Expanded Newborn Screening in New Jersey

Franklin Desposito, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Clinical Director – Institute of Genomic Medicine
UMDNJ/New Jersey Medical School

Important Dental Issues In The Pediatrician

Sidney Whitman, DDS
Hamilton Dental Associates

Development and Attachment in Children Adopted from Abroad

Jane Aronson, MD
General Pediatrician and Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Director of International Pediatric Health Services, PLLC
Weill Cornell Medical College/ Private practice located at 151 East 62nd Street in
Manhattan, specializing in adoption medicine.

Cultural Competence in Pediatrics

Edward Poliandro, MD

Pediatric Blood Conservation: Rational & Strategies

Nabil E. Hassan, MD
Pediatric Intensivist
Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital
Medical Director, Pediatric Blood Avoidance Service
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics and Human Development
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

Objectives:

1. Describe issues unique about the skeletally immature athlete.
2. Describe the systematic approach to blood conservation.
3. Explain the application of blood conservation strategies in selected situations.

When To Refer Athletic Injuries To A Pediatric Orthopedist
(Discussion will focus on etiology, diagnosis, treatment of sports-related injuries in skeletally immature athletes).

Tamir Bloom, MD
Assistant Professor
Division of Pediatric Orthopaedics
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Objectives:

1. Describe issues unique about the skeletally immature athlete.
2. When to refer acute injuries.
3. When to refer chronic or overuse injuries.

Refractory Epilepsy – Where Are We?

Anjum Hashim, MD
Pediatric Neurology
CHoNJ @ NBIMC

Objectives:

1. Discuss some mechanisms of refractory epilepsy.
2. Explain what is  refractory epilepsy.
3. Review current status and therapeutic options.

What Is New In Childhood Hypertension?

Isabel Roberti, MD, Ph.D.
Director, Pediatric Nephrology and Transplantation, SBMC, Livingston, NJ
Associate Clinical Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYC

Objectives:

1. Identify risks for hypertension in children.
2. Evaluate and differentiate, clearly,  primary from secondary HTN
3. Define therapy plans to control hypertension in children and prevent long-term consequences.
   

Atopic Dermatitis 2009: What We Know and How It Informs Therapy

Seth Orlow, MD, PhD
Chairman, Department of Dermatology
Samuel Weinberg
Professor of Pediatric Dermatology
Professor of Cell Biology and of Pediatrics New York University School of Medicine

Objectives:

1. Base therapeutic decision on the interplay between atopic dermatitis and staphylococcus aureus.
2. Describe the two major classes of anti-inflammatory medications approved for the treatment of atopic dermatitis in children.
3. Identify how knowledge about the skin’s structure has led to new interventions for atopic dermatitis.
   
   

CPC: “Prader Willi Syndrome: A Pediatric Sleep Disorder Conundrum

Sushmita Mikkilineni, MD
Director, Pediatric Pulmonary

Objectives:

1. Distinguish between different forms of sleep disordered breathing.
2. Describe the implications of obesity and other metabolic disorders on sleep and other organ function.
3. Explain the dilemma of treating severe Sleep Disordered Breathing in children.
   
   

Congenital Heart Disease: Now That We Can “Fix” Everything, Will There Be Anything Left To Do?

Rajiv Verma, MD, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Director, Children’s Heart Center, CHoNJ

Objectives:

1. Review the various types of therapeutic interventions available for management of congenital heart disease.
2. Describe long term clinical outcomes; association with underlying structural heart disease and initial therapeutic intervention.
3. Learn to minimize long term morbidity, maximizing quality of life; tailoring to the individual patient.