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Experience PHM20 from the comfort of your home with PHM20 Virtual Week, July 20 – 24, 2020. Don’t miss vital educational and networking opportunities designed specifically for pediatric hospital medicine professionals. Register for PHM20 Virtual View the Full PHM20 Virtual Week Schedule

APA members are eligible to participate in faculty and scholarship development programs and mentoring programs and conferences. Members can also apply for research grants! Check out the programs below to plan your next career move. Faculty Development Programs Program About Application Deadline to Apply Advancing Pediatric Leaders An 18-month program designed for mid-level faculty to…

Trainees who had their work accepted to PAS 2020 are invited to present their work and receive feedback from moderators and other APA member participants.   How will these webinars work? Each presenter will be given time to present, followed by a brief Q&A with other participants and attendees.  Questions will be moderated by senior…

Click Here to Register for Virtual Speed Mentoring Deadline to sign up is Monday, June 29. About PAS was cancelled but Speed Mentoring isn’t! The Speed Mentoring Task Force has found a way to bring you this program from your location! This is a fun and face-paced networking session designed to bring early career faculty…

Dear APA members, It gives us great pleasure and pride to announce the formation of the National Academy of Distinguished Educators in Pediatrics (NADEP) within the Academic Pediatric Association. Our goal in creating this distinguished academy was to enhance the visibility and prestige of pediatric educators across all academic institutions in the United States, and…

June 11, 2020 Dear Members, These have been unusually challenging times for us individually and collectively as a nation. A virus the likes of which the world had not seen in over a century has been ravaging communities across the world, causing death, morbidity and widespread economic disruption. Unfortunately, the United States has had a…

The Academic Pediatric Association (APA) has developed a Diversity and Inclusion Policy and three additional statements addressing inequalities and racism and due to the spread of COVID-19. The statements reflect the values of the child health professionals engaged with the Association and condemn xenophobia, racist acts and promote the inclusiveness of all ethnicities and races…

June 2, 2020 Dear APA Community, There are no adequate words to describe the events unfolding in our country. “Difficult”, “challenging”, and “tragic” don’t cut it. Yet these events are, at the same time, all too familiar. We are all aware that the Black and African American community is disproportionately affected by illness, lack of health…

June 8, 2020 Dear Colleagues, The Academic Pediatric Association (APA), the home for academic child health professionals, reiterates the core organizational values of inclusion, respect, health equity, collaboration, and mentorship while fostering excellence in pediatrics. Pediatric professionals across the United States and the world have been proactively responding to the urgent scientific needs of the…