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MCHB-DBP Fellowship Training Annual Meeting
Created: Thursday, 15 December 2005

Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Fellowship Training
Annual Meeting: "Basic Science to Bedside DB Pediatrics"

March 22-24, 2007
Hosted by Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center
Omni Parker House Hotel
Boston, MA

Welcome to the official web site of the 2007 MCHB Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Fellowship Training Annual Meeting in Boston! This will be your resource for information on location, lodging, registration, and abstracts. Click on any of the items below for more information:

Dates

Thursday, March 22, 12 noon 

Registration at the Omni Parker House Hotel
Welcome
Keynote address
Fellow Presentations
Fellow and Faculty Meetings

 Friday, March 23, 7:30 am

Full day program including: Fellow Presentations and Program Presentations on Common Diagnostic Evaluation

Saturday, March 24, 8:00 am 

Half-day program
Workshops and presentation
Closing comments

Location & Lodging

Parker House Hotel
60 School St
Boston, MA 02108
(617) 227-8600

www.omnihotels.com
Google Map

CLICK HERE FOR TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION >>

The scheduled program will be held in the Omni Parker House.  Guest rooms will also be provided in the hotel (Please note:  you will make your hotel reservation through Boston University via this site- not with the hotel directly).

For places of interest in Boston and Cambridge, please visit:
http://boston.citysearch.com AND www.bostonusa.com

Registration & Hotel Reservation

The deadline for registration is February 15, 2007. Please email Margaret Lavoye at with questions on reservations.

The grant supports single occupancy for up to 2 faculty from each program, and shared rooms for fellows. Fellows who do not provide the name of a room-mate will be assigned room-mates. If more than 2 faculty will be attending from your program, rooms may be shared without any added cost to the individual or their program for the extra person.  Additional single rooms can also be arranged for fellows or faculty at a cost of $139 per night plus tax. 

Abstracts

Abstracts from fellows are due by February 15, 2007. Please register for the Annual Grantee Meeting first. You will then be asked to submit your Abstract electronically.

Please submit FINAL POWERPOINT presentations by March 15, 2007 to Margaret Lavoye at

For initial work in progress presentations, please plan to present for 5 minutes ( plus 10 minutes of discussion.)  For completed or nearly completed projects, please plan to present for 10 minutes (plus 5 minutes of discussion.)

Questions & Contact

If you have questions, please contact Margaret Lavoye at 617-414-3665
or via email at .


SDBP2006 Annual Meeting
Created: Wednesday, 05 July 2006

Join the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics (SDBP) for the 2006 Annual Meeting September 16-18, 2006 at the Doubletree Hotel in historic Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Click here to download a copy of the registration brochure (PDF)

The SDBP Annual Meeting is designed to provide a forum for pediatricians(researchers, teachers, and/or clinicians), pediatric psychologists, psychiatrist, social workers, nurses, public health, and other healthcare providers and researchers interested in developmental and behavioral pediatrics. 

A variety of educational formats are planned that will encourage the exchange of new scientific and clinical information and support the interchange of opinions regarding care and management issues relevant to developmental and behavioral pediatrics.  Scientific material will be presented through symposia, oral abstracts, poster presentations, and small group sessions designed for in-depth exploration of specific topics.

For more information regarding the meeting, online registration, and housing please visit www.sdbp.org

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Please let me know if you have questions regarding the SDBP Annual Meeting.  I can be reached directly at 856-642-4419 or at


Society for DBP Annual Fall Meeting
Created: Tuesday, 21 June 2005

The Society for Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics met for its annual meeting on September 24-26, 2005 at the Westin Horton Plaza, San Diego CA. Andrew N. Meltzoff, PhD delivered the Keynote Address, "The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn". His impressive presentation discussed a variety of phenomena regarding how children become members of the human community--their early abilities to imitate facial expressions, their sensitivity to the sounds of their native language, their success in learning object manipulation from television but their to learn language without human contact. Featured sessions included Dysmorphology by Kenneth Lyons Jones MD and The Death of a Child: What the Pediatrician Should Know by
Esther Wender, MD and William Coleman, MD.