Conference Topics:

• Orientation Conferences
• Core Curriculum
• Morbidity and Mortality
• Case Conferences
• Pediatric Symposium
• Combined Research Seminar
• Therapeutics and Toxicology
• Special Lectures
• Grand Rounds
• Special Presentation

Guest Speakers

Block Schedule for Conferences

Orientation Conferences

• Child Abuse – Clinical Guidelines
• Oncologic Emergencies
• Advanced Airway Management
• Respiratory Failure – Child
• Respiratory Failure – Neonate
• SART
• Initial Evaluation of the Ill Newborn
• Fever and Neutropenia
• Sedation
• Adolescent Confidentiality
• Transfusion/DIC
• Overview of Growth
• Pain Control
• Diagnosing Abdominal Pain
• Screening I
• CHF
• Immunizations
  
• Arrhythmia
• Diabetic Ketoacidosis
• GI Bleeding
• Introduction to Parenteral Nutrition
• Shock
• Fever without a Source – Evaluation and Management
• Fluids and Electrolytes
• CQI
• Respiratory Distress – Upper Airway Disease
• Respiratory Distress – Evaluation and Management in the
• Emergency Treatment Center
• Seizures
• Adrenal Insufficiency and Steroid Review
• Metabolic Emergencies
• Dictation Clinic
• Murmurs and Cyanotic Heart Disease
• Sepsis and Meningitis
• Poisoning
• Acute Renal Failure
• Surgical Problems of the Newborn
• Introduction to Chemotherapy
• Coma and Increased Intracranial Pressure
• Writing Orders/Managing Medicaid
• Pre-Participation Sports Physicals
• Introduction to Procedures
• Coding/Billing

Core Curriculum Conferences

• Croup – What, Why and Treatment Strategies
• Meningomyeloccie
• Pediatric Dentistry for the Pediatrician: Normal/Abnormal
• Pediatric Dentistry for the Pediatrician – Oral Pathology
• Congenital Heart Disease Repair
• Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Teens, Sex and Media
• Meconium Aspiration Syndrome and Persistent Pulmonary
• Hypertension of the Neonate
• Pediatric Pneumonias
• The Child with Recurrent Infections – Evaluation for Immune Deficiency
• Caring for the Child with a Disability
• Obesity in Children and Adolescents
• Neglect
• Child Sexual Abuse
• Eating Disorders
• Health Supervision for the Preterm Infant/High Risk Infant Follow-Up
• Exertional Dyspnea in Children-Adolescents
• Chronic Renal Failure
• Hepatitis
• Issues in Child Care: Overview of Types, Pros, and Cons, Costs;
• Measures of Quality, Relationship to
• Approach to the Newborn with Congenital Anomalies
• Genetic Testing
• Respiratory Distress Syndrome & Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
• Tics/Movement Disorders
• Ataxia/Vertigo
• Conduct Disorder/Severe Behavioral Problems
• Interviewing Skills – Strategies with Adolescents and Families
• Acne, Alopecia/Hair Loss, Dermatophyte Infections
• Issues in Child Care: Pediatric Consultation to Centers:
• Infectious Disease Issues
• Commonly Encountered Genetic Disorders/Syndromes Part I: Turner’s, Fragile X, Neurofibromatosis
• Perinatal Asphyxia
• Plagiocephaly Positional, Craniosynostosis
• Talking with Children About Their Illness: Developmental Framework for Children’s Understanding of Disease, Disability, Death
• Safety and Accident Prevention
• Adolescent Gynecology
• Classical Viral Illnesses
• Metabolic Genetics
• Head Trauma: Minor and Major
• Learning Disorders – Dyslexia
• Development: Screening and Surveillance: Approach to Suspected
• Legal Issues in Adolescent Health Care
• Cholestatic Jaundice
• Seizures: Diagnosing and Chronic Management
• ADHD
• Toilet Training
• Vulvovaginitis in the Pre-Adolescent Child
• ITP – Petechiae/Thrombocytopenia
• Neonatal Sepsis and Other Infections
• Brain Injuries
• Hydrocephalus/VP Shunts
• Infestations: Lice and Scabies
• Sleep Issues: Normal Patterns, Common Age-Related Problems
• Vomiting: Persistent, Recurrent
• STDs in the Adolescent
• Food Allergies/Intolerance (Milk Protein)
• Approach to the Febrile Child/Occult Bacteremia
• Urinary Tract Infections
• Sports Medicine: Pre-participation Sports Evaluation, Pediatric
• Exercise Physiology
• Problems of Prematurity (Apnea, IVH/PVL, NEC,ROP, PDA, Anemia)
• Autism/Pervasive Developmental Disorder
• Gastroesophageal Reflux
• Feeding Issues: Formula Feeding, Vitamin, Iron, and Fluoride Supplements: Advancing to Solids, Finger Foods, Whole Cow’s Milk
• Feeding Issues: Common Toddler Feeding Issues, “Prudent” Diet
• Disordered Feeding
• Neutropenia
• Chronic Abdominal Pain
• Behavioral Issues: Behavioral Screening: Managing Common
• Behavioral Problems (thumb sucking and other habits, breath holding, aggression, separation concerns)
• Acyanotic Congenital Heart Disease
• Liver Failure
• Discipline – Issues and Techniques for Different Ages
• Abnormal Bruising/Bleeding: Inherited and Acquired Etiologies
• Acquired Cardiac Diseases: Part I: Kawasaki
• Evaluation of Lower Extremity Trauma
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Common Malignancies of Childhood: Part II
• Cystic Fibrosis – Diagnosis & Principles of Treatment
• Renal Tubular Acidosis
• Hypotonia: Infant, Older Child
• Ambiguous Genitalia
• Acquired Cardiac Disease: Endocarditis, Pericarditis
• Anemia
• Speech and Language Problems
• Genetic Therapy
• Performance Enhancers/Ergogenic Drugs
• Hematuria
• Anti-Nuclear Antibody Interpretation
• Metabolic Bone Disease
• Hypertension
• Coagulation
• Child Abuse – Shaken Baby Syndrome
• Periodic Fever Syndrome
• AIDS and HIV Infections in Children
• Adolescent Immunizations

Morbidity and Mortality Conferences

• Sepsis: Management on the Pediatric Floor
• Trisomy 12
• Bleeding
• Blastomycosis
• Fungal Orbital Sinusitis
• Management of Hyperbilirubinemia
• Infants with Trisomy 21: Cardiac and Airway Defects
• Hereditary Tyrosinemia Type 1
• Cardiogenic Shock
• Meningococcemia
• Shone Complex
• Mycoplasma Pneumonia

Case Conferences

• Evans Syndrome
• International Adoption: A Brief Description for Pediatricians
• Evaluation and Management of Cleft Lip and Plate (and a little Genetics, too)
• Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis
• Bone Marrow Transplantation
• Electrocution Injury
• Pyogenic Sacroiliitis
• Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid Malformations
• Necrotizing Enterocolitis
• Evaluation of Fever in Cardiac Transplant Recipient: Infectious Complications Post Cardiac Transplantation
• Father Involvement and Child Wellness
• Vascular Ring

Pediatric Symposium

• 10/19/08
  Grand Rounds
  Controversies in the Diagnosis and Management of Otitis Media
  - S. Berman, MD
  The Children’s Hospital
  Denver, Colorado
• 10/19/08
  Childhood Obesity – Can It Be Treated?
  - Linda Snetselaar, RD, PhD
  Professor, UI Department of Epidemiology
  - Isaac Samuel, MD
  Assistant Professor, UI Department of Surgery
  - Michael Tansey, MD
  Clinical Associate Professor, UI Department of Pediatrics
  

• 10/19/08
  Controversies in Feeding
  - Linda Cooper-Brown, PhD
  Clinical Assistant Professor, UI Department of Pediatrics,
• 10/19/08
  GERD Causes Respiratory Symptoms: Pro and Con Debate
  - Aliye Uc, MD (Pro)
  Assistant Professor, UI Department of Pediatrics
  - Miles Weinberger, MD (Con)
  Professor, UI Department of Pediatrics
• 10/19/08
  HPV and HPV Vaccine – Why and When Should It Be Offered?
  - Ann Sullivan, MD
  Clinical Associate Professor, UI Department of Family Medicine
• 10/19/08
  Controversies in the Diagnosis and Management of Otitis Media
  - Stephen Berman, MD
  Denver Children’s Hospital
  University of Colorado
  Denver, Colorado
• 10/19/08
  UTI – Treatment Controversies
  - J. Christopher Austin, MD
  Assistant Professor, UI Department of Urology
• 10/19/08
  MRSA
  - Christine Ziebold, MD, PhD, MPH
  Clinical Assistant Professor, UI Department of Pediatrics
• 10/19/08
  Controversies in the Management of Atopic Dermatitis
  - Leslie Kramer, DO
  Dermatology Practice
  Cedar Rapids, Iowa
• 10/19/08
  Controversies in the Diagnosis and Management of Sinusitis
  - Miles Weinberger, MD
  Professor of Pediatrics, UI Department of Pediatrics
• 10/19/08
  Universal Health Care in the US: History, Politics, and Prospects
  - Colin Gordon, PhD
  Professor and Chair, UI Department of History
• 10/19/08
  Autism – Diagnosis and Treatment Controversies
  - Susan L. Hyman, MD
  Associate Professor of Pediatrics
  Strong Center for Developmental Disabilities
  University of Rochester Medical Center
  Rochester, New York
• 10/19/08
  Evaluation and Treatment of ADHD in Preschool Children
  - Royann Mraz, MD
  Clinical Assistant Professor, UI Department of Pediatrics
  - Linda Cooper-Brown, PhD
  Clinical Assistant Professor, UI Department of Pediatrics
• 10/19/08
  Pre-participation Sports Physical – How Far Do We Go—EKG, ECHO, Treadmill?
  - Ian Law, MD
  Clinical Associate Professor, UI Department of Pediatrics
  - Ben Reinking, MD
  Clinical Assistant Professor, UI Department of Pediatrics
• 10/19/08
  Alternative Medicine and Its Use in Children
  - Robert Wallace, MD
  Professor, UI Department of Epidemiology

Combined Research Seminar

• Vaccine Development against E Coli that Causes Infectious
• Diarrhea in Children
• Targeting CFTR’s AMP Binding-Site to Stimulate Wild-Type and Mutant CFTR Chloride Current
• Development of the Conduction System
• Genomic Approaches to Innate Immunity Gene Discovery in Airway Epithelia
• The Role of TRAF6 in CD40 Signaling

Therapeutics and Toxicology Conferences

• Teratogenic Drugs
• Psychotropic Drug Interactions: Combinations That May Be Deadly
• Empiric Antibiotic Treatment Scenarios (EATS) and Liquid Antibiotic Taste Testing (LATTe)
• Toxic Threats for Kids – Toolkit
• ADHD on the Rise: Why Aren’t We Asking Why?
• Pediatric Environmental Health

Societal/Professional/Ethical Issues Conferences

• Reflective Practice and Leadership: An Approach to Educating Fellows in the Core Competency
• Adolescents Who Refuse Treatment - Ethical Issues
• Ethics
• Cultural Competency
• Medication Errors, SBP
• Bereavement and Grieving in Pediatrics
• Evidence-Based Neonatology

Special Lectures

• Pediatric Dialysis
• Community Acquired MRSA: Unique Genetic Adaptation and Its Clinical Implications

Grand Rounds

• What Goes Wrong in Bacterial Bronchitis: CF, PCD, and Idiopathic Suppurative (Purulent) Bronchitis?
• ITP/Platelet Disorders
• Early Nutritional Programming: Too Much or Too Little
• UIHC Perinatal Illicit Drug Screening and Intervention Policy Update
• Immunogenetic Classification and Individualized Therapy in IBD
• Influenza
• Effects of Methamphetamine Exposure
• Creating Permanency: Legislative and Systems Advocacy for Child Abuse Diagnostic and Treatment Services
• Closing the Patent Ductus Arteriosus: On the Road to Timbuktu
• Pediatric Diabetes: Where Are We Today?
• Myocarditis: Presentation, Diagnosis, and Therapeutic Controversies
• Understanding Childhood Disability: Who, How, and Why Does it Matter?
• Acute Pain Management in Infants and Children
• Pediatric Neuro-Ophthalmology: What the Pediatrician May See First
• Issues in Pediatric Renal Transplantation
• Pediatric Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes: Diagnostic and Treatment Dilemmas
• Bereavement and Spirituality in the PICU: A Team Approach
• Controversies in the Diagnosis and Management of Otitis Media
• 16 Years of NHLBI Guidelines Have Failed: Let’s Examine Patient Oriented Evidence that Really Matters for Childhood Asthma
• Progress in Pediatric Cardiac Electrophysiology
• The Scope of Pediatric Movement Disorders
• Genetic Variation and Morbidities of Prematurity
• Helping Keep the ‘Live” in Liver
• Community-Based Interventions for Obesity: Kohl’s WILD Kids
• Pediatric Oral Health Care: What Really Works?
• Antimicrobial Resistance: How Bugs Become Bad and What to do About It.
• Sickle Cell Disease and the Lung: New Thoughts and Management Options in an Underappreciated Problem
• Emerging Understanding of the Causes and Mechanisms of Fetal and Neonatal Liver Failure
• Ron Lauer, Muscatine, and the National Children’s Study
• State of the Department of Pediatrics and University of Iowa Children’s Hospital
• Pediatric Gerontology – Type 2 Diabetes in Youth
• Children’s Environmental Health
• Interdependent Health Care: Moving From the Me to We
• Something New in Nephrology
• Pediatric Resident CQI and Research Presentations
• Diarrheal Diseases of Children

Postgraduate Courses

• Where Are We in Responding to the Needs of Drug Endangered Children?
• Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting - What You Should Know
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Adolescents
• Management of Depression and Suicide in Adolescents Using SSRIs
• Chemical Dependency During Adolescence
• Growing Pains: The Adolescent Self-Injurer
• Drug Endangered Children in Iowa
• Drug Endangered Children: The Medical Protocol
• Psychosocial Outcomes of Drug Endangered Children
• Neonatal Screening Protocol for Perinatal Illicit Substance Exposure
• Screening Neonates for Perinatal Alcohol Exposure
• Neonatal Drug Screening Protocol at University of Iowa Children's Hospital
• Medical Examination of the Sexually Abused Child
• How to Interview Children in the Office
• Acquaintance Rape Dynamics: Impact and Special Considerations
• Video Game Violence
• Domestic Abuse: A Practical Approach in Primary Care
• Bullying in Children and Adolescents

Special Resident Presentation

• Community Acquired MRSA: Unique Genetic Adaptation and Its Clinical Implications
• Pediatric Dialysis

ITP/Platelet Disorders
Diane Nugent, MD
Children’s Hospital of Orange Count
Orange, California

Early Nutritional Programming: Too Much or Too Little
Josef Neu, MD
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

Immunogenetic Classification and Individualized Therapy in IBD
Subra Kugathasan, MD
Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin

Influenza
T.G. Boyce, MD, MPH
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota

Creating Permanency: Legislative and Systems Advocacy for Child Abuse Diagnostic and Treatment Services
M.A. Finkel, DO, FACOP, FAAP
New Jersey School of Osteopathic Medicine
Stratford, New Jersey

Closing the Patent Ductus Arteriosus: On the Road to Timbuktu
Ronald Clyman, MD
University of California-San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Pediatric Diabetes: Where Are We Today?
Henry Rodriguez, MD
Indiana University
Riley Children’s Hospital
Indianapolis, Indiana

Issues in Pediatric Renal Transplantation
Gina-Marie Barletta, MD
Michigan State University
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Controversies in the Diagnosis and Management of Otitis Media
Dr. S. Berman
The Children’s Hospital
Denver, Colorado

Progress in Pediatric Cardiac Electrophysiology
Macdonald Dick, MD
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

The Scope of Pediatric Movement Disorders
Leon Dure, MD
University of Alabama School of Medicine
Birmingham, Alabama

Helping Keep the ‘Live” in Liver
Ross W. Shepherd, MD, FRACP, FRCP
St. Louis Children’s Hospital
St. Louis, Missouri

Pediatric Oral Health Care: What Really Works?
Bob Russell, DDS, MPH
Iowa Department of Public Health

Antimicrobial Resistance: How Bugs Become Bad and What to do About It.
W. Charles Huskins, MD, MSc
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota

Sickle Cell Disease and the Lung: New Thoughts and Management Options in an Underappreciated Problem
LeRoy Graham, MD, FCCP
Georgia Pediatric Pulmonology Associates, PC
Atlanta, George

Emerging Understanding of the Causes and Mechanisms of Fetal and Neonatal Liver Failure
Peter Whitington, MD
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois

Ron Lauer, Muscatine, and the National Children’s Study
Ed Clark, MD
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

Children’s Environmental Health
Duane F. Alexander, MD
Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Washington, DC

Interdependent Health Care: Moving From the Me to We
Kenneth H. Cohn, MD, MBA, FACS
Practicing General Surgeon
Director, Cambridge Management Group
Cambridge, Massachusetts

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