2025 Annual Meeting Agenda

APGNN Program November 7th-8th, 2025  

Friday, November 7th 

7:30-8:00am: Breakfast & Welcome

8:00-9:15am: Session I - Keynote Speaker & APGNN Year in Review

8:00-9:00am: Keynote: Addressing Moral Distress and how Policy Reform is impacting Pediatric Medicine 
leading to Second Victim Phenomenon  

      Dr. Paquette - Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago 

9:00-9:15am: APGNN Year in Review

      Kerry Reed, MS, RN, CPNP-PC, APGNN President 

9:15-9:30am: Committee Meetings & Break 

9:30-11:00am: Session II - Intestinal Rehab-The Long and the Short of Guts 

9:30-10:00am: Preparing Intestinal Failure Patients for Discharge using Simulation 

      Jenn McClelland, BSN, MS, RN, FNP-BC- Boston Children’s Hospital  

10:00-10:30am: Intestinal Rehab: Triage-labs, CVC issues, Fever  

       Abigail Cropp, BSN, RN - Children’s Hospital Colorado  

10:30-11:00am: What’s in the Bag? Writing Safe TPN 

       Flori Brioni, MS, RD - Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago 

11:00-12:00pm: Session III - The 101 on an APP Run Service

11:00-11:30am: Creating an APP Run Feeding Service  

       Jessica Owens, MSN, CPNP-PC - UNC Medical Center Chapel Hill

11:30-12:00pm: Building an APP Run Consult and Primary Service 

      Jody Mackling, MSN, CPNP - UTSW/Children’s Health 

12:00-1:30pm: Lunch & Poster Session 

1:30-3:00pm: Session IV - Hot Topics 

1:30-2:00pm: Living Donor Liver Transplant  

       Dr. Amy Feldman - Children’s Hospital Colorado 

2:00-2:30pm: Case of the Zebras! 

       Suzanne Fortuna - Metro Health Ohio 

2:30-3:00pm: Food Additives, Natural Flavors, BPA, Seed Oils, Oh my! 

       Venus Kalami - Stanford Medicine 

3:00-3:30pm: APGNN Awards & Presentations - with snacks provided by APGNN

• Patient and Professional Education Award
• Poster of Distinction 
• Susan Moyer Research Grant 
  • Announcing current year's winner 
  • Grant update from 2024 prior winner

3:30-5:00pm: Session V - Updates in IBD

3:30-4:00pm: New Kids on the Block-Updates in IBD Medications for Providers & RNs 

       Dr. Brent Polk - Rady Children’s San Diego

4:00-4:30pm: Am I Inflamed or just Irritable? Is it IBS or IBD? 

       Emmala Ryan Waduge, FNP-C - Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital  

4:30-5:00pm:  A Simple Headache or a Sign of a Bigger Problem? VTE Risk and Prevention in IBD  

       Dr. Kim Chien - Weill Cornell Medicine New York  

5:00-5:30pm:  Growing Pains - Transitioning your IBD Patient to Adult Care 

       Maureen Kelly, PNP - UNC Medical Center Chapel Hill 

6:00pm: APGNN Social Event 

Saturday, November 8th - With concurrent NASPGHAN Sessions in the afternoon

8:00-8:30am: Communal Breakfast & Welcome

8:30-10:00am: Session V - Gastroenterology Procedures 

8:30-9:00am: Optimizing Anorectal Manometry Studies - Preparing the Patient 

       Carly Mondillo, RN & Kristen Beck, RN - Cincinnati Children’s  

9:00-9:30am: Enhanced Procedural Bowel Prep   

9:30-10:00am: Abdominal US for IBD + Celiac  

       Dr. Michael Dolinger - Mount Sinai Health System 

10:00-10:30am: Break 

10:30am-12:00pm: Session VI - Reflux - Follow the Pathway 

10:30-11:00am: Diagnostic Options in Evaluating GERD  

       Alejandro Llanos Chea, MD - UT Southwestern 

11:00-11:30am: Management of GERD  

       Seema Khan, MD - Stanford Medicine 

11:30am-12:00pm: Reflux Hypersensitivity and Utilizing Neuromodulation  

       Shaunte McKay, MD - Children’s Health Care Atlanta  

Joint APGNN/NASPGHAN Sessions after lunch 

12:00-2:00pm: Lunch & Poster Session 

2:00-6:00pm: Session VIII- APGNN/NASPGHAN Concurrent Sessions 

7:00-10:00pm: NASPGHAN/APGNN/CPNP Social Event 

**Titles subject to change based on speaker input