PALISI April 2025 Newsletter
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In this issue:
Wrap Up PALISI Spring 2025 Meeting
Save The Dates – Fall 2025 and Fall 2026 PALISI meetings (Spring 2026 Coming Soon)
CDC Pediatric Influenza-Associated Encephalopathy/Encephalitis Surveillance
Membership Management on Morweb – Clearing Site Credit Histories
PALISI Social Media Expansion – Join the Team
General PALISI communication information
PALISI Spring 2025 Wrap Up
Thank you for participating our PALISI Spring 2025 meeting at Santa Fe, New Mexico. We had great presentations and discussions covering all of the pediatric critical care arena. Keynote presentations on human factors triggered many research ideas and clinical practice changes. We had a well-attended Clinical Research Course followed by superb presentations by two distinct junior investigators (Drs. Megan McSherry and Viktorya Tannenbaum)! Congratulations on Dr. Simon Li’s contribution to clinical research course over the years.
If you have not completed meeting survey and CME (both are together) – please click the following link:
or scan the following. Please complete by April 18, 2025
Save the Dates – Fall 2025 and Fall 2026 PALISI meetings (Spring 2026 coming soon!)
The PALISI Executive Committee and Venues Subcommittee have been working hard to plan our biannual meetings farther ahead to facilitate your schedules. The Fall 2025 meeting will be hosted in Montreal, Canada at the Omni Hotel Mont Royal September 8-11, 2025. The Fall 2026 meeting will be held in Minneapolis, MN at The Marquette Minneapolis September 9-12, 2026.Â
We are working to finalize the Spring 2026 meeting and will post as soon as confirmed.
CDC Pediatric Influenza-Associated Encephalopathy/Encephalitis Surveillance
The Section on Critical Care SOCC of the American Academy of Pediatrics has shared this information on CDC surveillance of Pediatric Influenza-Associated Encephalopathy/Encephalitis We thought it might be of interest to those doing research in this area.
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Please note, this is NOT part of the PICFlu initiative.
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The CDC has just opened an investigation into reports of pediatric influenza-associated encephalopathy and encephalitis, including acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE). This is public health surveillance. Please report your cases to the CDC even if you have reported the cases to your local public health department. Feel free to share the information below broadly across pediatric ID, neurology and critical care networks.Â
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Subject:Â Important: Call for Cases: Pediatric Influenza-Associated Encephalopathy - October 1, 2024 to Present
Check Epi-X for an Important Report
Call for Cases: Pediatric Influenza-Associated Encephalopathy - October 1, 2024 to Present
CDC is investigating reports of pediatric influenza-associated encephalopathy and encephalitis (IAE), including acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE). Contact CDC at severeflu@cdc.gov providing your contact information if you are aware of a case of IAE in a child <18 years of age. Do NOT include any of the HIPPA identifiers in the communication.
Membership Management on Morweb – Clearing Site Credit Histories
As the last PALISI meeting in academic year 2025 has now come to a close, and the year itself only has a few more months in it, we are currently in planning for the start of AY2026. At that time each site’s history in Morweb will be cleared, and all site credits will be reset to zero for the new year AY26. We will, of course, retain all records for prior years even though they will no longer be visible on Morweb. Although the newly purchased credits won’t be able to be used until the September meeting, we will open the ability to purchase AY2026 site credits as of June 1, 2025. This way, those of you with available department/divison funds from AY2025 can spend them on credits for AY2026.
If you have any questions about PALISI financial processes, please don’t hesitate to email admin@palisi.org. We will still be in touch about prior unpaid invoices from AY2025, so please do your best to help us get those paid as soon as possible.
PALISI Social Media Expansion – Join the Team
PALISI is now on both Bluesky and X. We are seeking a few PALISI members to assist in managing these accounts. If you are interested, please contact Ann-Marie Brown at ann-marie.brown@emory.edu
General PALISI Communication Reminders
Don’t forget to follow us on X/(formerly Twitter) @PALISINet and Bluesky PALISInet.bsky.social
Do you have any information that you would like to share in the monthly digest? Make sure to submit it to Ann-Marie Brown by the 1st day of the month at https://www.palisi.org/communications . (Direct Email:
ann-marie.brown@emory.edu). This is also the place for questions for the Executive Committee or administrative team anytime!