The 58th Annual PAPS Meeting 2025 is now accepting abstract submissions!
Abstract portal status
Educational objectives
The PAPS Annual Meeting is designed to provide comprehensive continuing education in the field of pediatric surgery. It is PAPS’s intent to bring the world’s leading authorities together with presentations and discussions of the most recent clinical and research efforts.
Our organization is focused on clinical pediatric surgery and the international, cross cultural sharing of clinically innovative surgical techniques. Surgeons at our meeting concentrate on learning the newest surgical techniques which may have initially been developed and popularized in one country and can now be applied on an international scale.
Before you submit
In order to submit an abstract to PAPS, one of the authors MUST be an Active or Senior PAPS member. ALTERNATIVELY, if none of the authors is a PAPS member, you MUST ask an Active or Senior PAPS member to sponsor your submission and provide their name, email address and a sponsoring letter. If you are a ANZAPS member you will need to provide proof of traineeship and or membership for your submission.
Abstract submitted MUST NOT have been published elsewhere. Both the Presenting and Senior Authors who submit such published work will be penalized from submitting to PAPS meetings for one year.
The Presenting author MUST confirm that at least one author will register in full by 3 February 2025 (Deadline for Early Bird Conference Registration) to attend and present the paper at the Conference. Failure to register may result in both the Presenting and Senior Authors becoming penalized from submitting to PAPS meetings for one year.
Abstracts will only be considered for one prize.
Author and abstract information MUST be in English. Please avoid using ALL CAPS.
Due to the Thanksgiving week, the WIP (Work-in-Progress) series will be paused until December 2, 2024.
We wish everyone a safe and joyful holiday!
Each week, S-SPIRE hosts a hybrid-model Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback. These run from September through May each year.
Our monthly WIP sessions (first Monday of every month) features Stanford and guest faculty presentations of well-developed projects. This WIP provides an opportunity to discuss high impact research and create synergy within the Stanford HSR/Surgery communities.
Our weekly WIP sessions feature trainees and faculty projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.
Anyone can attend and happy hour conditions apply here too.
For inquiries, please contact Ana Mezynski <mezynski@stanford.edu>
Submissions
2025 Submissions Overview: Important Dates
- Early May 2024
Call for Program Proposals Opens - Sunday, June 30, 2024, 11:59pm ET
Program Proposal Deadline - Mid-August 2024
Annual Meeting Program Committee Meeting - Mid-September 2024
Call for Abstracts Opens
Call for Awards Nominations Opens - Mid-November 2024
Call for Abstract Reviewers Opens - Monday, December 2, 2024, 11:15pm ET
Abstract Submission Deadline
Call for Awards Nominations Closes - Mid-December 2024
Registration Opens - Late February 2025
Research Abstract Acceptance Email Notifications - May 8-11, 2025
AGS Annual Meeting Dates in Chicago, IL
Presented by: Cintia Kimura, Resident in Surgery, Department of Surgery, Stanford University
Talk Title: “Does prehabilitation improve surgical outcomes? Results from the Preoperative Optimization with Enhanced Recovery (POWER) study”
Each week, S-SPIRE hosts a hybrid-model Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback. These run from September through May each year.
Our monthly WIP sessions (first Monday of every month) features Stanford and guest faculty presentations of well-developed projects. This WIP provides an opportunity to discuss high impact research and create synergy within the Stanford HSR/Surgery communities.
Our weekly WIP sessions feature trainees and faculty projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.
Anyone can attend and happy hour conditions apply here too.
For inquiries, please contact Ana Mezynski <mezynski@stanford.edu>
Presented by: Kristen Davis, MPH, Project Manager, S-SPIRE Center, Department of Surgery, Stanford University
Talk Title: “Crafting your NIH Biosketchwith SciENcv–Required Soon”
Bio: Kristen Davis-Lopez, MPH, PMP is the Research Project Manager at the S-SPIRE Center. She has a background in biology as well as public health. She supports multiple principal investigators with their current funded projects as project manager. She leads the Social Science Research Professionals in the S-SPIRE Center and also assists with the grant submission process within the Department of Surgery acting as a liaison with the Research Management Group.
For inquiries, please contact Ana Mezynski <mezynski@stanford.edu>
Each week, S-SPIRE hosts a hybrid-model Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback. These run from September through May each year.
Our monthly WIP sessions (first Monday of every month) features Stanford and guest faculty presentations of well-developed projects. This WIP provides an opportunity to discuss high impact research and create synergy within the Stanford HSR/Surgery communities.
Our weekly WIP sessions feature trainees and faculty projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.
Anyone can attend and happy hour conditions apply here too.
For inquiries, please contact Ana Mezynski <mezynski@stanford.edu>
Due to the winter season, the WIP (Work-in-Progress) series will be paused until regular operations resume on January 6, 2025.
We wish everyone a safe and joyful holiday season! Thank you for your understanding, and we look forward to reconnecting in the new year.
Each week, S-SPIRE hosts a hybrid-model Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback. These run from September through May each year.
Our monthly WIP sessions (first Monday of every month) features Stanford and guest faculty presentations of well-developed projects. This WIP provides an opportunity to discuss high impact research and create synergy within the Stanford HSR/Surgery communities.
Our weekly WIP sessions feature trainees and faculty projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.
Anyone can attend and happy hour conditions apply here too.
For inquiries, please contact Ana Mezynski <mezynski@stanford.edu>