Conference Topics:

• Orientation
• Core Curriculum
• Morbidity and Mortality
• Case Conferences
• UI Children's Hospital Symposium
• Combined Research Seminar
• Therapeutics and Toxicology
• Grand Rounds
• Postgraduate Course
• Special Presentation

Guest Speakers

Block Schedule for Conferences

Orientation Conferences

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

Core Curriculum Conferences

• Hematuria
• Commonly Encountered Genetic Disorders/Syndromes
• Anti Nuclear Antibody Interpretation
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Care Coordination of Children with Chronic Illnesses
• Head Trauma and Concussion in Sports
• Acyanotic Congenital Heart Disease
• Anemia
• Speech and Language Problems
• Ambiguous Genitalia
• Metabolic Bone Disease
• Common Malignancies of Childhood
• Violence/Domestic Abuse
• Shaken Baby Syndrome
• Neutropenia
• Adolescent Immunizations - HPV Update
• Coagulation
• AIDS and HIV Infections in Children
• Rheumatological Manifestations of Non-Rheumatologic Diseases
• Neonatal Jaundice
• TORCH Infections
• Hypertension
• Hemoglobinopathies
• Problems of Prematurity
• Issues in Family Composition II: Sibling Rivalry, "Only" Children, Twins, Multiple Births, When One Child has Special Needs
• Adolescent Development: Physical, Cognitive and Psychosocial
• Multi-Cultural Issues in Pediatrics
• Empiric antibiotic Therapy
• Fever of Unknown Origin
• Common Specific Poisonings
• Encopresis/Constipation
• Environmental Injuries
• SIADH/DI
• Hypoglycemia in Infants and Children
• Intrauterine Growth Retardation
• Pediatric Tuberculosis
• Dysfunctional Voiding/Circumcision Problems/Care of the Uncircumcised Penis
• Depression/Suicide in Adolescence
• Zooneses/Anthropod Borne Infections
• Burn/Smoke Inhalation
• Intracranial Tumors
• Sports Medicine Part II: Sidelines and Return to Play Criteria, Common Sports Injuries, DX, RX, Rehab, Heat Related Illnesses
• Oropharyngeal Infections
• Adolescent Calcium Metabolism and Interaction with Birth Control
• Cough, Wheezing, Stridor
• Growth
• Syncope
• Pediatric Environmental Health: History Taking
• Chronic Diarrhea/Malabsorption
• Enuresis
• Microcephaly/Macrocephaly
• Pediatric Ophthalmology
• Cardiomyopathy and Myocarditis
• Headaches
• Feeding Issues I: Breastfeeding (routine counseling and common problems)
• Osteomyelitis/Septic Arthritis and Bone Infections
• Febrile Seizures
• Deliberate Self-Mutilation
• Prematurity: Epidemiology and Long-Term Outcomes
• Chest Pain
• Pediatric Patients and Alternative/Complimentary Care
• Physical Exam of the Respiratory System
• Adoption
• Acute Gastroenteritis
• Congenital Lung Abnormalities
• Cerebral Palsy
• Families with Adolescents Abusing Substances
• SIDS and Infant Apnea
• Failure to Thrive
• Neonatal Illicit Drug Screening
• Lead Poisoning
• Approach to the Child with Short Stature
• Lymphadenopathy
• ARF
• Diagnosis and Long-Term Management of Diabetes
• Eating Disorders
• Asthma
• Interstitial Lung Disease
• Overview of National/Global Health Issues in Child Heath Status
• Brain Injury
• Thyroid Disorders in Childhood
• Henoch Schonlein Purpura/Vasculitis
• Inhaled Drug Delivery
• Snoring/Sleep Apnea
• Evaluation of Upper Extremity Trauma
• Child Abuse - Skin Injuries
• Atopic Dermatitis
• Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
• White Blood Cells Disorders
• Neurocutaneous Syndromes
• Crying and Colic
• Aspiration Syndromes
• Congenital Lung Abnormalities
• Allergy Testing
• SLE/Lupus
• Bites and Stings
• Proteinuria
• Substance Use/Abuse: Alcohol, Cigarettes, Steroids, Illicit
• Conjunctivitis
• Abnormalities in Pubertal Development
• Approach to the Cyanotic Newborn

Morbidity and Mortality Conferences

• Autoimmune Enteropathy (AIE): It All Started Like Celiac!
• Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy
• Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC)
• Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma
• Acute Megakaryocytic Leukemia in Down's Syndrome
• Biliary Atresia
• Hypersensitivity Myocarditis in an Adolescent
• Microangioplastic Hemolytic Anemia: More than Just Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
• Henoch Schonlein Purpura
• Canavan Disease
• Neonatal Pustular Eruptions
• Congenital Muscular Dystroph

Case Conferences

• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: The Great Imitator
• Transverse Myelitis
• Cerebral Aneurysm with Subsequent Vasospasm
• Exertional Heat Illnesses: The Pediatrician's Role
• Post-Concussion Syndrome
• Toxic Shock Syndrome
• Sudden Cardiac Death
• Infectious Endocarditis
• Neonatal Thrombocytopenia
• Obesity
• Syncope
• How to Break Bad News to Kids

UI Children's Hospital Symposium

• Milestones in Pediatric Advocacy
• Developmental and Mental Health Screening: Iowa Community Empowerment
• Injury Prevention: The Iowa Child Passenger Safety Network
• Children with Special Needs: Medical Home Initiative
• Bed sharing, pacifiers, code shifts and other factors that are changing our understanding of SIDS
• Child Health Issues at the State Level
• Public Child Health Funding: Iowa Medicaid and Hawk-I
• Building a Children's Coalition

Combined Research Seminar

• Enhancing Ethics Education for Practicing Pediatricians: Research and Reflective Practice
• Skin Deep About IRF6
• Important Sites of Extra-Pulmonary Surfactant Proteins and Neonatal Health
• The Program in Developmental Origins of Disease
• Genetic Modifiers of von Willebrand Disease in a Large Amish Cohort
• Epidural Stem Cells as Therapeutics for Ischemia
• Comparing Family Therapy and Group Treatment for Adolescent Drug Abuse
• Neuropsychology and Neuroimaging of Cleft Lip and Palate
• Genetics of Prematurity

Therapeutics and Toxicology Conferences

• Practical Prescribing with a Focus on Error Prevention
• Interesting Toxicology Cases
• Sedative-Analgesic Withdrawal in the ICU

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

Grand Rounds

• In-Home Assessment and Intervention for Young Children With Developmental Disabilities Who Display Challenging Behavior: The Need for Early Diagnosis and Treatment
• Discovery in Medicine from the Ancient Greeks to the Present
• Gaucher Disease: From the Bench to the Bedside and Back for a Prototype in Molecular Medicine
• Oxygen Radicals and Disease: Signals, Stresses and Therapy - The Good, The Bad and the Confusion
• Donor Milk: Safety, Ethics and Use
• Humanism in Medicine
• The Face and the Brain: Brain Structure in Oralfacial Clefting
• Mumps in Iowa
• Current Guidelines and Controversies in the Care of Girls with Turner Syndrome
• Fetal and Neonatal Nutritional Programming of Later Life Disorders
• Keeping the Live In Liver
• Diagnosis and Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke in Children
• Autism
• Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
• Stupid Little Mouse Tricks that Lead to Big Heart Aches
• Selections from the Year in Review for Pediatric Pulmonology
• The Genetics of Human Neural Tube Defects
• Newborn Screening for Cystic Fibrosis: The First Year's Experience
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease: The Long and Short of It
• Ron Lauer's Muscatine Study: 36+ Years of Community Dedication
• Psychotropic Medications - A Review
• Von Willebrand Disease
• Ambulatory Pediatric Association: A View From the Inside
• Integrating Functional-Analytic and Genetic Methods to Study Gene-Environment-Behavior Relations
• Increasing Importance of Outbreak Investigations to Protect Iowa Families
• Preventing Chronic Lung Disease: Is the Answer NO
• Time Flies When You're Having Fun: What Happened During the Past 20,140 Hours and What Does It Mean for the Future:
• Update on Atopic Dermatitis
• Postnatal Steroids - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Highlights of Research Presentations at the Pediatric Academic Society Meeting in Toronto, Canada, 2007
• Maternal Depression Screening
• Faculty Teaching Scholars Presentation: Delivering Feedback to Pediatric Residents
• Genetic Disorders of Cilia
• Child Advocacy at the National Level
• Milestones in Pediatric Advocacy

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

• International Elective Experience

Reflective Practice and Leadership: An Approach to Educating Fellow in the Core Competency Enhancing Ethics Education for Practicing Pediatricians: Research and Reflective Practice
Ernest Fruge, PhD
Donald H. Mahoney, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas

Discovery in Medicine from the Ancient Greeks to the Present
Donald Doty, MD
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

Gaucher Disease: From the Bench to the Bedside and Back for a Prototype in Molecular Medicine
Greg Grabowski, MD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Cincinnati, Ohio

Child Advocacy at the National Level
John Lewy, MD
Tulane Hospital for Children
New Orleans, Louisiana

Developmental and Mental Health Screening: Iowa Community Empowerment
Romaine Foege (D)
Representative, Iowa General Assembly
Laurie Nash
Early Childhood Specialist
Iowa City, Iowa

Injury Prevention: The Iowa Child Passenger Safety Network
Kathy Leggett, MA
Blank Children's Hospital
Des Moines, Iowa

Children with Special Needs: Medical Home Initiative
Robert Anderson, MD
Genesis Health Group
Bettendorf, Iowa
Susie Kell, RN, BNS
Executive Vice President
Iowa Academy of Family Physicians

Bed sharing, pacifiers, code shifts and other factors that are changing our understanding of SIDS
John Kattwinkel, MD
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia

Child Health Issues at the State Level
David Clark, MD
Children's Hospital at Albany Medical Center
AAP Committee on State Government Affairs
Albany, New York

Mumps in Iowa
Patricia Quinlisk, MD, MPH
Iowa Department of Public Health
Des Moines, Iowa

Current Guidelines and Controversies in the Care of Girls with Turner Syndrome
Carolyn Bondy, MD
Chief, Developmental Endocrinology Branch
NICHD

Fetal and Neonatal Nutritional Programming of Later Life Disorders
William W. Hay, Jr., MD
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Perinatal Research Center
Denver, Colorado

Keeping the Live In Liver
Ross Shepherd, MD
St. Louis Children's Hospital
St. Louis, Missouri

Stupid Little Mouse Tricks that Lead to Big Heart Aches
H. Scott Baldwin, MD
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

The Genetics of Human Neural Tube Defects
Alexander Bassuk, MD
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois

Von Willebrand Disease
Dr. Robert Montgomery
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Integrating Functional-Analytic and Genetic Methods to Study Gene-Environment-Behavior Relations
Wayne W. Fisher, PhD
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, Nebraska

Increasing Importance of Outbreak Investigations to Protect Iowa Families
Kenneth Soyemi, MD
Assistant State Epidemiologist
Iowa Department of Health
Des Moines, Iowa

Preventing Chronic Lung Disease: Is the Answer NO
Phil Shaul, MD
University of Texas-Dallas
Dallas, Texas

Update on Atopic Dermatitis
Donald Y.M. Leung, MD, PhD
National Jewish Medical Research Center
Denver, Colorado

Evidence-Based Neonatology
H.L. Halliday, MD, FRCP, FRCPE
Royal Maternity Hospital
Belfast, Ireland

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