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TipSheet: Pediatric Experts to Present New Research and Discuss Advances in Care for Premature Infants and Children

During Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting April 21-25, Cedars-Sinai Physicians Are Available to Explain Advances in Neonatal Nutrition, Pediatric Kidney Transplantation and More

Cedars-Sinai physicians will be presenting in person new research and participating in panel discussions during the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in Denver April 21-25.

Kurlen Payton, MD, interim director of the Cedars-Sinai Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and co-director of Quality Improvement Collaboratives for the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative (CPQCC), will be giving a platform presentation describing results and lessons from a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) quality improvement collaborative with 22 participating NICUs. The presentation focuses on improving nutrition and outcomes in the smallest preterm infants and takes place on Saturday, April 23, at 10:15 a.m. MDT.

Dechu Puliyanda, MD, director, Pediatric Nephrology, will be discussing the role of donor-specific antibodies in organ rejection during the Pediatric Nephrology and Transplant Symposium on Saturday, April 23, at 1:40 p.m. MDT.

Cedars-Sinai is world renowned for developing anti-rejection treatments and for performing successful transplants in immunological-challenged, highly sensitized adult and pediatric patients.

For more information and to schedule interviews, contact Soshea Leibler Soshea.leibler@cshs.org 213-215 8000 or Sally Stewart sally.stewart@cshs.org 310-729-4369. 

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Read more on the Cedars-Sinai Blog: Demystifying the NICU