DECEMBER 3
9:00 - 9:30 WELCOME and OPENING ADDRESSES
9:30 - 11:00 Session I: Plenary - Chronic Disorders and the Community Chair-persons: Raphael Cayam and Orly Elpeleg
9:30 - 10:00 Eitan Kerem, Head, Dept. Pediatrics, Hadassah Medical Center, Mount Scopus
- Shifting the paradigm: The Challenges of Treating Children with Chronic Disorders
10:00 - 10:30 Robert Kliegman, Medical Director, Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin - Whatever happens to infants with IUGR: What the pediatrician needs to know
10:30 - 11:00 Sally Cohen, Director - Nursing Management, Policy and Leadership Specialty
Yale School of Nursing - Children's rights from a multidisciplinary perspective
11:00 - 11:30 Isaiah Wexler and Ariel Tenenbaum, Co-directors Hadassah Adoption and Feeding Units
Dept. Pediatrics Hadassah Medical Center, Mount Scopus, Orna Hirschfeld, Head, Central Authority for Inter Country Adoption State of Israel - Long term outcomes of adoption: can we do better?
11:30 - 12:00 COFFEE BREAK
12:00 - 13:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session II: Professional considerations in treating pediatric chronic disorders Chair-persons: Zahi Grossman abd Beverly Goldsmith
12:00 - 12:20 Yael Castiel, Nurse Coordinator Center for Chronic Diseases in Children, Hadassah Medical Center, Mount Scopus - Burnout among professionals treating pediatric chronic diseases
12:20 - 12:40 Shoshi Armoni, Nurse Coordinator CF Center, Hadassah Medical Center, Mount Scopus - Quality of treatment versus quality of life: Perception of caregiver and patient
12:40 - 13:00 Hila Elyashar, Clinical Dietician Dept. Pediatrics,Hadassah Medical Center, Mount Scopus - We are what we eat: What is good nutrition for children with chronic disabilities?
13:00 - 13:20 Anita Noble, DNSc, CNM, Department of Nursing Hadassah/Hebrew University - Cultural competence: Caring for children with chronic disorders
13:20 - 13:30 Featured Abstract: Rachelle Lavi, Alyn Hospital, Jerusalem - Multidisciplinary care for chronic ventilated children in a School setting
Session III: Changing perspectives on pediatric chronic disorders Chair-persons: Sarit Avisar and Antony Luder
12:00 - 12:20 Jerry Stein, Head, Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, Schneider Children's Medical Center - Time to change our perspective: Cancer as a chronic disease
12:20 - 12:40 Itai Berger, Neuropediatric Unit, Hadassah Medical Center, Mount Scopus - Preventing cerebral palsy: From Sigmund Freud to stem cells
12:40 - 13:00 Amichai Brezner Head, Pediatric Rehabilitation Department The Chaim Sheba Medical Center Tel Hashomer, Israel- Children with disabilities: Are we doing too much or too little for their future?
13:00 - 13:20 Cory Shulman, School of Social Work and Education HU - Current approach to diagnosis and therapy of childhood autism
13:30 - 14:30 LUNCH
14:30 - 16:30 Session IV: Plenary - Treating chronic disorders in the community Chair-persons: Zeev Horev and David Zangen
14:30 - 15:00 Richard Katz, Vice President for Medical Affairs Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital - Feeding Children: Who Can't, Who Won't, and Who Cares
15:00 - 15:30 Howard Bauchner, Professor of Pediatrics, Editor-in-chief, Archives of Pediatrics - The medical community - recent developments
15:30 - 15:40 Featured Abstract: Ayelet Maimaran, The Israeli Center for Familial Dysautonomia, Hadassah Medical Center Mount Scopus- Objective and subjective stress in the coping process of mothers of children with chronic illness
15:40 - 16:10 Gail Auslander, Dean, Paul Baerwald School of Social Work, HU- Pediatric chronic illness: a disease of the family
16:15 - 17:30 Two Moderated Breakout sessions including Coffee and Cake (PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED)
1. "The Pediatric Textbook as a Bible?" Pediatric resident education
Moderators:
Robert Kliegman, Chief Editor Nelson’s Textbook of Pediatrics,
Ellis Avner, Editor, Pediatric Nephrology,
Howard C. Bauchner, Editor in Chief, Archives of Diseases in Childhood
2. "Should the doctor always be the boss?" Models of shared leadership and responsibility
Moderators:
Richard Katz, Vice President for medical affairs, Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital, Sally Cohen, Director, Nursing Management, Policy and Leadership Specialty, Yale School of Nursing
John Reisman, Chief of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Isaiah Wexler, Co-director Hadassah Adoption and Feeding Units, Dept. Pediatrics Hadassah Medical Center, Mount Scopus
Kalman Samuels, CEO and Founder, Shalva Association for Mentally & Physically Challenged Children in Israel
DECEMBER 4
9:00 - 10:30 Session V: Plenary - Unusual aspects of childhood chronic disorders Chair-persons: Shimon Reif and Esti Galili-Weisstub
9:00 - 9:30 Doron Gothelf, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University - Sexuality and the adolescent with development disorders
9:30 - 10:00 Ellis Avner, Associate Dean, Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin - The Evaluation and Management of Children with Cystic Kidney Disease
10:00 - 10:30 Shani Strick, Shalva, Association for Mentally & Physically Challenged Children in Israel-How to break the bad news, Israel 2008 has anything changed? Videoclip and Discussion
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 Parallel Sessions
Session VI: Social and rehabilitative aspects Chair-persons: Benny Glick and Shira Yalon-Chamovitz
11:00 -11:20 Efrat Selanikyo, MoE, Dekel School, Lod - The contribution of Experience and Training to the Non-Academic School Function, Profile of Children with Intellecual Developmental Disability
11:20 - 11:50 Vardit Kindler, Michal Weissman-Nitzan, Ruth Gat, The Devora Agmon Preschool Center Jerusalem- Enhancing the mobility for children with motor disabilities
11:50 - 12:10 Leila Sharvit, Neuropediatric Unit, Hadassah Medical Center, Mount Scopus - The family as a source for child empowerment: Diabetes as a model
12:10 - 12:30 Shimon Shiri, Rehabilitative Medicine, Hadassah Medical Center, Mount Scopus - Virtual Reality in rehabilitation and psychotherapy of children with chronic disorders
Session VII: Management of chronic respiratory disorders Chair-persons: Haim Springer and Amos Ezioni
11:00 - 11:30 Leslie Hendeles, Professor Pharmacy & Pediatrics, Univ. Florida - Current Controversies in Pediatric Asthma Therapy
11:30 - 12:00 Felix Ratjen, Division Chief Respiratory Medicine,The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto - Early childhood origins of asthma: what do we still need to know?
12:00 - 12:20 John J. Reisman, Head, Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario - Approach to the Management of the Child with Chronic Supplemental Oxygen Needs in the Community
12:20 - 12:30 Featured Abstract: Stuart Berger, Director of Cardiology, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin - Restrictive lung disease is common in adults following repair of congenital heart disease
12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 - 15:10 PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session VIII (Sponsored by Shalva): Interface between parents and healthcare staff Chair-persons: Yaakov Orkin and Rita Avramov
13:30 - 13:50 Miri Meir Statman, Shalva, Association for Mentally & Physically Challenged Children in Israel - The first meeting between parents of children with special needs and the multidisciplinary staff - Harmony or dysharmony
13:50 - 14:10 Tova Berkovits, Nechama Wilck, Adina Ellis, Chaia Hendel, Shalva, Association for Mentally & Physically Challenged Children in Israel- The whole is greater than the sum of its parts: The trans-disciplinary approach to the child with special needs
14:10 - 15:10 Laya Scholar, Shalva, Association for Mentally & Physically Challenged Children in Israel- The role of the infant educator in the trans-disciplinary team
Session IX: Medical and psychiatric aspects of chronic disorders Chair-persons: Daniel Landau and Lea Bentur
13:30 - 13:50 Asher Tal, Head, Department of Pediatrics, Ben-Gurion University - Sleep abnormalities among children with chronic disorders
13:50 - 14:10 Elchanan Bruckheimer, Director of Cardiac Catheterization, Schneider Children's Medical Center - Non-surgical treatment of congenital heart diseases
14:10 - 14:30 Fortunato Benarroch, Pediatric and Adult Posttrauma Clinic, Hadassah Medical Center, Mount Scopus - How to identify post-traumatic stress disorder in children in the community
14:30 - 15:10 Dan Engelhard, Head, Dept. Pediatrics, Hadassah Medical Center, Ein Kerem
- Immunization policy for children with chronic disorders
15:20 - REFRESHMENTS AND FAREWELL
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