Pediatric Update for the Primary Care Provider

Event Details

INTENDED AUDIENCE:
Pediatricians, Family Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants

PRESENTED BY:
St. Louis Children’s Hospital

SPONSORED BY:
Washington University School of Medicine, Continuing Medical Education

PROGRAM OVERVIEW AND OBJECTIVES
This program is designed to offer the primary care provider clinical approaches to problems common in pediatric and adolescent practice.  It will explore current recommendations in adolescent medicine, urology, dermatology, endocrinology, allergy and pulmonary, psychiatry, orthopedics, and genetics.  The intended result of this activity is increased knowledge, and competence.

At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• Identify diagnostic criteria for short stature
• Describe the most critical test for evaluating the growth of a child.
• Describe the most common normal variations resulting in short stature during childhood.
• Discuss the basics of the approach to the orthopedic examination
• Describe comfort in the management of common pediatric sporting injuries
• Discuss the options for treating acute psychiatric conditions like suicidality
• Describe the screening for and managing suicidality.
• Describe the introduction of peanut products
• Discuss peanut immunotherapy as a new treatment option
• Describe fundamental management strategies for common genitourinary concerns in the pediatric population.
• Discuss how to counsel pediatric patients on preventative maintenance of genitourinary health.

AGENDA

7:30 am    Conference Registration & Breakfast – provided

8:00 am    Depression and Suicidal Ideation Crisis Management – Eric T. Spiegel, MD

9:00 am        STI’s  – Jane Alyce Hunt, MD

10:00 am    Break
        
10:15 am    Peanut Allergy Update – Jeffrey Stokes, MD

11:15 am      Asthma – Alysa Ellis, MD

12:15 pm    Lunch – provided

1:00 pm    The Orthopedic exam and Common Injuries – Brian Kelly, MD

2:00 pm    Break

2:15 pm    Common Genitourinary Concerns in the Pediatric Population – Erica Traxel, MD

3:15 pm    The Clinical approach to Children and Adolescent with Short Stature
– Andrea Granados, MD

4:15 pm    Adjourn

CME PROVIDED BY
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Continuing Medical Education.

ACCREDITATION
In support of improving patient care, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.  

CREDIT
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis designates this live activity for a maximum of 7 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

DISCLOSURE POLICY
It is the policy of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Continuing Medical Education that planners, faculty and other persons who may influence content of this CME activity disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial interests in order for CME staff to identify and resolve any potential conflicts of interest prior to the educational activity. Faculty must also disclose any planned discussion of unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or devices during their presentation. Detailed disclosures will be made in activity handout materials.

Washington University and St. Louis Children’s Hospital Faculty
Alysa Ellis, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Immunology Pulmonary Medicine
Andrea Granados, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Endocrinology and Diabetes
Brian Kelly, MD, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Erica Traxel, MD, Assistant Professor of Urologic Surgery
Jane Alyce Hunt, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Hospitalist Medicine
Jeffrey Stokes, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Immunology Pulmonary Medicine
Timothy Eric Spiegel, MD, Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry