Pediatrics

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD

Guest: William V. Tamborlane, MD

How has the management of diabetes changed for children in the last 20 years? Join Dr. William Tamborlane with an update on the state of the art treatments for type 1 diabetes.

Host: Laura Humphrey, PhD

Guest: Monique Ernst, MD, PhD

Selecting peers over parents and taking risks without comparable rewards are typical teenage behaviors. In this segment Dr. Monique Ernst, explains how brain changes during adolescence are responsible for many of the typical teenage behaviors.

Host: Laura Humphrey, PhD

Guest: Monique Ernst, MD, PhD

In this segment, Dr. Monique Ernst explains the structural changes that occur in the brain between the ages of 10-20 and how they impact the emotions, decisions and reasoning of an adolescent.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD

Guest: Arik Marcell, MD, MPH

Dr. Arik Marcell of Johns Hopkins University discusses the health care needs of adolescent males, particularly addressing preventable behaviors.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD

Guest: Arik Marcell, MD, MPH

Dr. Arik Marcell of Johns Hopkins University discusses how best to guide and counsel the adolescent male during a health care visit.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD

Guest: Arik Marcell, MD, MPH

Dr. Arik Marcell of Johns Hopkins University discusses how factors such as masculine beliefs, parent-teen communication, beliefs about physician's capabilities, and insurance status influence the health care use of adolescent males.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD

Guest: Arik Marcell, MD, MPH

Efforts to reduce unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases in adolescence would ideally target males as well as females. Yet we appear to fall short of consensus on how best to provide reproductive health services to males in young adulthood. Arik Marcell, MD, MPH, assistant professor in the departments of pediatrics and population, family and reproductive health at Johns Hopkins University, counsels with host Dr. Cathleen Margolin on tips for you and your patients.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD

Guest: Nina Gentile, MD

Nationwide, about 15 million adults and children are seen in emergency departments annually for acute neurological emergencies. Because of the delay in seeing a specialist, time is lost. All practicing Emergency Room physicians have had experiences where in some cases, the outcome has significant morbidity, or in the worse scenario, the outcome has been fatal.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD

Guest: Lawrence Robbins, MD

Adolescent headaches; they can be difficult to manage for any primary care practioner. When is it malingering, when is it the atypical presentation of another disease such as leukemia, and when it is recurrent, how do you treat it?

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD

Guest: Mary McGowan, MD

Dr. Larry Kaskel welcomes Dr. Mary McGowan to Lipid Luminations. Dr. McGowan is Director of the Cholesterol Treatment Center at Concord Hospital and Member of the New Hampshire Childhood Obesity Expert Panel. They will be discussing Pediatric Dyslipidemia as secondary to genetics and obesity.