will be discussed at the Congress.  Poster sessions will feature prominently and will be located to the exhibition hall.

For more information:

Email: pcc2011@arinex.com.au
Website: www.pcc2011.com  

10th WORLD CONGRESS of PERINATAL MEDICINE
November 8-10, 2011 • Punta del Este, Uruguay

We are pleased to announce that Uruguay was designated to host the 10th WORLD CONGRESS of PERINATAL MEDICINE, to be held from November 8 to 11 in Punta del Este, Uruguay. The event is organized by the World Association of Perinatal Medicine, jointly with the Uruguayan Association of Perinatology, the Uruguayan Paediatric Society, the Uruguayan Society of Neonatology, the Society of Paediatric Intensive Care, the Uruguayan Society of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, the Society of Obstetrics & Gynaecology of the Interior and the Latin American Center of Perinaology.

The event will be held in tribute of Roberto Caldeyro-Barcia, Erich Saling and Kazuo Maeda, three of the founders of the World Association of Perinatal Medicine in Tokyo in 1991
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Dr. Caldeyro-Barcia, from Uruguay, made key contributions for the development of Perinatal Medicine, starting fundamental research. He is remembered worldwide today for the “Montevideo Units”, as a measure of uterine activity. The motto of the Congress is: “Where fundamental pioneering work started”

Being Uruguay home to the first Latin American Center of Perinatology (CLAP), created by the Pan American Health Organization in 1970, we want to highlight the significance for our country to be hosting an event that is so important for the speciality, providing attendees a chance to learn, and promoting scientific exchange. We estimate an attendance of 2000 participants and the presence of distinguished international faculty.

For any further information:
Congress Secretariat, PERSONAS
Plaza Independencia 831, floor 8, Office 808
TEL: (00 598-2) 900 58 28 Fax: (00 598-2) 902 42 64
e-mail: 10wcpm@personas.com.uy