LIVE IN-PERSON: Bridging Pediatrics: A complete symposium for the Pediatric Provider (April 3-4, 2025)

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Thursday, April 3, 2025 – Day 1: Advances in Pediatric Healthcare

Time: 7:30 AM – 4:30 PM (Followed by a networking event)

Friday, April 4, 2025 – Day 2: Shamberger’s Frontiers in Pediatric Surgery

Time: 7:30 AM – 4:45 PM

Location: Landmark Center, 401 Park Dr, Boston Massachusetts

This two-day in-person course aims to enhance the skills of healthcare providers, including physicians, nurse practitioners, and nurses, in managing common primary care and surgical issues. Participants will learn to diagnose pediatric conditions from both medical and surgical perspectives and when to refer to specialists, guided by expert speakers sharing the latest evidence-based practices.

Registration includes access to interactive lectures, workshops, onsite breakfast, lunch, snacks, and beverages. Free Wi-Fi will be available, and discounted parking options will be offered in the area. Participants can earn MOC and Risk Management credits through this course.

*UPDATE* Join us on the first night for a tour of Fenway Park, followed by a networking happy hour at the Yard House restaurant. Complimentary ticket to the Red Sox game on Saturday, April 5, 2025 included with registration. Bring a guest for a nominal fee!

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$25.00 – $200.00

SKU: N/A Categories: General Pediatrics, Primary Care, Surgery

Description

Overview
Boston Children’s Hospital is excited to announce our first-ever collaborative event. “Advances in Pediatric Healthcare” and “Shamberger’s Frontiers in Pediatric Surgery” are teaming up to bridge pediatrics with a fully packed two-day event featuring cutting-edge lectures, interactive group discussions, and special guest speakers.

About the courses
This collaborative 2-day course is designed the enhance the knowledge and competence of physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses and other health care providers in managing common primary care and surgical concerns seen in every day practice. After attending the course, attendees will have a better understanding of how to diagnose common pediatric conditions from both a surgical and medical perspective, and when to refer to specialty care. Speakers will share the most up-to-date literature and evidence based practices from their respective fields.

Course objectives

Be able to summarize the latest clinical recommendations for a range of high-yield pediatric primary care topics
Discuss evidence-based practices in the management of common and important clinical concerns in children
Evaluate traditional principles of care in light of recent scientific advances in pediatrics

Kevin B. Churchwell, MD

President and Chief Executive Officer of Boston Children’s Hospital, providing leadership, vision, and oversight for a team that’s dedicated to improving and advancing child health through their life-changing work in clinical care, research and innovation, medical education, and community engagement.

Wendy Chung, MD, PhD wendy chung headshot

Clinical and molecular geneticist and the Chief of the Department of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chung directs NIH funded research programs in human genetics of pulmonary hypertension, breast cancer, obesity, diabetes, autism, birth defects including congenital diaphragmatic hernia and congenital heart disease.

Steven J. Fishman, MD
Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the Stuart and Jane Weitzman Family Chair in Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he serves as Surgeon-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Surgery. Robert E. Gross Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Man Wai Ng, DDS, MPH
Dr. Man Wai Ng is Chief of the Department of Dentistry and the DentaQuest Endowed Chair in Pediatric Oral Health and Dentistry at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is also Associate Professor of Developmental Biology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

Registration

Type	Early Bird Rate*	Regular Rate
Physician	$175.00	$200.00
Nurse/Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant	$150.00	$175.00
Fellow	$75.00	$75.00
Medical Student/Research Assistant	$25.00	$25.00

*Early bird rate ends March 3, 2025
**For student/Fellow registrations please email us at cmedepartment@childrens.harvard.edu for the discount code.

Cancellation of Services
Although highly unlikely, in case an event is canceled or postponed, Boson Children’s can provide a full refund or offer a credit towards future events to those who have already registered.

Refund Policy
Refunds will be made in the following ways: For payments received by credit or debit cards, the same credit/debit card will be refunded.

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, Boston Children’s Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physician
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 14.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

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Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 14.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

Nurse
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for 14.00 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Risk Management
This activity meets the requirement for 1.00 Risk Management Credits as proscribed by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine and defined in 243 CMR 2.06(5)(d) I. Please check your individual state licensing board requirements before claiming these credits.

MOC II
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the activity, with individual assessments of the participant and feedback to the participant, enables the participant to earn:
14.00 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.
14.00 MOC points with the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

Disclosure Policy
Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CE activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children’s may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

Disclosure Statement
The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves, have reported the following relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients:

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships
Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Additional information

Duration	Multiple Days
Format	Live Courses & Conferences

Faculty

	Kevin B. Churchwell, MD President and Chief Executive Officer of Boston Children’s Hospital, providing leadership, vision, and oversight for a team that’s dedicated to improving and advancing child health through their life-changing work in clinical care, research and innovation, medical education, and community engagement.
	Wendy Chung, MD, PhD Clinical and molecular geneticist and the Chief of the Department of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chung directs NIH funded research programs in human genetics of pulmonary hypertension, breast cancer, obesity, diabetes, autism, birth defects including congenital diaphragmatic hernia and congenital heart disease.
	Steven J. Fishman, MD Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the Stuart and Jane Weitzman Family Chair in Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he serves as Surgeon-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Surgery.
	Man Wai Ng, DDS, MPH Dr. Man Wai Ng is Chief of the Department of Dentistry and the DentaQuest Endowed Chair in Pediatric Oral Health and Dentistry at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is also Associate Professor of Developmental Biology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
	Craig Birch, MD Orthopedic Surgeon, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Department, Boston Children’s Hospital; Instructor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
	Silvana Bonilla, MD Attending Physician, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
	Katharine Davidoff, MD Physician, Pediatric Supportive and Palliative Care, Massachusetts General Hospital
	Farokh Demehri, MD Attending Surgeon, Department of Surgery; Associate, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
	Sadaf Hussain, MD Attending Physician, Dermatology Program; Director, Resident Education; Director, Procedural Dermatology; Associate Physician, Hidradenitis Suppurativa Program, Boston Children’s Hospital; Instructor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School
	Mélise Keays, MD MSc Director, Clinical Informatics, Department of Urology; Co-Director, Complex Hypospadias Program, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
	Jeanne MacDonald, MD
	Arin L. Madenci, MD, MPH, SM, PhD Attending Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
	Weston Northam, MD Co-Director, Cerebral Palsy and Spasticity Center; Attending Physician, Department of Neurosurgery, Boston Children’s Hospital; Instructor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School
	Carolyn R. Rogers-Vizena, MD Attending Physician, Department of Plastic & Oral Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
	Jessica Shim, MD Attending, Division of Gynecology, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School
	Benjamin Shore, MD, MPH, FRCSC Orthopedic Surgeon, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Department; Co-Director, Cerebral Palsy and Spasticity Center; Director, Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery Fellowship; Director, Cerebral Palsy Program, Boston Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
	Louis Vernacchio, MD, MSc Pediatrician, Longwood Pediatrics; Director of Research, Pediatric Physicians’ Organization at Children’s, Boston Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Part-time, Harvard Medical School
	Alan Woolf, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACMT, FAACT Assistant in Medicine, Division of General Pediatrics; Director, Environmental Medicine Program, Boston Children’s Hospital; Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Schedule

Advances in Pediatric Healthcare April 3, 2025	Shamberger’s Frontiers in Surgery April 4, 2025
Welcome 7:30AM – 8AM	Welcome 7:30AM – 7:35AM
Keynote Speaker – The Science of Autism Spectrum Disorder 8AM – 9AM Wendy Chung, MD, PhD	Introduction 7:35AM – 7:40AM
Keynote Speaker – Dental Emergencies for the Pediatric Provider 9AM – 9:45AM Man Wai Ng, DDS, MPH	Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology: Who & When to Refer for Surgery 7:40AM – 8:20AM Jessica Shim, MD
Break 9:45AM – 10AM	The Acute Scrotum 8:20AM –9AM Mélise Keays, MD MSc
Helicobacter Pylori 10AM – 10:45AM Silvana Bonilla, MD	Break 9AM – 9:20AM
Opioid Prescribing in the Current Age: Recommended Safe Practices from the AAP 10:45AM – 11:30AM Katharine Davidoff, MD Jeanne MacDonald, MD	Keynote Speaker – CHAIR’S Lecture – Vascular Anomalies in Children 9:20AM – 10AM Steven J. Fishman, MD
Top Articles in General Pediatrics 11:30AM – 12:15PM Louis Vernacchio, MD, MSc	Keynote Speaker – Boston Children’s Hospital: State of the Enterprise 10AM – 11AM Kevin Churchwell, MD
Lunch 12:15PM – 1:15PM	Break 11AM – 11:20AM
Hidradenitis Suppurativa 1:15PM – 2PM Sadaf Hussain, MD	‘Dueling Lecture’ – Spasticity: The Neurosurgeon’s & Orthopedist’s Roles 11:20AM – 12:30PM Weston Northam, MD Benjamin Shore, MD, MPH, FRCSC
PFAS and Their Effects on Child Health 2PM – 2:45PM Alan Woolf, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACMT, FAACT	Lunch 12:30PM – 1:30PM
Break 2:45PM – 3PM	Chestwall Deformities 1:30PM – 2:10PM Farohk Demehri, MD
Workshop 1 (Please Choose One) 3PM – 3:45PMOption 1: Transforming Autism Care Through the Medical Home Model Speakers: Corinna Rea, MD, MPH, Christina Kratlian, MD, MPH, Aanchal Sharma, MD, MPH, Jennifer Aites, MD, Anna Chaves McDonald, PhD, Alison Rosenberg Mostyn, LICSW, Stephanie Graves, BS Option 2: Implementing Asthma Guidelines for SMART in Primary Care Speakers: Linda Haynes MS, PPCNP-BC, AE-C, Erin Antonellis, MS, RN, CPNP, AE-C Option 3: Examination and Management of the Infant with Undescended Testis Speaker: Caleb Nelson, MD, MPH	The Pediatric Spine 2:10PM – 2:50PM Craig Birch, MD
Workshop 2 (Will be a repeat of the sessions above) 3:45PM – 4:30PM	Break 2:50PM – 3:10PM
Evening Cocktails/Snacks UPDATE Join us for a tour of Fenway Park, followed by a networking happy hour at the Yard House restaurant. 4:30pm	The Pediatric Moles & Other Skin Lesions 3:10PM – 3:50PM Carolyn R. Rogers-Vizena, MD
	Thyroid Disorders in Children 3:50PM – 4:30PM Arin L. Madenci, MD, MPH, SM, PhD
	Closing 4:30PM – 4:45PM