Events Little People Big Problems
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.
Accommodations
The hotel block is open! You can reserve online at Tinley Park Hotel | EVEN Hotel Chicago or call the EVEN hotel at 708.444.1100 to make a reservation. The block code is: LCH. The cut-off date for the block is August 31 and the rate is $169.
Refund Policy
If you need to request a refund, please contact us at LPBP@luriechildrens.org by Tuesday, September 15, 2026.
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Parking and Entrance
Parking and EntranceFree 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.
Joe Stock, BSN, RN, CFRN, CCRN, CEN, PHRN, TNS
Pediatric Shock with Ventilator Strategies on Transport
8:30 a.m. - 9 a.m.
Shamik Trivedi, MD
Precipitous Delivery & Preterm Care
9:05 a.m. - 9:25 a.m.
Kristin Vela, BS, RRT, RRT-NPS, C-NPT
Transport Team Case Study: Ventilation Failure in an Asthmatic
9:25 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.
Break, Raffle, Vendor Exhibits
9:40 a.m. - 10:25 a.m.
Erin Bressler, MD
How to Mend a Broken Heart: Care of a neonate presenting with an undiagnosed cardiac defect
10:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
Meg Chandarraju, BSN, RN, CPN, C-NPT
Transport Team Case Study: Influenza Gone Wrong
10:50 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.
Lunch, Raffle, Vendor Exhibits
11:40 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
Ali Austermuehle, MD
You Got a Pulse Back...Now What?: Post Arrest Management of a Pediatric Patient
12:15 p.m. - 1 p.m.
Teri Campbell, MSN, RN, CFRN, CEN, PHRN
Babies and Bullets
1 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.
Pretzel Break, Raffle, Vendor Exhibits
1:25 p.m. - 2:25 p.m.
Emily Roben, MD, MS
Not at Baseline: Making Sense of Altered Mental Status
2:25 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Brad Dorng, CRNA, APRN, DNP, C-NP
Pick Your Poison: A Review of Pediatric Rapid Sequence Intubation Medications
3:05 p.m. - 3:35 p.m.
Jennifer Fortson, RN, C-NPT, CPEN, Sheila Nally, BS, RRT-NPS, C-NPT
Transport Team Case Study and Parent Talk
3:35 p.m. - 3:45 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.