Previous NEC Symposia

As the world’s largest conference focused on necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), the NEC Symposium brings together key stakeholders to unite the global community for a world without NEC.

Previous NEC Symposia

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.

Staff grouped together holding NEC Society sign
The NEC Symposium brought together 200 participants from 9 countries and 35 US states to ...
2021 NEC Symposium- Virtual Session picture of everyone on the virtual call
The NEC Society presented the 2021 NEC Virtual Sessions in partnership with Cincinnati Children's and ...
Speaker on stage at 2019 NEC Symposium- University of Michigan
The NEC Society presented the NEC Symposium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2 – 5, ...