The AAP California Chapter 2 is accepting abstracts on scholarly projects by pediatric and medicine-pediatric residents and medical students enrolled in training programs in the Southern California counties of Kern, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura. This is your chance to present your work live at the 37th Annual Advances In Pediatrics Symposium!

Abstracts can be on original research, quality improvement, clinical cases, or any other scholarly project conducted during residency training or medical school. 

Abstracts previously presented at another meeting or published in a journal can be submitted. For more details, download the guidelines. Here is some general information on submitting abstracts:


• Abstracts can be on original research, quality improvement, clinical cases, or any other scholarly project conducted during residency training or medical school.
• Authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to create a poster for presentation at the symposium.
• The author of the highest scoring abstract in each category (Student & Resident/Fellow) will be invited as faculty for a 15-minute oral presentation.
• Notification decision will be emailed to the primary presenting authors in March 2026. Presenters of accepted abstracts must then register for the symposium (at no cost) and confirm attendance via email to Chapter2@aapca2.org.
• Scholarships will be awarded to the top scoring abstracts at the symposium.

The submission deadline is February 8, 2026 at 11:59PM.

Download/Print the Submission Guidelines