Talking Pediatrics

Summer is widely known as "trauma season" for children and teenagers. The combination of more activity, more opportunities for accidents and less parental oversight can result in more traumatic injury for kids. On this podcast, we interview Kid Expert Dr. Eric Lund, orthopedic trauma surgeon, and a key player in our adolescent and young adult trauma program, about how to keep kids safe(r) and avoid traumatic injury and what to do in the primary care office when injuries present to ensure the best outcomes when they get to the specialist's office.
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https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-sticks-stones-broken-bones-pediatric-adolescent-orthopedic-trauma-8-26-22/

In June 2022, the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe vs Wade decision that for almost 50 years provided constitutional protection for legal abortion in the United States. Since the decision was overturned, over half of the states in the country have either banned or severely restricted access to abortion. How does this impact how we take care of our adolescent patients? What are the implications of unplanned pregnancy for the adolescents we care for with chronic health conditions? How might this change access to contraception in the future? Join this conversation with Kid Expert Dr. Kylie Fowler to learn the impact of the recent change in access to reproductive health care, best practices for prescribing contraception, including emergency contraception, and how we can help our patients safely access the full spectrum of reproductive health care, including access to abortion.
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https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-adolescent-health-post-roe-world-8-12-22/

Join us today as our guest host, Adriene Thornton, Children's Minnesota Health Equity Manager, discusses the importance of understanding data disaggregation and the impact on health equity with guest, Dr. Nathan Chomilo, MD. Dr. Chomilo is Medical Director for the State of Minnesota's Medicaid and MinnesotaCare programs, as well as a general pediatrician.
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https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-health-equity-actions-understanding-data-disaggregation-8-5-22/

Books can be joyful, imaginative, thought-provoking, thrilling. But unfortunately at times they may perpetuate stereotypes, racism, discrimination, under-representation or "other-ness". And so may their authors in the real world. How do we respond to this - as parents or book-lovers, or pediatricians? On this episode, Dr. Gabi Hester hosts a book club with four Kids Experts and avid book readers to explore strategies for when kids books miss the mark.
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https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-book-club-gabi-kids-books-authors-miss-mark-7-29-22/

Screens in all forms have become a part of our daily lives, and a part of the world that all kids are navigating. How do we as pediatric clinicians help families navigate the world of screens? What does the data tell us about the impact of screens (and types of screens) on child development? Join host Dr. Angela Kade Goepferd and Kid Expert and director of psychological services, Dr. Sarah Jerstad in this conversation about how to approach screen time at different ages, what traps to avoid, and how to help parents navigate screen time with their kids.
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https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-screen-time-dilemma-understanding-impact-little-brains-avoiding-big-battles-older-kids-7-22-22/

Summer is filled with long days, warm nights and lots of.....bugs. Including ticks, which in the case of deer ticks can translate into Lyme disease. In a conversaition had in May, Dr. Angela Goepferd chatted with Kid Expert Ashley Gyura, the clinical advisor to the NAPNAP/CDC nurse practitioner education and knowledge initiative for Lyme disease. Ashley talks to us about all things ticks, including what to watch for, how to remove them and how we can counsel patients to avoid bites. We also review current guidelines for assessment, prophylaxis and treatment of tick bites and Lyme disease.
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https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-putting-lyme-clinicians-need-know-preventing-treating-lyme-disease-7-15-22/

Dr. Alex Kula, pediatric nephrologist at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago, provides kidney pearls in this week's episode as we riff on confounding urine dipstick results. Join us as we navigate incidental proteinuria, hematuria and its origins, post-strep glomerulonephritis, and guidance on when to approach your friendly neighborhood nephrologist. Dr. Fate and Dr. Kula also wax nostalgic about their old cover band in Seattle, "Doctor Doctor", which critics agree was pretty ok.
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https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-crack-case-proteinuria-7-1-22/

There is not a pediatric clinician among us who doesn’t have a patient with allergies, including food allergies, environmental allergies and/or seasonal allergies. On this episode, we talk with Dr. Nicole Chase, pediatric allergist and immunologist, about all things allergy including: current recommendations for food introduction, oral food challenges, pitfalls in “allergy testing” in primary care and what’s new and on the horizon for treatment of allergies with immunotherapy.
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https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-tis-season-updates-pediatric-allergy-diagnosis-treatment-6-24-22/

On this week's episode of Talking Pediatrics, Dr. Gabi Hester talks with Dr. Anu Kalaskar, Medical Director of Children's Minnesota Infectious Disease department and Dr. Christina Koutsari, Antibicrobial Stewardship/Infectious Diseases pharmacist, to discuss the most recent updates in the treatment of COVID-19 in children.
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https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-guidelines-gabi-update-covid-19-treatment-kids-6-17-22/

In this LGBTQ Pride month Trailblazers episode, we interview national expert on LGBTQ+ health and adolescent HIV care, Dr. Rob Garofalo. Dr. Garofalo is the Chief of Adolescent medicine at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and specializes in the care of HIV+ and LGBTQ adolescents at the Center for Gender, Sexuality and HIV Prevention. He has a passion for caring for transgender and gender diverse youth and advocating to help LGBTQ kids thrive. Dr. Garofalo has received several lifetime and leadership awards for his advocacy on behalf of youth and is a prolific researcher and author, having over 180 publications to his name. He has been an inspiration to many in the field of queer and trans health, and a role model of a genuine, honest and passionate pediatrician and human being.
View the transcript here:
https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-trailblazers-dr-rob-garofalo-6-10-22/