Overview

This one-day symposium is designed for healthcare providers interested in learning about the latest pediatric treatments. The structure of this program remains the same with brief, practical hints, related to several subspecialty issues confronting you in your daily practice, some more complex than others. For this installment, we present lectures on infections in the newborn, food as medicine, post trauma stress syndrome in children, injury prevention in the young athlete, biologics in pediatric medicine and IBD.

THIS MEETING IS VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021; 8:00 a.m. - 2:05 p.m.

URL and specific details on how to access this meeting will be provided once registration is received and approximately one week before the conference. if you plan to use a desktop to view this meeting, the ZOOM link will work. if you plan to use a mobile device such as an IPAD or MOBILE PHONE, you will need the ZOOM APP to proceed. 

Objectives

• Describe the symptoms of PTSD in children and adolescents and common clinical presentations of youth with psychological trauma
• Compare trauma-informed medical care from more traditional practice
• Identify strategies that can be implemented to screen for psychological trauma in youth
• Identify which patients to screen for congenital cytomegalovirus infection, testing methods,and timing
• Describe updates in congenital cytomegalovirus evaluation and treatment
• Discuss what we know about neonates and young infants with SARS-CoV-2 infection
• Recognize parechovirus as a cause of sepsis-like illness and CNS infection in young infants
• Explain injury prevention strategies for pre-season conditioning and in-season training/competition
• Identify risk factors for heat illness and successful prevention strategies 
• Provide recommendations for safe sports equipment
• Identify the most common pediatric overuse injuries and outline appropriate evaluation and treatment
• Discuss the field of culinary medicine
• Explain how nutrition knowledge and culinary skills can improve the health of doctors and their patients
• Characterize why patients are started on biologic therapies for the treatment of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease
• Identify complications of biologic therapies that may be seen in the primary care setting
• Advise families of health maintenance recommendations for patients on biologic therapies
• Plan an appropriate evaluation of a patient with suspected intestinal inflammation
• Identify mimickers of inflammatory bowel disease
• Identify patients who may need more urgent evaluation by a gastroenterologist

Agenda

Credit & Accreditation Statements

Disclosures

Lurie Children's CME Leadership & Staff:

Ravi Jhaveri, MD, Course Director; Claudia Cooper,CME Manager; FSM's CME Leadership & Staff: Clara J. Schroedl, CME Medical Director; Sheryl Corey, CME Manager;  Senior Program Coordinator, Allison McCollum; Administrative Assistant, Rhea Alexis Banks have nothing to disclose.

Speakers / Course Directors:

Ravi Jhaveri, MD, course director and speaker discloses that he contributes to the editorial services for Elsevier; is involved in the clinical trial planning for Seqirus; receives a consulting fee from Hologic and participates in contracted research for Saol Therapeutics

All other faculty members/speakers and committee members have nothing to disclose including:

Leena B. Mithal, MD, MSCI

Lori Walsh, MD

Anthony Vesco, PhD

Megan Lerner, LCSW

Sigrid Wolf, MD

Jennifer Strople, MD