The NEC Society is honored to announce that Dr. Diana Bianchi will serve as the opening keynote speaker for the Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) Symposium. Dr. Bianchi is the Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and…
Read MoreDue to the ongoing pandemic, the 2021 NEC Symposium has been postponed. A new date for the NEC Symposium will be announced once it is safe to hold in-person meetings. Due to the unique nature of the NEC Symposium, and…
Read MoreThe NEC Society is dedicated to building a world without necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). While NEC often impacts babies born prematurely, the NEC Society’s patient-families have helped us to understand that NEC also affects babies born full-term, with congenital heart defects,…
Read MoreEarlier this year, we announced that the NEC Society received an award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to host the first national symposium on the prevention of necrotizing enterocolitis in fragile infants. Planning is now underway, and we…
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