PALISI Newsletter - October 2026
In This Issue
Meetings, Symposiums, and ConferenceS
Save The Date: Spring 2027 PALISI meeting
Meeting Dates: March 29 - April 2, 2027
Symposium Date: October 16th, 2026
Pedi-ECMO Upcoming Fall Virtual Meeting
Meeting Date: October 20, 2026
Career Opportunities
Applications Due: October 23, 2026
The Utah Data Coordinating Center is searching for a new director
Applications Due: November 11, 2026
PALISI APPROVED SURVEY
Additional Opportunities and Information
Reminders
Upcoming Meetings, Symposiums, and ConferenceS
Save the date! PALISI Spring 2027
More Information Regarding the Spring 2027 Meeting will be shared in the November newsletter.
Get the latest Information at https://www.palisi.org/springmeeting2027
Lemire-Zimmerman Northwest Symposium on Contemporary Critical Care Medicine: Blood-Related Challenges in Pediatric Critical Care
Please join us on Friday October 16th in the Seattle Children's Wright Auditorium from 7:30 am - 4 pm for the 2026 Lemire-Zimmerman Northwest Symposium on Pediatric Critical Care Medicine focusing on Blood-Related Challenges in Pediatric Critical Care!
This full-day, multi-disciplinary symposium will include lectures by local and visiting experts, offering diverse perspectives and a comprehensive scope. As in past years, the symposium will include content relevant to all who take care of critically ill children: Nurses, APPs, RTs, pharmacists, social workers, physicians, and others. The symposium will achieve the following objectives:
Ensure providers understand the latest clinical trials regarding restrictive vs. liberal transfusion strategies.
Help clinicians identify the specific physiological triggers that necessitate blood products.
Improve understanding of specialized products, and when they are strictly indicated.
Understand risk and benefits of medical and mechanical approaches to thrombosis and thromboembolism.
This symposium is offered at no cost to attendees, whether joining in person or virtually but please do register and indicate how you intend to join for event planning purposes. Continental breakfast and lunch are provided for in-person registered attendees. We look forward to seeing you on October 16!
For more information and to register go to: https://registration.socio.events/e/lemirezimmerman2026
Pedi-ECMO Upcoming fall Virtual meeting
The PediECMO Fall Virtual Meeting will occur on October 20 at noon EDT. The meeting will feature study updates, new study presentations, and a clinical panel discussion. Detailed agenda to follow. Please use https://pedi-ecmo.com/membership-and-diversity/ to sign up if you aren’t already a member.
Virtual Meeting Link: https://yale.zoom.us/j/93178194871
WFPICCS Congress in Melbourne, Australia
Thank you to all PALISI members who attended and participated in the WFPICCS Congress in Melbourne, Australia.
PALISI’s PROSpect trial preliminary results were presented there by Dr. Curley and will be published in Lancet shortly.
Career Opportunities
NICHD is seeking new Director for the Clinical Center Critical Care Medicine Department (CCMD) Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, invites outstanding Pediatric Intensivist Physicians to apply for the position of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Director in the Clinical Center Critical Care Medicine Department (CCMD). The NIH Clinical Center (CC) is the largest hospital in the world totally dedicated to clinical and translational research. The hospital maintains a 200-bed capacity supporting the intramural research programs of Institutes and Centers across the NIH. The hospital provides care to an extensive range of patients who are research participants with long-standing relationships with their research teams.
Applications must be submitted through USAJOBS: https://www.usajobs.gov/ to job announcement number NIH-GR-DH-27-13067959
Applications will be accepted from Wednesday, October 14, 2026 to Friday, October 23, 2026. Please include a cover letter outlining your interest in the position and your vision for the PICU. In your 2-page CV, include a brief description of your duties, prior appointments, and mentoring experience. For questions, please contact Jared Welsh at (301) 402-3017, jared.welsh@nih.gov, Harvey Parris at (301) 443-5758, harvey.parris@nih.gov, and Keith Bordelon at (301) 827-0665, keith.bordelon@nih.gov.
The Utah Data Coordinating Center is searching for a new director
The Director is a tenure-eligible faculty leader responsible for the overall scientific direction, strategic leadership, operational performance, financial stewardship, organizational development, and continued growth of the Utah Data Coordinating Center (DCC). The Director ensures that the DCC conducts high-quality, large-scale clinical and health research while maintaining rigorous standards for scientific quality, regulatory compliance, operational excellence, and service.
Reporting to the Executive Vice President for Health Sciences and Chief Executive Officer of University of Utah Health, the Director works closely with faculty investigators, institutional leaders, federal agencies, industry and philanthropic sponsors, research networks, regulatory agencies, and other external collaborators. Working with and through a talented and experienced team of faculty, staff and organizational leaders, the Director will create the conditions for continued excellence while ensuring that the DCC is positioned to respond effectively to emerging opportunities in clinical research.
Applications received by November 11, 2026, will receive first consideration. Candidates should submit a CV/resume and a cover letter describing their interest in the opportunity and how their leadership experience aligns with the role. All applications and nominations will be held in confidence.
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.
Palisi approved Survey
Trends in the practice patterns and perceptions of secondary hyperinflammatory disorders in the pediatric ICU
We invite PALISI members to participate in this approved survey studying trends in the practice patterns and perceptions of secondary hyperinflammatory disorders in the pediatric ICU. Please take a few moments to complete the survey by clicking the hyperlink below for additional information about the survey and participation:
Additional Opportunities
Dear Colleagues,
Nurses are present with critically ill children and families the most throughout a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission. However, interventions that leverage nurses’ positionality to optimize support for families during and following a PICU stay are lacking. This Special Issue therefore aims to advance the science and future implementation of nurse-led and nurse-involved interventions that focus on supporting child, family (e.g., parents, siblings, grandparents, chosen family, etc.) and nurse acute and long-term outcomes. To accomplish this goal, we seek original research papers, including quantitative and qualitative descriptive studies of novel roles for nurse-led/nurse-involved intervention opportunities, pilot and feasibility studies, clinical trials, protocol papers, implementation studies and innovative, family-driven (e.g., family representatives involved in intervention design) intervention development procedures. We welcome manuscripts that describe novel nurse-led and/or interprofessional team-based approaches to improve both acute and long-term outcomes such as delirium, language accessibility, early mobility, family-centered care, care experience, post-traumatic stress and more (list is illustrative, not exhaustive).
Dr. Elizabeth Broden Arciprete
Dr. Mallory A. Perry
Guest Editors
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reminders
Submit Final Draft Manuscripts to Scientific Steering Committee
Dear members,
We want to remind you that all draft manuscripts that are sourced from PALISI subgroups, projects, etc., MUST be submitted and reviewed by the Scientific Steering Committee prior to submission for publication.
You can submit your publication (or questions) to:
Muszynski, Jennifer jennifer.muszynski@nationwidechildrens.org
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