#440 - 🔵 [PAS 2026] - What Goes Into Planning the Biggest Pediatric Conference in the World?

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Daniel Rauch, PAS 2026 program chair, joins Ben for a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to pull off a conference of this scale — and what he's learned from this year's record-breaking attendance in Boston. He reflects on the sessions that packed rooms beyond capacity, from the Tiny Baby Collaborative to AI in pediatrics, and shares what's on the horizon for PAS 2027 in Minneapolis and PAS 2028 in Vancouver. He also makes the case for why PAS remains uniquely valuable for trainees and early career clinicians — not just for the science, but for the cross-disciplinary hallway conversations that become next year's publications — and highlights the steps the conference is taking to be more inclusive, from closed captioning and a first-ever Spanish language session to on-site daycare and mobility devices for attendees with ambulatory difficulties. Support the show As always, feel free to send us questions, comments, or suggestions to our email: nicupodcast@gmail.com. You can also contact the show through Instagram or Twitter, @nicupodcast. Or contact Ben and Daphna directly via their Twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. The papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped on the webpage linked below. Enjoy!

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#440 - 🔵 [PAS 2026] - What Goes Into Planning the Biggest Pediatric Conference in the World? is an episode from The Incubator by Ben Courchia & Daphna Yasova Barbeau.

This episode is 12:04 long.

This episode was published on Apr 29, 2026.

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