In this issue:
PALISI Spring 2025 Meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Mark your calendars!! Our Spring 2025 meeting will be held March 31 – April 3 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Our keynote speaker will be Professor Kenneth Catchpole, PhD, Human Factors Engineering expert from the Medical University of South Carolina.
PLEASE NOTE the following IMPORTANT change to the main meeting schedule! The MAIN MEETING WILL START ON MONDAY, March at 6:00 pm with an Opening Plenary talk by Dr. Catchpole. He will address human factors aspects in clinical studies. Dinner will be served and a reception to follow immediately thereafter.
Be sure to plan ahead, get your team set up on our new MorWeb system, and register whether attending online or in person. Preliminary information can be found at https://www.palisi.org/events/palisi-spring-meeting-2025. If you need assistance with any spring meeting planning, please contact us at admin@palisi.org
Travel Guide for Santa Fe Meeting
Our amazing admin team put together a travel guide to help you plan your trip to Santa Fe. It can be found at https://palisi.org/springmeeting2025 , and includes resources for air/ground travel, child care,
local attractions, restaurants, etc.
Save the Dates – Fall 2025 and Fall 2026 PALISI meetings (Spring 2026 coming soon!)
The PALISI Executive Committee and Venues Subcommittee have been working hard to plan our biannual meetings farther ahead to facilitate your schedules. The Fall 2025 meeting will be hosted in Montreal, Canada at the Omni Hotel Mont Royal September 8-11, 2025. The Fall 2026 meeting will be held in Minneapolis, MN at The Marquette Minneapolis September 9-12, 2026. We are working to finalize the Spring 2026 meeting and will post as soon as confirmed.
Spring 2025 Clinical Research Course – Save the Date!!
Attention senior fellows and junior faculty - are you interested in developing your research skills
from leading scientists in the field of pediatric critical care? Join us for PALISI’s Clinical Research
Course on Monday, March 31, 2025, from 7:30am - 5:30pm. This one-day intensive workshop
is designed to expose junior investigators to key components of a research career and build
connections in the PALISI community. Topics will include building connections, developing your
research program, cultivating collaborations, reviewing specific aims, discussing strategies for
your professional success, and more!
This year participants will register for one of two tracks. You will be asked to choose your track
upon registration, and you will spend roughly half of the day within your track.
Collaborative Clinician-Researcher - for those interested in roles such as collaborative
investigator or site PI with a local clinical research or quality improvement scholarly focus
Independent Clinician-Scientist* - for those aiming to lead independently funded
research programs
*If you are registering for the Independent Clinician-Scientist track, you must
submit a Specific Aims page for review during the Specific Aims Workshop. If you
are interested but do not feel prepared to submit this sample work, please don't
hesitate to reach out to the course directors for guidance. Specific Aims will be
requested in advance of the meeting and all late registrants will be placed in the
Collaborative Clinician-Researcher track.
Please note that repeat course participation is always welcome, especially if you've participated
in the past and now have better-defined specific aims that you would like to review! Get more information at https://www.palisi.org/clinicalresearchcourse
Questions? Please contact:
Adam Dziorny - Adam_Dziorny@URMC.Rochester.edu
Brad Lindell – LindellR@chop.edu
Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network HCT-Cancer Immunotherapy Subgroup and HLH session
Dear PALISI Members,
The Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network HCT-Cancer Immunotherapy Subgroup is dedicated to improving the health and survival of children who require critical care during and following hematopoietic cell transplantation and/or cancer immunotherapies, through collaborative clinical and translational research. The Spring 2025 Subgroup Meeting will occur independently of the main PALISI Meeting at Duke’s Karsh Alumni Center on March 12, 2025. Final Agenda to be released in March 2025. The subgroup meeting is open to all interested registrants.
Registrants for Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) Across Pediatric Specialties: Spotlight on Immune Effector Cell HLH Like Syndrome are encouraged to also register for the PALISI HCT-Cancer Immunotherapy Meeting on March 12th, 2025, but this is not required.
Registration open for IEC HLH symposia. PALISI members use code PALISI https://pediatrics.duke.edu/blog/hemophagocytic-lymphohistiocytosis-hlh-across-pediatric-specialties-spotlight-immune-effector
Who to contact: PALISI HCT Co-Chairs Courtney Rowan coujohns@iu.edu, Raj Bajwa Rajinder.Bajwa@nationwidechildrens.org or Immediate Past Chair Kris Mahadeo kris.mahadeo@duke.edu
Antimicrobial in the PCICU Survey
Attention all providers who prescribe antimicrobials in the PCICU! We are looking to assess collective knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions of PCICU providers regarding antimicrobial stewardship. Please fill out the survey below Antimicrobial Stewardship Survey
CDC Pediatric Influenza-Associated Encephalopathy/Encephalitis Surveillance
The Section on Critical Care SOCC of the American Academy of Pediatrics has shared this information on CDC surveillance of Pediatric Influenza-Associated Encephalopathy/Encephalitis We thought it might be of interest to those doing research in this area.
Please note, this is NOT part of the PICFlu initiative.
The CDC has just opened an investigation into reports of pediatric influenza-associated encephalopathy and encephalitis, including acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE). This is public health surveillance. Please report your cases to the CDC even if you have reported the cases to your local public health department. Feel free to share the information below broadly across pediatric ID, neurology and critical care networks.
Subject: Important: Call for Cases: Pediatric Influenza-Associated Encephalopathy - October 1, 2024 to Present
Check Epi-X for an Important Report
Call for Cases: Pediatric Influenza-Associated Encephalopathy - October 1, 2024 to Present
CDC is investigating reports of pediatric influenza-associated encephalopathy and encephalitis (IAE), including acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE). Contact CDC at severeflu@cdc.gov providing your contact information if you are aware of a case of IAE in a child <18 years of age. Do NOT include any of the HIPPA identifiers in the communication.
Membership Management on Morweb
Membership and registration are now occurring exclusively on our Morweb platform, including
many recent enhancements such as a full accounting history available online to each site’s lead
administrator (“site lead”). Please use this site to manage all credit purchases, credit uses for
meetings, and meeting signups: https://palisimembers.morwebcms.com/
We know there remain occasional hurdles using the system and we appreciate your patience. Almost all attendees arrived to the Fall meeting fully preregistered, and a few arrived without a complete pre-meeting registration. Please work with us to be among the fully preregistered. Although we can quickly accommodate on-site attendees, it is always best for conference room capacity and food/beverage estimation for registrations to be in advance. Please email admin@palisi.org if you have any remaining issues with site membership and conference registration issues.
PALISI Social Media Expansion – Join the Team
PALISI is now on both Bluesky and X. We are seeking a few PALISI members to assist in managing these accounts. If you are interested, please contact Ann-Marie Brown at ann-marie.brown@emory.edu
General PALISI Communication Reminders
Don’t forget to follow us on X/(formerly Twitter) @PALISINet and Bluesky PALISInet.bsky.social
Do you have any information that you would like to share in the monthly digest? Make sure to
submit it to Ann-Marie Brown by the 1st day of the month at https://www.palisi.org/communications . (Direct Email: ann-marie.brown@emory.edu). This is also the place for questions for the Executive Committee or administrative team anytime!
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