On the cover: Co-directors of Children's Memorial Food Allergy Study Xiaobin Wang, MD, MPH, ScD, and Jacqueline A. Pongracic, MD, with study participant Owen Koski
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The Child's Doctor Editorial Staff
Editor-in-Chief
Edward S. Ogata, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Medical Editor
Joseph R. Hageman, MD
Member, Medical and Dental Staff Association
CME Director
Wayne H. Franklin, MD
Attending Physician, Cardiology
Editor
Vita Lerman
Public Affairs
Editorial Board
Dianna W. Brogan, MD
Member, Medical and Dental Staff Association
James S. Donaldson, MD
Department Head, Medical Imaging
Mina K. Dulcan, MD
Department Head, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Thomas P. Green, MD
Department Head, Medicine
Steven C. Hall, MD
Department Head, Anesthesiology
Elizabeth J. Perlman, MD
Department Head, Pathology
Marleta Reynolds, MD
Department Head, Surgery
Ruben J. Rucoba, MD
Member, Medical and Dental Staff Association
Rebecca Unger, MD
Member, Medical and Dental Staff Association
The Child's Doctor
Journal of Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago
Fall/Winter 2009
You can now read CME articles, take quizzes, and receive credit online. View new CME section.
CME ARTICLES
Release date: December 14, 2009. Termination date: December 14, 2010.
Estimated time to complete this educational activity is 2 hours. Adobe Acrobat is required to access this program.
Process for obtaining CME category 1 credit: 1) review the target audience, learning objectives, faculty credentials and disclosure information; 2) read the articles; 3) complete and submit the post-assessment, evaluation form and the registration form in these pages.
Target audience: Community physicians
The Child's Doctor CME program is sponsored by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Author disclosures:
- Drs. Chogle, Dilley, Fingarson, Flaherty, Paller, Saps, Sorrell, and Story have no industry relationships to disclose and do not refer to products that are still investigational or not labeled for the use in discussion.
Editorial disclosures:
- Drs. Brogan, Donaldson, Franklin, Green, Hageman, Hall, Ogata, Perlman, Reynolds, Rucoba, Unger, and Ms. Lerman have no industry relationships to disclose.
- Dr. Dulcan has received travel reimbursement as a member of the Eli Lilly Strattera global advisory board; book royalties and travel reimbursements from the American Psychiatric Publishing for serving as author and editor; and an honorarium for serving as editor and advisor to the Care Management Technologies.
CME: Caring for Long-Term Survivors of Childhood Cancer
Kimberley J. Dilley, MD, MPH, director, Survivors Taking Action and Responsibility (STAR) Program
Educational Objectives: Recognize the need to provide risk-based prevention and early detection of late effects from cancer therapies to childhood cancer survivors seen by pediatricians; collaborate with a cancer late effects program or cancer center; access and use Children's Oncology Group late effects guidelines to care for childhood cancer survivors according to their specific cancer treatment histories
CME: Controlling Childhood Asthma: Applying the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Guidelines
Rachel E. Story MD, MPH, attending physician, Allergy and Immunology
Educational Objectives: Assess initial asthma severity based on NHLBI guidelines; describe recommended treatments for asthma based on severity; assess asthma control and adjust asthma treatment based on asthma control
CME: Functional Abdominal Pain in Children
Miguel Saps, MD, director, Gastrointestinal Motility and Functional Bowel Disorders Program
Ashish Chogle, MD, MPH, fellow, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Educational Objectives: Identify pain-predominant functional gastrointestinal disorders in children; explain proposed pathophysiology of functional gastrointestinal disorders; formulate a comprehensive treatment plan and effectively counsel patients and parents about functional gastrointestinal disorders
CME: Recognizing and Evaluating Possible Physical Child Abuse in Primary Care
Amanda K. Fingarson, DO, attending physician, Child Abuse Pediatrics
Emalee G. Flaherty, MD, director, Child Abuse Pediatrics
Educational Objectives: Recognize common presentations of physical child abuse that may be seen in an office setting; order appropriate initial laboratory tests and imaging for suspected physical child abuse; discuss the responsibilities of mandated reporters
CME: Dermatology Quiz and Case Discussion
Jennifer Sorrell, MD, Fellow, Pediatric Dermatology
Amy Paller, MD, Attending physician, Dermatology
Educational Objectives: Recognize the disorder described in the vignette and shown in the photographs; describe clinical features and differential diagnosis; describe management approaches
DEPARTMENTS
Research: Children's Memorial Food Allergy Study
Xiaobin Wang, MD, MPH, ScD, director, Smith Child Health Research Program
Jacqueline A. Pongracic, MD, division head, Allergy and Immunology
Selected Abstracts from Children's Memorial Investigators
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