Awards & Honors Committee
The Awards and Honors Committee comprises two subcommittees:
- The Awards Subcommittee is charged with the review and selection of applicants for the Research Fellow Awards (RFS) and the Clinical Scholar Awards (CSA). This subcommittee consists of the current President, President-Elect, the past 5 Presidents, and the Chair of the Research Affairs Committee (or a designee).
- The Honors and Lectures Subcommittee is charged with the nomination, review, and selection of appropriate individuals for various lectures and awards other than RFAs and CSAs available to Society members. This subcommittee consists of the current President, President-Elect, the past 5 Presidents, the Chair of the History Committee, and other PES members appointed by the President.
The Immediate Past President of the Society will serve as Chair of the overall Awards and Honors Committee and Chair of the Awards Subcommittee. The Chair of the Honors and Lectures Subcommittee will be appointed by the President.
- Tom Carpenter BOD Liaison
- Walter L. Miller Chair
Drugs & Therapeutics Committee
Charged with keeping the Society informed on topics about both new and existing drugs and devices. To review problems related to the therapeutics of Pediatric Endocrine disorders and report to the Board of Directors and the greater membership of PES.
- Laurie Cohen BOD Liaison
- Emily Breidbart Chair
- Sowmya Krishnan Chair
New Meds and Tech from the PES Drugs and Therapeutics Committee: Twiist Insulin Pump
New Device Announcement. The twiist™ Automated Insulin Delivery (AID) system has received clearance from FDA 510(k), although the launch date is unclear. This insulin pump has been developed and produced…
New Meds and Tech from the PES Drugs and Therapeutics committee: Generic Victoza®
Generic Victoza® Teva pharmaceuticals launched a generic version of Victoza® (liraglutide injection 1.8mg ) The generic will cost $469.60 for a pack of two pens and $704.40 for a pack…
Recall on a Small Subset of FreeStyle Libre 3 Sensors
There has been a recall on a small subset of FreeStyle Libre 3 sensors in the U.S. Patients can go to the website http://www.freestyleconfirm.com to get information as to whether…
Education Committee
Charged with the conception, organization, and execution of educational opportunities including Board Review courses, Clinical Updates, Spring Fellows’ Retreats, and other educational materials for patients/families, practitioners, pediatric fellows, pediatric residents, and medical students. The Education Committee will liaise with the Diabetes SIG and the Transgender SIG.
- Selma Witchel BOD Liaison
- Kathleen Bethin Chair
- Elizabeth Rosolowsky Co-Chair
EDI Committee
Mission Statement:
Our mission is to affirm the ideology of the PES as a scientific community that fosters inclusion, acceptance, and support for every person independent of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or religion. Towards this end, our focus is to:
- Recognize implicit and explicit bias in healthcare in Pediatric Endocrinology, and address related healthcare disparities that affect our patients and families, through research, quality improvement, health delivery science, education, and outreach efforts.
- Foster equity and diversity and provide an environment of equality and mentorship for all trainees, fellows, and faculty in Pediatric Endocrinology.
Goals:
Our task force goals for the coming year are to increase awareness in our society’s membership of implicit and explicit bias in medicine in general and Pediatric Endocrinology specifically, and the contribution of said biases to health care disparities as well as to career development of minority physicians. We also aim to start to amass resources to help us address and ameliorate these biases and resulting disparities. We will contribute regularly to the newsletter, develop a needs assessment survey of our society, and will plan to offer periodic education for the PES membership.
- Takara Stanley BOD Liaison
- Ambika Ashraf Co-Chair
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Ilene Fennoy Co-Chair
History Committee
To collect, validate, collate and archive information, documents, photographic and graphic materials relevant to the history of PES and to make such materials available to the members and to generate periodically publications relevant to the history of PES and its members.
- Paul Thornton BOD Liaison
- Alan D. Rogol Chair
International Relations Committee
Charged with the development of international collaboration and interaction of PES with other societies/organizations to globally benefit children with endocrine conditions—with special focus on collaborations that may help to improve care in resource-constrained environments.
- Mark Palmert BOD Liaison
- Jadranka Popovic Chair
Membership Committee
Charged with accepting and reviewing all applications for membership to the Society. A recent strategic objective of this committee is to encourage and increase fellow involvement in the Society.
- Erica Eugster BOD Liaison
- Lindsey Waldman Chair
MOC and QI Committee
Charged with overseeing the quality improvement activities of PES and facilitating mechanisms for MOC credit to allow PES members to achieve recertification by the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatric Endocrinology.
- Selma Witchel BOD Liaison
- Justin A. Indyk Chair
NIH Committee
- Tom Carpenter BOD Liaison
- David Breault Chair
Nominating Committee
Charged with coordinating, reviewing, and arranging ballots for election of new members to the PES Board of Directors.
- Tom Carpenter BOD Liaison
- Kanthi Bangalore Krishna Chair
Practice Management Committee
Charged with providing members of PES with tools and information to facilitate the practice of pediatric endocrinology. The focus is to promote multidisciplinary practice models, develop educational materials for Endocrinology providers, develop CME curricula, and develop position statements on key issues in pediatric endocrinology. If you have ideas for future topics you’d like to see the PMC address, please click here.
- Laurie Cohen BOD Liaison
- David Sparling Chair
Practice Management Committee Pearls
The Practice Management Committee is tasked with the responsibility of providing strategies, tools and information needed to facilitate the office management and practice of pediatric endocrinology. To this end, we…
Program Committee
Charged with organizing the scientific program of the now freestanding annual meeting of PES. Additional tasks include participation in abstract review, organization of Scientific Symposia, Meet-the-Professor sessions, Plenaries, Clinical Practice Sessions, the Year-in-Review program, and Satellite Symposia, along with selecting the Leona Cutler and Human Growth Foundation Best Poster Awards.
- Andrew Dauber BOD Liaison
- Molly Regelmann Co-chair
- Roopa Kanakatti Shankar Co-chair
Public Policy Committee
Charged with identification of political and policy issues that impact the care of children with pediatric endocrine conditions and the licensure of competent pediatric endocrinologists. To develop a rapid response team to deal with critical political and policy issues that affect children with pediatric endocrine and metabolic conditions. Also assist other councils and committees with policy issues should they arise.
- Takara Stanley BOD Liaison
- Swati Elchuri Chair
Publications Committee
The Publications Committee is charged to provide oversight into the society’s journal, Hormone Research in Paediatrics (HRP), which includes nominations for associate editors and editorial board members, assessing data related to the number of publications submitted by and accepted from PES members, and identification of key papers from HRP (and other journals) that will have an impact on the practice of pediatric endocrinology to share on the PES website on a quarterly basis.
- Erica Eugster BOD Liaison
- Colin Hawkes Chair
Research Affairs Committee
Charged with facilitating the research endeavors of PES members and prioritizing the research goals of PES. This council will formulate policies for research grant support, develop national/regional research advisor programs, and establish collaborative relationships with international pediatric research groups.
- Takara Stanley BOD Liaison
- Steven Mittelman Chair
Training Committee
Charged with providing information on regulatory issues that impact the training and certification of fellows. This council will work with other committees to develop a research advisor program, develop milestones, increase fellow participation in PES, organize educational activities, and improve communication.
- Takara Stanley BOARD LIAISON
- Lisa Swartz Topor CHAIR
Website & Social Media Committee
The Website Committee is charged to review website function and utilization, to coordinate with SIGs and other committees regarding sharing of content and updates to appear on the website, and to optimize use of multiple social media platforms for societal communication.
- Andrew Dauber BOD Liaison
- Priyanka Bakhtiani Chair