Pediatric Grand Rounds - August and September schedule

August 4                 COVID-19 Update

Joshua Schaffzin, MD, Director Infection Prevention, Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Disease, Cincinnati Children’s  

Felicia Scaggs Huang, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Disease, Cincinnati Children’s 

•Discuss Pediatric disease/epidemiology

•Review antigen and antibody testing

•Recognize Multi-system Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)

August 11                  Initiating a Fontan Multidisciplinary Clinic to Standardize Care and Facilitate Discoveries

                                  Stuart Goldstein, MD, Professor of Pediatric Nephrology CCHMC,

                                  Adam Lubert, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatric Cardiology CCHMC

Jonathan Dillman, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatric Radiology CCHMC

                                  Andrew Trout, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatric Radiology CCHMC

Kelly Kleier, Business Manager Outpatient Operations and Fontan Clinic, Heart Institute

Joe Palermo, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatric Gastroenterology CCHMC

  • ·         Recognize the multisystem involvement in patients with Fontan circulation

  • ·         Review the steps included in building a Fontan multidisciplinary clinic

August 18                The Young Child with Obesity: Evaluation and Management

Nancy Crimmins, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, Cincinnati Children’s

August 25                Acute Flaccid Myelitis: Preparing for an Anticipated Disease

Mary Staat, MD, Director International Adoption Center, Division of Infectious Disease, Cincinnati Children’s

Marissa Vawter-Lee, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Neurology, Cincinnati Children’s  

Benjamin (Ben) Kerrey, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s

Ann Schwentker, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Plastic Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s

September 1           Hanging Out or Hooking Up: Clinical and Community-based Approaches to Promoting Healthy Adolescent Relationships

Liz Miller, MD, PhD, FSAHM  Director, Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh; Professor of Pediatrics, Public Health, and Clinical and Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine          

  • Describe the influences of adolescent relationship abuse and reproductive coercion on adolescent and young adult health

  • Identify strategies for creating a trauma-sensitive clinic environment (including via telehealth) and describe the rationale for a universal education approach.

  • Elucidate clinical and community-based intervention approaches to prevent relationship abuse and reproductive coercion

September 8          The Cincinnati Pediatric Society Lyon Memorial Lecture: When Disparity Becomes Despair:  What Kids and Kidneys Can Teach

Pediatricians About Racism in America

O.N. Ray Bignall II, MD Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Nationwide Children's Hospital

  • Define Health Disparities and Race, and overview their historical contexts in Cincinnati, Ohio and the United States.

  • Briefly highlight a few of the racial/ethnic health disparities we see in pediatric kidney disease, and link them to structurally racist and unjust systems that perpetuate these disparities.

  • Share the perspectives of Black faculty, staff, and trainees who have been impacted by the Movement for Black Lives, especially within the context of America's historical apathy to racism and systems of inequality that negatively influence all children and families.

  • Discuss changes that we can make as health care professionals to dismantle systems of inequality and promote health equity and justice in the medical academy

September 15, 2020  Topic and speaker TBD

September 22         Combatting anti-vaccine attacks and addressing vaccine hesitancy

Todd Wolynn, MD CEO, Kids Plus Pediatrics; Co-founder, Shots Heard Round the World, Pittsburgh, PA

Chad Hermann, Communications Director, Kids Plus Pediatrics; Co-founder, Shots Heard Round the World, Pittsburgh, PA

September 29        Use of intravascular contrast materials in children with kidney disease                                                         

Stuart Goldstein, MD, FAAP, FNKF Clark D. West Endowed Chair, Director, Center for Acute Care Nephrology, Cincinnati Children’s

  Jonathan Dillman, MD, MSc Associate Chief of Research, Radiology, Medical Director, Imaging Research Center, Cincinnati Children’s