Connecticut Children's Grand Rounds

Objectives Event Objectives: Compare and Contrast: Severe Persistent vs Poorly Controlled vs Difficult to Treat Asthma. Describe Asthma Cytokine Pathways and the Corresponding Biologic Mechanism of Action. Recognize the importance of multimodal asthma approach, limits, and future directions. Claim CME Credit Here    From < https://www.buzzsprout.com/admin/469609/episodes/19356039/edit > 

Describe how newborn screening has evolved to incorporate family-centered coordination and longitudinal support. Identify how communication, navigation, and provider coordination influence family engagement and follow-up. Discuss how family and lived experience reshaped workflows, communication practices, and support systems within newborn screening. Apply lessons from newborn screening to broader...

* No CME is awarded for this activity  Includes presentation of the Leon Chameides Lifetime Achievement award, Dr. Scott Schoem. 

Event Objectives: Describe the use of simulation in safer firearm storage education for pediatric residents. Discuss how simulation increases comfort of pediatric residents in discussing safer firearm storage at well visits. Evaluate caregiver comprehension and usability of a pediatric SMART asthma action plan using iterative field testing and health literacy principles. Identify differences in in...

Event Objectives Implement at least one subtractive change in their practices. Understand the scope of healthcare delivery's environmental impact. Perform procedures with less materials waste and use. Claim CME Credit Here!

Event Objectives: Identify historical milestones in congenital catheterization, and the technology which has allowed for advancement of the field. Describe the new transcatheter technologies available to treat congenital heart disease. Gain an appreciation for the collaborative approach between surgical and interventional cardiology teams in treating complex heart defects. Claim CME Credit Here!

Event Objectives: Identify actionable genes within a pharmacogenetic panel. Understand the risk of using pharmacogenetics as the primary driver in the selection of medications for psychiatric treatment. List resources that provide evidence regarding relevant gene-medication pairs and be introduced to a tool, sequence2script, that can help inform providers of the most up-to-date guidelines regardin...

Event Objectives Review the Allergy Center’s treatment protocol for managing food allergies using Sublingual Immunotherapy (SLIT). Analyze clinical outcomes and results associated with the use of SLIT in the treatment of food allergies to inform evidence-based practice. Claim CME Credit Here!

Event Objectives: Use the See/Believe/Create framework to identify at least one actionable, evidence-based change in their practice or community to reduce preventable morbidity and mortality among their patients. Apply the Burden × Amenability framework to rank preventable conditions by their potential for population-level impact—and explain why that ranking should drive clinical and advocacy prio...

Event Objectives: Describe the epidemiology and clinical presentation of FPIAP/CMPA and its newly identified position on the atopic march. Explain how management of children with FPIAP/CMPA might differ in infants who are breastfed vs. formula fed, and when early allergen introduction may be indicated. Explain why FOBT, FIT, Calprotectin, EDN, and Zonulin are not helpful biomarkers of FPIAP/CMPA....

Event Objectives: Characterize sources of cognitive errors in cases of possible child abuse. Understand current lack of agreement in cases of possible child abuse. Explore possible solutions to reduce variability and error. Claim CME Credit Here!

Event Objectives: Understanding the rationale behind the importance of accurately identifying true Amoxicillin allergy Learning how to safely implement in private practice Claim CME Credit Here!

Event Objectives: Discuss the state of healthcare delivery for youth with autism and other neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDDs). Describe the SAFE initiative and key domains that healthcare settings must consider to improve care access and outcomes for youth with NDDs and their families. Identify opportunities and priorities for clinical implementation, medical education, advocacy, and research...

Event Objectives: Understand how to reduce the risk of injury around water. Describe the major safety issues of e-bikes. Learn about the continuing threat to teen drivers. Claim CME Credit Here!

Event Objectives: Illustrate the challenges of community hospital-based pediatrics within a rapidly evolving children's health system. Consider implications for pediatric providers and their patients as these large-scale changes occur. Describe one adaptation to these changes: a focus on clinical quality, education, research and growth in pediatrics and neonatology within our Nuvance/ Northwe...

Event Objectives: Identify two best practice strategies for implementing trauma screening in pediatrics. Describe two brief best practice strategies for supporting youth/families following disclosure of trauma or traumatic stress during trauma screening. Outline two resources to support or enhance their trauma screening programs. Claim CME Credit Here!

Event Objectives: Describe what “ambient + agentic” workflows could look like across outpatient, inpatient, and the ED. Name the biggest documentation/revenue-cycle opportunities for generative AI. Recognize key safety risks: hallucinations, automation bias, prompt injection, and “AI validating AI”. Identify governance guardrails. Leave with a pragmatic pilot-and-measure roadmap. Claim CME Credit...

Event Objectives: Recognize the often-overlooked role of caregivers as “parallel patients” and the impact of caregiver stress, anticipatory grief, and medical complexity on patient outcomes. Differentiate between adaptive caregiver responses to chronic illness and signs of distress that may require additional clinical attention. Apply brief, practical strategies to acknowledge, validate, and suppo...

Event Objectives: Highlight the International Guidelines for TS in order to facilitate both patient and provider recognition of TS features and comorbidities. Emphasize the importance of timely health assessments and multidisciplinary care throughout the lifespan. Share an epic tool developed to support the coordination of care for patients with TS. Claim CME Credit Here!

Event Objectives: Gain an understanding of the relationship between body size and injury pattern. Understand the variable physiologic responses to injury across childhood. Gain knowledge about the treatment of pediatric injuries. Claim CME Credit Here!

Event Objectives: Review the non-renal implications of pediatric AKI. Describe the long-term consequences of AKI. Discuss prevention and management strategies. Claim CME Credit Here!

Event Objectives: Identify preventative strategies Review common causes of overuse injuries in pediatric sports Claim CME Credit Here

Event Objectives: Interpret recent infant and child mortality data, including disparities, in the context of historical data, and consider the trajectory of the past century. Identify current and historical sources of infant and child mortality, and past, present, and possible future campaigns that target specific causes. Recognize and interpret parental, cultural, and literary responses to the th...

Event Objectives: Review lipid screening and updates to the CLASP referral guidelines Case based review of management of common pediatric lipid disorders- isolated elevation of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), combined dyslipidemia, and hypertriglyceridemia. Claim CME Credit Here!

Event Objectives: To report on the rise of pandemic threats and tropical infections due to climate change, urbanization and deforestation. To summarize efforts at our Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development to develop new vaccines for neglected diseases in low- and middle-income countries. To summarize the origins of rising antivaccine sentiments and its recent shifts. To create a...