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Make a Difference for Kids: Become a Pediatric Scientist!

A Research Committee Sponsored Webinar Series

Calling all medical students, residents and fellows interested in a career in pediatric science! Join our monthly webinar series, the second Tuesday of every month from 5:30-6:30pm EST.

Each month a distinguished pediatric physician scientist will speak. Content will range from inspirational stories as to how individuals found a career in pediatric science, to specific topic based content.

    • January 12, 2021, 5:30-6:30pm ET 
      Speaker: Joseph W. St. Geme, III, MD,
      Physician-in-Chief and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
      Moderator: Lisa Satlin, MD
      Title: Common Themes in Invasive Bacterial Disease in Children
      Webinar Recording

 

    • February 9, 2021, 5:30-6:30pm ET 
      Speaker: Michael DeBaun, MD, MPH,
      Director, Vanderbilt-Meharry Center for Excellence in Sickle Cell Disease
      Title: Academic Activism: Choosing the Right Time and the Right Place
      Webinar Recording

 

    • March 9, 2021, 5:30-6:30pm ET 
      Speaker: Bruce Gelb, MD,
      Director Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Professor, Pediatrics, Cardiology, Professor, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, NYU Langone Health
      Title: Noonan Syndrome and Related Syndromes: RAS-pY Voices Heard Along the Pathway
      Webinar Recording 

 

    • April 13, 2021, 5:30-6:30pm ET
      Speaker      : H. Dele Davies, MD
      Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC)
      Title: Mentorship, Sponsorship, Partnerships – Key Ingredients to a Successful Pediatric Scientist Career
      Webinar Recording

 

    • May 11, 2021, 5:30-6:30 pm ET
      Couples Panel      : Panagiotis Kratimenos, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Children’s National Medical Center, The George Washington University School of Medicine
      and Ioannis Koutroulis, MD, PhD, MBA, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
      Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine
      Title: Prospering at Home While Pursuing a Career in Academic Pediatrics: One Couple’s Perspective
      Webinar Recording

 

    • June 8, 2021, 5:30-6:30pm ET
      Speaker: Sallie Permar, MD, PhD, Nancy C. Paduano Professor and Chair in Pediatrics, Weill Cornell University School of Medicine
      Title: Ending the Congenital CMV Pandemic: We Are Halfway There
      Webinar Recording

 

    • July 13, 2021, 5:30-6:30pm ET
      Speaker: Leslie Walker-Harding, MD, Professor & Chair in Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine
      Title: Prevention and Intervention: Coming of Age in a Post-COVID World
      Webinar Description: Adolescent Health has become an area of a particular concern during the pandemic with increased mental health compromise, including anxiety, depression, substance use and eating disorders. Is there an answer to these challenges? Could they have been prevented or benefited from early identification and intervention. What is our way forward to ensure adolescents not only survive but thrive in the next decade.
      Click here to register

 

    • August 10, 2021, 5:30-6:30pm ET
      Speaker:       Sherin Devaskar, MD, Mattel Executive Endowed Chair, Department of Pediatrics in Pediatric Department Chair, University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine
      Details: TBD
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    • October 12, 2021, 5:30-6:30pm ET
      Speaker: Diana Bianchi, MD, Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Head of the Prenatal Genomics and Therapy Section for the Medical Genetics Branch at NHGRI

 

    • November 09, 2021, 5:30-6:30pm ET
      Speaker: Stephen Teach, MD, Professor and Chair, Pediatrics in Pediatric Department Chair, George Washington University

 

    • December 14, 2021, 5:30-6:30pm ET
      Speaker: Daniel Benjamin, MD, Faculty Associate Director and Kiser-Arena Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at Duke Clinical Research Institute

 

    • January 11, 2022, 5:30-6:30pm ET
      Details TBD

 

    • February 8, 2022, 5:30-6:30pm ET
      Details TBD
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