Creating and Capturing Critical Metrics of Successful Scholarship in Training the Pediatrician-scientist Workforce

Sunday, April 27, 2025

7:00am – 8:30am HST

Location: Convention Center: 323

CE: 1.5

Selected By: SPR

Leader(s)

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Daniel Moore, MD, PhD

Associate Professor
Vanderbilt Uninversity Medical Center, Tennessee, United States

Co-Leader(s)

Audrea Burns, PhD

Associate Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
Andrew Nowalk, MD PhD (he/him/his)

Associate Professor
UPMC Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Katherine Bline, MD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Candace Gildner, MD, PhD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
Golisano Children's Hospital at The University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, New York, United States
Emma Mohr, MD, PhD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
Pediatrics
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
MADISON, Wisconsin, United States
Caroline Rassbach, MD, MA Ed

Clinical Professor
Pediatrics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, California, United States
Brian Varisco, MD

Professor of Pediatrics, Vice Chair of Research, Director of Laboratory Research
Arkansas Children's Hospital
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
E. Vincent Faustino, MD, MHS (he/him/his)

Professor of Pediatrics (Critical Care)
Yale School of Medicine, United States
Danielle Callaway, MD, PhD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas, United States
Weston Powell, MD PhD

Acting Assistant Professor
Seattle Children's Research Institute
Seattle, Washington, United States
Jennifer Sequoia, MD PhD (she/her/hers)

Neonatology Fellow
Stanford University
Portola Valley, California, United States
PA

Puja Agrawal, MD PhD

Resident Physician
Stanford University
Menlo Park, California, United States

Disclosure(s):

Daniel J. Moore, MD, PhD: Metaphore (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Ownership Interest including individual stocks, stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds)

Audrea Burns, PhD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Andrew J. Nowalk, MD PhD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Katherine Bline, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

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

Emma L. Mohr, MD, PhD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Caroline Rassbach, MD, MA Ed: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Brian Michael Varisco, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

E. Vincent Faustino, MD, MHS: Dexcom (Terminated, November 30, 2022) (Products/Services: Advisory Committee); Diagnostica Stago (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Research Support including clinical trials & the principal or named investigator); Grifols Shared Services of North America (Terminated, January 23, 2024) (Products/Services: Research Support including clinical trials & the principal or named investigator)

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

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

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

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

Workshop Description: This workshop will advance creation of critical metrics to understand and shape the future of the pediatric scientific workforce. The mechanisms by which pediatricians are trained in scholarship including the institutional resources applied, the individual training experience, and the short and long-term outcomes have not been uniformly defined. The lack of uniform data complicates development of initiatives and policies to enhance the pediatric scientific workforce, such as those deriving from the report the National Academies and being developed by the current Pediatric Workforce Initiative led by AMSPDC. The NPSCW (National Pediatrician Scientist Collaborative Workgroup), a group of over 30 pediatric physician-scientist training programs, and AMSPDC have partnered to define key metrics that should be captured to propel development of the pediatrician-scientist workforce. Previous efforts by NPSCW at PAS have defined the future needs for pediatrician-scientist trainees and the curriculum goals to meet these needs. This workshop will build on these efforts to foster community-wide discussion of metrics that should arise to define successful scholarship development. In this workshop we will explore the value of currently used metrics (e.g., publications, presentations, grants, promotions), identify new metrics that derive from NPSCW’s exploration of future needs for pediatrician-scientists (PAS 2022-2024; Burns et al, Pediatrics 2024), and engage the community to articulate novel measures that capture the unique pathways of scientific development across program sizes and specialties. These concepts will be focused through rigorous discussion into concrete measures that can be adapted by local and national bodies to describe and enhance pediatrician-scientist development.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion, participants will be able to relate current practices for assessing scientific development in pediatrics as compared to other disciplines such as medicine and surgery.
Upon completion, participants will be able to identify individual metrics to assess and improve pediatric scientific workforce development
Upon completion, participants will be able to define institutional/national metrics to assess pediatric scientific workforce development and outcomes.