June 2009 - Grand Rounds
All sessions of grand rounds for physicians are held in the Kogut auditorium on the lower level of The Children's Medical Center of Dayton. Continuing medical education (CME) and continuing nursing education (CEs) is provided as part of the medical center's mission of service, education, research and advocacy.

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All grand rounds sessions begin at 8:30 am in the Kogut auditorium (lower level of Taggart Pavilion). Speakers need to arrive by 8:15 am.

June 3, 2009 

8:30 am
Topic: Recent Advances in Pediatrics:  Highlights from the 2009 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting

Speaker: John Pascoe, MD, MPH - Professor of Pediatrics, Chief, Division of General/Community Pediatrics, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine (WSU BSOM);  Shalini Forbis, MD, MPH - Children’s Health Clinic; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, WSU BSOM; William Spears, PhD - Associate Professor of Community Health and Pediatrics, WSU BSOM; Abiodun Omoloja, MD - Pediatric Nephrologist, Dayton Children's; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, WSU BSOM; Tiffany Owens, Capt, USAF, MC - Third Year Resident, General Pediatrics

Objectives:

1. Review recent advances in areas of general pediatric practice, such as:

• Geographic variation in social capital
• Parent’s perception of their children’s asthma
• Utility of MRI in diagnosis of developmental disorders, including autism
• National Children’s Study

9:30 am - Core conference - Sherman Alter, MD: "Parasites" 

8:30 am
Topic: Selective Head Cooling for Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE):  Our Experience to Date

Speaker: Jay Dritz, MD - newborn medicine, Dayton Children's

1. Recognize the mechanism of injury in HIE.
2. Identify the criteria for selective head cooling for HIE.
3. Illustrate our short-term outcomes for infants at The Children’s Medical Center of Dayton who underwent selective head cooling for HIE.

9:30 am - Core conference - Lori Vavul-Roediger, MD: "Domestic violence training, part I"

June 17, 2009

8:30 am
Topic: Dyslipidemia in Childhood and Adolescence

Speaker: James Ebert, MD, MPH - Associate Professor of Community Health and Pediatrics, WSU, BSOM; Lead Physician, Lipid Clinic, Dayton Children's

Objectives:

1. Review the epidemiology of cholesterol and cardiovascular risk, as it applies to pediatrics.
2. Identify the current recommendations for cholesterol screening in pediatrics.
3. Recognize the current recommendations for dietary therapy in pediatrics.
4. Illustrate the current recommendations for pharmacotherapy in pediatrics.

9:30 am - Core conference - Lori Vavul-Roediger, MD: "Domestic violence training, part II"

June 24, 2009

8:30 am
Topic: TBD
Speaker: TBD

Objectives: TBD

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