Pediatric Grand Rounds

This conference is intended for clinicians, researchers and others who care for patients with complex immune disorders. In this event, we will explore the ways in which the diagnosis of immune dysregulation diseases can be elusive, and the importance of multi-disciplinary collaboration and the inclusion of precision diagnostics and genetics to solve the mystery. The event will include cutting edge talks, provocative cases, and more.

Upon completion of this live activity, participants will be able to integrate a strong understanding of equity concepts into their healthcare environs, articulate the impact of inequities, particularly racism, on health outcomes, and develop a foundation for hope in improving health practices based on a focus on community, dignity and abundance.

Upon completion of this live activity, participants will be able to discuss the interrelationship between professional well-being and justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI), identify the ways well-being and burnout disproportionately affect physicians and learners in different populations, describe three areas of collaboration for faculty and staff working to enhance professional wellbeing and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Upon completion of this live activity, participants will be able to describe how research biobanks embedded in health systems can drive genomic medicine, explain the utility of genomic data in identifying patients at high risk for disease, and develop strategies to implement genomic medicine in diverse populations.

Upon completion of this live activity, participants will be able to define the components of kindness and how it differs from compassion and empathy, explain the business argument for creating a culture of kindness including employee retention, reduced turnover, and improved patient outcomes resulting in patient engagement, and outline interventions to improve kindness in the workplace and effect change.

Upon completion of this live activity, participants will be able to describe the importance of the physician-patient relationship, especially in the case of chronic illness, list the shared responsibilities of physician and patient during the course of chronic disease, and explain how patient needs in dealing with chronic illness extend beyond medical factors alone.

Upon completion of this live activity, participants will be able to describe the transition from “Tropical Medicine” to “Global Health” and “Global Surgery” to “Academic Global Surgery, list one surgeon’s six major “surgical challenges” in Global Surgery, and describe various models for the inclusion of global health in one’s career or vocation.

Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) and neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) have skyrocketed as a result of the ongoing opioid epidemic. Celina C.S. Migone, MD, attending neonatologist, CHOP at Einstein Montgomery, discusses inpatient management of NAS and NOWS, including a new scoring system (replacing the Finnegan) and a move away from pharmacologic management (morphine dosing), and how the changes have had downstream effects that may require a new approach to supporting babies and famil...

Upon completion of this live activity, participants will be able to list the key determinants of effective host defense during mucosal versus systemic fungal challenge, describe the role of C-type lectin receptor/CARD9 signaling in antifungal immunity, and describe the immune factors that contribute to mucosal fungal susceptibility in patients with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis.