What's New

January 22, 2021

Dear Members of the Academy,

On behalf of the Board of Directors for AAPdN, I wish you a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year! As the new year starts, please be certain to calendar yourself to attend our annual conference, April 22-25, 2021. The conference will be a video conference, like the one all of you (400+ attendees) enjoyed.

As your Board, we look forward to serving our vibrant and growing community of pediatric neuropsychologists. If you are not already a member, please do consider joining us. Your membership provides you with our journal, discount to our conference, as well as joining the community of members nation-wide. For those inclined to do so, we heartily encourage you to consider the Board Certification process. To our members we remind you to renew your dues if you haven’t already done so.

I’ve mentioned the Board several times and realized many of you may not know the configuration of Board Members serving you.

Two Board members merit signaling out for extraordinary service to the Academy. Now serving as Immediate Past-President is Grace Mucci, Ph.D. and President-Elect Patricia Mittelstadt, Ph.D. Drs. Mucci and Mittelstadt provided an abundance of time and commitment to AAPdN over the last two years. As a result, we are well organized, up to date on those dreaded taxes, and current with budget and accounts. Dr. Mucci and her team have updated membership functions to make joining AAPdN a smooth process. And, we have a video-conference team to keep the conference flowing seamlessly.

Much thanks to Drs. Mucci and Mittelstadt.

Please keep healthy, wear the mask, and vaccinate when you can.

Bob

President, American Academy of Pediatric Neuropsychology

2021 7th Annual Conference of the

American Academy of Pediatric Neuropsychology

Current Conference Information

On behalf of the AAPdN Conference Committee and the Board of Directors, we hope you will join us again as we bring our annual conference to you via Zoom! Last year’s conference was a resounding success and we look forward to another great conference with offering up to 26 CEs!

Here are the speakers and the schedule for the conference:

Felice Adler, MD & Anjalee Galion, MD -- COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases in Children

Erin Bigler, PhD -- Structural and Functional Neuroimaging Applications of Network Neuroscience for Pediatric Neuropsychology

Theodore Wasserman, PhD & Lori Wasserman, PhD -- Children Motivation and Effort.

Sally Shaywitz, MD -- Understanding Dyslexia: Diagnosis, Research, and Intervention

Paul Beljan, PsyD; Peter Dodzik, PsyD; and Amy Morse, PhD -- Strategies for Remote Management of Child Behavior, Emotions, and Learning

Joseph Sesta, PhD, MP -- Advances in Pediatric Psychopharmacology

Stephanie Nelson, PhD -- Advanced Report Writing

Anjalee Galion, MD; Felice Adler, MD; Jon Bos, PhD; and Grace Mucci, PhD -- Pediatric Grand Rounds: Infectious Diseases

Larry Cohen, JD, PhD -- Pediatric Neuropsychology: Ethical Considerations

Steve Hughes, PhD -- Understanding the Bayesian Brain: Why Pediatric Neuropsychologists Should Stop Chasing Test Scores

POSTERS

A huge thank you to the following individuals who make the virtual poster session possible.

• Arthur Mac Horton, PhD, Chair
• Alyson Aviv, PhD, Judge
• Paul Beljan, PsyD, Judge
• Wilma Rosen, PhD, Judge
• Peter Dodzik, PhD, Technical Editor

We will again have Len Koziol Student Poster Awards for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place posters, sponsored by Springer.

We want to thank you in advance for joining us in this wonderful line up of speakers and topics and hope you enjoy the conference.

Please use this link to register for the 2021 conference.

If you are currently a member of the Academy, thank you for your continued support. If you would like to join the Academy, which includes free access to the Journal of Pediatric Neuropsychology and a discount on the conference rate, please consider joining by clicking here. Thank you and enjoy the Fall season and holiday, but most of all, stay well and be safe.