District 8 Section on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Welcome to the American Academy of Pediatrics District VIII Section on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

The AAP D8 SONPM is best known for our outstanding annual conference featuring a Fellows’ Workshop, original scientific program, State of the Art lectures, Advanced Practice luncheon and more. Our conferences are held throughout the states and provinces of District VIII, including Anchorage, Alaska (2019), Big Sky, Montana (2022), San Diego, California (2023), and Banff, Alberta (2024).


Save the date!

48th Annual AAP District VIII SONPM Conference Boise, ID June 5-8, 2025


Thanks for joining us – 47th Annual Conference – Banff, Alberta, Canada

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Membership – Join Us

Browse our website and consider joining our AAP D8 SONPM family. You can be part of this wonderfully collegial organization and support our equally outstanding annual conference.

Free membership for attending physicians, NNPs, PAs, RNs, RTs, fellows, residents, other trainees, and all other persons who contribute to the care of mothers and their babies), you can be part of this wonderfully collegial organization and support our equally outstanding annual conference and mission.


2024 District VIII Council


Donate to our Foundation!

Please consider a donation to the District VIII Education Foundation. With your help we are creating an endowment that can be self sustaining and enable us to support our Neonatology Fellows and other professionals in training as we benefit the care of mothers and newborns in our District through our educational mission.

This goal can only be met with your help and kind donations to the Education Fund.