October 21 - 23, 2010 

Meeting Information                         Schedule and Course Outline                                                  Exhibitor Information

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Meeting Information

We’re Going Green:

 The Chapter has “gone green” this year by converting to electronic versions only of the speakers’ PowerPoint handouts. Registrants will receive a link to the handouts via email two weeks prior to the meeting. Participants can pre-print handouts from the web site, or, if they choose, bring their laptops to the session. Attendees who bring their laptops can sit in the “Green Zone” in the session where electrical connections will be available.  Handouts will also be provided on CD at the meeting. No Printed Handouts or Syllabus will be available. Join us in our environment-friendly effort.

Meeting Site:

The Crowne Plaza Ravinia is located on Ashford Dunwoody Road at I-285 in northeast Atlanta. Atlanta business and leisure travelers alike opt for the Crowne Plaza Perimeter at Ravinia because of the fantastic location, quality amenities and impeccable service. Crowne Plaza Ravinia is across the road from Perimeter Mall, which features over 200 stores. Downtown attractions like Georgia Aquarium are easily accessible via MARTA, just two blocks away. The hotel also has  many amenities like an indoor pool, a sauna and a Fitness Center. Wi-Fi access is available; a Business Center will keep you productive, and the fabulous on-site restaurant and lounge make your stay more convenient.

Accommodations:

A special rate of $119 per night, single or double, has been reserved for attendees of Pediatrics on the Perimeter. Make your reservation at the Crowne Plaza Ravinia by calling 800-554-0055 or 770-395-7700.  Ask for the Pediatrics on the Perimeter room block.  Reservations can also be made online at reservations at www.cpravinia.com. Enter the group code (in lower left hand corner) GF2. Make your reservation by September 29, 2010 for best availability and pricing.

Crowne Plaza Ravinia Hotel

4355 Ashford Dunwoody Road
Atlanta, GA 30346

Phone: 770-395-7700

Fax: 770-392-9503

Toll-free:  800-554-0055

Transportation:

By car: From the south, take I-85 north thru Downtown Atlanta to GA 400 North, (EXIT 87, $0.50 TOLL). Go North to I-285 E (EXIT 4A). Take I-285 E to Exit 29 (Ashford-Dunwoody Rd.). Turn left on Ashford-Dunwoody Rd. & cross the overpass. Hotel will be on your immediate right. From I-75 north of city, take I-285 East, to Exit 29.

By air: Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport is a 30 minute drive.  Options from airport: Atlanta Superior Shuttle (770-457-4794) $35.  MARTA Train $2. Taxi (one way) about $65.

Corporate Supporters & 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 (at press time) of our meeting:

Gold: Abbott Nutrition, MAG Mutual Insurance Co. & Physicians’ Alliance

Bronze: Habif, Arogeti & Wynne, CPA’s & Business Advisors

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 15, 2010 to receive a refund. The cancellation may be faxed to our office at 404-249-9503 or e-mailed to jrice@gaaap.org.  Refunds will then be mailed, less a $40 administration fee. We regret cancellations made after the deadline will not be eligible for a refund.

For Additional Information:

Please call 404-881-5091 or email jrice@gaaap.org

Schedule & Course Outline - Schedule

Pediatrics on the Perimeter              October 21-23, 2010         Crowne Plaza Ravinia           Atlanta, Georgia

Thursday, October 21, 2010

 7:30 am                       Registration Open/Continental Breakfast

8:30 am – 12:05 pm    Developmental Pediatrics Seminar

                                    Advances in Early Screening, Intervention, Diagnosis, Management, &  Advocacy of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

                                     Moderators:  Marshalyn Yeargin Allsopp, MD & Lynette Wilson-Phillips, MD

                 8:30 – 8:35 am             Welcome & Presentation of Goals and Objectives

                                                     R. Dwain Blackston, MD

                  8:35 – 9:05 am            Updates on Using the M-CHAT to Screen Toddlers During Well-Child Visits

                                                     Diana Robins, PhD

                  9:05 – 9:50 am            Diagnosis & Intervention Strategies for Autism Spectrum Disorders

                                                    Amy Pakula, MD & Catherine Trapani, PhD

               9:50 – 10:20 am           A Pharmacologic Approach to the Treatment of Autism: When & How to Treat

                                                   Alan Weintraub, MD

 10:20 – 10:35 am        Break

 10:35 – 11:20 am        Parents Panel                         

                                   Advocacy Through Family & Faith

                                    Rev. Nancy Johnson 

                                   Career Assistance for Autism Spectrum Disorder Patients Through High Technology & Science

                                    Gregory Abowd, PhD

                11:20 – 11:35 am        Future Directions in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Positioning Georgia for Success

                                                   Don Mueller, MBA

            11:35 am – 12:05 pm       Questions & Answers

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

                                    Moderators: Geoff Simon, MD & Steve Hobby, MD

                     8:30 – 9:15 am      Keeping Up with the Coding Race: A Review of Changes for 2011

                                                  Jeffrey Linzer, Sr., MD

                    9:15 – 10:00 am      Coding for Topics at Pediatrics on the Perimeter

                                                  Jeffrey Linzer, Sr., MD

                 10:00 – 10:15 am      Your Coding Questions

 10:15 – 10:30 am        Break

                 10:30 – 10:40 am        Welcome & Overview

                                                    Geoff Simon, MD

                  10:40 – 11:45 am        Physician Leadership in Changing Healthcare: Improving Healthcare Value & Accountable Care Organizations

                                                     ACOs and the Practicing Pediatrician - Chip Harbaugh, MD

                                                    ACOs and  the Hospital System - Daniel Salinas, MD

              11:45 am – 12:00 pm     Questions & Answers

 1:30 – 4:00 pm            Adolescent Medicine Seminar

                                     Moderator: David Levine, MD           

                       1:30 – 1:50 pm       Expanding Chlamydia Screening for Georgia’s Teens                      

                                                     David Levine, MD

                       1:50 – 3:45 pm      Strength & Asset-based Approaches to Adolescent Health Promotion in the Office Setting

                                                    Paula Duncan, MD

                        3:45 – 4:00 pm     Questions & Answers

 1:30 – 4:00 pm            Oral Health Seminar

                                    Moderator: Rob Forbes, MD                             

                         1:30 – 1:45 pm     Oral Health & the Pediatrician’s Role, Rob Forbes, MD

                         1:45 – 2:50 pm     More than Just Applying Fluoride Varnish: The Importance of Oral Health Risk Assessment

                                                      J. C. Shirley, DMD, MS & David Bradberry, DMD, MACSD

  2:50 – 3:05 pm            Break

                        3:05 – 3:45 pm    More than Just Applying Fluoride Varnish:  The Importance of Oral  Health Risk Assessment…continued

                        3:45 – 4:00 pm    Questions & Answers

 Friday, October 22, 2010

 7:15 – 8:00 am            Registration Open/Continental Breakfast/Resident Job Fair/Exhibits Open

8:00 – 8:15 am            General Session: Welcome & Announcements

                                     Lucky Jain, MD

                         8:15 – 9:00 am    Too Short/Too Tall – Diagnosis & Treatment in Office Pediatrics

                                                    Alan Rogol, MD

                         9:00 – 9:45 am   Adolescent Preventive Services Visit – How to Best Incorporate New Tools into the Busy Office Setting

                                                   Paula Duncan, MD

 9:45 – 10:15 am          Break/Residents Job Fair/Exhibits Open

                    10:15 – 11:00 am    The Sports Pre-Participation Exam & EKG: What to Look For

                                                     Robert Campbell, MD & David Marshall, MD

                     11:00 – 11:45 am    Does Sport Participation & Sport Training Affect Growth & Pubertal Development?

                                                    Alan Rogol, MD

11:45 am                     Morning Session Ends

11:45 am – 1:15 pm    Awards Luncheon

                                   Presentation of 2010 Chapter Awards

                                   Special Topic:  Vision of Pediatrics 2020

                                   Martin Michaels, MD

1:15 pm                       General Session resumes

                        1:15 – 2:00 pm     Who & When?....Hyperlipidemia & Hypertension

                                                     Jack Stevens, MD

                         2:00 – 2:45 pm   Primary Care for Children with Sickle Cell Disease

                                                    Beatrice E. Gee, MD

  2:45 pm – 3:15 pm      Break/Residents Job Fair/Exhibits Open

                         3:15 – 3:45 pm   Federal Healthcare Reform & Its Impact on Pediatrics

                                                   Melinda Willingham, MD 

                           3:45 – 4:30 pm   Childhood Obesity: A Practical Approach to its Management in the Pediatrician’s Office

                                                      Miriam Vos, MD

  4:30 pm                       General Session ends

  4:30 – 5:15 pm            Reception         

Saturday, October, 23, 2010

  6:00 – 7:00 am            Sunrise Yoga Class (with the Georgia Chapter Obesity Task Force)

                                     Cindy Michaels, Certified Yoga Fit Instructor

 7:15 – 8:00 am            Registration Open/Continental Breakfast/Resident Job Fair/Exhibits Open

  8:00 – 8:15 am            General Session Begins: Announcements

                                     Lucky Jain, MD   

                            8:15 – 9:00 am   MRSA: What We’ve Learned & How to Manage It Today

                                                     Lilly Immergluck, MD                       

                           9:00 – 9:45 am   Allergy Testing: Comparison Between in vitro & in vivo testing methods

                                                      Robert Cartwright, MD 

9:45 – 10:15 am          Break/Residents Job Fair/Exhibits Open

                     10:15 – 11:00 am    Asthma: Best Practices Today

                                                   Ann Marie Brooks, MD

11:00 – 11:45 pm        Pediatric Residents Jeopardy

                                    (Contestants: Emory, Mercer-Savannah, & MCG)

                                     Moderator: Judson Miller, MD 

                    11:45 – 12:30 pm    Neonatal Potpourri: Top 5 Conditions Pediatricians Should Worry About

                                                   Ira Adams-Chapman, MD 

12:30 – 12:45 pm        Radiology Quiz: Did You Get It Right?

                                   Kelley Marshall, MD 

12:45 – 1:00 pm          Closing Remarks & Adjourn   

The Chapter has “gone green” this year by converting to electronic versions only of the speakers’ PowerPoint handouts. Registrants will receive a link to the handouts via email two weeks prior to the meeting. For more information please see" Information" page.

Learning Objectives:

Coding & Practice Management Seminar

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

• Identify and use correctly coding changes for 2011 in their practice

• Demonstrate proper coding for topic areas covered at Pediatrics on the Perimeter

• Be familiar with the concept of Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) and the differences between other cost saving models that exist or have preceded them.
• Understand the roles physicians, both primary care and subspecialty, will play & how current practice models may change;
• Understand the role of hospitals as key partners in the organization of ACOs
• Be familiar with potential problems that need to be addressed upfront & that need to be avoided.

Developmental Pediatrics Seminar

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

• Initiate early screening for ASD as a routine, office assessment

• Understand how early screening and intervention positively influence outcomes for ASD patients

• Incorporate clinical assessment testing resource referral for ASD patients and families
• Learn to prescribe medications prudently by knowing what medications and when to prescribe
• Comprehend parental concerns and how parents can be helpful to the primary care physician
• Advocate for patients families of ASD children through family support and the faith community
• Apply high tech and science to ASD outcomes in career, vocation, and recreation.
• Join other Georgians in coordinating services through consortia

Adolescent Medicine Seminar

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

• Recall how a strength and asset based approach to risk reduction differs from older strategies

• Integrate strength and asset based approaches into office based practice with adolescents

• Discuss specific cases and develop new intervention strategies that they can use in the office and export to their office associates

Oral Health Seminar

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

• Understand the components of an oral health risk assessment as performed by a pediatrician

• Recognize key elements of the oral examination in infants and young children

• Understand appropriate referral criteria for children to a pediatric dentist

• Apply fluoride varnish to the teeth of young children, as appropriate

General Session

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

• Recognize the current state of the art adolescent preventive services recommended by the Academy (and SAHM).

• Integrate the current adolescent preventive services recommendations into office based practice with adolescents

• Consider and develop their own plans to improve office based preventive care for adolescents.

• Discuss endocrine growth disorders, normal growth variations & criteria for intervention.

• Describe how sport participation & sport training can affect growth & pubertal development

• Explain the pediatricians’ role in managing the pediatric patient with sickle cell disease

• Identify the best practices for managing pediatric patients with asthma

• Analyze and treat common conditions in the preemie graduate

• Utilize proper testing for an overall allergy evaluation

• Review practical methods for obesity management in pediatric practice

• Recognize the pediatricians’ role in healthcare reform and how it will impact pediatrics

• Identify and properly diagnose hyperlipidemia & hypertension in the pediatric patient

• Discuss and apply current recommendations for MRSA management

• Analyze current research in pediatric cardiology and sudden cardiac death screening for athletes.

• Evaluate an x-ray of a complex case and make a visual diagnosis

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 15.25 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.

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