NEC Society, Cincinnati Children's, and UNC Children’s announce NEC Symposium in Chicago

The NEC Society, Cincinnati Children's, and UNC Children’s present the world’s largest conference focused on necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), bringing together a global community dedicated to advancing NEC research worldwide

2024-10-10

(Press-News.org) The NEC Society, Cincinnati Children's, and UNC Children’s are proud to announce the NEC Symposium in Chicago, September 7 - 10, 2025. As the world’s largest conference focused on necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), the NEC Symposium will bring together key stakeholders to unite the global community for a world without NEC.

The NEC Society has organized the NEC Symposium biennially since 2017, with the most recent 2023 NEC Symposium engaging over 200 participants from nine countries and 35 U.S. states. The 2025 NEC Symposium in Chicago will bring together 300 clinicians, scientists, patient-family advocates, and other stakeholders dedicated to advancing innovative strategies to better understand, prevent, diagnose, and treat NEC for infants and their families.

Founder and executive director of the NEC Society, Jennifer Canvasser, encourages “Anyone working on NEC should attend the NEC Symposium because the relationships and collaboration that happen at our meeting are transformational. We weave together patient-families and clinician-scientists to galvanize our community into action.”

Dr. Misty Good, Division Chief of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at UNC Children’s, emphasizes the significance of collaboration in the field. “Bringing together patient-families and multi-disciplinary stakeholders at the NEC Symposium allows us to push the boundaries of research and reimagine what is possible. In Chicago, we will engage and support trainees and early career investigators because they are essential to developing innovative solutions for this complex, catastrophic disease.”

The NEC Symposium’s agenda is led by the NEC Society's Scientific Advisory Council, Key Opinion Leaders, staff, and Board members, comprising the meeting’s planning committee. Dr. Jae Kim, Director of Neonatology at Cincinnati Children’s, shares, “I have dedicated my career to infants at risk of NEC and more than a decade to the NEC Society. The NEC Symposium is a rare opportunity to collaboratively confront and break down barriers to move closer toward a world without NEC.”

With more than 20 educational sessions and world-renowned faculty, the 2025 NEC Symposium in Chicago will inspire participants with rigorous science and humanized stories dedicated to improving the field’s ability to understand, prevent, diagnose, and treat NEC.

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About NEC Society
The NEC Society is the world’s leading nonprofit focused on necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). We are dedicated to advancing NEC research, education, and advocacy by bringing together patient-families, clinicians, and researchers to build a world where babies never experience the devastation of NEC.

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