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 the latest baby products, building trauma informed frameworks, the tongue tied infant, breastfeeding roadblocks, hyperbilirubinemia in hte neonate, trauma-infomed care for the displaced child, upates on vaccines, GERD in the infant, head shape concerns, infectious disease in the nursery and meeting the milestones. 

6.0 AMA PRA CATEGORY 1 CREDIT(S)TM

This course is approved for live credit only. It will not be streamed or recorded.

Due to hotel policy, there is a strict no cancellation policy that allows for cancellations up to 7 days in advance only. Consideration will be given to emergency situations and a transfer to a future event will be offered.

Wednesday, November 20, 2024; 8:00 a.m. - 3:15 p.m.

DoubleTree Hotel - 1909 Spring Road - Oak Brook, IL - 60523

Objectives

1. Review the pros and cons for the latest products on the market for infants
2. List which devices to avoid for optimal head shape and helmet avoidance
3. Discuss which devices and exercises can help improve baby’s motor development and meet those milestones
4. Increase knowledge about building a trauma-informed framework in a healthcare setting
5. Identify roles for providers and leaders to support implementation of the frameworks
6. Discuss how tongue ties are diagnosed
7. Explain potential benefits and risks for tongue tie release
8. Review the physiology of human breast milk production and how this relates to initiating and maintaining milk supply
9. Assess and address the 8 most common breastfeeding challenges encountered in outpatient pediatric practice after hospital discharge: 
10. Discover lactation resources and evidence-based guidance you can use to augment your breastfeeding medicine knowledge and skills in primary care
11. List factors causing newborns to be at higher risk of jaundice and review the 2022 guideline revision
12. Describe physiology of “suboptimal intake jaundice” (formerly breastfeeding jaundice) and breastmilk jaundice
13. Discuss current considerations for formula supplementation in the breastfed infant with jaundice
14. Share the VIP Acute Care Quality Network project LIGHT Nursery Alogrithm
15. Discuss the impact of current sociopolitical events on the health of forcibly displaced young people
16. Recognize common traumatic experiences for children across the 3 stages of migration
17. Identify 3 ways to promote physical and psychological safety in pediatric settings for forcibly displaced young people
18. Review current epidemiology of vaccine preventable illnesses in children
19. Discuss mechanisms of action of newly approved vaccines for children
20. Review current recommendations for administration of newly approved in children
21. Appreciate the lack of a role for acid blocking therapy in fussy infants
22. Discuss the role of speech language pathologist and occupational therapist in evaluating infants with GERD-like symptoms.
23. Differentiate between plagiocephaly, brachycephaly, and craniosynostosis.
24. Identify red flags associated with head shape abnormalities
25. Describe how head shape severity determines treatment
26. Review the latest guidance around RSV prevention strategies for the upcoming respiratory virus season
27. Interpret test results to determine appropriate treatment strategies for infants with prenatal syphilis exposure
28. Review best practices for developmental-behavioral screening and surveillance in primary care
29. Discuss the 2022 CDC/AAP update to developmental milestones and surveillance program
30. Review how prematurity can affect developmental milestones

AGENDA

Credit & Accreditation Statements

Accreditation Statement: The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. American Board of Surgery Accredited CME and Self-Assessment: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME and Self-Assessment requirements of the American Board of Surgery's Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to the ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credits. Credit Designation Statement: The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosures

Lurie Children's CME Leadership & Staff:
Ravi Jhaveri, MD, Course Director;  Alanna Higgins Joyce, MD, MPH, Co-Course Director and 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.

Nothing listed if there are no disclosures

Speakers / Course Directors:

?Course Directors:

Ravi Jhaveri, MD

Receives consulting fee from AstraZeneca, Sequirus, and Dynavax and Moderna. Receives royalties and/or is a patent beneficiary of UpToDate. Is an independent contractor for Elsevier and Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. Receives grant/research support from Glaxo Smith Kline. He is an advisor for Sanofi-Aventis.

Alanna Higgins Joyce, MD, MPH

Nothing to Disclose

Faculty Members and Speakers: 

Lindsay Skibley, MD

Tara Gill, PhD

Diana Bohm, MS, CCC-SLP/L, BCS-S

Nina Alfieri, MD, MS

REbecca Ford Paz, PhD

Mark Fishbein, MD

Noreen Pulte APRN, NP

Breanna Baltrusch, CPO/LPO

Chrisitne DiLuia, PT, DPT

Caitlin Li Naureckas, MD

Nicole Pouppirt, MD