Overview
This one-day symposium for pediatricians, family physicians and other healthcare providers will showcase the latest approach, updates and research related to several common patient issues confronted by primary care providers as well as newer and more complex diseases. Our speakers will address health concerns, share cases, and offer guidelines on how to manage the patient. We are excited to present lectures on chronic fatigue, an update on influenza and RSV, ADHD, asthma, kidney diseases, common fetal ultrasound discoveries and allergy testing.
5.5 AMA PRA CATEGORY 1 CREDIT(S)TM
This course is approved for live credit only. It will not be streamed or recorded.
If this course needs to be moved to a virtual format due to state mandates regarding Covid-19, we will notify you as soon as possible and proper credit will be discussed.
Friday, October 28, 2022; 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Doubletree Hotel 1909 Spring Road Oak Brook, IL 60523
Objectives
- Review testing options available for IgE mediated conditions
- Discuss the pros and cons of panel testing and potential limitations
- Explain immunotherapy and why one would consider this option
- Identify the components of the fetal ultrasound anatomic survey/screening
- Discuss common fetal anomalies encountered on the fetal ultrasound exam
- Discuss neonatal imaging follow-up findings and recommendations
- How to diagnose chronic fatigue in children and adolescents
- Discuss evidence-based management and treatment of chronic fatigue in children and adolescents
- Review the prognosis of chronic fatigue in children and adolescents
- Recognize to distinguish between café-au-lait spots and other cutaneous mimickers
- Identify the varied clinical manifestations of neurofibromatosis-1
- Distinguish among the varied conditions in which one sees cafe-au-lait spots
- Recognize changes in the most recent asthma guidelines and apply them to pediatric patients
- Describe the role of aeroallergens in asthma pathology and management
- Identify asthmatic patients with potential unmet socio-economic needs
- Review current flu and RSV epidemiology and discuss the concept of viral interference
- Recommend which diagnostic tests should be used for different patient scenarios likely to be encountered
- Discuss currently recommended treatment options for influenza and prevention measures for both influenza and RSV
- Review the incidence of HSP nephritis and long-term sequalae
- Educate on the signs and symptoms of HSP nephritis
- Discuss HSP nephritis screening in the outpatient setting, with a special focus on reasons for escalating to a subspecialist or tertiary care center
- Review indications for kidney biopsy
- Explore treatment options for severe manifestations of HSP nephritis
- Review the optimal way to measure blood pressure
- Discuss the 2017 Clinical Practice Guideline for Screening and Management of High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents
- Educate about outpatient work up for elevated blood pressure and hypertension and when to refer to nephrology and/or cardiology
- Discuss risk factors for hypertension in the pediatric population
- Explore treatment options for acute and chronic hypertension
- Explore the cardiovascular risks of hypertension
- Describe the differential diagnosis of attentional problems
- Describe the importance of early hyperactivity in making the diagnosis of ADHD
- Describe the critical value of pattern recognition in properly assessing attentional problems
- Review why it is critical that pediatricians embrace the assessment and treatment of common psychiatric disorders
- Explore the strengths and weaknesses of the conventional approach to assessment and treatment of ADHD – multi-informant rating scales and teacher report of stimulant effects of dosing changes
- Explore the strengths and weaknesses of other approaches the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD that center on the patient and parents deep engagement in the assessment and treatment process
AGENDA
Time |
Title/Topic |
Speaker |
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8:00 a.m.
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Welcome / Introduction Remarks by Course Director |
Ravi Jhaveri, MD |
8:15 – 8:45 a.m.
|
Chronic Fatigue in Children and Teens |
Ben Katz, MD
|
8:45 – 9:15 a.m.
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Influenza and RSV Update in the Near Post-COVID Era
|
Ravi Jhaveri, MD |
9:15 – 9:45 a.m.
|
The Basics of ADHD |
John Walkup, MD |
9:45 – 10:15 a.m.
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NHLBI Updates -Asthma |
Elizabeth Lippner, MD |
10:15 – 10:30 a.m.
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Break |
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10:30 -11 a.m.
|
When a Freckle is not a Freckle |
Robert Listernick, MD |
11 – 11:30 a.m.
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Henoch-Schönlein Purpura Nephritis: Review of Screening and Management for Kidney Complications |
Jill Krissberg, MD, MS |
11:30 – Noon
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Common Fetal Ultrasound Discoveries |
Safwan Halabi, MD |
Noon – 1 p.m. |
Lunch |
N/A |
1 – 2 p.m. Pick one |
|
John Walkup, MD
Meredith Harris, MD
Fatima Khan, MD |
2 -3 p.m. Pick one |
|
John Walkup, MD
Meredith Harris, MD
Fatima Khan, MD |
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 Jhhveri, MD, course director and speaker discloses that he receives royalty from Guilford Press, Oxford Press, and Wolters Kluver. Is an Unpaid Member Board of Directors of a non-profit patient support groups - Tourette Association, Anxiety and Depression Association, and Trichotillomania Learning Center.
All other faculty members/speakers and committeee members have nothing to disclosue including:
Meredith Harris, MD
Safwan Halabi, MD
Fatima Khan, MD
Elizabeth Lippner, MD
Jill Krissberg, MD
John Walkup, MD
Arthur DiPatri, Jr., MD
Sandi Lam, MD, MBA
Tiffani McDonough, MD
Jennifer Miller, MD, CCD
Noreen Pulte Aprn-NP, PNP
Barbara Pearl, MS, RDN, LDN
Joyce Wu, MD
Oak Brook, IL