Novel Treatments in Pediatric Epilepsy
2021-03-18 08:00 - 09:00 (America/New_York)
Chon Lee, MD
Yael Shiloh-Malawsky, MD
Senyene Hunter, MD
JoJo Yang, MD
Division of Child Neurology
Department of Neurology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The American Board of Pediatrics Roadmap Pilot Collaborative
2021-03-11 08:00 - 09:00
Aliese Sarkissian, MD
Division of Rheumatology
Martha Perry, MD
Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Pectus Surgery in Children
2021-03-04 08:00 - 09:00
Sean McLean, MD
Division of Pediatric Surgery
Department of Surgery
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Update in Pediatric Hospital Medicine: 2020 in the Rearview
2021-02-25 08:00 - 09:00
John Stephens, MD and Eric Zwemer, MD
Division of Hospital Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Breathing Novel Techniques into Lung Imaging
2021-02-18 08:00 - 09:00
Jennifer Goralski, MD
Division of Pulmonary Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
Yueh Lee, MD, PhD
Department of Radiology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

From Fetal Therapy to ‘Safe Sleep’: How CMIH Improves the Health of NC’s Women and Infants
2021-02-11 08:00 - 09:00
Wayne Price, MD
Department of Pediatrics
Alison Stuebe, MD
School of Public Health
Bill Goodnight, MD
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Sarah Verbiest, DrPH, MSW, MPH
School of Public Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Health Inequity: A Look at Latinx Farmworkers and American Indian Communities
2021-02-04 08:00 - 09:00
Alessandra Angelino, MD and Jennifer Gutierrez-Wu, MD
Resident Physicians
Division of Education
Department of Pediatrics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Vesicoureteral Reflux in Children
2021-01-28 08:00 - 09:00
Sherry Ross, MD
Vice Chief of Pediatric Urology
Associate Professor of Urology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Cangrelor: Novel Antiplatelet Therapy
2021-01-21 08:00 - 09:00
Sandeep Sainathan, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Department of Surgery
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Religious Diversity and Healthcare
2021-01-14 08:00 - 09:00

Update on COVID Vaccines
2021-01-07 08:00 - 09:00
Sean O’Leary, MD, MPH
Professor of Pediatrics
Sections of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and General Academic Pediatrics
Children’s Hospital Colorado
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine

Understanding and Treating Addiction
2020-12-10 08:00 - 09:00
Robyn Jordan, MD, PhD
Dr. Jordan is a Board-Certified Psychiatrist and Addiction Medicine Specialist and is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She leads the UNC Addiction Medicine Program and developed a Hub and Spoke model for expanding capacity for addiction treatment in North Carolina. In 2018, she initiated a project in the UNC Emergency Department to bring Peer Support and Suboxone treatment into the emergency room. She also established the UNC Addiction Medicine Fellowship in 2018 and continues to serve as the Program Director. Dr. Jordan’s research is focused on innovating pathways for bringing addiction treatment to all citizens of North Carolina.

Bench to Bedside: Vascular Malformations
2020-12-03 08:00 - 09:00
Julie Blatt, MD
Blatt’s interests are in pediatric solid tumors, vascular anomalies, and drug repurposing as applied to both of those areas of interest.
Blatt’s clinical interests include late effects of chemotherapy, experimental therapeutics of solid tumors, and vascular anomalies.
Blatt’s research interests fall into several areas of clinical research. The first is in Late Effects of Childhood Cancer Therapy. Past studies have focused on gonadal function, cardiotoxicity and the development of second malignancies. She has been a consultant to the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, a multicenter NIH-funded study which is examining late effects in more than 20,000 survivors of childhood cancer. She also is a past member of the Strategy Group of the Surveillance and End Results Committee of the Children’s Oncology Group, which generates late effects study components of therapeutic trials. Current research is focused on adolescent young adult survivorship issues.
A second interest is in experimental therapeutics of childhood cancer and related diseases. Current studies involve the effects of rapamycin on solid tumors, and on drug repurposing for pediatric hematology oncology.
A newer interest is in the treatment and biology of vascular lesions including hemangiomas and vascular malformations. Her division is part of a growing multidisciplinary “clinic without walls” effort to treat these patients.

William Polachek, PhD
Dr. Polacheck’s laboratory investigates the physical interactions between cells and their environment and how forces at the cellular scale contribute to tissue development, homeostasis, and disease. To study how cells sense and generate forces in living tissue, the Polacheck lab develops microfluidic technology to build microtissues in the laboratory that mimic the architecture and multicellular function of human tissues in vivo. By integrating these organ-on-chip models with genome editing, induced-pluripotent stem cell technology, and other cell and molecular biology techniques, the Polacheck lab has developed a novel approach for understanding the molecular machinery employed by cells to generate force sand to transduce forces from their environment into biological responses. The lab seeks to leverage these biological insights to inform novel drug targets for diseases in which misregulation of cellular forces contribute to pathogenesis, such vascular disease, cancer, and fibrosis. Furthermore, the lab works to translate the technology and techniques developed to build microtissues into tissue engineered therapies for organ replacement and regenerative medicine.

Pediatric Palliative Care: Are We There Yet?
2020-11-19 08:00 - 09:00
Elisabeth Dellon, MD, MPH
Dr. Dellon is an Associate Professor in Pediatrics. She is a pediatric pulmonologist and palliative care physician, and is the medical director of the Children’s Supportive Care Team, the pediatric palliative care program at the North Carolina Children’s Hospital. Dr. Dellon graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School and trained in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the Harvard Combined Medicine-Pediatrics Program in Boston. She then completed fellowship training in Pediatric Pulmonology at the University of North Carolina and received a MPH degree in Epidemiology from the UNC School of Public Health. Dr. Dellon has expertise in the care of children with respiratory disorders, pediatric lung transplant, and palliative care for children with any medical condition. Her research interests include palliative care for children and adults with cystic fibrosis, and treatment decision-making for people with chronic respiratory diseases.

Nicole Sartor, RN, MSN, C-PNP-PC
Nicole Sartor is a pediatric nurse practitioner who specializes in palliative care at the University of North Carolina Children’s Hospital. Nicole coordinates the Children’s Supportive Care Team. She joined the team in 2013 from Honolulu, Hawaii where she worked as the Director of Clinical operations at Hospice Hawaii. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire and then earned her Master of Science in Nursing from Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York. She holds a national board certification with the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board (PCNB) as a pediatric nurse practitioner-primary care. Her clinical expertise is in hospice care and caring for the dying child and their family.

State of the Department
2020-11-12 08:00 - 09:00
Stephanie D. Davis, MD
Brewer Professor and Chair
Department of Pediatrics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Gastroenterology Manifestations in Cystic Fibrosis
2020-11-05 08:00 - 09:00
Vivek Shenoy, MD
Division of Gastroenterology
Department of Pediatrics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Impact of COVID on Child Welfare
2020-10-29 08:00 - 09:00
Paige Rosemond, MSW
Director, Child Welfare Division
Wake County Human Services

Solving the Puzzle of Preterm Birth
2020-10-22 08:00 - 09:00
David Stevenson, MD
Professor of Pediatrics; Division of Neonatology
Senior Associate Dean for Maternal & Child Health
Stanford University School of Medicine

The Care and Keeping of Clinicians in Quality Improvement
2020-10-15 08:00 - 09:00
Ulfat Shaikh, MD, MPH, MS
Professor of Pediatrics
Director of Health Care Quality
University of California, Davis School of Medicine
