Slide 1

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 2

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 3

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 4

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 5

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 6

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 7

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 8

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 9

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 10

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 11

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 12

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 13

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 14

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 15

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 16

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 17

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 18

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 19

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 20

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 21

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 22

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~






Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society


Slide 23

2015 APS Business Update

APS Election Results - 2015

 Vice President (President-Elect) – Beginning May 2015
Mark L. Batshaw – Children’s National Health Systems, George Washington
University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

 Council Member – Beginning May 2015 (5 Year Term)
Norman D. Rosenblum – Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Robin H. Steinhorn – UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA

In Memoriam (reported since May 2014)








Marc O. Beem
Russell W. Chesney
Vincent A. Fulginiti
Joseph M. Garfunkel
James C. Haworth
Raymond L. Hintz
Arno R. Hohn








Barton A. Kamen
Chris P. Katsampes
Alexander Spock
William B. Weil
Hulda J. Wohltmann
Mohsen Ziai

APS Financial Position
Fiscal Year Ending September 30
2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Fund Balance

$910,403 $889,143 $982,350 $874,351 $956,551

Income

$759,179 $644,250 $749,632 $636,820 $600,130

Disbursements $714,989 $781,427 $716,439 $681,138 $625,186

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Abstracts
 4893 Submitted
80.8% Accepted
• 1884 Trainee First Author Presentations
 53 Late Breakers / 6 Accepted
Submit your best work for consideration at the 2016 PAS Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, MD. The abstract receipt deadline will be mid November 2015.

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Registrants - Exhibits
Advance Registrants
• 6,123 (5643 in 2014, 5670 in 2013, 5619 in 2012)
• 3,149 PAS Members
• 1,215 Guests
• 1,536 Trainees (Members & Guests)
• 207 Allied Health Professionals (Members & Guests)
• 421 APS Members

Exhibitors
• 193 Booths / 122 Companies
(171 booths / 96 companies in 2014)

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition
Thank you to the following organizations and companies who have provided
generous support to the APS and/or the PAS Annual Meeting

 Abbott Nutrition
 Chiesi
 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta /
Emory University

 Children’s of Alabama / UAB
Medicine
 Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
 Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
 Connecticut Children’s Medical
Center
 Discovery Labs, Inc.
 Ikaria
 Innara Health, Inc. (Formerly
KCBioMedix)
 International Pediatric Research
Foundation

PAS Annual Meeting – 2015
Sponsorship Recognition (continued)
 Mead Johnson Nutrition
 Medela, Inc.
 Nationwide Children’s Hospital
 New York-Presbyterian Hospital
 Novo Nordisk
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Sanofi Pasteur

 Stanford University School of
Medicine
 University of California, San Diego
/ Rady Children’s Hospital
 University of Colorado
 University of Utah
 Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine
 Yale University School of Medicine

Future PAS Annual Meetings
2016 Baltimore, Maryland – April 30-May 3

2017 San Francisco, California – May 6-9
2018 Toronto, Canada – May 5-8
2019 Baltimore, Maryland – April 27-30
2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 2-5

APS Membership: April 2015
1852 Total Members
1185 Active Members
(1198 in 2014)
 581 Emeritus Members ( 571 in 2014)
 86 Honorary Members ( 81 in 2014)

APS New Members 2015
The APS Welcomes 56 New Members:
50 Active
6 Honorary

Total Applications = 63
The deadline for 2016 APS membership nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS 2015 New Members
Active Members
Evaline A. Alessandrini
Luisa I. Alvarado-Domenech
Sanjiv B. Amin
Stephen C. Aronoff
Rachel Paredes Berger
Jeffrey R. Botkin
Luc P. Brion
Mary T. Caserta
Patricia R. Chess
David W. Cooke
Sherry E. Courtney

Randy Q. Cron
James J. Cummings
Lara A. Danziger-Isakov
Yves Albert DeClerck
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Rani E. George
Philip F. Giampietro
Nicole S. Glaser
Frank Fai Ing
Robert P. Jankov
Christopher S. Kennedy

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)
Steven G. Kernie
David W. Kimberlin
Jonathan M. Klein
Augusto A. Litonjua
William T. Mahle
Linda McAllister-Lucas
Amy B. Middleman
Steven P. Miller
Parviz Minoo
Ayesha Mirza
Nancy A. Murphy

Radhika H. Muzumdar
Ian M. Paul
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr.
DeWayne M. Pursley
Laura P. Richardson
Charles W.M. Roberts
Jerome I. Rotter
Krishnamurthy C. Sekar
Judith S. Shaw
Jeffrey S. Shenberger

APS 2015 New Members (continued)
Active Members (con’t)

Honorary Members

Andrew P. Sirotnak
Elsie M. Taveras
Riley F. "Franklin" Trimm, III
Xiaobin Wang
Barbara B. Warner
Rosalind J. Wright
Clifton E. Yu

Nilo Mikko Kustaa Hallman
Jean-Michel Hascoet
Takashi Igarashi
Liisa A. Lehtonen
Sunil Sinha
Takao Takahashi

2016 APS Nominating Committee
 Chair ~

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Donna M. Ferriero, University of California,
San Francisco - Benioff Children's Hospital
APS Immediate Past President

Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Phyllis A. Dennery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sherin U. Devaskar, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jonathan D. Klein, American Academy of Pediatrics

Consider candidates for Council. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2015.

APS Supported Initiatives
 APS Registry
 APS-SPR Summer Student Research Program
 PAS Travel Grants
 Federation of Pediatric Organizations
 PAS Annual Meeting
 Pediatric Research Foundation
 Pediatric Scientist Development Program
 Pediatric Policy Council

Student Research Program
Encourages gifted medical students to consider a
career in pediatrics by providing a stipend to
work in a pediatric research group setting for a
two-three month period.
26 funded students will participate this year

Help Make A Difference! We welcome all members to our Directory of Labs
so you have an opportunity to host one of our student participants.

Pediatric Research Foundation
 The Pediatric Research Foundation (PRF) is a
support foundation which has been established
by the APS and SPR to help secure the future of
the Societies. Our goal is to raise a two million
dollar endowment.
 The PRF Board of Trustees met in early April
2014, and are in the process of an evaluation/
planning review.

Pediatric Research Foundation
Contributions
 APS & SPR Members
 $353,281 (60.7%)

 Pediatric Departments
 $183,500

 Children’s Hospitals
 $ 94,500
We need your support. For a pledge form, please contact the APS Central
Office at [email protected]. Visit our website for a complete list of donors.

Pediatric Research
Our Journal
Together with the SPR and the ESPR, the
APS co-sponsors Pediatric Research.
Members are encouraged to submit high quality
manuscripts.
Submit on-line at www.pedresearch.org

Pediatric Research
Olaf Dammann, Editor-in-Chief
Pierre Gressens, Associate Editor-In-Chief

Section Editors
Louis Low
Carlo Agostoni
Ivan D. Frantz
Parviz Minoo
Tine Brink-Henriksen
Cobi J. Heijnen
Seema Mital
Irina A. Buhimschi Martin A. Horstmann
Annamaria Staiano
George Deschenes
Ethylin W. Jabs
Donna M. Ferriero
Kwang Sik Kim
Stephanie Dean, Managing Editor

Pediatric Policy Council
The Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) was created
to combine the legislative advocacy efforts of the
American Pediatric Society, the Association of
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, the
Academic Pediatric Association and the Society
for Pediatric Research to "speak with one voice."
Drs. Cynthia F. Bearer and Scott C. Denne are the APS PPC representatives.

Questions or Suggestions?
Please feel free to contact the APS Council
at [email protected]
We look forward to your continued support
of the American Pediatric Society