Newsmaker Interview
Dr. Mick Connors
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Tennessee

Harvard Sedation Service Conference San Francisco

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4th International Multidisciplinary Conference on Pediatric Sedation

The Fourth International Multidisciplinary Conference on Pediatric Sedation will be held on June 7-10, 2009.  The meeting will take place at the first rate accommodations and conference facilities of the West Hotel in Philadelphia, PA and will be sponsored by the Society for Pediatric Sedation with CME provided by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. This meeting will include the first Pediatric Sedation Provider Course - including lectures and hands-on human patient simulation training.  As always, there will be a range of general lectures and breakout sessions - please save the date and plan to join us!!

Further information will soon be available at www.pedsedation.org.

Once again, we remind readers that the listserv for pediatric sedation issues is available to all and you can sign up through: http://mailman.listserve.com/listmanager/listinfo/pediatric_sedation.

Editors:
Joseph Cravero MD
George Blike MD

Departments of Anesthesiology
and Pediatrics,
Children’s Hospital
at Dartmouth,
Dartmouth Hitchcock
Medical Center,
Lebanon, NH

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