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Presidential Plenary
Session Type: Presidential Plenary

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, 2024
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET
Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre: 718 B
CE: Live CME: 1.5

Disclosure(s):
Michael R. DeBaun, MD, MPH: Forma Pharmaceutical (Terminated, December 31, 2022) (Products/Services: Consultant); Global Blood Therapeutics (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Advisory Committee); Novartis (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Advisory Committee)

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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:

  • 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM ET
    APS President's Address - Academic Activism: Choosing the Right Time and the Right Place

    Speaker: Michael R. DeBaun, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

  • 11:15 AM – 11:55 AM ET
    Special Guest - Bryan Stevenson, Founder & Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative

    Speaker: Bryan Stevenson, J.D. – Equal Justice Initiative

  • 11:55 AM – 12:10 PM ET
    Introduction, 2024 John Howland Award Recipient

    Speaker: James M. Greenberg, MD (he/him/his) – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

  • 12:10 PM – 12:28 PM ET
    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

  • 12:28 PM – 12:30 PM ET
    Closing Remarks by APS President, Michael DeBaun

    Speaker: Michael R. DeBaun, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – Vanderbilt University School of Medicine