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2012 - 2013 Date Speaker Name and Title Speaker Affiliation Talk Title 5-Sep, 2012 Ian Krantz, MD-Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Medical Genetics Training Program, Division of Human Genetics The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia "Comelia de Lange Syndrome: Insights into Human Development from a Rare Diagnosis" 12-Sep, 2012 John Kulig, MD- Director of Adolescent Medicine, Division of General Pediatrics Floating Hospital for Children "Summers on Boston Harbor: History of the Floating Hospital for Children" 19-Sep, 2012 Scott Schroeder, MD- Chief of Pediatric Pulmonology/Allergy Division Floating Hospital for Children "Up in Smoke: Helping reduce children's exposure to tobacco" 3-Oct, 2012 Cody Meissner, MD- Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Floating Hospital for Children "Controversies in Immunization" 10-Oct, 2012 Robert Squires, MD- Clinical Director, Gastroenterology and Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology Pittsburgh Children's Hospital and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine "Pediatric Acute Liver Failure: Are We Closer to the 'Big Bang'?" 17-Oct, 2012 Shawn P. Fagan, MD- Attending Physician, Surgery and Medical Director, Sumner Redstone Burn Center Shriner's Hospital for Children-Boston and MGH "Modern Burn Care" 24-Oct, 2012 Dan Hale, MD- Director of Pediatric Hospitalist Medicine in Lawrence Floating Hospital for Children at TMC "SIDS and Unexpected Infant Deaths" 7-Nov, 2012 Laura Ment, MD- Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology Yale School of Medicine "Adaptive Connectivity in the Developing Brain" 5-Dec, 2012 Paige Church, MD- Director, Neonatal Follow up Clinic Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Toronto, CA) "The Perfect Storm: the 'minor' morbidities of the preterm survivor" 12-Dec, 2012 Julie Nicoletta, MD- Attending Physician, Division of Nephrology Floating Hospital for Children at TMC "Complications of Renal Transplantation" 19-Dec, 2012 Laurel Leslie, MD- Director, Center of Aligning Researchers and Communities for Health Floating Hospital for Children at TMC "Why All this Talk about Quality Improvement (QI) and What Does It Mean for Me?" 16-Jan, 2013 Mark Zilberman, MD- Attending Physician, Pediatric Cardiology Floating Hospital for Children at TMC "Adult Congenital Heart Disease: The Scope of the Problem" 30-Jan, 2013 Karen Miller, MD- Attending Physician, Center for Children with Special Needs Floating Hospital for Children at TMC "ADHD: What's New?" 6-Feb, 2013 David Longworth, MD- Chairman of the Medicine Institute Cleveland Clinic "The Quest for Perfect Patient Experience: Lessons Learned at The Cleveland Clinic" 27-Feb, 2013 James Perrin, MD- President-Elect of the AAP, Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Chair Harvard Medical School and Mass General Hospital for Children "Working as Partners with Families" 6-Mar, 2013 Elisabeth Schainker, MD; Priya Garg, MD; Mary Beth Williams, MD; Maria Lombardi, RN; Susanne Meninger, RN Floating Hospital Quality Improvement Team "Building Blocks of Reliability and Resiliency: Spotlight on Pediatric Patient Safety Initiatives" 13-Mar, 2013 W. Thomas Boyce, MD- Professor and Leadership Chair in Child Development University of British Columbia "Why Are Some Children Sicker Than Others? Stress, Neuroscience, Risk and Resilience" 27-Mar, 2013 Nicole Randazzo, MD- Pediatric Hospitalist Floating Hospital "Neonatal Hypertension" 13-Apr, 2013 Susan Connors, MD- Attending Physician, Internal Medicine and Julie O'Brien, Med, LMHW- Nurse Mass General Hospital for Children "Adolescents and Young Adults with Autism: Clinical Pearls and Transition Tools" 10-Apr, 2013 Abdollah Sadeghi-Nejad, MD- Chief of Pediatrics Endocrinology Floating Hospital for Children "Idiopathic Short Stature: Growth hormone and other therapeutic options" 17-Apr, 2013 Richard Parad, MD- Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Newborn Medicine Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Woman's hospital "Newborn Screening in Massachusetts: Where we have been and where we are going" 24-Apr, 2013 Heather Finlay-Morreale, Anjali Iyengar, Megan Cardoso, Andrew Saluti, Noa Cohen Hughes, Elizabeth Taglauer, Julianne Viola, Sabina Kumar, MD Floating Hospital Residents Various 1-May, 2013 Melissa Fernandes, Jason Clayton, Jessica Bennett, Sabina Kumar, Amy Kriztker, and James Davis Floating Hospital Residents Various 15-May, 2013 Heather McKeag, MD- Attending Physician, General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine Floating Hospital for Children at TMC "Long-term effects of child abuse" 22-May, 2013 Susanne Meninger, RN, MS, CPPS- Clinical Leader-Floating 7 Floating Hospital for Children at TMC "Safety Walk Rounds: The Science of Building a Patient Safety Culture" 5-Jun, 2013 Stephanie J. Schneider, MS, LPC- Program Manager, Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress Nemors/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children "Evaluating and Treating Early Traumatic Stress in Pediatric Settings" 2011 - 2012 Date Speaker Name and Title Speaker Affiliation Talk Title 14-Sep, 2011 Peter Mogayzel, MD - Associate Prof. of Pediatrics, Director of the Cystic Fibrosis Center and Medical Director of the Pediatric Specialty Care Clinic Johns Hopkins Hospital "Progress in the Treatment of Chronic Airway Infection in Cystic Fibrosis" 21-Sep, 2011 Doug Hyder, MD - Attending Physician, Pediatric Neurology Floating Hospital for Children at TMC "Pediatric Migraine: A Practical Review" 28-Sep, 2011 Randall Brown, MD, MPH - Pediatric Pulmonologist Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding "Optimizing Asthma Care: Application of Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management" 5-Oct, 2011 Alejandro Flores, MD - Chief of Pediatric Gastroenterology/Nutrition Floating Hospital for Children at TMC "A Long Review of Short Bowel Syndrome" 12-Oct, 2011 Satyan Lakshminrusimha, MD - Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Chief, Division of Neonatology Children's Hospital of Buffalo "Hypoxic Respiratory Failure in Newborns" 19-Oct, 2011 Mitzi Johnson, MD, MPH - Director Whole Person Health "Working with Interpreters in a Hospital Setting" 26-Oct, 2011 John Kulig, MD - Director of Adolescent Medicine, Divison of General Pediatrics Floating Hospital for Children at TMC "Marijuana: Effective Medicine or Harmless Drug?" 2-Nov, 2011 Roula Choueiri, MD - Attending Physician, Division of Developmental/Behavioral Peds Floating Hospital for Children at TMC "Educational and Behavioral Interventions in Autism: What You Need to Know" 30-Nov, 2011 Erik von Hahn, MD - Attending Physician, Division of Developmental/Behavioral Peds Floating Hospital for Children at TMC "Gifted Children" 14-Dec, 2011 Liwen Tang, MD - Attending Physician, Division of Pediatric Cardiology Floating Hospital for Children at TMC "Syncope in Children and Young People" 4-Jan, 2012 Giselle Scholler, MD - Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Vermont Cancer Center "Personalized Pedicatric Oncology Trials" 11-Jan, 2012 Phyllis A. Dennery, MD - Chief of Neonatology Children's Hospital of Philadelphia "History of Neonatology: Lessons from the Past to Guide Future Therapies" 18-Jan, 2012 Staci Kallish, MD - Attending Physician, Division of Genetics and Metabolism Floating Hospital for Children at TMC "Loeys-Dietz Syndrome: What Pediatricians and Pediatric Specialists Should Know about LDS" 25-Jan, 2012 Jonathan Davis, MD - Chief of Newborn Medicine Floating Hospital for Children at TMC "Challenges in Pediatric Drug Development" 1-Feb, 2012 H. Cody Meissner, MD - Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Floating Hospital for Children at TMC "Changes to the 2012 Immunization Schedule and Why They Were Made" 8-Feb, 2012 Karen Fauman, MD - Attending Physician, Pediatric Critical Care Floating Hospital for Children at TMC “No Longer Peeking From Behind the Curtain: The Psychosocial Impact of Critical Illness in the Era of Family-Centered Care 15-Feb, 2012 Karen Miller, MD - Attending Physician, Division of Developmental/Behavioral Peds Floating Hospital for Children at TMC "15-Cent Developmental Evaluation: Children's Drawings and Writings" 22-Feb, 2012 Tomo Tarui, MD - Attending Physician, Division of Pediatric Neurology Floating Hospital for Children at TMC "Fetal Neurology Consultation: Pediatrician Meets Fetus" 29-Feb, 2012 Carolyn D'Ambrosio, MD - Director of Center for Sleep Medicine, Division of Adult Pulm. Tufts Medical Center "An Overview of Pediatric Sleep Disorders" 7-Mar, 2012 L. Nandini Moorthy, MD UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center "How Do You Feel About Having Lupus? Exploring Wellbeing in Children with Systematic Lupus Erythematosus" 28-Mar, 2012 Sanjay Bansal, MD - Attending Physician, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology Floating Hospital for Children at TMC "Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: Review and New Frontiers" 4-Apr, 2012 Emily Siegel, PsyD and Matthew Siegel, MD - Clincial Psychologist and Attending Phys. Maine Medical Center w/ appointments at Tufts "Behavioral Health Treatment for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Evidence for Multi-modal Approaches" 11-Apr, 2012 Sunita Pereira, MD - Attending Physician, Division of Newborn Medicine Floating Hospital for Children at TMC "Improving Care and Outcomes by Understanding the Late Preterm Infant" 2-May, 2012 Gwyn M. Cattell, MD - Attending Physician, Child and Adolescent Psychology Tufts Medical Center "Using the Principles of Compassionate Care to Improve Patient Communication" 9-May, 2012 K. Fauman, MD, L. Milner, MD, Dawna Frankenberger, RN & Gabriela Ardon, LICSW Tufts Medical Center "Panel: Determining Futility When There is No Perfect Decision Maker" 16-May, 2012 Susan Golombok, MD - Professor and Director of the Centre for Family Research University of Cambridge, UK "New Families, Old Values: Parenting and Child Development in New Family Forms" 2010 - 2011 Date Speaker Name and Title Speaker Affiliation Talk Title 15-Sep, 2010 Sam Zinner, MD Seattle Children's Hospital - Developmental Pediatrics faculty Tourette Syndrome: The Whole Tic & Kaboodle 22-Sep, 2010 Andrew R. Scott, MD Floating Hospital for Children - Pediatric Otolaryngology faculty Cleft Lip and Palate: Optimizing Management Through a Multidisciplinary Approach 29-Sep, 2010 Christina Pelajo, MD Floating Hospital for Children - Pediatric Rheumatology fellow Periodic Fevers in Children 6-Oct, 2010 Dana Safran, Sc.D. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Getting to Safe, Affordable, Effective, Patient-Centered Care: Good Data & Measures Are Just the Beginning 13-Oct, 2010 Charles Fisher, Esq. Senior Partner, Kitch and Drutchas, Michigan - Sr. Partner In the beginning… The Life of a Malpractice Suit in a Damaged Baby 27-Oct, 2010 Peter Ngo, MD Floating Hospital for Children - Pediatric Gastroenterology faculty Eosinophilic Esophagitis and an Update on GI Food Allergies 3-Nov, 2010 Maureen Strafford, MD Tufts Medical Center - Anesthesiology faculty and Arnold P. Gold Foundation liasion The Emerging Role of Mindfulness Meditation in Pediatric Medicine 10-Nov, 2010 Reid Nishikawa, Pharm.D, BCNSP NUTRISHARE, Inc. Elkgrove, CA Liver Dysfunction in long term TPN: Novel strategies and Approaches 17-Nov, 2010 Mark Zilberman, MD Floating Hospital for Children - Pediatric Cardiology Pediatric Cardiac Emergencies 1-Dec, 2010 Robert H. Bartlett, MD University of Michigan - Pediatric Critical Care Chief ECMO for Cardiac and Pulmonary Failure: History, Current Status, and Future 8-Dec, 2011 Edmund LaGamma, MD New York Medical College - Newborn Medicine Chief Transient Hypothyroxinemia of Prematurity and Brain Development 15-Dec, 2010 Jim Perrin, MD Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School faculty Health Care Reform and Children with Chronic Conditions 5-Jan, 2011 Gary Allegretta, MD Eastern Maine Medical Center- faculty Principles and Benefits of Pediatric Palliative Care 12-Jan, 2011 Naomi Steiner, MD Floating Hospital for Children - Development Behavioral Pediatrics faculty Usage of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in children with ADHD 19-Jan, 2011 Cheryl Garganta, MD Floating Hospital for Children - Genetics and Metabolism faculty Metabolic Evaluation of Intellectual Disability and Autism 26-Jan, 2011 David Griesemer, MD Floating Hospital for Children - Pediatric Neurology Seizures in the Newborn 2-Feb, 2011 David Snydman, MD Tufts Medical Center - Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine Infection Control at Floating Hospital for Children and Tufts Medical Center: 2011 and beyond 9-Feb, 2011 Karen Fauman, MD Floating Hospital for Children - Pediatric Critical Care faculty Collaborative Decision Making with Parents of Children with Terminal Conditions 16-Feb, 2011 Lockie Milner, MD Floating Hospital for Children - Pediatric Nephrology Controversies in Childhood UTIs 23-Feb, 2011 Abdollah Sadeghi-Nejad, MD Floating Hospital for Children - Pediatric Endocrinology Sex Assignment in Ambiguous Genitalia: Medical and Ethical Dilemmas 2-Mar, 2011 Roger Soll, MD University of Vermont - Neonatology faculty Beyond Randomized Controlled Trials 9-Mar, 2011 Laurie Miller, MD Floating Hospital for Children - Pediatric Rheumatology faculty International Adoption 2011: Orphans and Outcomes 16-Mar, 2011 Carl-Christian Jackson, MD Floating Hospital for Children - Pediatric Surgery faculty Necrotizing Enterocolitis: Challenges in Management 30-Mar, 2011 Johannes Wolff, MD Floating Hospital for Children - Pediatric Hematology Oncology faculty Personalized Targeted Therapy in Oncology – first data 6-Apr, 2011 Rosalind Picard, MD MIT Media Laboratory Future Technology for Autism: Emotion and Sensory Processing 13-Apr, 2011 Ross Greene, MD Harvard Medical School - Psychiatry Faculty Challenging Behavior as a Developmental Delay: Implications for Assessment and Treatment 27-Apr, 2011 Sarbattama Sen, MD, Nicola Smith, MD and Mary Ann Volpe Floating Hospital for Children - Newborn Medicine faculty members (all) Various Short Talks on Newborn Medicine in Preparation for PAS Conference 4-May, 2011 Lynne Karlson, MD, Athena Xifaras, MD and Michael Leidig, RD, LDN Floating Hospital for Children - Center for Youth Wellness (all) Childhood Obesity 3 Ps: Prevention, Practice, and Public Policy 11-May, 2011 Alisa Niksch, MD Floating Hospital for Children - Pediatric Cardiology faculty Pre-participation Screening for the Primary Care Physician 18-May, 2011 Dian Donnai, MD University of Manchester, Medical Genetics faculty Genetic Medicine: Possibilities and Promises 1-Jun, 2011 John Davis Floating Hospital for Children - Newborn Medicine Chief New Approaches to the Prevention and Treatment of Neonatal Sepsis