CANCELLED Pediatric Pearls Spring

Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM, Virtual


This one-day meeting designed by pediatric specilists for the primary care audience is a full-day virtual program that will cover a variety of conditions, disorders and concerns that the primary care provider encounters in their daily practices. This program will include hot topics like behavioral issues in children, eating disorders, suicide, bleeding, gun violence and gender dysphoria. THis meeting will be live streamed and will not be recorded.

1. Describe the effects of Toxic Stress, ACE’s and Social Influencers of Health on children’s long-term health and wellbeing.
2. Recognize how positive childhood experiences and early relational health (ERH) can help mitigate these negative outcomes and provide examples of ways to promote ERH in pediatrics
3. Examine medical and psychological presentations of eating disorders and explore common co-occurring diagnoses
4. Identify practical strategies for working with those with eating disorders
5. Discuss the basics of collaborative safety planning and identify effective treatment for suicidality
6. Demonstrate confidence to have conversations about restricting access to lethal means with parents
7. Describe the management and follow-up of iron deficiency anemia
8. Explain which child deserves a bleeding disorder work-up
9. Describe the epidemiology of youth firearm injury in the United States and identify strategies to incorporate youth firearm injury prevention into your practice
10. Apply the public health approach to youth firearm injury prevention
11. Describe the developmental processes of gender identity development among transgender and gender diverse youth
12. Explain current research findings on autism, depression, anxiety, ADHD and gender diversity
13. Describe the importance of family acceptance in shaping mental health outcomes for youth
14. Assess pubertal status of all youth and provide guidance and appropriate referral for pubertal suppression
15. Manage oral and injectable hormonal medications for menstrual suppression
16. Describe up-to-date recommendations for newborn jaundice including phototherapy and discharge follow-up parameters
17. Demonstrate use of the Kaiser calculator for Chorioamnionitis to establish risk factors for sepsis in newly delivered infants
18. Describe best practices for bronchiolitis including the appropriate use of monitoring, fluids, and adjunctive medical therapy

**THIS ACTIVITY HAS BEEN CANCELLED**

ONLINE (preferred method): For registration and payment, please visit luriechildrens.org/pearls.

CALL-IN: For registration and payment, please call Stephanie Cardona at 312.227.7411 or Claudia Cooper at 312.505.1736. 

Please retain a copy of your registration for your records. Mailing and faxing registration have been discontinued..

This will be a VIRTUAL event.

MDs, DOs, PhDs, and APRNs - $145

CIN and CCPA Members, Fellows, RNs, Other Healthcare Professionals, and Hospital Employees - $130

Residents and Medical Students - $90

*Registration is due approximately 10 days prior to each course and is non-refundable unless cancellation is received seven days prior to the event. If registering for the discount package will all five events (Pediatric Pearls Fall, ENT, Winter, Spring, and Emergency Medicine), registration is due October 23, 2023.


**NEW REFUND POLICY FOR 2023**

  There is a new, strict no-refund policy unless request is received seven days prior to the event. Consideration will be given to emergency situations and a credit for a future event will be offered.

The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation Statement

The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

For questions or more information, please call 312.227.7411, or email [email protected] or [email protected].

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (5.25 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (5.25 hours)

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Feinberg School of Medicine adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. All individuals in a position to control the content of a Continuing Education activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers, or others are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.