2011 Residents and Fellows Section Agenda

September 24, 2011

Breakfast Served from 7 to 8:30 in the foyer

8:45 am – 11:30 am: Sugar Land Ballroom 3
1:30 – 5:00 pm Sugar Land Ballroom 4

Facilitator: Travis Crook, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Program will be Updated throughout the Summer.

TPS Residents and Fellows can attend the annual meeting FREE! BUT you must register! The program will be designed especially to meet your interests. Resident/Fellow Poster contest winners will present their poster. Your registration includes a ticket to the Awards Luncheon and all receptions, the exhibits hall and all CME programs. For more information, contact: Crystal Healey, Membership Services Manager or 512-370-1517

8:45 – 9:15

Welcome and Introductions
9:15 – 9:45

Importance of Pediatric Organization Membership

TPS President, James Lukefahr, MD and President Elect, Stephen Whitney, MD, MBA
9:45 – 10:30

Global Health talk

Mark Kline, MD, TBA
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:30 Pediatric Practice Choices Panel
11:30 – 1:30

Awards Luncheon with TPS Membership

Sugar Land Ballroom 6
1:30 - 2:30 2nd Annual Jeopardy Game Show
2:30 - 3:30

Advocacy Session

Ryan Van Ramshorst, MD and Dr. Juan Parra of San Antonio
3:30 - 3:45 Break (would be with the rest of meeting attendees in the foyer)
3:45 - 4:30 TPS Resident/Fellow Electronic Poster Contest 2011 Presentations who choose to attend/present- winners are at www.txpeds.org/residents-section.
• First Place Residents (max 8 minutes each)
• First Place Fellows ( max 8 minutes each)
• Honorable Mention Residents (max 5 minutes each)
• Honorable Mention Residents (max 5 minutes each) 
(this may be shorter depending on how many winners can attend)
4:30 - 5:00

Tentative: State/government funding, to sex trafficking and how to be aware, to underserved populations, TB

Jeffery Stark, MD of Houston