Pediatrics Now: Cases Updates and Discussions for the Busy Pediatric Practitioner

Surgery for Underfunded Children? Yes, It Really Is Free!

Practitioners click here for free credit: CME Link:        https://cmetracker.net/UTHSCSA/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/getCertificate/10095128
 
Surgery for Underfunded Children? Yes, It Really Is Free!
FACULTY:
Ian Mitchell, MD is Pediatric Surgeon in Chief at University Hospital and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.  Utica Gray, PhD, MSHSA, National Director for Fresh Start was also interviewed for this program. 
 
OVERVIEW:Pediatrics Now Host and Executive Producer Holly Wayment talks with Dr. Mitchell and Ms. Gray about Fresh Start, free surgeries for children.
 
DISCLOSURES:Ian Mitchell, MD and Utica Gray, PhD have no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
 
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Steven Seidner, MD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. 
 
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio and Deepak Kamat, MD course director and content reviewer for the activity, have reviewed all financial disclosure information for all speakers, facilitators, and planning committee members; and determined and resolved all conflicts of interests.
 
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION STATEMENTS:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
CREDITS:AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00)Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00)
 
 

Cedar Allergy Update

https://cmetracker.net/UTHSCSA/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/getCertificate/10095105
Cedar Allergy Update
FACULTY:
Edward G. Brooks, MD serves on the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program, Expert Panel 4. He's the chief of UT Health San Antonio's Pediatric Immunology and Infectious Disease Division, and he sees patients at UT Health San Antonio's Adult and Pediatric Allergy Clinic on Medical Drive and at University Hospital.  Dr. Brooks also sees rheumatology patients.
OVERVIEW:Pediatrics Now Host and Executive Producer Holly Wayment talks with Edward G. Brooks, MD about cedar allergies in children.
DISCLOSURES:Edward G. Brooks, MD has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Steven Seidner, MD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. 
 
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio and Deepak Kamat, MD course director and content reviewer for the activity, have reviewed all financial disclosure information for all speakers, facilitators, and planning committee members; and determined and resolved all conflicts of interests.
 
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION STATEMENTS:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 0.50 AMAPRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
CREDITS:AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.50)Non-Physician Participation Credit (0.50)
 
 

How to Spot and Treat Children with NF-1

CME Link:        https://cmetracker.net/UTHSCSA/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/getCertificate/10095103
How to Spot and Treat Children with NF-1
FACULTY (and staff):
Krystal Robinson,PsyD, Shafqat Shah, M.D.,  Rachel Wyatt, Genetic Counselor
OVERVIEW:Pediatrics Now Host and Executive Producer Holly Wayment talks with the University of Texas Health Science Center’s Neurofibromatosis Team.  For NF referrals, please email Rachel Wyatt: wyattr1@uthscsa.edu
DISCLOSURES:Krystal Robinson, PsyD, Shafqat Shah, MD, and Rachel Wyatt have no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Steven Seidner, MD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. 
 
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio and Deepak Kamat, MD course director and content reviewer for the activity, have reviewed all financial disclosure information for all speakers, facilitators, and planning committee members; and determined and resolved all conflicts of interests.
 
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION STATEMENTS:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
CREDITS:AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00)Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00)
 
 
 
 

Alternative Tobacco Products: The Second Front in the War on Tobacco

CME Link:    https://cmetracker.net/UTHSCSA/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/getCertificate/10095099  
 
Alternative Tobacco Products: The Second Front in the War on Tobacco
 
Pediatrics Now Host and executive producer Holly Wayment interviews  Michael Weitzman, MD
Overview:Alternative Tobacco Products: The Second Front in the War on Tobacco
Objectives:To increase awareness and education for pediatric providers
Michael Weitzman MD is a Research Professor at the New York University School of Medicine, an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health at the State University of New York Albany School of Public Health and an Adjunct Professor of Global Public Health at the American University of Antigua School of Medicine. He formerly was Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Environmental Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine and Professor of Global Public Health at the New York University School of Global Public Health. His entire career has been devoted to serving children and families disadvantaged by social and environmental factors as a clinician, educator, researcher, and advocate. He has held positions of leadership at 3 medical schools (Chief of the Division of General Pediatrics at two (Boston University and the University of Rochester), Associate Chair at the University of Rochester and Chair of Pediatrics at the New York University School of Medicine. He has served on the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning; the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Child Environmental Health Advisory Committee and twice on its Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee; and the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee. He also testified in the 2005 federal racketeering case against the CEOs of the tobacco industry on behalf of the US Department of Justice. He has published more than 225 peer-reviewed research papers, an additional 100 book chapters and he has co-edited 8 textbooks on a wide range of child health problems. Dr. Weitzman has received two of the highest awards of the Academic Pediatric Association (APA), both its Research and Teaching Awards; the EPA’s first ever Child Environmental Health Advocacy Award; the Children’s Environmental Health Network’s Research Award; and the American Pediatric Society’s John Howland Award, the single most prestigious honor in American Pediatrics.
Financial Disclosures:Michael Weitzman, MD has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
Credits:AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hour)Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hour)
Target Audience:Pediatric Doctors and ProvidersFaculty, residents, health care providers; medical students and trainees.
Accreditation:The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Designation:The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Vaccine Hesitancy: What Can You Do?

If you're a clinician or provider, here's the link for free credit:
https://cmetracker.net/UTHSCSA/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/getCertificate/10095080
Vaccine Hesitancy: What Can You Do?
FACULTY:
JB Cantey, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at UT Health San Antonio. Dr. Cantey’s bio 
OVERVIEW:Pediatrics Now Host and Executive Producer Holly Wayment talks with JB Cantey, MD, MPH, one of the few doctors in the country who is double boarded in neonatology and infectious disease, about vaccine hesitancy. Cantey gives advice about what to say in the exam room.  He has a master’s in public health and is a contributing writer for Redbook. 
DISCLOSURES:JB Cantey, MD, MPH has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
 
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Steven Seidner, MD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. 
 
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio and Deepak Kamat, MD course director and content reviewer for the activity, have reviewed all financial disclosure information for all speakers, facilitators, and planning committee members; and determined and resolved all conflicts of interests.
 
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION STATEMENTS:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
CREDITS:AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.50)Non-Physician Participation Credit (0.50)
 
 

Pediatric Surgery: The Occasionally Not-So Cutting Edge

***This episode is eligible for MOC Credit***
 
CME Link:        https://cmetracker.net/UTHSCSA/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/getCertificate/10095066
 
Pediatric Surgery: The (Occasionally Not-So) Cutting Edge
 
FACULTY:
Ian Mitchell, MD, FACS, FAAP is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UT Health San Antonio and Surgeon-In-Chief, Pediatrics at University Health Hospital. He is also serving as co-chair of both the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council (STRAC) pediatrics committee and the Pediatric Trauma Society Guidelines Hub.
 
OVERVIEW:Pediatrics Now Host and Executive Producer Holly Wayment discusses with Dr. Mitchell various topics in general pediatric surgery.
 
DISCLOSURES:Ian Mitchell, MD, FACS, FAAP has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
 
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Steven Seidner, MD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. 
 
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio and Deepak Kamat, MD course director and content reviewer for the activity, have reviewed all financial disclosure information for all speakers, facilitators, and planning committee members; and determined and resolved all conflicts of interests.
 
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION STATEMENTS:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
CREDITS:AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00)Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00)
MOC 2 credit (1.00)
 
 

Let’s Talk About Breastfeeding: Advancements in Breastfeeding Medicine

Below is copy and CME link for Episode 7: Let’s Talk About Breastfeeding
 
https://cmetracker.net/UTHSCSA/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/getCertificate/10095061
 
FACULTY:
Alice K. Gong, MD is the William and Rita Head Distinguished Chair in Developmental and Environmental Neonatology, Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Director, PREMIEre Program, at UT Health San Antonio and University Health.
 
OVERVIEW:Pediatrics Now Host and Executive Producer Holly Wayment brings you this expert talk for free credit by Texas Pediatric Society President, neonatologist and breast feeding expert Alice K. Gong , MDabout breast feeding and the latest advice for your patients. 
 
DISCLOSURES:Alice K. Gong, MD has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
 
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Steven Seidner, MD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. 
 
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio and Deepak Kamat, MD course director and content reviewer for the activity, have reviewed all financial disclosure information for all speakers, facilitators, and planning committee members; and determined and resolved all conflicts of interests.
 
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION STATEMENTS:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
CREDITS:AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00)Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00)
 
 

Antibiotics Stewardship in the Nursery - How to Do It, Why It Matters

Episode 6: Antibiotics Stewardship: Within the Nursery - How to Do It and Why It Matters
For clinicians and providers: here's the link for free credit!
https://cmetracker.net/UTHSCSA/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/getCertificate/10095041
 
 Part 1: Within the Nursery - How to Do It and Why It Matters
FACULTY:
JB Cantey, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at UT Health San Antonio. Dr. Cantey’s bio
 
OVERVIEW:Pediatrics Now Host and Executive Producer Holly Wayment brings us a talk from JB Cantey, MD, MPH from a recent live neonatal fellowship conference. Wayment and Dr. Cantey discuss new breakthrough research regarding antibiotic stewardship in neonates.  Dr. Cantey is double boarded in neonatology and infectious disease.  He has a Master’s in public health and is a contributing writer for Redbook.
 
DISCLOSURES:JB Cantey, MD, MPH has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
 
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Steven Seidner, MD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. 
 
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio and Deepak Kamat, MD course director and content reviewer for the activity, have reviewed all financial disclosure information for all speakers, facilitators, and planning committee members; and determined and resolved all conflicts of interests.
 
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION STATEMENTS:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 0.75 AMAPRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
CREDITS:AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.75)Non-Physician Participation Credit (0.75)
 

Episode 5: The Future of AI in Medicine: It’s Already Here

Episode 5: The Future of AI in Medicine: It's Already Here
If you're a practitioner, click on the link for free credit:
https://cmetracker.net/UTHSCSA/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/getCertificate/10095031
FACULTY:
Khyzer Aziz, MD is the Associate Director of the Master of Science in Applied Health Sciences Informatics programs in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science. In addition, Dr. Aziz is the Director and Faculty/Scientific lead of the NICU Precision Medicine Center of Excellence (PMCOE) initiative at Johns Hopkins Medical Center. Dr. Khyzer Aziz’s research interests are utilizing complex information found in the electronic medical record and national registries/databases to provide clear, cohesive, and concise information for patients, families, and clinicians that can be used for clinical decision-making and neonatal precision medicine.
 
OVERVIEW:Pediatrics Now Host and Executive Producer Holly Wayment interviews Johns Hopkins University’s Khyzer Aziz, MD, a neonatologist and AI expert.
 
DISCLOSURES:Khyzer Aziz, MD has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
 
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Steven Seidner, MD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. 
 
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio and Deepak Kamat, MD course director and content reviewer for the activity, have reviewed all financial disclosure information for all speakers, facilitators, and planning committee members; and determined and resolved all conflicts of interests.
 
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION STATEMENTS:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
CREDITS:AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.50)Non-Physician Participation Credit (0.50)
 

Resilience and Rehab: Now She’s the Doctor Caring for Car Accident Victims

If you're a practitioner, click here for free credit: https://uthscsa.edu/medicine/education/cme/pediatrics-now-podcast
A Story of Resilience and Rehab: Now She’s the Doctor Helping Children Reach their Potential
FACULTY:
Jeannie Harden , MD is an associate professor of medicine at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio and board certified physiatrist at University Health.
UH Pediatric Rehabilitation Clinic at University Hospital: 210-644-7902.  fax: 210-644-7937
FACULTY:
Jeannie Harden, MD is an associate professor of medicine at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio and board-certified physiatrist at University Health.
OVERVIEW:Pediatrics Now Host and Executive Producer Holly Wayment talks to Dr. Harden about how her family was involved in a terrible car accident when she was eight years old, and this inspired her to do one of the things she does as a physiatrist today: help pediatric victims of car crashes reach their full potential.  Wayment and Hardin talk about the latest updates in pediatric rehab and when to send to a pediatric physiatrist.
 
DISCLOSURES:Jeannie Harden, MD has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
 
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Steven Seidner, MD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. 
 
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio and Deepak Kamat, MD course director and content reviewer for the activity, have reviewed all financial disclosure information for all speakers, facilitators, and planning committee members; and determined and resolved all conflicts of interests.
 
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION STATEMENTS:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
CREDITS:AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.50)Non-Physician Participation Credit (0.50)