Plenary Sessions - American Academy of Pediatrics National ...

PLENARY SESSIONS
» SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15
10:30 am – 12:15 pm
BCEC, Ballroom
P1081 President’s Address
O. Marion Burton, MD, FAAP
P1082 Education Award
Recipient: Beverly P. Wood, MD, MSEd, PhD, FAAP
Presenter: Robert A. Wiebe, MD, FACEP, FAAP
P1083 T Keynote Address: Creating a Culture of
Compassion—A Bird’s-Eye View
Caroll Spinney
Sesame Street has always been about social values as much
as it has been about learning the alphabet, and it has been
recognized as a very positive part of American culture. Big
Bird, as portrayed by Caroll Spinney, teaches many life lessons
through this humble but larger than life character recognizable
the world over. The same attitudes required, and often modeled,
by health care professionals must be instilled in children in order
to develop the attitudes necessary to live happy and productive
lives: compassion, self-confidence, persistence, imagination, tolerance,
curiosity, openness, respect, and humor, to name a few.
P1084 T Bariatric Surgery: What Do I Tell My
Patients?
Thomas Inge, MD, PhD, FAAP
This session will provide descriptions of bariatric procedures
and concepts in adolescent development important to consider
in selection, preparation, and follow-up of bariatric surgery.
Comorbidities that lead to bariatric surgery will be reviewed.
Individual psychological and families issues will be reviewed.
Special issues in nutrition and exercise will be addressed.
P1085 Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery: The
Future Is Now!
Hiep Nguyen, MD, FAAP
This session will provide an overview of the current and future
use of minimally invasive robotic surgery and how it is already
revolutionizing the perioperative care of children. This is a
cutting-edge topic by an internationally recognized leader in minimally
invasive robotic surgery.
» SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16
10:30 am – 12:15 pm
BCEC, Ballroom
P2071 Health Care Reform: Where Are We?
What Now?
Jay Berkelhamer, MD, FAAP
Now that health reform has been the law for over a year, what
has changed? And what further changes will come as a result of
the most recent elections? This informative session will review
the current status of health reform implementation for children
and describe future opportunities for advocacy by pediatricians
and families.
➤ ➤ (Attend session X4010 for expanded topic coverage.)
P2072 The Science of Early Childhood
Development: A New Frontier in Pediatric Research
and Practice
Jack Shonkoff, MD, FAAP
This session will provide an overview of the work done by the
National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, which highlights
the evidence on the impact of early adverse experiences/
toxic stress on vulnerable children and policy implications with
regard to efficacy and cost.
P2073 Preventing Sudden Unexpected Infant
Deaths: Lessons Learned in Promoting Safe Sleep
Erich Batra, MD, FAAP
The Back to Sleep campaign in the 1990s had a significant effect
on infant mortality rates in the United States and across the world.
Since then, improved death scene investigations have led to a better
understanding about the risk factors surrounding unexpected
infant deaths during sleep. This session will examine how lessons
learned over the last 20 years can assist pediatricians in discussing
safe sleep practices with parents.
P2074 Handoff or Handshake—Transitioning Youth
to Adult Providers With the New Health Care
Transitions Algorithm
Jimmy Stewart, MD, FAAP
With reasonable biological and psychological certainty, most adolescents
eventually transition to adulthood. There is much less
certainty about the manner in which pediatricians support this
transition, particularly for children with special health care needs
(CSHCN). This session will review the new clinical report that
provides explicit, implementable guidance to the medical home
using an algorithmic format addressing activities during office visits
between 12 and 18 years of age. The clinical report addresses
transition planning for all adolescents, but also provides a generic,
but detailed pathway for CSHCN.
➤ ➤ (Attend session I2051 for expanded topic coverage.)
P2075 The ABCs of ACOs: Making Them Work for
Pediatrics
Colleen Kraft, MD, FAAP
This session will present an overview of accountable care organizations
(ACOs) and their possible impact on pediatrics. It will
focus on identifying major challenges and opportunities these
new models of care will present as they sprout in private and
public arenas.
➤ ➤ (Attend session S2103 for expanded topic coverage.)
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PLENARY SESSIONS
» MONDAY, OCTOBER 17
10:30 am – 12:15 pm
BCEC, Ballroom
P3061 Improving Children’s Health Care
Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP
» TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18
10:30 am – 12:15 pm
BCEC, Ballroom
P4051 Christopherson Lecture—Tobacco and
Children: A Global Epidemic
Douglas Bettcher, MD, MPH, PhD
The Affordable Care Act offers opportunities to both increase
access and improve children’s health care. Dr Berwick will
discuss the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
efforts to expand Medicaid and implement the health
insurance exchanges.
This session will describe the global tobacco epidemic and
its threat to the health of children and adolescents. It will
describe the WHO FCTC, a legally binding international treaty
that offers the tools to address this epidemic, including
potential for partnership with civil society. This presentation will
P3062 Biologic Medications in Rheumatologic
offer concrete suggestions on how professional and advocacy
Diseases: What’s the Latest
paediatric associations can make a difference in the tobacco
epidemic and in the future of millions of children worldwide.
Christy Sandborg, MD
The array of currently available biologic agents will be described
and reviewed in the context of their indications. The mode of
action will be used as the basis for their use as well as their
P4052 Human Trafficking: The Fastest-Growing
Criminal Industry Worldwide
Reena Isaac, MD, FAAP
potential benefits and risks. Potential adverse effects will be
discussed as a means of providing the participants the skills to
adequately assist in the care of these children. The participants
will be provided with scenarios for the use of these agents so
they may better be able to assist families in deciding whether to
use these agents for their child.
Human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal industry in the
world. Unlike sub-Saharan African nations, where children may
be sold by family members out of desperation, traffickers in the
United States target “throwaways.” The purpose of this session
is to broaden knowledge about this topic, enlist advocates to
help address at-risk children, and to help develop partnerships
P3063 Personalized Medicine and the $1,000
with existing community/national/international organizations.
Genome
Bruce Korf, MD, FAAP
P4053 What Do I Need to Know About Children’s
Mental Health?: Competencies for Pediatric
The knowledge gained from the Human Genome Project has
led to the promise of “personalized medicine.” This session will
Primary Care
Benjamin Siegel, MD, FAAP
prepare pediatricians to answer their patients’ questions regarding
new possibilities, including direct-to-consumer marketing of
testing for individual genetic variation, pharmacogenomic applications,
and even the so-called “$1,000 individual genome.”
This session will review the mental health competencies for
pediatric primary care, their rationale, and their potential use by
practicing pediatricians and pediatric training programs to build
knowledge and skills in the area of children’s mental health.
P3064 CFTR-Related Metabolic Syndrome—An
Unintended Consequence of Newborn Screening
Michael Schechter, MD, MPH, FAAP
P4054 Immunizations: At What Cost? A Primary
Care Perspective
Richard Oken, MD, FAAP
This session will review the increasing complexity of the diagnosis
and management of infants with cystic fibrosis (CF) and its
newly recognized variants, infants who carry CF mutations that
do not cause classic CF but may lead to some organ dysfunction
over time.
Vaccines are one of the greatest health care advances in pediatrics,
but this achievement has come at great cost—both economic
and emotional—to the physician. Despite overwhelming
evidence of the efficacy and safety, doctors are refusing to give
immunizations because they are losing money. This primary care
P3065 Genes Meet the Environment—Epigenetics
Robert Wright, MD, MPH, FAAP
Epigenetics is the study of how genes are influenced by environmental
factors in ways that turn them “on” or “off.” This process
determines what characteristics within the genetic code are activated.
This session focuses on these concepts, which represent
the interface between our genetic code and how this code can
linchpin is coming undone despite the best efforts of the AAP
to advocate for reasonable payment for both vaccine costs and
administration services. To increase efficiency and to decrease
errors, the AAP is leading the change in innovations, such as
bar-coding, improved quality measures, and evidence-based
research. Despite best efforts, the vocal opposition has challenged
the validity and aggravated the cost of our efforts. Will
they succeed in poisoning our progress?
be influenced by factors in the environment.
P4055 Clostridium Difficile Infections in Children:
An Important Update
Clifford McDonald, MD
In parallel with increased infections and deaths in adults, there
are reports of increasing rates of Clostridium difficile infection
and severity in children. An overview of the epidemiology, diagnosis,
and treatment of C. difficile in children will be provided with
special emphasis on the role of newly emergent, hypervirulent
strains and the diagnostic challenges posed by high rates of
colonization and uncertain disease susceptibility among infants.