Pediatric Bone and Growth Disorders encompass a broad range of conditions affecting skeletal development, mineralisation, strength, and growth patterns throughout childhood. This session examines endocrine, nutritional, genetic, metabolic, and mechanical contributors to abnormal growth and bone health. Clinicians often attend a Pediatrics Conference to stay updated on diagnosis, monitoring, treatment decisions, and long-term management strategies.

Participants will review conditions such as short stature, growth-hormone deficiency, constitutional growth delay, skeletal dysplasias, rickets, osteogenesis imperfecta, metabolic bone disorders, and chronic-disease-related bone fragility. The session highlights the design of structured pediatric bone and growth disorder pathways that guide evaluation, imaging, laboratory testing, nutritional assessment, therapy selection, and monitoring.

Case examples illustrate practical challenges, including distinguishing familial short stature from hormonal deficiency, evaluating delayed puberty, identifying red flags for genetic conditions, and managing children with fractures from minimal trauma. Attendees will examine the role of nutritional support, vitamin D and calcium optimisation, physical activity, weight-bearing exercise, and multidisciplinary care involving endocrinology, genetics, orthopedics, physical therapy, and dietetics.

Participants will explore ethical considerations, such as shared decision-making around growth-hormone therapy, addressing unrealistic expectations, supporting psychosocial wellbeing, and advocating for equitable access to specialised care. Global perspectives highlight disparities in rickets prevalence, nutritional deficiencies, delayed diagnostics, and limited availability of metabolic bone testing in underserved regions.

The session concludes with emerging insights into genetic sequencing, bone-density monitoring tools, personalised growth modelling, and targeted therapies for rare skeletal conditions. Through a comprehensive clinical and developmental lens, attendees will strengthen their ability to support healthy skeletal growth and timely identification of disorders.