Tiny Baby Collaborative

Friday, April 25, 2025

7:00am – 10:00am HST

Location: Convention Center: 312

Chair(s)

Matthew Rysavy, MD, PhD (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor / Director of Learning Healthcare
McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, Texas, United States
Satoshi Kusuda, MD. PhD (he/him/his)

Director
Pediatrics
Neonatal Research Network of Japan
Taito, Tokyo, Japan

Disclosure(s):

Matthew Rysavy, MD, PhD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Satoshi Kusuda, MD. PhD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Session Description: Annual meeting of the Tiny Baby Collaborative at PAS (tinybabycollaborative.org). All are welcome, including members and others interested in on-going work to improve how we care for infants born ≤23 weeks' gestation and their families. Meeting includes scientific presentations, networking, and business items. Scientific focus areas for PAS 2025 include:
-- caring for neonatal skin at ≤23 weeks' gestation
-- optimizing parenteral nutrition during the first postnatal weeks
-- organizing a tiny baby program

Learning Objectives:

Identify practical strategies to care for rapidly changing neonatal skin at ≤23 weeks' gestation
Recognize differences in how parenteral nutrition might be optimally provided for infants ≤23 weeks' gestation
Describe potential approaches to organizing and implementing a tiny baby program

Presentations:

7:00am – 7:10am HST

Social and Food
7:10am – 7:25am HST

Welcome
7:25am – 7:40am HST

Tiny Baby Skin Management
Speaker: Vitaliya Boyar, MD (she/her/hers) – Hackensack Meridian Children's Health at K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital
7:40am – 7:55am HST

Building a Successful Tiny Baby Program
Speaker: Jennifer M. Walsh, MD (she/her/hers) – Royal Women's Hospital
7:55am – 8:10am HST

Parenteral Nutrition in Tiny Babies
Speaker: Ann L. Anderson-Berry, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Nebraska College of Medicine
8:10am – 8:20am HST

Presentation Highlights
8:20am – 8:50am HST

Small Groups
8:50am – 9:10am HST

Q&A
9:10am – 9:20am HST

Conclusion