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Winter 2021
PCICS Leadership
PCICS President’s Message February 2021
Melissa B. Jones, MSN, APRN, CPNP-AC
President, PCICS
CICU Nurse Practitioner
Children’s National Hospital
Washington, DC
Editor-In-Chief’s Message February 2021
Ivie D. Esangbedo, MD, MPH
Editor-in-Chief, PCICS Newsletter
Pediatric Cardiac Intensivist and Assistant Professor
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Editorials
Guest Editorial: Goodbye 2020 and New Year’s Resolutions
Maryam Y. Naim, M.D., M.S.C.E.
Pediatric Cardiac Intensivist
The Cardiac Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Guest Editorial: PCICS 2020- An Early Career Perspective
Marcos Mills, MD
Cardiovascular Intensive Care Advanced Fellow
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University
Department of Pediatric Cardiology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Guest Editorial: Nursing Editorial February 2021
Genevieve M. Frey-Moylan MSN, RN, CPN
Director, Cardiac Care Unit and ECMO
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Annette Imprescia RN, BSN, CCRN
Staff Nurse Level III, Clinical Educator
Associate Clinical Director, SIMPeds CICU Nursing Programs
Boston Children’s Hospital
Committee Updates
Program Committee February 2021 Update
Nikhil Chanani, MD
Medical Director of Quality and Outcomes, Children’s Heart Center
Staff Cardiac Intensivist, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
Sibley Heart Center Cardiology
Lindsey Justice, DNP, APRN, CPNP-AC
CICU Lead Nurse Practitioner, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
PCICS Board of Directors and Program Committee Co-Chair
Education Committee February 2021 Update
Lilian Su, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Nursing Special Interest Groups February 2021 Update
Louise Callow, MSN, APRN, CPNP-PC
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Nurse Practitioner
Congenital Heart Center
CS Mott Children’s Hospital, Michigan Medicine
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Connections Committee February 2021 Update
Jill Zender, APRN, CPNP-AC
Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Nurse Practitioner
Texas Children’s Hospital
Quality Improvement and Safety (QI-S) Committee February 2021 Update
Melina M. Handley, DNP, PNP-AC, ARNP, CNE
APP Supervisor & Nurse Practitioner – Cardiac Critical Care
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Dana Mueller, MD
Pediatric Cardiac Intensivist
Rady Children’s Hospital
University of California San Diego School of Medicine
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee February 2021 Update
Shanelle Clarke, MD
Pediatric Cardiac Intensivist
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Ndidi Musa, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatric Cardiac Intensivist
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Upcoming Meeting:
Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society March 20-21, 2021
The COVID Pandemic has and continues to change our world. If you look, there are Silver Linings amongst the negatives. One being the CCAS 16th Annual Meeting. With the meeting all virtual, the opportunity exists to distance our meeting from the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia meeting and to hold it on a weekend, Saturday and Sunday, March 20 -21, 2021. It is our hope that these changes will enable more registrants to partake of what we believe is an exciting program.
This program is designed to provide an educational experience to providers of all levels, from new learners to experts whether your practice is caring predominantly or infrequently for patients with congenital heart disease for cardiac or non-cardiac procedures.
Click here to learn more about the program!
Registration is open! Click here to register.
Early registration rates are available. Use your remaining 2020 funds to register today! There are special rates for CCAS/SPA members, as well as our international colleagues. Registration is free for member fellows and residents!
Meeting Highlights
• All Virtual – watch from the comfort of your office or kitchen table!
• Watch sessions live – or on-demand. Don’t miss a thing!
• Sessions include: Pediatric Cardiomyopathies; Focus on a Lesion – Truncus Arteriosus; COVID; Regional Anesthesia for Patients with Congenital Heart Disease; and Recent Innovations in Congenital Cardiac Care.
• Poster Sessions – including oral presentations of best abstracts.
• Problem Based Learning Discussions (PBLDs) and Round Table Discussions (RTDs).
• The Arthur Keats Lecture: Pediatric Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome: Focus On Cardiac Manifestations by Jane Newburger, MD, MPH.
• First CCAS Lifetime Achievement Award presentation.
• Presentation of inaugural CCAS Dolly D. Hansen Research Award.
• And More!
Previous Newsletters:
Fall 2020
Summer 2020
Spring 2020
Winter 2020
Fall 2019
Summer 2019
Spring 2019
Winter 2019
Fall 2018
Summer 2018
Spring 2018
Winter 2018
Fall 2017
Summer 2017
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