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 to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Seattle Children’s designates this live 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.
This activity meets the criteria for up to 1 hour of Category 1 CME credit to satisfy the relicensure requirements of the Washington State Medical Quality Assurance Commission.
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Watch past Grand Rounds online
View past Provider Grand Rounds sessions in the Grand Rounds Online video library.
Provider Grand Rounds Schedule and Topics
April 24, 2014
Show Me the Numbers: Transforming Data Into Quality Improvement
Resident–Fellow Research Day Lecture
Charles Macias, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine; Chief of Academic Programs, Pediatric Emergency Medicine; Director, Evidence Based Outcomes Center, Center for Clinical Effectiveness, Texas Children’s Hospital
May 1, 2014
Pediatric Surgery: The “Unborn Child” of Global Health
Tapper Surgery Lecture
Diana Farmer, MD, FACS, FRCS
Pearl Stamps Stewart Endowed Chair; Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, UC Davis; Surgeon-in-Chief, UC Davis Children’s Hospital
May 8, 2014
You Ate What?! The Ins and Outs of Pediatric Foreign Body Ingestion
Julie Brown, MDCM, MPH
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Co-Director, Emergency Medicine Research, Emergency Medicine, Seattle Children’s
May 15, 2014
Münchausen’s by Internet: Clinician Monitoring of Parent Blogs in Cases of Suspected Abuse
Sconyers/Godfrey Ethics Lecture
Megan A. Moreno, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UW; Division of Adolescent Medicine, Seattle Children’s
May 22, 2014
The Neurology of Famous Musicians: In Words and Music
Sarkowsky Lecture
Phillip L. Pearl, MD
William G. Lennox Chair, Boston Children's Hospital; Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
May 29, 2014
Early Identification and Definitive Therapy of SCID
Suzanne Skoda Smith, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics; Assistant Program Director, UWSOM Allergy and Immunology Fellowship Training Program, UW; Clinical Director, Division of Immunology, Seattle Children’s
Troy Torgerson, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Co-Director, Immunology Diagnostic Laboratory, Center for Immunity and Immunotherapies, Seattle Children’s Research Institute
June 5, 2014
Pediatric Regional Graduate Medical Education Heads North to Alaska
State of the Department Lecture
F. Bruder Stapleton, MD
Professor and Chair, Ford/Morgan Endowed Chair of Pediatrics, Associate Dean, UW; Chief Academic Officer/Senior Vice President, Seattle Children’s
Christine Tan
Seattle Children’s Graduate Medical Education
June 12, 2014
Cancer Immunotherapy: Using T Cells for Pediatric Cancer – Has the Time Come?
Rebecca Gardner, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Hematology-Oncology, Seattle Children’s
June 19, 2014
Common Pediatric Hand Problems: Yours, Mine and Ours
Suzanne Steinman, MD
Assistant Professor, Orthopaedics and Sport Medicine, UW; Orthopaedics, Brachial Plexus, Rehabilitation, Hand and Upper Extremity, Seattle Children’s
June 26, 2014
Pushing the Boundaries of Academic Medicine: Translating Metabolites Into Clinical Practice
C. Ronald Scott Lecture
Jerry Vockley, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine; Professor of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh; Chief of Medical Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
2013 Archives
Provider Grand Rounds videos are archived for only one year after their original presentation.
Speakers disclosed no commercial relationships for the following videos available on our Online Grand Rounds page:
- April 4, 11, 18, 25; May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; June 6, 13, 20, 27
July 4, 2013: Independence Day (No Grand Rounds)
July 11, 2013
Sarcomas
Doug Hawkins, MD
Speaker discloses grant/research support and patents with Novartis
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
Speaker discloses reference to off-label usage: PDIJ Assay of Lupux
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
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
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
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
August 8, 2013
Limitations of Resuscitation in Pediatric Patients
Joan Roberts, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, UW; PICU, Seattle Children’s
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
Jonna Clark, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Critical Care, PICU, Seattle Children’s
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
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
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
August 22, 2013
H. Influenza: Is an Old Enemy Returning?
Arnold Smith, MD
Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, UW; Infectious Diseases, Seattle Children’s
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
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)
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
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
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
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
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
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
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
October 3, 2013
Lessons Learned from Biobanking
Katz Ethics Lecture
Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD
Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics; Professor of Law; Co-Founder, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
October 10, 2013
Neurologic Music Therapy: Scientific Basis and Clinical Applications
Klavano Lecture
Michael Thaut, PhD
Professor of Music; Professor of Neuroscience; Co-Director, School of the Arts; Chairman, Dept. of Music, Theater and Dance, Colorado State University
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
October 17, 2013
The Joy of Practice
Alhadeff Lecture
Daniel P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD, FACP
Kilbride-Clinton Professor of Medicine and Ethics, Dept. of Medicine and Divinity School; Associate Director, The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
October 24, 2013
Pediatric Thrombosis and Thrombophilia: An Update
Dana Matthews, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, UW; Director, Clinical Hematology; Chair, Blood Usage Committee, Seattle Children’s
Speaker discloses reference to off-label usage: Enoxaparin, Alteplase, Fondaparinux, Argatroban
October 31, 2013
The Nose Knows: Why and When We Need to Repair the Nose in Children
Sanjay Parikh, MD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, UW; Medical Director, Surgical Specialties, Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center, Seattle Children’s
Speaker discloses consult for Olympus
November 7, 2013
Wilms Tumor: Finding the Best Recipe for Successful Treatment
Chard Lecture
Jeffrey S. Dome, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, George Washington University; Division Chief, Oncology, Children’s National Medical Center
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
November 14, 2013
Isn’t Low Salt Good for You? Cases to Consider
Patricia Y. Fechner, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Medical, Director Disorders of Sex Development Program, Seattle Children’s
Speaker discloses reference to off-label usage: Cell Free DNA, Dexamethasone
November 21, 2013
Modeling Human Mutations to Understand Brain Development and Disease
Lemire Lecture
Jeffrey Golden, MD
Ramzi S. Cotran Professor, Dept. of Pathology, Harvard Medical School; Chair, Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
November 28, 2013 – Thanksgiving
December 5, 2013
Cost-Effective Interventions to Reduce Childhood Obesity in the United States
Steve Gortmaker, PhD
Professor, Practice of Health Sociology, Harvard School of Public Health; Director, Harvard School of Public Health Research Center
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
December 12, 2013
Somebody That I Used to Know: Staying Connected to Yourself in the Challenging World of Healthcare
Lana Staheli Lecture
Jamie Ungerleider, PhD
Associate Professor, Family and Community Medicine Center for Integrative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
Managing the Demands of Professional Life and How to Thrive and Not Simply Survive in Healthcare
Ross Ungerleider, MD, MBA
Professor, Cardiovascular Surgery, Wake Forest Baptist Health; Chief of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery Team and Director of Pediatric Heart Program, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
December 19, 2013
Choosing the Right Lab Test
Jane Dickerson, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept. of Laboratory Medicine , UW; Co-Director, Chemistry, Associate Director, Reference Lab Services, Seattle Children’s
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
Bonnie Cole, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, UW; Pathology, Seattle Children’s
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
Stephanie Wallace, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Associate Clinical Director, Medical Genetics, Seattle Children’s
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
December 26, 2013, and January 2, 2014 – Winter Holiday
2014 Archives
January 9, 2014
Cystic Fibrosis: Amazing Changes and the New Role for the Pediatrician
Bonnie Ramsey, MD
Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Dept. of Pediatrics, UW; Director, Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Speaker disclosed current grants/research contracts from Insmed, KaloBios, PTC Therapeutics, Savara Pharmaceuticals, Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Review by CME program manager concluded not a conflict of interest.
January 16, 2014
The Social Determinants of the Racial Disparity in Birth Outcome: A Life-Course Perspective
King/Lavizzo Lecture
James Collins, MD, MPH
Professor, Pediatrics-Neonatology Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
January 23, 2014
Parental Decision-Making in the ICU: Neurology, Genetics and Uncertainty
Sconyers/Godfrey Ethics Lecture
Russell Saneto, DO, PhD
Professor, Neurology, Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics, UW; Neurology, Epilepsy, Mitochondrial Medicine, Seattle Children’s
Speaker disclosed that he received grant research support from Edison Pharmaceuticals
Lincoln Smith, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care, UW; Critical Care, PICU, Seattle Children’s
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
Robert D. Truog, MD, MA
Professor of Medical Ethics, Anesthesiology and Pediatrics; Director of Clinical Ethics, Harvard Medical School; Executive Director, Institute for Professionalism and Ethical Practice; Sr. Associate in Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
January 30, 2014
Disturbances in Cardiorespiratory Coupling: Implications for SIDS, Rett Syndrome and Familial Dysautonomia
Nino Ramirez, PhD
Professor of Neurological Surgery, UW; Director, Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
February
6, 2014
Fluoride: An Evidence-Based Counteroffensive
Charlotte Lewis, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Craniofacial, Seattle Children’s
Speaker disclosed no commercial relationships but will reference off-label or investigational use of fluoride varnish
February 13, 2014
Using the Hospital Experience to Advance Our Clinical Knowledge of CSF Shunt Infection
Tamara Simon, MD, MSPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UW; Hospitalist, Seattle Children’s
Planners and speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
February 20, 2014
School Refusal Behaviors: Assessment and Strategies You Can Use
Henry Berman, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UW; Division of Adolescent Medicine, Seattle Children’s
Planner and speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
February 27, 2014
The Key Role of the Medical Professional in the Prevention of Child Abuse
Mary Clyde Pierce, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics-Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Emergency Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Planners and speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
March
6, 2014
Competency in Pediatric Procedural Skills: Getting It, Keeping It
Taylor Sawyer, DO, MEd
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics; Director, Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship, UW; Neonatology, Seattle Children’s
Planners and speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
March 13, 2014
The First 1,000 Days: The Importance of Early Brain and Child Development
Warmington-Community Pediatricians Lecture
Colleen Kraft, MD, FAAP
Professor of Pediatrics, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute; Pediatric Program Director, Carilion Clinic, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Planners disclosed no commercial relationships. Speaker disclosed: Consultant and Vaccine Advisory Board for Merck
March 20, 2014
Foster Care: Improving Outcomes for a Challenging Population
Kym Ahrens, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of Adolescent Medicine, UW; Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, Adolescent Medicine, Adolescent Behavioral Health, Seattle Children’s
Planners and speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
March 27, 2014
Antimicrobial Stewardship at Seattle Children’s Hospital: Progress in Protecting Patients
Scott Weissman, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, UW; Division of Infectious Diseases, Seattle Children’s
Planners and speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
Adam Brothers, PharmD
Planners and speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
April 3, 2014
Standardized Child Abuse Screening to Improve Outcomes
Holt Webster Lecture
Daniel Lindberg, MD
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine; Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Kempe Center for Child Abuse Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Planners disclosed no commercial relationships; speaker disclosed that he is a consultant with Johnson, Graffe, Keay, Moniz & Wick, LLP. Review by CME program manager concludes that this presentation does not include content relevant to this disclosure.
April 10, 2014
There’s a Monster in My Head: Diagnosis, Care and Cure of Childhood Brain Tumors
Sarah Leary, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Seattle Children’s
Planners disclosed no commercial relationships; speaker disclosed no commercial relationships
April 17, 2014
Can Addressing Health Literacy Improve Health and Diminish Health Disparities? Lessons from Asthma
William E. Pierson Lecture
Andrea Apter, MD, MA, MSc
Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Divisions, University of Pittsburgh
Planners and speaker disclosed that they have no commercial relationships