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This episode features Mark Sevco, President of UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Here, he discusses points of pride in his hospital, his best advice for other leaders, and more.

Course: COVID 19 - A Further Review of the Literature Course Director: Tony R Tarchichi M.D.  - Associate Professor in Dept of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh Course Director: John Williams M.D. - Professor in the Dept. of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh Course Director: Megan Culler Freeman M.D., Ph.D - Fellow in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Disclosures: None This Podcast series was created for Pediatric Hospitalists or those healthcare professionals who take care of hospitalized children.  This episode is COVID 19 - A Further Review of the Literature. As always there is free CME credit of up to 1 AMA category 1 for listening to this podcast and going to the Univ of Pitt site. See the link below.  ______________________________________________________ Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to: Review the literature on the Hydroxychloroquine’s use in COVID-19 infection. Review the literature on Angiotensin Enzyme Inhibitors and NSAIDS usage in novel Coronavirus 2019 infection. Review the epidemiological data on COVID-19 in Pediatrics and in the USA up to this point. ______________________________________________________ Released:  3/26/2020, Reviewed 3/26/2020, Expire: 3/26/2021 If you are new to the Internet-based Studies in Education and Research (ISER) website (which is how you will get your CME credit), you will first need to create an account: Step 1. Create an Account https://www.hsconnect.pitt.edu/HSC/home/create-account.do If you have used the ISER website in the past, you can click on the link below and then log onto in order to complete the evaluation for this training: Step 2. To access the test for CME credit: https://cme.hs.pitt.edu/ISER/app/learner/loadModule?moduleId=21553&dev=true Accreditation Statement: The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of  (1)  AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Course: COVID 19 - What's the Deal? Course Director: Tony R Tarchichi M.D.  - Associate Professor in Dept of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh Course Director: John Williams M.D. - Professor in the Dept. of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh Course Director: Megan Culler Freeman M.D., Ph.D - Fellow in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Disclosures: None This Podcast series was created for Pediatric Hospitalists or those healthcare professionals who take care of hospitalized children.  This episode is COVID 19 - What's the Deal?. As always there is free CME credit of up to 1 AMA category 1 for listening to this podcast and going to the Univ of Pitt site. See the link below.  ______________________________________________________ Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to: Review the literature on COVID-19 up to this point. Review Coronaviruses and they virology, specifically the aspects that make them more likely to mutate and cause epidemics. Review presentation of patients and treatments that have been done up to this point for COVID-19. ______________________________________________________ Released:  3/7/2020, Reviewed 3/7/2020, Expire: 3/7/2021 If you are new to the Internet-based Studies in Education and Research (ISER) website (which is how you will get your CME credit), you will first need to create an account: Step 1. Create an Account https://www.hsconnect.pitt.edu/HSC/home/create-account.do If you have used the ISER website in the past, you can click on the link below and then log onto in order to complete the evaluation for this training: Step 2. To access the test for CME credit: https://cme.hs.pitt.edu/ISER/app/learner/loadModule?moduleId=21473&dev=true Accreditation Statement: The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of  (1)  AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Srinivasan Suresh, vice president, CIO and CMIO at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

This is a special episode created as a raffle prize for the pediatric residents at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Every November the residents put together a "No Shave November" fundraising drive to raise money for the Free Care Fund at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. The Free Care Fund at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh provides care to every child in our community, regardless of their family’s ability to pay. This year we put an episode of PHM from Pittsburgh as a raffle prize for the residents to help raise money for this great cause. We are privileged to welcome Dr. Andrew Georgeson onto the podcast as the winner of the raffle. Dr. Georgeson is a third year pediatrics resident at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. If you would like to donate to the Free Care Fund for UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh , please click on the link below: https://www.givetochildrens.org/freecare This episode does not have CME associated. Happy New Year to everyone! 

Dr. Bailey is a pediatric oncologist with an interest in pediatric sarcomas. She is also a physician-scientist in the Lucas/ McAllister Lab in the Rangos Research Center of the UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Currently, Dr. Bailey's research focus is on Ewing sarcoma, a rare bone malignancy in children.

In this episode, we have a conversation with Dr. Srinivasan Suresh, vice president, CIO and CMIO at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

Course: Migrant Detention Centers Through the Eyes of a Pediatrician Course Director: Tony R Tarchichi M.D.  - Assistant Professor in Dept of Pediatrics, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Course Director: Julie Linton M.D. - Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Immigrant Health Special Interest Group.  Disclosures: No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed. Target Audience: This Podcast series was created for Pediatric Hospitalists or those healthcare professionals who take care of hospitalized children.  This episode is Migrant Detention Centers Through the Eyes of a Pediatrician. As always there is free CME credit of up to 1 AMA category 1 for listening to this podcast and going to the Univ of Pitt site. See the link below.  ______________________________________________________ Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to: 1. Review the current policy of US detaining migrants seeking entry into the US either for asylum or other reasons. 2. Review the current conditions of children in the migrant detention centers in the USA.  3. Review the community aspects of migrant children seeking asylum including seeking access to medical care, legal representation (and partnership between physicians and lawyers) and educational needs.  ______________________________________________________ Released:  9/24/2019, Reviewed 9/24/2019, Expire: 9/24/2021 All presenters disclosure of relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients is listed above.  No other planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose. If you are new to the Internet-based Studies in Education and Research (ISER) website (which is how you will get your CME credit), you will first need to create an account: Step 1. Create an Account https://www.hsconnect.pitt.edu/HSC/home/create-account.do If you have used the ISER website in the past, you can click on the link below and then log onto in order to complete the evaluation for this training: Step 2. To access the test for CME credit: https://cme.hs.pitt.edu/ISER/app/learner/loadModule?moduleId=21015  Accreditation Statement: This activity is approved for the following credit: AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity. In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of  (1.0)  AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Sylvia Owusu-Ansah MD, MPH, FAAP is a board-certified pediatrician, pediatric emergency medicine, and emergency medical services (EMS)  physician who is currently an attending at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and Director of Pre-hospital and EMS. Dr. Owusu-Ansah has been extremely involved in pediatric advocacy and education of EMS providers at all levels, locally, regionally and nationally. She currently sits on the Pediatric Emergency Medicine  Advocacy and EMS Committees with the American Academy of Pediatrics, and additional regional and national committees related to her work. One of the contributions she is most proud of is  advocating for pediatric health on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. office on federal, state, and community pediatric advocacy issues including the School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2013. She is proud mother of two girls and wife a transitioning paramedic.

Dr. Andrew Nowalk is Associate Professor and Clinical Director in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Pediatrics, both at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.He maintains a clinical practice and an active research program in Lyme disease, examining the epidemic of Lyme disease in Western Pennsylvania and searching to improve treatment and testing for pediatric Lyme disease cases. In addition to his research interests, Dr. Nowalk serves as a residency program director in pediatrics for the UPMC Medical Education program, and lectures and mentors students, residents and fellows through the Medical Center.

Hello from Seattle! We are at the PHM National Conference and we are recording a daily episode that gives you a snapshot of what happened today. We are going to be getting a group of hospitalists together and go around the room and let everyone tell us their favorite takeaway educational points. Today is the Pittsburgh episode. Everyone on today's episode is a hospitalist at the Paul C. Gaffney Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at the UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Our special guests are Drs. Sara McIntire, Andrew McCormick, Benjamin Miller & Sylvia Choi. There is no CME credit associated with this episode. 

Welcome back to the PHM National Conference Series from PHM from Pittsburgh. In this episode we have a conversation with Dr. Basil Zitelli, editor of the Atlas of Pediatric Physical Diagnosis and a hospitalist for 40 years. We talk about his career, his work with the first ever pediatric liver transplant group, his speaking, his time as division director for the Paul C. Gaffney division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.  He will the plenary speaker for the conference on Sunday July 28, 2019. There will be no CME credit given for this episode. 

Dean Yimlamai, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and is trained as a clinical gastroenterologist. He specializes in gastroenterology with an interest in pediatric liver diseases and liver tumors. His research group uses mouse models to understand the fundamental mechanisms of liver growth during development, its restoration from injury and changes that lead to cancer. His group specializes in the Hippo Signaling Pathway, a relatively recently recognized signaling pathway that controls organ growth and regeneration.

John Alcorn, PhD is a scientist at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and an associate professor in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The Alcorn lab is focused on T cell immunity, host defense, epithelial cell biology, and lung physiology. A primary lab focus is on Influenza infection and the host defense mechanisms of T helper 17 cells. His lab has recently shown that the TH17 effector cytokines IL-17 and IL-22 are required for host defense against a variety of extracellular pathogens. 

Liza Konnikova, MD, PhD, FAAP, is a neonatologist at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and an assistant professor in the Departments of Pediatrics, Developmental Biology and Immunology in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Her lab focuses on the develop of neonatal immunity at mucosal surfaces and its role in the pathogenesis of diverse diseases such as sepsis, preterm labor, necrotizing enterocolitis, and very-early onset IBD (VEO-IBD). She has pioneered the application of mass cytometry to frozen mucosal biopsies, helping to improve our understanding of mucosal immunity. This innovation has helped to identify novel populations of immune cells in VEO-IBD and to perform serial monitoring of IBD activity during drug trials.

Dr. Vellody was a guest on the That's Pediatrics Podcast through UPMC Children's Hospital.  Dr. Vellody discusses the impact of his brother on his career choice as well as the role of the Down Syndrome Center of Western Pennsylvania.  Dr. Vellody also highlights the upcoming NDSC Convention.

When George Gittes, MD, and his research team came across an outcome they weren't expecting, Dr. Gittes’ surgical background helped identify an amazing discovery — using gene therapy to reverse autoimmune type I diabetes without immunosuppression. Hosts Stephanie Dewar, MD, and John Williams, MD, discuss the details of this fascinating study and more with Dr. Gittes. Dr. Gittes has recently been appointed the director of the Richard King Mellon Foundation Institute for Pediatric Research and co-scientific director at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

"That's Pediatrics" will explore the latest discoveries and innovations in pediatric medicine and research at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Learn about what to expect from “That’s Pediatrics” and meet two of the hosts, Stephanie Dewar, MD, and John Williams, MD.