Connecticut Children's Grand Rounds

Activity Objectives

• ASSESS Characterize cannabis use quickly: frequency, product, potency, timing, function, and consequences.
• INTERPRET Distinguish possible cannabis effects or withdrawal from depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and psychosis.
• PRESCRIBE Incorporate cannabis use into decisions about starting, changing and monitoring psychiatric medications.
• ACT Use brief intervention, harm reduction, follow-up, and referral based on risk and clinical need.

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Activity Objectives

• Empower increased understanding and awareness of the role of palliative care in addressing suffering in pediatrics.
• Explore grief as it relates to pediatric palliative care.
• Inspire all of us to recognize the best way to provide pediatric palliative care guided by compassion, curiosity, and presence.

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Activity Objective:

• Describe the role of pharmacotherapy in pediatric obesity care using the new CLASP tool guidelines.

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• Describe how storytelling can engage children and caregivers in healthy eating and behavior change.
• Identify strategies to support families facing barriers to healthy food access and nutrition resources.
• Explore how storytelling can strengthen nutrition education and behavioral support across diverse families, settings, and practice contexts.

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Activity Objectives:

• Compare the nature of genomic alterations that define clinically important subsets of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
  
  
• Give examples of how genomic insights inform risk stratification and management of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

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Activity Objectives:

• Describe the role of pharmacotherapy in pediatric obesity care.
• Discuss expected benefits, limitations, and pitfalls of treatment.

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Event Objectives:

• Identify major advances in child health and pediatric care in the United States, including improvements in survival, prevention, therapeutics, and outcomes for previously life-limiting conditions.
• Examine concerning trends in child and adolescent health, including infant and maternal outcomes, mental health, chronic disease, access to care, and the growing influence of social and environmental determinants of health.
• Describe persistent and preventable disparities in child health associated with geography, socioeconomic conditions, race and ethnicity, and access to high-quality care, and identify opportunities for pediatric leaders, health systems, communities, and policymakers to improve outcomes for all children.

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*This activity includes 1 hour of Risk Management State-Required Education*

• Identify common documentation and charting pitfalls that may contribute to pediatric malpractice risk.

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Activity Objectives

• Differentiate the clinical presentations of tick-borne diseases in children and how to investigate them.
• Understand the changing epidemiology of Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections.
• Recognize emerging diseases such as alpha-gal syndrome and Powassan virus.

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Activity Objectives

• Recall information about youth experiencing acute mental health symptoms and their caregivers.
• Examine the integral role of caregivers of youth with acute mental health symptoms linkage to community-based mental health services.
• Discuss the clinical trajectory for youth with acute mental health symptoms and what this means for caregivers.

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