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Speaker panel:

Dr. Michael Henry - Lymphoma

Dr. Jennifer Hess - Leukemia

Dr. Alexandria Walsh - Survivorship

Objective:

To increase awareness among general pediatricians about childhood cancer.

Presenter: Dr. Cristine Velazco the Chief Peds Surgery Fellow

At the end of this presentation, participants should be able to:

• Define bowel movement

• Provide details on how to manage bowel movement

• Explain the process of a bowel movement program

Meet the presenter:

Dr. Velazco, is a board-certified General Surgeon. She is currently the Chief Pediatric Surgery Fellow at Phoenix Children’s Hospital/Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Medical Education. She completed a master’s degree in Anatomy and Neurobiology at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and earned her MD at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. Cristine completed her residency at Mayo Clinic Arizona in General Surgery. During her residency she was an Instructor of Surgery and completed a Research Fellowship at Harvard University/Boston Children’s Hospital, working in the Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation on short bowel syndrome and intestinal failure, as well as working with the Vermont Oxford Network. She also was a member of the Mayo Clinic Education Committee for both Arizona and Mayo Clinic’s tri-site committee. After residency, she completed a fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in Pediatric Colorectal Surgery prior to returning to Phoenix to start her fellowship in Pediatric Surgery. Cristine has written numerous peer-reviewed publications and book chapters.

Quality Day Grand Rounds

Keynote speaker to be announced.

Presentation details will be provided at a later date.

Surgery Grand Rounds Guest Speaker 

About the presenter:

Karin Muraszko, M.D., grew up in New Jersey and received her undergraduate degree from Yale University. She then continued to Columbia University in New York where she received her medical degree and completed her residency training in Neurological Surgery and completed fellowships in pediatric neurosurgery.

Following her training at Columbia, Dr. Muraszko was a researcher at the National Institutes for Health for 2 years before joining the team at the University of Michigan. In 2005, Dr. Muraszko was chosen to head the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Michigan, becoming the first woman to chair an academic neurosurgery department in the United States.

Dr. Muraszko specializes in pediatric neurosurgery. She is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons, and is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) along with several pediatric professional associations. Her research interests include Immunotoxin therapy for brain tumors, the biology of brain tumors, Chiari malformations, craniofacial anomalies, congenital anomalies of the brain and spine and hydrocephalus.

Dr. Muraszko lives in Ann Arbor with her husband and 2 children.

Additional links:

Dr. Karen Muraszko's Video Profile

Karin Muraszko Dr. Muraskos PubMed Publications

Karin Muraszko Michigan Research Experts Website

Guest Speaker: Dannah Raz, MD, Developmental Pediatrics 

Grand Rounds " Down Syndrome"

Presenter: Thomas Inge, MD, PhD, Surgeon in Chief and Chair of Surgery, Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine

At the end of this presentation, participants should be able to:

• List the indications for use of metabolic bariatric surgery in pediatric patients
• Discuss benefits, risks, and outcomes of surgery
• Review technical aspects of vertical sleeve gastrectomy

Meet the presenter:

Dr. Thomas (Tom) Inge is a Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics with tenure at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine (November 15, 2021-current). He also holds the Lydia J. Fredrickson Board Designated Professorship in Pediatric Surgery and is the Surgeon-in-Chief and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the Ann and Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. His clinical practice has focused on advanced minimally invasive surgery and in particular, his clinical and academic interest over the last 20 years has been in the surgical care of adolescents with severe obesity. Dr. Inge has been continuously funded by the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 2005 and has been the principal investigator of the Teen-Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery study since 2006. He and his team have produced over 150 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. He has also provided over 150 invited lectures for national and international professional groups. His leadership experience includes prior roles as Chief of Pediatric Surgery and Associate Surgeon-in-Chief at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Tom has also served as a member of the FDA’s Gastrointestinal and Urological Devices Committee, as a consultant to the NIH and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He has also served in leadership positions on numerous committees and task forces for surgical and pediatric professional organizations including American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, The Obesity Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Pediatric Surgical Association.

Presentation title: Parental Authority

Panel of Presenters:

• Megan Land MD - Moderator, Critical Care physician and Ethics Committee Member
• Michelle Munkwitz, MD, Critical Care
• James Ahlers, Assistant General Counsel at Phoenix Children's Hospital and Ethics Committee member
• Adrian Ruiz - Parent representative on Ethics Committee
• Emma Ross, MD, PHD - Psychologist and Ethics Committee member
• Lisa Dowrick, RN, MS - Nurse and Ethics Committee member

At the end of this presentation, participants should be able to:

• Define standards of surrogate decision making
• Discuss role of family in society including obligations and rights of parents
• Consider the developing child’s autonomy in decision making
• Discuss thresholds for overriding parental decisions

Guest Speaker: Robert Listernick, MD

Grand Rounds "Neurofibromatosis Type 1 in Children"

At the end of this presentation, participants should be able to:

• Demonstrate proficiency in distinguishing between the various forms of neurofibromatosis syndromes in children
• Demonstrate proficiency in recognizing the early manifestations of neurofibromatosis type 1 in children