UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh at PAS 2025 Annual Meeting

UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh is a global leader in the treatment of childhood conditions and diseases, a pioneer in the development of new and improved therapies, and a top educator of the next generation of pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists. Nationally ranked in all 11 pediatric specialties, we are committed to transforming the lives of children through science and compassion.

Connect With Us at PAS

• Visit us at our exhibit space #609 to learn more about UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
• Stop by the Trainee Zone on Saturday, April 26 from 9:15 to 9:30a.m. to hear from our faculty who will be presenting and sharing insight about UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
• Attend our Colleagues, Alumni, and Friends Reception on Sunday, April 27 from 6:30 to 8:00p.m. at the Sheraton Waikiki Beach Resort: Kona & Kohala Rooms.

You can also view several UPMC Children's experts presenting at speaking sessions throughout the conference, sharing their research abstracts, and co-leading workshops.

Oral Abstracts

Session: Nephrology 1

Friday, April 25 | 4:00pm – 5:30pm HST

Juhi Kumar, MD, MPH | Moderator

Session: Emergency Medicine 3: AI and Big Data

Sunday, April 27 | 10:45am – 12:15pm HST

Srinivasan Suresh, MD, MBA, FAAP | Moderator

Session: Technology 3

Monday, April 28 | 11:00am – 12:30pm HST

Srinivasan Suresh, MD, MBA, FAAP | Moderator

Poster Schedule

Friday, April 25

Session: Adolescent Medicine 1: Media, Peer, & Family Influence on Health 
Adolescent Perspectives of Relationship Abuse on Social Media 
Friday, April 25, 2025 | 5:30pm – 7:45pm HST 
Presenting Author(s): Erin Mickievicz, BS 

Session: Cardiology 2 
Examining The Structure Of Conversations In Fetal Cardiology Consultations 
Friday, April 25, 2025 | 5:30pm – 7:45pm HST 
Presenting Author(s): Samantha Syme, BA 

Session: Medical Education 1: Curricular innovations and assessment 1 
Mapping Futures In Healthcare: Using Vignettes To Train For Success 
Friday, April 25, 2025 | 5:30pm – 7:45pm HST 
Presenting Author(s): Maeve A. Reidy, MB BCh BAO, MRCPI 

Session: Adolescent Medicine 1: Media, Peer, & Family Influence on Health 
Peer-to-Peer Advice for Pregnant Adolescents: A Qualitative Study of Recommendations from People with Lived Experience 
Friday, April 25, 2025 | 5:30pm – 7:45pm HST 
Presenting Author(s): Laura Kirkpatrick, MD 

Saturday, April 26

Session: Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health 2 
Advancing Health Equity in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: A Community-Engaged Doula Program for Black Families in Pittsburgh 
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 2:30pm – 4:45pm HST 
Presenting Author(s): Onome Oghifobibi, MD

Session: Medical Education Works in Progress 
Defining the experiences and needs of women and URiM faculty in the Department of Pediatrics at a free-standing children's hospital 
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 2:30pm – 4:45pm HST 
WIP Poster Presenter(s): Ishaan Jathal, BS

Session: Medical Education Works in Progress 
Determining the Utility of a Directed Pediatric Certifying Exam Study Curriculum for Pediatric Residents 
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 2:30pm – 4:45pm HST 
WIP Poster Presenter(s): Aaron Altman, MD, PhD 

Session: Medical Education 4: Technology and Simulation 
GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MEETS PEDIATRICS: CHATGPT’S ABILITY TO GENERATE PEDIATRIC CERTIFYING EXAM-STYLE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS 
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 2:30pm – 4:45pm HST 
Presenting Author(s): Maeve A. Reidy, MB BCh BAO, MRCPI  

Session: Neonatal General 9: Hematology, Bilirubin and Feeding 
Impact of a new anti-Xa based neonatal ECMO heparin management guideline on therapeutic anticoagulation and clinical outcomes: a single center experience 
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 2:30pm – 4:45pm HST 
Presenting Author(s): Adriana Phillips, MD 

Session: Breastfeeding/Human Milk 2 
Impact of Antenatal Milk Expression on Breastfeeding Outcomes in Birthing People with Body Mass Index ≥ 25: Results from the PREPARE Trial 
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 2:30pm – 4:45pm HST 
Presenting Author(s): Jill R. Demirci, PhD, RN, IBCLC, FAAN 

Session: Breastfeeding/Human Milk 2 
Infants at increased likelihood of childhood ADHD have behaviors that may reduce breastfeeding duration 
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 2:30pm – 4:45pm HST 
Presenting Author(s): Heather M. Joseph, DO  

Session: Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health 2 
Neighborhood Socioeconomic and Geographic Determinants of Prenatal Congenital Heart Disease Diagnosis 
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 2:30pm – 4:45pm HST 
Presenting Author(s): Matthew M. Tran, MD 

Session: Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health 1 
Patients' and clinicians' perspectives about use of artificial intelligence for language services in pediatric healthcare settings 
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 2:30pm – 4:45pm HST 
Presenting Author(s): Maya I. Ragavan, MD, MPH, MS  

Session: Emergency Medicine 5 
Pediatric Death in the Emergency Department: Qualitative Insights from Physicians’ Experiences 
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 2:30pm – 4:45pm HST 
Presenting Author(s): Ji Young Lee, MD 

Session: Hematology/Oncology 1: Pediatric Oncology 
Preferred Language, Acuity at Presentation, and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Level Care in Children with Acute Myeloid Leukemia 
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 2:30pm – 4:45pm HST 
Presenting Author(s): Jenny Ruiz, MD, MSCE 

Sunday, April 27

Session: Palliative Care 
Decision-Making Communication in Interpreted and English Care Conferences of Seriously Ill Children 
Sunday, April 27, 2025 | 8:30am – 10:45am HST 
Presenting Author(s): Aleksandra Olszewski, MD, MA   

Session: Nephrology 2 
LDL apheresis in pediatric patients with multi-drug resistant idiopathic nephrotic syndrome or recurrent FSGS in a kidney transplant. 
Sunday, April 27, 2025 | 8:30am – 10:45am HST 
Presenting Author(s): Julia W. McDonald, MD 

Session: Nephrology 6 
Longitudinal Outcomes Using Alemtuzumab Induction in Pediatric Kidney Transplants 
Sunday, April 27, 2025 | 8:30am – 10:45am HST 
Presenting Author(s): Yifeng Zhang, DO  

Session: Nephrology 6 
Outcomes of Combined and Sequential Kidney-Liver Transplant: a single center experience. 
Sunday, April 27, 2025 | 8:30am – 10:45am HST 
Presenting Author(s): Juhi Kumar, MD, MPH 

Session: Public Health & Prevention 1 
The National Center for Adolescent and Young Adult Health and Well-Being: Youth Co-Designed Cross-sector Systems Integration for Adolescent and Young Adult Health and Well-Being 
Sunday, April 27, 2025 | 8:30am – 10:45am HST 
Presenting Author(s): Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD 

Monday, April 28 

Session: Technology Works in Progress 
An Open-Source, Interoperable, Population Mortality Risk Model for Neonatology 
Monday, April 28, 2025 | 7:00am – 9:15am HST 
WIP Poster Presenter(s): Chelsea K. Bitler, DO, MS 

Session: Pediatric Neurology 
Counseling Reproductive-Age Youth with Epilepsy: A Consensus Recommendation of the Epilepsy in the Child-Bearing Ages through Menopause Consortium 
Monday, April 28, 2025 | 7:00am – 9:15am HST 
Presenting Author(s): Laura Kirkpatrick, MD 

Session: Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health 11 
Exploration of How Hispanic Adolescents and Parents Culturally and Linguistically Conceptualize Gender Identity 
Monday, April 28, 2025 | 7:00am – 9:15am HST 
Presenting Author(s): Maya I. Ragavan, MD, MPH, MS  

Session: Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 6: DBP Potpourri 
Exploring Caregiver’s Perspectives on the Barriers to Accessing Behavioral Healthcare for their Children 
Monday, April 28, 2025 | 7:00am – 9:15am HST 
Presenting Author(s): Maheen Ibrahimi, BS

Session: Critical Care 3 
Proof-of-Concept: A highly customizable, open-source dashboard for visualizing and analyzing real-time PICU bedside monitor data. 
Monday, April 28, 2025 | 7:00am – 9:15am HST 
Presenting Author(s): Sarah K. Nutman, MD

Workshops

From Language Access to Language Justice: Transforming Pediatric Academic Systems

Saturday, April 26 | 1:00pm – 2:30pm HST CE: Live CME: 1.5

Maya Ragavan, MD, MPH, MS | Leader

Creating and Capturing Critical Metrics of Successful Scholarship in Training the Pediatrician-Scientist Workforce

Sunday, April 27 | 7:00am – 8:30am HST

Andrew Nowalk, MD, PhD | Co-leader

So You Want to Implement a Clinical Protocol: Tips, Tricks, and Can't-Miss Fixes

Sunday, April 27 | 7:00am – 8:30am HST

Allison Williams, MD | Co-leader

Multilingual Research Methods: Including Families who Speak Languages Other than English (LOE) in Research

Monday, April 28 | 11:00am – 12:30pm HST

Maya Ragavan, MD, MPH, MS | Co-leader

Presentations

Research Toward a New GBS Prevention Paradigm

Friday, April 25 | 8:45am – 9:30am HST

Thomas Hooven, MD

Impact of a Single-Institution Faculty Teaching Excellence Program to Improve Teaching Evaluations

Saturday, April 26 | 8:00am – 8:15am HST

Melissa M. Tavarez, MD, MS

Processes for Managing Conflict in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU): A Nationally Representative, Mixed-methods Study with Unit Leadership

Saturday, April 26 | 10:30am – 10:45am HST

Aleksandra Olszewski, MD, MA

An Automated Machine Learning Pipeline for Predicting Neurological Morbidity in Critically Ill Children

Saturday, April 26 | 11:15am – 11:30am HST

Christopher Horvat, MD, MHA

Honoring of 2025 APA Award Recipients, presented by APA Pillar Chairs

Saturday, April 26, | 5:15pm – 5:45pm HST

Maya Ragavan, MD, MPH, MS

Use of Shared Decision-making (SDM) to Prevent or Respond to Conflict: A Mixed Methods Study with Leaders of National Pediatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs)

Monday, April 28 | 11:30am – 11:45am HST

Aleksandra Olszewski, MD, MA

The Failing Kidney Allograft: Challenges and Recommendations for Management

Monday, April 28 | 12:00pm – 12:30pm HST

Juhi Kumar, MD, MPH

Tympanostomy Tubes

Monday, April 28 | 2:25pm – 2:45pm HST

Alejandro Hoberman, MD

Impact of a Single-Institution Faculty Teaching Excellence Program to Improve Teaching Evaluations

Saturday, April 26 | 8:00am – 8:15am HST

Melissa M. Tavarez, MD, MS

Technology 2: Telemedicine

Antibiotic receipt during primary care telemedicine versus in-person visits for pediatric acute respiratory tract infections.

Sunday, April 27 | 2:00pm – 2:15pm HST

Samuel Wittman, MS

Clubs

40th Annual Audrey K. Brown Kernicterus Symposium

Monday, April 28, 12:40pm – 1:55pm HST

Jon Watchko, MD | Chair

Awards

Newborn Medicine Program senior fellow, Hayley Varela, was awarded a PAS Trainee Travel Award "in recognition of the high quality of her abstract accepted for the PAS 2025 Meeting in Hawaii".

Career Opportunities

Across UPMC Children's, there is one goal that unites us all: transforming the lives of children through science and compassion. We provide expansive care at our main campus in Pittsburgh as well as across Pennsylvania at our regional locations. View open positions.