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Yale Pediatric Update 2003 - Curriculum
June 13 & 14, 2003

Learning Objectives

This course is designed to provide pediatricians and advanced care pediatric professionals with state-of-the-art speakers addressing the latest developments in Pediatrics and the Pediatric Subspecialties. Plenary sessions will focus on advances in diagnosis and treatment of commonly encountered issues in developmental/behavioral pediatrics. Interactive break-out sessions will foster discussion of best clinical practices, provide updates in common and relevant clinical problems for the practitioner, and address issues of child advocacy and parenting. Attendees will have the opportunity to discuss clinical cases and questions with the faculty in a variety of venues. This course reflects the ongoing commitment of Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital and Yale University's Department of Pediatrics to advance the educational development of medical professionals who serve children.

At the end of the conference, all participants should be able to:

•   Discuss "overcoming dyslexia and autism"
•   Analyze and discuss developmental issues in adopted children;
    supporting children in times of crisis; behavior management in children
    with ADHD; novel therapies in the management of asthma; minimally
    invasive pediatric surgery; and common GI problems in children
•   Summarize sports screening, syncope and chest pain in children
•   Discuss difficult behaviors and promoting positive parenting
•   Discuss the differential diagnosis of the acute abdomen
•   Diagnose minor trauma and ingestions as an office-based approach

Featured Presentations, June 13

Overcoming Dyslexia
  Bennett A. Shaywitz, MD
  Professor of Pediatrics & Neurology & Child Study Center
  Chief, Pediatric Neurology
  Co-director, Yale Center for the Study of Learning & Attention
  Yale University School of Medicine

  Sally F. Shaywitz, MD
  Professor of Pediatrics & Child Study Center
  Director & Founder, Learning Disorders Unit
  Co-director, Yale Center for the Study of Learning & Attention
  Yale University School of Medicine

Autism - The Untold Story
  Fred Volkmar, MD
  Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry; Professor of Pediatrics & Psychology
  Director, Pervasive Developmental Disorders Clinic
  Yale University School of Medicine

Saturday, June 14
Plenary Session I: Behavior & Development
  Margaret Hostetter, MD, Moderator
  Professor of Pediatrics & Microbial Pathogenesis
  Chair, Department of Pediatrics
  Physician-in-Chief, Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital

Developmental Issues in Internationally Adopted Children
  Carol Weitzman, MD
  Assistant Professor of Pediatrics & Child Study Center
  Yale University School of Medicine

Supporting Children in Times of Crisis
  David Schonfeld, MD
  Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Child Study Center
  Head, Sub-section of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
  Director, Fellowship Program in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
  Yale University School of Medicine

Behavior Management in Children with ADHD
  Karen Miller, MD
  Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
  Tufts University School of Medicine
  New England Medical Center

Plenary Session II: New Approaches to Common Problems
  Alan Friedman, MD, Moderator
  Associate Professor of Pediatrics
  Director, Medical Education
  Yale University School of Medicine
  Director, Pediatric Echocardiography
  Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital

Asthma
  Alia Bazzy-Asaad, MD
  Associate Professor of Pediatrics
  Director, Pediatric Asthma Program
  Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital

  Ramsay Fuleihan, MD
  Associate Research Scientist
  Co-director, Allergy & Clinical Immunology Training Program
  Yale University School of Medicine

Pediatric Surgery: When Less is More
  R. Lawrence Moss, MD
  Associate Professor of Surgery & Pediatrics
  Yale University School of Medicine
  Surgeon-in-Chief, Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital

Constipation, Encopresis & Toilet-Training
  Fred Daum, MD
  Chief, Pediatric Gastroenterology, North Shore University Hospital
  Professor of Pediatrics, New York University Medical School

Break-out Sessions

Office Cardiology - Sports Screening, Syncope & Chest Pain
  John Fahey, MD
  Associate Professor of Pediatrics
  Director, Pediatric Catheterization & Exercise Laboratories
  Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital

  Christopher Snyder, MD
  Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
  Director, Pediatric Electrophysiology Laboratory
  Yale University School of Medicine

  Alan Friedman, MD
  Associate Professor of Pediatrics
  Director, Medical Education
  Yale University School of Medicine
  Director, Pediatric Echocardiography
  Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital

Difficult Behavior & Promoting Positive Parenting
  Karen Miller, MD
  Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
  Tufts University School of Medicine
  New England Medical Center

  David Schonfeld, MD
  Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Child Study Center
  Head, Sub-section of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
  Director, Fellowship Program in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
  Yale University School of Medicine

  Carol Weitzman, MD
  Assistant Professor of Pediatrics & Child Study Center
  Yale University School of Medicine

Office Emergencies - Acute Abdomen, Trauma, Ingestions
  Linda Arnold, MD
  Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
  Division of Emergency Medicine
  Yale University School of Medicine

  Milissa McKee, MD
  Assistant Professor of Pediatric Surgery
  Yale University School of Medicine

  Karen Santucci, MD
  Associate Professor of Pediatrics
  Division of Emergency Medicine
  Yale University School of Medicine