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title: 📌 All the Details about Practical Pediatrics 2022 📌
description: Join us in person on April 1-2, 2022. This continuing medical education activity is intended for pediatricians, as well as family medicine physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and nurses who provide care to infants, children and adolescents.
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# [📌 All the Details about Practical Pediatrics 2022 📌](https://go.northwestahec.wakehealth.edu/blog/practical-pediatrics-2022-0)

 Written by [Brooke Kochanski](https://go.northwestahec.wakehealth.edu/blog/author/brooke-kochanski) | Mar 7, 2022 6:37:00 PM

This continuing medical education activity is intended for pediatricians, as well as family medicine physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and nurses who provide care to infants, children and adolescents.

 

**Annual Practical Pediatrics Conference  
Save the Date April 1-2, 2022  
Bridger Field House  
499 Deacon Blvd., Winston–Salem, NC**

[Register Now!](https://northwestahec.wakehealth.edu/courses-and-events/67812)

[Download Program Brochure](https://northwestahec.wakehealth.edu/brochures/67812/public/67812Brochure.pdf)

Registration Fee:  
$ 300 — Physician Fee  
$ 150 — Non-physician Fee

 

**Topics/ Wake Forest School of Medicine Faculty**

- **Management of the Young Child with Obstructive Sleep Apnea**  
  Dan Kirse, MD, Professor, Department of Otolaryngology
- **Supporting the Breastfeeding Dyad**  
  Jeanna Auriemma, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
- **Practical General Pediatric Dermatology**  
  Joseph Jorizzo, MD, Professor, Department of Dermatology
- **Covid-19**   
  Christopher Ohl, MD, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
- **Iron Deficiency Anemia**  
  Alex George, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
- **Asthma Updates in 2021**  
  Lauren Bradford, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
- **SSRI Use for Depression and Anxiety in Pediatric Patients**  
  Naomi Leslie, MD, Department of Psychiatry
- **Otitis Media**  
  Eleanor Kiell, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology
- **Crash Course in the “Other” Neurodevelopmental Disabilities**   
  Michelle Curtin, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
- **Pediatric Dentistry for Primary Care**  
  Judith Messura, DMD, Director of Dentistry Resident Education, Department of Otolaryngology
- **Help! My Child NEVER Sleeps!**  
  Sheila Maurer, MD, Clinical Adjunct Faculty, Department of Pediatrics
- **Pediatric Infectious Disease Update**   
  Avinash Shetty, MD, Associate Dean for Global Health, Department of Pediatrics  
  Kacy Ramirez, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics

**View more information and [register ](https://northwestahec.wakehealth.edu/courses-and-events/67812?utm_source=campainger&utm_campaign=de&cmp=1&utm_medium=email)[here](https://northwestahec.wakehealth.edu/courses-and-events/67812?utm_source=campainger&utm_campaign=de&cmp=1&utm_medium=email)!**

 

 

Agenda: Friday, April 1

- 7:00 am Registration/Continental Breakfast
- 7:50 am Welcome
- 8:00 am Management of the Young Child with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Dan Kirse, MD
- 8:45 am Supporting the Breastfeeding Dyad: What Every Pediatric Provider Should Know: Jeanna Auriemma, MD
- 9:30 am Practical General Pediatric Dermatology: Joseph Jorizzo, MD
- 10:15 am Break
- 10:30 am COVID-19: What We Have Learned and Where We Are Now: Christopher Ohl, MD
- 11:30 am Iron Deficiency Anemia: An Ancient but Persistent Plague: Alex George, MD, PhD
- 12:15 pm Lunch
- 1:30 pm Asthma Updates in 2021: Lauren Bradford, MD
- 2:00 pm SSRI Use for Depression and Anxiety in Pediatric Patients: Naomi Leslie, MD
- 2:45 pm Break
- 3:00 pm Otitis Media: Eleanor Kiell, MD, MSEd
- 3:45 pm Wrap Up
- 4:00 pm Adjourn

Saturday, April 2

- 8:00 am Continental Breakfast
- 8:30 am Crash Course in the “Other” Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Autism, Intellectual Disability, and Specific Learning Disabilities: Michelle Curtin, DO
- 9:15 am Fluorides, Diet, Oral Hygiene, and Vaccine Advice from a Tooth Fairy: Judith Messura, DMD
- 10:00 am Break
- 10:15 am Help! My Child Never Sleeps! : Sheila Maurer, MD
- 11:30 am Pediatric Infectious Disease Update: Avinash Shetty, MD and Kacy Ramirez, MD
- 12:15 pm Wrap Up
- 12:30 pm Adjourn

 

 

COVID-19 Requirements   
Masks must be worn indoors, regardless of vaccination status. Participants should not attend an activity if they are ill, have tested positive within the preceding 10 days or have been exposed to COVID-19 within the previous 14 days. Thank you for your diligence in helping prevent the spread of the virus.

 

Provided by:  
Wake Forest School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics and Northwest Area Health Education Center (AHEC), a program of Wake Forest School of Medicine and a part of the North Carolina AHEC System

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