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Networking Breakouts

Join like-minded attendees for organized networking Saturday and Sunday of PAS. There is one goal – to meet as many people as possible in your subspecialty while you are in Toronto!

Limited seating. RSVP is required via online program guide. 

Networking Breakouts

  • Saturday, May 4th
    10:00 AM – 10:50 AM ET
    Subspecialty Networking Breakout: Adolescent Medicine
    Facilitator: Oriaku A. Kas-Osoka, MD, MEd (she/her/hers) – University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine
    Facilitator: Sara M. Buckelew, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco
  • Saturday, May 4th
    10:00 AM – 10:50 AM ET
    Subspecialty Networking Breakout: Breastfeeding/Human Milk
    Facilitator: Sarah N. Taylor, MD, MSCR (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Facilitator: Amy B. Hair, MD – Baylor College of Medicine
    Facilitator: Esther K. Chung, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Saturday, May 4th
    10:00 AM – 10:50 AM ET
    Subspecialty Networking Breakout: Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
    Facilitator: Douglas Vanderbilt, MD (he/him/his) – CHLA/USC
    Facilitator: Deborah W. Davis, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Louisville School of Medicine
  • Saturday, May 4th
    10:00 AM – 10:50 AM ET
    Subspecialty Networking Breakout: Health Services Research: Child Health Services and Outcomes Research (CHSOR) Network
    Facilitator: Valerie S. Harder, PhD, MHS (she/her/hers) – Robert Larner, M.D., College of Medicine at the University of Vermont
    Facilitator: ALYNA t. CHIEN, MDMS (she/her/hers) – Boston Children's Hospital
  • Saturday, May 4th
    10:00 AM – 10:50 AM ET
    Subspecialty Networking Breakout: Neonatal Nephrology
    Facilitator: David Selewski, MD, MS – Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine
    Facilitator: Michelle C. Starr, MD MPH (she/her/hers) – Indiana University School of Medicine
    Facilitator: Heidi J. Steflik, MD, MSCR (she/her/hers) – Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine
    Facilitator: Matthew W. Harer, MD (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin
  • Saturday, May 4th
    10:00 AM – 10:50 AM ET
    Subspecialty Networking Breakout: Neonatology Physician-Scientists - Navigating the Journey
    Facilitator: Misty Good, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
    Facilitator: Jill L. Maron, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island
    Facilitator: Steven McElroy, MD (he/him/his) – UC Davis
    Facilitator: Amy B. Hair, MD – Baylor College of Medicine
    Facilitator: Sarah N. Taylor, MD, MSCR (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Facilitator: Camilia Martin, MD. MS (she/her/hers) – Weill Cornell Medicine
    Facilitator: David McCulley, MD – Universityof California San Diego
  • Saturday, May 4th
    10:00 AM – 10:50 AM ET
    Subspecialty Networking Breakout: Neonatology QI
    Facilitator: Michael A. Posencheg, M.D. (he/him/his) – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
    Facilitator: Katherine Coughlin, MD (she/her/hers) – Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns
    Facilitator: Hannah Fischer, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Louisville School of Medicine
  • Saturday, May 4th
    10:00 AM – 10:50 AM ET
    Subspecialty Networking Breakout: Pediatric Emergency Medicine
    Facilitator: Fran Balamuth, MD, PhD, MSCE (she/her/hers) – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
    Facilitator: Kenneth Michelson, MD MPH – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
    Facilitator: Lise E. Nigrovic, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Boston Children's Hospital
  • Saturday, May 4th
    10:00 AM – 10:50 AM ET
    Subspecialty Networking Breakout: Pediatric Hospital Medicine
    Facilitator: Neha H. Shah, MD, MPH – Children's National Medical Center
    Facilitator: Ricardo Quinonez, Md (he/him/his) – Baylor College of Medicine
    Facilitator: Lauren G. Solan, MD, MEd – URMC
  • Sunday, May 5th
    10:00 AM – 10:50 AM ET
    Subspecialty Networking Breakout: Asthma Management
    Facilitator: Karen L. Warman, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – The Children's Hospital at Montefiore
    Facilitator: David Cornfield, MD – Stanford University
    Facilitator: Mohsen Saidinejad, MD, MS, MBA – University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine
    Facilitator: Sande O. Okelo, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – UCLA
  • Sunday, May 5th
    10:00 AM – 10:50 AM ET
    Subspecialty Networking Breakout: Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics and Neonatal Follow-up
    Facilitator: Douglas Vanderbilt, MD (he/him/his) – CHLA/USC
    Facilitator: Deborah W. Davis, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Louisville School of Medicine
    Facilitator: Nathalie L. Maitre, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
    Facilitator: Mary Lauren Neel, MD, MSCI (she/her/hers) – Emory University School of Medicine
    Facilitator: Salathiel Kendrick-Allwood, MD (she/her/hers) – Emory University School of Medicine
  • Sunday, May 5th
    10:00 AM – 10:50 AM ET
    Subspecialty Networking Breakout: NEC
    Facilitator: Jennifer M. Canvasser, MSW (she/her/hers) – NEC Society
    Facilitator: Ravi M. Patel, MD, MSc (he/him/his) – Emory University & Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
    Facilitator: Misty Good, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
    Facilitator: Camilia Martin, MD. MS (she/her/hers) – Weill Cornell Medicine
  • Sunday, May 5th
    10:00 AM – 10:50 AM ET
    Subspecialty Networking Breakout: Neonatal Fetal Nutrition and Metabolism
    Facilitator: Sarah N. Taylor, MD, MSCR (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Facilitator: Amy B. Hair, MD – Baylor College of Medicine
    Facilitator: Maria E. Perez, DO (she/her/hers) – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
  • Sunday, May 5th
    10:00 AM – 10:50 AM ET
    Subspecialty Networking Breakout: Neonatal Hemodynamics and Pulmonary Hypertension
    Facilitator: Stephanie Ford, MD (she/her/hers) – Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicne
  • Sunday, May 5th
    10:00 AM – 10:50 AM ET
    Subspecialty Networking Breakout: Neonatal HSR/Epi
    Facilitator: Erika M. Edwards, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Vermont Oxford Network
    Facilitator: Scott A. Lorch, MD, MSCE (he/him/his) – The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
    Facilitator: Jochen Profit, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Sunday, May 5th
    10:00 AM – 10:50 AM ET
    Subspecialty Networking Breakout: Neonatal Neurology
    Facilitator: Emily WY Tam, MDCM, MAS, FRCPC (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Facilitator: Dawn Gano, MD MAS (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Francisco
  • Sunday, May 5th
    10:00 AM – 10:50 AM ET
    Subspecialty Networking Breakout: Social Determinants of Health & Health Inequities
    Facilitator: Esther K. Chung, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – University of Washington School of Medicine
    Facilitator: Barry S. Solomon, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    Facilitator: Arvin Garg, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center
  • Sunday, May 5th
    10:00 AM – 10:50 AM ET
    Subspecialty Networking Breakout: Role of PAS and the Coalition of Centres in Global Child Health
    Facilitator: Gary L. Darmstadt, MD, MS (he/him/his) – Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine
    Facilitator: Rishi Mediratta, MD, MSc, MA (he/him/his) – Stanford University School of Medicine
    Facilitator: Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, MB,BS, PhD – The Hospital for Sick Children
  • Sunday, May 5th
    10:00 AM – 10:50 AM ET
    Workshop Office Hours: Pulling Back the Curtain on the PAS Workshop Process
    Facilitator: Caroline R. Paul, MD (she/her/hers) – NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health
    Facilitator: Barrett Fromme, MD, MHPE (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine
  • Sunday, May 5th
    10:00 AM – 10:50 AM ET
    Subspecialty Networking Breakout: Artificial Intelligence in Neonatology
    Facilitator: Ameena N. Husain, DO (she/her/hers) – University of Utah School of Medicine
    Facilitator: Zachary A. Vesoulis, MD, MSCI – Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
    Facilitator: Lindsey A. Knake, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
    Facilitator: Brynne A. Sullivan, MD, MSCR (she/her/hers) – University of Virginia School of Medicine
    Facilitator: Kelsey A. Simek, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Utah School of Medicine
    Facilitator: Thomas Hooven, MD (he/him/his) – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
    Facilitator: James S. Barry, MD, MBA (he/him/his) – University of Colorado School of Medicine
    Facilitator: Ryan M. McAdams, MD (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health