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Events OverviewFriday, June 14Trade Show 07:30-19:30 -Metropolitan Ballroom Ctr & E

Poster Presentations andExhibits - Metropolitan Ballroom07:30-09:00 (with breakfast)11:30-13:00 (with lunch)

Royal College of Physiciansand Surgeons of CanadaLecture 09:00-10:00 - MetropolitanBallroom W - Dr. Heather Dean

Oral Abstracts & Top Papers10:30-11:30 - Harbour A&B, Pier 7&8

Poster Symposium13:00-14:00 - Metropolitan Ballroom W

Concurrent Sessions14:00-15:30 - Harbour A&B, Queen’s Quay• Retinopathy and prematurity• Parent-physician disagreement• Physical activity for all children

Paediatric Update16:00-18:00 - Metropolitan Ballroom W

President’s Reception18:00-19:30 - Metropolitan Ballroom Ctr & E

Community PaediatricsSection Awards Dinner18:00-19:30 - Pier 7&8 NEW LOCATION!

Active kids, safer kids

Inside This IssueOpening ceremonies and keynote . 1-2CME 2003 in Banff, Alberta ............. 2Attendance certificate, evaluation ... 2Healthy and active: crib to college... 3Room changes & media photos ........ 3Conference highlights Fri & Sat ....... 4Saturday BBQ shuttle bus ................ 4Sponsors for 2002 .......................... 4

CPS TodayFriday, June 14, 2002

Like a good film, play, or book, Thursday’s opening ceremonies were inspir-ing, funny, and sobering all at once. From lunatic acapella renderings of thetheme from The Love Boat to sad statistics on the prevalence of child abuseand neglect in Canada, it gave the audience things both to laugh about and tothink about.

The event began with “OCanada,” sung by grade 7and 8 students fromRyerson CommunitySchool. Then came theacapella group EQ, whoseself-deprecating humourand tight harmonies gaveeveryone a fine wake-up,readying them for Olympicbronze and silver medallistSilken Laumann, who gave the keynote speech. Her tall frame paced the stageas she told of a childhood dream to be a gymnast that was redirected intorowing—but surprisingly, even at age twelve, she wasn’t yet good at sports.

Laumann congratulated the CPS on this year’s theme of “healthy kids, active

The head table at the opening ceremonies (from left,Silken Laumann and Drs. Francoeur, Fortin, and Labbé).

Dr. Labbé accepts his award.

kids,” since she found her own intensivephysical and sporting activities to be not onlyhealthy, but also one of life’s key educationalexperiences.

“It’s an issue of quality of life,” she said, “andlearning to work in a team, gaining self confi-dence and self-esteem are all part of that too.Sport was my first opportunity to create dreamsfor my life.”

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Dr. Jack Holland (far right) with the other speakers at the opening ceremonies.

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Laumann, Fortin, Labbé continued from p. 1

REMINDER

Continuing Medical Educationemergency paediatrics • neurology •dermatology • adolescent medicine •

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Banff Springs Hotel,Alberta, Canada

February 5–8, 2003

If you take a plane to Toronto City Centre Airport, you’ll need a ferry boat to reach the city itself—but the ride is a quick one.

PLEASE NOTE

YOUR CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCEfor the 2002 Annual Meeting in Toronto is on

PAGE 25 of your Final Program. Don’t throw it out!and

YOUR CONFERENCE EVALUATION FORMis in your delegate package, within the speakers handout. Turn

it in at reception to enter our prize draw!

Visit the TradeShow and Win!See the puzzle card inside

your delegate bag orp. 59 of the Annual Meeting

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The Scientific Trade Show takesplace today only from 7:30 a.m.to 7:30 p.m. in the Metropolitan

Ballroom

Laumann described her most famouschallenge, when just weeks beforethe 1992 Barcelona Games, at whichshe was the favourite for gold, themuscles in one of her legs were slicedapart in a crash with another boat inGermany. Her determination torecover and compete astounded herfriends, family, physicians, andcompetitors—especially when shesucceeded.

“I came to Barcelona with a bandageand a cane,” she said. “Other athletesasked if I was doing colour commen-tary. I said, ‘No, I’m competing!’Then I shook my cane at them.” Shewon bronze, then silver four yearslater in Atlanta.

Kids need to be active, she said; thehealth implications of inactivity aretoo severe. “We’ll buy our kids anytoy, send them to the best school, doanything for them, giving them thebest of ourselves—so parents need toknow what a lack of physical activitydoes do their kids.”

Following Laumann’s speech, outgo-ing CPS president Dr. Jack Hollandintroduced Dr. Emmett Francoeur tobestow the first CPS AdvocacyAward jointly on “deux hommes

extraordinaire,” Drs. Gilles Fortin(above) and Jean Labbé of Ste-JustineHospital in Québec, for their workwith victims of childhood abuse andneglect.

Dr. Fortin accepted his award first,and presented sobering statisticsshowing that abuse and neglect aremore widespread paediatric prob-lems than much higher-profileconditions such as cancer, leukemia,diabetes, cystic fibrosis, epilepsy, andcongenital cardiac diseases. Morethan 130,000 children per year aresuspected victims of abuse or ne-glect, and half of them turn out tohave been victimized.

“Fully 1% of all Canadian childrenare, without a doubt, victims ofmaltreatment” each year, Dr. Fortinput it bluntly. He has dedicated hiscareer to reducing that number.

His colleague Dr. Labbé has done thesame, focusing on prevention byeducation of “familles en risque.” Inhis acceptance, he highlighted thesuccess of simple, inexpensiveprograms to educate parents aboutthe huge dangers of shaking a baby.

Silken Laumann knows that we don’tcontrol everything that can happento us. Drs. Fortin and Labbé haveshown how sadly true that also is forthe very youngest. The inspiration isthat all three of them have shownthat when we take control, we canaccomplish great things.

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PLEASE NOTE

Room ChangesFRIDAY, JUNE 14:

The Community PaediatricsSection Awards honouring Dr.Barrett Adams, held from 7:00 to9:00 p.m., is now in Piers 7 and 8.

SATURDAY, JUNE 16:

“Achieving cultural competencyin paediatric care,” Dr. GlennFlores’s workshop W6 on Satur-day at 9:00 a.m., has provenextremely popular. It has beenmoved to the larger HarbourSalon B.

We’ll note any further changes intomorrow’s final edition of CPS Today.

Healthy and active from cribto college

Yonge Street, where high fashion meets…er, low fashion.

CPS’s campaign against childhoodobesity appeared in a full-page featurein yesterday’s National Post, and on CTVnews with Dr. Claire LeBlanc, chair ofCPS’s Healthy Active Living Committee.

Drs. Jack Newman, Nancy Warden, and Debra Katzmananswer questions from the audience after the session.

Dr. Katzman discussesanorexia and bulimia.

Drs. Jack Newman, NancyWarden, and DebraKatzman are far fromshort on strong opinionsand deep convictions.Sometimes those opinionsseem at odds with oneanother, but their com-mon message is thatactivity and body massindex are important health consid-erations in caring for all ages—infants, children, and adolescents.

Dr. Newman made a case thatformula feeding ofinfants and children maylead to obesity in child-hood and later in life,largely because formulais such a poor substitutefor the greatly variablecomposition ofbreastmilk, and becauseformula-fed childrenconsume too much fromtheir very first days.

At the end of his talk, heshowed a brief video forpaediatricians to learn tohelp mothers latch theirbabies onto the breastproperly, and to determine when thebaby is receiving sufficient milk.

Dr. Warden, of the University ofCalifornia at Davis’s Pediatric WeightManagement clinic, also discussedobesity, noting that current researchsuggests that the risk for obesity isabout 60% environmental and 40%biologic. She identified a number ofthe key indicators of obesity risk inchildren, and explained a number ofphysiological factors related to it,including the seven obesity genes

that have so far been identified andcloned. She noted that children whoare obese face increased health risksin adulthood—often even if they arenot obese when they grow up.

She therefore argued thatidentifying children atrisk of obesity is criticallyimportant, before theybecome obese. She thendescribed some of thetreatments she recom-mends for differentcategories of overweightand obese children.

Dr. Katzman talked aboutchildren, adolescents,and young adults witheating disorders such asanorexia nervosa andbulimia nervosa. She

identified both biologic and environ-mental factors for the emergence ofeating disorders, and described theoften long and arduous treatmentprocesses required. Again, eatingdisorders have long-term healthconsequences, even after a fullrecovery, including osteoporosis,retarded growth, and possibly evencognitive impairment.

Both obesity and eating disorders,said the panelists, have seriousrepercussions for both physical andmental health.

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Conference highlights forFriday and SaturdayToday is the busiest day of theconference by far, and the weatherwill cooperate by making us want tostay indoors: showers developing,with possible thunderstorms bySaturday. The scientific trade showkicks off the morning in the Metro-politan Ballroom (top floor of theConference Centre, north across thewalkway from the hotel) with break-fast among the posters and exhibits.(Lunch is also available there at 11:30a.m.)

At 9:00, Dr. Heather Dean gives theRoyal College of Physicians andSurgeons of Canada lecture nextdoor, on type 2 diabetes in youth andsecondary diabetes due to drugs andchronic disease. Then we have oralabstracts, abstracts, and more ab-stracts through the morning, fol-lowed by posters, posters, and moreposters at 1:00 p.m.

Toronto’s foggy skyline, along with rain and thunder, comes again for the weekend.

Acapella vocal group EQ andoutgoing CPS president Dr.Jack Holland at the openingceremonies on Thursdaymorning.

BBQ at the DocksSaturday, June 15, 6:00–10:30 p.m.

games • prizes • entertainment • great food • covered patioall ages • tickets $50 (kids $25) at registration desk

SHUTTLE LEAVES WESTIN HARBOUR CASTLEMAIN LOBBY AT 5:45 P.M. rain or shine!

A highlight of the afternoon con-current sessions is one on identify-ing and treating retinopathy inchildren born prematurely, featur-ing Sara Hillis, Dr. Dale Phelps,and Susan Wolak. Simultaneously,other groups discuss parent-physician disagreements and(continuing our theme this year)physical activity for children.

The Paediatric Update this yearstarts at 4:00 p.m., and covers therisks of maternal drug and alcoholabuse on fetuses, hearing testingfor newborns, the effectiveness ofpneumococcal conjugate vaccine,investigations for minor headinjury, and bioterrorism.

The President’s Reception comesat 6:00, followed by the Commu-nity Paediatrics Section AwardsDinner, honouring Dr. BarrettAdams. Please notice that it hasmoved to a new room, Pier 7/8.

Remember that CPS shirts are on sale at thebooth, while tickets for Saturday’s barbecue areavailable across the carpet at the registrationdesk.

Despite the coming rain, Saturday night's BBQ atthe Docks is undercover, and so happens rain orshine. The shuttle bus will be at the hotellobby at 5:45 p.m. It will be a good way towind down after a full Saturday of work-shops, which we’ll talk about here tomorrow.