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Dear colleagues and friends,

We are proud to announce the 6^th International Bedside Ultrasound Workshop in Pediatric Emergency, Neonatal and Intensive Care Medicine.

Lectures provided by international multi-discipline pediatric specialists will describe pediatric bedside ultrasound techniques and highlight relevant literature supporting applications in practice. Hands-on stations will allow learners to practice skills 8 hours in these two days.

I would like to emphasize that we will be offering a special neonatology session for the first time in 2026. This means that on the second day, the groups will be separated and our colleagues from neonatology will organize the lectures and hands-on sessions.

It also means that on the second day, the other group will focus more on topics related to pediatric emergency medicine, pediatric intensive care, and pediatric surgery.

This will allow us to meet the demand for more specialization in our course without losing the interdisciplinary component.

The Workshop will take place on 9-10 May 2026 at the University Children’s Hospital, Inselspital, in Berne, Switzerland.
The Workshop is limited to 80 participants.

The preliminary final program can be found here.

Registration is now open. Register here.

Sincerely yours

Steffen Schmidt, MD
Course Director,
Specialist in Neonatology and Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Children’s University Hospital of Bern

Faculty - confirmed

Maky Fraga MD, Neonatology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Assistant Professor University of Pennsylvania (US)

Thomas Conlon MD, Critical Care Medicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Assistant Professor University of Pennsylvania (US)

Aaron E. Chen MD, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Director of Emergency Ultrasound at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Assistant Professor University of Pennsylvania (US)

Nicole Sekarski MD Pediatric Cardiologist Children’s Hospital Lausanne – Professor University Hospital Lausanne (CH)

Rebecca Anderson MD, Pediatric ICU at Children's Hospital Zürich (CH)

Sonja Fontana MD, Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Children's Hospital Zürich (CH)

Fabrizio Romano MD, Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Children’s Hospital Inselspital – University Hospital Bern (CH)

Volker Umlauf MD, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Children’s Hospital Inselspital – University Hospital Bern (CH)

Sara Schnyder MD, Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Children’s Hospital Inselspital – University Hospital Bern (CH)

Steffen Schmidt MD, Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Children’s Hospital Inselspital – University Hospital Bern (CH), Head of pediatric POCUS Switzerland (SVUPP)

Sébastien Joye MD, Neonatology Children’s Hospital Lausanne – University Hospital Lausanne (CH)

Sabine Pallivathukal MD, Pediatric Cardiologist Children’s Hospital Inselspital – University Hospital Bern (CH)

Sophie Jaisli MD, Neonatology at Children’s Hospital Inselspital – University Hospital Bern (CH)

Fabian Keller MD, Neonatology at Children’s Hospital Inselspital – University Hospital Bern (CH)

Cesar Quinones MD, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Children’s Hospital Inselspital – University Hospital Bern (CH)

Thank you to our Ultrasound device sponsors:

GE Medical Systems (Schweiz) AG

Philips AG

ewimed Switzerland AG

Canon Medical Systems AG/SA

Thank you to our sponsors: