9th Annual Pediatric Puzzles CME Conference
Saturday, December 7, 2024
8:30 am - 2:30 pm
Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak St.
Oakland, CA 94607
Breath, Borders, and Belonging: Pulmonology, Immigrant Health, the Refugee Experience, and More!
Meet Our Speakers
J. Raul Gutierrez, MD, MPH – Community Pediatrician & Chair of the Council on Immigrant Child and Family Health, National AAP
Clarissa Kripke, MD – Clinical Professor, Family and Community Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Clarissa Kripke is Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. She is Director of the Office of Developmental Primary Care. The mission of the office is to build the capacity of the healthcare system to care for adults with developmental disabilities. She provides home based primary care to some of the Bay Area’s most medically fragile and behaviorally complex adults with developmental disabilities. She teaches how to apply the social and neurodiversity models to the practice of medicine. She is also the parent of a 22 year old, non-speaking, college bound, autistic daughter who requires support for all basic activities of daily living.
Manisha Newaskar, MD – Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pulmonary
Stanford University School of Medicine
Dr. Manisha Newaskar is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in Pulmonary division at Stanford University School of Medicine. She did her medical schooling at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, Indore, India. After immigrating to the US, she did her pediatric residency at Driscoll Children’s Hospital, Corpus Christi, Texas. She completed her Pediatric Pulmonary fellowship at Children’s Hospital & Research Center at Oakland in 2007. After finishing Pediatric Pulmonary fellowship, she joined Bay Area Pediatric Pulmonary Medical group, which was a private practice group affiliated with Children’s Hospital Oakland. She joined Stanford University in 2015. She currently sees patients at Stanford Children’s Health’s satellite locations at Walnut Creek and Emeryville. She provides inpatient consultations at John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek, California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Her areas of interest are asthma, CF, primary ciliary dyskinesia, BPD, tracheostomy/ventilator dependent children.
Duy Nguyen, MD – PGY-3 Resident
University of California, San Francisco Fresno
Dr. Duy Nguyen was born in Vietnam and in 1982 escaped from the Communist regime. It was a one-year trek to the shore of Vung Tau, across the Indian Ocean, through the jungles and jail of Malaysia, the refugee camp of the Philippines, until he reached safety in California. He then graduated from U.C. Berkeley and was a high school English teacher at Berkeley and San Leandro as well as the artistic director of various theater companies. He then went to U.C. Davis School of Medicine, afterwards entering psychiatry residency at UCSF Fresno. In terms of work with refugees, he directed/produced Viet Nguyen’s “Into the Dark” about refugees, was core staff with the Diasporic Vietnamese American Network, has published articles on refugee mental health in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, MD Edge News; and given grand rounds and presentations at UCD, UCSF Fresno, and American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Lauren Sanchez, MD – Associate Clinical Professor, Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Bone Marrow Transplantation
University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Lauren Sanchez is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Bone Marrow Transplantation at UCSF. Clinically, she cares for children and adolescents undergoing evaluation for allergic diseases and immunodeficiencies. She earned her medical degree at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She completed her Pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and her fellowship in Allergy and Immunology at UCSF. Her special interests are in medical education and health disparities in food allergy. Her research interests are in long-term outcomes of patients with immunodeficiency and the transition of young patients with these disorders from pediatric to adult care.
Registration:
| Early Bird | |
| AAPCA1 Chapter Member | $230 |
| Non-AAPCA1 Chapter Member | $285 |
| Young Pediatricians (<3 Years) | $155 |
| Emeritus, RN, Allied Health | $180 |
| Nurse Practitioner | $205 |
| Physicians-in-Training* | $80 |
*Physicians-in-Training include residents and medical students.
Note: Meeting registration includes admission for the attendee AND their family.
Scholarships: Limited scholarships are available for medical students and trainees. Please fill out the brief application form HERE. The deadline to apply for scholarships is Friday, November 1!
Refund policy: Refunds less a $15.00 cancellation fee are available until November 15. NO refunds after November 15.
Have you seen our new venue!?
Oakland Museum of California
For transportation options and parking instructions visit this site: https://museumca.org/visit/.
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Conference Agenda
5 Total CME Credits tentatively
Learning Objectives
Participants will learn:
- To understand what SMART (Single Maintenance and Reliever Therapy) is and why it is important for asthma management.
- To learn about current insurance policies regarding early medication refills following an asthma exacerbation and their implications for patient care.
- To understand the potential of Dupixent as a treatment for asthma and its future use in clinical practice.
- To learn about the best candidates and optimal age to start Oral Immunotherapy (OIT) for allergy treatment.
- To understand the unique challenges faced by new immigrant children, especially those with limited English proficiency, and identify helpful support strategies.
- To learn how to identify and address family conflicts and mental health issues in new immigrant families, particularly when cultural differences are involved.
- To understand how to create a welcoming clinic environment for new immigrant families through appropriate architecture, staffing, paperwork, and patient visits.
- To learn common mistakes providers make when first meeting new immigrant patients and how to practice effective trauma-informed care.
- To understand the most common barriers to providing unprejudiced care in pediatric offices and learn strategies to recognize and reduce ableism.
- To learn about common discriminatory and ableist practices and how to implement anti-ableist approaches in a clinical setting.
Accreditation Statement
- This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation and policies of the California Medical Association (CMA) through the joint providership of the American Academy of Pediatrics, California Chapter 4 and the California 1 Chapter of the AAP. The American Academy of Pediatrics, California Chapter 4 is accredited by the California Medical Association (CMA) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- The American Academy of Pediatrics, California Chapter 4 designates this live activity for a maximum of 5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.