Keeping Central Texas Children Well
Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas is pleased to offer an annual conference focused on the health and well-being of the children of Central Texas. Jointly sponsored by UTMB Austin Programs, Department of Pediatrics and the physician practices of the Strictly Pediatrics Subspecialty Center, the conference brings together diverse Central Texas healthcare professionals in the comfortable surroundings of the Pat Hayes Conference and Education Center to review current pediatric issues.
Highlights of 2008 conference:
- Inaugural Karen W. Teel, M.D. Lectureship:
“SIDS and Home Monitoring: Where Have We Been; We Are We Going?”
George Lister, M.D.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Pediatrics
Robert L. Moore Chair in Pediatrics
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Physician-In-Chief, Children’s Medical Center at Dallas - 19 Presentations and activities ranging on topics such as childhood asthma, obesity complications, preadolescent sports participation and injury, stabilization of common office medical emergencies, headaches/migraines, chronic abdominal pain, and MRSA infections
- 50 Conference faculty members including many pediatric subspecialists, pharmacists, social worker, physical therapists, nurse, and respiratory therapists
- Participant comments:
“An excellent pediatric conference—looking forward to next year’s conference”
“The facility is amazing.”
“Like the large number of specialists at this conference and the different topics”
