Non-Obstetrical Surgery During Pregnancy and Associated Maternal/Fetal Stress
Cutis Cook, MD
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Understand the critical physiologic and laboratory changes during pregnancy and how that impacts the approach to the pregnant surgical patient.
• Discuss the importance of early intervention in obstetrical patients with surgical pathology to improve both maternal and fetal outcomes.
  
• Highlight the risk that surgical disease poses to both the pregnant patient and her developing fetus.
  

Trauma and Domestic Violence During Pregnancy
Curtis Cook, MD
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Review the critical anatomic and physiologic changes of pregnancy and how that impacts the management of the post-trauma OB patient.
• Discuss the appropriate evaluation of the post-trauma obstetrical patient.
• Recognize the recurrence risk and health repercussions for both mother and fetus of partner violence during pregnancy.

DR Management with Focus on Premature Infant and the Unexpected
Tala Nasr, MD
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:
Review the most recent NRP guidelines.

• Emphasize importance of temperature control in DR.
  
• Address the current controversies with intubation and surfactant.
  
• Talk through a couple of case studies of unexpected presentations.
  

Contemporary NICU Therapies
Tala Nasr, MD
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Emphasize the importance of nutrition in premature infants.
  
• Understand preventative strategies for BPD (Bronco-pulmonary dysplasia).
  
• Recognize the role of Bevacizumab in treating ROP (Rentinopathy of Prematurity).
  

Perinatal and Neonatal Palliative Care
Cassandra Hirsh, DO
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Describe when a perinatal palliative care consult would be appropriate.
  
• Identify patients who would benefit from a palliative care consult postnatally.
• Explain the services the palliative care team can provide prenatally and postnatally.
  

Current Management Options of Congenital Heart Disease
Peter Chang, DO
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Describe management options for congenital heart disease presenting during the fetal period.
• Identify neonates through risk assessments that would benefit from intervention postnatally.
• Describe the neonatal/cardio care team approach with a case presentation.
  

Neonatal Dermatology – the Common and Not So Common
Marcia Hogeling MD
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Utilize appropriate dermatologic descriptive terms to describe neonatal skin conditions.
• Discern between common and uncommon benign conditions and those that need urgent referral and treatment.
• Review common skin findings and conditions in neonates.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014

Medical Genetics for the Primary Care Provider
George A. Anadiotis, DO
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Describe patterns of inheritance and variations.
• Understand current techniques for testing for chromosomal abnormalities.
• Understand the essentials of Dysmorphology or the reason the person looks different.
• Know when to refer to genetics - timing and what will make the referral most useful for the patient.
• Describe what is on the cutting edge and the horizon for evaluation of genetic disorders in children.
  

The First 1,000 Days: Toxic Stress and Brain Growth and Development
Kent Thornburg, PhD
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Understand key vulnerabilities during the peri-conception period and their impact on the first 1000 days of life and the epigenetic blueprint for chronic disease across generations.
• Consider the clinician’s role and responsibility in reframing how and when during the pediatric life course we look with clients and their families at risk of obesity, cardiovascular and chronic disease.
• Build upon knowledge of nutrition and healthy dietary practices for the maternal fetal unit and across the pediatric life-course. http://www.theheartskitchen.com/about-us/meet-dr-kent-thornburg/
• Understand brain growth and normal development in the context of stress and the nutritional matrix during the first 1,000 days.
  

Environmental Stressors for Children and Families – Reframing the Clinical Encounter: “What’s Happened to You?”
Richard J. Martin, DO, MPH, FACOP, FAAP
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Understand the variety of environmental exposures and the magnitude of their effects across the life span and prenatally.
• Learn practical skills in history taking in the context of EMR, addressing patient questions and environmental health education.
• Take action based on knowledge of environmental health policy, regulations and current science for patient advocacy in the context of competing ambulatory care priorities.
  

Stressors Associated With the Diagnosis of Chronic, Complex, and/or Life-Threatening Illnesses in the Pediatric Patient
Cassandra Hirsh, DO
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Describe the most common stressors associated with the diagnosis of a chronic, complex, and/or life-threatening illness in the pediatric patient.
• Discuss the services palliative care can provide to help patients and families cope with stressors associated with their diagnosis.
• Recognize patients and families who are experiencing increased stressors.
  

Portraits of Life, Love, & Legacy through Pediatric Palliative Care
Cassandra Hirsh, DO
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Define pediatric palliative care in terms of philosophy of care, scope of practice and key services provided.
• Discuss the meaning of “adding life to years rather than years to life”.
• Identify the roles of the core team members in providing “trans-disciplinary” palliative care.
• Describe the advocacy role of the pediatric palliative care team.
• Describe the meaning of legacy for the children and families in the film.

Practical Telemedicine in Your Pediatric Medical Home:
Why and How You Can Do This in 2014
Michael G. Hunt, DO, FACOP, FAAP; Richard J. Martin, DO, MPH, FACOP, FAAP
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Describe effective telemedicine technologic applications for the office that may address patients who do not need direct or physical contact at every encounter.
• Understand the state and national telemedicine guidelines for quality care and cost effectiveness, documentation and privacy.
• Understand and apply new CCO/ACO benchmarks for reducing inappropriate ER use by connecting the medical home with the patients’ home, school or child care. Examples will be provided.
  

ACOP Pediatric Education Leadership Committee Workshop
Giving the Medical Student Feedback: What to Say and What Not to Say
J. Michael Metts, DO, FACOP, FAAP
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Distinguish between different generational learning styles to increase teaching effectiveness.
• Define Formative Feedback and Summative Feedback Create a glossary of terms and phrases for use in feedback and evaluation of the medical student.
• Recognize the consequences created by positive and negative evaluations of a medical student on the student and the evaluator.
• Use the experiences of other attendees to effectively improve the process of feedback and evaluation at your institution.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2014

Anaclytic Depression and Infant Development
Timothy J. Kowalski, DO, FACN
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Identify anaclytic depression, its early description, and animal models of maternal deprivation.
• Recognize those factors contributing to normal infant development, temperament and attachment.
• Identify normal age progression in gross and find motor development.
• Identify the developmental lines and theoreticians of psychosexual, psychosocial, moral and cognitive development.
• Describe the importance of touch in development of the doctor patient relationship.
  

DSM-5: Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders and Their Neurobiology
Jed Magen, DO, MS
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Understand the structure of DSM-5’s substance use disorders chapter.
• Discuss brain reward circuits and their relevance to substance use disorders.
• Discuss the unique neurobiological properties of adolescence that result in high levels of initiation and continued use of substances of abuse.
  

Sexual Trauma and Substance Abuse
Margot L. Waitz, DO
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Understand the connection between sexual abuse and the development of an addiction.
• Review concerns of sexual assault while under the influence – victim and/or assailant. What is happening on our college campuses today?
• Discuss treatment options for the individual with dual diagnosis – addiction and sexual abuse.
  

Fostering Resilience: Working with Marginalized and Traumatized Youth
Kenneth R. Ginsburg, MD, MSEd, FAAP, FSAHM
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Understand what adverse childhood experiences do to the brain, body, and behavior.
• Consider how a trauma-focused approach prepares us to better serve youth and to have more appropriate boundaries that increase our career longevity.
• Understand that a typical risk-based interaction can engender shame and that shame can undermine progress. People only change when they have the confidence to do so, and that confidence derives from a sense of competence.
  

Fostering Resilience in Adolescents: Strength Based Strategies
to Promote Positive Behavioral Change
Kenneth R. Ginsburg, MD, MSEd, FAAP, FSAHM
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Recognize the Seven C’s model of Resilience.
• Understand that youth are the experts in their own lives and will best make progress when they are motivated to do so.
• Understand that the typical adult approach to changing behavior – lecturing – does not work and may backfire.
• Understand that stress drives many adolescent worrisome behaviors. Further, to be able to implement a stress reduction plan with adolescent patients.
  

Immunizations, the Questions You Always Wanted to Ask
Stanley Grogg, DO, FACOP
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Recognize appropriate vaccine Apps which are available for quick references.
• Understand what to do when errors in vaccinations occur.
• Implement the latest ACIP recommendations for their patients, themselves and their office personal.
  

P.A.N.D.A.S (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections)
Randall K. Ricardi, DO
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Discuss the historical perspective and controversies related to PANDAS.
• Identify the etiology of the disorder.
• List key clinical features and the corresponding medical workup.
• Describe treatment management techniques for the PANDAS’ patient.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014
JOINT SESSION: American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians (ACOP) and American Academy of Osteopathy (AAO)

Workshop: OMT for the Child Athlete
Amelia Bueche, DO
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Understand the biomechanical response to injury in children based on the mechanism of injury.
• Identify and treat acute and chronic injury or disability in the extremities using OMM.
• Provide specific education, tailored follow-up and referral as appropriate.
  

Workshop: OMT for Congestion and Sinusitis
Doris Newman, DO
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• Describe sinus and middle ear development from infants to adolescents, ventilation and lymphatic flow as it relates to OMM.
• Effectively apply OMM as indicated in the treatment of congestion.
• Describe parent and client education and modalities for self treatment as appropriate.
  

Autism Update
Randall K. Ricardi, DO
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will be able to:

• List the DSM-V criteria for the Autism Spectrum Disorders.
• Identify common co-morbidities associated with ASD.
• Describe adult ASD outcomes and treatment needs.
• Discuss common childhood treatment strategies for the Autism Spectrum Disorders.
  

OCC Mini Board Review
Moderator: Marta Diaz-Pupek, DO, FACOP, FAAP
Upon completion of this lecture, the participant will:

• Be familiar with the type of questions and content asked in the general pediatric certification/recertification exam.