Connecticut Children's Grand Rounds
Pediatric Grand Rounds at Connecticut Children's provides pediatric practitioners with high-quality, evidenced-based continuing medical education that is both practical and cutting edge.
Connecticut Children's Grand Rounds
6.3.25 Pediatric Grand Rounds, "Resident & Fellow Research Day", by Caroline Figgie, MD Surabhi Khasgiwala, MD Akshaya Sekar, DO Libby Ekman, MD
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Connecticut Children's
Event Objectives:
- Learn about two measures of weight stigma: weight bias internalization and weight-based teasing.
- Understand the characteristics associated with higher weight bias internalization in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes mellitus.
- Share findings of three PDSA cycles initiated to improve utilization metrics of medication historians in the inpatient setting.
- Discuss future goals to help improve metrics further.
- Identify cost drivers and potential areas for optimizing ADHD pharmacologic treatment under Medicaid with a focus on high-expenditure medications.
- Explore conditions that promote growth and toxin production by the Klebsiella oxytoca species complex.
- Review experimental model to explore link between endogenous glycan availability to Klebsiella toxin production and intestinal injury.