Talking Pediatrics

Dr. Stormee Williams, pediatrician and Chief Health Equity Officer at Children’s Health Dallas, talks about the barriers that exist to health access, and the ways in which these can be addressed and improved while building trusting relationships with patients, families and communities. View the transcript here: https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking...

In this "Guidelines with Gabi" episode of Talking Pediatrics, Dr. Gabi Hester discusses with the Kid Expert, Dr. Susan Kuldanek, pediatric hematologist, the new clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of children 5 years and younger with iron-deficiency anemia. View the transcript here: https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pe...

On this Trailblazers episode, we sit down with Representative Leigh Finke, the first openly transgender woman to serve in the Minnesota Legislature and a fierce advocate for LGBTQ rights, particularly the rights of transgender and gender diverse community. She was the author of the Trans Refuge Bill, signed into law in May 2023, which protects gender affirming care in the state of Minnesota. She w...

Learn how the kid experts at Children's Minnesota are leveraging community relationships to address health disparities and social determinants of health. Meet the new Director of Community Health, Cindy Kaigama and learn how she will be using her lived experience and work experience to bring the organization and the community together to raise healthier children. View the transcript here: https://...

Join us this week on Talking Pediatrics as James Burroughs shares his honest conversation with award-winning journalist and author, Roxane Battle, about health equity, community, and belonging. View the transcript here: https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-health-equity-make-work-everyone-5-19-23/

Many of us are familiar with the phrase "food insecurity" but how many of us know how common it is for our patients, or the ways food insecurity is impacting their life and health? And perhaps most importantly, do we know how to have a conversation about access to food and do we know how we can help? Join us in conversation with Dr. Kimberly Montez from Wake Forest University School of Medicine an...

Genetic counselors are a wonderful resource to pediatricians everywhere, working closely not only with medical geneticists, but also a host of sub-specialists. They wear many hats as families grapple with a new possible diagnosis - gatherers of information with trusty pedigrees, teachers of lofty medical concepts to anxious parents, guides through a bevy of genetic testing options carrying differe...

On this Talking Pediatrics episode, Angela Kade Goepferd, MD talks with Kid Expert, Dr. Heidi Kamrath about what's trending in the newbor nursery, including diagnosis and treatment for sepsis, jaundice and hyperbilirubinemia, and hypoglycemia. View the transcript here: https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-whats-new-newborn-nursery-4-7-2...

Moving toward equitable outcomes for kids means taking actions in addition to creating the case for change. From his background in education to his current position in the Governor's office, Gov. Tim Walz has a history of advocating for and creating change for the benefit of kids. Join hosts Angela Kade Goepferd, MD and James Burroughs as they talk to Gov Walz about what it takes to improve kids h...

On this Talking Pediatrics episode, Dr. Gabi Hester will discuss all-things pneumonia with pediatric hospitalist and Kid Expert, Dr. Courtney Herring. Their discussion will include the latest guidelines around antibiotic selection, shorter duration of therapy, and not needing blood cultures in most patients. View the transcript here: https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-ped...

The world watched in shock as Damar Hamlin, a safety for the Buffalo Bills, collapsed on the field during a Monday night football game against the Cincinnati Bengals on Jan. 2, 2023. If parents and pediatricians weren’t already nervous about pre-sport physicals and sudden cardiac death, that scene certainly reinforced everyone’s worst fears. But could screening of any kind have prevented that inci...

What do you know about preventing and treating HIV in teenagers? Did you know that 21% of all new HIV infections occur in adolescents? Join us for a conversation with our Adolescent Health Kid Expert, Dr. Katy Miller, to learn about how to talk to teenagers about sexual health, STIs and HIV, and how and to who we should prescribe Pre Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) as well as Post Exposure Prophylaxis...

Often most pediatric education and training, including simulation teams and equipment, tends to be centered at children's hospitals and academic health centers, while the first place many pediatric patients present for emergency care is at community hospitals. To help get training resources into the hands of community pediatricians and emergency room physicians, the SimBox was born. Each SimBox in...

As all pediatricians know, children are not just "little adults" and this is especially true in the field of ethics. In matters from consenting to surgery to deciding end-of-life wishes, adults are assumed to have decisional capacity until proven otherwise. Adults have the benefit of years of developmental maturation and experiences that have shaped a unique set of preferences and underlying value...

On May 25th, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis, setting off a racial reckoning in the midst of a global pandemic. Over two years later, have we made progress? Or do we need to turn up the volume and continue to advance racial equity? Join guest-host James Burroughs, SVP and Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer at Children's Minnesota as he interviews Tiffani Daniels,...

While we all know that confidential care is important for caring for teenagers, a surprising number of us don't actually spend time alone with our adolescent patients, leaving them vulnerable to health risks without our care and guidance. Join teen health expert, Dr. Katy Miller, medical director of Adolescent Medicine at Children's Minnesota, to learn how and why confidential care is so important...

On today’s episode of Talking Pediatrics, Dr. Gabi Hester will talk with one of our Kid Experts, Pediatric Cardiologist Dr. Ian Thomas, about pediatric syncope and in particular red flags and initial workup for cardiac causes. View the transcript here: https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-guidelines-gabi-not-faint-heart-pediatric-syncop...

How many of us working in health care are so tired of hearing about how much we seem to be collectively struggling, and at the same time, all of the strategies that we are to personally implement to help us survive our circumstances? Working to reframe the problem of burnout to change the systems we are working in, rather than individual clinician actions and reactions, is Dr. Christine Sinsky, vi...

The power of simulation is in the hands-on nature so often it is assumed that simulation must happen in-person. Simulation at a distance has been around for several decades as a method that connects educators and learners across space and time. The pandemic rapidly accelerated the use and development of this modality and led to many innovative simulations in the last few years. Join us as Dr. Sans...

You can’t turn on the radio or television, or even walk into most exam rooms these days without thinking about weight, and specifically the rising numbers of our patients who are designated as overweight or obese. But what does this mean for health? Conventional medical teaching is that being overweight is correlated with worse health outcomes. But….what if that's wrong? What if there is a weight...

Meningitis is one of the most potentially devastating diseases a child can get. On this episode of Talking Pediatrics, Dr. Gabi Hester will talk with 2 of our Kid Experts - Dr. Emily Harrison and Dr. Asitha Jayawardena - about the diagnosis and management of this type of infection. View the transcript here: https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-ped...

Preterm birth affects approximately 1 of every 10 infants born in the United States, and almost all of those infants will end up spending time in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit or NICU. For many, this involves several days of infants receiving care in a hospital, with parents unable to take their babies home, disrupting their family and work life. Often the first question families ask their NICU c...

It’s no secret that we are facing a mental health crisis among our pediatric patients. Kids and teenagers have higher rates of depression and anxiety than ever before, and suicide has now become the second leading cause of death for adolescents. More and more of our patients and families are seeking mental health care support and services, and we have an unfortunate shortage of pediatric and adole...

We learn more and more every day about the impact that sleep has on both our physical and mental health. Despite this, many adults are chronically sleep deprived and many kids and teenagers also don't get enough sleep. On today's Talking Pediatrics, our Kid Expert from the Sleep Clinic, Dr. Ben Ryba-White, joins us to talk about the importance of sleep, the mysteries of melatonin and what we can b...

In this episode of Equity Actions, our Health Equity Manager Adriene Thornton interviews Myriam Roby, Clinical Director of Equity and Inclusion, about how to overcome health disparities in the inpatient setting. Join them in this discussion about everything from mental health care, how to effectively communicate with patients and families and how we can use data effectively to improve health outco...