Conference – PENS

2025 PENS National Conference

April 30 – May 3, 2025 Kansas City Marriott Downtown Hotel, Kansas City, MO

Registration Now Open!

	Early Bird Through 3/1/25	Regular 3/2/25 – 4/1/25	Late/Onsite After April 1
Full Conference – Member	$550	$625	$715
Full Conference – Non-Member	$700	$800	$835
Single Day – Member (per day)	$335	$335	$335
Single Day – Non-Member (per day)	$450	$450	$450

Guest (only grants access to Friday Evening Event, no educational session access)	$275	$275	$275

Cancellations and transfers must be requested in writing and postmarked or emailed by April 1, 2025. Refunds will ‎be issued following the conference. A $50 administrative fee will be assessed. Cancellation requests must include ‎the reason for the cancellation. If you transfer your registration to another person, please include a completed ‎registration form for that person with your written request. Requests for cancellation postmarked or, emailed after ‎April 1 are not refundable.‎

2025 Pre-Conference Workshop

Wednesday, April 30 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Registration Fee: $150

Transitioning Peds/Adolescent Persons Care to Adult Clinics: What We Know and What We Can Do Better

Presented by: Debra L. Greenspan, RN, MSN, ANP-BC, Nurse Practitioner, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Christine Yedinak, DNP, FNP-BC, MN, Adjunct Professor, Nurse Practitioner, Mount Marty University; Tiffanie Marksbury, DNP, MSN, ANP-BC, Nurse Practitioner, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Eskind Diabetes Center

Although principles of care transition from pediatric through adolescence to adult care endocrine centers can be helpful, the process can be turbulent and risks the loss of the patient to follow up care. Presenters will highlight the similarities and differences in approaches to transition for persons with diabetes, gender dysphoria and growth hormone deficiency and examine gaps in current transition knowledge.

These presentations will look backwards from the perspective of adult care to review the efficacy and barriers to best practice in childhood and adolescence to identify gaps and pearls in current practice.

The audience will have the opportunity to view transition from the perspective of an adult RN, APP, young adult patient and family member.

The National Conference provides a forum for educational opportunities as well as a chance to interact with colleagues and experts in the field of pediatric endocrinology. The faculty will present information on a variety of pediatric endocrine disorders, as well as topics of general interest to nurses and other health care professionals. Teaching methods will include lectures, interactive sessions, discussions, workshops and poster sessions.

The opportunity to develop and continue relationships with your colleagues through networking is one of the key benefits of attending the PENS National Conference. Networking offers many tangible benefits to conference participants, including, but not limited to, validating your experience in providing nursing care and developing a better understanding of your practice and your role in care delivery by learning from others who are dealing with similar circumstances, solving the same problems and confronting the same issues. Take advantage of this national gathering of pediatric endocrinology nurses to learn more about national issues and trends.

Program Objectives:

Develop new skills to improve educational and patient outcomes
Provide educational opportunities in pediatric endocrinology for nurses and others with expertise in the area
Promote the pursuit of nursing practice and research through a research presentation and poster session
Provide educational opportunities in the management and treatment of selected endocrine disorders
Provide direction for understanding health care changes

Accreditation

This activity will be submitted to the Ohio Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. (OBN-001-91).

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Conference Reimbursement Scholarships

2025 Application Deadline March 1, 2025

The PENS Conference Reimbursement Scholarship exists to enable pediatric endocrine/diabetes nurses to advance their knowledge in the areas of endocrine and growth disorders, endocrine nursing research and current issues in pediatric endocrinology nursing.

Need help with funding to attend the PENS conference? A limited number of Conference Reimbursement Scholarships are available to provide support for pediatric endocrine nurses who are active members of PENS to attend each year. The submission deadline is March 1, 2025

Click here to view requirement and to learn more about the Conference Reimbursement Scholarship.

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2025-2026 PENS Conference Planning Committee

Now accepting volunteer applications for the 2025-2026 PENS Conference Planning Committee.

Click here for more information on the Committee and to access the volunteer form.

Click here for more information on volunteering to become Vice Chair of this committee.

Exhibits and Sponsorship Information

2025 Exhibit and Sponsorship Site

Symposia Opportunities – All Symposia opportunities sold out for 2025

Symposia are one-hour sessions during the conference program, typically during a mealtime – breakfast or lunch. They can be CE (educational, with a medical professional as the speaker providing data) or non-CE with a product overview.

CE Symposia Guidelines 2025

Non-CE Symposia Guidelines 2025