As part of our commitment to education, NYU Langone’s Department of Pediatrics offers an array of both public and internal educational conferences and courses.

Public Conferences:

PICNIC Conference

The PICNIC (Pediatric Intensive, Cardiac, and Neonatal Intensive Care) Collaborative Conference is designed to promote the importance of collaboration and standardization of key practice principles across ICUs. The course features lectures by renowned experts, round-table discussions, and educational poster sessions wherein participants can broaden their knowledge and skills.

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Target Audience: Physicians, APP/ALP, Nurses, Trainees (Fellows, Residents, and Medical Students

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Upcoming Conferences:

Friday, November 8, 2024

Topics:

• To High Frequency and Beyond: Advanced Ventilation Strategies
• Artificial Intelligence: Will we still have jobs in 5 years?
• Keynote: The Evolution of Transplant Medicine in Pediatrics

Call for abstracts: Due Friday, August 30, 2024
Trainees and faculty at the instructor or assistant professor level are invited to submit abstracts. The subject matter of the research should pertain to ICU/ Critical Care Medicine. The cost of registration will be waived for the primary presenter of each poster accepted for presentation. Awards will be distributed during the conference for the best poster.

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Past Conferences:

Friday, November 3, 2023

Topics:

• Baking Soda, What Is It Good For? A Pro/Con Debate for Sodium Bicarbonate Use In the ICU
• Don’t Scramble the Eggs! Neuroprotective Strategies in the ICU
• When is Enough, Enough? Navigating Issues in Care When There is No Cure

Poster Session: Trainees and faculty at the instructor or assistant professor level were invited to submit abstracts. The subject matter of the research presented pertained to ICU/Critical Care Medicine.

Friday, November 4, 2022

Topics:

• Precision Medicine in the Critically Ill Child
• Compassion Fatigue & Burn-Out
• Stayin’ Alive: Resuscitation Trends in Pediatrics

Friday, November 12, 2021

Topics:

• Transfusion Practices in the NICU/PICU/CICU
• The Evolution of the Cardiac ICU
• MIS-C

POCUS Conference

Point-of-Care Ultrasound has emerged as a useful clinical tool. There is strong evidence supporting its use in various clinical settings. Whereas Point-of-Care Ultrasound is well established in some specialties like pediatric emergency medicine and adult hospital medicine, it is yet to become a part of others, such as pediatric hospital medicine and neonatology. This course aims to bridge this gap. The course organizers have selected both diagnostic and procedural applications that would be most useful on pediatric wards and neonatal units in academic and community hospitals. Didactic presentations will be followed by hands-on practice on live models and ultrasoundable mannequins. Diagnostic applications that will be covered in the course include lung, skin and soft tissue, heart and IVC, kidneys, gall bladder and ocular ultrasound. Attendees will practice placing peripheral and central IV lines, assess bladder volume and performing lumbar puncture with ultrasound guidance.

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Upcoming Conference:

Saturday, September 14 and Sunday, September 15, 2024

Topics:

• Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Pediatric Hospital Medicine and Neonatology

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Internal Institutional Conferences:

Dancis Day for Pediatrics Research

NYU Langone’s Department of Pediatrics hosts an annual Research Day to highlight the research efforts of medical students, residents, fellows, and faculty in the department. More formally known as Dancis Day for Pediatric Research, the event is dedicated to the memory of former department chair Joseph P. Dancis, MD, an accomplished researcher who was devoted to fostering research opportunities in the department and training young pediatricians.

The program features a keynote lecture from a luminary in pediatric academic medicine, oral presentations, and poster sessions on topics from basic science, medical education, and clinical research.

The annual event, which takes place each spring, celebrates the breadth and depth of the research being conducted in the Department of Pediatrics and provides an opportunity to hear and learn from people of differing training levels, ranging from medical students to the department chair.