Directors of Research

Saturday, May 4, 2024

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET

Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre: 711

CE: Live CME: 1.0

Chair(s)

DP

De-Ann Pillers, MDPhD (she/her/hers)

Dharmapuri Vidysagar Professor and Head of Neonatology, Vice Head Academics
Pediatrics
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Ann Anderson-Berry, MD, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor
Pediatrics
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Kaashif Ahmad, MD (he/him/his)

National Research Director of Neonatal Clinical Trials
Pediatrics
Pediatrix Medical Group
San Antonio, Texas, United States

Speaker(s)

DP

De-Ann Pillers, MDPhD (she/her/hers)

Dharmapuri Vidysagar Professor and Head of Neonatology, Vice Head Academics
Pediatrics
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
LR

Lewis Rubin, MD (he/him/his)

Professor and Vice Chair of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Georgetown University Medical Center
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Norman Rosenblum, MD (he/him/his)

Pediatric Nephrologist, Senior Scientist
Paediatrics
University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Disclosure(s):

De-Ann M. Pillers, MDPhD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Ann L. Anderson-Berry, MD, PhD: Pfizer (Terminated, May 1, 2023) (Products/Services: Advisory Committee, Advisory Committee, Advisory Committee)

Kaashif A. Ahmad, MD: Aerogen Pharma (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Consultant); Sanofi Pasteur (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Advisory Committee)

Lewis P. Rubin, MD: Abbott Nutrition (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Advisory Committee, Research Support including clinical trials & the principal or named investigator)

Norman D. Rosenblum, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Session

Description: The Directors of Research in Pediatrics Club meets annually at the PAS meeting. The purpose of the Club is to bring together individuals with an interest in child health research. This includes, but is not limited to, those who have leadership roles in academic pediatric departments, those who are interested in practice based networks, those who are investigators in basic, translational and clinical research, and trainees at all levels who would like to learn more about research-related issues in pediatrics.
Our speaker will be Dr. Norman Rosenblum on the topic, "The ROOTS that Inform Our Future ROUTES". Dr. Norman Rosenblum is Professor of Paediatrics, Physiology, and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto, a Paediatric Nephrologist and Senior Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children, and Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes (INMD).

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion, participants will be able to recognize that One’s fundamental cares can lead to large-scale impact.
Upon completion, participants will be able to discover new opportunities to integrate deep biomedical science with social science to challenge the roots of ill health.
Upon completion, participants will be able to harness existing models to address clinician scientist capacity development.

Presentations:

1:00 PM – 1:10 PM ET

Overview of the Directors in Research Club
Speaker: De-Ann M. Pillers, MDPhD (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois at Chicago
1:10 PM – 2:00 PM ET

Growing Institutional Child Health Research in a Time of Decreasing Research Funding: Strategies to Grow Extramural Funding and Increase Internal Efficiency
Speaker: Ann L. Anderson-Berry, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Nebraska Medical Center