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Visit the Children’s of Alabama team at the 2026 PAS meeting

Children’s of Alabama will be at the annual Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Meeting 2026 at the Thomas M. Menino Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston April 24-27. If you’re planning to attend, don’t forget to stop by our booth. We’ll be in booth #1122.

Please also make plans to join us at the annual Friends and Alumni Reception:
Saturday, April 25, 2026
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. ET
The Westin Boston Seaport District: Paine (Lobby Level)

About the PAS Meeting

The PAS Meeting connects thousands of leading pediatric researchers, clinicians and medical educators worldwide each year with a goal of coming together to advance scientific discovery and promote innovation in child and adolescent health.

About Children’s of Alabama

Since 1911, Children’s of Alabama has provided specialized medical care for ill and injured children, offering inpatient, outpatient and primary care throughout Central Alabama. Ranked among the best children’s hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, Children’s serves patients from every county in Alabama and nearly every state. Children’s is a private, not-for-profit medical center that serves as the teaching hospital for the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) pediatric medicine, surgery, psychiatry, research and residency programs. The medical staff consists of UAB faculty and Children’s full-time physicians, as well as private practicing community physicians.

August 12, 2024 by childrensal

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Children’s and UAB to Host International Neonatal Nephrology Symposium

The inaugural International Neonatal Nephrology Symposium (INNS) takes place in Birmingham in September 2024.

The Pediatric and Infant Center for Acute Nephrology (PICAN) at Children’s of Alabama and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) will host the inaugural International Neonatal Nephrology Symposium (INNS) September 11-15, 2024, at the Hilton Birmingham Downtown at UAB.

This symposium will bring together experts, researchers and clinicians from across the globe to share knowledge, exchange ideas and collaborate on the latest advancements in neonatal kidney disease. The event will provide a unique platform for networking and foster scientific dialogue that will contribute to improving outcomes in the youngest patients.

Topics

Practical aspects of neonatal kidney care—the science and the art
From crib to bench and back to the crib
Kidney health metrics in neonates and young children
Fetal kidney disease—a new era
Neonatal organ cross talk
Neonatal nephrology potpourri

Featured Workshops

Clinical roundtables—caring for neonates with kidney disease and their families
Hands-on practical skills sessions—tools to optimize care of neonates with kidney disease

For more information, visit www.childrensal.org/inns.

August 24, 2023 by childrensal

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Save the Date: International Congenital CMV Conference and Workshop is April 7-11

From left, Karen Fowler, DrPH; Shannon Ross, M.D.; and Suresh Boppana, M.D., of the UAB Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Children’s of Alabama are the co-chairs of the International Congenital CMV Conference and International CMV Workshop set for April 7-11, 2019, in Birmingham, Alabama.

The seventh International Congenital CMV Conference and 17^th International CMV Workshop will be held in Birmingham, Alabama, April 7-11, 2019. The event’s aim is to help accelerate the prevention and cure of CMV disease by bringing the expertise of clinicians and scientists together in one forum.

Both international meetings have been combined in order to enhance the translation from basic research to clinical practice and vice versa to inspire basic scientists by highlighting the clinical problems and disease burden of CMV. The conference attracts approximately 350 attendees and is relevant to clinicians (pediatricians, neonatologists, gynecologists and obstetricians, transplantation surgeons and physicians), researchers (microbiologists, epidemiologists, immunologists and vaccinologists), public health professionals, childcare providers, parents, students, foundations and advocacy organizations, intervention developers, and providers and vaccine developers.

CMV 2019 co-chairs are Suresh Boppana, M.D.; Karen Fowler, DrPH; and Shannon Ross, M.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Children’s of Alabama.

For more information, including registration dates, visit cmv2019.org.

January 4, 2019 by childrensal