Pediatric Grand Rounds Schedule

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.