Pediatrics on the Parkway

November 13-15, 2008              Cobb Galleria Centre                Atlanta
 

Schedule & Course Outline

 

Faculty

 

Information

 

Registration
 

Schedule & Course Outline

 

 

Thursday, November 13, 2008

           

8:30 am – 12:00 pm        Childhood Obesity Seminar

                                     Stanley Cohen, MD, Moderator

 

8:15 - 8:45 am                Before & Beyond Obesity          

 Stanley Cohen, MD

 

8:45 - 9:15 am               New Recommendations: Prevention, Assessment &

Treatment of Childhood Obesity 

Frederick Trowbridge, MD          

 

9:15 - 9:45 am               Metabolic Syndrome: Like Driving a Cadillac on $5/gallon Gasoline  

Howard Heinze, MD      

 

9:45 - 10:15 am             A General Pediatrician’s Approach to Childhood Obesity  

Evelyn Johnson, MD      

 

10:15 - 10:30 am           Break

           

10:30 - 11:00 am           Public Policy in Childhood Obesity

Jeffery Koplan, MD        

 

11:00 - 11:30 am           Bariatric Surgery: A New Experience in Pediatrics

Mark Wulkan, MD         

 

11:30 am - 12:00 pm      Question & Answer Panel          

 

 

 

8:30 am – 12:00 pm       Coding & Practice Management Seminar      

 

8:30 – 8:45 am              Welcome & Introductions  

                        Steve Hobby, MD & Geoff Simon, MD, Moderators

 

8:45 – 10:00 am             Keeping Up with the Pediatric Coding Race: A Review of Changes for 2009

                                     Linda Edwards, CPC & Jeff Linzer, MD

 

10:00 - 10:15 pm            Your Coding Questions

 

10:15 – 10:30 am           Break

 

10:30 – 11: 30 am          Expense Management: Strategies to Improve Your Practice's Bottom Line

Norman “Chip” Harbaugh, MD

 

11: 30 – 12:00 noon       Today's Top 10 Questions in Pediatric Practice Management

Geoffrey Simon, MD

 

 

1:30 – 5:00 pm              Behavioral Pediatrics Seminar           

Doris Greenberg, MD, chair

 

1:30 – 1:35 pm               Welcome & Introductions          

                                     Doris Greenberg, MD

 

1:35 – 2:05 pm               How to Talk to Parents about Autism

                                     Roy Sanders, MD

 

2:05 – 2:35 pm               A Sensible Approach for Cardiac Patients on Stimulant Medications

                                     Robert Campbell, MD

 

2:35 – 3:05 pm               Children’s Brain Health & Public Health   

                                     Edwin Trevethan, MD

 

3:05 – 3:20 pm               Break  

 

3:20 - 3:50 pm                 Asperger's Syndrome: Diagnoisis, Discussion with Parents and Referral for Intervention

                                     Jeffrey Jones PhD

 

3:50 – 4:20 pm               Stimulant Medication & Psychopharmacology Review

                                     Brian Kennedy , MD

 

4:20 – 4:40 pm               Coding for Behavioral Health Services     

                                     Linda Edwards, CPC

 

4:40 – 5:00 pm                Questions and Answers 

 

 

 

 

1:30 - 4:30 pm               Board of Directors Meeting     

 

 

7:00 - 9:00 pm               Greater Atlanta Pediatric Society Meeting

Living Beyond Childhood Cancer – Survivor Healthcare     

Lillian R. Meacham, MD

The Retreat at Dunwoody

1001 Summit Boulevard, Atlanta, Georgia 30319

 (Separate registration required)


 

Friday, November 14, 2008     

 

7:15 - 8:15 am               Registration & Breakfast with Exhibitors

 

8:15 – 8:30 am              Welcome & Announcements  

Arthur Provisor, MD, Program Chair

 

8:30 – 9:15 am              Clues to the Diagnosis of Rheumatologic Conditions        

Murray Passo, MD

 

9:15 – 10:00 am             Fever in the Infant and Young Child: Post-Prevnar Update   

Shabnam Jain, MD

 

10:00 – 10:30 am           Break  

 

10:30 – 11:30 am           Screening Complexities: Updates on Metabolic, Hearing, Developmental & Vision Screening

Moderator: Jan Fitzgerald-Soapes, MD

Panelists: Alan Weintraub, MD; N. Wendall Todd, MD; Tricia Page, MS; & Steve Levine, MD

 

11:30 – 12:00 pm           Gadgets, Gizmos, and Gimmicks:  How to Assess New Products and Services as

Potential Offerings in a Pediatric Practice           

Jeff Cooper, MD

 

12:00 noon                    Morning Plenary Session Ends           

 

12:15 – 1:30 pm            Awards Luncheon

           

1:30 pm                        Plenary Session Resumes

           

1:30 – 2:15 pm              Update on Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis    

Murray Passo, MD

 

2:15 – 3:00 pm              Vaccines Financing & Supply Issues: Challenges for Today's Pediatrician  

Lance Rodewald, MD

 

3:00 – 3:30 pm              Break  

 

3:30 – 4:15 pm              Hemangiomas: To Treat or Not to Treat

Bernard Cohen, MD

 

4:15 – 4:30 pm              Question & Answer Session    

 

4:30 pm                        Plenary Session ends 

 

4:30 – 5:30 pm              Welcome Reception        

 

 


 

Saturday, November 15, 2008 

 

7:45 – 8:45 am              Hot Topic Roundtables & Committee Meetings

 

Hot Topic Roundtables - Facilitator

Pay for Performance – To be announced

Lipid Screening and Hyperlipedemia – Jack Stevens, MD

Hot Topics in Allergy/Immunology – Karen Demuth, MD

Hot Topics in Environmental Health – Leslie Rubin, MD

This Just In! – Roundtable Discussion on Current Topics in Child Health (TBD)

 

 

Chapter Committee Meetings - Chair

School Health – Veda Johnson, MD

Infectious Disease – Harry Keyserling, MD

Medicaid Task Force – Sara Goza, MD

Obesity Task Force - Evelyn Johnson, MD

 

8:45 – 9:00 am              Break  

 

9:00 – 9:45 am              Rash Decisions in Pediatric Dermatology

Bernard Cohen, MD

 

9:45 – 10:30 am            Autism and Vaccines – The Truth Beyond the Controversy           

Alan Weintraub, MD

 

10:30 – 11:00 am           Break

           

11:00 – 11:45 am           Resident Pediatric Jeopardy (Savannah, MCG, and Morehouse)

Moderator: Judson Miller, MD

 

11:45 am - 12:30 pm      Koff, Wheezes, & Sqeezes: Dealing with Bronchiolitis & Other Common Airway Emergencies

Jeffrey Linzer, MD

 

12:30 pm                       Adjourn           

 

 

 

Faculty

 

Arthur Provisor, MD

Program Chair

Director, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

The Children's Hospital of The Medical Center of Central Georgia

Professor of Pediatrics

Mercer University School of Medicine

Macon, GA

Robert Campbell, MD

Division Director of Cardiology

Sibley Heart Center Cardiology

Department of Pediatrics,

Emory University School of Medicine

Atlanta, GA

 

Bernard Cohen, MD

Professor, Dermatology and Pediatrics

Johns Hopkins University School of medicine

Baltimore, MD

 

Stanley Cohen, MD, FAAP

Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Children's Center for Digestive Health Care
Adjunct Clinical Professor of Pediatrics

Emory University

Chair, GA Chapter/AAP Committee on Nutrition

Co-Chair, Obesity Task Force

Atlanta, GA

 

Jeffrey Cooper, MD

Cooper Pediatrics, PC

Duluth, GA

 

Karen A. Demuth, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Emory University

Atlanta, GA

 

Linda Edwards, CPC

Certified Pediatric Coder

Edwards Coding Consultants LLC

Atlanta, GA

 

Jan Fitzgerald Soapes, MD

Georgia Chapter AAP Past President

Children’s Medicine, PC

Lawrenceville, GA

 

Doris Greenberg, MD

Co-Chair, Task Force on Mental Health

Georgia Chapter AAP

Savannah, GA

 

Sara Goza, MD

Chair, Medicaid Committee

Georgia Chapter AAP Past President

Piedmont Physicians Group

Fayetteville, GA

 

Norman Harbaugh, MD, FAAP

AAP Committee on Quality Improvement & Management

Executive Committee, AAP Section on Administration & Practice Management

Children’s Medical Group, PC

Atlanta, GA

 

Howard Heinze, MD

Pediatric Endocrinologist

Endocrine Consultants, PC

Columbus, GA

 

J. Steven Hobby, MD

Pediatric Associates of Savannah

Chair, Committee on Coding & Nomenclature

GA Chapter AAP

Savannah, GA

 

Shabnam Jain, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics & Emergency Medicine

Emory University

Atlanta, GA

 

Evelyn Johnson, MD

General Pediatrician

Chair, Chapter Obesity Task Force

Chapter District XII Representative

Brunswick, GA

 

Veda Johnson, MD
Chair, School Health Committee

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Emory University School of Medicine

Atlanta, GA

 

Jeffrey Jones, MD

Clinical Psychologist

Adjunct Associate Professor

Emory University

Atlanta, GA

 

Harry Keyserling, MD

Professor of Pediatrics
Emory University School of Medicine

AAP Committee on Infectious Disease

Chair, GA Chapter/AAP Infectious Disease Committee

Atlanta, GA

 

Jeffrey Koplan, MD, MPH

Vice President for Global health

Director, Emory Global Health Institute

Emory University

Atlanta, GA

 

Steve Levine, MD

Pediatric Opthamalogist

Thomas Eye Group

Atlanta, GA

 

Jeffrey Linzer, MD, FAAP, FACEP

Associate Medical Director of Compliance

Emergency Pediatric Group

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston and Hughes Spalding

Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Emergency Medicine

Emory Univ. School of Medicine

Atlanta, GA

 

Judson Miller, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Division of General Pediatrics
Emory University School of Medicine

Atlanta, GA

 

Murray Passo, MD, FAAP

Professor of Pediatrics

Medical University of South Carolina

Charleston, SC

 

Lance Rodewald, MD

Director, Immunization Services Division

National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, GA

 

Leslie Rubin, MD

Chair, Chapter Environmental Health Committee

President & Founder, Institute for the Study of Disadvantage & Disability

Visiting Scholar, Department of Pediatrics

Morehouse School of Medicine

Co-director , Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit

CATCH Coordinator, Georgia Chapter of AAP

Emory University School of Medicine

Atlanta, Georgia

 

Roy Sanders, MD

Medical Director, Marcus Autism Center at CHOA

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Emory University

Atlanta, GA

 

Geoffrey Simon, MD, FAAP

Private Practice Pediatrician

Chair, Georgia Chapter/AAP Practice Management Committee

Atlanta Children’s Clinical Center

Atlanta, GA

 

Edwin Trevethan, MD

Director

National Center on Birth Defects & Developmental Disabilities

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

Atlanta, GA

 

John K. Stevens Jr, MD

Director, Preventive Cardiology
Sibley Heart Center Cardiology
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Emory University School of Medicine

Atlanta, GA

 

N. Wendall Todd, MD, MPH

Professor of Otolaryngology

Emory University School of Medicine

Atlanta, GA

 

Frederick Trowbridge, MD

President

Trowbridge and Associates

Decatur, GA

 

Alan Weintraub, MD

Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician

Developmental and Behavioral Associates

Norcross, GA

 

Mark Wulkan, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery

Program Director, Pediatric Surgery Residency

Emory University School of Medicine

Atlanta, GA

 

Information

 

Who Should Attend

Pediatrics on the Parkway is open to all pediatricians, residents, pediatric nurses and nurse practitioners, pediatric physician assistants, family physicians and other child healthcare professionals.

 

Program Committee

Arthur Provisor, MD, Chair    

Stanley Cohen, MD

Janet Cragen, MD

Steven Hobby, MD

Doris Greenberg, MD

Sally Goza, MD

Evelyn Johnson, MD

Ross MacLeod, MD

Judson Miller, MD

Geoffrey Simon, MD


                                                                        

CME Information

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essentials and Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education by the Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.  The Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics is accredited by the Medical Association of Georgia to provide continuing medical education to physicians.  The Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics designates this educational activity for a maximum of 16.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

In accordance with ACCME Standards. All faculty members are required to disclose to the program audience any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest to the content of their presentation(s). This information will be included in the course syllabus.

 

 

Learning Objectives

 

Childhood Obesity Seminar (Thursday a.m.)

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

 

¨      Define the scope of challenges facing pediatric obesity and identify effective approaches

¨      Identify best practices for the prevention, assessment and treatment of childhood obesity

¨      Discuss effective techniques in getting messages across to families to manage obesity in the pediatric office setting

¨      Identify diagnostic and treatment strategies for the child with Metabolic Syndrome

¨      Discuss overcoming barriers in the public policy arena

¨      Analyze research in the  efficacy of bariatric surgery and compare outcomes of children and adolescents undergoing these procedures

 

Coding & Practice Management Seminar (Thursday a.m.)

 Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

 

¨      Identify strategies to manage expenses in today’s pediatric practice

¨      Demonstrate best practices in practice management

¨      Recognize the physician’s role in proper CPT and ICD-9 coding

¨      Understand proper E&M coding documentation and code selection

¨      Apply the correct procedure/diagnosis codes specific to common clinical cases using newly learned coding conventions

 

Behavioral Pediatrics Seminar (Thursday p.m.)

 Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

 

¨      Learn techniques in addressing ways to discuss behavioral diagnoses to enhance parent understanding and facilitate good physician-family communication.

¨      Discern the updated AAP recommendations for cardiac clearance for stimulant and other medications.

¨      Understand the place of Asperger's syndrome in the autistic spectrum and the differences in outcome from other forms of the spectrum. 

¨      Gain a greater appreciation for modern psychopharmacologic medications and their place in a primary care setting.

¨      Utilize coding information for proper reimbursement for behavioral health visits and evaluations.

 

General Session (Friday & Saturday)

 Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

¨      Recognize the symptoms to diagnosis of rheumatologic conditions

¨      Evaluate and manage fevers in infants & young children

¨      Understand the complexities of metabolic, hearing, developmental, and vision screening

¨      Implement innovative products and services in their pediatric practice

¨      Assess patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis

¨      Understand the issues in management of vaccine cost and supply issues

¨      Recognize proper treatment for hemangiomas in children

¨      Explain the etiology of autism and current research in the field to parents

¨      Formulate a treatment plan for patients diagnosed with bronchiolitis

¨      Evaluate common rashes in pediatrics

¨      Discuss the importance of Pay for Performance in pediatrics

¨      Describe the new AAP policy on lipid screening and hyperlipedemia

¨      Recognize the importance of the pediatrician’s role in environmental health issues for children

¨      Identify up-to-date information regarding school health, infectious disease, and Medicaid

      ¨      Analyze current trends in allergy/immunology cases in their practice

 

Meeting Site

The Cobb Galleria Centre is located on Cobb Parkway at I-285 in northwest Atlanta. It is conveniently situated in the heart of the Galleria area with shopping, restaurants and entertainment. The state-of-the-art venue delivers superior service and amenities within the 88-acre beautifully landscaped complex. Directly across Cobb Parkway from the Centre, and connected by a skywalk, sits the newly renovated Cumberland Mall with additional shopping and dining (both casual & upscale) options.

 

Accommodations

The Renaissance Waverly Hotel is a beautiful luxury hotel, directly connected to the Cobb Galleria Centre, offering first-class accommodations and featuring a dramatic 14-story atrium. The hotel is the crown jewel of the Galleria-Cumberland shopping & office complex. The hotel offers high-speed internet access, health club and several restaurant options, including the acclaimed Medici, its recently opened fine dining restaurant. A special rate of $149 per night, single or double, has been reserved for attendees of Pediatrics on the Parkway. Please tell the agent you’re attending the meeting and call by October 13, 2008 for best availability.

 

Renaissance® Waverly Hotel

2450 Galleria Parkway

Atlanta, Georgia 30339 USA

Phone:  1-770-953-4500

Fax:  1-770-953-0740

Sales:  1-770-953-4500 ext. 4930

Toll-free:  1-888-391-8724

 

Transportation

By car: The Cobb Galleria Centre, on Cobb Parkway at I-285 is easily reached by auto via I-285, in northwest Atlanta, exit 20 if westbound, exit 19 if eastbound. The Centre is just inside the I-285 perimeter. Parking is free in the lots adjacent to the facility. By air, Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport is about a 30 minute cab ride away; and is also served by an airport shuttle. Call the Cobb Galleria Centre at 770-955-8000 for details.

 

Sponsors & Exhibitors

We welcome exhibitors to the meeting to provide us with information on their latest products and services.  Exhibit hours will be held on Friday and Saturday so please plan to stop by and visit with them.  Special thanks to the following corporate supporters of our meeting:

 

Gold

MAG Mutual Insurance Company

Physicians' Alliance

 

Bronze

Wellcare of Georgia

 

Special Requirements

If you have physical or dietary needs, which require accommodation to fully participate, please indicate on your registration form or call the chapter office.

 

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations must be received in writing before October 31, 2008 to receive a refund. The cancellation may be faxed to our office at 404-249-9503 or e-mailed to rbosic@gaaap.org.  Refunds will be mailed, less a $40 administration fee. We regret cancellations made after the deadline will not be eligible for a refund.

 

For More Information

Visit our website at www.gaaap.org, call 404-881-5091 or email rbosic@gaaap.org.

 

Registration

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