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2021 SPS Virtual Conference September 18 - 19, 2021
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The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital
Chicago, IL
Bio
Dr. Abe is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UChicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital. He completed his post-graduate training at the University of Chicago Medical Center in Pediatrics, Pediatric Pulmonary, and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. He is currently the Medical Director of the Pediatric Sedation Service which facilitates more than 1400 sedated procedures a year and is recognized as a Center of Excellence for Pediatric Sedation by the Society for Pediatric Sedation (SPS). As an Institutional member of the SPS, the service participants in the Pediatric Sedation Research Consortium, the research section of the SPS. In addition to a clinical and scholarly interest in pediatric procedural sedation, Dr. Abe is interested in implementation of evidence-based, data-driven improvements on clinical practice outcomes.
Professor of Pediatrics, Senior Vice Chair, Innovation & Integration
University of Rochester - Golisano Children's Hospital Institution
Rochester, NY
Bio
I am a pediatric critical care physician and a senior vice chair of innovation directing and growing our pediatric sedation program. Most of our recent growth has come from our outreach to the community to provide minor procedures on children and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. My other interests include use of innovative technology to assist pediatric sedation teams. We are working with our Health Lab, an innovation center, to develop and test customized virtual reality software.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1C: Sedating Children with Autism and Developmental Delay
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
3C: Sedating Children with Autism and Developmental Delay
Rita Agarwal MD is a Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, Stanford, President Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine, Past Chair American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. She is a pediatric anesthesiologist and a member of the Stanford Children’s Inpatient Pediatric Pain Management Service.
In 2010 recognizing the need for education and support for people who take care of children in pain, Dr Agarwal helped create a Special Interest Group (SIG) for Pediatric Pain within the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia. The response to the SIG was overwhelming and lead to her to help co-found the Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine (SPPM) in 2013.
Dr. Agarwal’s other passion is for education. She has been invited to give many lectures for her department, division, at her institutions, regionally and nationally. She served as the Pediatric Anesthesiology Program Director for the University of Colorado from 1997-2014, the Program Chair for the annual anesthesia review course sponsored by the University of Colorado (CRASH). She has been on multiple institutional and national education committees, serving as Chair of the Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine’s Education Committee form 2017-2019.
She has been an active member and leader within the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, American Academy of Pediatrics, the Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine’s, California Society for Anesthesiologists, and has written extensively about pediatric pain management and sedation in both the scientific and lay press. She has been featured the several media stories and interviewed for a number of podcasts.
Sunday, September 19, 2021
9:05 AM - 9:35 AM
Caleb's Law and Relevance to Modern Sedation Practice
Graduate of NYU School of Medicine with residency in Pediatrics at Columbia University-NYP Medical Center, Babies and Children's Hospital of New York (Now Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York. Completed Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine-St. Louis Children's Hospital. Attending Physician in Pediatric Emergency Medicine since that time at St. Louis Children’s Hospital (1998-99), Children’ Hospital of New York, Columbia-Presbyterian (1999-2002), and A.I duPont Hospital for Children, now Nemours Children's Hospital (2002-present). Have worked on the sedation service at Nemours since 2005, full time since 2018, serving as medical director and now as Division Chief for the past 4 years.
Sunday, September 19, 2021
2:35 PM - 3:05 PM
6A: Establishing a Successful Sedation Nitrous Oxide Program
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
8A: Establishing a Successful Sedation Nitrous Oxide Program
Director, Pediatric Emergency Research, Staff Physician, Emergency Medicine
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Bio
Maala is a pediatric emergency physician and the Director of Emergency Research at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario and Associate Professor of Pediatrics in Ottawa, Canada. Maala completed her fellowship in emergency medicine and Master’s of Science in Epidemiology at McGill University in Montreal. Her primary research interest is in the safety of emergency department procedural sedation. Maala's contributions to pediatric sedation have enhanced the clinical care of children undergoing emergency sedation through the generation of new knowledge on sedation safety. She has been honoured to collaborate internationally with agencies to improve risk assessment and outcomes for patients sedated outside of the operating room.
Sunday, September 19, 2021
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
Ask the Experts: Turning an Idea into a Publication
Dr. Mallary Biros obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Zoology from Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) and a Doctorate of Pharmacy Degree from Campbell University (Buies Creek, North Carolina). She completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio and a second year Pediatric Pharmacy Residency at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. She is board certified in Pharmacotherapy. She has been the clinical pharmacist specialist in the Pediatric Intensive Care unit at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospitals for the last 8 years. Her interests include sedation and analgesia, infectious diseases, and medication safety. She worked with PICU faculty to develop and implement a sedation and withdrawal protocol and provides education for the staff regularly.
I am a Pediatric Critical Care physician and Associate Director of Pediatric Sedation at University of Wisconsin-Madison, American Family Children's Hospital. My area of academic interest is sedation research and nitrous oxide administration for procedures. I have authored numerous publications in the field of pediatric sedation. In addition, I have submitted research abstracts yearly to the Society for Pediatric Sedation annual meeting since 2015. I am a Board member of the SPS, Chair of the SPS Abstract Review Committee, and Vice Chair of the SPS Research Committee.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Top Four Articles of 2020
6:05 PM - 6:15 PM
The Nature, Frequency and Onset of Pediatric Sedation Adverse Events
Sunday, September 19, 2021
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
Ask the Experts: Turning an Idea into a Publication
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
Bio
I am an associate professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at the Emory School of Medicine. I work in the emergency department and outpatient sedation training pediatric emergency, critical care, and hospital medicine fellows, as well as pediatric, family and emergency medicine residents. My research focus is sedation for pediatric imaging, sedation of children with autism spectrum disorder, and sedation education. I am a co-investigator on Comparison of Procedural Sedation Outcomes in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Neurotypical Children, a study awarded the PSRC grant in 2023. I have presented at national and international meetings on pediatric sedation and sedation for imaging. I am a member and incoming co-chair of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network’s (PECARN) analgesia and sedation workgroup. I am the site principal investigator for Standardizing All Fellowship Education in Pediatric Procedural Sedation (SAFE-PPS), a SPS sponsored pediatric procedural sedation fellowship curriculum development project.
Sunday, September 19, 2021
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
5A: Optimizing Sedation Regimens for Radiologic Studies
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM
7A: Optimizing Sedation Regimens for Radiologic Studies
Roberta Esteves Vieira de Castro is a Brazilian pediatric intensivist, Master of Science in Maternal and Child Health and PhD in Medicine. She works in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Rio de Janeiro State University. She is a member of the Brazilian Network of Research in Pediatrics from D'Or Institute for Research and Education in Rio de Janeiro, and a columnist in a Brazilian electronic medical portal. As a researcher, her focus is sedation, analgesia, and delirium in critically ill children. She participates in the sedation, analgesia and delirium committees of the Brazilian Association of Intensive Care Medicine and the Latin American Society of Pediatric Intensive Care. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the American Delirium Society.
Dr. Chumpitazi is a board certified Pediatrician and Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician at Duke University School of Medicine where she serves a Division Chief of Emergency Medicine. Her research focus is clinical and translational sedation and analgesia research in pediatric healthcare with a health disparities lens. She ran the SPS simulation provider course for 10 years. She serves on several subcommittees for the American Academy of Pediatrics Section of Emergency Medicine. She serves on the executive core for the Emergency Medicine Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center, with recent toolkits on sedation and pain management. She co-leads the communication domain for the Pediatric Pandemic Network.
Nancy Crego is an assistant professor at the Duke University School of Nursing. She has over twenty years of clinical experience working in pediatric acute care. She is an experienced nurse educator working with students at the undergraduate and doctoral level. She is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator and has expertise in the planning and implementation of a variety of interdisciplinary simulation education methods.
She also has expertise in the application of secondary data methodologies to investigate and improve quality of care, patient safety and influence policy. She is a frequent reviewer for several peer reviewed journals and is a member of the AORN Journal Research Advisory Council. Her past research focused on pediatric sedation practices and adverse events of Registered Nurses and sedation providers in radiology. She is a former board member of the Society for Pediatric Sedation and is a contributor to the recently published, Pediatric Procedural Sedation Handbook. Her current research focuses on healthcare disparity in children diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease and their families.
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences / Arkansas Children's Hospital
Corpus Christi, TX
Bio
Dr. Dalabih is a critical care physician, has been practicing for over 11 years and has dedicated his career to improving patient outcomes. He is a professor of pediatrics, sharing his expertise and knowledge with the next generation of physicians.
Dr. Dalabih has also taken on several leadership roles within his organization. As the medical director of the sedation service, he ensures that patients undergoing sedation receive safe and effective care. Additionally, as the vice chair of quality, Dr. Dalabih is responsible for driving quality improvement initiatives throughout his hospital.
Throughout his career, Abdallah has been passionate about improving patient outcomes. He is constantly seeking new ways to enhance the care that his patients receive, whether that means implementing new treatment protocols or utilizing the latest medical technologies.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1B: NPO Time for Sedation: Comprehensive literature review
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
3B: NPO Time for Sedation: Comprehensive literature review
Peggy Dorr, DNP, CRNP is a nationally board certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and graduate of the University of Maryland School of Nursing with a Master of Science in Nursing Education, post-master’s Nurse Practitioner Certification and a Doctorate of Nursing Practice. She currently is a Senior Nurse Practitioner with the Pediatric Sedation Team. She has been a member of the Pediatric Sedation Team since 2015 with previous sedation experience in the Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization Lab. She has published and presented work related to a Nurse Practitioner led sedation service as well as outcomes of the UMMC program with their dexmedetomidine utilization. Her background also includes advanced practice roles in Pediatric Intensive Care and Pediatric Cardiology.
I am a pediatric nurse practitioner specializing in sedation services for children with a team of pediatric intensivists, nurses, and child life specialists. I provide procedural sedation including minimal and moderate sedation including nitrous oxide. Our team provides even more specialized care for children and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities who have fear and anxiety with medical procedures.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1C: Sedating Children with Autism and Developmental Delay
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
3C: Sedating Children with Autism and Developmental Delay
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
Yale University School of Medicine, Yale New Haven Children's Hospital
New Haven, CT
Bio
Cheryl K. Gooden, M.D. is a pediatric anesthesiologist in the Department of Anesthesiology at Yale New Haven Hospital and an Associate Professor in Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine.
Since 2005, she has been a global health advocate with involvement in humanitarian missions that have spanned several continents. For the past 10 years she has been involved in an educational initiative with Komedyplast at El Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño in Lima, Peru.
She served as a member of the writing group for the 2015 PALS Guidelines, American Heart Association. She is an editor for “The Pediatric Procedural Sedation Handbook,” published by Oxford University Press in November 2018.
She is the current Chair for the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Abstract Review Subcommittee on Pediatric Anesthesia, and Vice Chair of the ASA’s Global Humanitarian Outreach Committee. She co-Chairs the International Scholars Committee of the Anesthesiology Foundation of New York, serves on the Medical Advisory Board for Verathon (GlideScope), and Editorial Advisory Board for Anesthesiology News.
In 2019, Dr. Gooden was appointed as an Anesthesia Reviewer for the American College of Surgeons Children’s Surgery Verification Program. In July 2020, she was appointed to serve as a Hotline Consultant for the Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States. In October 2021, Dr. Gooden was appointed to the Board of the ASA Charitable Foundation. In May 2022, she was appointed to serve as a consultant for the FDA Anesthesiology and Respiratory Therapy Devices Panel, and in 2023 she has been appointed as a member of this Panel.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Navigating the Shared Airway
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Laura Gould has been a certified child life specialist for 14 years working in Vermont, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. For the last six years Laura has worked on the outpatient radiology/sedation unit at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In radiology, she enjoys getting to work with a wide gamut of age groups, neurodivergences, diagnoses, and procedures. She enjoys aiding children and families in their coping in the hospital environment often through medical play. Laura collaborates with the interdisciplinary care team and families to assess children’s abilities to complete scans and procedures with or without sedation, depending on the child’s development and coping. She has a BS in Psychology-Child Life, MS in Organizational Development and Leadership, and a master’s certificate in infant-toddler mental health.
Sunday, September 19, 2021
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
5C: Help! Sedation without a Child Life Specialist
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM
7C: Help! Sedation without a Child Life Specialist
Clinical Professor (Adjunct) of Pediatrics, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Pediatric Intensivist, St. Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, PA
BA, Cornell University, 1981
MS, SUNY Buffalo, 1982
MD, SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse, 1986
Pediatric Residency, SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse, 1986-1989
Fellow, General Academic Pediatrics, SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse, 1989-1990
Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 1990-1993
An active member of the SPS, I was elected to the Board of Directors and serve as Chair of the Education Committee. I also lecture at multiple national conferences, serve as faculty for the SPS Sedation Provider Course and contribute to sedation education in non-traditional outlets such as editing the SPS Provider Manual (2nd and 3rd editions), co-creating the first interactive online eLearning modules for pediatric sedation, and co-authoring a Pediatric Sedation Pocket Card for Providers. I continue to pursue opportunities to conduct research focused on the promotion of safe and effective sedation.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Welcome Message
4:50 PM - 5:30 PM
STUMP the Experts Panel
6:25 PM - 6:30 PM
Closing Remarks
Sunday, September 19, 2021
9:00 AM - 9:05 AM
Welcome Message
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
Ask the Experts: Turning an Idea into a Publication
I oversee the procedural sedation in our Pediatric Emergency Department (unscheduled procedural sedation) and represent the pediatric sedation providers on our Hospital Sedation Committee (primarily scheduled procedural sedation focus). I participated in the formation of and was an author contributing to the American College of Emergency Physicians' "Unscheduled Procedural Sedation: A Multidisciplinary Consensus Practice Guideline".
Saturday, September 18, 2021
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1B: NPO Time for Sedation: Comprehensive literature review
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
3B: NPO Time for Sedation: Comprehensive literature review
Priti Jani MD, MPH is a pediatric critical care physician who takes care of critically ill infants and children in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and Pediatric Sedation service. She completed her medical degree at Rush University College of Medicine and her training in pediatrics and pediatric critical care at The University of Chicago, Comer Children’s Hospital. Dr. Jani’s scholarly focus lies at the intersection of research in simulation-based medical education and resuscitation quality improvement. She develops and investigates simulation-based educational curricula and quality improvement initiatives towards the goal of improving individual, team and system level performance with the goal of translation to improved patient outcomes. A dedicated educator, she utilizes her expertise in simulation to direct and develop curricula for trainees and healthcare teams. Serving as the Chair of the Pediatric CPR Committee and Pediatric Resuscitation Quality Committee as well as the Faculty Director of the UChicago Simulation Center, she is highly invested in using simulation to further advance education, safety and quality at the University of Chicago Medicine and Comer Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Landers is a professor of pediatrics and a pediatric critical care physician at Kentucky Children’s Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky where she has practiced pediatric critical care medicine since 1999. She is the Kentucky Children’s Hospital PICU Quality and Safety Director and the Medical Director for the Pediatric Sedation Service. She served on the Board of Directors for the Society for Pediatric Sedation for 9 years and was the Chair of the Society for Pediatric Sedation Quality and Safety Committee for 6 years. She is currently the chair of the Center of Excellence subcommittee. She received her undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia then did her pediatric residency and pediatric critical care fellowship training at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas.
Dr. Landrigan-Ossar is Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School, and Medical Director of Perioperative Services at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is the immediate past chair of the Hospital Sedation Committee, and a member of the Vascular Anomalies and Cerebrovascular Centers at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Dr Landrigan-Ossar is President of the Society for Pediatric Sedation (SPS), and immediate past Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
10:10 AM - 10:40 AM
Psychological Safety: A keystone to building high performance healthcare teams
10:40 AM - 10:55 AM
Questions and Answers
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1A: Provider Burnout and Creating a Culture of Support
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
3A: Provider Burnout and Creating a Culture of Support
Dr. Anna Lin is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Stanford School of Medicine. She established the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Surgical Consult and Sedation Services at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. She joined the Society for Pediatric Sedation in 2017. She has served as a member of the SPS Provider Course Executive Committee since 2018. She also co-authored the SPS Online Modules and edited the SPS Sedation Syllabus e-book. She now serves on SPS Board of Directors.
Sunday, September 19, 2021
2:35 PM - 3:05 PM
6D: Advocating for Your Sedation Service Line: Perfecting the 3 minute elevator pitch and business plan
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
8D: Advocating for Your Sedation Service Line: Perfecting the 3 minute elevator pitch and business plan
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My academic career has spanned a primary interest in pediatric critical care medicine with an emphasis on acute pediatric nephrology care and ECMO with an ongoing interest in providing clinical training to future academic pediatricians. I have had the honor to be at the forefront of development of a new subspecialty field of pediatric procedural sedation. An interest in quality care has spurred additional training in medical quality improvement and safety science which has served me well as I have developed leadership skills in administration of Divisions and Departments.
Dr. Anthony Mazzarelli is Co-President/CEO of Cooper University Health Care and the Dean of Clinical Affairs for Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. Cooper University Health Care is a $1.5B Academic Medical Center, Level 1 Trauma Center, with over 100 ambulatory locations and a 750-physician multi-specialty faculty practice plan. Along with his responsibilities as an executive in a health system, Dr. Mazzarelli continues to practice emergency medicine at Cooper in Camden, New Jersey. Prior to his current role, Dr. Mazzarelli served as Cooper's Chief Physician Executive where he oversaw the physician practice, as well as quality/patient safety and continuous process improvement efforts for the health system, the same topics for which he teaches within the medical school and residency programs.
Dr. Mazzarelli received his medical degree from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, his law degree from University of Pennsylvania Law School and his master's in bioethics from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2010, he was awarded the Halo Award for leading a team of 18 health care providers from Cooper into Haiti in the days immediately following the 2010 earthquake. Dr. Mazzarelli has been named one of the 50 most powerful people in New Jersey health care by NJ Biz and NJ-ROI. He has also received numerous commendations for his leadership. He is a regular guest on multiple local and national media outlets and is a regular talk show guest host on CBS Radio/Entercom and SiriusXM. He is the co-author of the bestselling book Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence That Caring Makes a Difference.
Laura graduated from East Carolina University with a BS in Child Development and Family Relations, which included a concentration in Child Life. She completed her internship at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and since 2001 she has been with Nemours Children's Health in Wilmington, Delaware. In 2012, Laura took on a newly created role at Nemours as the Child Life Specialist supporting Day Medicine, Sedation & Radiology. She is actively involved in the Society for Pediatric Sedation (SPS) and currently sits on the Executive Committee as Chair of Nursing and Allied Health. At Nemours, Laura is a clinical leader, acting as a mentor for new associates. She co-coordinates the Internship Program at Nemours and is the EPIC documentation champion for her team. Laura has contributed to several publications, including The Pediatric Procedural Sedation Handbook (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Leading Practice Recommendations for Intravenous Procedural Sedation in Pediatric Patients (17 years and younger) (Vizient, 2023) This fall, Laura will have the opportunity to travel to the Netherlands with a contingent of SPS members to present at PROSA 2024, the 3RD European Conference on Pediatric Procedural Sedation and Analgesia.
Sunday, September 19, 2021
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
5C: Help! Sedation without a Child Life Specialist
2:35 PM - 3:05 PM
6A: Establishing a Successful Sedation Nitrous Oxide Program
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM
7C: Help! Sedation without a Child Life Specialist
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
8A: Establishing a Successful Sedation Nitrous Oxide Program
Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, TX
Bio
Dr. Amanda Mulcrone is a third year Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellow at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Since starting fellowship, she has been interested in sedation research, education, and quality improvement.
Dr. Mulcrone received her Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine, and completed her pediatric residency at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She is board certified in Pediatric Medicine.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1B: NPO Time for Sedation: Comprehensive literature review
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
3B: NPO Time for Sedation: Comprehensive literature review
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Wilmington, DE
Bio
Dr. Olbrecht is Chair of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware, and a Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University. Prior to her arrival at Nemours, she was the Vice Chair of Quality Improvement and Development and Director of Fetal Anesthesiology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. She graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed her residency in Anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and her pediatric anesthesia fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She received an MBA from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Dr. Olbrecht’s research is focused on improving pediatric pain with innovative, non-pharmacologic therapies. She has received over $1.1 million in funding both for her research and device development and has an R34 from the NIH to develop a clinical trial protocol for the integration of biofeedback-based virtual reality in perioperative pain management.
Sunday, September 19, 2021
10:35 AM - 10:50 AM
Questions and Answers
2:35 PM - 3:05 PM
6D: Advocating for Your Sedation Service Line: Perfecting the 3 minute elevator pitch and business plan
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
8D: Advocating for Your Sedation Service Line: Perfecting the 3 minute elevator pitch and business plan
Megan Peters graduated from Rush Medical College in 2009 and moved to the University of Madison-Wisconsin shortly thereafter. Since then she has been a steadfast Badger, completing a pediatrics residency and a pediatric critical care fellowship before signing on as faculty at UW in 2015. She became the Medical Director of the sedation program at the American Family Children’s Hospital in 2018, and now devotes all of her clinical time to the safe, effective procedural sedation for children. Her research passion is in quality and systems improvement. She enjoys jogging, reading, and spending time outside with her young family.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
5:55 PM - 6:05 PM
Performing Minor Urologic Procedures in a Pediatric Sedation Center May Be Safe and Cost-Effective: A Pilot Study
Sunday, September 19, 2021
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
Ask the Experts: Turning an Idea into a Publication
Lorie completed her MSN in 1986 and a post Master's in Pediatric Acute Care in 1999. She has been a Sedation Nurse Practitioner at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for the past 25 years. Her involvement in SPS began in 2008 as a member, expanding to chairperson of the Nursing and Allied Health Committee, Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Board. She has presented at the SPS annual conference many times and is the 2022 recipient of the Joseph P Cravero Leadership Award from SPS.
Dr. Riedesel is a pediatric radiologist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA), where she is acting medical director of pediatric ultrasound. Dr. Riedesel works closely with pediatric sedation physicians and nurses to facilitate high quality imaging studies and procedures in the pediatric radiology department.
Sunday, September 19, 2021
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
5A: Optimizing Sedation Regimens for Radiologic Studies
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM
7A: Optimizing Sedation Regimens for Radiologic Studies
Associate Professor - Department of Anesthesiology
Children's Hospital Colorado
Aurora, CO
Bio
Dr. Cara Riley is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Children’s Hospital Colorado and the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where she has worked for over nine years. She completed her undergraduate training at Georgetown University and worked for Under Armour for three years prior to attending Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Following dental school, Dr. Riley completed her dental anesthesiology residency at The Ohio State University, where she also received her Master’s degree. She is a Diplomate and President of the American Dental Board of Anesthesiology and is a consultant to the Colorado State Board of Dentistry regarding sedation and anesthesia.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Navigating the Shared Airway
2:50 PM - 3:20 PM
2C: Current State of of Education in Dental Sedation
Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital
Austin, TX
Bio
Dr. Amber Rogers earned her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) with Honor, including induction into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, and completed her pediatric residency at Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH). She received specialized training in pediatric sedation upon joining the Departments of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology at BCM/TCH as faculty. Her clinical work focuses exclusively on pediatric procedural sedation outside of the operating room, striving to minimize pain and anxiety via identification and implementation of sedation best practices. She is currently the Director of Sedation Services and Co-Chair of the Sedation Oversight Committee at TCH. She also works to educate regarding safe and effective sedation practices, both locally with residents and fellows at TCH as well as nationally. She is on the Board of Directors of the Society for Pediatric Sedation and an active member of several committees.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
5:35 PM - 5:45 PM
Clinical Characteristics of Intranasal Dexmedetomidine for Sedation in Children Undergoing Non-painful Procedures
I am committed to the improvement of pediatric health outcomes through deliberate practice and education of frontline providers. I am dedicated to the design, implementation and evaluation of education tools that leverage technology to break down access barriers. I strive to create a sustainable system with data collection capabilities that can be seamlessly integrated into the educational and medical setting.
I have published and presented on simulation-based education since 2017 and I am currently a Fellow Physician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Global Health. Previously I was working as a Pediatrician in Bethel, Alaska where I practiced broad-scope pediatric medicine for the Alaska Native patient population. During those years, I founded a simulation-based continuing education program and research project for the Alaska Native Community Health Practitioner. I am a core member of the ACEP TeleSimBox team: a free, open access, web-based education simulation resource.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Emerging Role of TeleSIM in Education - Lessons Learned from the Pandemic
Clinical coordinator for the Pediatric Sedation Unit at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio since 2021. Over 34 years of bedside nursing practice, including more than 20 years in the Neonatal and Pediatric ICU’s, Pediatric Sedation Unit, earning ECMO, CCRN, CPN, and P-SANE certifications. These experiences included an array of difficult, emotional, stressful, and painful conversations. The same experiences taught me empathetic, relational, and compassionate listening, connecting through common experiences, while also creating clear expectations and boundaries.
I am a mother to two wonderful children, Emily (10) and Emerson (7). When Emerson was 15 months old in 2015, he was diagnosed with a rare inflammatory disease called Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis. Since his diagnosis, he has been through several medical procedures requiring different levels of sedation including but not limited to surgery, MRI and CT imaging. Through the years, we have learned along the way as he matures what his personal challenges are for sedation and how to successfully and comfortably sedate him. We have come a long way with trying multiple methods leading up to sedation. We have learned what works and what needs to be modified for the next time. We have also learned what strategies in the past now have caused negative effects in other medical aspects. He will continue to require sedation through the years for procedures that are anticipated with his disease. I look forward to helping give the parents perspective of child sedation.
As the Nurse Director of the Pain Division, a Nurse Practitioner on the inpatient pain service, and the co-Chair of the Interdisciplinary Pain Committee, I have contributed to the improvements in needle pain management at my institution.
Sunday, September 19, 2021
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Institutional Transformation to Optimize Procedural Pain
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
Ask the Experts: Turning an Idea into a Publication
Dr. Brian Steele is a Texan through and through. He was born and raised in Texas, where he also completed his dental training at the University of Texas-Houston School of Dentistry and his pediatric dentistry training at UT-Houston and Children’s Memorial Hermann hospital. He continued his training in New York City at St. Barnabas Hospital where he completed a residency in dental anesthesiology. Dr. Steele serves as adjunct faculty in the departments of pediatric dentistry and anesthesiology at St. Barnabas Hospital.
Dr. Steele has taught the AAPD sedation course/simulation since 2015 and is a member of the AAPD sedation committee. He is board certified by the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry (ABPD) , the American Dental Board of Anesthesiology (ADBA) and the National Board of Dental Anesthesiology (NBDA).
Saturday, September 18, 2021
2:50 PM - 3:20 PM
2C: Current State of of Education in Dental Sedation
I have been involved in pediatric procedural sedation for over 20 years: providing clinical care, undertaking patient research and providing educational initiatives. My institution is a founding member of the Society for Pediatric Sedation and I was the medical director of the institutional sedation service line for over a decade. As an individual member of the Society for Pediatric Sedation since 2008, it has been my privilege to participate in the research, educational and outreach aspects of the Society. As the outgoing SPS President it has been my pleasure to serve the BOD and the membership working to realize our mission and vision.
I am an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Emory University. I also serve as the Medical Director for the Sedation Service at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston as well as the Medical Director for Emergency Sedation. I am passionate about sedation education and quality. My research interests include Precedex, opioids and opioid safety as well as sedation alternatives in the ED setting.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine
Seattle Children's Hospital/University of Washington
Seattle , WA
Bio
Anita Thomas is a pediatric emergency medicine physician and simulationist who practices in Seattle, WA. She runs pediatric emergency medicine fellow simulations at her institution and led the pivot towards incorporating telesimulation there at the height of the pandemic. She has worked with colleagues on medical student virtual simulation and is the lead on the telesimulation iteration of Improving Pediatric Acute Care Through Simulation (ImPACTS), which aims to improve pediatric emergency care primarily in generalist settings via simulation. She has taught at SPS as a faculty member in the past.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Emerging Role of TeleSIM in Education - Lessons Learned from the Pandemic
Dr. Kristin Tiedt is associate professor (CHS) in the Division of Hospital Medicine and Complex Care at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison Wisconsin. Dr. Tiedt spends her clinical time providing care for hospitalized children at the American Family Children’s Hospital (AFCH) and St. Mary’s Hospitals in Madison, WI. She provides both inpatient and outpatient support of children and adolescents through sedation services at the AFCH’s Diagnostic and Therapy Center where she also serves as the Director of Sedation Education. Her academic interests center around developing standardized approaches to pediatric procedural sedation education across subspecialties as well as multidisciplinary approaches to deliver safe and effective care for hospitalized children.
Dr Unkel is the medical director and residency director of pediatric dentistry at Bon Secours St Mary's Hospital of Richmond. In addition he serves on the executive committee for sedation and anesthesia of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry and the oral health and surgery executive committees of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He also serves as a board member for the Society for Pediatric Sedation. Dr Unkel practices mild and moderate office sedation and hospital procedural sedation as well as children's dentistry and oral surgery.
I finished nursing school in 1997 and started my career at the University Hospital of Leuven in Belgium as a nurse in our Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). I got my degree in critical care nursing in 1998 en went to be the head nurse of the unit in 2008.
In 2016, I rerouted my career within our hospital and became the coordinator of a nurse-driven sedation team, better known as the “Prosa-team”. This team was created in 2014 as a project to help children in our hospital during procedures and has been growing ever since. Working on the safety and quality of care for procedural sedation in cooperation with several departments of the hospital such as anesthesia, radiology, endoscopy and psychiatry. Currently working on the prevention of pain and needle fear of outpatients and consultations and evolving to a customized approach for kids with needle fear.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch Session: Sedation services around the globe
2:50 PM - 3:20 PM
2B: IN DEX and Other Tools of a Nurse Driven Sedation Service
4:05 PM - 4:35 PM
4B: IN DEX and Other Tools of a Nurse Driven Sedation Service
Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School Institution
Andover, MA
Bio
Amy Vinson is a Pediatrician and Pediatric Anesthesiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. She attended college and medical school in Georgia, a residency in pediatrics at Brown, an anesthesiology residency at BIDMC and Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. She has lectured widely on wellness, burnout, peer support, and substance use disorder in anesthesiologists. She established wellness programs at BIDMC and Boston Children’s Hospital and has consulted on many other programs throughout the country. She currently serves as the Chair of the ASA’s Committee on Physician Well-being, is the ASA representative to the National Academy of Medicine’s Clinician Well-being Collaborative, and is the Director of Clinician Well-being in her department. She is a self-described “well-being pragmatist” focusing on systemic and organizational factors impacting well-being.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Academic Careers
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1A: Provider Burnout and Creating a Culture of Support
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
3A: Provider Burnout and Creating a Culture of Support
Emory University School of Medicine, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
Bio
I am a cardiac intensivist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine. I provide clinical service in the cardiac intensive care unit, pediatric intensive care unit, and the pediatric sedation service.
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