F R I D A Y • A P R I L - Pediatric Academic Societies

Chairs: Mary M. Lee, University of Massachusetts Medical School,
Worchester, MA and Mark R. Palmert, University of Toronto, The Hospital for
Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
A review of pertinent literature within the past year on the Pituitary, The
Adrenal, The Gonad and Disorders of Sexual Differentiation
2:45 Pituitary:Year in Review
Laurie E. Cohen, Harvard Medical School, Children’s Hosptial of
Boston, Boston, MA
3:25 Adrenal:Year in Review
Perrin C. White, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center, Dallas, TX
4:05 Gonad / Disorders of Sexual Differentiation:Year in Review
Eric J. Vilain, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los
Angeles, CA
2:45pm–4:45pm
1635 Assessment & Pathophysiology of Obesity, Insulin
Resistance & Diabetes Mellitus
Platform Session~Korbel 4B
Chairs: Shari L. Barkin and Benjamin U. Nwosu
2:45* Comparative Effects of Sucrose, Fat, and Soy-Based Protein Diets
on Energy Consumption and Weight Gain in Rats. Dorothee K.
Newbern, Michael Freemark, Christopher B. Newgard.
Publication 1635.1
3:00* Lower Birth Weight Is Associated with Intramyocellular
Accumulation of Lipids in Youth: The EPOCH Study. Mamta Jaiswal,
Kendra Vehik, Ann Scherzinger, Dana Dabelea, Stephen Daniels.
Publication 1635.2
3:15 Evaluation of Air-Displacement Plethysmography Whole Body
Composition in Children 2 to 5 Years Old Using the 4-Compartment
Model as a Criterion Method. David A. Fields, Brittney L. Criswell,
Catherine L. Wolf, Steven D. Chernausek. Publication 1635.3
3:30 Vitamin D and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Preschoolers: A
TARGet Kids! Study. Jonathon L. Maguire, Catherine S. Birken,
Muhammad Mamdani, Marina Khovratovich, Yan Yan Wu, Reinhold
Vieth, Brian W. McCrindle, Patricia C. Parkin. Publication 1635.4
SPR Fellow Clinical Research Awards
Jennifer Rehm
3:45* Fatty Liver Disease in Overweight Adolescent Girls Measured
with Quantitative MRI and MR Spectroscopy. Jennifer L. Rehm,
Ellen L. Connor, Vanessa A. Curtis, Aaron L. Carrel, Cathy D.G.
Hines, Scott B. Reeder, David B. Allen. Publication 1635.5
4:00* The Relation of Serum Free Fatty Acids to Obesity and Insulin
Resistance from Adolescence to Adulthood. Brigitte I. Frohnert,
David R. Jacobs, Julia Steinberger, Antoinette M. Moran, Lyn M.
Steffen, Alan R. Sinaiko. Publication 1635.6
4:15* Development of Type 2 Diabetes Relates to Inflammation and
Low Adiponectin in Youth. Melanie G. Cree, Amber Hull, Amy West,
Maura Downey, Jane Reusch, Kristen J. Nadeau.
Publication 1635.7
4:30 Comparison of Hemoglobin A1C (HbA1c) and Oral Glucose Tolerance
Test (OGTT) for the Diagnosis of Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM)
in Overweight Children and Adolescents. Ghufran S. Babar, Ashley
K. Sherman, Figen A. Ugrasbul. Publication 1635.8
*First Author is Trainee (fellow, house officer or student)
Daily Programming
2:45pm–4:45pm
1640 Emergency Medicine I
Platform Session~Room 203
Chairs: Robert J. Freishtat and Marvin B. Harper
2:45* Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) of Urine Leucine-
Rich a-2-Glycoprotein (LRG) Discriminates Patients with Acute
Appendicitis and Correlates with Appendicitis Severity. Alex
Kentsis, Genevieve Briones, Kyle Kurek, Gary Bradwin, Hanno Steen,
Richard Bachur. Publication 1640.1
3:00 Validation of a Prediction Rule To Identify Children at Low Risk for
Appendicitis. A. B. Kharbanda, N. C. Dudley, L. Bajaj, M. D. Stevenson,
M. K. Mittal, R. G. Bachur, J. Bennett, K. Sinclair, C. Huang, C. G.
Macias, P. S. Dayan, for the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative
Research Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Publication 1640.2
3:15 Perforated Appendicitis in Children:The Painful Truth. Nora Esteban-
Cruciani, Katherine O’Connor, Gabriella Azzarone.
Publication 1640.3
3:30 The Utilization of Imaging in the Diagnosis of Appendicitis across
U.S. Pediatric Emergency Departments: Time Trends and Clinical
Outcomes. Richard Bachur, Kara Hennelly, Michael Callahan, Michael
C. Monuteaux. Publication 1640.4
3:45 Prediction Rule To Identify Children at Very Low Risk for
Intussusception. Jonathan E. Bennett, Cindy G. Roskind, Peter S.
Dayan. Publication 1640.5
4:00* Multi-Center Validation of a Clinical Decision Rule To Distinguish Lyme
from Aseptic Meningitis in Children in Lyme Disease Endemic Areas.
Keri A. Cohn, Amy D. Thompson, Samir S. Shah, Elizabeth M. Hines,
Todd W. Lyons, Elizabeth J. Welsh, Lise E. Nigrovic. Publication 1640.6
4:15* Electrocardiograms in Children with Lyme Meningitis: Should We
Screen for Lyme Carditis? Elizabeth J. Welsh, Keri A. Cohn, Lise E.
Nigrovic, Amy D. Thompson, Elizabeth M. Hines, Samir S. Shah.
Publication 1640.7
4:30* Cardiac Troponin T as a Screening Test for Myocarditis in Children.
Matthew A. Eisenberg, Israel Green-Hopkins, Vincent W. Chiang.
Publication 1640.8
2:45pm–4:45pm
1645 General Pediatrics: Hospital Medicine
Platform Session~Room 201
Chairs: Patrick Conway and Daniel Rauch
2:45 Graduating Pediatric Residents with a Hospitalist Position, 2006-
2010. Mary Pat Frintner, William L. Cull. Publication 1645.1
3:00 Assessing Outcomes of Care in the Pediatric Inpatient Setting:
Feasibility, Validity, and Sensitivity To Change of the Pediatric
Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL] 4.0 Generic Core Scales and
Infant Scales. Rita Mangione-Smith, Cam Solomon, Christine A.
Limbers, Chuan Zhou, James W. Varni. Publication 1645.2
3:15 Nasopharyngeal Aspirate Lactate Dehydrogenase Levels Predict
Bronchiolitis Severity in a Prospective Multicenter Emergency
Department Study. Jonathan M. Mansbach, Pedro A. Piedra, Federico
Laham, Alexander McAdam, Sunday Clark, Ashley F. Sullivan, Carlos
A. Camargo. Publication 1645.3
3:30* Provider Adherence to Early Discharge Recommendations for Late
Preterm Newborns. Neera K. Goyal, Corinne Fager, Scott A. Lorch.
Publication 1645.4
3:45 The Natural History of Childhood Complicated Pneumonia: A
Prospective Observational Study. Eyal Cohen, Michael Weinstein,
Sanjay Mahant, Anupma Wadha, Jeffrey Traubici, Bairbre Connolly,
Alejandra Ragone, Sharon Dell. Publication 1645.5
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