Pediatric Chair's Friday Forum
Pediatric Chair's Friday Forum is designed to instill lifelong learning practices for participants and to further develop critical-thinking skills essential to the practice of medicine and translational science. This weekly, interactive session is facilitated by Department of Pediatrics faculty and residents, and is structured around rotating themes:
- Week 1 - Clinical Reasoning
- Week 2 - Evidence-Based Medicine
- Week 3 - Morbidity & Mortality or Health Equity Rounds
- Weeks 4 & 5 - Research in Progress or Ethics
Due to confidentiality of some topics, attendees must be OHSU employees.
Time: Fridays, 12 noon-1 p.m.
How to attend: Friday Forum is held in person in CDRC 3200. A Webex option is available (OHSU login required) for those who wish to watch sessions virtually. If you are an OHSU employee and would like to attend via Webex, please email Jessica Willhite to be added to the distribution list.
Upcoming Friday Forum Sessions
March 3, 2023 | Clinical Reasoning
Microcephaly: How Starting Small Can Have a Big Impact
Facilitated by: Alison Chiang
Learning Objectives
• Define microcephaly and identify a patient with microcephaly
• Prioritize your differential of possible etiologies based on these definitions
• Connect patients to the subspecialists that will help optimize the health of these children
March 10, 2023 | Evidence-Based Medicine
Can You Have the Best of Both Worlds? A Cost Effective Case For Mitigating Behavioral Issues In a Integrative Pediatric Behavioral Health Model
• Determine areas of significant health care costs pertaining to ADHD screening and management in pediatrics
• Identify the pros and cons of a DOCC vs EUC healthcare model
October 7, 2022 | Clinical Reasoning
Why Am I Pancytopenic?
Bill Chang, MD, PhD
October 14, 2022 | Evidence-Based Medicine
Factors Associated With Antibiotic Use for Children Hospitalized With Pneumonia
Morgan Goff, MD; Drew Groshong, MD; Boone Rhinehart, DO
October 21, 2022 | Morbidity & Mortality
It Ain't Easy Being Wheezy
Carlee Beckler & Kara Mossler
October 28, 2022 | Research in Progress
Platelets, Periods, & Poems
Kristina Haley
November 4, 2022 | Clinical Reasoning
Why Is This Child Having Seizures? Sometimes it Takes Everyone to Figure Out the Answer
Amit Mehta
November 11, 2022 | Ethics
Charting a Path Forward During Uncertain Times: How Can We Guide Families When Diagnosis and Prognosis Are Unclear?
Sara Taub
November 18, 2022 | Health Equity Rounds
Beyond Bias: Exploring the Impact of Economic and Social Determinants in a Medically Complex Case
Janani Rajkumar
December 2, 2022 | Clinical Reasoning
Led Down the Garden PATH-ology - Yet Again
Richard Cohen
December 9, 2022 | Evidence-Based Medicine
Social Determinants of Health and Pediatric Asthma: Childhood Asthma Incidence, Early and Persistent Wheeze, and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Factors
Kevin Kron, Jaclyn Bowker, Cambrynne DeJong
January 6, 2023 | Clinical Reasoning
Challenges in NF1 Gliomas
Matthew Miller
January 13, 2023 | Evidence-Based Medicine
Don't Let Roids Give You Rage
Erin Madison, Christina Daragan, Aditi Tiwari, Ashley Stone
January 20, 2023 | Health Equity Rounds
Can We Fire Patients? Exploring the Role of Implicit Bias in Punishment and Discipline
Jason Blanks
January 27, 2023 | Ethics
When Family-Centered is not Evidence-Based
Zina Stavitsky
February 3, 2023 | Clinical Reasoning
Obdurate Abdominal Pain in a Young Child
Abbie Bauer & Sara Hecht
February 10, 2023 | Evidence-Based Medicine
A Weighty Topic: Looking at the AAP 2023 Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Obesity
Austen Yeager, Heidi VanCampen, Seva Khambadkone, Jonathan Junqua
February 17, 2023 | Morbidity & Mortality
Timely Treatment of Vaso-occlusive Episode in Sickle Cell Disease
Kim Vidmar & Clair Natsios
February 24, 2023 | Research in Progress
There...And Back Again: My Journey Towards Independence in Research
Mitzi Go
March 3, 2023 | Clinical Reasoning
Microcephaly: How Starting Small Can Have a Big Impact
Alison Chiang
March 10, 2023 | Evidence-Based Medicine
Can You Have the Best of Both Worlds? A Cost Effective Case for Mitigating Behavioral Issues in a Integrative Pediatric Behavioral Health Model
Olivia Brasher, Dakota Crocker, Cristian Cruz
March 17, 2023 | Morbidity & Mortality
Ethan Canty, Rachael Mullin
March 24, 2023 | Ethics
April 7, 2023 | Clinical Reasoning
April 14, 2023 | Evidence-Based Medicine
Kaitlyn Simmons, Taryn Meacham, Alexandra Haigh, Joe Nathanson
April 21, 2023 | Health Equity Rounds
Mandy Wolf & Doris Valenzuela
May 5, 2023 | Clinical Reasoning
May 12, 2023 | Evidence-Based Medicine
Alex Mechler-Hickson, Madeleine Duarte, Evan Ammerman
May 19, 2023 | Research in Progress
May 26, 2023 | Morbidity & Mortality
Anja, Tjaden & Meredith Haag
June 2, 2023 | Clinical Reasoning
June 9, 2023 | Evidence-Based Medicine
Omar Tayh, Emily Rosenthal, Caroline Oldenberg
June 16, 2023 | Morbidity and Mortality
Karina Mehta
June 23, 2023 | Ethics
June 30, 2023 | Research in Progress