Little People, Big Problems

The Lurie Children’s Center for Transport Medicine presents, “Little People, Big Problems” Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Care Conference 

The goal of this conference is to offer healthcare providers the opportunity to learn more about pediatric and neonatal critical care topics and strengthen their knowledge and confidence when caring for these patients. All are welcome, but the intended audience includes nurses, advanced practice providers, respiratory therapists, EMS, and physicians who manage pediatric and neonatal critical care patients.

Continuing Education

This conference will provide Nurse Professional Continuing Development contact hours through the WNA, Respiratory Therapy contact hours through the AARC, and EMS contact hours through the IDPH. Contact hour amounts to be determined. 

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Wisconsin Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. 

Registration Information

• $120 Early Bird Rate - Available to first 100 registrants!
• $140 Standard Rate - Remaining available spaces 

With the registration fee, individuals will receive a T-shirt, continental breakfast, hot Italian lunch buffet, pretzel snack, canned beverages, contact hours handed out the day of the conference, and the opportunity to win a variety of raffled items.

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Refund Policy

If you need to request a refund, please contact us at LPBP@luriechildrens.org by Tuesday, September 15, 2026. 

Parking and Entrance

Free parking is available in the South Parking Lot. Please enter through the South Entrance. See map for further details.

Vendors

If interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at this conference, please email us at LPBP@luriechildrens.org.

Little People, Big Problems 2026 Agenda

7 a.m. - 7:30 a.m.
Registration & Continental Breakfast, Vendor Exhibits Open

7:30 a.m. - 7:45 a.m.
Welcome and Introductions

7:45 a.m. - 8:25 a.m.
Pediatric Shock with Ventilator Strategies on Transport - Joe Stock BSN, RN, CFRN, CCRN, CEN, PHRN, TNS

8:30 a.m. - 9 a.m.
Precipitous Delivery & Preterm Care - Shamik Trivedi, MD

9:05 a.m. - 9:25 a.m.
Transport Team Case Study: Ventilation Failure in an Asthmatic - Kristin Vela BS, RRT, RRT-NPS, C-NPT

9:25 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.
Break, Raffle, Vendor Exhibits  

9:40 a.m. - 10:25 a.m.
How to Mend a Broken Heart: Care of a neonate presenting with an undiagnosed cardiac defect - Erin Bressler MD  

10:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.  
Transport Team Case Study: DKA Management - Tracy Rojas MSN CCRN C-NPT NPD- BC

10:50 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.
Lunch, Raffle, Vendor Exhibits  

11:40 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
You Got a Pulse Back...Now What?: Post Arrest Management of a Pediatric Patient - Ali Austermuehle MD

12:15 p.m. - 1 p.m.
Bullets and Babies - Teri Campbell MSN, RN, CFRN, CEN, PHRN 

1:05 p.m. - 1:25 p.m.
Transport Team Case Study: Influenza Gone Wrong - Meg Chandarraju BSN, RN, CPN, C-NPT

1:25 p.m. - 1:40 p.m.
Pretzel Break, Raffle, Vendor Exhibits

1:40 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.
Altered Mental Status Differentials, Ingestion, & Mental Health in Pediatrics - Emily Roben MD, MS

2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Pick Your Poison: A Review of Pediatric Rapid Sequence Intubation Medications - Brad Dorng CRNA, APRN, DNP, C-NPT

3:20 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.
Transport Team Case Study and Parent Talk - Jennifer Fortson RN, C-NPT, CPEN, Sheila Nally BS, RRT-NPS, C-NPT  

3:50 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Professional Continuing Development Certificate Distribution, Closing Remarks, Raffle

Contact Us

For more information regarding the conference, please contact us at LPBP@luriechildrens.org.