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Program and Events Schedule

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  • Saturday, October 3, 2026
  • 6:30 AM - 6:00 PM PDT
    Conference Registration Hours
  • 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT
    5 Things Every Pediatrician Should Know About Generative Artificial Intelligence
  • 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT
    Challenging Cases in Pediatric Infectious Diseases
  • 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT
    Confidentiality Reimagined: Protecting Privacy and Safety in a Digital World
  • 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT
    Dermatologic Potpourri
  • 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT
    Functional Abdominal Disorders: Inside and Outside the Gut
  • 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT
    Pediatric Dental and Procedural Sedation: How Do We Counsel Our Patients Who Need It?
  • 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT
    Preventing Kernicterus: Updates on Management of Hyperbilirubinemia
  • 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT
    The Lows of Legal Highs
  • 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT
    What the Pediatrician Needs to Know About Ear Tubes—the Most Common Pediatric Surgery
  • 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM PDT
    When to Refer for Short Stature: Updates on Treatment Options
  • 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    H2010: Joint Program: Council on School Health, Council on Children with Disabilities and Council on Community Pediatrics
  • 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    H2011: Joint Program: Section on Breastfeeding and Council on Communication and Media
  • 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    H2012: Section on Child Death Review and Prevention Program
  • 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    H2013: Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Program
  • 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    H2015: Section on Telehealth Care Program
  • 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    H2016: Section on Urgent Care Medicine Program
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
    H2020: Section on Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Annual Meeting: Day 2
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
    H2021: Section on Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting: Day 2
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
    H2022: Section on Obesity Program
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
    H2023: Section on Orthopaedics Annual Meeting: Day 1
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
    H2024: Section on Pediatric Trainees Annual Meeting
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
    H2025: Section on Surgery Annual Meeting: Day 2
  • 8:00 AM - 5:40 PM PDT
    H2030: Section on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Annual Meeting: Day 2
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Hands-On Healing: Integrating Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine and Integrative Therapies for Pediatric Headaches
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Hands-On Lab: Knee and Ankle Exam
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Home Matters: Practical Strategies to Promote Home Accessibility
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Otoscopy Lab
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Pediatrician on a Mission: Preparing Ethically and Clinically for Global Health Service
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Wound Care Lab: Evaluation, Management & Hands-On Procedures
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Abdominal Masses in Children
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Are You Smarter Than an Intensivist?
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Back in the Game: Pediatrician’s Guide to Return to Play
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Diseases Caused by Environmental Exposures: What to Know about “Zebras”
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Exposures and Ingestions: Addressing Parental Tobacco, Nicotine, and Cannabis Use
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Feeding the Future: How to Prevent Food Allergies
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Heart Sounds and Murmurs: How To Listen
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Medicaid in Motion: What’s Key, What’s Changing, and What Does It Mean for You
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Newborn Skin Care
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Pediatric Ocular Emergencies You Can’t Afford to Miss
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Promise and Peril: Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, and AI
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Tiny Wheezers, Big Decisions: Practical Strategies for Pediatric Asthma Care (0-4 years)
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Vaccine Update: What’s New?
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    What’s New in Contraceptive Care
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Opening Plenary Session
  • 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
    Exhibit Hall
  • 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM PDT
    Exhibit Hall Product Theaters
  • 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    H2055: Section on Oral Health Program
  • 1:00 PM - 4:15 PM PDT
    H2056: Section on Infectious Diseases Program
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    H2060: Council on Children with Disabilities Program
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    H2061: Council on Clinical Information Technology Program
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    H2062: Council on Immigrant Child and Family Health Program
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    H2063: Joint Program: Section on Allergy and Immunology and Section on Global Health
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    H2064: Joint Program: Section on Integrative Medicine, Council on School Health, and Council on Healthy Mental and Emotional Development
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    H2065: Joint Program: Section on International Medical Graduates and Committee on Pediatric Workforce
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    H2066: Joint Program: Section on Nicotine and Tobacco Prevention and Treatment and Council on Adolescents and Young Adults
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    H2067: Section on Critical Care Annual Meeting: Day 1
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    H2068: Section on Early Career Physicians Program
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    H2072: Section on Osteopathic Pediatricians Program: Day 1
  • 1:15 PM - 1:45 PM PDT
    Exhibit Hall Product Theaters
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    25 Tips to Improve Your Practice Right Now
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Acne Vulgaris: Update on Approach to Treatment
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Advances in Treatment of Pediatric Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Can You Recognize Genetic and Metabolic Conditions?
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Chronic Cough in Children
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Difficult News, Busy Clinic, Hard Conversations, Tight Schedules: Skills and Practical Tools for Pediatricians
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    ENT Potpourri
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Healthy Homes for Healthy Kids: Environmental Health Strategies to Address Asthma Disparities
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    It’s All About the Relationships: Promoting Early Relational Health in Primary Care
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Psychopharmacology in Primary Care
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Safeguarding the Young Athlete from Abuse in Sports
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    So You Think You Can Scroll? The Essential Guide to Navigating Health Misinformation
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    What Pediatricians Should Know About Anesthesia Risk and Preoperative Clinics
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Wiggles, Worries, Tantrums of Fury! – Making Sense of Early Childhood Behavioral Problems using the AAP Mental Health Toolkit
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Clinical Event Debriefing: Improving Pediatric Safety and Team Resilience
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Hands-On Rheumatology Lab: MSK and Skin Exam
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Make QI Count: Building a Standout Academic Portfolio
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Otoscopy Lab
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Wound Care Lab: Evaluation, Management & Hands-On Procedures
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Exhibit Hall Product Theaters
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
    Cultural Safety with Indigenous Families: Translating Theory into Clinical Practice
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
    Diagnosis and Management of Pediatric Hypertension
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
    GERD Through the Ages: Indications for Testing and Treating Infants, Children, and Adolescents
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
    Hernia, Hydrocoele, Undescended Testis
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
    Housing Instability and Homelessness in Pediatrics: Health Impacts and Multi-level Interventions for Pediatricians
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
    How to Diagnose and Treat ADHD in a Busy Practice
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
    Interpreting the Complete Blood Count: Factors Influencing Results
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
    Navigating Alternative Practices in the Newborn Nursery
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
    Neurology On-Call: Altered Mental Status
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
    The Great Practice Management Debate: 5 Controversial Topics Every Pediatrician Faces
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
    Visual Diagnosis Potpourri: Test Your Skills
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Before Medical Child Abuse: Identifying and Addressing Overmedicalization in Pediatric Primary Care
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Caring for Pediatric Patients with Turner Syndrome: A Multidisciplinary Approach
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Tantrums from Toddlers to Teens: Recognition, Response and Remedies
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
    Advocating for Pediatric Innovation: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
    Exhibits Reception
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
    Good Grief? : Defining and Supporting the Experience of Grief in Pediatric Providers, Trainees, and Teams
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
    Providing Whole Child Care for Autistic Children and Youth in the Primary Care Office
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
    Reading Journals with a Critical Eye
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
    Starting Strong in Pediatric Practice: Learn the Essentials
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
    The Highs and Lows of Electrolyte Disarray
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
    When Every Minute Matters: Rapid Goals of Care Conversations in Pediatric Practice
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
    When to Refer for Abnormal Head Shape
  • 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
    San Diego Experience! at The Rady's Music Shell