Provider Grand Rounds
Every Thursday, Wright Auditorium, 8 to 9 a.m. A continental breakfast is available from 7:30 a.m. Visiting physicians may use Lot 1 (PDF). For more information, call 206-987-5701.
CME credit
Seattle Children’s is accredited by the Washington State Medical Association CME Accreditation Committee to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.
Seattle Children’s designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 hour (per session) in Category I to satisfy the re-licensure requirements of the Washington State Medical Quality Assurance Commission.
Seattle Children’s designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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Provider Grand Rounds Schedule and Topics
June 20, 2013
Designing Healthy Communities for Children
Warmington/Community Pediatrics Lecture
Richard Jackson, MD, MPH
Professor/Chair, Environmental Health Science, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
June 27, 2013
Toxicology: The Highs and Lows for Your Practice
Suzan Mazor, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Director of Toxicology Service, Emergency Medicine, Seattle Children’s
July 4, 2013: Independence Day (No Grand Rounds)
July 11, 2013
Engineering Tumor Immunity with T Cells
Abelson Lecture
Carl June, MD
Professor, Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
July 18, 2013
Good Mouth, Good Body: The Role of Oral Infections in Chronic Inflammatory Diseases
Anne Stevens, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Program Director, Rheumatology Education, Seattle Children’s
July 25, 2013
Organ Donation After Brain Death and Circulatory Death: Current Status and Persistent Challenges
Ann Thompson, MD, MHCPM
Professor, Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh; Medical Director for Clinical Resource Management, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
August 1, 2013
An Ode to Continence: Dealing with the Challenges of Pediatric Pelvic Congenital Anomalies
Jeff Avansino, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery, UW School of Medicine; Attending Pediatric Surgeon, Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery, Seattle Children’s
August 8, 2013
Limitations of Resuscitation in Pediatric Patients
Joan Roberts, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, UW; PICU, Seattle Children’s
Jonna Clark, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Critical Care, PICU, Seattle Children’s
August 15, 2013
OMG, What R They Thinking? The Adolescent Brain, Risk Assessment, and Decision-Making
Douglas Diekema, MD, MPH
Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Director of Education, Chair, Institutional Review Board Committee, Seattle Children’s
August 22, 2013
H. Influenza: Is an Old Enemy Returning?
Arnold Smith, MD
Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, UW; Infectious Diseases, Seattle Children’s
August 29, 2013
Implementing the Accountable Care Act; Washington’s Approach
Daniel Lessler, MD, MHA, FACP
Chief Medical Officer, Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA)
September 5, 2013: Rosh Hashanah (No Grand Rounds)
September 12, 2013
Maintaining Your Credentials: MOC Demystified
Joel Tieder, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UW School of Medicine; Division of Inpatient Medicine, Seattle Children’s
September 19, 2013
A Guide to Infant Eye Alignment and Misalignment
Roger Johnson Ophthalmology Lecture
Steven M. Archer, MD
Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan; Pediatric Ophthalmology, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
September 26, 2013
Providing Services to Urban Adolescents: The Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center Model
Robert Deischer Lecture
Angela Diaz, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Director, Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center
2013 Archives
January 3, 2013
In the Absence of Evidence: an Approach for Collaborative Research on Craniofacial Microsomia
Carrie Heike, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Craniofacial Center, Seattle Children’s
January 10, 2013
King/Lavizzo Lecture
Healthcare Reform and Health Equity for Diverse Populations
Dennis P. Andrulis, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, University of Texas School of Public Health; Senior Research Scientist, Texas Health Institute
January 17, 2013
Sconyers/Godfrey Ethics Lecture
Super-Sized Ethics: Obesity and Child Protective Services
Ben Wilfond, MD
Director, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics
Lenna Liu, MD, MPH
Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic
January 24, 2013
Promoting Healthy Early Child Development: An Update and Research Agenda from the Christakis Lab
Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH
George Adkins Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Director, Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development, Seattle Children’s
January 31, 2013
Cerebral Palsy: Providers Making the Best of a Challenging Situation
Susan Apkon, MD
Associate Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine, UW; Director of Rehabilitation Medicine, Seattle Children’s
February 7, 2013
Caring for the Medically Complex Child: Meeting Safety, Care and Patient Needs
Margaret E. Hood, MD, FAAP
Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Seattle Children’s
Susan E. Hunt, MD
Hospitalist Services, UW and Seattle Children’s
February 14, 2013
Those Recurring Fevers: What and When to Do the Evaluation
Jennifer Turner, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Seattle Children’s Rheumatology
February 21, 2013
Reaching Patients Far Away: Telemedicine at Seattle Children’s
Yolanda Evans, MD
Assistant Professor, Adolescent Medicine, UW; Adolescent Medicine, Seattle Children’s
February 28, 2013
System Improvement, Science and Scholarly Output: Examples from Cincinnati Children’s Emergency Department
Richard Ruddy, MD
Professor, Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati; Director, Division of Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s
March 7, 2013
An Integrative, Family-Based Approach to Childhood Obesity
David Ludwig, MD, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health; The John F. Crigler, Jr and Mary A.S. Crigler Chair, Pediatric Endocrinology; Director, New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center and Optimal Weight for Life Clinic
March 14, 2013
Transparency: Communicating About Adverse Clinical Events
Jeff Sconyers, Esq.
Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Seattle Children’s
March 21, 2013
Epilepsy Genetics: How the Next Generation of Discovery Can Change Care
Heather Mefford, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Genetics Medicine, UW; Medical Genetics Clinic, Seattle Children’s
March 28, 2013
Nature Contact: A Strategy for Children's Health?
Howard Frumkin, DrPH, MPH, MD, AB
Dean, School of Public Health and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, UW
April 4, 2013
Overcoming Obstacles in the Treatment of Medical Child Abuse (no video available)
Holt Webster Lecture
Thomas Roesler, MD
Associate Professor, Psychology and Human Behavior, Brown University
April 11, 2013
Hypertension in Children and Adolescents: Is Screening for Hypertension Beneficial?
Ikuyo Yamaguchi, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Nephrology, Seattle Children’s
April 18, 2013
What Can Wait, What Can’t: Pearls for Distinguishing Potentially Morbid Pediatric Skin Conditions
Resident/Fellow Research Day
Robert Sidbury, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Division Chief, Dermatology, Seattle Children's
April 25, 2013
New Insights into Management of Atopic Dermatitis
William E. Pierson Lecture
Donald Leung, MD, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics, University of Colorado; Head, Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, National Jewish Health
May 2, 2013
The Influence of Fecal Microbiome in Health and Disease: An Evolving Story
David Suskind, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, UW; Seattle Children’s
May 9, 2013
Molecular Basis for the Pathogenesis of Necrotizing Enterocolitis
David Tapper Surgery Lecture
Henri Ford, MD
Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, Dept of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, USC; Vice President and Chair of Surgery, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
May 16, 2013
Parental Refusal of a Solid Organ Transplant: Exploring the Ethical Issues
Sconyers/Godfrey Ethics Lecture
Mark Mecurio, MD, MA
Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Program for Biomedical Ethics, Yale School of Medicine
Evelyn Hsu, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Seattle Children’s
Patrick Healey, MD
Associate Professor, Surgery, UW; Division Chief, Transplantation, Seattle Children’s
May 23, 2013
The Impact, Products and Future Applications of the Newborn Screening Region 4 Stork (R4S) Collaborative Project
C. Ronald Scott Lecture
Piero Rinaldo, MD, PhD
Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic
May 30, 2013
Brain Maturation and the Natural History of Pediatric Epilepsy
Sarkowsky Lecture
Olivier Dulac, MD
Professor, Pediatrics, René Descartes University
June 6, 2013
What Has Grown in the “Peds Patch”?
State of Department Lecture
Bruder Stapleton, MD
Professor, Pediatrics, Chair, Department of Pediatrics, UW; Senior Vice President; Chief Academic Officer; Director, Department of Medicine, Seattle Children's
June 13, 2013
A Change of Heart: Update on Outcomes of Cardiac Transplantation
Mariska Kemna, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UW; Pediatric Cardiology, Seattle Children’s
2012 Archives
October 4, 2012
Katz Ethics Lecture
The Truth, the Whole Truth, or Nothing But The Truth?
Ruth Macklin, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health; Dr. Shoshanah Trachenberg Frackman Faculty Scholar in Biomedical Ethics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
October 11, 2012
Transgender Youth: What You Need to Know for Your Practice
David Breland, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UW; Division of Adolescent Medicine, Seattle Children’s
October 18, 2012
Robert Deisher Lecture
The War on Family Planning: Implications and a Partial Solution for Adolescents
Sarah Brown, MPH
CEO, National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
October 25, 2012
David Tapper Lecture
Pancreatic Islet Transplantation for Type 1 Diabetes – From Bench to Bedside
Paul Johnson, MB ChB, MA, MD, FRCS
Professor of Pediatric Surgery, University of Oxford; Director, Oxford Islet Transplant Program
November 1, 2012
Ronald Chard Lecture
Rare Cancers in Children: Opportunities and Challenges
Alberto Pappo, MD
Director, Solid Tumor Division, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
November 8, 2012
Klavano Lecture
Pediatric Integrative Medicine: Looking Forward
Hilary McClafferty, MD, FAAP
Assistant Director, Integrative Medicine Fellowship, University of Arizona; Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine
November 15, 2012
Ronald Lemire Lecture
Genomics: New Opportunities in Birth Defects Epidemiology
Jan Friedman, MD
Professor, Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia; Acting Executive Director, Child and Family Research Institute
November 22, 2012: Thanksgiving (No Grand Rounds)
November 29, 2012
Differences to Determinants: Evolutions in Health Disparities Research and Policy
Jean L. Raphael, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Academic General Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine
December 6, 2012
Alhadeff Lecture
Children’s Understanding of Death: A View from Two Different Cultures
Karl Rosengren, PhD
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Cognitive Psychology, Northwestern University
December 13, 2012
Lana Staheli Lecture
My Definition of Success: Resilience, Vision and Shaping Change
Maxine Hayes, MD, MPH
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UW; State Health Officer, Washington State Department of Health
December 20, 2012
Macrophage Activation Syndrome: An Update on the Spectrum of Cytokine Storm Disorders
Kristine Hayward, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Rheumatology, UW; Director, Quality Improvement, Seattle Children’s