Several ECHO researchers are showcasing ECHO research at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. this weekend. The PAS Meeting will take place from April 27-May 1, and will feature presentations, posters, and exhibitions from physicians and researchers sharing the latest advancements in pediatric health. In addition to the in-person events at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, PAS registrants have access to on-demand, pre-recorded presentations and a bank of e-posters.

ECHO-related Sessions:

Determining Subpopulations of Children with Multiple Chronic Health Outcomes using Unsupervised Clustering
Friday, April 28, 2023, 5:15-7:15 p.m. ET (Poster number 514)
Drew Day, PhD, Seattle Children’s Research Institute

 

 

 

Psychosocial and Neonatal Risk Factors Associated with Behavioral Dysregulation Trajectories from 18 to 72 Months of Age Among ECHO Children
Saturday, April 29, 2023, 3:00-3:15 p.m. ET (Convention Center, 202 B)
Julie Hofheimer, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

 

 

 

The Epigenetic Response of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia and Antenatal Steroids on the HPA-axis System
Sunday, April 30, 2023, 11:00-11:15 a.m. ET (Convention Center, 208 AB)
Kenyaita Hodge , MPH, Emory University

 

 

 

Eat, Sleep, Console versus Usual Care for Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome – ESC-NOW a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
Sunday, April 30, 2023, 3:15-3:30 p.m. ET (Convention Center, Ballroom A)
Leslie Young, MD, University of Vermont

 

 

 

Perceived Discrimination and Neurocognitive Development Among Black and White Children: An Analysis from ECHO Cohorts
Sunday, April 30, 2023, 3:30-6:00 p.m. ET (Poster number 662)
Jennifer Porter, MD, University of Louisville

 

 

 

Associations of Non-nutritive Suck (NNS) and Gestational Phenol Exposure in Full-term Infants from Two U.S. Birth Cohorts in the ECHO Program
Sunday, April 30, 2023, 3:30-6:00 p.m. ET (Poster number 616)
Megan Woodbury, PhD, Northeastern University
Emily Zimmerman, PhD, CCC-SLP, Northeastern University

ECHO will have a strong presence at the 2019 Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD.

The ECHO Program will spotlight its advancement of child health research through three special ECHO-wide sessions at this year’s PAS Meeting in Baltimore, MD. These sessions are in addition to numerous abstracts that ECHO investigators are presenting in oral or poster sessions.

In the 3 special sessions, NIH Program Director Matt Gillman and several ECHO Investigators will present various perspectives on ECHO science, both from ECHO’s Cohorts and its IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network.  One is a state-of-the-art plenary session devoted to outlining the goals and early findings of the ECHO Program.

“The mission of ECHO to enhance the health of children for generations to come will resonate with the PAS community,” said Gillman. “We are looking forward to sharing our early findings with the larger pediatrics community. We hope that these presentations will generate excitement around ECHO as we forge the next steps of the Program, both on the observational side, where we are building the ECHO-wide Cohort of more than 50,000 children, and on the intervention side, where the IDeA States Network is providing access for children from rural and underserved backgrounds to participate in state-of-the-art clinical trials.”

Descriptions of each ECHO-related special session:

Precision Pediatrics: The Promise of Integrating Advanced Science and Technology with Prospective Birth Cohort Studies

Saturday, April 27^th, 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM, Convention Center 301-302

This 90-minute session will focus on the impact that population-based cohort studies can have on advancing knowledge in child health. The session will feature overviews of the NIH All of Us Program, the Boston Birth Cohort Study, and the ECHO Program. Dr. Gillman will present an overview of ECHO, titled Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes: Leveraging Multiple Cohort Studies.

Applying Team Science to Building Research Collaboratives

Saturday, April 27^th, 3:00 – 6:00 PM, Convention Center 313

This 3-hour workshop will focus on empowering residents, fellows, faculty, program directors, and departmental leadership with the tools to successfully build research collaboratives through team science. IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network PI Jessica Snowden will introduce and close the workshop as one of the session chairs.

The NIH Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program: Goals and Early Findings

Tuesday, April 30^th, 9:45 AM – 11:45 AM, Convention Center 316

This 2-hour State of the Art Plenary session will focus solely on the ECHO Program, featuring an introduction by Dr. Gillman. ECHO PIs Drs. Nigel Paneth and Robert Wright will moderate the session, and three ECHO investigators will present current findings from their ECHO-funded projects. Presentations within this session include:

• Leslie Young MD, FAAP, University of Vermont, will describe how ECHO addresses the Neonatal Opioid Abstinence Syndrome
• Anne Dunlop MD, MPH, Emory University, will present a paper entitled: Geographic and Temporal Variation in the Effects of Socio-demographic Factors on Risk of Preterm Birth in the US.
• Aruna Chandran MD, MPH, FAAP, Johns Hopkins University, will present a paper entitled: Epidemiology of Incident Asthma in Children across the US: Unique insights from the ECHO multi-cohort consortium.

In preparation for these talks, we sat down with a few ECHO presenters to learn more about what they planned to cover. Watch our videos below.

The ECHO Program looks forward to sharing its learnings with PAS attendees at this year’s meeting. To learn more about PAS presentations, or to add these presentations to your PAS schedule, visit the PAS website here.