Children’s National Hospital at the 2026 Pediatric Academic Societies meeting
Experts affiliated with Children’s National Hospital will attend the 97th Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Meeting, taking place in Boston from April 24-27, 2026. For details on presentations by Children’s National, please see the chart below and visit the PAS agenda page.
| Date/Time | Main Presenter(s) | Presentation Title |
| April 24 12:30-2:00 p.m. |
Melissa Meyers | Personalized Immunosuppression in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients |
| April 24 4:00-5:30 p.m. |
Elizabeth Hubbard | Stand Out in Seconds: Develop Your Personal Brand, Elevator Pitch, and Interview Skills |
| April 24 4:00-5:30 p.m. |
Tamara L. Gayle | Hospital Medicine | Innovation in PHM: Digital Tools and AI Breakthroughs and Missteps |
| April 24 4:00-5:30 p.m. |
Dewesh Agrawal | Emergency Medicine 1 |
| April 24 4:15-4:30 p.m. |
Celina Brunson | How High is Too High? Severe Hyperparathyroidism and bone mineral disease in children on hemodialysis |
| April 24 4:45-5:00 p.m. |
Muhammad M. Rahman | Machine Learning to Predict 30-day Emergency Department Revisit Among Youth with Mental or Behavioral Health Concerns |
| April 24 5:30-8:00 p.m. |
Yao Wu | Associations Between Maternal Mental Health and Amygdala and Hippocampus Volumes in Newborns with Antenatal Opioid Exposure |
| April 24 5:30-8:00 p.m. |
Alicia Rolin | Availability and Knowledge of Naloxone Distribution in an Urban Area |
| April 24 5:30-8:00 p.m. |
Olivia Gould | Barriers and Enablers to Pediatric Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD): A Qualitative PICU Study |
| April 24 5:30-8:00 p.m. |
Margaret Rush | Blood Culture Utilization for Children with High Intensity Neurological Impairment Hospitalized for Pneumonia |
| April 24 5:30-8:00 p.m. |
William Gravley | Electrical Impedance Tomography to Monitor Lung Inflation in Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: A Feasibility Study |
| April 24 5:30-8:00 p.m. |
Megan L. Smith | Evaluation of Associations among Food Insecurity Severity, Public Benefit Use, and Pediatric Asthma Outcomes |
| April 24 5:30-8:00 p.m. |
Christopher Gable | Factors Associated with Emergency Holds in Acute Pediatric Mental and Behavioral Health Presentations |
| April 24 5:30-8:00 p.m. |
Jordy Salcedo-Giraldo | Graphic Novels for Pediatric Hypertension: Enhancing Health Literacy and Medication Adherence through Visual Storytelling |
| April 24 5:30-8:00 p.m. |
Thevaa Chandereng | Mental Health Newborn Screening: False Positive Rates and Temperature Data Insights |
| April 24 5:30-8:00 p.m. |
Jasmine Preston Turner | Parental Perceptions of Mental Health and Utility of Mental Health Resources Provided in PICU Admissions |
| April 25 8:00-9:30 a.m. |
Kevin Lloyd, Jacqueline Saito | Prescribing with Purpose: The Role of Stewardship in All Pediatric Fields |
| April 25 9:00-9:10 a.m. |
Nathan Kuppermann | Planning and Execution of a Large Pragmatic Multinational Emergency Care Trial in Children |
| April 25 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. |
Padmaja Pavuluri | Beyond the Grid: Smarter Scheduling, Stronger Teams, and World Peace |
| April 25 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. |
Sadiqa Kendi | When a Meal Train is Not Enough: Tools for Supporting Academic Pediatricians Experiencing Serious Illness |
| April 25 2:00-3:30 p.m. |
Ilana Lavina | Beyond Discharge: Practicing Safety Planning for Youth at Risk for Suicide Across Pediatric Settings |
| April 25 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. |
Monika Goyal | Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health 2 |
| April 25 2:00-3:30 p.m. |
Sarah B. Mulkey | Global Neonatal & Children’s Health 1 |
| April 25 2:45-3:00 p.m. |
Andrea Hahn | Virus Prevalence in Children with Tracheostomy and Home Ventilation during Health and Acute Respiratory Infection and Relation of Virus Detection to ARI Severity |
| April 25 3:30-5:45 p.m. |
Sudeepta Basu | Active Sleep During Extrauterine Third Trimester is Associated with Neurophysiologic Maturation in Preterm Infants |
| April 25 3:30-5:45 p.m. |
Sudeepta Basu | Active Sleep During Extrauterine Third Trimester is Positively Associated with Brain White Matter Volume in Preterm Infants |
| April 25 3:30-5:45 p.m. |
Youness Arjoune | AI-Enabled Auto Capture of Throat Images for Smartphone-Based Oropharyngeal Examination in Pediatric Patients |
| April 25 3:30-5:45 p.m. |
Adenike Animasaun | Caregiver Perspectives on School Asthma Management Post Exacerbation: A Qualitative Study |
| April 25 3:30-5:45 p.m. |
Emese Kanyo | Characterizing Hospital-Based Provision of Longitudinal Asthma Care in Children ≤ 4 Years Old |
| April 25 3:30-5:45 p.m. |
Manuela Iglesias | Diferencias en el neurodesarrollo infantil temprano tras la infección materna sintomática y asintomática por SARS-CoV-2 durante el embarazo |
| April 25 3:30-5:45 p.m. |
Kelly Christensen | Feasibility, Recruitment, and Retention of a Multi-State, Longitudinal Study of Parents’ Newborn Screening Experiences |
| April 25 3:30-5:45 p.m. |
Maria Triantafyllou | Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Derived Extracellular Vesicles Attenuate Sepsis-Induced Acute Lung Injury via Immune Modulation |
| April 25 3:30-5:45 p.m. |
Simranjeet S. Sran | Improving Medical Student Physical Diagnosis and Diagnostic Reasoning Skills in a Pre-Clinical Doctoring Course |
| April 25 3:30-5:45 p.m. |
Allen Yiu | Investigating the Association Between Healthcare Contact and Chronic School Absenteeism: Insights from Integrated Clinical and Educational Data |
| April 25 3:30-5:45 p.m. |
Yao Wu | Neonatal Brain Volumes Differ Across Neurobehavioral Profiles and Vary by Antenatal Opioid Exposure |
| April 25 3:30-5:45 p.m. |
Jung-Hoon Kim | Nonlinear Brain Network Disruption in Opioid-Exposed Neonates Revealed by Deep Generative Modeling |
| April 25 3:30-5:45 p.m. |
Allen Yiu | Pediatric Primary Care Providers’ Perspectives on Accessing and Using School-Based Information: A Mixed-Methods Exploration |
| April 25 3:30-5:45 p.m. |
Anola Stage | Relationship of Clinical Co-morbidities with the Altered Maturational Trajectory of Cerebral Metabolites in Preterm Infants |
| April 25 3:30-5:45 p.m. |
Josepheen De Asis-Cruz | The Newborn Connectome in Antenatal Opioid Exposure |
| April 25 3:30-5:45 p.m. |
Brittany N. Fitzpatrick | Walking Towards Equity: Enhancing Pediatric Pedestrian Safety Through Data Driven Solutions |
| April 26 8:00-9:30 a.m. |
Dewesh Agrawal | Emergency Medicine 4 |
| April 26 8:00-9:30 a.m. |
Alicia Tucker | Nutrition and Food is Medicine and Obesity Combined SIG | Navigating Nutrition Counseling and Resources for Patients Experiencing Food and Nutrition Insecurity |
| April 26 8:00-9:30 a.m. |
Alexandra Corley | Publishing Partners: Cultivating the mentorship relationship for a successful publication process |
| April 26 8:15-8:30 a.m. |
Rana F. Hamdy | StrepApp: A Machine Learning-Based Tool for Diagnosing GAS Pharyngitis in Children |
| April 26 8:15-8:45 a.m. |
Susan Walley | Oops, Tobacco Companies Did It Again!: New Tobacco and Nicotine Products Addicting Youth |
| April 26 8:30-8:45 a.m. |
Nora Wolff | Sepsis Causes a Region-Specific Pattern of Metabolic Dysfunction in the Murine Brain |
| April 26 9:30-11:30 a.m. |
Rachael Odusanya | Exploring Outcomes of the DC Health and Academic Prep Program (DC HAPP) at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences: A Qualitative Evaluation |
| April 26 9:30-11:30 a.m. |
Shilpa J. Patel | Facilitating Housing Intervention Uptake in Pediatric Asthma: The Role of Screening Checklists and Medical Interviews |
| April 26 9:30-11:30 a.m. |
Tamara L. Gayle | Feeding Engagement, A Food Insecurity Curriculum |
| April 26 9:30-11:30 a.m. |
Srikanth R. Damera | Fetal Brain Shape Predicts Gestational Age and Early Dysmaturation in Congenital Heart Disease |
| April 26 9:30-11:30 a.m. |
Caroline Wambach | Social-Emotional Development and Functional Connectivity in Neonates |
| April 26 9:30-11:30 a.m. |
Jessica Weisz | “TEACH”ing Advocacy: Assessment of trainee advocacy messages with an evidence-based assessment tool |
| April 26 9:30-11:30 a.m. |
Bridget Allard | Trends of Observation Stays at Children’s Hospitals (2019-2024) |
| April 26 9:30-11:30 a.m. |
Shilpa J. Patel | Quality Improvement and Equity: A Multisite Study of Disparities in Pediatric Mental Health Interventions |
| April 26 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. |
Nimisha Bajaj | Finding Connection Through Reflective Practice: Tools for Weaving Narrative Medicine Into the Workplace |
| April 26 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. |
Lenore Jarvis | Empowering Pediatricians: Resilience and Risk Strategies for Effective Advocacy |
| April 26 12:20-12:45 p.m. |
Tammy Brady | Measuring What Matters: Evaluating Implementation Outcomes in Pediatric Hypertension Initiatives |
| April 26 12:30-12:45 p.m. |
Josepheen De Asis-Cruz | Altered Hypothalamic Structure and Functional Connectivity in Neonates Exposed to Maternal Diabetes |
| April 26 12:40-1:00 p.m. |
Annie Andrews | Equity, Identity, and Peer Support In Advocacy Spaces |
| April 26 2:30-4:00 p.m. |
Kevin M. Cook | Neonatal Neurology 4: Clinical – Prenatal |
| April 26 2:30-2:45 p.m. |
Katherine Ottolini | Impaired Ex Utero Brain Growth of Preterm Infants compared to In Utero Healthy Fetuses |
| April 26 2:30-4:00 p.m. |
Christina Lindgren | Simulation-based Medical Education (SBME) |
| April 26 2:45-3:00 p.m. |
Kevin M. Cook | Maturation of Functional Brain Connectivity in Preterm Infants Differs from Fetal Development and Based on Age at Birth |
| April 26 2:45-3:10 p.m. |
Nathan Kuppermann | Federal Funding in the Current Landscape |
| April 26 3:45-4:00 p.m. |
Sarah B. Mulkey | Normocephalic Colombian Children with Antenatal Zika Virus Exposure Have Differences in Neurodevelopmental Trajectories and on Brain MRI at 7 Years of Age |
| April 26 3:35-4:00 p.m. |
Monika Goyal | Grant Termination and Pivot To Other Financial Sources |
| April 27 8:00-10:00 a.m. |
Jessica M. Hippolyte | Assessing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pediatric Prehospital Pain Management |
| April 27 8:00-10:00 a.m. |
Elizabeth Ireson | Civic Engagement for a Healthier Tomorrow: Voter Registration in a Large Pediatric Healthcare System |
| April 27 8:00-10:00 a.m. |
Jessica Weisz | Characteristics and Medical Needs of Uninsured Pediatric Immigrant Patients Referred to Care Coordination Program Based at an Academic Tertiary Care Hospital |
| April 27 8:00-10:00 a.m. |
Nora Wolff | Cross-Species Biomarkers of Cerebellar Injury In Acute Sepsis: Integrated Metabolomics of Mouse Cerebellum and Plasma Identify Conserved Human Plasma Biomarkers and Therapeutic Modulation by MSC-sEVs |
| April 27 8:00-10:00 a.m. |
Ashley V. Trinh | Examining the Association Between Normalized Protein Catabolic Rate and Bone Disease in Pediatric Patients on Chronic Hemodialysis |
| April 27 8:00-10:00 a.m. |
Theodore E. Trigylidas | Improving Patient and Caregiver Experience at a Pediatric Emergency Department |
| April 27 8:00-10:00 a.m. |
Anola Stage | Improving Vaccination Rates in a Level IV NICU |
| April 27 8:00-10:00 a.m. |
Gabrielle Jasmin | Incidence of Bacteremia in Patients with Fever and Sickle Cell Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department |
| April 27 8:00-10:00 a.m. |
Elan L. Donnellan | Neurobehavioral Stress Linked to the Central Nervous System is Associated with Heart Rate Variability Differences in Preterm Infants |
| April 27 8:00-10:00 a.m. |
Lauretta A. Oseni | Parent Health Literacy and Medication Comprehension for Children with Medical Complexity |
| April 27 8:00-10:00 a.m. |
Maneesha Sakhuja | Patterns in Clinical Ethics Consultations in Hospitalized Children with Medical Complexity |
| April 27 8:00-10:00 a.m. |
Laura O’Neill | Problem- vs. Systems-Based Clinical Documentation on Measures of Clinical Reasoning, Diagnostic Accuracy, and Mental Demand Among Residents |
| April 27 8:00-10:00 a.m. |
Shireen M. Atabaki | School Based Telehealth Access and Resources for Mental Health Care for Students |
| April 27 8:00-10:00 a.m. |
Nimisha Bajaj | Simulation-Based Approach to Emergencies in Pediatric Comfort Care |
| April 27 8:00-10:00 a.m. |
Molly Schneider | The Epidemiology and Clinical Presentation of Pediatric Sepsis in the Prehospital Setting |
| April 27 8:00-10:00 a.m. |
Gabriele Simonti | Timing and Intensity of Sensory-Motor Therapies Shapes Cerebellar-Mediated Motor and Social Outcomes After Prematurity-Related Insults |
| April 27 10:00-11:30 a.m. |
Susan Walley | Vapes, Nicotine Pouches, and Cigarettes: New Clinical Guidelines for Treatment of Adolescent Nicotine and Tobacco Use |
| April 27 10:00-10:15 a.m. |
Megan Prior | Evaluating a Medical-Educational Advocate Partnership: A Retrospective Analysis of Referral Demographics and Stakeholder Satisfaction |
| April 27 10:00-10:15 a.m. |
Shilpa J. Patel | Improving Mental Health Processes, Workflows, and Responses Quality Collaborative |
| April 27 10:15-10:30 a.m. |
Srikanth R. Damera | Fetal Subplate Dysmaturation Predicts Early Motor Outcomes in Congenital Heart Disease |
| April 27 10:30-10:50 a.m. |
Susan Walley | Landscape of New Tobacco and Nicotine Products |
| April 27 11:00-11:15 a.m. |
Alicia Rolin | Impact of an EHR-Embedded Clinical Decision Support Tool on Racial and Ethnic Differences in STI Testing in a Pediatric Emergency Department |
| April 27 11:04-11:16 a.m. |
Josepheen De Asis-Cruz | Imaging the Developing Brain: Uncovering the Effects of Prenatal Opioid Exposure |
| April 27 1:00-2:30 p.m. |
Gabrina Dixon | The POWER of WORDS – Unconscious Ink Shaping the Careers! |
| April 27 1:00-2:30 p.m. |
Alexandra Corley | APA Combined SIG Part 1: Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics and Race in Medicine |
| April 27 2:45-3:07 p.m. |
Kristen Sgambat | Nurturing the Kidney: Updates to CKD Nutritional Guidelines |
| April 27
2:45-4:15 p.m. |
Amanda Stewart | Just-in-Time Advocacy: Introducing a Practical, Patient-Centered Framework to Teach Bedside Advocacy |
| April 27 2:45-4:15 p.m. |
Alexandra Corley | APA Combined SIG Part 2: Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics and Race in Medicine |
