Specialty Updates for the General Pediatrician

December 2 & 3, 2023 — A Virtual Event

Program Description and Objectives

This program will be of interest to pediatric and adolescent primary care providers who are interested in expanding their knowledge in a variety of subspecialty areas with new or updated guidelines or practice parameters that impact primary pediatric care. In particular, healthcare providers who do not feel comfortable in recognizing or managing patients with the above conditions will benefit from this conference.

The subspecialty topics covered in the conference deal with conditions that generally involve a team approach for patient care, including the primary care physician and the subspecialist. The conference will provide the primary care physician with practical information that will help them to become more knowledgeable in identifying, understanding, and co-managing a variety of complex conditions along with the subspecialist. The conference will also provide an opportunity for the primary care physicians to ask questions directly to the participating subspecialists to further enhance their understanding of the conditions discussed. The combination of didactic and interactive elements will promote a more effective learning experience.

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

  • Discuss celiac serologies/genetic testing and their use
  • Discuss the landscape for potential non-dietary therapies
  • Review etiology and management of neurogenic bladder and conditions associated with voiding dysfunction
  • Develop an approach to the evaluation of and management strategies for acne
  • Recognize that children playing more hours of sports per week than their chronologic age are at risk for overuse injuries
  • Recognize that younger athletes are tearing their ACLs, and that the graft choice for the reconstruction depends on the bone and developmental age of the child
  • Identify precocious puberty in boys and girls and to know when a referral to a pediatric endocrinologist is appropriate
  • Discuss the antibiotic management for common pediatric head, eyes, ears, nose and throat infections
  • Apply the latest guidelines for the evaluation and management of pediatric obesity
  • Identify life-threatening causes of chest pain in children that require referral to the emergency department
  • Recognize and manage common disorders that cause abnormal uterine bleeding
  • Identify specific follow-up needs for high-risk neonates, including qualifying criteria, hearing and vision screening, nutritional needs and infection prevention
  • Describe the symptoms and classification of primary immunodeficiencies and primary immune regulatory disorders
  • Apply behavioral, psychological, and psychopharmacological interventions to treat anxiety disorders in the primary care setting
  • Identify common co-morbidities of Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Describe important updates in the 2021 STI Treatment Guidelines

Accreditation Statement

The Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement

The Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons designates this live activity for a maximum of 10.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Course Director

Mariellen M. Lane, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Child and Adolescent Health; Associate Program Director, Pediatric Residency Program

Moderators

Connie Kostacos, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Child and Adolescent Health

Steve I. Caddle, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Child and Adolescent Health

CME Planning Committee

Samuel O. Master, DO, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Child and Adolescent Health

Jacqueline Baker, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Child and Adolescent Health

Lauren Levine, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Child and Adolescent Health

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FACULTY & NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN/MORGAN STANLEY CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL STAFF

Elizabeth Berg, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition; Medical Director, Inpatient Services, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition; Associate Director, Pediatric Intestinal Rehabilitation Center

Evelyn Berger-Jenkins, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Child and Adolescent Health

Thomas S. Bottiglieri, DO, Assistant Professor of Community Medicine and Orthopedics; Chief, Sports Medicine Physicians; Director of Wellbeing, Columbia Orthopedics Surgery

Michael Fremed, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology; Co-Director, Single Ventricle Program; Medical Director, Cardiac Fitness Program

Arezou Heshmati, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, Division of Child Neurology

Anglina Kataria, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Child and Adolescent Health

Catherine Kavanagh, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Nephrology

Christine T. Lauren, MD, MHA, Associate Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics; Associate Program Director, Dermatology Residency Program; Executive Committee, AAP Section of Dermatology

Belinda Li, MD, Assistant Professor of Urology

Tamar Lubell, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in Emergency Medicine

Warren Y.K. Ng, MD, MPH, Professor of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Director of Clinical Services in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Jordan S. Orange, MD, PhD, Reuben S. Carpentier Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics; Physician In-Chief, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital

John Rausch, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Population and Family Health, Division of Child and Adolescent Health; Medical Director, Health for Life West; Associate Clinical Director, Pediatric Obesity Initiative

Dina Romo, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Child and Adolescent Health; Medical Director of NYP School- Based Health Centers

Melissa Stockwell, MD, MPH, Chief, Division of Child and Adolescent Health; Felice K. Shea Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Population and Family Health; Director, Child and Adolescent Health Clinical Service

Katherine Tang, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care and Hospital Medicine

Rachel Zuckerbrot, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry; Site Director, Region 3 Project TEACH, Training and Education for the Advancement of Children’s Health

Disclosure

All those involved with the planning and delivery of this education will disclose all financial relationships in the past 24 months with ineligible companies. An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. For each financial relationship, disclosure will include the name of the ineligible company and the nature of the financial relationship(s).

None of the planners/faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.