AAP meeting to culminate in white coat rally at Capitol
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Key takeaways:
- The program at this year’s AAP conference is meant to encourage pediatricians to speak up for children.
- There will be a white coat rally for pediatricians at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Oct. 24.
This year’s AAP National Conference & Exhibition is focusing on advocacy, culminating in a rally for pediatricians at the U.S. Capitol, the program chair said.
The conference is being held from Oct. 20-24 in Washington, D.C.
“The theme this year is advocacy,” Cassandra Pruitt, MD, professor of pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and chairperson of the conference’s planning group, told Healio.
“There is so much impacting children, and participating in advocacy helps pediatricians speak up for kids and feel that they are doing what they can to fight for what is best for their patients,” Pruitt said. “It also seems fitting given that we are in Washington, D.C., this year.”
She said the meeting “will also be spending some time highlighting the special AAP programs that promote advocacy and child health.”
“We typically view the program in two large buckets: the most popular topics year over year, [which] tend to be sessions that provide reviews of common topics; and new submissions that address new topics we have never covered or those that cover current concerns or topics that we anticipate will be on the minds of pediatricians,” Pruitt said. “The latter category is challenging because we often don’t know what will be ‘hot’ when the conference comes around.”
The AAP organized a white coat rally for pediatricians outside the U.S. Capitol to advocate for child health, which will be held on Tuesday, the final day of the conference.
“We hope that all attendees will join us,” Pruitt said.
In anticipation of this year’s meeting, we compiled a sample of stories and videos from the 2022 conference in Anaheim, California:
Anne Schuchat, MD, encourages pediatricians to ‘please take care of yourselves’
In this video interview, Anne Schuchat, MD, former principal deputy director of the CDC, spoke about the role pediatricians will play in getting children caught up on vaccinations and urged them to monitor the mental health and social impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on their patients. Read more.
Synthetic turf playing fields may pose additional concussion risk for children
, a 3rd-year medical student at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, and colleagues studied whether the hardness of a synthetic turf field might pose an additional risk for children who play football. Read more.
Regulate guns like motor vehicles, AAP says
In this video interview, Lois K. Lee, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACEP, associate professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School, and chair of the AAP’s Council on Injury, Violence and Poison Prevention, discusses the AAP’s policy statement and accompanying technical report with updated recommendations to reduce the risk of firearm violence to children. Read more.
Three ways pediatricians can tackle the opioid epidemic head on
In a plenary session, Scott E. Hadland, MD, MPH, division chief of adolescent and young adult medicine at Massachusetts General for Children and Harvard Medical School, suggested three ways to tackle the opioid crisis head-on in primary care and pediatric practices. Read more.
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