Highlights Archive: September 2023

Writing Letters of Recommendation: Saying What You Mean and Meaning What You Say

Dr. Achilia Morrow discusses the purpose of letters of recommendation as well as strategies that physicians in academic medicine can use to write letters that avoid common biases and represent trainees well.

CME credit available

Featured Grand Rounds

Genotyping Trypanosoma cruzi: Perils, Pitfalls, and Possibilities

Dr. Louisa Messenger discusses the taxonomic history of Trypanosoma cruzi, as well as diagnostic test sensitivity and drug response related to the genetic diversity of T. cruzi.

CME credit available

Featured Grand Rounds

International Tropical Medicine Case Conference (June 23, 2023)

Dr. Megan Duffey describes an infectious disease case in her presentation "More Than Meets the Eye." and Dr. Ana María Gómez-Jaramillo discusses an internal medicine case in her presentation "Facial Pustular Lesions: Differential Diagnosis in the Tropics."

CME credit available

Featured Grand Rounds

Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month

Management of Atrial Fibrillation

Dr. Mihail Chelu discusses pathophysiology and current treatment options for atrial fibrillation. He gives an overview of the landmark atrial fibrillation clinical trials and the guidelines that have been implemented in their wake.

CME credit available

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Childhood Obesity Awareness Month

A Paradigm Shift for Weight Management in Children and Adults

Dr. Stephanie Sisley, Dr. Yong Choi, and Dr. Layla Abushamat discuss evaluation, management, and surgical intervention of obesity in both pediatric and adult patient populations. 

CME Credit available

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Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

Passport for Care: A Useful Resource for the Delivery of Care to Childhood Cancer Survivors

The Passport For Care (PFC) is a clinical decision support tool, that is freely available to clinicians and to survivors themselves and makes available a survivorship care plan and guideline-based recommendations tailored to the survivor’s history of treatment exposure.

This module introduces to clinicians the PFC, its benefits, and how it may be used to guide follow-up screening for late effects of cancer treatment.

CME credit available

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Sickle Cell Month

Sickle Cell Disease-Modifying Therapies

Dr. Titilope Fasipe discusses the sickle cell disease-modifying therapies that are utilized at Texas Children's Hospital, as well as the natural history and current landscape of sickle cell disease treatment innovation.

CME Credit available

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Emergency Setting Management of OUD

Dr. Kyle Suen discusses the importance of emergency departments serving a critical access points for patients with OUD and list prior barriers to initiation of Medication-Assisted Treatments. He also discusses the clinical presentation of opioid overdose versus opioid withdrawal. This is part seven of a thirteen-part series recorded from the First Annual Opioid Use Disorder Conference.

CME credit available

On-Demand Activities You May Have Missed

Connections: Reflections from the Frontlines of the COVID Pandemic - Episode 4

Connections: Reflections from the Frontlines of the COVID Pandemic - Episode 4

Mr. Jeffrey Collins, a respiratory therapist at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center, reflects on the first two years of COVID-19 – the humbling battle to save lives, the extraordinary measures taken to protect each other, and the surprising way of finding new resolve for a challenging profession.

CME credit available

On-Demand Activities You May Have Missed

24th Chronic Illness and Disabilities Conference: Transition from Pediatric to Adult-based Care

This program has been developed to update healthcare providers’ knowledge of the changing strategies and resources for pediatric patients with special needs and transitioning them to adult-based care and services.

October 26 - 27, 2023 | CME credit available

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