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The 2012– 2013 Pediatric Grand Rounds Series is information below.

  • Watch Live for Credit

    Primary Children’s Medical Center offers credit for watching Pediatric Grand Rounds live from any computer.

    To Claim Credit
    To receive one hour of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for viewing the live broadcast, please fill out the certification form attached to this document and email or fax it to the Primary Children’s Medical Center CME Office by 5 pm on the day of the broadcast. Pediatric Grand Rounds is normally held every Thursday from 8-9 am. Due to requirements of the ACCME for enduring materials, we will not give credit for watching archived broadcasts of Pediatric Grand Rounds.
    Disclaimer
    While Primary Children’s strives to provide the best product possible through our videostreaming and teleconference options, the limitations of equipment, software, bandwidth, and presenter slides all bear a factor in the quality of the production. The Pediatric Grand Rounds presentations should not be compared to television or high-definition broadcasts.
  • April 2013

    April 4: Type 1 Diabetes Day by Day-Outpatient Management and Emerging Technologies

    Mary A. Murray, MD
    Professor, Pediatrics
    Chief, Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes
    University of Utah School of Medicine
    Medical Director, Diabetes Program
    Primary Children's Medical Center

    Objectives:

    • Set daily expectations and goals for outpatient diabetes management of the child/adolescent with Type 1 diabetes
    • Assist families with care of diabetes during routine childhood events such as intercurrent illnesses or sports
    • Comprehend the impact of new technologies available to manage diabetes and some of the risks associated with use of the technology
    April 11: Fetal Surgery for Myelomeningocele: Promise and Pitfalls
    The 10th Annual Marion L. Walker, MD Honorary Lecture
     
    Nalin Gupta MD, PhD
    Associate Professor in Residence of Neurological Surgery and Pediatrics
    Dennis Bruce Dettmer Endowed Chair in Pediatric Neurosurgery
    Director, Pediatric Neurological Surgery Program
    Principal Investigator, Brain Tumor Research Center
    University of California, San Francisco
    Department of Neurological Surgery
     
    Objectives:
    • List the primary disabilities associated with open neural tube defects
    • Identify the benefits noted with fetal surgery for spina bifida
    • Describe the maternal risks associated with open fetal surgery and impact on subsequent pregnancies
    April 18: Improving the Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care for Youth and Young Adults
    The 22nd Annual Gillian Abbotts, MD Memoiral Lecture
     
    W. Carl Cooley, MD
    Chief Medical Officer
    Crotched Mountain Foundation
    Greenfield, New Hampshire
     
    Objectives:
    • Discuss the evidence for the importance of improving health care transitions from pediatric to adult care
    • Describe the 2011 clinical report on health care transition and its relationship to the Six Core Elements of Health Care Transition
    • Apply the methods of quality improvement to office or clinic settings to improve supports and measure improvements in health care transition
    April 25: Parent's Perspective on DCDD: Decision-making, Meaning-making, and Recommendations
    Susan Bratton, MD, MPH
    Professor, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine University of Utah School of Medicine
     
    Stephanie Hoover, M.S., Doctoral Candidate
    Counseling Psychology
    Department of Educational Psychology
    University of Utah
     

    Objectives:

    • Communicate the severe shortage of organs for transplant and identified methods to decrease this gap between need for and supply of organs
    • Appreciate that because of size constraints, infants suffer most from the very short supply of organs for transplantation
    • Know distinctions between different types of donation after cardiac death
  • May 2013

    May 2: Autoinflammatory Bone Disorders: Expanding the Differential Diagnosis of Osteomylitis

    Polly Ferguson, MD
    Associate Professor
    Director, Pediatric Rheumatology
    University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
    Iowa City, Iowa

    Objectives:

    • Become familiar with the concept of autoinflammatory disorders and how they differ from autoimmune disorders
    • Learn what disorders are often associated with sterile osteomyelitis
    • Be familiar with the genetic syndromes that have sterile osteitis as a phenotype
    May 9: The Influence of Screen Time on Infants, Children, and Adolescents: What We Know; What Can We Do About It?

    Robert Mendelson, MD, FAAP
    Private Practice, Pediatrics
    AAP Editorial Advisory Board
    B.O.D/Secretary: Children’s Health Alliance/Children’s Health Foundation
    National Registry of Who’s Who
    Portland, Oregon

    Objectives:

    • Recognize major health outcomes, physical and mental, associated with screen time.
    • Learn key media history questions to ask.
    • Learn how to counsel parents to decrease negative effects.
    • Identify resources for physicians and parents.
    • Discuss positive outcomes associated with some screen time applications.
    May 16: Neutrophils, NETs, and Neonates: New Biology of Neonatal Neutrophil Dysfunction

    Christian Yost, MD
    Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
    University of Utah School of Medicine

    Objectives

    • Define and characterize the syndrome of neonatal neutrophil dysfunction and its impact on term and preterm newborn infants
    • Describe neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) formation as an example of new neutrophil biology and highlight inappropriate NET formation as a potential contributing factor to infection and inflammatory tissue damage.
    May 23: Mentored Program in Pediatric Research

    Mechanical Ventilation of Preterm Lambs Is Associated with
    Necrotizing Enterocolitis
    Wendy Leavitt, MS4

    An Office-Based Intervention To Reduce Bottle Feeding Among Latino Pediatric Patients at The South Main Clinic
    Chris Rees, MS4

    Veteran Suicide: Literature Review
    Joseph Sin, MS4

    Use of Oxandrolone to Promote Growth in Neonates with Complex Congenital Heart Disease
    Daniel Garvin, MSIV

    May 30: Surgical ‘Normalization’ for Children Born with Atypical Genitalia: Controversies, Consensuses, and the Constant Cultural Conundrum

    The 16th David J. Green, MD Memorial Lecture

    Alice Dreger, PhD
    Professor of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics
    Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
    Chicago, Illinois

    Objectives:

    • Be able to articulate the basic recommendations for care of children with disorders of sex development as articulated in the 2006 “Chicago Consensus” of the Pediatric Endocrine Society and the European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology
    • Understand the central ethical challenges and the evidentiary gaps in surgical “normalization” of atypical genitalia in early childhood
    • Surgical “Normalization” of atypical genitalia in early childhood
  • Accreditation

    This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of Primary Children's Medical Center and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Primary Children's Medical Center is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

    AMA Credit

    Primary Children's Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

    Unless otherwise indicated, neither Pediatric Education Services nor the presenters at Pediatric Grand Rounds have any relationship with commercial products or services discussed.

    Jointly sponsored by Pediatric Education Services at Primary Children's Medical Center and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

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