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

Vaccine Hesitancy: What Can You Do?

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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)
 
 

RSV Prevention Update

 
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Update on RSV Prevention in Infants
FACULTY:
Michael Odom, MD is a neonatologist with UT Health San Antonio and University Hospital.  He's passionate researching methods to prevent RSV in babies and has been doing so since the 1990’s.
 
OVERVIEW:Pediatrics Now Host and Executive Producer Holly Wayment discusses with Dr. Odom cutting edge RSV prevention, including the now recommended Nirsevimab.   Dr. Odom answers questions from pediatric practitioners.
www.pediatricsnowpodcast.com
 
DISCLOSURES:Michael Odom, 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)
 
 

Heat Health: From Swimming to Hot Cars, an Update with our Pediatric ER Doctor

CME Link for Episode 37:   https://cmetracker.net/UTHSCSA/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/getCertificate/10094245
Heat Health: From Swimming to Hot Cars, an Update from our Pediatric ER Doctor
FACULTY:
Priyanka Kandhal, MD is a Pediatric and Emergency Medicine Physician with UT Health San Antonio.
 
www.pediatricsnowpodcast.com
 
Jeff Holst is cofounder of Colin’s Hope, A nonprofit recommended by the Texas Pediatric Society that has videos and materials for pediatric clinics that can be sent  on drowning prevention.
 
Jennifer Poteat has a master’s degree from Dell Medical School and is Executive Director of Colin’s Hope.
OVERVIEW:Pediatrics Now Host and Producer Holly Wayment interviews UT Health San Antonio and University Hospital Pediatric E.R. Doctor Priyanka Kandhal about recent drownings and also a child left in a hot car.  She talks to Jeff Holst and Jennifer Poteat about swimming safety and resources for pediatricians. Holst opens up about the tragic loss of his son and his nonprofit he hopes will help others.
DISCLOSURES:Priyanka Kandhal, MD, Jeff Holst, and Jennifer Poteat, EMPL, MSHCT have no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
 
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.  Planning Committee member Steven Seidner, MD has disclosed he receives funding from Draeger Medical for the Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of the Infinity Acute Care System Workstation Neonatal Care Babylog VN500 Device in High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) Mode in Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) Neonates for which he is a co-principal investigator. The relevant financial relationships noted for Dr. Seidner have been mitigated.  
 
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)
 

Pediatric Plastic Surgery and a Passion for Helping Children: An Interview with Dr. Charles Anton Fries

CME link for Episode 31
https://cmetracker.net/UTHSCSA/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/getCertificate/10093717
 
Pediatric Plastic Surgery and a Passion for Helping Children: An Interview with Dr. Charles Anton Fries
 
FACULTY:
Charles Anton Fries, MD is a plastic surgeon at UT Health San Antonio and University Hospital. For appointments, call the Medical Arts and Research Center (the MARC) 210-450-9220
 
OVERVIEW:Pediatrics Now Host and Producer Holly Wayment interviews plastic surgeon Dr. Charles Anton Fries about the latest in pediatric plastic surgery and his passion for helping children from Oxford, England to UT Health San Antonio, and also the Philippines.
 
DISCLOSURES:Charles Anton Fries, MD has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
 
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.  Planning Committee member Steven Seidner, MD has disclosed he receives funding from Draeger Medical for the Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of the Infinity Acute Care System Workstation Neonatal Care Babylog VN500 Device in High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) Mode in Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) Neonates for which he is a co-principal investigator. The relevant financial relationships noted for Dr. Seidner have been mitigated.  
 
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)
 

Messaging, Centering and Coparenting: There’s No Benefit to Being A Jerk - An Interview with a Top Doctor with the AAP

CME link for Episode 30
https://cmetracker.net/UTHSCSA/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/getCertificate/10092971
 
Messaging, Centering and Coparenting: There’s No Benefit to Being A Jerk - An Interview with a Top Doctor with the AAP
 
FACULTY:
David L. Hill, MD is a hospitalist pediatrician, author, podcaster, and speaker. Currently he is Chair of the AAP Council Management Committee, co-host of the Pediatrics on Call podcast, Associate Editor of Patient Education for AAP Pediatric Care Online, Associate Medical Editor of Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5, and an official AAP spokesperson. He works as a hospitalist pediatrician at UNC Health Wayne in Goldsboro, NC as well as at UNC Children’s Health in Wilmington, NC and as a primary care pediatrician at Wilmington’s MedNorth Community Health Center.
 
OVERVIEW:Pediatrics Now Host and Producer Holly Wayment interviews hospitalist pediatrician David L. Hill, MDabout engaging the media for advocacy, specifically, tools for effective communication for Pediatric advocacy.
 
DISCLOSURES:David L. Hill, MD has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
 
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.  Planning Committee member Steven Seidner, MD has disclosed he receives funding from Draeger Medical for the Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of the Infinity Acute Care System Workstation Neonatal Care Babylog VN500 Device in High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) Mode in Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) Neonates for which he is a co-principal investigator. The relevant financial relationships noted for Dr. Seidner have been mitigated.  
 
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)
 

Improving Relational Health: You Have the Power

CME link for Episode 29: Improving Relational Health: You Have the Power
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Improving Relational Health: You Have the Power
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 Producer Holly Wayment interviews neonatologist and relational health expert Alice K. Gong , MD about how to improve relational health and why pediatric practitioners have the power.
https://nurturescienceprogram.org/wecs/
 
DISCLOSURES:Alice K. Gong, MD has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
 
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.  Planning Committee member Steven Seidner, MD has disclosed he receives funding from Draeger Medical for the Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of the Infinity Acute Care System Workstation Neonatal Care Babylog VN500 Device in High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) Mode in Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) Neonates for which he is a co-principal investigator. The relevant financial relationships noted for Dr. Seidner have been mitigated.  
 
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 EDUCATION STATEMENTS:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing 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)

Safe Opioid Prescribing in Pediatrics: Grand Rounds Episode, for MOC Credit!

Episode 20: Safe Opioid Prescribing in Pediatrics
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FACULTY:Hema Navaneethan, MD currently serves as the Medical Director Pediatric Supportive Care Services and the Pediatric Palliative Care Fellowship Director.
 
OVERVIEW:
Pediatrics Now Host and Producer Holly Wayment talks with Hema Navaneethan, MD about safe opioid prescribing in pediatrics.
OVERALL LEARNING OBJECTIVE:Increased awareness and education for pediatric providers
 
DISCLOSURE TO LEARNERS:
Speaker: Hema Navaneethan, MD has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
The Pediatrics Now Podcast Planning Committee members: Steven Seidner, MD, and Holly Wayment have no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
The University of Texas at San Antonio and Steven Seidner, 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 University of Texas at San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.The University of Texas at San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The presentation, Safe Opioid Prescribing in Pediatrics, has been designated by the University of Texas at San Antonio for 1 credit of education in pain management and the prescription of opioids.
CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE:Healthcare professionals will receive a certificate of attendance and are asked to consult with their licensing board for information on applicability and acceptance.Credit may be obtained upon successful completion of the activity’s evaluation.RELEASE DATE:4/28/2026
EXPIRATION DATE:8/31/2028
 
 
 

The Latest Developments in Developmental Peds: An Interview with Dr. Mario Fierro

The Latest Developments in Developmental Peds: An Interview with Dr. Mario Fierro
Credit Link:
https://cmetracker.net/UTHSCSA/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/getCertificate/10092768
 
 
 
Episode 15: The Latest Developments in Developmental Peds: An Interview with Dr. Mario Fierro
 
FACULTY
Mario A Fierro MD has a clinical appointment in the Department of Pediatrics at UT Health San Antonio.
 
OVERVIEWHost Holly Wayment talks to Dr. Mario Fierro about updates, cases and discussions in developmental pediatrics.  Dr. Fierro's clinic phone: 210-450-7334, (fax)210-450-2124
CPAN: 1-888-901-CPAN
 
DISCLOSURESMario A. Fierro, MD has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
 
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.  Planning Committee member Steven Seidner, MD has disclosed he receives funding from Draeger Medical for the Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of the Infinity Acute Care System Workstation Neonatal Care Babylog VN500 Device in High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) Mode in Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) Neonates for which he is a co-principal investigator. The relevant financial relationships noted for Dr. Seidner have been mitigated.  
 
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 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 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
CREDITSAMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.75)Non-Physician Participation Credit (0.75)
 

❤️ Heart to Heart Talk with Pediatric Cardiology Division Chief Ginnie Abarbanell and Pediatric CT Surgeon Aaron Abarbanell

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Topic:  Heart to Heart Talk with Pediatric Cardiology Division Chief Ginnie Abarbanell and Pediatric CT Surgeon Aaron Abarbanell
 
Date:   Pediatrics Now Podcast Episode, Friday February 17, 2023
 
Speakers:     Podcast Host Holly Wayment interviews Pediatric Cardiology Division Chief Ginnie Abarbanell and Pediatric CT Surgeon Aaron Abarbanell
 
FACULTY
Ginnie Abarbanell, MD, is a Professor of Cardiology and Aaron Abarbanell, MD, is a C.T. Surgeon
 
OVERVIEW
Pediatrics Now host Holly Wayment discusses with them cardiology updates for the busy pediatric practitioner, plus the secret to how they unplug from their high-stress jobs, working together and their decades-long happy marriage.  The case discussed focuses on what to do for a two-week old patient with a heart murmur.  Ginnie Abarbanell sees patients at UT Health San Antonio's clinic in the medical center and in Stone Oak in San Antonio: 210-450-7334, fax 210-450-2124.  Practitioners with questions or needing help getting a patient in, call 210-436-9933.
 
 
DISCLOSURES
Ginnie Abarbanell, MD and Aaron Abarbanell, MD have no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
 
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.  Planning Committee member Steven Seidner, MD has disclosed he receives funding from Draeger Medical for the Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of the Infinity Acute Care System Workstation Neonatal Care Babylog VN500 Device in High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) Mode in Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) Neonates for which he is a co-principal investigator. The relevant financial relationships noted for Dr. Seidner have been mitigated.  
 
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 EDUCATION STATEMENTS
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing 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 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
 

Integrative Medicine: Dr. Jan Patterson on Self-Care Steps to Wellness For Free Ethics Credit!

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Date:     Pediatrics Now Podcast Episode, Friday February 10, 2023
Speakers: Podcast Host Holly Wayment interviews Integrative Medicine and Infectious Disease Doctor Jan Patterson, co-author of the fascinating new book Breath for the Soul: Self-Care Steps to Wellness
Texas Medical Board of Ethics
This presentation meets the Texas Medical Board criteria for formal continuing medical education involving the study of medical ethics and/or professional responsibility.
 
FACULTY
Jan Patterson, MD, is a Professor of Medicine and Integrative and Infectious Disease Doctor at UT Health San Antonio and University Hospital.
 
OVERVIEW
Pediatrics Now host Holly Wayment discusses with Dr. Jan Patterson  simple ways we can use our breath, movement, nutrition, and spirit to care for ourselves, even during our busy work days, and especially during the toughest of times.  Dr. Patterson talks about some simple things we can do for ourselves that take only a few minutes. Plus, Dr. Patterson  opens up about unimaginable grief—the loss of her son Will and how to thrive with life’s greatest challenges.
DISCLOSURES
Jan Patterson, MD is a professor of Medicine/Infectious Disease and Associate Dean for Quality & Lifelong Learning at The Joe. R and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, UT Health San Antonio. She is a clinician and a healthcare epidemiologist and has served on the Infectious Diseases Society of America Board of Directors and is Past President of the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America. She is a longtime infectious disease consultant to the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council (STRAC), has served on the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Practices Advisory Committee and has been a consultant to the City of San Antonio Metro Health Department. She has been a site principal investigator for new antimicrobial agents and was a co-investigator for the NIH Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial (ACTT) studies, NIH Accelerating COVID-10 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines studies (ACTIV-6) and a sub-investigator for the Novavax SARS-CoV-2 vaccine trial at UT Health and University Hospital.
 
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.  Planning Committee member Steven Seidner, MD has disclosed he receives funding from Draeger Medical for the Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of the Infinity Acute Care System Workstation Neonatal Care Babylog VN500 Device in High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) Mode in Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) Neonates for which he is a co-principal investigator. The relevant financial relationships noted for Dr. Seidner have been mitigated.  
 
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 EDUCATION STATEMENTS
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing 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 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.