Children’s Hospital Los Angeles experts are set to speak at nearly 80 sessions and poster presentations at the 2025 Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) meeting April 24-28 in Honolulu.
CHLA faculty, staff, and trainees will present new research and discuss critical topics in pediatric medicine at the international conference—which serves as the annual meeting of the Academic Pediatric Association and attracts thousands of leading pediatric clinicians, researchers, and educators.
is at the forefront of pediatric academic medicine and is consistently ranked among the top 10 children’s hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Below is a list of CHLA experts speaking at PAS 2025 sessions and poster presentations. Conference attendees are also invited to connect with CHLA faculty and staff at Booth No. 501.
Session Speakers
Advocacy
Kimberly Petko, MD, MPH
Storytelling for Advocacy: Harnessing the Power of Your Story
Monday, April 28, 9:15 to 10:45 a.m. HST
Artificial Intelligence
Todd Chang, MD, MAcM
Generative AI for Pediatric Research and Education: You Can ChatGPT Too!
Saturday, April 26, 7 to 8:30 a.m. HST
Ethical, Data, and Regulatory Considerations
Saturday, April 26, 1:45 to 2 p.m. HST
The Future of AI in Pediatrics – Fostering Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 2:15 to 2:30 p.m. HST
Cardiology
Sudarshan Ranganathan
Evaluation of Iron Deposition in Deep Brain Nuclei Associated with Fontan Circulation Using Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping
Sunday, April 27, 8:15 to 8:30 a.m. HST
Nhu Tran, PhD, RN, CCRN, CCRP
Cerebral Fractional Tissue Oxygen Extraction in Infants with Congenital Heart Disease (CHD)
Sunday, April 27, 2:30 to 2:45 p.m. HST
Career Development
Michael Bryant, MD
Paging Your Future: A Step-by-Step Guide to Landing Your First Dream Job in Academic Medicine
Saturday, April 26, 7 to 8:30 a.m. HST
Elizabeth Kuilanoff, MD, MPH
Promoting Resilience and Professionalism in Academic Medicine with Self-Compassion and Mindfulness
Monday, April 28, 9:15 to 10:45 a.m. HST
Jeanine Hall, MD
The Research Support Network: Developing and Maintaining a Peer Mentorship Group for Early-Stage Pediatric Researchers
Monday, April 28, 2 to 3:30 p.m. HST
Hospital Medicine
Andrea Matho, MD
R.U.S.H. Hour: Learning Point of Care ultrasound for Rapid Ultrasound Assessment for Shock & Hypotension Workshop
Sunday, April 27, 10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. HST
Andrea Matho, MD (Leader); Anna Egan, MD; Marsha Elkhunovich, MD; Karen Deslouches, MD; Andy Chan, MD
The (Ultra)Sound Approach to Baby Fever: Utilizing POCUS in the Workup of the Febrile Infant
Sunday, April 27, 2 to 3:30 p.m. HST
Ara Balkian, MD, MBA
Crafting Clarity: Enhancing Clinical Documentation for Improved Pediatric Care
Monday, April 28, 9:15 to 10:45 a.m. HST
Medical Education
Zoha Ahmed, MD
Checking your VITALS – Tools and Strategies to Combat Microaggressions in Pediatric Training
Sunday, April 27, 2 to 3:30 p.m. HST
Piyawat Arichai, MD, FAAP
NeoCard AI Tutor: Evaluating Generative AI as a Congenital Heart Disease Training Tool for Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellows
Saturday, April 26, 11:15 to 11:30 a.m. HST
Michelle Thompson, MD, MACM
Game On! Enhancing Medical Education through Gamification!
Monday, April 28, 9:15 to 10:45 a.m. HST
Neonatology
Bridget DiPrisco, MD
Developmental Care Practices for Infants with Grade 3 BPD in the NICU: A Multicenter Point Prevalence Study
Saturday, April 26, 7 to 7:15 a.m. HST
Caroline Noh, MD, MSEpi; Shahab Noori, MD, MS CBTI; Piyawat Arichai, MD, FAAP
Hands-on Training to Assess Hemodynamically Significant Patent Ductus Arteriosus Using Neonatal Echocardiography Simulator
Monday, April 28, 9:15 to 10:45 a.m. HST
Patrick Zacharias, MD
Validation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Model for Lung Ultrasound Scoring
Monday, April 28, 2:15 to 2:30 p.m. HST
Nephrology
Meghan H. Pearl, MD, MS
Antibody-mediated Rejection: First-line Therapies and Beyond
Monday, April 28, 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. HST
Tara Sardesai, MD
Walking in their Shoes: Palliative care in chronic kidney disease (CKD) across the lifespan
Friday, April 25, 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. HST
Neurology
Katherine Chow
Caregiver Burden and Familial Impact in Down Syndrome Regression Disorder
Monday, April 28, 10 to 10:15 a.m. HST
Precision Medicine
Pat Levitt, PhD
Advancing Precision Medicine by Measuring ACEs, Toxic Stress, and Intervention Efficacy with Policy Implications
Sunday, April 27, 7:25 to 7:40 a.m. HST (Talk) and 8:25 to 8:30 a.m. HST (Closing Discussion)
Public Health and Prevention
Alexandra J. Descarpentrie, PhD
Public Health & Prevention 2: Assessing Household Consensus on self-reported Social Determinants of Health
Sunday, April 27, 3 to 3:15 p.m. HST
Quality Improvement
Vivian Lee, MD
Hospital Medicine 2: Quality Improvement
Sunday, April 27, 7 to 8:30 a.m. HST
Quality Improvement/Patient Safety 1
Sunday, April 27, 2 to 3:30 p.m. HST
Poster Presenters
Asthma
Samantha Lozano
Viability of long-term caregiver engagement with asynchronous telemedicine asthma specialist care (AT-ASC) after an emergency department (ED) asthma visit for children
Sunday, April 27, 2025, 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. HST
Bahareh Ravandi, MD
Long-term viability of asynchronous telemedicine to improve access to asthma specialist care following an emergency department (ED) asthma visit
Sunday, April 27, 2025, 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. HST
Cardiology
Nupur N. Makkar, MD
Understanding the Psychosocial Needs of Parents of Children with Congenital Heart Disease: From the Prenatal to Postnatal Period
Friday, April 25, 2025, 5:30 to 7:45 p.m. HST
Alejandra Mallorga Hernandez, MD, MPH
Fetal Echocardiogram Guidelines Impact on Reducing Socioeconomic Disparities for Prenatal Diagnosis of Critical Congenital Heart Disease
Friday, April 25, 2025, 5:30 to 7:45 p.m. HST
Socioeconomic Influences on Prenatal Detection of Critical Congenital Heart Disease during the COVID Pandemic
Friday, April 25, 2025, 5:30 to 7:45 p.m. HST
Karina Mehta, MD, MPH
Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in the Congenital Heart Disease Population in Los Angeles County
Friday, April 25, 2025, 5:30 to 7:45 p.m. HST
Children With Chronic Conditions
Jeanne Delgado, MD, MPH
Need for Interdisciplinary Approach to Care for Children with Chronic Illness and Undocumented Status
Monday, April 28, 2025, 7 to 9:15 a.m. HST
Debra Lotstein, MD, MPH
Bridging The Gap: Enhancing Access to Adult Primary Care for Youth with Special Health Care Needs Through an Innovative Clinic Model
Sunday, April 27, 2025, 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. HST
Clinical Bioethics
Brittany Lyons, MD
Documentation of Shared-decision Making Practices in Neonatal and Pediatric ECMO: a Mixed-Methods Study
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 2:30 to 4:45 p.m. HST
Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
Melissa Bent, MD
The Case for Post Partum Depression and Anxiety Screening during Ponseti casting
Friday, April 25, 2025, 5:30 to 7:45 p.m. HST
Beth Smith, DPT, PhD
Wearable Sensor Analysis of Leg Movements Differentiates Risk Status in Infants At Risk for Cerebral Palsy During the First Four Months of Life
Friday, April 25, 2025, 5:30 to 7:45 p.m. HST
Karen A. Camero, MD
“There’s Nothing Wrong with Praising a Child”: Supporting Parents of Toddlers with Virtual Workshops that Promote Positive Parenting
Friday, April 25, 2025, 5:30 to 7:45 p.m. HST
Emergency Medicine
Sofia S. Cook, MD
Teaching asthma knowledge in emergencies: a picture-based intervention for caregivers
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 2:30 to 4:45 p.m. HST
Anna Cushing, MD
Race/Ethnicity and Language Disparities in Adoption of a Digital Patient Navigation Application in the Pediatric Emergency Department
Friday, April 25, 2025, 5:30 to 7:45 p.m. HST
Personal and Neighborhood-level Social Determinants and Mental Health Revisits at U.S. Pediatric Emergency Departments
Monday, April 28, 2025, 7 to 9:15 a.m. HST
Gabriel Devlin, MD
An emergency department-based buprenorphine induction and referral program for youth with opioid use disorder
Monday, April 28, 2025, 7 to 9:15 a.m. HST
Jake R. Lehman, MD
Naloxone Distribution in the Pediatric Emergency Department: A Pilot Study
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 2:30 to 4:45 p.m. HST
Alan L. Nager, MD, MHA
A Simulation-Based Randomized Comparison Trial: Prevalence of Cognitive Biases in Child Physical Abuse in the Emergency Department
Monday, April 28, 2025, 7 to 9:15 a.m. HST
Branae Rollins, MD
The Effects of Emergency Department Overcrowding on Trauma Response Times
Monday, April 28, 2025, 7 to 9:15 a.m. HST
General Pediatrics
Jacqueline S. Antoun, MD
Implementation of a Novel School Absenteeism Screening Tool
Friday, April 25, 2025, 5:30 to 7:45 p.m. HST
Genomics/Epigenomics
Kameelah L. Gateau, MD, MS
Exploratory Analysis of Scalable Biomarkers of Toxic Stress in the First Year of Life
Friday, April 25, 2025, 5:30 to 7:45 p.m. HST
Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health
Karen Deslouches, MD
Associations of Language Preference and Childhood Opportunity Index With Clinical Outcomes of Medical Emergencies in Pediatric Inpatients
Sunday, April 27, 2025, 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. HST
Isabelle Dhindsa
Community Outreach Outperforms Other Recruitment Strategies in Engaging Ethnically Diverse and Low-Income Families in Pediatric Research in Los Angeles County
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 2:30 to 4:45 p.m. HST
Kevin Sun
The Language of Health Equity: Assessing the Impact of Preferred Language on the Treatment of Early Onset Scoliosis
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 2:30 to 4:45 p.m. HST
Health Services Research
Sebastian Gualy, MD
Factors Linked to Successful Emergency Department Referral to Primary Care for Pediatric Patients without a Primary Care Physician
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 2:30 to 4:45 p.m. HST
Hospital Medicine
Andy Chan, MD
Current Ultrasound Utilization and Potential for Point-of-Care Imaging by Pediatric Hospitalists at a Quaternary Pediatric Hospital
Sunday, April 27, 2025, 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. HST
Infectious Diseases
Thomas T. Barter
Exploring Viral and Host Determinants of COVID-19 Severity in a Diverse Pediatric Cohort
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 2:30 to 4:45 p.m. HST
Medical Education
Todd Chang, MD, MAcM
Differences between 1-player and 2-player Virtual Reality Training for Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Skills: a quasi-randomized comparison trial
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 2:30 to 4:45 p.m. HST
Marcella Raney, PhD
Rethinking Mental Health Resources for Health Care Workers: A Robust Internal EAP Model with Opt-Out Options at a Pediatric Hospital
Monday, April 28, 2025, 7 to 9:15 a.m. HST
Allison Yu, MD
Impostor Phenomenon and Clinical Competency in Pediatric Residents
Sunday, April 27, 2025, 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. HST
Senior author: Bryan T. Lei
Ronen Zipkin, MD
Identifying Factors That Help Predict Success on the American Board of Pediatrics Certifying Exam
Monday, April 28, 2025, 7 to 9:15 a.m. HST
Neonatal GI Physiology and NEC
Steven Kwasi Korang, MD, PhD
Preservation of the Azygos Vein Versus Ligation of the Azygos Vein during Primary Surgical Repair of Congenital Esophageal Atresia
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 2:30 to 4:45 p.m. HST
Neonatal Health – Global
Pierre Kobierski, MD
Essential Newborn Care 1 Implementation with Virtual Refreshers in Uzbekistan
Sunday, April 27, 2025, 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. HST
Neonatal Hematology and Bilirubin Metabolism
Priyanka Patel, MD
Assessment of Genetic Sequencing Results in Neonates with Conjugated Hyperbilirubinemia
Monday, April 28, 2025, 7 to 9:15 a.m. HST
Neonatal Hemodynamics and Cardiovascular Medicine
Piyawat Arichai, MD, FAAP
Can Echocardiographic Parameters Predict iNO Wean Success in Neonates with Acute Pulmonary Hypertension?
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 2:30 to 4:45 p.m. HST
Jayde Fernandez
Core temperature gradient during therapeutic hypothermia is associated with hemodynamic changes in neonates with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 2:30 to 4:45 p.m. HST
Erin D. Myers, MD
Diagnosis of Pulmonary Hypertension in Preterm Neonates: Echocardiography Findings and Diagnosis of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
Friday, April 25, 2025, 5:30 to 7:45 p.m. HST
Ivonne E. Sierra-Strum, MD
Evaluation of Biventricular Systolic and Diastolic Function in Preterm Infants in the First Week of Postnatal Life
Friday, April 25, 2025, 5:30 to 7:45 p.m. HST
Neonatal Neurology
Claire Baldauf, MD
Fetal Brain Volumes are Associated with Placental Pathologic Anomalies in Congenital Heart Disease: A Case-Control Study
Sunday, April 27, 2025, 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. HST
Natalie L. Smith, MD
Relationship Between Brain Temperature and Long-Term Outcomes of Infants with Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy
Sunday, April 27, 2025, 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. HST
Neonatal Pulmonology
Ivonne E. Sierra-Strum, MD
Effects of Surfactant Administration and Ventilation on Cerebral and Pulmonary Oxygenation in Preterm Infants using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS)
Monday, April 28, 2025, 7 to 9:15 a.m. HST
Differential Regional Lung Oxygenation in Preterm Infants Using Near-infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) and the Role of Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA)
Monday, April 28, 2025, 7 to 9:15 a.m. HST
Neonatal Quality Improvement
Kaavya Adam, MD, MPH
A Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve Growth in Surgical Infants Hospitalized in the NICU
Saturday, April 26, 2:30 to 4:45 p.m.
Neo-Perinatal Health Care Delivery
Kuan-Chi Lai, MD, MPH
Factors Associated with Tracheostomy Timing in Premature Infants with Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 2:30 to 4:45 p.m. HST
Rebecca Martinez-Hannon, MD
Variability in Transport Procedures and Practices for Infants across the Children’s Hospital Neonatal Consortium (CHNC)
Friday, April 25, 2025, 5:30 to 7:45 p.m. HST
Courtney W. Tam, MD
Agreement Between Maternal Urine Substance Screenings and Neonatal Urine and Meconium Substance Screenings
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 2:30 to 4:45 p.m. HST
Nephrology
Wendy C. Bravo, MD, MSCE
Racial, Ethnic, and Neighborhood Disparities in Acute Kidney Injury in Pediatric Acute Leukemia
Sunday, April 27, 2025, 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. HST
Kelli Kaneta, MD
Characterizing HLA-DQ Expression in Transplanted Kidneys Using PhenoCycler Spatial Imaging Technology
Sunday, April 27, 2025, 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. HST
Quality Improvement/Patient Safety
Alan L. Nager, MD, MHA
Workplace Conflict in Healthcare: An Assessment of Reactions, Management Styles, and Resolution Strategies
Friday, April 25, 2025, 5:30 to 7:45 p.m. HST
Sahar Panjwani, MD
Improving High Risk Infant Follow-Up after Neonatal and Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Discharge: A Quality Improvement Initiative
Friday, April 25, 2025, 5:30 to 7:45 p.m. HST
Sedation Medicine
Ivonne E. Sierra-Strum, MD
Implementation of a Sedation Protocol Reduced Sedative Exposure in Ventilated Preterm Neonates <32 Weeks GA in a Level IV NICU
Sunday, April 27, 2025, 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. HST
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