Pediatric Chair's Friday For​um

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 DCH Auditorium unless otherwise noted on our weekly announcements. 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 14, 2025 | Evidence-Based Reasoning

Tiny Minds, Big Challenges: Stimulant Use For Children Younger than 6yo With ADHD

Facilitated by Rachel Scales, Isabelle Hudson & Sonya Tkachman

Learning Objectives

  • Discuss long-term safety in use of extended-release stimulants for children aged 4-6yo
  • Discuss whether the results from this study can be applied to our practices here at DCH

March 21, 2025 | Morbidity & Mortality

Facilitated by Heidi VanCampen & Jaclyn Bowker


2024-2025 Schedule

October 4, 2024 | Clinical Reasoning

Smoldering Sickness in a Young Girl

Abbie Bauer, MD, MS

October 11, 2024 | Evidence-Based Medicine

Novel Score to Predict Immunoglobulin Resistance in Kawasaki Disease

Diego Molina Ochoa, MD; Andrea Vosberg, MD; Emily Steelquist, MD

October 18, 2024 | Morbidity & Mortality

Planning for a Difficult Discharge

Amit Mehta, MD & Christina Daragan, MD



October 25, 2024 | Ethics

"But You Promised!” When Neonatal Reality Calls Into Question Prenatally-Presented Options

Robert Macauley, MD & Shanti Rice, MSW

November 1, 2024 | Clinical Reasoning

Found Down at Home: A Distressing Puzzle

Alyssa Penning

November 8, 2024 | Evidence-Based Medicine

NSAID‐Associated Acute Kidney Injury in Hospitalized Children A Prospective Pediatric Nephrology Research Consortium Study

Brett Boyer, MD; Sarah Craven, MD; Sahil Mehta, MD

November 15, 2024 | Health Equity Rounds

Equitable Care for Immigrant Families

Joe Nathanson, DO, MEd & Chris Phanthavong, MPH

November 22, 2024 | Research in Progress

A Prospective Pediatric Nephrology Research Consortium Study

Michelle Noelck, MD



December 6, 2024 | Clinical Reasoning

When a Common Disease Leads to Another Common Disease Through an Uncommon Mechanism

Jared Austin, MD

December 13, 2024 | Evidence-Based Medicine

Wildfires & Pediatric Asthma Exacerbations

Jaide Farr, DO; Lauren Nguyen, MD; Juhi Shah, DO

December 20, 2024 | Morbidity & Mortality

Lost in Transition: Lessons from a Case of Neonatal Hypoglycemia with Multiple Transfers

Catherine Caruso, DO; Sarah Baker, MD; Ashley Stone, MD



January 10, 2025 | Clinical Reasoning

Mental Gymnastics

Andrew Arndt, MD

January 24, 2025 | Health Equity Rounds

Pediatric Safe Sleep: Conversations on Where They Lay Their Head

Jonathan Junqua, DO, MPH & Maya Johnson

January 31, 2025 | Research in Progress

The Trials and Triumphs of a Fellowship Researcher

Rachel Palting, DO

February 7, 2025 | Clinical Reasoning

Back to Base-ics

Richard Cohen, MD; Jessica Binkley, PsyD; Joshua Vazquez, MD

February 14, 2025 | Evidence-Based Medicine

Grace Gavin, DO; Danna Garcia, MD; Carley Haft, MD

February 21, 2025 | Morbidity & Mortality

Lorne Walker, MD, PhD & Emily Rosenthal, MD

March 7, 2025 | Clinical Reasoning

David Rozansky, MD, PhD

March 14, 2025 | Evidence-Based Medicine

Rachel Scales, MD; Isabelle Hudson, MD; Sonya Tkachman, MD

March 21, 2025 | Morbidity & Mortality

Jaclyn Bowker, MD & Heidi VanCampen, MD

April 4, 2025 | Clinical Reasoning

Michael Jones, MD

April 11, 2025 | Evidence-Based Medicine

Mehak Kaur, DO; Tulsi Patel, DO; Rachel Ye, MD

April 18, 2025 | Health Equity Rounds

Cristian Cruz, MD

May 2, 2025 | Clinical Reasoning 

Allison Simpson, DO

May 9, 2025 | Evidence-Based Reasoning

Juliana Sarwary, MD; Nancy Tran, MD; Chantel Tran, DO

May 16, 2025 | Morbidity & Mortality

Morgan Goff, MD

May 23, 2025 | Ethics

May 30, 2025 | Research in Progress



June 6, 2025 | Clinical Reasoning

Laura McWhirter, MD; Boone Rhinehart, DO; Austen Yeager, MD

June 13, 2025 | Evidence-Based Medicine

Amy Lorber, MD;  Margaret DeBell, MD; Shannon Huggins, DO

June 20, 2025 | Ethics



June 27, 2025 | Morbidity & Mortality

Madeleine Duarte, MD