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ICAAP
The Illinois Chapter, American
Academy of Pediatrics Annual Educational Conference Planning Committee is
seeking presentation
proposals for the 2018 ICAAP Annual Educational Conference, scheduled
for Friday, February 23, 2018 in Naperville. The deadline for submission
of proposals is Friday, August 25. If you have any questions, please
contact Dru O’Rourke at dorourke@illinoisaap.com.
ICAAP
Registration
is now open for the 8th Annual ABC (Autism, Behavior, Complex Medical
Needs) Conference, “Lives in the Balance: Caring for Children with
Special Needs, Their Families, Their Communities, and Ourselves in these
Precarious Times,” to be held on Friday, November 17, 2017 at the Moraine
Business and Conference Center in Palos Hills, IL. The Conference
Planning Committee is pleased to announce our breakout session speaker, Minal
Giri, MD, FAAP and session title, "Children Don’t Immigrate,
They Flee."
Session description
Children in refugee families will
represent 1/3 of US children over the next 40 years and according to data
from Kids Count Data Center, a significant number of
those children and families will arrive here in Illinois. Many of the
children are the victims of unspeakable violence and have been exposed to
trauma. They are coming to the U.S. seeking safe haven in our country and
they need our compassion and assistance. Broad scale expansion of family
detention only exacerbates their suffering. Thus, it falls to us, as
providers, to recognize the special challenges and the alarming reality
of life for these children and families. This presentation will offer
insight into the truths of their lives, recognize how we can/should serve
them and find ways to do so from a trauma-informed perspective.
Speaker
Dr. Minal Giri is a board-certified
pediatrician and medical director of Melrose Park Pediatrics. Since 2005,
Dr. Giri has been performing pro bono forensic evaluations for asylum
cases for Physicians for Human Rights and the Marjorie Kovler Center for
Survivors of Torture. Dr. Giri specializes in the issue of unaccompanied
immigrant children. She has served as a consultant for the Office of
Refugee Resettlement’s Division of Unaccompanied Children’s Services on
behalf of unaccompanied immigrant children in detention and has provided
input to officials at the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) in the
development of trauma-centered regulations related to children who apply
for asylum in the US.
Continuing Medical Education (ISMS),
Dental Hygienists, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Licensed
Clinical Psychologist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed
Occupational Therapist & Occupational Therapy Assistant, Licensed
Physical Therapist & Physical Therapy Assistant, Licensed
Professional Counselor, Licensed Social Worker, Illinois Early
Intervention providers, Educators, Early Care and Education providers
(Gateways), Medical Assistants (AMT), and Registered Nurses.
Registration for the conference is open.
For more information about session descriptions, continuing education
designations, cost, and registration, see the conference brochure, visit http://illinoisaap.org/conferences/abc/, or
contact Elise Groenewegen at egroenewegen@illinoisaap.com.
 *The Illinois Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics
designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category
1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate
with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The Illinois Chapter, American Academy of
Pediatrics is accredited by the Illinois State Medical Society (ISMS) to
provide continuing medical education for physicians.
ICAAP
ICAAP
is launching the Refugee Immigrant Child Health Initiative (RICHI) to
address the complex needs of immigrant children, led by Minal Giri, MD,
FAAP. These children face a wide range of challenges that have a lasting
impact on their health and well-being. RICHI seeks to improve medical
homes for this population by educating pediatricians and healthcare
providers and improving access to social, legal, and other vital resources.
The Initiative will also address the special needs of refugee and
unaccompanied immigrant children. For more, information, please contact
Mary Elsner at melsner@illinoisaap.com
or Minal Giri, MD, at minalgirimd@gmail.com.
Save the Date: Chicago Healthy Adolescents & Teens
Symposium
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Chicago
Department of Public Health
CDPH
is hosting the first annual symposium on Tuesday, November 14 from
8am-12:30pm. Topics include best practices in adolescent medicine and
implementing youth-friendly services. More information, including the
location, agenda, and speakers, will be available soon.
The Illinois
Attorney General's Office
The
Foundation to Provide Sexual Assault Patient Care in the Emergency Room
Training is an eight-hour training designed to improve response to sexual
assault patients by providing an overview of the medical-forensic
examination and evidence collection process. The training is intended for
emergency room nurses, mid-level providers, physicians, law enforcement,
advocates, and first responders and will review sexual assaults laws,
neurobiology of trauma, drug-facilitated sexual assault, medical
treatment, and more.
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
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Tuesday, September 19, 2017
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Wednesday, October 18, 2017
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8am-5pm
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8am-5pm
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8am-5pm
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Sarah Bush Lincoln Lumpkin
Family
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Centegra South Street
Auditorium
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Guardian Angel Community
Services
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Center for Health Education
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527 W. South Street
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168 N. Ottawa Street
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Mattoon, IL 61938
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Woodstock, IL 60098
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Joliet, IL 60432
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For assistance with enrollment, please
contact Eileen Baumstark-Pratt, Special Events Coordinator, at
866/376-7215 or sane@atg.state.il.us.
Questions or requests for reasonable accommodations may also be directed
here.
Chicago
Department of Public Health
In
partnership with ICAAP, the Chicago Department of Public Health and the
Ounce of Prevention fund are seeking volunteers to participate in Healthy
Chicago 2.0’s Education Implementation team. The goal of this team
includes ensuring all Chicago children participate in early childhood
education and, more specifically, encourage health care providers to
share early childhood enrollment and programmatic information with their
patients and families. Your work and contributions to improving the
health and quality of life of our youngest children and families is
important and we believe your expertise is valuable in advancing
strategies specific to improving participation in early childhood
education.
Healthy Chicago 2.0 is Chicago's four-year
community health improvement plan, which aims to ensure health equity
across the city's neighborhoods and communities. It includes over 200
actionable strategies under different focus areas. To join this
collaborative effort, to request more information, or to recommend other
stakeholders, please contact Juanona Brewster at jbrewster@illinoisaap.com.
Aurora
Beacon-News via Chicago Tribune
Auurora
has been named tops in the country for pediatric health care. The ranking
comes from Vitals, a national health care incentive and engagement
program. It researched the 200 largest American cities to find out which
have access to the best and worst pediatric care, according to a press
release from the city of Aurora. READ
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WIFR-TV
Only
1 in every 5,000 babies are born with a birth defect that almost took one
Illinois baby's life. After only 4 days of life, Dorothy Whitaker had to
go through surgery because of this rare birth defect that's called an
imperforated anus. It's described as a blocked or missing rectal opening,
and it can cause a lot of serious problems. READ
MORE
HealthDay News
More
U.S. kids and teens are likely to be diagnosed and treated for high blood
pressure because of new guidelines released Monday, Aug. 21, from the
American Academy of Pediatrics. About 3.5 percent of children and teens
have abnormally high blood pressure ("hypertension"), which
often goes unnoticed and untreated, the academy said. READ
MORE
CBS News
Despite
years of public health campaigns, many American parents are still putting
their babies to sleep in an unsafe position, a new study finds. The study
found that just half of mothers surveyed said they always put their
babies to sleep on their backs. Experts called the findings
"frustrating," since back-sleeping has long been promoted as a
key way to cut the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). READ
MORE
Healio.com
The
FDA announced today that it will hold a meeting on Sept. 11 to discuss
cough medications in children because some may have opioids as an
ingredient, according to a press release. “There are few more common
decisions that parents and providers are asked to make than the question
of how to appropriately treat a child’s cough and cold symptoms,” FDA
commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., said in a statement. READ
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TIME
In
a long-term study of the latest treatment for peanut allergy, scientists
in Australia report that an immune-based therapy helped children allergic
to peanuts eat them without reactions for four years. The study,
published in the journal Lancet Child & Adolescent Health,
follows up on children enrolled in an earlier study of an immunotherapy
treatment, which combined probiotics with small doses of peanuts that
were designed to gradually train the children’s immune systems to accept
the peanut allergen rather than treat it as something foreign. READ
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HealthDay News
Mom
was right — eating breakfast really is important. Without it, kids may
not get recommended amounts of nutrients, British researchers suggest.
"This study provides evidence that breakfast is key for parents to
ensure that their children are getting the nutrition they need,"
said senior study author Gerda Pot, a lecturer in nutritional sciences at
King's College London. READ
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Medical Xpress
A
Monash University led study has revealed early clues to identifying which
low-weight new born babies are at risk of developing future heart
problems, opening the way to better monitoring and treatment. Up to one
in ten babies are born small for their time in pregnancy (whether
premature or full term). It is estimated there are approximately 4000
such births in Australia annually, with fetal growth restriction (FGR)
being linked to a higher risk of stroke, hypertension, diabetes and death
due to heart disease during adulthood (55-70 years of age). READ
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