Pediatric Grand Rounds Schedule

March 2010

March 4: The Marion L. Walker Honorary Lecture: Head Injury Mysteries: How Patients Get Hurt and How They Get Better

Ann-Christine Duhaime, MD
Program Director, Pediatric Neurosurgery
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, New Hampshire

This talk reviews some of the controversies in pediatric head injury. How can you tell if an injury is accidental or non-accidental? Why do some kids get better and others have severe damage? What treatments improve outcome, and do any make things worse? Where should our prevention efforts
be focused? Finally, how can our careful observations at the bedside inform basic science research and vice versa?

March 11: Chaplaincy Care in a Pediatric Medical Setting

The Reverend Michael G. Jackson, BCC, M.Div.
Interfaith Chaplain
Director of Pastoral Care
Primary Children’s Medical Center

Chaplaincy care can be a vital intervention in the pediatric inpatient setting. This Grand Rounds serves to introduce what the medical chaplaincy is and what services are provided to patients, their families, and the hospital staff. In addition, Rev. Jackson discusses what is understood about the role of religion and spirituality in patient outcomes.

March 18: The Evolutionary Basis for the Association between Cervical Ribs, Fetal Death, and Childhood Cancer

Frietson Galis, PhD
Associate Professor, Leiden University
Research Associate, National Centre for Biodiversity
Leiden, The Netherlands

Disturbances of early organogenesis in mammals are frequent and cause common congenital malformations, e.g. cervical ribs, extra digits, and asymmetry in mammals. Due to the interconnectivity of early organogenesis, mutations that cause these common malformations are associated with many negative side effects (additional malformations and childhood cancers). The negative side effects of these
mutations dramatically lower fitness, and consequently, are selected against. Selection against most changes of early organogenesis leads to conservation of body plan traits that are determined during this stage, e.g. the number of eyes, kidneys, limbs, digits, cervical vertebrae. Hence, the interactivity of early development is highly relevant for both the developmental origins of diseases, and for the evolutionary conservation of body plans. This presentation makes the case that changes of highly conserved traits, such
as the number of digits and cervical vertebrae, are reliable indicators of medical risks.

March 25: Understanding Maintenance of Certification

H. James Brown, MD
Vice President for Physician Relations
American Board of Pediatrics
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

The presentation touches on the history, purpose, and mission of the American Board of Pediatrics, as well
as the evolution of the certification process. The reasons for the change to a continuous certification
process, Maintenance of Certification (MOC), are explained. The four parts of MOC are discussed and
information is provided on how Diplomates can complete the requirements of MOC.

April 2010

April 1: The M. Eugene Lahey, MD, Memorial Lecture - Topics in Health Care Innovation

Brent C. James, MD, M.Stat
Chief Quality Officer
Executive Director, Institute for Health Care Delivery Research
Intermountain Healthcare
Salt Lake City, Utah

April 8: The David J. Green, MD, Memorial Lecture - The Promise and Peril of Personalized Medicine

Robert “Skip” Nelson, MD, PhD
Pediatric Ethicist, Office of Pediatric Therapeutics
Office of the Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration
Silver Spring, Maryland

The presentation will explore selected ethical and regulatory issues in the application of pharmacogenomics to drug development. Among the issues discussed will be the impact of genetic stratification on clinical trial design, biospecimen collection and storage, the requirement for informed consent, the linkage of diagnostic testing to drug indications, and the risks of subsequent genetic profiling and discrimination.

April 15: Characterization and Translational Application of Umbilical Cord Blood

Mitchell S. Cairo, MD
Chief Division Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine and Pathology
New York City, New York

This lecture will review the biology of cord blood stem cells and immune cells, specifically addressing the application of this information in clinical medicine. Highlights of the current research in this field will be discussed.

April 22: The Dale G. Johnson, MD, Honorary Lecture - Surgical Cellular and Molecular Perspectives of the Fetus as a Patient

This lectuce will be held at the Eccles Auditorium at the Huntsman Cancer Institute and parking is not available there.

Alan W. Flake, MD
Professor of Surgery
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

An overview of the current status of the fetal surgical intervention will be presented. The audience will learn what anomalies can be successfully treated by fetal surgery and controversial areas will be discussed. The future prospects of fetal treatment by stem cell and gene therapy will also be discussed.

 

 

April 29: GI Disease in Cystic Fibrosis

John F Pohl, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
University of Utah School of Medicine

This lecture discusses the gastrointestinal complications seen in cystic fibrosis, including pancreatic insufficiency, cystic fibrosis-related liver disease, GERD, distal intestinal obstructive syndrome, as well as other GI diseases. The audience will learn about the GI manifestations of cystic fibrosis as well as relevant testing and treatment.

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 educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim 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.