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Continuing Medical Education, Grand Rounds, and More

April 3, 2024

For a comprehensive list of education opportunities available from Seattle Children’s for healthcare professionals, please visit our education site.

Continuing Education, Conferences, and Symposiums

See our full CME Calendar here.

Announcement: Registration Open for 19th Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference, Abstracts Due by May 10! 

Join us at this year’s three-day Pediatric Bioethics Conference! July 19 and 20 will be the 19th Annual Seattle Children’s Pediatric Bioethics Conference, Thinking Big, Responding Ethically: Big Data and AI in Pediatrics, hosted by the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and Palliative Care. July 18 will be the second annual nursing ethics conference, Nursing Ethics: Today’s Realities and Tomorrow’s Challenges, hosted by Seattle Children’s Center for Pediatric Nursing Research. Join our invited speakers as they cover a compelling range of topics from challenges prompted by the rapid development of these technologies to issues at the heart of the nursing experience. The registration conference fee includes CME credit or certificate of attendance. View the full agenda here. To learn more and to register, visit the Pediatric Bioethics Conference website. 

April 9, 2024: Seattle Children’s eConsult Live Demonstration:
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April 17, 2024: Seattle Children’s eConsult Live Demonstration:
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April 20, 2024: Pediatric Mental Health CME Event hosted by the Partnership Access Line: Learn more and register.
April 25, 2024: Seattle Children’s eConsult Live Demonstration:
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April 27, 2024: Staheli Pediatric Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Updates 2024: Learn more and register.
May 18, 2024: Pediatric Mental Health CME Event hosted by the Partnership Access Line: Learn more.
May 18, 2024: Advanced Practice Pediatric Pharmacology Updates:
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Provider Grand Rounds

Year-round on Thursdays from 8 to 9 a.m. in Seattle Children’s Wright Auditorium and streamed via WebEx. Learn more and watch the live webcast or recordings.

Please note that parking and entrance procedures have changed. See current campus maps with parking and screening information. Please review them before coming to the hospital. You will need to RSVP 24 hours in advance to emily.rice@seattlechildrens.org, so that your name can be shared with the hospital entrance staff. You will also need to bring photo ID.

We will continue to livestream our Grand Rounds presentations and record them for posting online.

April 4: Genetic Puzzles Hiding in Your Clinic: Navigating Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Diseases
Eric Allenspach, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UW; Attending Physician, Divisions of Immunology and Rheumatology, Seattle Children's Hospital; Medical Director, Diagnostics, Center for Immunity and Immunotherapies, Seattle Children's Research Institute
April 11: Immersive Learning, Lifesaving Results: Leveraging Virtual Simulations in Pediatric Education and Research
Rachel A. Umoren, MBBCh, MS
Associate Professor, Pediatrics/Neonatology; Adjunct Associate Professor, Global Health and Surgery, UW; Director of Neonatal Education and Simulation-Based Training Program, Associate Division Head for Research, Seattle Children’s
April 18: Building Evidence for Pediatric Clinical Care: Lessons in Nephrotic Syndrome
Resident/Fellow Research Day
Rulan Parekh, MD, MS, FRCPC
Professor, Paediatrics and Medicine, University of Toronto; Clinician Scientist and Vice President, Academics at Women’s College Hospital
April 25: How Unforeseen Events Lead to Unplanned Careers
Holt Webster Child Abuse Lecture
Kenneth Feldman, MD
Clinical Professor, UW; Co-Chair, Child Protection Subcommittee, General Pediatrics, Seattle Children’s
May 2: Clinician Wellness 3.0… It's Time for a Revolution
Tapper Surgical Lecture
Mary L. Brandt, MD, MDiv
Distinguished Emeritus Professor, Surgery, Pediatrics, and Medical Ethics in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine
May 9: UW Department of Pediatrics and Seattle Children’s Hospital Quality Improvement Scholars Program: Meet the 2023-2024 QI Scholars
QI Scholars Lecture
Sarah Caufield, BSN, RN
Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Unit, Seattle Children’s

Lauren McDaniel, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UW; Hospitalist, Seattle Children’s

Sarah Mahoney MD, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UW; Hospitalist, Seattle Children’s
May 16: An Interprofessional Team Intervention to Improve Communication with Families of Seriously Ill Children
Mann Family Palliative Care Lecture
Jennifer K. Walter, MD, PhD, MS
Associate Professor, Pediatrics/Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Director, Department of Medical Ethics, Attending Physician, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Psychiatry Grand Rounds

First Friday of every month October through June from 8 to 9:20 a.m. Learn more.

April 5, 2024: Current Advances in Research on Behavioral and Pharmacological Treatments for Youth With Autism
Grace Gengoux, PhD
Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

Antonio Hardan, MD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
May 3, 2024: Black Youth Who Experience Racial Trauma - Using a Strengths-Based, Anti-Deficit Approach to Prevention, Intervention, Community-Based Participatory Research, Wellness Promotion, and Advocacy

Isha Walwina Metzger, PhD
Owner, Cultural Concepts, LLC; Director, The EMPOWER Lab; Assistant Professor, Georgia State University Department of Psychology
Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Georgia Department of Psychology; Affiliate Research Faculty, Yale University School of Public Health