Yale Pediatric Update 2007 – Curriculum

Course Director:
Linda D. Arnold, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Yale School of Medicine

Plenary Session I - Evaluation and Management of Common Pediatric Complaints

Closed Head Injury: When to Worry, Who to Image

• Karen Santucci, MD, Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine

Infant Feeding Problems: A Practical Approach

• Dinesh Pashankar, MD, Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine

Dermatologic Unknowns: What's in a Rash?

• Richard Antaya, MD, Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine

Plenary Session II - Hot Topics in Pediatrics

Days of Vaccines and Resistance: Choosing the Right Antibiotics in 2007

• Marietta Vázquez, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine

Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Pediatrics

• Aviva Romm, CPM, President, American Herbalist Guild

Organic & Natural Foods: What's in a Name?

• David Katz, MD, MPH, Associate Professor Adjunct in Public Health Practics, Yale School of Medicine, Director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center

Special Seminar

Diagnosing and managing Food Allergies

• Scott Sicherer, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Allergy & Immunology, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

Workshops

Office Cardiology: Assessing Murmurs, Chest Pain and Syncope

Jeremy Asnes, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Yale School of Medicine

George Porter, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Yale School of Medicine

ADHD: Pharmacologic and Behavioral Therapies

Lawrence Scahill, MSN, PhD
Professor of Nursery and Child Psychiatry
Yale School of Medicine

What's Your Diagnosis? Interesting Cases

Kevin Ching, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Yale School of Medicine

Mark Cicero, MD
Clinical Fellow, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Yale School of Medicine