APSA Annual Meeting Videos

APSA 2019 50th Anniversary

APSA 2019 50th Anniversary

APSA 2019 50th Anniversary

Top Educational Content

  • Pediatric cervical spine injury
  • Fertility preservation
  • Antibiotic stewardship
  • Surviving sepsis campaign

Colorectal Education session

  • Anorectal malformation
  • Hirschsprung Disease

Systematic Reviews

  • Effects of anesthesia on neurodevelopment
  • Long segment Hirschsprung disease

Case Controversies

  • Gastroschisis
  • Spontaneous pneumothorax
  • Esophageal atresia

APSA 2020

APSA 2020

APSA 2020

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Top Educational Content (TEC) talks sponsored by the Journal of Pediatric Surgery

  • Review of the 2019 TEC talks
  • Protocols for the treatment of congenital diaphragmatic hernia
  • Gas embolus during infant laparoscopy
  • The effect of biologics in the surgical management of inflammatory bowel disease
  • Gonad preservation in patients with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome

Robert E. Gross lecture

  • The Moral Compass

COVID-19 update

  • Update from the data sharing COVID-19 spreadsheet

Diversity and social determinants of health

  • Disparities in access to care 1
  • Disparities in access to care 2
  • Everyday bias at work
  • Representation and equity during COVID-19
  • Strategizing APSA’s organizational and individual opportunities

Systematic reviews from the Outcomes and Quality committees

  • Enteral access
  • Intussusception

Case controversies

  • Necrotizing enterocolitis
  • Abdominal trauma

Research committee

  • Jay and Margie Grosfeld symposium on stem cells and tissue engineering

Education committee

  • Variation in care - Gastroesophageal reflux (part 1, diagnosis)
  • Variation in care - Gastroesophageal reflux (part 2, complicated patients)
  • Resident and Student session

Cancer committee

  • Complicated Wilms Tumor
  • Technical Challenges in Rhabdomyosarcoma

Critical Care committee

  • Resuscitation, Fluid, Blood: Be Careful What You Wish For

Trauma committee

  • Imaging in blunt abdominal trauma, trauma-induced coagulopathy and physical child abuse

Ethics committee

  • Ethics in the COVID-19 era

Informatics committee

  • Website update and using social media

New Technology committee

  • Introducing new products to the operating room and developing a new instrument

Childhood Obesity committee

  • Starting a bariatric program

Wellness committee

  • Wellness survey results and the peer support program

APSA 2021

APSA 2021

APSA 2021

President’s address

  • A Surgeon’s Purpose (delivered by John Waldhasuen and introduced by Robert Sawin)

Past President’s address

  • Our Better Angels and the Invention of Hope (delivered by Jay Vacanti and including a welcome by John Waldhausen)

Top Educational Content (TEC) Talks sponsored by the Journal of Pediatric Surgery

  • 2020 Talk Reviews (presented by Elizabeth Beierle)
  • Intestinal FailurTECe: Improved Prognosis with Dedicated Intestinal Rehabilitation Programs (presented by Hannah Piper)
  • Family-Centered Care: Ask Not What Your Doctor Can Do for You, Ask What You Can Do (presented by Maria Cho)
  • Pediatric Trauma Resuscitation" Fluids vs Products (presented by Rob Russell)
  • The Time for Survivorship (and Not Just Survival) is Nigh (presented by Christopher Weldon)

Benjy Brooks Social

  • Improving Gender Equity in Pediatric Surgery featuring Marion Henry, Erika Newman, and Gail Besner

Case Controversies

  • Gastrostomy Tube and Oropharyngeal Dysfunction

Education Committee

  • Variation in Care: Adolescent Inguinal Hernia

Systematic Reviews from the Outcomes and Quality Committees

  • Ulcerative Colitis in Children & Adolescents
  • Gastroschisis

Presidential Symposium - Right Child, Right Surgeon Initiative

  • Are We Training Too Many Pediatric Surgeons (presented by Samuel Alaish and Abigail Martin)

Annual Meeting Program Books

Annual Meeting Program Books

Annual Meeting Program Books

Past APSA annual meeting program books can be found here.

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