PAS Adolescent Health SIG

Saturday, April 29, 2023

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET

Location: Convention Center: 144 ABC

CE: Live CME: 1.50

SIG Chair(s)

Richard Chung, MD (he/him/his)

Professor of Pediatrics
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Oriaku Kas-Osoka, MD, MEd (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
University of Arkansas Medical Sciences
North Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Disclosure(s):

Richard J. Chung, MD: Ambetter of North Carolina (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Advisory Committee)

Oriaku Kas-Osoka, MD, MEd: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Session

Description: Adolescent Health: Prevention & Protection The adolescent health SIG will provide a forum for interdisciplinary discussion of key issues and trends in adolescent health research. The session will feature comments from the President of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) on the state of adolescent health research and SAHM’s wide-ranging efforts to cultivate high quality investigation of adolescent health issues. This will be followed by two lightning talks on key research areas in adolescent health and medicine, showcasing the rapidly evolving domains of inquiry within adolescent health and forecasting future directions. Dr. Errol Fields will discuss racial HIV/STI disparities impacting sexual and gender diverse youth, and Dr. Elise Berlan will discuss opportunities to meet the contraceptive needs of youth across diverse settings. Finally, the group will share ideas on how to cultivate engagement of the interdisciplinary adolescent health investigators and advocates at PAS to maximize connectivity and collaboration.

Learning Objectives:

Describe the impacts of societal policies, structural racism, and divisive discourse on the framing and pursuit of scientific inquiry in adolescent health.
Identify key opportunities to address racial HIV/STI disparities impacting sexual and gender diverse youth.
Delineate critical challenges in adolescent sexual and reproductive health care and research within the current U.S. policy context.

Presentations:

2:00 PM – 2:20 PM ET

Remarks from the President of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
SIG Speaker: Manuel Ángel Oscós-Sánchez, MD – The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
2:20 PM – 2:40 PM ET

Mind the gap: Addressing racial HIV/STI disparities impacting sexual and gender diverse youth
SIG Speaker: Errol L. Fields, MD, PhD, MPH (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
2:40 PM – 3:00 PM ET

“You got birth control where?”: Responding to adolescents' unmet contraceptive needs in diverse care settings
SIG Speaker: Elise Berlan, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Nationwide Children's Hospital