Event Objectives:

• Understand the conditions of immunization and American Public Health circa 1920.

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Event Objectives:

• To provide a historical perspective for how Connecticut Children’s has influenced pediatric health care in our region.
• To better understand the trajectory of the Department of Pediatrics within the framework of Connecticut Children’s and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
• To summarize key advancements in pediatric research, education and clinical care, over the past 12 years.

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Event Objectives:

• Describe the long-term impact of pediatric sepsis on survivors and families with a focus on post-intensive care syndrome in children (PICS-p) and unmet needs after discharge.
• Highlight the role of translational and outcomes research in improving follow-up care with examples from the Persist-PICU study and other related projects.
• Examine the role of implicit bias in shaping health outcomes including disparities in sepsis recognition treatment and follow-up care among marginalized pediatric populations.

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Event Objectives:

• Learn about two measures of weight stigma: weight bias internalization and weight-based teasing.
• Understand the characteristics associated with higher weight bias internalization in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes mellitus.
• Share findings of three PDSA cycles initiated to improve utilization metrics of medication historians in the inpatient setting.
• Discuss future goals to help improve metrics further.
• Identify cost drivers and potential areas for optimizing ADHD pharmacologic treatment under Medicaid with a focus on high-expenditure medications.
• Explore conditions that promote growth and toxin production by the Klebsiella oxytoca species complex.
• Review experimental model to explore link between endogenous glycan availability to Klebsiella toxin production and intestinal injury.

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Event Objectives:

• Increase knowledge and awareness of Outpatient Spinal Disorders.
• Identify when to refer spine patients.
• Discuss what is new in outpatient care of spine disorders.

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Event Objectives:

• Understand the symptom based ROME IV Criteria for diagnosing pediatric irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
• Recognize the current concepts in pathogenesis of IBS.
• Review the diagnostic approach and current treatment strategies for pediatric IBS.

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Event Objectives:

• Describe the epidemiology of substance use and its harms in adolescents and young adults (“youth”)
• Ensure evidence-based prevention screening treatment and harm reduction for youth

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Event Objectives

• Recall and summarize the role of allergy testing and challenge in diagnosis of penicillin allergy.
• Describe the detrimental clinical consequences of being labeled penicillin allergic.
• Apply their knowledge to de-label penicillin allergy in their practice.

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Event Objectives:

• Have assumptions related to sexual harm challenged in addition to gaining new insights on the subject.

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Event Objectives:

• Review appropriate use of allergy medications including side effects.
• Understand the role and risks/benefits of allergy immunotherapy.
• Discuss updates in food allergy management.

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