FASD Hope is a podcast about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) through the lens of parent advocates with over nineteen years of lived experience. 

Dr. Douglas Waite is the featured guest of Episode 108. Douglas Waite, MD, FAAP is the Chief of Developmental Pediatrics of the BronxCare Health System and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center. He is also the Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors for FASD United.

Previously, he served as medical director of The Children’s Village, a community foster care agency and residential treatment center established in 1851, located in Harlem, the Bronx and Dobbs Ferry, New York. He has used time caring for children at The Keith Haring Clinic as an opportunity to teach medical students and pediatric residents the challenges of providing comprehensive medical care to children in foster care and the juvenile justice system.

Dr. Waite is Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai Hospital, was elected one of ten national FASD Champions by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2016, sits on the National Mental Health Advisory Board of the Child Welfare League of America, and is a member of the Society of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics. Dr. Waite has special interests in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder and the effects of child abuse and neglect upon child development. 

In this RESOURCEFUL and REASSURRING episode, Dr. Waite addresses the following topics: his clinical experience / what led him to become involved in working with the FASD / NB populations, highlights from his endnote presentation at the "Arkansas None for Nine" online 2021 conference, the importance in focusing on the Adaptive Functioning core of FASD / NB diagnoses, the need for clinical pathways for FASD Diagnoses,  Critical Information for parents to get in place when parenting a child with an FASD (especially in urgent situations), why the FASD community is #strongertogether and many words of encouragement and hope for listeners.

EPISODE RESOURCES -

FASD United - 

http://fasdunited.org/

Dr. Douglas Waite - Mt. Sinai 

[email protected]

https://www.mountsinai.org/profiles/douglas-waite

https://www.bronxcare.org/physicians/find-a-physician/detail/douglas-waite/

*Program Note* - FASD United now has a "Family Navigator", as Dr. Waite was discussing in this episode.

https://fasdunited.org/family-navigator/

Choline Research Study Links -

https://jneurodevdisorders.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s11689-020-09312-7

https://med.umn.edu/news-events/medical-school-professor-uses-choline-help-treat-children-fasd

Families Moving Forward (with Dr. Christie Petrenko) -

https://familiesmovingforwardprogram.org/

FASD HOPE RESOURCES -

FASD Hope -

https://www.fasdhope.com/

[email protected]

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Clubhouse - @natalievecc

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