Summer 2008 Region IX Newsletter Article (also for Region X)

Our Region Breakfast meeting in Hawaii highlighted four poster presentations from outstanding trainees selected from the 2008 Region IX and X meeting in Los Angeles. Awardees included Joyce Javier, (Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles), Angelika Valdez, (University of Utah), Diana Rickard, (UCLA) and Carole Stipelman, (University of Utah). The agenda also included discussion of turnover in leadership and planning our upcoming Regional Meeting in 2009. Tremendous gratitude was expressed to outgoing chair, Cindy Ferrell., from Region X. Elizabeth Miller. from UC Davis was nominated as the new co-chair for Region X.

Our Joint Region IX and X Meeting, the Pediatric CARE (Community, Advocacy, Research and Education) Conference, will be on January 31, 2009 in Monterey, California at the Naval Post Graduate School (the Western Society for Pediatric Research (WSPR) region meeting is also nearby on the same weekend). Residents or fellows who present posters or platform presentations at the Pediatric CARE Conference will be eligible for 2-3 travel stipend awards to the national PAS conference in Baltimore to present at our Regional Breakfast meeting. This year, we will also include a “Works in Progress” poster session for residents/fellows who would like feedback from faculty on their projects. The abstract deadline this year is October 3, 2008.

Abstracts should not exceed 250 words and should use a structured abstract format, either the standard PAS format (Background, Objective, Methods, Results, Conclusion) or the modified format suggested in the Call for Proposals (timeline, target audience, goals and objectives, activities, outcomes measures and lessons learned in implementation). Topics can be in the areas of community pediatrics, child advocacy, basic or clinical sciences research, health services research, or medical education. If the first author is a current pediatric resident, please indicate the year of training next to the resident’s name. Residents and fellows are strongly encouraged to work with their faculty mentors on their abstract submissions. Please indicate if you would like the abstract to be considered for an oral presentation, the Works-in-Progress Poster Session or both.

Please submit abstracts to Region X co-chair Patricia Barreto at pbarreto@mednet.ucla.edu no later than October 3, 2008. We will notify presenters by November 1, 2008.

We welcome any feedback or ideas for APA regional activities, either locally or at the national meeting. Please feel free to contact:

Region IX Co-Chairs:
Greg Blaschke (gregory.blaschke@med.navy.mil) or Alice Kuo (akuo@mednet.ucla.edu)
Region X Co-Chairs:
Patricia Barreto (pbarreto@mednet.ucla.edu) or Elizabeth Miller (elizabeth.miller@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu)

APA - Region IX and X -
2007 Annual Meeting
February 24th, 2007
8:30am - 5:00pm
Sierra Health Foundation, Sacramento, CA