2012 Spring Retreat

The Pediatric Endocrine Society is now accepting applications for 2012 Spring Retreat (Formerly known as Summer School), which will be held April 30 - May 3, 2012 at the Resort and Conference Ctr in Hyannis, MA. First and Second year fellows are encouraged to apply.

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Click here to download the Application

2012 Travel Grant Application

The Pediatric Endocrine Society is now accepting applications for Travel Grant Awards to the 2012 PES/PAS Annual Meeting in Boston, MA.
Only Associate Members in good standing are eligible for the Travel Awards.
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Pediatric Subspecialty Match for Positions

Programs Participating in the Spring Pediatric Subspecialty Match for Positions Starting Summer 2013

PES Newsletter: Summer 2011 Issue

The 2011 Summer PES Newsletter is now available for you to view online!
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2011-2012 Awards
Congratulations to the following winners.

PES RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AWARD WINNERS
Jennifer Danzig
Bethany Freedman
Shana McCormack
Jennifer Rehm
Durga Singer
Jenise Wong

PES CLINICAL SCHOLAR AWARD WINNER:
Yee-Ming Chan

The applications for the PES RFA and CSA awards will open in the fall.

PES Holds Three Successful Meetings

The PES held three successful meetings while in Denver, CO; PES Summer School, PES Board Review Course and PES/PAS Annual Meeting. We thank all who dedicated their hard work and efforts in the planning process as well as those who participated in attending. Stay posted for updates to attend next year's events!

Chosen Summer School Attendees:

Animesh Sharma Ashley Shoemaker Ashwini Mallappa Avni Shah Bethany Freedman Christine Trapp Cindy Chin Diane Stanescu Jeffery Roizen Jill Emerick

Kara Connelly Mariam Gangat Michal Cohen Noelle Summers Peter Wolfgram Roopa Kanakatti Shankar Sarah Corathers Sarah Lyons Sarah R Hart-Unger Yung-Ping Chin

PES Conflict of Interest Statement

The PES Board, with the help of a special COI task force, has carefully examined and revised the Society's approach to disclosing and managing potential COI. A basic premise is that the PES considers collaborative relationships with industry to be valuable to the mission of the Society, and is committed to manage these relationships responsibly and ethically. The PES is also pledged to leadership of the Society and its activities that is objective and unencumbered by conflicts of interest (COI).

Special thanks go out to members of the COI task force - Leona Cuttler, Scott Rivkees, Ericka Eugster, Paul Kaplowitz, and Wilma Rossi - for their expert and insightful work.

Conflict of Interest Statement

Pediatric Endocrine Society
Formerly Named in Honor of Lawson Wilkins

In order for the Society to realize its Vision, the Society will strive to achieve the following Critical Conditions for Success over the coming years:

• The Society leads in supporting and fostering research that improves the health of children and adolescents with endocrine disorders.
• Optimal care of children and adolescents with endocrine disorders is fiscally sustainable and professionally fulfilling.
• Number and quality of new pediatric endocrinologists is sufficient to assure the highest level of patient care and viability of the profession.
• Educational programs of the Society enable members to be authorities on current basic and clinical science and practice-based knowledge of pediatric endocrinology
• The Society provides mechanisms that enable members to readily interact with other members to accomplish professional goals.
• The Society plays a substantial role in policy-making that advances research, clinical care, reimbursement, and education in pediatric endocrinology
• The Society has the resources necessary to achieve all these Critical Conditions for Success.

The Society has reorganized its internal committee structure and engaged a team of experienced association management professionals to assist the Society and its membership in meeting these challenging Strategic Objectives. The membership overwhelmingly voted to approve the name change in order that PES might more easily be identified by other professional societies, governmental agencies, industry manufacturers and parents.

Our new site is underdevelopment and will be ready by July 2010.

Study Network of Pediatric Endocrinology (SNoPE)

After a 24 month gestation, we are proud to announce the delivery of SNoPE (Study Network of Pediatric Endocrinology) on the members only portion of the PES website http://www.lwpes.org/professionals/snope/index.cfm. SNoPE is an exciting and potentially useful creation which will grow and develop with time. All the parts seem to be working well. SNoPE is there for you to use for collaborative interactions among centers, investigators and fellows. SNoPE lives in the “Gateway” within the PES website and contains:

1. SNoPE sponsored studies to which you are invited to join (currently 2).

a. Predictors of Stress, Parental Overprotection and Perceived Child Vulnerability among Parents of Children Affected by Disorders of Sex Development (DSDs), Steven Chernausek and Amy Wisniewski (PIs)

b. SNoPE Multicenter Study of the Outcomes of Estrogen Replacement in Pubertal-Aged Girls with Turner Syndrome, Judy Ross (PI)

2. Protocols initiated by individuals which you can join or you can initiate your own collaborative study (ies). The current listed protocols are:
a)Investigator Initiated Study in rhGH treated patients with Turner Syndrome comparing two low doses of estradiol by patch to induce puberty - Dr. Robert Rosenfield, PI

b ) a study of the effect of beta cell rest in adolescents and young adults with type 2 diabetes with Kristina Rother as PI and
c) the Neonatal Diabetes Mellitus Registry with Louis Philipson as PI.

3. A search engine on the Gateway for protocols by investigator(s), topic, and title.

NIH Launches New Web Site for Parents on Medical Research
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), in partnership with other NIH Institutes, has created a comprehensive website designed to give parents and healthcare providers alike the information needed to understand clinical research in children and make informed decisions about participating in a study.

In a format geared to all educational levels, the website combines text, graphics, and documentary film interviews with experts, parents, and children themselves to give viewers an "inside view" of pediatric clinical research. It can assist caregivers in answering patients' questions about research. Families who are contemplating enrolling their child in a clinical study can use the information to augment their understanding and complement the informed consent process. The site has sufficient content to be used as an educational tool for trainees and junior faculty about the key concepts of pediatric clinical research. Based on focus groups, we organized the information into easily-accessible chapters for locating information quickly, something often needed in emergency research. The content is not copy-writed and the DVD-based documentaries may be downloaded to run in waiting rooms or hospital libraries.

The "No More Hand-Me-Downs: Research Designed for Children" theme of the website represents the thinking of our many colleagues across NIH, DHHS, the research community. Please visit the site at:
www.ChildrenAndClinicalStudies.nhlbi.nih.gov

Please contact the NHLBI directly if you have any questions or comments.

Society's Presidents Interviewed!
The following videos were created between August 2006 and March 2007, as part of the 35th Anniversary Celebration meeting of PES in Toronto, May 2007. They are personal interviews of three of the Society's first Presidents, Claude Migeon, Robert Blizzard, and Mel Grumbach, conducted by President Kenneth Copeland in Baltimore, Charlottesville, and San Francisco, respectively... View Videos