Charting Pediatrics

By Children's Hospital Colorado

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Children's Hospital Colorado experts examine the latest treatment options for the most common chief complaints in pediatric medicine. We will talk about significant research and advances in pediatric medicine, the nuanced art of practicing pediatrics and everything in between.

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Charting Pediatrics episodes:

04.16.2024
Spine Surgery Innovations: Advancing Treatment with Technology
Innovations and techniques to enhance spinal surgical care, and support patient- centric outcomes, have made big strides in the last decade. Technology like surgical robots, 3D printed models customized to the patient, and a new procedure called vertebral...
04.09.2024
The Lowdown on Tongue Ties: Breaking Down Fact Versus Fiction
When babies enter the world, there’s a plethora of diagnoses providers need to look out for. Some are simple fixes, while others are a bit more complicated. When parents take their kids home, how should they know...
04.02.2024
Care for Cleft Lip and Palate: The Commitment Spanning a Patient’s Lifetime
The care of children with cleft lip and palate spans an entire lifetime. It requires methodical care with a multidisciplinary team, and a special emphasis on the family. Integration with a child’s pediatrician, medical home and their loved ones...
03.26.2024
A Solution to Sickle Cell: New Gene Editing Therapy Could Lead to a Pain Free Life
You’ve likely heard of CRISPR, the comprehensive gene editing technology that emerged in the 2010s and has since revolutionized biological research. Additionally, the medical community has long been using the concept of gene therapy. What’s new is that both...
03.21.2024
We’ve Hit 2 Million Lifetime Downloads! 3 Million, Here We Come
In its 7th season, Charting Pediatrics has hit 2 million lifetime downloads! What an accomplishment. Our podcast team wants to thank each of you, our listeners, for tuning in each week to learn about the latest and greatest in...
03.19.2024
Advocating for Health Successes: Filling Gaps with Patient-Family Engagement
Children and their families need a healthcare system that serves them wholeheartedly. Having their unique needs prioritized creates an important opportunity for lifelong health and wellbeing. However, the current health system in our country and globally has massive gaps...
03.12.2024
Mitigating Misinformation and Changing the Narrative: Allergies in the Media
Facts and fiction can overlap in movies and television. That’s especially prevalent in medical dramas where the details seem so real but often don’t portray the full picture. While the intention may be to create powerful entertainment, sometimes a...
03.05.2024
A True Icon of Pediatrics: The Career and Legacy of Barton Schmitt, MD
As doctors, curiosity can be the driving factor to a long, successful, and fulfilling career. It can be the difference between daily repetition and years of practicing evolved education. For Barton Schmitt, MD, curiosity has been a transformative...
02.27.2024
Merging Medicine and Storytelling: How Digital Content Can Change Outcomes
Digital content is at the center of our society and its prevalence continues to grow. Storytelling on digital platforms allows the medical community to showcase groundbreaking research and connect with audiences, who otherwise may not be privy to this...
02.20.2024
Practices of Prescribing: Critical Learning About Generics and Biosimilars
Pediatricians, families, and pharmacists are faced with increasing drug costs and a vast array of complex biologic therapies. Up-to-date knowledge on prescribing practice is constantly a need, specifically regarding generics and the availability of biosimilar...
02.13.2024
Live Show: Jena Hausmann’s Life of Leadership in Pediatric Healthcare
For the second time in Charting Pediatrics history, we brought a live audience together to watch the taping of an episode with a guest who has made an everlasting impression on our hospital system. This time, the show...
02.06.2024
Breaking Down Social Barriers: Analyzing Social Care Programs and Their Impact
Every day, we see patients whose medical hurdles land them at hospitals like Children’s Hospital Colorado. There are many answers our providers and specialists can provide when giving patient families a medical diagnosis, but many of those same children...
01.30.2024
The Truth About Youth Vaping: Health Implications of Nicotine and Tobacco
While considerable progress has been made in reducing cigarette smoking among our nation’s youth, the tobacco product landscape continues to evolve. It includes a variety of tobacco products, including smokeless and electronic products such as e-cigarettes. E-cigarettes entered the...
01.23.2024
Improving Information Accessibility: Bringing Healthcare Guidance to the Palm of Your Hand
In a busy outpatient practice, timely access to up-to-date clinical resources is crucial to delivering evidence-based care. In the olden days, books and journal articles were the go-to method. Today, technology creates a more user-friendly method of receiving the...
01.16.2024
Wellness in the Workplace: How to Nurture Positive Culture and Advocate for Yourself
In today’s fast-paced work environment, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed. Due to that intense pace, it’s important for employees and employers alike, to promote healthy working behaviors and surroundings. Healthy employees are more productive, have fewer...
01.09.2024
Safe Storage to Save Lives: The Role of Guns in Adolescent Suicide
Suicide is the second leading cause of death for children, adolescents and young adults ages 10 to 24. Roughly 7% to 8% of adolescents attempt suicide each year and 17% report significant suicidal ideation. However, while so many kids...
01.02.2024
Prioritizing Pediatric Readiness: How Proper Preparedness Saves Young Lives
One goal in our healthcare improvement is to achieve equitable access to high quality emergency care for kids, regardless of where that child is physically located. Children have unique characteristics and needs, especially in the emergency setting, and the...
12.26.2023
A Happy and Healthy Holiday Season from Charting Pediatrics
2023 has been an impactful year. We kicked it off by continuing to cover topics under our mental health series. The rise of teen substance abuse and addiction, the intersection between physical and mental health, as well as depression...
12.19.2023
Patient Information in a Changing Legal Landscape: Cures Act, Open Notes and Electronic Medical Records
In 2021, federal rules from the 21st Century Cures Act mandated that most clinical notes be made available in real-time, online and free of charge to patients. This practice, commonly known as “open notes,” was a significant step towards...
12.12.2023
Critical Vaccine Communication: How Do We Shift Immunization Hesitancy?
Vaccines are so successful that many people have never seen the diseases they prevent, resulting in misperceptions that vaccines are not needed. While anti-vaccination sentiment and misinformation increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, about 88% of Americans still say they...
12.05.2023
Specifically Specialized Treatment: How Precision Medicine is Revolutionizing What’s Possible
For most of our careers, our treatments for genetic -based diseases have been supportive, not curative. Our medication recommendations for patients have been based on the expected response of the average individual, but as experts explain, these practices...
11.28.2023
The Power of Pediatric Trainees: How They Can Help Shape Medicine
Our medical community stretches far and wide, with experts that wear many hats. One prevalent group making an impact on the future of childhood medicine is our pediatric trainees. In 1989, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) founded...
11.21.2023
Remarkable RSV Vaccines: Is This the End of the RSV Burden As We Know It?
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is one of the most common causes of childhood respiratory illness, resulting in annual outbreaks among all age groups. In the United States, an estimated 60,000 to 80,000 children, the majority of whom are under...
11.14.2023
Managing Menstruation Abnormalities: How We Treat and Recognize These Common Issues
The preteen and teenage years are taxing and have become increasingly difficult for a multitude of reasons. This is a part of the patient population that pediatricians really worry about. Part of the angst of this time...
11.07.2023
A Career of Impressive Care: Highlighting the Leadership of David Keller, MD
We live in a country where medical experts are breaking barriers and changing outcomes on a daily basis, so it’s always exciting when we get to celebrate one of our own. Recorded at the 2023 American Academy of Pediatrics...
10.31.2023
The Truth About Ticks: How Vector-Borne Diseases Can Affect Humans
In the United States, 77% of vector-borne diseases are transmitted by ticks and numbers have increased dramatically in recent decades. While Lyme disease may be the most common in the country, with an estimated 475,000 new cases each year,...
10.24.2023
Investing in Early Hearing Intervention: The Importance of Newborn Audiology Screening
For parents expecting a newborn, their top priority is bringing a healthy baby into this world. But it’s not just their responsibility while their baby is in the womb. As newborns, important screenings are changing health outcomes. Over 98%...
10.17.2023
Working Across Language Lines: Highlighting Pediatras en Línea and Its Importance
We have listeners all over the world, many of whom are Spanish-speaking. Did you know we have a sister podcast, Pediatras en Línea? It stands out as one of the only podcasts in Spanish that focuses on medical education. About...
10.10.2023
Saving Lives from Day One: Celebrating 60 Years of Newborn Screening
Miracles happen every day and it’s an honor when we can celebrate them. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the start of newborn screening in the United States. The program identifies infants with specific genetic conditions that are asymptomatic...
10.03.2023
Modernizing Medical School: How a Clinical Curriculum is Changing Student Success
During the 2022-2023 admission cycle, about 22,700 students enrolled in medical school in the United States. In this country alone, we have 154 medical schools offering an MD program. Many of these schools are actively working to incorporate modern...
09.26.2023
From Podcast to Paw-cast: How Medical Dogs Can Greatly Impact a Child's Health
The relationship between a child and their furry friend is a very special one, especially when that relationship benefits their physical and mental health. A growing body of evidence demonstrates that animal-assisted therapy helps...
09.19.2023
Eliminating Inequities with Interpretation: Effective Communication for Improving Health Outcomes
In the United States, nearly 68 million people speak a language other than English at home. That number has virtually tripled over the last three decades. As our country continues to experience this soaring growth, qualified medical interpreters are...
09.12.2023
The Predicaments of Picky Eating: Strategies to Approach Meals with Family
Our pediatricians hear it time and time again: “My child is a picky eater.” Many times, it starts when kids are young, which naturally creates worry for parents. “It’s so innate in us that parents want to feed their children,”...
09.05.2023
Giving Families a Fighting Chance: How Fetal Surgery Saves Lives Before Birth
For many practicing doctors today, advancements in science currently unfolding seemed futuristic during their years of training. Fetal care and in utero surgery are at the forefront of these advancements. Specifically, over the last 50 years, growth of maternal-fetal...
08.29.2023
A Diabetes Breakthrough: New Drug to Delay the Onset of Clinical Disease
Welcome back to another exciting season of Charting Pediatrics! For our long-time listeners, we are thrilled to have you back, and for anyone new to our audience, we couldn’t be more excited that you’ve joined us. In this first...
08.22.2023
Season 7 Teaser: It's a Season You Won't Want to Miss
It’s time to jump back into the ever evolving world of pediatrics. On this new season of Charting Pediatrics, one of the top 5 pediatric podcasts in the world, we expand our horizons, discuss cutting edge research and cover hot...
08.15.2023
Advancing the Treatment of Food Allergies (S6:E50)
In this episode, we discuss food allergy, a very important topic for the general pediatrics community. Matthew Greenhawt, MD, joins us for this discussion as an expert in pediatric allergy and a leader of pioneering international studies looking at...
08.08.2023
Understanding Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Pediatric Care
Imagine you have a new 13-year-old patient in your practice. When you perform a return-to-school physical examination, you notice healed linear cutting marks on both of their wrists. The remainder of your exam is normal. In light of this...
08.01.2023
Women in Medicine: The Gendered Divide in Finding Work-Life Balance (S6:E48)
The important but ever-elusive goal of work-life balance is still more out of reach for women than men. Studies of home workloads for physicians indicate that the bulk of the nonprofessional work at home still falls to women. As...
07.25.2023
The Gut-Brain Axis: Understanding the Microbiome (S6:E47)
The gut microbiome is a fascinating area of human health that we just started to better understand in the last two decades. With the arrival of PCR sequencing and advanced PCR techniques, we’ve been able to characterize the microbiome...
07.18.2023
Youth Suicide Prevention & Research (S6:E46)
One of the most concerning trends in child health is the increase in suicide rates over the last two decades in the United States. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in teenagers and young...
07.11.2023
Craniosynostosis and Development with Brooke French, MD and Allyson Alexander, MD (Rebroadcast S6:E4)
It is not uncommon for newborn babies to have slight imperfections in their heads. Most of the time, these imperfections will fix themselves over time, or once they begin to develop. However, sometimes a more serious diagnosis will require medical...
07.04.2023
Safe Infant Sleep with Sunah Hwang, MD and Aniekan Udoko, MD (S6:E45)
Sudden unexplained infant death, commonly known SUID, SIDS or crib death, affects approximately 3,400 infants each year. Sudden unexpected infant deaths usually occur when an infant is sleeping, and causes can include suffocation, unknown infection, ingestion and other...
06.27.2023
Fighting Gun Violence with Maya Haasz, MD (S6:E44)
In 2020, firearm injuries were the leading cause of death in Americans 18 years old and younger. There was a total of 3,230 children’s deaths, of which 63% were homicide, 30% were suicide, 4% were unintentional injury, 2% were...
06.20.2023
Evolving Trends in Common Pediatric Diseases with Rhae Gamber & Raphe Schwartz (S6:E43)
No day is the same as the last when you work in pediatrics. Not only are viruses and public health outbreaks always changing, so are regulatory and administrative factors that impact pediatric healthcare and caring for patients. In this...
06.13.2023
Treatment of Acute Sinusitis in Children with Matthew Kronman, MD (S6:E42)
Sinusitis is a common viral or bacterial infection that causes swelling in the sinuses. Although some patients need prescription medication, often sinusitis can be triggered by allergies or the common cold. In general, sinusitis is overtreated with antibiotics. In...
06.06.2023
Women in Medicine: Novel Medications and Treatments to Prevent Necrotizing Enterocolitis with Gail Besner, MD (S6:E41)
Necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC, is a life-threatening illness with a mortality rate as high as 50% that almost exclusively affects neonates. The complex pathophysiology of NEC is based on an immature intestinal system that makes babies more susceptible to...
05.30.2023
Depression and Other Mood Disorders with Melissa Batt, MD, and Joel Stoddard, MD (S6:E40)
An article published this spring reported that between 2008 and 2018, there was a 250% increase in suicide rates among 13- and 14-year-old youth in the United States across categories of gender, race and region. There are many factors...
05.23.2023
Resident Files: Using Kotter’s 8 Step Change Model to Revive Educational Conferences with Jennifer Sedler, MD, Elizabeth Nguyen, MD, and Ryan Lion, MD (S6:E39)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we couldn’t bring folks together to learn about and discuss important concepts in clinical medicine. Nationally, pediatrics board exam passage rates have been falling every year since 2019, hitting its lowest point of just...
05.16.2023
How Delays in Emergency Department Antibiotic Delivery for Sepsis Can Increase Risk of Mortality with Roni Lane, MD, and Halden Scott, MD (S6:E38)
In the emergency department, sepsis is a common problem and often lands patients in the ICU. Although there are many reasons patients may develop sepsis, it’s critical to diagnose and treat this condition in a timely manner. In today’s episode,...

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Charting Pediatrics episodes:

Spine Surgery Innovations: Advancing Treatment with Technology

The Lowdown on Tongue Ties: Breaking Down Fact Versus Fiction

Care for Cleft Lip and Palate: The Commitment Spanning a Patient’s Lifetime

A Solution to Sickle Cell: New Gene Editing Therapy Could Lead to a Pain Free Life

We’ve Hit 2 Million Lifetime Downloads! 3 Million, Here We Come

Advocating for Health Successes: Filling Gaps with Patient-Family Engagement

Mitigating Misinformation and Changing the Narrative: Allergies in the Media

A True Icon of Pediatrics: The Career and Legacy of Barton Schmitt, MD

Merging Medicine and Storytelling: How Digital Content Can Change Outcomes

Practices of Prescribing: Critical Learning About Generics and Biosimilars

Live Show: Jena Hausmann’s Life of Leadership in Pediatric Healthcare

Breaking Down Social Barriers: Analyzing Social Care Programs and Their Impact

The Truth About Youth Vaping: Health Implications of Nicotine and Tobacco

Improving Information Accessibility: Bringing Healthcare Guidance to the Palm of Your Hand

Wellness in the Workplace: How to Nurture Positive Culture and Advocate for Yourself

Safe Storage to Save Lives: The Role of Guns in Adolescent Suicide

Prioritizing Pediatric Readiness: How Proper Preparedness Saves Young Lives

A Happy and Healthy Holiday Season from Charting Pediatrics

Patient Information in a Changing Legal Landscape: Cures Act, Open Notes and Electronic Medical Records

Critical Vaccine Communication: How Do We Shift Immunization Hesitancy?

Specifically Specialized Treatment: How Precision Medicine is Revolutionizing What’s Possible

The Power of Pediatric Trainees: How They Can Help Shape Medicine

Remarkable RSV Vaccines: Is This the End of the RSV Burden As We Know It?

Managing Menstruation Abnormalities: How We Treat and Recognize These Common Issues

A Career of Impressive Care: Highlighting the Leadership of David Keller, MD

The Truth About Ticks: How Vector-Borne Diseases Can Affect Humans

Investing in Early Hearing Intervention: The Importance of Newborn Audiology Screening

Working Across Language Lines: Highlighting Pediatras en Línea and Its Importance

Saving Lives from Day One: Celebrating 60 Years of Newborn Screening

Modernizing Medical School: How a Clinical Curriculum is Changing Student Success

From Podcast to Paw-cast: How Medical Dogs Can Greatly Impact a Child's Health

Eliminating Inequities with Interpretation: Effective Communication for Improving Health Outcomes

The Predicaments of Picky Eating: Strategies to Approach Meals with Family

Giving Families a Fighting Chance: How Fetal Surgery Saves Lives Before Birth

A Diabetes Breakthrough: New Drug to Delay the Onset of Clinical Disease

Season 7 Teaser: It's a Season You Won't Want to Miss

Advancing the Treatment of Food Allergies (S6:E50)

Understanding Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Pediatric Care

Women in Medicine: The Gendered Divide in Finding Work-Life Balance (S6:E48)

The Gut-Brain Axis: Understanding the Microbiome (S6:E47)

Youth Suicide Prevention & Research (S6:E46)

Craniosynostosis and Development with Brooke French, MD and Allyson Alexander, MD (Rebroadcast S6:E4)

Safe Infant Sleep with Sunah Hwang, MD and Aniekan Udoko, MD (S6:E45)

Fighting Gun Violence with Maya Haasz, MD (S6:E44)

Evolving Trends in Common Pediatric Diseases with Rhae Gamber & Raphe Schwartz (S6:E43)

Treatment of Acute Sinusitis in Children with Matthew Kronman, MD (S6:E42)

Women in Medicine: Novel Medications and Treatments to Prevent Necrotizing Enterocolitis with Gail Besner, MD (S6:E41)

Depression and Other Mood Disorders with Melissa Batt, MD, and Joel Stoddard, MD (S6:E40)

Resident Files: Using Kotter’s 8 Step Change Model to Revive Educational Conferences with Jennifer Sedler, MD, Elizabeth Nguyen, MD, and Ryan Lion, MD (S6:E39)

How Delays in Emergency Department Antibiotic Delivery for Sepsis Can Increase Risk of Mortality with Roni Lane, MD, and Halden Scott, MD (S6:E38)