Description
2024 Course Overview
This course is designed for clinicians and health professionals who provide service to infants, children, and adolescents. Subject matter will be presented to the entire group in didactic lecture, panel discussions, and brief management problems; followed by question and answer periods. The practice of general pediatrics requires a large knowledge base covering many areas of practice. Keeping up to date is a challenge. Using the yearly course evaluations, we determine the topic areas most needed by clinicians. These generally include disciplines that are not well-taught during training. We aim to present state-of-the-art information that primary care providers can incorporate into their daily practices.
There are two options for participating in this course. The first is a full in person program. The second is a virtual option at lower cost which includes all the lecture presentations, but not all of the break-out sessions.
Who Should Attend
- Primary Care Physicians
- Physician Assistants
- Nurse Practitioners
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
Evaluate recent basic science and clinical advances in pediatrics.
Incorporate practice guidelines and published standards of care in the diagnosis and management of pediatric diseases, including but not limited to mental health, respiratory, endocrine, and GI disease.
Assess traditional principles of care in light of recent scientific advances in pediatrics.
Recognize and discuss different approaches to pediatric patient care.
2024 Agenda
All agenda session times are listed in Eastern Standard Time.
Welcome Remarks
Joanne Wolfe, MD, MPH
Physician in Chief, MassGeneral for Children
Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Charles Wilder Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Pediatric Pulmonology: The Lung and Short of It
Benjamin Nelson, MD
Pediatric Pulmonologist, Mass General for Children
Otolaryngology Panel Discussion: Illustrative Cases
Leila Mankarious, MD Donald Keamy, MD MPH, and Gillian Diercks, MD MPH
Physician and Surgeons, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Break
Common Eye Problems: When to Treat, When to Refer
Mitchell Strominger, MD
Professor of Surgery, Ophthalmology and Pediatrics
University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine / Renown Medical Center
Lunch Break
Clinicopathological Conference: Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital for the New England Journal of Medicine
Kathy May Tran, MD
Associate Editor, Case Records, New England Journal of Medicine
Attending Physician, Hospital Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Elena Hawryluk, MD, PhD
CPC Panel
*this session will not be recorded
Office Emergencies
Ari Cohen, MD FAAP
Chief, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital/Mass General for Children
Break
Breakout Session #1: Primary Care Challenges of Preterm Infants and Children
Janice Lowe, MD
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Stanford University School of Medicine
Jadene Wong, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
Neonatal Hospitalist, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
*This session will be available only to in-person attendees
Breakout Session #2: Growing Healthy: Tackling Pediatric Obesity in Primary Care Practice
Jennifer Rosenblum, MD
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine
Mass General for Children / Harvard Medical School
*This session will be available only to in-person attendees
Break out Session #3: The Epi-Center: Cracking the Code on Pediatric Food Allergies
Michelle E. Conroy, MD
Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
*this session will be recorded and available to virtual attendees
Urine Trouble: Pediatric UTIs in Primary Care
Chadi El Saleeby, MD
Pediatric Infectious Disease, Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Cannabis: From Diagnosis to Treatment
Timothy E. Wilens, M.D
Chief, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Co-Director, Center for Addiction Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Break
Management of Cow’s Milk Protein Allergy/Allergic Colitis in Infancy: First do no Harm
Victoria M. Martin, MD, MPH
Co-Director, GI Section, Food Allergy Center, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
Associate Program Director, Fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
Mass General for Children
Lunch Break
Deconstructing Puberty: An Endocrinologist’s Approach
Rachel Whooten, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Pediatric Endocrinologist, MassGeneral for Children
Substance Use Disorder in Teens and Young Adults
Scott Hadland, MD MPH
Chief of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Break
Breakout Session #1: Hot Topics in Adolescent Sextual Health
Julie Potter, MD
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine
Mass General for Children / Harvard Medical School
*this session will be recorded and available to virtual attendees
Breakout Session #2: Keeping Your Ship Afloat During the Storm: Finding Agency and Maintaining Personal Well-being Strategies in a Rapidly Changing Healthcare Environment
Shannon E. Scott-Vernaglia, MD
Associate Chief, Clinical Faculty Development, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital
Director, Office of Clinical Careers, MGH Center for Faculty Development
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
*This session will be available only to in-person attendees
Breakout Session #3: What’s New in Newborn Medicine
Leela Sarathy, MD MSEd
Pediatric and Newborn Hospitalist, Mass General for Children
Medical Director, MGH Newborn Nursery Services
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
*This session will be available only to in-person attendees
Screenagers: Navigating Social Media with Adolescents in Primary Pediatric Practice
Elizabeth Booma, MD
Division Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Pediatric Surgical Problems You Don’t Want to Miss: Case-based Surgical Problems Seen in the Primary Care Setting
Daniel Doody, MD
Director, Surgical Education, Pediatric Surgery
Break
Gender Affirming Care for Pediatricians
Ariel Frey-Vogel, MD, MAT
Director of Child and Adolescent Services, Massachusetts General Hospital Transgender Health Program (THP)
Director, Pediatric Education, Innovation, and Research Center (PEIRC)
Pediatric Dermatology: A Panoply of Practical and Puzzling Patients from Private Practice: Part 18
Ira L. Skolnik, M.D., Ph.D.
Clinical Instructor of Socio-Medical Sciences and Community Health, Boston University School of Medicine
Private Practice: Family Dermatology, p.c., Concord, Mass.
*this session will not be recorded
