Connecticut Children's Grand Rounds: Recent Episodes
Connecticut Children's
Pediatric Grand Rounds at Connecticut Children's provides pediatric practitioners with high-quality, evidenced-based continuing medical education that is both practical and cutting edge.
Objectives
Event Objectives:
- Compare and Contrast: Severe Persistent vs Poorly Controlled vs Difficult to Treat Asthma.
- Describe Asthma Cytokine Pathways and the Corresponding Biologic Mechanism of Action.
- Recognize the importance of multimodal asthma approach, limits, and future directions.
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- Describe how newborn screening has evolved to incorporate family-centered coordination and longitudinal support.
- Identify how communication, navigation, and provider coordination influence family engagement and follow-up.
- Discuss how family and lived experience reshaped workflows, communication practices, and support systems within newborn screening.
- Apply lessons from newborn screening to broader efforts to improve coordination and patient- and family-centered care.
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Includes presentation of the Leon Chameides Lifetime Achievement award, Dr. Scott Schoem.
Event Objectives:
- Describe the use of simulation in safer firearm storage education for pediatric residents.
- Discuss how simulation increases comfort of pediatric residents in discussing safer firearm storage at well visits.
- Evaluate caregiver comprehension and usability of a pediatric SMART asthma action plan using iterative field testing and health literacy principles.
- Identify differences in interpretation and preferences between English- and Spanish-speaking caregivers regarding SMART asthma management instructions.
- Refine and co-develop a bilingual SMART asthma action plan through caregiver feedback to improve clarity, safety, and real-world usability for home asthma management.
- Review common concerns of providers and patients surrounding home NG programs.
- Discuss our hospital's home NG pathway and evaluate the success of its implementation.
- Evaluate trends in G-tube vs home NG placement and identify opportunities to reduce surgical intervention.
- Examine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary benefits of end-of-block reflective debriefing sessions on pediatric resident professional well-being.
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- Implement at least one subtractive change in their practices.
- Understand the scope of healthcare delivery's environmental impact.
- Perform procedures with less materials waste and use.
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- Identify historical milestones in congenital catheterization, and the technology which has allowed for advancement of the field.
- Describe the new transcatheter technologies available to treat congenital heart disease.
- Gain an appreciation for the collaborative approach between surgical and interventional cardiology teams in treating complex heart defects.
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- Identify actionable genes within a pharmacogenetic panel.
- Understand the risk of using pharmacogenetics as the primary driver in the selection of medications for psychiatric treatment.
- List resources that provide evidence regarding relevant gene-medication pairs and be introduced to a tool, sequence2script, that can help inform providers of the most up-to-date guidelines regarding individualized genetic findings and actionability.
- Describe a rational clinical approach to integrate pharmacogenetics within evidence-based medicine.
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Event Objectives
- Review the Allergy Center’s treatment protocol for managing food allergies using Sublingual Immunotherapy (SLIT).
- Analyze clinical outcomes and results associated with the use of SLIT in the treatment of food allergies to inform evidence-based practice.
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Event Objectives:
- Use the See/Believe/Create framework to identify at least one actionable, evidence-based change in their practice or community to reduce preventable morbidity and mortality among their patients.
- Apply the Burden × Amenability framework to rank preventable conditions by their potential for population-level impact—and explain why that ranking should drive clinical and advocacy priorities.
- Distinguish the strengths and limitations of RCTs from other forms of evidence—using examples such as back-to-sleep—to evaluate clinical and public health recommendations critically.
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Event Objectives:
- Describe the epidemiology and clinical presentation of FPIAP/CMPA and its newly identified position on the atopic march.
- Explain how management of children with FPIAP/CMPA might differ in infants who are breastfed vs. formula fed, and when early allergen introduction may be indicated.
- Explain why FOBT, FIT, Calprotectin, EDN, and Zonulin are not helpful biomarkers of FPIAP/CMPA.
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Event Objectives:
- Characterize sources of cognitive errors in cases of possible child abuse.
- Understand current lack of agreement in cases of possible child abuse.
- Explore possible solutions to reduce variability and error.
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Event Objectives:
- Understanding the rationale behind the importance of accurately identifying true Amoxicillin allergy
- Learning how to safely implement in private practice
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Event Objectives:
- Discuss the state of healthcare delivery for youth with autism and other neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDDs).
- Describe the SAFE initiative and key domains that healthcare settings must consider to improve care access and outcomes for youth with NDDs and their families.
- Identify opportunities and priorities for clinical implementation, medical education, advocacy, and research to support the healthcare of youth with NDDs.
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Event Objectives:
- Understand how to reduce the risk of injury around water.
- Describe the major safety issues of e-bikes.
- Learn about the continuing threat to teen drivers.
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Event Objectives:
- Illustrate the challenges of community hospital-based pediatrics within a rapidly evolving children's health system.
- Consider implications for pediatric providers and their patients as these large-scale changes occur.
- Describe one adaptation to these changes: a focus on clinical quality, education, research and growth in pediatrics and neonatology within our Nuvance/ Northwell partnership.
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Event Objectives:
- Identify two best practice strategies for implementing trauma screening in pediatrics.
- Describe two brief best practice strategies for supporting youth/families following disclosure of trauma or traumatic stress during trauma screening.
- Outline two resources to support or enhance their trauma screening programs.
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Event Objectives:
- Describe what “ambient + agentic” workflows could look like across outpatient, inpatient, and the ED.
- Name the biggest documentation/revenue-cycle opportunities for generative AI.
- Recognize key safety risks: hallucinations, automation bias, prompt injection, and “AI validating AI”.
- Identify governance guardrails.
- Leave with a pragmatic pilot-and-measure roadmap.
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Event Objectives:
- Recognize the often-overlooked role of caregivers as “parallel patients” and the impact of caregiver stress, anticipatory grief, and medical complexity on patient outcomes.
- Differentiate between adaptive caregiver responses to chronic illness and signs of distress that may require additional clinical attention.
- Apply brief, practical strategies to acknowledge, validate, and support caregivers within routine clinical encounters.
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Event Objectives:
- Highlight the International Guidelines for TS in order to facilitate both patient and provider recognition of TS features and comorbidities.
- Emphasize the importance of timely health assessments and multidisciplinary care throughout the lifespan.
- Share an epic tool developed to support the coordination of care for patients with TS.
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Event Objectives:
- Gain an understanding of the relationship between body size and injury pattern.
- Understand the variable physiologic responses to injury across childhood.
- Gain knowledge about the treatment of pediatric injuries.
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Event Objectives:
- Review the non-renal implications of pediatric AKI.
- Describe the long-term consequences of AKI.
- Discuss prevention and management strategies.
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Event Objectives:
- Identify preventative strategies
- Review common causes of overuse injuries in pediatric sports
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Event Objectives:
- Interpret recent infant and child mortality data, including disparities, in the context of historical data, and consider the trajectory of the past century.
- Identify current and historical sources of infant and child mortality, and past, present, and possible future campaigns that target specific causes.
- Recognize and interpret parental, cultural, and literary responses to the threat and the reality of infant and child mortality, and the cultural changes which reflect the decreases of the past century.
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Event Objectives:
- Review lipid screening and updates to the CLASP referral guidelines
- Case based review of management of common pediatric lipid disorders- isolated elevation of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), combined dyslipidemia, and hypertriglyceridemia.
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Event Objectives:
- To report on the rise of pandemic threats and tropical infections due to climate change, urbanization and deforestation.
- To summarize efforts at our Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development to develop new vaccines for neglected diseases in low- and middle-income countries.
- To summarize the origins of rising antivaccine sentiments and its recent shifts. To create awareness on approaches to countering antivaccine activities.
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Event Objectives:
- Understand the scope and prevalence of neurodevelopmental impairments in children with CHD.
- Identify risks for neurodevelopmental impairments.
- Review evidence based screening recommendations.
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Event Objectives:
- Identify Key Strategies for Physician Leadership During Major Transitions in Health Care.
- Evaluate the Impact of National and Local Policy Priorities on Pediatric Surgical Practice.
- Apply Advocacy and Innovation to Advance Equitable Pediatric Health Outcomes.
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Event Objectives:
- Review the history of patient safety and quality improvement in healthcare since 1999
- Describe the national landscape on transformation
- Discuss a new way of thinking about transformation
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Event Objectives:
- Identify criteria that pediatric practitioners can utilize for identifying children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder
- Describe other diagnoses one should consider when evaluating Oppositional Defiant Behaviors
- Describe how Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Overlaps with Oppositional Defiant Disorder
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Event Objectives:
- Reframe pediatric MRI as a patient-centered, efficient diagnostic tool by understanding how abbreviated, non-contrast, and sedation-free protocols can safely answer many common clinical questions.
- Recognize when “less imaging” can be more effective, including situations where targeted MRI protocols provide sufficient diagnostic information while reducing burden, cost, and risk to children and families.
- Appreciate the system-level changes required, including workflow, staffing, radiologist practice, vendor collaboration, and billing, to enable the next generation of pediatric MRI.
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Event Objectives
- Review the history of Medicaid.
- Understand the importance of Medicaid to adolescents and young adults with special health care needs (AYASHCN).
- Describe anticipated impacts for Medicaid funding on AYASHCN and the health care transition.
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Event Objectives:
- Analyze the clinical rationale for fetal repair of gastroschisis by distinguishing between simple and complex presentations and applying evidence-based selection criteria.
- Evaluate the translational evidence from animal models that informed the trial design and regulatory approval for fetal gastroschisis repair.
- Assess early clinical outcomes from the trial to determine implications for current fetal surgery practice and future directions in therapy.
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Event Objectives:
- Understand why Medicaid matters for Connecticut Children’s, our patients and their families
- Learn about Connecticut Children’s partners in Medicaid advocacy
- Discuss how Medicaid policy changes are likely to impact children and families in 2026
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Event Objectives:
- Identify risk factors for rapid decay development
- What strategies can families implement at home to reduce decay risk
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Event Objectives:
- Evaluate evidence for newborn dose of hepatitis B vaccine in light of new ACIP recommendations.
- Review epidemiology and diagnosis of measles.
- Discuss updates about the 2025-2026 influenza season, including vaccines and treatment.
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Event Objectives:
- Identify updated vocabulary for burn classification.
- Identify appropriate initial dressings for acute burn injury.
- Understand complications of burn injury and their prevention.
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Event Objectives:
- Recognize post-streptococcal neuroimmune conditions by identifying their hallmark features and understanding the epidemiological evidence for strep-associated neuropsychiatric conditions.
- List three objective signs of inflammation that can be observed on skin and joint exam
- Outline the general principles for treating post-streptococcal inflammatory disorders.
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Event Objectives:
- History of VUR Management
- Making sense of the data
- Establish a management philosophy that prioritizes renal risk from an individual and population based perspective
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Event Objectives:
- Discuss historical risk factors associated with fetal fentanyl syndrome.
- Review physical exam findings associated with Fetal Fentanyl Syndrome.
- Discuss transient abnormalities in 7 and 8-dehydrocholesterol associated with fetal fentanyl syndrome.
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Event Objectives:
- Assess and stratify the immediate risk for self-harm or harm to others in adolescents presenting with suicidal ideation (SI), guiding appropriate triage decisions (e.g., home, EMPS, ER).
- Utilize effective in-office de-escalation strategies and immediately establish core safety measures for pediatric patients experiencing an acute psychological crisis.
- Integrate knowledge of adolescent confidentiality laws and high-risk factors (trauma, LGBTQ+ status) to structure challenging patient encounters and determine appropriate parental involvement.
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Event Objectives:
- Increase knowledge and awareness of spinal deformities other than idiopathic scoliosis.
- Discuss evaluation and treatment of spine disorders in the outpatient setting.
- Identify when to refer spine patients to spine specialists.
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Event Objectives:
- Discuss the latest research findings on media and technology use among children and adolescents.
- Gain practical guidance on promoting healthy media habits.
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Event Objectives:
- List perinatal conditions that lead to brain injury.
- List neuroprotective therapies shown to protect the brain in term infant and harm the brain in preterm infants.
- Understand that different therapies may benefit one sex and harm the other sex.
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Event Objectives:
- Identify options for Chiari malformation surgery, craniofacial surgery and epilepsy surgery in children that optimize outcomes while providing less invasive alternatives.
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Event Objectives:
- Review the need for a Pediatric Emergency and Critical Care (PECC) fellowship in low-resource settings.
- Discuss the challenges, opportunities, and lessons learned in developing a PECC fellowship in resource-limited environments.
- Explore the role of international collaboration in the success and sustainability of PECC fellowship programs.
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Event Objectives:
- Design initial acne treatment regimens that minimize irritation and improve adherence.
- Select appropriate topical treatments for pediatric atopic dermatitis, including steroid potency, vehicle, and indications for non-steroidal agents.
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Event Objectives:
- Identify at least two stigmatizing words and alternatives.
- Discuss the correlation between mental health and substance abuse.
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Event Objectives:
- Become familiar with the bullous eruption of atypical hand, foot, mouth disease.
- Understand the concept of a bat bite.
- Clarify that "Chronic Lyme disease" defined as, persistent infection despite antibiotic therapy, has never been scientifically shown.
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Event Objectives:
- Utilize core features of the MTA study when managing ADHD in school age children.
- Describe the role of neurodiversity in providing equitable behavior management for children with ADHD.
- Employ mindful medication management strategies for school age children with ADHD.
- Recognize ecosystem/environmental factors affecting children with ADHD in schools.
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Event Objectives:
- Review the evolution of training tools and a partner-driven team-based outpatient approach to CBT for pediatric anxiety.
- Discuss how team-based models can expand the mental health workforce and improve access to quality care.
- Identify strategies to accelerate and scale innovative training and workforce development solutions to address the youth anxiety crisis.
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Event Objectives:
- Identify common referrals in pediatric rheumatology and utilize resources available for guidance.
- Apply evidence-based approach to the initial evaluation of patients presenting with musculoskeletal complaints.
- Differentiate clinical features suggestive of inflammatory versus non-inflammatory etiology of symptoms in patients presenting with musculoskeletal complaints.
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Event Objectives:
- Discuss appropriate guidelines for treating or observing without initial treatment acute otitis media in infants and children.
- Review guidelines for tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy in children
- Review guidelines for referral to otolaryngology for tympanostomy tube placement.
- Review diagnosis and treatment of chronic sinusitis in children.
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Event Objectives:
- Define at least five key terms related to brain injury, including acquired brain injury (ABI) and traumatic brain injury (TBI).
- List at least three common causes of ABI and TBI.
- Distinguish at least four key differences between pediatric and adult brain injury.
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Event Objectives:
- Identify at least two systemic factors contributing to poor health outcomes in youth with sickle cell disease.
- Explain the impact of provider bias on health outcomes in pediatric sickle cell disease.
- Describe two bias-mitigating strategies that can be used by health care providers.
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Event Objectives:
- Review Historical Basis for Early Relational Health Simply
- Learn how to easily implement Early Relational Health in Primary Care
- Explain how to best support parents in the first 6 months after the birth of a baby
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Event Objectives:
- Describe the current epidemiology of pediatric obesity, including prevalence, comorbidities, and the clinical consequences of underdiagnosis.
- Evaluate the evidence regarding the safety and effectiveness of metabolic/bariatric surgery and pharmacotherapy (e.g., GLP-1 receptor agonists) as treatment options for adolescents with severe obesity.
- Identify barriers to care—including stigma, provider bias, and limited access—and propose strategies to improve referral patterns, equity, and outcomes in pediatric obesity management.
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Event Objectives:
- Construct Informed Consent practices that comply with the legal requirements under CT law
- Identify circumstances that justify engaging in treatments without informed consent
- Appreciate the negative medicolegal consequences for failure to procure adequate informed consent
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Event Objectives:
- Understand the role of the Children’s Oncology Group in pediatric cancer research.
- Describe the potential for molecular profiling to guide pediatric cancer treatment and barriers to implementation.
- Describe barriers to new agent development in pediatric oncology.
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Event Objectives:
- A overview for Pediatricians on the referral process for Birth to Three providing a better understanding on how the process works when to referral or when to provide resources for Help Me Grow 211 Child Development and Sparkler.
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- Understand the conditions of immunization and American Public Health circa 1920.
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Event Objectives:
- To provide a historical perspective for how Connecticut Children’s has influenced pediatric health care in our region.
- To better understand the trajectory of the Department of Pediatrics within the framework of Connecticut Children’s and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
- To summarize key advancements in pediatric research, education and clinical care, over the past 12 years.
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- Describe the long-term impact of pediatric sepsis on survivors and families with a focus on post-intensive care syndrome in children (PICS-p) and unmet needs after discharge.
- Highlight the role of translational and outcomes research in improving follow-up care with examples from the Persist-PICU study and other related projects.
- Examine the role of implicit bias in shaping health outcomes including disparities in sepsis recognition treatment and follow-up care among marginalized pediatric populations.
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Event Objectives:
- Learn about two measures of weight stigma: weight bias internalization and weight-based teasing.
- Understand the characteristics associated with higher weight bias internalization in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes mellitus.
- Share findings of three PDSA cycles initiated to improve utilization metrics of medication historians in the inpatient setting.
- Discuss future goals to help improve metrics further.
- Identify cost drivers and potential areas for optimizing ADHD pharmacologic treatment under Medicaid with a focus on high-expenditure medications.
- Explore conditions that promote growth and toxin production by the Klebsiella oxytoca species complex.
- Review experimental model to explore link between endogenous glycan availability to Klebsiella toxin production and intestinal injury.
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- Increase knowledge and awareness of Outpatient Spinal Disorders.
- Identify when to refer spine patients.
- Discuss what is new in outpatient care of spine disorders.
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Event Objectives:
- Understand the symptom based ROME IV Criteria for diagnosing pediatric irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
- Recognize the current concepts in pathogenesis of IBS.
- Review the diagnostic approach and current treatment strategies for pediatric IBS.
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Event Objectives:
- Describe the epidemiology of substance use and its harms in adolescents and young adults (“youth”)
- Ensure evidence-based prevention screening treatment and harm reduction for youth
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- Recall and summarize the role of allergy testing and challenge in diagnosis of penicillin allergy.
- Describe the detrimental clinical consequences of being labeled penicillin allergic.
- Apply their knowledge to de-label penicillin allergy in their practice.
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- Have assumptions related to sexual harm challenged in addition to gaining new insights on the subject.
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- Review appropriate use of allergy medications including side effects.
- Understand the role and risks/benefits of allergy immunotherapy.
- Discuss updates in food allergy management.
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- Explore the history and evolution of terms related to non-accidental head trauma in infants.
- Describe the clinical characteristics of abusive head trauma (AHT).
- Discuss strategies to identify infants at risk for AHT.
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Event Objectives:
- Describe the different types of gene therapy.
- Describe the different vectors used.
- Describe some of the FDA approved products in pediatrics.
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- Review the Historical Progression of Interventional Cardiology in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease.
- Highlight Cutting-Edge Catheter-Based Therapies for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Conditions.
- Understand Contemporary Catheter-Based Arrhythmia Management Options in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease.
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Event Objectives:
- Discuss how trauma care starts well before the trauma bay and lasts long after.
- Explain additional resources beyond the surgical trauma team that lead to best outcomes in trauma care.
- Consider how addressing mental health and legal challenges can help in trauma recovery.
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Event Objectives:
- List the topical medications approved by the FDA for use in pediatric dermatologic diseases in the past five years.
- Describe the general risks and benefits of recently-approved systemic medications approved for use in pediatric dermatologic diseases.
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Event Objectives:
- How does pain present at different developmental age groups.
- Assessment of pain.
- Treatment of acute and chronic pain.
- Brief discussion of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.
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Event Objectives:
- Provide pediatric healthcare professionals with the knowledge strategies and actionable recommendations on addressing trauma mental health challenges and gun violence within the pediatric population.
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- Recognize gender differences in the presentation of eating disorders in adolescents and young adults.
- Describe characteristics of disordered eating behaviors for weight loss and for muscle-enhancement.
- Identify gaps in medical treatment guidelines for boys and men with eating disorders.
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Event Objectives:
- Define pediatric intestinal failure and evaluate its prognosis.
- Create a successful nutritional medical and surgical plan for children with pediatric intestinal failure.
- Identify remaining challenges in the treatment of pediatric intestinal failure.
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Event Objectives:
- List common indications for fetal MRI.
- Discuss improvements in the last 2 decades of fetal imaging.
- Known when patients might be a candidate for prenatal intervention.
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- Familiarize yourself with the 2017 updated definitions suggested work up and treatment of pediatric hypertension.
- Understand the acute and long term complications of pediatric hypertension.
- Obtain a basic understanding of indications and interpretation of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.
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- Understand the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder
- Understand the components of an autism diagnostic assessment
- Understand services children need after the diagnosis of autism or another developmental disability
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- Discuss the various components that comprise the field of wilderness medicine.
- Review the expectations for children of various ages when in the wilderness.
- Identify preventive care strategies for pediatric patients with regard to wilderness injuries and exposures.
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Event Objectives:
- Discuss the approach to medication management for pediatric obesity
- Identify common medications for obesity treatment and consider risks, benefits of each class
- Understand the strategies for best efficacy and tolerance of medication treatment
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- Explain how the Children's Hospital Association advocates with policymakers to ensure children's access to healthcare.
- Describe the current political climate in Washington, D.C.
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- Understand basic diagnostic tests for congenital CMV hearing loss genes and utility of CT vs. MRI temporal bone imaging.
- Use the HL algorithm to develop an effective diagnostic strategy for unilateral/bilateral sensorineural and mixed hearing loss.
- Find causes that are potentially treatable dangerous if missed or affect prognosis.
- Understand role of emerging gene therapy.
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- Defining GH in 2025
- GH and Newborn Health
- Overview of a GH initiative in republic of Mauritius
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- Discuss approaches to support the development of healthy sexual relationships in teens (ie sexual attractions, consent, STI and pregnancy prevention.
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- Discuss basic knowledge regarding children's rights under federal and state law to necessary services.
- Discuss legal entitlements including: Medicaid Americans with Disabilities Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
- Discuss common barriers to services faced by children and families and advocacy strategies to remedy these barriers.
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- Identify key pitfalls that lead to the missed diagnosis of KD.
- Discuss changes in AHA recommendations for treatment.
- Understand current initiatives to create a diagnostic test for KD.
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- Understand the problem with neurulation in the development of open neural tube defects and the “second hit hypothesis."
- Understand the results of the MOMS Trial and the implications for prenatal repair myelomeningocele.
- Understand the limitations of our current approach to prenatal myelomeningocele repair and technical advances which have the potential to improve outcomes in the future.
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- Describe effective strategies to improve long-term community health and wellbeing.
- Differentiate collaborative approaches from individual efforts to improve health.
- Apply insights to health-improvement opportunities that would benefit from greater alignment and coordination among stakeholders.
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- Apply a validated self-evaluation measure of burnout and/or wellness and determine the meaning of their score.
- Describe the implementation and benefits of a meaningful recognition program on staff culture burnout and wellness.
- Explain the roles of institutional leaders healthy policy makers and staff members in addressing the epidemic of burnout.
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- Discuss how undiagnosed sleep apnea could be related to a diagnosis of ADHD.
- Describe why a child who can self-soothe is likely to be a better sleeper.
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- Understand the thinking behind a routine Covid-19 vaccine recommendation for everyone in the US over 6 months of age.
- Understand the thinking behind updating yearly Covid-19 vaccines.
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- Identify specific subtypes of CHD that are most likely of an identifiable genetic etiology.
- Evaluate for the common comorbidities associated with the most common cardiovascular genetic diagnoses.
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- Describe the mortality burden of firearm injuries in America.
- Describe the Haddon Matrix as a framework for identifying opportunities to prevent firearm injury.
- Articulate how features of the built and social environment contribute to firearm injury and death.
- Explain the potential for firearm buy-back programs to help prevent firearm injury and death.
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- Identify the common etiologies of facial paralysis presenting in childhood.
- Describe the clinical examination and evaluation of a child with facial paralysis.
- Describe the surgical approach to facial reanimation.
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- Determine referral criteria in visually significant ocular conditions
- Discuss treatment options for various types of conjunctivitis
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- Understand team work in initiating research.
- Appreciate defining problems.
- Understand the importance of providing solutions to clinical problems.
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- Provide practical advice to parents and other caregivers about how to talk with children about wars and other humanitarian crises
- Outline some of the causes of ineffective communication whether due to the source (e.g. media) or recipient (i.e. the child) of the information
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- Review the frequency and factors contributing to “burnout” amongst physicians and all professionals.
- Explore the burden created by the explosions of frictionless communication (via text EHR inbox or email etc..) and the paradoxical reduction in productivity and efficiency.
- Advocate for the adoption of a work environment that respects focus reduces interruptions shrinks in-box off hours burden and sets appropriate expectations for patient/staff communications.
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- Distinguish thyroid function patterns that require immediate action.
- Discuss slight alterations in thyroid function that can occur in states of altered physiology in children and adolescents, that do not require immediate treatment.
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- Understand the Role of Advocacy in Health Care: Identify the various forms of advocacy including patient professional and policy advocacy and understand their importance in driving systemic improvements in health care delivery and outcomes.
- Analyze the Impact of Advocacy on Health Policy: Examine how health care advocacy can influence policy changes at local state and national levels and explore case studies of advocacy efforts that have successfully led to significant health policy reforms.
- Develop Skills for Effective Advocacy: Learn practical strategies and communication skills necessary for effective advocacy including how to engage stakeholders build coalitions and present compelling arguments to policymakers and the public.
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- Review definitions and classification schemes for psychological maltreatment.
- Identify possible red flags for psychological maltreatment in a patient or caregiver history.
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- Identify three propositions for what pain is a communicative phenomenon.
- Describe pathways through which communication can influence health outcomes.
- Apply recommendations for improving pain communication by avoiding discrediting silencing and stereotyping.
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- Understand the environmental processes changing as result of climate change and how they impact the prevalence incidence and distribution of vector-borne disease
- Describe how climate change is influencing the distribution of specific VBDs
- Explore what actions health professionals can take to protect patients vulnerable to these diseases
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- Compare rates of syphilis over time and between demographic factors and understand features associated with higher rates
- Review specific missed opportunities for the prevention of congenital syphilis
- Describe future directions to improve screening and treatment of syphilis
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- Review the pathophysiology of pain in XLH.
- Identify the physical and psychosocial impact of chronic pain in XLH patients.
- Evaluate current pain management approaches in adults with XLH.
- Explore the development of digital tools for pain self-management in XLH.
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- Describe engagement failures of digital mental health tools to date.
- List specific needs minoritized youth and their caregivers express as crucial to their digital experiences.
- Detail the importance of lived expertise from community members through interdisciplinary colleagues in improving access to care.
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- Describe the varying forms of ECLS and understand the introductory nomenclature.
- Discuss the evolution of ECMO and the early challenges faced by scientists in creating this form of life support.
- Locate resources for your patients after they have been on ECLS should there be neurodevelopmental concerns.
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- Enhance the audience's understanding of current perspectives on ankyloglossia.
- Gaining an understanding of ankyloglossia and how to support families through the challenging first weeks of breastfeeding difficulties.
- Discuss of some of the interventions to consider for a child whom you have diagnosed with probable ankyloglossia
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- Attendees will understand the need for child and adolescent bariatric surgery programs in general and specifically for children with special healthcare needs.
- Attendees will understand the key components of bariatric surgery programs for children and adolescents and additional needs with respect to special populations.
- Attendees will understand the expected outcomes for laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in children and adolescents and how they may differ in special populations.
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- Describe how social media interacts with mental health depending on specific characteristics of the user as well as social media habits and experiences.
- Understand the concept of mental health contagion and how it occurs via social media.
- Evaluate our patient’s social media use and its importance for psychiatric diagnosis and treatment.
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- Review the current trends in medical malpractice settlements and verdict outcomes in CT.
- Discuss the challenges in malpractice defense including EHR documentation audit trails and e-discovery.
- Formulate strategies for reducing the risk of lawsuits and increasing the defensibility of cases.
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- Apply the learned epidemiology and clinical presentation of Wilms Tumor to appropriate surveillance and/or diagnostic evaluation for children at known risk due to underlying genetic syndromes or with presentation of signs and symptoms consistent this diagnosis.
- Contextualize the current standard of care therapies for patients with Wilms Tumor with the history of discovery and first treatments and recognize the evolution of risk stratification as the backbone of clinical trial development in Wilms Tumor.
- Appraise the presented supporting data on prognostic features of outcomes for patients with Wilms Tumor and evaluate the incorporation of this information into the upcoming Children’s Oncology Group therapeutic protocol for the Risk Stratified Treatment of patients with Stage I- IV Favorable Histology Wilms Tumor.
- Discuss the presented interrelationship between organogenesis and tumorigenesis and spur innovative thought into the underlying biology of the spectrum of Wilms Tumor and nephroblastomatosis.
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- Review the basics of pediatric inflammatory bowel diseases.
- Understand the role that Connecticut Children's has played in the understanding and management of IBD.
- Become aware of the risks associated with IBD therapies in children.
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- Describe systemic and structural drivers of health inequities and disparities.
- Explain the power of use of disaggregated data in the setting of health inequities and health disparities.
- Identify and list opportunities for place-based and systems-level mitigation strategies for health inequities and health disparities.
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Event Objectives:
- The purpose of this study was to provide work flow optimization in the EHR for pediatric residents and track time use metrics as well as resident satisfaction.
- Review results of largest single-center study looking at pediatric and young adult patients with IBD followed and seen in Connecticut Children's initially on Originator-Infliximab (Remicade) and switched to Biosimilar-Infliximab (Inflectra).
- To apply lung ultrasound scores to severity of neonatal lung disease.
- Interpret data that suggest safety and efficacy of subcutaneous estradiol for gender-affirming hormone treatment for transgender and gender diverse adolescents and young adults.
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Event Objectives:
- To be able to list the most common pediatric/adolescent knee injuries.
- To be able to construct a knee injury differential diagnosis based on the history and physical exam taught in the lecture.
- To be able to integrate this into referrals to the orthopedic sports medicine service with potential MRIs ordered to investigate suspected meniscus or ACL tears.
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- Understand how to diagnose anaphylaxis.
- Describe differences in the presentation of infants and toddlers.
- Discuss recent treatment updates in anaphylaxis.
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- Explain how clinical and research training are important for a successful career as a physician scientist.
- Discuss clinically relevant research over the years in syphilis and Lyme disease.
- Update on syphilis vaccine development.
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- Identify and understand the physiology for the two most common vascular lesions of infancy and childhood infantile hemangiomas and capillary malformations.
- Familiarize with the complications and treatment for hemangiomas in specific locations.
- Understand the treatment timing and expected results for capillary malformations and hemangiomas including beta-blockers.
- Recognize “red flags” on the skin which demand further evaluation and have potential for serious morbidity.
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Event Objectives:
- Describe the role of pediatricians in advocacy focused on improving child health through policy and in practice.
- Identify changes occurring in the pediatric landscape affecting practices and their patients.
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- Learn the most common ways seizures present across different ages.
- Understand the evaluations and testing and how they very according to the diagnosis of epilepsy.
- Become familiar with surgical options for intractable Epilepsy.
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- Give examples of activities that can support healthy child development and family well-being in the context of pediatric preventive care visits.
- Identify empirical evidence supporting a framework for children’s healthy development and family well-being that can be applied during pediatric preventive care visits.
- Translate knowledge on child development into action that supports healthy development and family well-being during pediatric preventive care visits.
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- Review our experience so far pertaining to patient presentation and effective management of patients with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).
- Review common co-existing conditions that occur with POTS.
- Understand the various physiologic alterations that predispose to the occurrence of POTS in the young.
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- Distinguish the characteristics of acute and chronic pain.
- Recognize and discuss the similarities between various chronic pain syndromes.
- Identify examples of appropriate metaphors to use when discussing chronic pain.
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- List characteristics of point-of-care ultrasonography.
- Identify clinical scenarios in which the use of point-of-care ultrasonography can help guide optimal management.
- Describe how point-of-care ultrasonography can enhance physical exam skills, augment teamwork, and inspire learners, patients, and caretakers.
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- Compare and contrast current tools to determine field or hospital to hospital triage of the pediatric trauma patient.
- Review current image gently guidelines with respect to the pediatric trauma patient.
- Discuss current recommendations for management of solid organ injuries in the pediatric trauma patient.
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Event Objectives:
- Describe the epidemiology of gun violence in the United States.
- Discuss the elements of a multi-faceted approach to this medical and public health challenge.
- Identify concrete steps clinicians can take to prevent gun violence.
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"Through collaborative storytelling that brings together a leading media and communication college with those closest to the problem of gun violence in Boston, we seek to inspire solutions and interrupt cycles of violence.
The Engagement Lab at Emerson College has partnered with the Gun Violence Prevention Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute in a three-year initiative to transform narratives of gun violence.
Through this collaboration, students and faculty at Emerson are coming alongside individuals and organizations deeply connected to the issue of gun violence locally, to explore together the impact of dominant narratives and to co-create story-based solutions through arts, media, and communications."
Event Objectives:
- Define the diagnostic performance of US for malrotation and midgut volvulus.
- Be able to perform and troubleshoot a suboptimal ultrasound.
- Diagnose malrotation and midgut volvulus on ultrasound.
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Event Objectives:
- Describe the pertinent historical background for modern bioethics.
- Utilize ethical frameworks used for pediatric decision-making.
- Evaluate future challenging cases to identify when the provided resources such as the ethics committee could be helpful.
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- Describe how Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) (e.g. ChatGPT) works and why it sometimes doesn't work.
- Illustrate and predict some of the many ways that Generative AI can be used to help in patient care.
- Motivate clinicians to get involved in guiding the implementation of AI where they work and live.
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- Become aware of the current management of respiratory failure with ECMO.
- Discuss the potential for and controversies around prolonged extracorporeal support.
- Gain an understanding of new approaches to extracorporeal support and other forms of individual organ and systemic support.
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Event Objectives:
- Define pediatric palliative care and its relevance in the care of medically complex children.
- Review appropriate criteria for referral of a child to a pediatric palliative care specialist.
- Provide an understanding of the comprehensive pediatric palliative care services being offered at Connecticut Children's.
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- Quantify disparities in autism diagnosis and interventions by race and ethnicity sex socio-economic status and cognitive ability based on published studies.
- Identify potential mechanisms through which disparities in autism diagnosis and care are perpetuated.
- List potential solutions to improve equity in autism identification and care.
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- Identify 2 trends in feeding infants, children, and adolescents
- Review 2 potential micronutrient deficiencies in the exclusively breast fed infant
- Distinguish one group of patients that always require a multivitamin and mineral supplement s/t inadequate intake from multiple food groups
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- Define childhood obesity.
- Review steps for addressing intervening and escalating care when a child faces weight challenges.
- Review important components of a program to address obesity.
- Define the role of medication in treating obesity.
- Discuss where does surgery fit in?
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- Define pediatric chronic pain and how it can manifest in different patient populations.
- Identify psychosocial processes that contribute to the onset and progression of pain.
- Discuss the importance of regularly screening for pain as part of whole-child care.
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- Understand at least 3 possible barriers that parental caregivers may have in supporting gender diverse adolescents and young adults.
- Learn at least 2 ways to increase familial support when working with gender diverse adolescents and young adults.
- Discuss at least 3 interventions when working with gender diverse individuals (including fully reversible interventions partially reversible interventions and irreversible interventions).
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- Discuss latest research and describe private sector health equity initiatives.
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- Understand the differences between Cesarean delivery and EXIT procedure.
- Discuss the indications for EXIT procedures and diagnosis-specific selection criteria.
- Discuss the techniques outcomes complications and their management in EXIT procedures.
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- Distinguish the grades and management of an ankle sprain in a young adolescent.
- Identify and manage calcaneal apophysitis (Sever's disease).
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- Identify the current status of circumcision circumcision complications and need for surgical repair of newborn circumcision in the US.
- Understand the reasons behind the rising rate of newborn circumcision surgical repair in the US.
- Outline strategies to overcome the reasons for newborn surgical circumcision repair and improve the quality and safety of newborn circumcisions performed.
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- Understand the evolution and current state of pediatric interventional bronchoscopy.
- Recognize clinical indications for interventional bronchoscopy.
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- Discuss the increase of fentanyl overdoses.
- Discuss the use of Narcan in schools.
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- Describe types of Retinoblastoma.
- Explain the types of treatment.
- Describe the management and workup for patients with suspected Retinoblastoma.
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- Define chronic kidney disease and complications in the pediatric population.
- Discuss methods to estimate kidney function.
- Identify areas for partnership with primary care practitioners.
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- Choose appropriate elements of the work-up for a febrile young infant.
- Apply risk stratification strategies to febrile young infants to guide further testing and treatment.
- Engage in evidence-based shared decision making with the parents of febrile young infants.
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- Understand why knowledge of breastfeeding medicine is vital to providing care to pediatric patients and their families.
- Discuss common scenarios in which caregivers are often inappropriately advised to stop breastfeeding/providing breast milk AND true contraindications.
- Identify breast feeding/breast milk resources available to clinicians.
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- Identify primary prevention of adolescent suicidal behavior.
- Discuss approaches to screening for suicidal risk.
- Identify ultra-brief interventions; including safety planning, method restriction, and how to do a safety plan.
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- Describe burnout including its drivers and consequences.
- Identify three domains that contribute to physician stress (conflict, time management, and culture) and strategies to address them.
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- Review the 2021 CDC STI Treatment Guidelines as it applies to adolescents.
- Describe clinical signs of common STIs.
- Discuss confidentiality and billing practices when screening teens for STIs.
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Event Objectives:
- Define the burden of RSV infection in infants and young children.
- Identify the changes in the epidemiology and circulation of RSV due to COVID-19.
- Identify the new preventive strategies approved for prevention of lower respiratory tract infections due to RSV.
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- Define the CFI.
- Describe the use of the CFI in Pediatric Psychiatry.
- Understanding Cultural Humility and use of Broaching.
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- Understand the phenotypic variation various genetic mutations can cause in epilepsy.
- Develop familiarity with the pathophysiologic mechanisms underlying genetic epilepsies.
- Identify current mechanisms to treat different types of genetic epilepsy.
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Event Objectives:
- Become familiar with new evidence for the management of community acquired pneumonia.
- Understand how to improve your antimicrobial stewardship in management of community pneumonia by decreasing unnecessary use of broad spectrum antibiotics and prescribing antibiotics for the shortest effective duration.
- Learn about free Connecticut Children’s resources available to outpatient pediatric providers to keep up to date with the management of community acquired pneumonia and other infectious diseases.
Resources:
https://www.connecticutchildrens.org/clinical-pathways/
https://app.firstline.org/en/clients/187-connecticut-childrens
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Event Objectives:
- Review current outcome evidence on health care transition (HCT) interventions.
- Discuss the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)/American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)/American College of Physicians (ACP) 6 core element approach and tools for pediatric practices.
- Describe key lessons learned from implementing HCT performance improvement program in 2 programs.
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- Understand what process metrics are considered optimal sepsis management.
- Identify the gaps between evidence and practice of sepsis management.
- Compare tools and processes being used to narrow the gap.
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Event Objectives:
- Review the most common causes of joint pain in kids and how to distinguish benign pain from features with red flags.
- Review the concept of hypermobility in kids and the link to frequent joint pain.
- Review the concept of growing pains.
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- Understand current management options for pediatric hydrocephalus.
- Discuss the creation of a cooperative network for hydrocephalus research.
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- Introduce neonatal-perinatal palliative care.
- Review navigating goals of care for a fetus or neonate.
- Discuss how to effectively communicate the goals of care and integrate the paradigms of neonatal-perinatal palliative care across hospital systems and locations of care.
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- Identify metabolic causes of encephalopathy.
- List the tests that should be performed when considering a metabolic cause of encephalopathy.
- Describe the obstacles that metabolic patients face in their diagnostic odyssey.
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- Identify common sources of lead and ways to minimize exposure.
- Review current lead screening guidelines.
- Discuss the changes in Connecticut legislature regarding mandated screening and housing assessment.
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Lecture Objectives:
- Describe the new FDA-approved vaccine and therapy for preventing RSV.
- Review how the RSV vaccine and monoclonal antibodies work.
- List the newly approved recommendations for preventing RSV.
- Review current COVID-19 & vaccine data.
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- Recognize symptoms that can be due to reflux in children.
- Evaluate how to identify different types of reflux.
- Discuss therapeutic options for pediatric reflux.
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- Describe key structural determinants of community violence exposure in the United States urban environments.
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- Identify the etiologies of back pain in a pediatric population.
- Understand the evaluation of a child with back pain.
- List the treatment and management options available for low back pain.
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- Describe the Trends in Medical Malpractice settlements and verdict outcomes in CT.
- Formulate documentation practices that will mitigate medico-legal risk.
- Conform their practices to avoid scrutiny by CT Regulatory bodies including DPH and DCP.
- Reduce incidence of patient/family confusion/anxiety by focused communication strategies.
Event Objectives:
- Increase understanding of organizational factors that contribute to a healthy workplace
- Learn distinctions between burnout and depression and become more aware of individual and systemic factors that influence risk and resilience
- Review evidence-based initiatives that foster health and wellness for employees within health care organizations and at Connecticut Children's Medical Center.
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- Cite Indications for Bone marrow transplantation and gene therapy for sickle cell disease.
- Compare and Contrast Bone Marrow Transplantation and Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease.
- Evaluate Suitability of a Candidate for Bone Marrow Transplant or Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease.
Lecture Objectives:
- Understand the range of normal development for speech and language.
- Understand signs and symptoms of speech delay or disorders requiring a referral to a speech-language pathologist.
Resources:
Identify The Signs of Communication Disorders
Stuttering (asha.org)
Learning More Than One Language (asha.org)
Bilingualism_PrimerPediatricians.pdf (washington.edu)
Baby Sign Language in the development of young hearing children: A review of selected studies - OvidDS
The effects of sign language on spoken language acquisition in children with hearing loss: a systematic review protocol - OvidDS
Using the Childhood Autism Rating Scale to Diagnose Autism Spectrum Disorders - PMC (nih.gov)
Clinical Characteristics Associated With Stuttering Persistence: A Meta-Analysis | Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (asha.org)
Crowe, K. & McLeod, S. (2020). Children’s English consonant acquisition in the United States: A review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_AJSLP-19-00168
Healey, A., Mendelsohn, A., & Childhood, C. (2019, January 01). Selecting Appropriate Toys for Young Children in the Digital Era. Retrieved November 04, 2020, from https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/143/1/e20183348
McLeod, S., Crowe, K., & Shahaeian, A. (2015). Intelligibility in Context Scale: Normative and validation data for English-speaking preschoolers. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 46(3), 266-276. https://doi.org/10.1044/2015_LSHSS-14-0120
Pontecorvo, E., Higgins, M., Mora, J., Lieberman, A.M., Pyers, J., & Caselli, N.K. (2023). Learning a sign language does not hinder acquisition of a spoken language. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, Vol. 66, 1291–1308. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00505
Ravichandran, P., France De Bravo, B., & Beauport, R. (2017, August 14). Young Children and Screen Time (TV, Computers, etc.). Retrieved November 04, 2020, from http://www.center4research.org/young-children-screen-time-tv-computers-etc/
- Recognize the telltale as well as subtle features of malaria.
- Discuss the global epidemiology of malaria and the impact of COVID-19 on malaria eradication efforts.
- Describe vaccine discovery efforts and current roll-out strategies.
- Identify ways to address health disparities during the clinical encounter or when conducting research.
- Describe the DEI competences.
- Identify ways to incorporate DEI principles to address health disparities and improve health outcomes.
- Give examples of how new technology/advances in medicine provide opportunities of improve health outcomes and potential successful integration of DEI.
Event Objectives:
- Analyze the key factors that promote resilience in child mental health and emotional wellbeing in a clinical setting.
- Discuss the importance of a relational health paradigm in pediatric primary care.
- Discuss the intersection of attuned communication skills training self-reflection communities of practice and wellness to promote resilience for children and families.
- Examine the ARCH score for safety and reliability.
- Identify the effects of anxiety on anorectal dynamics on high-resolution anorectal manometry as well as it’s association with reported constipation symptoms in pediatric patients.
- Indicate the difference on incidence and prevalence in pediatric thyroid nodule vs adult population.
- Understand the optimal treatment for a thyroid nodule in the pediatric population
Lecture Objectives:
- Describe the risks and benefits of dupilumab in atopic dermatitis in children.
- Describe the use of systemic agents in the treatment of acne vulgaris.
- Describe typical findings of soft tissue infections.
- Describe optimal management of skin and soft tissue infections.
- Describe value-based care and payment.
- Discuss opportunities that exist to achieve health equity through value based strategies.
- List national examples of efforts to achieve equity via value-based payment.
- Review how the administration and professional staff of a children’s hospital work as a team to develop the infrastructure needed to provide quality safe care for patients.
- Discuss the role of a children’s hospital in the community region and state to optimize the care of children.
- Describe common gaps in extending the sphere of influence of a children’s hospital and how to approach them.
- Learners will be able to enumerate the options for reconstructive surgery in adolescents with gender dysphoria.
- Identify challenges for care in adolescents with gender dysphoria in the US.
- Identify prevention as the primary purpose of child fatality review.
- Discuss how the work of the CFR panel helps to reduce child deaths.
- Give examples of prevention strategies for common preventable child deaths.
- Review clinical pathways for pneumonia & bronchiolitis.
- Discuss latest approaches for diagnosing community acquired pneumonia and viral bronchiolitis.
- Identify how to distinguish patients with Lyme disease from those with medically unexplained symptoms.
- Identify when to order tests for Lyme disease.
- Describe how to manage patients with a tick bite.
- Review the importance of Notch Signaling in Development and Specifically Human Development.
- Review Alagille Syndrome and related disorders of human development and the genetic causes of these diseases.
- Explain the role of Notch Signaling in other (non-developmental) human diseases.
- Associate and hypothesize roles for modulation of Notch Signaling as therapy.
- Understand the effects of SARS CoV 2 infection on the heart.
- Discuss diagnostic testing for suspected cardiac involvement after a SARS CoV 2 infection.
- Discuss the current consensus statements and recommendations for return to play after SARS CoV 2 infection.
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- Understand the factors that maintain anxiety disorders and OCD.
- Identify cognitive behavioral interventions in the treatment of anxiety disorders and OCD.
- Understand the impact of family accommodation on anxiety and OCD.
Mentioned Resources:
https://instituteofliving.org/programs-services/center-for-school-engagement/attendance-tips
Rapee, R., Wignall, A., Spence, S., Cobham, V., & Lyneham, H. (2022). Helping your anxious child: A step-by-step guide for parents. New Harbinger Publications.
https://www.amazon.com/Helping-Anxious-Child-Step-Step/dp/1684039916
Lebowitz, E. R. (2020). Breaking free of child anxiety and OCD: A scientifically proven program for parents. Oxford University Press.
https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Free-Child-Anxiety-Scientifically/dp/0190883529
Event Objectives:
- Describe trauma and racial justice.
- Classify trauma informed care.
- Discuss how we can improve care.
- Identify next steps for inclusion and improved care.
Event Objectives:
- Understand how symbols behaviors and values impact perceptions of inclusion.
- Reflect on how we contribute to signals of inclusion and exclusion.
- Increase awareness of practices that model inclusiveness in the workplace.
- Describe the factors that contribute to ED crowding.
- Apply quality improvement principles to improve ED flow.
- Reduce health care disparities for our patients.
- Review basic terminology related to describing barriers to health care.
- Describe some of the barriers for patient access to orthopedics and sports medicine.
- Describe some options to improve access for all patients.
- Discuss the story of my survival under German and Russian occupations.
- Relate my experiences to the effects of childhood trauma today.
- Define childhood trauma.
- Describe those most at risk.
- Identify strategies you can implement in your practice to be trauma informed.
- Familiarize learners with the significant changes in the 2022 AAP Hyperbilirubinemia Clinical Practice Guidelines Revision for Newborn Infants Greater than 35 Weeks specifically regarding risk assessment bilirubin monitoring hyperbilirubinemia treatment and post-discharge follow up.
- Gain knowledge of who should have imaging of a seizure.
- Gain knowledge of when imaging for a seizure should be performed.
- Gain knowledge of how imaging is performed.
- Review the current status of hypothermia treatment for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE).
- Review other trials of therapeutic hypothermia.
- Review the results of combining hypothermia with other neuroprotective treatments.
- Discuss the considerations of therapeutic hypothermia for infants with mild HIE.
- Understand the pathophysiology of allergic rhinitis including early and late phase allergic responses.
- Review the approach to diagnosis and management of allergic rhinitis.
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- Identify successful and unsuccessful educational approaches in their past and current educational experiences.
- Incorporate these successful approaches in their current educational experiences.
- Discuss ways to improve medical education as part of their future personal professional development.
- Define what obesity is and what obesity is not.
- Review the role of biology in the etiology and perpetuation of obesity.
- Review the clinical trial evidence of recently studied adolescent anti-obesity medications.
- Discuss trends in patients seeking care in emergency departments for mental/behavioral health concerns.
- Understand how to improve the safety of patients struggling with mental/behavioral concerns.
- Identify community based resources to help care for patients with Mental/Behavioral health concerns and risk of suicide.
- Differentiate and explain the process of SRBI/MTSS special education and 504 disability accommodations to patients and families.
- Discuss the intersection of ecosystems and health equity issues in the delivery of these processes.
- Develop a realistic plan with families to navigate three common challenges: autism ADHD and learning disabilities.
- Define opportunities and challenges in knowledge and skill transfer to LMIC health settings.
- Engage and partner effectively and ethically with local institutions.
- Identify challenges of working in public and private educational settings in LIMC.
- Review current COVID-19 & vaccine data.
- Discuss COVID 19 effects underserved populations.
- Discuss resurgence in states across the U.S. and globally
- Describe the respiratory viruses that are currently circulating
- Discuss possible interventions to prevent the spread of respiratory viruses
- Review the history and evolution of fetal surgery and the expanding indications for fetal intervention.
- Discuss the potential risks and complications for both mother and baby in fetal surgery.
- Identify the potential impact of fetal intervention on growing number of prenatally diagnosed conditions
- Discuss information for public settings about his or her areas of expertise in order to dispel myths and improve public knowledge about issues of scientific and medical interest.
- Evaluate patients' social as well as strictly medical needs and be prepared to engage with professionals outside the medical setting to improve patient health and well-being.
- Outline basic terminology in gender and gender care.
- Review therapeutic options including medications surgeries and mental health care as well as other partners.
- Learn tips for developing a therapeutic alliance with apprehensive parents.
- Recall various types of analytics.
- Review examples of selected analytics approaches used in Connecticut Children’s and other healthcare institutions.
- Discuss esophageal atresia (EA).
- Understand that esophageal atresia is a lifelong condition.
- Review past and present treatment.
- Review novel approaches for treatment of EA.
- Identify "COVID Toes".
- Identify an unusual infection caused by Burkholderia.
- Know what to look for when 2 members of the same family present in the summer with fever and severe thrombocytopenia.
- Review normal sleep requirements in adolescents.
- Discuss common sleep disturbances in adolescents.
- Identify public health issues related to sleep in adolescents.
- Discuss the effect of COVID on sleep in adolescents.
- Identify the most common pediatric rheumatic diseases.
- Review how the treatment of common pediatric rheumatic diseases impacts standard childhood healthcare.
- Describe at least 3 risk factors for adolescent substance use and development of a substance use disorder.
- Identify the 3 addictive substances adolescents are most likely to use.
- Identify the 3 major risk factors for fentanyl poisoning in adolescents.
- Understand basic principles for substance use screening and intervention for adolescents.
- Describe the epidemiology of congenital CMV infection
- Recognize the clinical manifestations and sequelae of congenital CMV infection
- Update the management strategies as they relate to screening diagnosis and treatment
- Review the assessment tools for evaluating drooling severity.
- Discuss interventions for drooling including non-invasive pharmacologic and surgical interventions.
- Relate the primary comorbid features of adult X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH) to physical function.
- List and compare the Phase 3 Primary and Secondary endpoints for adults with XLH treated with Burosumab.
- Distinguish x-linked hypophosphatemic rickets from acquired forms of rickets such as vitamin D deficient rickets.
- Explain the mechanism of action of burosumab - a human recombinant anti-FGF-23 antibody therapy for X-linked hypophosphatemia.
- Gain an understanding of the holding and impact of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health case.
- Reaffirm their knowledge of Connecticut's array of reproductive health laws regarding minors.
- Understand the impact of Dobbs on the care and treatment of minors in Connecticut and across the United States.
- Review guiding principles for psychopharmacology in children.
- Discuss the clinical approach to medications for ADHD anxiety and depression.
- Discuss the role for pharmacogenetics and new agents in the treatment of ADHD.
- Discuss the concept of implicit stigma and its relevance to healthcare.
- Describe a model for implicit stigma recognition and management that has been empirically derived through research.
- Explore ways to co-create systemic change to advance equity and address injustice for vulnerable marginalized and stigmatized patient groups.
- Discuss the interconnection of wellness burnout and connection for healthcare professionals.
- Recognize the unique experience of early career physicians and evaluate a novel institutional-led program.
- Outline current and future offerings of the Office of Faculty Development to promote connection foster resilience and provide opportunities for growth.
- Improve awareness of comprehensive multidisciplinary survivorship care.
- Understand lifelong implications of pediatric cancer.
- Define neuro-psychological and psychosocial needs of cancer survivors.
- Summarize chronic screening and management of endocrine late effects including metabolic co-morbidities.
- Gain familiarity with specific infections and vaccinations with increased risk of febrile seizure.
- Identify 4 risk factors for febrile seizure recurrence.
- Recognize 2 patterns of febrile seizure associated with genetic syndromes.
- Review current COVID-19 & vaccine data.
- Discuss how COVID-19 effects underserved populations.
- Discuss resurgence in states across the U.S. and globally.
- Describe the respiratory viruses that are currently circulating.
- Discuss possible interventions to prevent the spread of respiratory viruses.
- Explain the increasing landscape of pediatric epilepsy surgery.
- Recommend a new concept of the surgical target: focus within network.
- Associate a new understanding of outcome: targeted palliation.
- Discuss the the evaluation and potential causes of discomfort secondary to an unidentifiable source
- Review tools utilized to assess pain and irritability among pediatric patients of varying ages and communication strategies
- Offer options for symptom management and ongoing care
- Move at an audience directed pace to empower participants to change their diagnosis and practice of asthma therapy
- Review use of ICS/LABA therapy including SMART
- Discuss methods for partnering with patients and families to optimize asthma control
- Review the history of newborn screening.
- Review the process of managing an abnormal newborn screening referral.
- Discuss how new disorders are added to the RUSP.
- Place the screening process in the context of an integrated approach to developmental promotion early detection referral & linkage.
- Cite at least 2 considerations in screening special populations.
- Understand the rationale for healthcare institution-based screening of social factors
- Recognize the need for Universal Suicide screening
- Discuss the challenges facing LGBTQ youth and the impact of those challenges on mental health and suicidal ideation.
- Explain how to create supportive environments particularly in medical care settings for all people that promote resiliency and decreases the risk for suicide.
- Discuss common orthopaedic disorders in the pediatric athlete.
- Recognize when to obtain imaging and make referrals.
- Review strategies to incorporate life-long learning in medical practice.
- Discuss trainee learning and graduated responsibility.
- Discuss pediatric urology guidelines and application in practice.
- Review current COVID-19 & vaccine data.
- Discuss COVID 19 effects underserved populations.
- Discuss resurgence in states across the U.S. and globally.
- Identify trends in pediatric mental health and the scope of the current crisis.
- Review the challenges in identifying and managing pediatric patients with mental health care needs.
- Describe AAP Guidelines for Pediatric Mental Health Screening and best practices.
- Provide strategies to manage the tension between documentation imperatives - privacy and the CURES Act.
- Discuss the impact of a long-term crisis on healthcare worker well-being.
- Learn the key assumptions and principles of a trauma informed approach.
- Apply a trauma informed approach to the development of a recovery plan for the healthcare workforce.
- Identify rare pediatric priority review vouchers.
- Recite the RACE for Children Act and Give Kids a Chance Act reforms of the Pediatric Cancer Research Equity Act.
- Describe pediatric exclusivity.
- Discuss the relaxed age eligibility requirements for adult cancer studies.
- Explain the requirements and opportunities of the following regulatory science policies to access novel therapies and funds for pediatric translational research
- Discuss the types of stridor and the levels of obstruction associated with each type.
- Review of how to evaluate stridor and its associated symptoms.
- Describe Differential Diagnosis for noisy breathing/stridor by sound and by age.
- Discuss effects of mass/school shootings and other tragic events on children adolescents and families.
- Review supports that can be implemented within households to help children and adolescents cope with recent tragedies.
- Summarize approaches caregivers may use to manage distress around their children's experiences.
- Review current COVID-19 & vaccine data.
- Discuss COVID 19 effects underserved populations.
- Discuss resurgence in states across the U.S. and globally.
- Identify the pathways that connect greenhouse gas emissions to child health outcomes.
- Explain how climate actions can promote child health and health equity.
- Recognize the unique role that pediatric care providers have in addressing the climate crisis.
- Share what quality improvement looks like today in healthcare delivery
- Describe an organizational excellence framework for studying and evolving culture through improvement
- Discuss the results of using an organizational excellence framework to study and coach to improvement and sustainment in an ED-Safe grant
- Review current COVID-19 & vaccine data
- Discuss COVID 19 effects underserved populations
- Discuss resurgence in states across the U.S.
- Identify healthy pediatric patients who may benefit from furosemide administration to aid in bladder filling for the purposes of pelvic ultrasound.
- Define Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders Postural Tachycardia Syndrome and Disorders of Hypermobility in Pediatric Patients.
- Assess the change in resource utilization between the two time periods when considering only the subset of patients who were admitted to the hospital.
- Describe the rationale SMART aim driver diagram and PDSA cycles.
- Describe the current state of hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs).
- Examine opportunities to strengthen HVIPs in Hartford.
- Identify the various domains of palliative care and their key themes.
- Integrate essential elements of communication prognostication and shared decision-making into clinical practice along with special ethical considerations in neuropalliative care.
- Review current COVID-19 & vaccine data
- Discuss COVID 19 effects underserved populations
- Discuss resurgence in states across the U.S
- Review the burden of neonatal mortality in low income countries.
- Assess the leading causes of pediatric mortality.
- Share the process for development and testing of device-based interventions.
- Learn about the 5 unique adult programs at CT Children's.
- Become familiar with current guidelines for admitting and caring for adults.
- Consider how to provide safest and highest quality care for this older population.
- Define “Health Humanities”.
- Discuss the potential contribution of the health humanities to clinical education and practice.
- Reflect on selected aspects of clinician wellness in relation to the arts & humanities.
- Name an example of a community-engaged strategy that can be used to improve health equity.
- Discuss strategies to promote health equity within the faculty or institution.
- Discuss how to re-think our response to community need by re-envisioning how we see our community.
- Highlight the efforts of Diversity Equity and Inclusion in our community.
- Provide Framework of what Drives our DEI efforts. Highlight our Pathways to Action Work.
- Identify how strengthening basic benefits for our entry level staff and their families can address adverse influences, mitigate the impact of Chronic and toxic stress, and advance staff engagement and commitment.
- Discuss the role of structural bias/racism in perpetuating health disparities and undermining efforts to achieve health equity.
- Learn how to address health disparities from a systems approach, particularly from the perspective of the provider.
- Identify opportunities to address health disparities and advance health equity in the context of the health care system, the health care organization, and your practice.
- Learn how to be a physician advocate to promote health equity.
- Discuss the importance of recognizing and reflecting upon the varying layers of grief and trauma that have built up both before and over the course of the pandemic.
- Describe the process of case review in Connecticut's Medicaid program in order.
- Provide the best most timely and most effective care for their HUSKY patients.
- Identify the most common abdominal emergencies in infants and children.
- Develop an imaging approach for diagnosis.
- Recognize normal variants pitfalls and mimics.
- Describe the evolution of pediatric surgical oncology in the United States.
- List three specific examples of changes in surgical care for oncology patients.
- Describe recent changes in mental health morbidity in adolescents.
- Review current deficits in US mental health services.
- Name 3 possible technology solutions to address these deficits.
- Introduce the Subjects of “Food Processing” and “Food Additives”.
- Distinguish Food Additives as One Specific Aspect of “Food Processing.”
- Provide an Approach to Healthy Eating for All.
- Review current COVID-19 & vaccine data
- Discuss COVID 19 effects underserved populations
- Discuss resurgence in states across the U.S.
- Review what is known about authorization of COVID-19 vaccines for children by age.
- Review current status of vaccine coverage among children.
- Discuss policy considerations and barriers to vaccinating children.
- Learn updated statistics of COVID in CT today.
- Learn about how we will monitor COVID going forward.
- Learn about the impact of COVID on children in our most recent surge.
- Identify the different simulation modalities available through CT Children’s and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
- Describe potential educational and training benefits of simulation for multidisciplinary learners.
- Utilize established processes to access simulation program services at Connecticut Children’s and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
- Review recent data about COVID-19 in Connecticut and the US
- Review updates to therapies and vaccines
- Review updated guidelines and screening practices for Return to Play following COVID-19 in pediatric patients
- Review physiologic concepts of LVOTO (left ventricular outflow tract obstruction).
- Discuss surgical principles.
- Review of current era outcomes.
- Describe the advantages and disadvantages of different forms of simulation.
- Distinguish between face/content validity construct validity and concurrent validity for the assessment of a simulation.
John Schreiber, MD, MPH - Connecticut Children's
Event Objectives:
- Review current COVID-19 cases in CT and across the U.S.
- Discuss COVID-19 vaccine efficacy
- Discuss that communication break downs are the most common cause of medical error including medical and surgical complications.
- Identify three skill sets frequently heralded as pillars of emotional intelligence.
- Demonstrate ways to improve communication for relationships with peers and patients.
- Discuss pathophysiologic effects on respiratory system.
- Review motor milestones of patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
- Explore pulmonary consult before and after introduction of new therapies.
- Discuss supplementary investigations and prophylaxis.
- Introduce Neuromuscular Clinic and pulmonary guidelines.
Presenters:
John Schreiber, MD, MPH - Division of Infectious Diseases, Connecticut Children’s; Professor, UCONN School of Medicine Alyssa Bennett, MD - Director Adolescent Medicine Connecticut Children’s; Assistant Professor, UCONN School of Medicine
Event Objectives:
- Review current COVID-19 & vaccine data
- Discuss the appropriate medical evaluation of eating disorders
- Describe indications for medical admission
- Review how the pandemic has affected treatment options
- Discuss the importance of leadership in times of crisis.
- Articulate the necessity of mentorship and sponsorship to support leadership structures.
- Utilize allyship to fight injustice.
- Discuss quality outcome measures and the benefits of standardizing care.
- Review how to utilize outcome data to guide the delivery of high quality care.
- Discuss pathway development and the importance of implementing data driven care consistently.
John Schreiber, MD
Event Objectives:
- Review current COVID-19 & vaccine data
- Discuss COVID 19 effects underserved populations
- Discuss resurgence in states across the U.S.
- Discuss the importance of non-medical risk factors in shaping health across the life course.
- Describe the role of providers and health systems in addressing individual social needs and broader social drivers of health.
- Identify practice transformation partnership payment and policy strategies providers and health systems can pursue to improve child health and advance equity.
COVID & Vaccine Weekly Update- Hassan El Chebib, MD, FAAP
- Review current COVID-19 & vaccine data with regards to the uptick in CT cases
Unraveling the MIS-teries of MIS-C- Heather Tory, MD, MPH
- Explain the risk factors for patients developing MIS-C
- Identify the clinical and laboratory characteristics that comprise the case definition for MIS-C and differentiate MIS-C from other inflammatory diseases such as Kawasaki Disease and macrophage activation syndrome
- Describe the treatment approach for MIS-C and list resources available to guide clinical care
- Describe testicular testicular descent and epidemiology of undescended testes.
- Review testicular examinations and how to detect an acquired undescended testis.
- Describe surgical intervention and long term outcomes of orchiopexy.
Speakers:
- John Schreiber, MD - Connecticut Children's
- John Frassinelli
- Kimberly Traverso, LPC, Certified School Administrator and School Counselor - CSDE
Series Objectives:
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review Covid-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of Covid in their field
Event Objectives:
- Discuss current COVID-19 & vaccine data
- Review CT State Department of Education updates with regards to COVID-19
- Summarize the Commissioner’s state-level vision and plan
- Define and and understand why SEL is essential especially during this time
- Examine initial steps to building an equitable foundation systemically for SEL
- Leverage coherence systems to scale and sustain SEL
- Describe the association between cancer and heart disease in pediatric cancer patients.
- Describe the growing evidence of CV effects of cancer-related therapies, and need for surveillance and co-management of CV disease before, during, and after cancer treatment.
- Describe the advances in Research an innovation at Connecticut Children’s related to Cardio-oncology care.
- Recall the history of insulin discovery.
- Identify the signs and symptoms of diabetes at presentation.
- Distinguish the differences between insulin analogs and relate to their daily use in treatment of diabetes.
- Prepare to evaluate their patients' needs with diabetes.
John Schreiber, MD - Connecticut Children's
Series Objectives:
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review Covid-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of Covid in their field
Event Objectives:
- Review current COVID-19 & vaccine data
- Discuss COVID 19 effects underserved populations
- Discuss resurgence in states across the U.S.
- Describe the Center for Well-Being and Care Integration and its population health approach.
- Identify policy and payment model strategies to improve child health and well-being that have potential applications in Connecticut.
- Describe the structure of hospital-based violence intervention programs.
- Discuss the research evaluating hospital-based violence intervention and prevention services.
- Apply programmatic and policy lessons learned through the work of the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention.
- Describe the relationship between hearing and vestibular loss in children.
- Relate the impact these sensory losses have on childhood development.
- Consider how therapies (current and future) may minimize the impact of such sensory losses on childhood development.
- Identify the types of pain in sickle cell disease.
- Describe key component of the new guidelines for the management of acute pain in sickle cell disease.
- Review the mechanisms for development and maintenance of chronic pain in sickle cell disease.
- John Schreiber, MD - Connecticut Children's
- Allison Crepeau, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon - Elite Sports Medicine at Connecticut Children's
Event Objectives:
- Review current COVID-19 & vaccine data
- Review the current recommendations for safe participation in fall sports
- Illustrate the clinical course and treatment of an acute porphyria.
- Illustrate the clinical course of a cutaneous porphyria.
- Illustrate the physical and chemical aspects of metal chemistry and porphyrin rings that highlights their pathophysiology.
- Describe the history of medical geography.
- Review GIS technology and it’s applications across many disciplines including health and safety.
- Describe the UConn GIS Health Lab at Connecticut Children’s and how it is being utilized to advance child health research.
10.8.21 Addressing the Mental Health Pandemic: Where we have been and where we are going
Presenters:
- Melissa Santos, PhD - Connecticut Children's
- Robert Keder, MD - Connecticut Children's; UCONN School of Medicine
Event Objectives:
- Describe the current status of the mental health pandemic
- Report long term mental health outcomes from other large scale traumatic events
- Discuss strategies being implemented to support children and families
- Discuss musculoskeletal soft tissue injuries.
- Show options for nerve injuries of the upper extremity.
- Demonstrate "wide awake" surgeries performed at Connecticut Children's.
- Define the spectrum of breast disorders in adolescent male and female patients.
- Identify the role for pediatric plastic surgery in caring for patients with breast anomalies.
- Classify individual conditions and explain optimal treatment options.
Ask the Experts - Weekly COVID-19 & Vaccine Update
- John Schreiber, MD - Connecticut Children's
Public Act 21-6: An Act Concerning Immunizations
- Michael Bolduc - Depart of Public Health-CT
Event Objectives:
- Review current COVID-19 & vaccine data
- Discuss in detail the specifics of Public Act 21-6 which effectively eliminates the use of Non-Medical Exemptions for most students attending PreK-12 day care programs and institutions of higher education in Connecticut
- Explain the changes to the Medical Exemption provision of Public Act 21-6 which allows Physicians PAs and APRNs more latitude in granting a medical exemption
- Describe how cell therapy was developed for heme malignancies.
- Identify which types of cell products have been evaluated in clinical studies.
- Discuss challenges & opportunities in developing cell therapies for heme malignancies.
- Review the current Medico-Legal Environment in CT.
- Identify challenges to the defense of malpractice cases under current care models and the electronic chart.
- Discuss mitigating claims and losses.
Event Objectives:
- Review current COVID-19 & vaccine data
- Review recent parent experiences around discussion with their child's health care provider about COVID vaccine
- Explain how provider discussion is related to parent decisions about COVID vaccine for their child
- John Schreiber, MD - Connecticut Children's
- Sarah Clark, MPH- UMICH
- John Schreiber, MD - Connecticut Children's
Series Objectives:
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review Covid-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of Covid in their field
Event Objectives:
- Review current COVID-19 & vaccine data
- John Schreiber, MD, MPH - Connecticut Children's
Series Objectives:
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review Covid-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of Covid in their field
Event Objectives:
- Review current COVID-19 & vaccine data
- Review the worldwide epidemiology of congenital syphilis.
- Describe the variable clinical presentations of congenital syphilis.
- Discuss appropriate treatment guidelines for congenital syphilis.
- List the 5 topics included in the 2020 Focused Updates to the Asthma Guidelines that include recommendations for children.
- Define shared-decision making and its role in developing treatment options for children with asthma and their caregivers.
- Develop a plan for implementing SMART (Single Maintenance and Reliever Therapy) in children with asthma.
6.18.21 Ask the Experts; Weekly COVID-19 Update
- John Schreiber, MD - Connecticut Children's
Series Objectives:
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review Covid-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of Covid in their field
Ophthalmology Perspective; An Increase in screen time during the Pandemic
- Janine Collinge, MD- Connecticut Children's
Event Objectives:
- Review screen time statistics related to the pandemic
- Evidence based discussion of screen time effects on the eye
- Provide practical guidance on managing screen time concerns
- Recognize the paucity of data regarding normative values of beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) in fasting healthy children.
- Describe how comparative data from the NSQIP database alerted a single institution to unusually high rates of allogeneic blood transfusion for AIS and successfully motivated interventions to improve blood transfusion rates.
- Identify rates of hospitalizations for Kawasaki disease in the United States from 2016 through 2020.
- Discuss the language outcomes and importance of reading in preterm infants.
John Schreiber, MD, MPH - Connecticut Children's
Series Objectives:
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review Covid-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of Covid in their field
- Review why swift removal from the esophagus is critical.
- Discuss the management of complications from button battery injuries.
- Describe how lithium coin cell batteries cause injury to the esophagus.
John Schreiber, MD, MPH- Connecticut Children's
Objective:
- Review current COVID 19 & vaccine updates & data
- List the general categories of different hyperkinetic movement disorders of childhood and describe defining characteristics
- Differentiate the diagnostic testing and prognosis based on clinical presentation
- Recall several of the treatments and evidence based therapies
- Identify the incidence, suspected epidemiology and current policy related to allergic reactions to the COVID-19 vaccines.
- Describe risk-mitigation steps regarding potential adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines.
- Highlight the risk trade-offs with re-vaccination.
Dr. John Schreiber- Weekly COVID Update
Series Objectives:
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review Covid-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of Covid in their field
Dr. Donna Boruchov- Thrombosis and Covid-19 infection and Vaccination
Event Objectives:
- Describe thrombotic complications seen with Covid-19
- Describe covid-19 vaccine-related thrombotic complications
- Identify patients at high risk of thrombotic complications.
John Schreiber, MD
Series Objectives:
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review Covid-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of Covid in their field
- Discuss how clinical and technological advances shape current medical advances.
- Describe the centrality of mentor-mentee relationships in surgical training and the advancement of surgical science.
Series Objectives:
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review Covid-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of Covid in their field
Event Objectives:
- Define Obstructive Sleep Apnea OSA / Sleep Disordered Breathing in Children
- Identify symptoms of OSA in children
- Available management options outcomes and updates
- Describe fundamental principles of aerobic exercise response.
- Recognize the interplay of organ systems in normal exercise.
- Review the cardiopulmonary hemodynamic response to exercise in health and specific diseases.
- Explain how exercise testing can identify underlying limitations and predict the risk of future adverse outcomes.
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review Covid-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of Covid in their field
- Review pre & post COVID personal experience
- Define and identify racism in all of its levels and forms.
- Describe the ways in which racism can act as a pathogen.
- Explain best practices for interrupting and destroying the systems of racism in health care.
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review Covid-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of Covid in their field
- Discuss how to address another's concerns respectfully candidly and skillfully using principles of "crucial conversations".
- Utilize facilitative feedback strategies to provide and receive feedback that builds trust in relationships.
- Raise concerns about a patient's clinical deterioration candidly sensitively and respectfully.
1.Implement an environment that fosters inclusion excellence.
2. Apply the skills needed to attract and retain a diverse faculty and staff.
3. Practice the skills needed to increase racial, socioeconomic and diversity within your
organization and communities.
- Describe the Connecticut Newborn Screening System.
- Clarify the roles of the PCP and the Network in newborn screening.
- Explain how the Network can support you and your patients.
- Integrate newborn screening into current workflows.
- Expose audience to the concept of grand strategy and its value in global health.
- Demonstrate a non-colonialist approach to health systems strengthening in Ethiopia.
- Identify key features of successful systems approaches to quality of care in global health.
- Review the published literature describing patients with long-term symptoms after COVID-19 infection
- Present early data from Yale’s Post-COVID-19 Recovery Program describing our patient population and their burden of symptoms
- Highlight outstanding questions about this patient population that are being explored in future research
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review Covid-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of Covid in their field
- Describe a priori the relative Engel I success rates for pediatric epilepsy patients.
- Review the major procedural modalities for stage I / II epilepsy surgery.
- Discuss advances in less invasive intracranial mapping procedures for epilepsy.
Ask the Experts - Weekly COVID Update; Extended Q&A Session
- John Schreiber, MD
Series Objectives:
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review Covid-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of Covid in their field
- Describe recent developments in the literature exploring the role of the gut-brain-microbiome axis in common medical and behavioral health presentations.
- Explain how specific interventions can improve patient outcomes by targeting the gut-brain axis and the interactions between psychosocial factors and gastrointestinal symptoms.
Ask the Experts - Weekly COVID Update
- John Schreiber, MD
Series Objectives:
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review Covid-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of Covid in their field
Kids and technology during the pandemic and advice for parents
- Jenny Radesky, MD - University of MI
Event Objectives:
- Describe the ways media use has changed for families during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Practice counseling families on how to use media in positive ways how to create a family media plan and identify and intervene when media use is problematic.
- Identify the Return-To-Learn and/or Return-To-Participation process after concussion.
- Recognize the application of the active rehabilitation approach across the developmental age span for concussed individuals.
Ask the Experts (State Mandated)- Weekly COVID Update
John Schreiber, MD
Series Objectives:
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review Covid-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of Covid in their field
Return to Play Following COVID-19; Evolving Practice amid Emerging Data
James Enos, MD
Event Objectives:
- Describe how COVID-19 fits into the larger practice of health screening for young athletes
- Review considerations for sports participation screening following COVID-19 infection
- Consider future directions amid emerging data for sports participation screening in young athletes following COVID-19 infection
- Describe the root causes of childhood adversities which include adverse social environments structural inequities such as racism.
- Describe the health impact of racism and childhood adversity as social determinants of health over the life course.
- Describe several “structural competencies” for providers and “structural integrity” for organizations to advance anti-racist systems-wide practice and policy change
Ask the Experts- Weekly COVID Update
- John Schreiber, MD
Series Objectives:
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review Covid-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of Covid in their field
SARS-CoV2 and Pediatric IBD
- Jeffrey Hyams, MD
- Event Objectives:
- Review the physiology of gastrointestinal involvement in SARS-CoV2 infection
- Recognize therapy changes that need to occur following diagnosis of SARS-CoV2 in patients with IBD
- Discuss different Etiologies of UTI in Children.
- Describe Bladder and Bowel Dysfunction in children.
- Explain Neurogenic bladder and Caudal Regression Syndrome.
Ask the Experts - Weekly COVID Update
- John Schreiber, MD
Series Objectives:
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review Covid-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of Covid in their field
School in this Time of COVID: Considerations and Concerns
- Lisa Namerow, MD
Event Objectives:
- Enhance school history-taking given the impact of COVID
- Consider learning vulnerabilities associated with remote learning
- Assess mental health risk associated with remote learning
- Review the risk factors for necrotizing enterocolitis.
- Discuss evidence from studies of probiotics use in preterm infants.
- Learn about various probiotic strains and products including data on effect as well as quality considerations.
John Schreiber, MD
Series Objectives:
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review Covid-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of Covid in their field
- Provide information on the benefits of AAP Membership.
- Demonstrate on the value of AAP advocacy.
- Explain current opportunities and challenges facing pediatric subspecialists
John Schreiber, MD
Series Objectives:
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review COVID-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of COVID in their field
Steven Rogers, MD, MS
Event Objectives:
- Illustrate the prevalence of suicide amongst youth in the United States and specifically here in Connecticut
- Review the importance of providing universal suicide screening in your practice and how it is feasible
- Recognize the impact of the pandemic on youth mental health and suicidality
- Identify select readiness principles which can be used at home in primary care and in institutional settings.
- Describe how these principles connect across a continuum.
- Demonstrate how a key foundational component can support future readiness endeavors.
Ask the Experts (State Mandated)- Weekly COVID Updates
- John Schreiber, MD
Series Objectives:
- Provide Open forum Q&A to address Covid-19 concerns & inquiries.
- Review Covid-19 daily updates.
Help Me Grow- How we can help young children in a COVID world
- Kimberly Martini-Carvell, MA, MA
Event Objectives:
- Identify & engage patient & family needs & concerns during regarding Covid-19
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of MR urography.
- Explain the basic physical principles of MRI hepatic iron quantification.
- Identify the common clinical indications for whole-body MRI.
John Schreiber, MD
Series Objectives:
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review Covid-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of COVID in their field
Melanie Sue Collins, MD
Event Objectives:
- Introduce a novel method of COVID-19 diagnosis.
- Review “typical” seasonality of common viral respiratory infections.
- Discuss pulmonary outcomes after COVID-19 infection.
- Provide practical tips for optimizing asthma management during COVID.
- Report on the current mental health trends being seen in COVID-19.
- Describe the use of assessment strategies that can be implemented into clinical practice.
- List at least one way that Connecticut Children’s is working to minimize the mental health impact during COVID.
- Identify & engage patient & family needs & concerns during regarding Covid-19
- Review current myths circulating about disease in children transmission risks protective measures.
- Explore role of pediatricians in discussing parental concerns parental beliefs family disagreements.
- Relate to issues of vaccine hesitancy and antivaccine disinformation.
- Describe basic physical exam points to perform during a physical examination of a shoulder.
- List common causes for shoulder pain in pediatric and adolescent patients.
- Review typical vaccine timelines
- Describe the different strategies to make SARS-CoV-2 vaccines
- Explain why vaccines to prevent SARS-CoV-2 have been rapid
- Review the overlapping definitions for cytokine storm autoinflammation hyperinflammation Macrophage Activation syndrome and Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis.
- Name the types of infections and drug reactions most associated with hyperinflammation.
- Name two host susceptibility factors that predispose to HLH and MAS.
Speakers:
- John Schreiber, MD
- Chris Corcoran
Series Objectives:
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review Covid-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of Covid in their field
Event Objectives:
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- Review services available through Healthy Homes
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- Differentiate new COVID protocols in place
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- Integrate referrals to Healthy Homes into your practice
12.11.20 Ask the Experts (State Mandated)-Physician Wellness during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- John Schreiber, MD
- Lauren Ayr-Volta, PhD
Series Objectives:
- Provide Open forum Q&A to address Covid-19 concerns & inquiries.
- Review Covid-19 daily updates.
Event Objectives:
- Review emerging literature on the effects of COVID-19 on physician wellness
- Identify signs/symptoms that indicate the need for professional support
- Identify three coping strategies to support daily physician wellness
Speakers:
- John Schreiber, MD
- Gyula Acsadi, MD, PhD
- Richard S.K. Young, MD
Event Objectives:
- Review the differences in neurological complications of COVID 19 infection in children vs. adults
- Differentiate the acute effects of COVID-19 vs. the post infectious complications
- Illustrate the neuropsychiatric effects of COVID-19 infection in children
- Recognize opportunities to participate in activities contributing to the improvement of the community & the betterment of public health.
- Identify methods to advocate for strategies to improve individual & public health through communication with government health care organizations & industry.
- John Schreiber, MD
- Seth Lapuk, MD
Series Objectives:
- Provide Open forum Q&A to address Covid-19 concerns & inquiries.
- Review Covid-19 daily updates.
Event Objectives:
- Review emerging perspectives on returning to play in Pediatric patients who test positive for Covid - 19
- Illustrate the need for caloric intervention in disorders of an unstable catabolic state.
- Define Idiopathic Ketotic Hypoglycemia (IKH) and markers of anabolic and catabolic state.
- Discuss the differential of IKH and glycogen storage diseases.
Speakers:
- John Schreiber, MD
- Chip Hart, BA
Event Objectives:
- Prepare for inevitable changes to the payor mix and response to COVID
- Integrate technical solutions (such as telemedicine or patient recall) into practice
- Prepare and assemble responses to the inevitable challenge to the concept of pediatric expertise
- Identify what the CCADV's RRH program is.
- Identify year 1 successes.
- Review how to make referrals to the program.
**Covid Update- John Schreiber, MD
Supporting Children with Special Needs & their Families during Covid- Tesha Tramontano-Kelly**
- Illustrate and identify ideas strategies and resources to share with families
- Suggestions for action plans on how to apply communicate and share concerns and resources with families that are struggling
- Define abnormal uterine bleeding and what would constitute a reason for a referral to hematology and/or adolescent medicine.
- Review common bleeding disorders and how to evaluate for them.
- Demonstrate an understanding of management options for heavy menstrual bleeding in the context of a bleeding disorder.
Ask the Experts-Pediatric Asthma and COVID-19
- John Schreiber, MD
- Jessica Hollenbach, PhD - Connecticut Children's
Event Objectives:
- Identify the current epidemiological relationship between asthma and COVID-19
- Describe whether asthma contributes to risk for COVID-19
- Apply guidelines-based asthma therapy during a pandemic
- Describe the biopsychosocial model of pain.
- Examine how to “explain pain” to youth and families using neuroscience and metaphor.
- List 2 strategies used in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help youth manage pain
Ask the Experts (State Mandated)-Anti-Poverty Medicine: a new approach to improve child health
- John Schreiber, MD
- Lucy Marcil, MD
Event Objectives:
- Identify the pathway and relationship between financial status and health
- Describe the health outcomes associated with financial interventions
- Apply the concept of a Medical – Financial Partnership to their own clinical setting and work
- Distinguish the unique characteristics of the human ventricular stem cell niche from those of rodents and non-human primates.
- Explain how the ependymal epithelial lining of the brain’s ventricular system is generated during fetal and post-natal development and the critical functions it performs.
- Describe how fetal-onset hydrocephalus impacts the brain’s stem cell niche and thereby affects both ependymogenesis and neurogenesis in the developing fetal and neonatal brain.
Ask the Experts (State Mandated)-Eating Disorders During COVID
- Alyssa Bennett, MD - Connecticut Children's
- Betsy Davis, LCSW, RD - Don't Weight, LLC
- Henry Feder, MD
Event Objectives:
- Identify the clinical presentation of eating disorders in the setting of a pandemic
- Review the medical evaluation of eating disorders including telemedicine and in-office visits.
- Name the top three driving performance errors contributing to young driver crashes.
- Describe the challenges that social distancing poses to driver testing and licensing.
- Describe three ways that a provider can support safe driving for young drivers.
Speakers:
- John Schreiber, MD
- Jay Sicklick, JD
- Patricia Marealle, JD
Series Objectives:
- Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on families
- Review Covid-19 weekly updates
- Arrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of Covid in their field
Event Objectives:
- Provide an update on three critical legal protections afforded children and families as a result of the pandemic
- Identify and improve provider knowledge of immigrant legal rights including the ABC's of the Special Immigrant Juvenile Status pathway
- Describe the current lipid screening and management guidelines and identify when to refer.
- Assess high risk pediatric patients and define treatment goals to reduce cardiovascular risk.
- Detect that Familial Hypercholesterolemia is a common genetic disorder and early intervention is key.
- Review the forms of gene therapy.
- Recall the safety considerations in gene therapy.
- Discuss the target diseases in pediatric neurology.
- John Schreiber, MD
- Nancy Trout, MD, MPH
- Jessica Williams, MD - Connecticut Children's
- Objectives:
- Provide Open forum Q&A to address Covid-19 concerns & inquiries.
- Review Covid-19 daily updates.Event Objectives:
- Identify racial and ethnic disparities in risk for obesity and severe COVID infection
- Identify maternal and child risk factors for developing obesity
- Learn how to implement childhood obesity prevention in pediatric practice
- Discuss step wise approach to pediatric obesity treatment
- Become familiar with approach to medication management and expanded indication for Bariatric surgery
- Describe one way in which implicit bias may influence provider communication.
- List how stigma may impact health outcomes.
- Identify at least one new method for provider communication
9/18/20: Mental Health in the Era of COVID
John Schreiber, MD
Melissa Santos, PhD
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
Describe the changes in mental health prevalence during COVID
Identify factors that put some groups at increased risk for mental health concerns during COVID
Identify two strategies for anxiety reduction
- Review etiologies of Urinary Incontinence.
- Provide an evaluation of Urinary incontinence dysuria and frequency.
- Summarize treatment for the primary care provider.
"Ask the Experts"" Fall Forum- Covid, Classrooms, and Community Pediatrics; Open Forum Session"
John Schreiber, MD, MPH
- Describe the improvement in clinical outcome of pediatric cancers
- Define the factors associated with the outcome improvement in pediatric cancers
- Identify recent advances in the diagnostic and therapeutic developments
- Define Racism: The Problem
- Discuss racism as a core social determinant of health: The Evidence
- Discuss strategies for pediatricians to address the health effects of racism on children and adolescents
Impact of Covid-19 on out Inner-City Youth
John Schreiber, MD, MPH- Division of Infectious Diseases,Connecticut Children’s;
Professor of Pediatrics, UConn School of Medicine
Danielle Warren-Dias, MSc,BC-HP, Certified Recovery Coach
Angel Ruiz, BS Certified Recovery Coach
Series Objectives:
- Provide Open forum Q&A to address Covid-19 concerns & inquiries.
- Review Covid-19 daily updates.
Event Objectives:
- Identify & engage patient & family needs & concerns during regarding Covid-19
Weekly Covid Updates- Dr. John Schreiber
Supporting Adolescents and Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Dr. Jessica MacCormac
- Identify the features of COVID-19 transmission that present challenges to reopening society and economy.
- Describe approaches, including testing, to mitigate the health impact of COVID-19 as we reopen.
- Discuss future scenarios and the risk of COVID-19 resurgence after reopening.
- Describe advances in our understanding of asthma pathogenesis and how these advances direct our current therapy.
- Recall the rationale for SMART asthma care and create SMART asthma care plans.
- Identify contemporary unknowns related to asthma and its future therapies.
- Identify how long to observe children after various exposures to laundry detergents pods.
- Recall about the impact of code choreography on time to critical events during a resuscitation.
- Distinguish the various prescriptive practices and outcomes of ondansetron prescribing for children in the emergency department.
Summer Fever When to Think Lyme, When to Think Covid & When to think of other Infectious Diseases
John Schreiber, MD
Hassan El Chebib, MD
- List at least two patient care topics for which there is solid data to guide Pediatric Critical Care physicians’ actions.
- Describe the three key elements of “burnout” as defined by Maslach.
- Describe how “the hospital” and individuals can work together to increase engagement and build a better future.
- Summarize the major global forces now causing neglected and vaccine preventable diseases to re-emerge over the last five years.
- Report on how COVID-19 has become a major global health threat in this context.
- Summarize the major approaches to global health vaccines for these new 21st century diseases.
- Identify current telemedicine regulations.
- Review guidelines to maximizing the benefits and minimizing the risks of providing telemedicine services.
- Predict what the future may hold for telemedicine.
- Describe the function of Feeding Team appointments to families to manage expectations and help them prepare for the visit.
- List at least 2 strategies which can be given to families which could be protective against feeding difficulties.
- Identify patient populations who may benefit from a comprehensive multidisciplinary feeding evaluation.
- Describe phenotypes of FPIES.
- Discuss approach to diagnosis of FPIES.
- Analyze management of FPIES.
- Identify dimensions of context in primary care that influence the strategies that one might choose in standardizing EHR vs. allowing flexibility.
- Describe dimensions of standardization, how an EHR supports/shapes standardization (data, tasks, roles) (conflicts/opportunities) that occur in each category, between standardization/customization.
- Discuss Information Exchange/Patient complexity to create broad patient care scenarios that must be addressed.
- Describe how COVID attacks the heart.
- Describe approach to dealing with COVID patients needing cardiac evaluation.
- Illustrate various subspecialty services that exist within the division of pediatric cardiology
- Identify unique challenges facing providers right now.
- Apply supportive strategies for today and the reimagined future.
- Describe the ways in which parent technology use interrupts or displaces parent-child activities and potential effects on child development and behavior.
- Describe basic aspects of persuasive design.
- Develop competence in addressing media use during clinical encounters using parent-centered approaches.
- Summarize evidence on the usefulness and limitations of telehealth for medically complex pediatric patients.
- Illustrate how several specialties at Connecticut Children’s are managing their patient populations.
3. Review cross-cutting strategies for successful telehealth experiences.
- Identify major diagnoses of pediatric dysphagia.
- Recall the different diagnostic modalities for dysphagia and their appropriate use.
- Analyze diagnostic patterns of esophageal motor disorders on esophageal manometry.
- Describe the Female Athlete Triad.
- Describe some injuries and concerns that are specific to female athletes.
- Describe some tools available to help identify at-risk athletes.
- Analyze opportunities for increasing the value of pediatric services.
- Describe the outcomes and components of pediatric care that can support children's lifelong well being.
- Analyze and participate in discussions about current initiatives in Connecticut that support the transformation of child health services.
- Identify suicide as a national and global public health threat.
- Describe the implications of suicide epidemiology in the general medical setting.
- Describe research on suicide risk screening and management tools and how they are applied to real world medical settings.
- Describe the pathophysiology of NEC: current understanding and role of pro-inflammatory signaling.
- Discuss the impact of the microbiome in NEC pathophysiology.
- Discuss dietary influences on the neonatal microbiome.
- Discuss the demographics of the aging physician population and what physiologic changes are encountered.
- Review the challenges faced by hospitals in credentialing aging physicians.
- Propose adaptations available for aging physicians to maintain relevance in their careers.
- Define point of care ultrasound.
- List common pediatric applications of point of care ultrasound.
- Describe implementation of point of care ultrasound program.
Objectives:
1.) Describe overuse musculoskeletal injury patterns unique to children and adolescents.
2.) Discuss imaging findings of a gamut of pediatric sports related injuries.
3.) Contrast appearances of different injuries that affect each anatomical segment.
Objectives:1. Review the prevalence of ketotic hypoglycemia in the
pediatric population.
2. Construct an approach to evaluating children with
ketotic hypoglycemia.
3. Discuss evidence that glycogen storage disease may be
an under-recognized cause of ketotic hypoglycemia
Objectives:1. Identify red flags from history and physical exam
concerning for systemic autoimmune diseases.
2. Review antibodies and other key lab values in children with
systemic lupus erythematosus systemic vasculitis and
dermatomyositis.
3. Review morbidities and complications of Kawasaki Disease
and Henoch Schonlein Purpura.
Natasha Frederick, MD
Anne Dudley, MD
Jared Bieniek, MD
Victoria Pohl, CPNP-PC, MSN, BSN
Hayley Shaw, RN-BSN, CPHON
Please use the following link to view the video referenced approximately seven minutes into the podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8syQeFtBKc