10th International Conference Neonatal &
Childhood Pulmonary Vascular Disease

Overview:

Over the past decade, great strides have been made in our understanding of the pathobiology of pulmonary vascular disease, and from these findings new therapeutic options have emerged. It is increasingly clear that pulmonary vascular pathology is integral to a number of childhood disorders. In this conference, we will bring together international experts to explore our current understanding of the basic pathobiology as well as new and future therapies for neonatal, pediatric, and adult pulmonary vascular diseases.

Objectives:

• Apply new knowledge of the developmental vascular biology of neonatal pulmonary vascular disease to increase early detection of the pathology in infants;
  
• Provide strategies for multi-disciplinary teams to optimize the role of nursing in the care of neonates, infants, and children with pulmonary vascular disease;
  
• Assess the implications and potential treatments of pulmonary vascular disease in pediatric congenital heart disease;
  
• Apply advances in imaging to the physiologic assessment of pulmonary vasculature;
  
• Facilitate improved diagnosis and treatment of unusual forms of neonatal and childhood pulmonary vascular disease;
  
• Facilitate improved assessment of complex pharmacology therapies for the treatment of CPVD;
  
• Implement a family centered care approach for neonates and children with pulmonary hypertensive vascular disease, that involves the immediate caretakers.
  

Accreditation:

The University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

This Live activity, UCSF CME: 10th International Neonatal & Childhood Pulmonary Vascular Disease Conference, with a beginning date of 03/09/2017, has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 17.25 Prescribed credit(s) by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Course Outline:

Download March 9 Nursing Workshop Agenda (.pdf)

Download March 10th -11th General Session Agenda (.pdf)

Download March 11th Family Session Agenda (.pdf)

Conference Podcast:

Chairs:

Jeffrey R. Fineman, MD
Professor and Vice Chair of Pediatrics
Chief, Division Critical Care Medicine
Investigator, Cardiovascular Research Institute
Director, Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Service
University of California, San Francisco
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital

Ian Adatia, MBChB, FRCP
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Alberta
Stollery Children's Hospital
Edmonton, Canada

Faculty:

Steven Abman, MD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Director, Pediatric Heart Lung Center
University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado
Aurora, CO

Stephen Archer MD
Professor, Head & Program Medical Director
Department of Medicine
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Arzu Ari, PhD
Associate Professor
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA

Eric Austin, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Vanderbilt Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Program
Department of Pediatrics
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN

Rolf Berger, MD, PhD
Department of Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology,
Center for Congenital Heart Diseases
Beatrix Children's Hospital
University Medical Center
Groningen, The Netherlands

Erika Berman-Rosenzweig, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics 
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Center
New York, NY

Damien Bonnet, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Necker Hospital-Université
Paris, France

Joseph Brain, SD
Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Physiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Department of Environmental Health
Boston, MA

Anna Brown, DNP, CPNP
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Division of Allergy, Immunology and Pulmonary Medicine
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
Nashville, TN

Christopher Caldarone
Professor of Surgery
Chair, Division of Cardiac Surgery
The Hospital for Sick Children
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada

Beth Coleman, RN, CPNP
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Heart Institute - Pulmonary Hypertension Program
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Aurora, CO

Elizabeth Colglazier, CPNP-AC
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
San Francisco, CA

David Cornfield, MD
Chief, Pulmonary, Asthma, and Sleep Medicine
Medical Director, Respiratory Therapy
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, CA

Judy Dahl, CCLS
Certified Child Life Specialist
University of Alberta
Stollery Children's Hospital
Edmonton, Canada

Sanjeev Datar, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Ronald Day, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Utah Pediatric Cardiology
Director, Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program
Primary Children's Hospital
Salt Lake City, UT

María Jesús del Cerro Marín, MD, PhD
Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Unit; 
Pediatric Cardiology
"La Paz" Hospital
Madrid, Spain

Yoav Dori, MD, PhD
Pediatric Cardiologist
Director, Pediatric Lymphatic Imaging and Interventions and Lymphatic Research
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA

Erin Ely BSN, RN, CPN
Clinical Program Coordinator-PH
Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, TX

Jeffrey A. Feinstein, MD, MPH
The Dunlevie Family Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) and, by courtesy, BioEngineering
Associate Chair (Education), Pediatrics (Fellowships)
Director, Vera Moulton Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease
Director, Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Program
Palo Alto, CA

Franz Freudenthal, MD
Cardióloga Pediatra
Kardiozentrum
Fundacion Cardioinfantil La Paz
La Paz, Bolivia

Lars Grosse-Wortmann, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto
The Hospital for Sick Children
Division of Cardiology
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Stephanie Handler, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Campus
Milwaukee, WI

Brian Hanna, MDCM, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension
The Cardiac Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA

Alexandra Heath, MD, PhD
Cardióloga Pediatra
Kardiozentrum
Fundacion Cardioinfantil La Paz
La Paz, Bolivia

John Hess
phaware Global Association
Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Parent Caregiver

Russel Hirsch, MD
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Service
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Cincinnati, OH

Rachel Hopper, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Tilman Humpl, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
The Hospital for Sick Children
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Rebecca Kameny, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatrics
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Roberta Keller, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Vice Chair, Clinical Translational Research
Director of Neonatal Research
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
University of California San Francisco

Victoria Kelly, D. Clin. Psy
Clinical Psychologist
Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension
Great Ormond Street Hospital
London, UK

Shelly Kim, PharmD, RPh
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
Pulmonary Hypertension Service
Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, TX

John Kinsella, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Colorado and the Children's Hospital Colorado
Denver, CO

Usha Krishnan, MD
Associate Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Center
Associate Professor, Pediatrics (Cardiology)
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, NY

Hanmin Lee, MD
Professor & Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery
Vice-Chair, Department of Surgery
Michael R. Harrison, MD, Endowed Chair in Fetal Surgery
Director, Fetal Treatment Center
Clinical Lead, Surgical Innovations
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Heidi Mansour, PhD
Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy, College of Medicine-Tucson
Associate Member, UA NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Affiliate Faculty Member, UA Institute of the Environment
Assistant Professor, UA BIO5 Research Institute
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

Carey McDonald, CPNP
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Pediatric Palliative Care
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
Nashville, TN

Yoshihide Mitani, MD, PhD
Department of Pediatrics
Mie University Graduate School of Medicine
Tsu, Mie, Japan

Shahin Moledina, MD
Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
NHS Foundation Trust
London, UK

Mary Mullen, MD, PhD
Associate in Cardiology
Associate Director, Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Program
Boston Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Hythem Nawaytou, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Claire Parker, CPNP-AC
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital

Usha Raj, MD
Professor and Head, Department of Pediatrics
University of Illinois
Chicago, IL

Susan Richards, PNP
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension
Stollery Children's Hospital
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Jonathan Rome, MD
Associate Chief for Clinical Affairs
Division of Cardiology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Professor of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, PA

Ben Saji, MD
Professor
Toho University Omori Medical Center
Tokyo, Japan

Cathy Sheppard, RN
PHtN/PCICU Research Coordinator
Stollery Children's Hospital
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Robin Steinhorn, MD
Senior Vice President, Center for Hospital Based Specialties
Children’s National Health System
Washington, DC

Kurt Stenmark, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Head, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and
Developmental Lung Biology Laboratory
Director, Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research Laboratory
University of Colorado,
Denver, CO

Jacqueline Szmuszkovicz, MD
Medical Director, Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Program
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
University of Southern California
Keck School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA

Bernard Thebaud, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Katy Tillman, CPNP
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI

Uyen Truong, MD
Assistant Professor
Pediatric Cardiology/Radiology
Children's Hospital Colorado
Aurora, CO

Rachel Vanderlaan, MD, PhD
The Hospital for Sick Children
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada

Steve van Wormer
phaware Global Association
Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Parent Caregiver
Burbank, CA

Norbert Weissmann, PhD
Professor of Experimental Pulmonology
Justus-Liebig-University
Giessen, Germany

Travel & Lodging:

Park Central Hotel San Francisco
50 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Hotel Phone: (415) 974-6400
Reservations: 888-627-8561
Rates: $239/single/double
Cutoff Date: The room block is filled. Rooms are subject to availability

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Additional rooms are available at the Parc 55 San Francisco Hotel (2 blocks from the conference hotel – 10-15 minute walk).

Parc 55 Hotel San Francisco
55 Cyril Magnin St, San Francisco, CA 94102

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Rates: $259/single/double
Cutoff Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 or once room block is filled

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