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2023 SPS Annual Conference September 21 - 23, 2023
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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.
Over the past 5 years, my primary focus has been ensuring high-quality emergency care for acutely ill children. My research centers on using simulation to improve care quality for children outside of specialized hospitals. I lead the Pediatric Community Outreach Mobile Education (PCOME) Program with IU Health funding to assess and improve care in Indiana's community emergency departments. As the Medical Director of the Riley Simulation Program, I lead multiple simulation-based projects to boost emergency department readiness for pediatric cases. ACurrently, I collaborate with the ImPACTS network to elevate nationwide pediatric acute care. I am the lead investigator on an ImPACTS study enhancing care structures and processes in community hospital settings through innovative collaboration and simulation practices.
My name is Haroon Ali and I am a pediatric hospitalist and sedationist working at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, IN. My main research interest is in finding new ways to help patients with developmental delay or severe procedural anxiety/phobias get through mildly invasive procedures. I am also interested in medical simulation.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
4:20 PM - 4:50 PM
3B: Successful Implementation of Non-Pharmacologic Strategies for Pain Prevention and Management
The University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System
Chicago, IL
Bio
Dr. Sahar Alrayyes earned her dental degree from Northwestern University Dental School in 1998. In 2002, she received a certificate of Pediatric Dentistry from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she also completed her Master's degree in Oral Science. Currently she is a full time Clinical professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, an attending at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System in addition to limited private practice. She is board certified by the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry. Dr. Alrayyes is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, a member of several national and international associations and societies, and has served as the President of the Illinois Society of Pediatric Dentistry; a board examiner, on the editorial Board of Dentistry for Children journal; and a councilor for the Pediatric Dentistry section at the American Dental Education Association.
Saturday, September 23, 2023
11:10 AM - 11:40 AM
6C: Safe and Effective Dental Sedation for the Pediatric Patient
Amy Baxter MD is a Clinical Associate Professor at Augusta University, and CEO of Pain Care Labs, founded in 2006 to eliminate unnecessary pain. After Yale, Emory Medical School, Pediatrics and a child abuse fellowship in Cincinnati, and emergency pediatrics and clinical research fellowships, she founded the PEMA Research program at Scottish Rite, CHOA, and was a founding member of the SPS. Federally funded for neuromodulatory pain relief and opioid reduction research, she publishes and lectures nationally and internationally on pain management, procedural sedation, and opioid alternatives.
Her Buzzy® device has over 90 independent RCTs done worldwide. Other contributions include a hepatic enzyme algorithm timing child abuse, creating and validating the BARF nausea scale for pediatric cancer patients, identifying the cause of increased needle phobia, investigating nasal irrigation to reduce COVID morbidity and mortality, and 12 patents on her pain blocking frequency. Speaking venues include TED (2023), Exponential Medicine, Bloomberg, Shark Tank, TEDx Peachtree, TEDMED.
Friday, September 22, 2023
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Rethinking Pain - Leveraging new neuroscience for comfort
Location: Lucerne
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Opioid Mitigation Strategies
Location: Lucerne
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Dr. Behrens is a pediatric intensivist in the Chicago area, and is a Health Policy Scholar through the Academic Pediatric Association. Her areas of interest are firearm injury prevention, immigrant child and family healthy, and social determinants of health. She is active in the AAP as a National Spokesperson and as the editor-in-chief for the Council on Immigrant Child and Family Health. She is on the editorial board for PCCM.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
The Intersection of Public Health and Procedural Sedation
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.
Friday, September 22, 2023
7:00 AM - 7:45 AM
PBLD 4: The Doctor Is In: Bring your most complex cases for advice
Scott Bentivenga is a trial lawyer with 35 years of experience handling personal injury cases on behalf of defendants in the State of Illinois. He is a Partner in the law firm of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP in Chicago. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and International Relations from the University of Notre Dame in 1985. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Loyola University of Chicago's School of Law in 1988. He has defended doctors, hospitals, nurses, pharmacists, respiratory therapists and other health care providers in hundreds of medical malpractice cases. Many of his cases have involved complications during surgery and issues related to anesthesia, surgical technique, and informed consent.
Friday, September 22, 2023
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Standardizing Informed Consent for Procedural Sedation in Children
Lanie Berk has been a child life specialist in the Chicago Land area for two years. Currently, Lanie primarily supports patients during sedated procedures and difficult vascular access. She earned her master's degree in Child Development with a Child Life concentration from the Erikson Institiute in Chicago, IL. Lanie is the first child life specialist for the Advocate Children's Hospital's sedation team and collaborates with staff on new processes to create positive experiences for patients and families. She is passionate about educating the medical team on the importance of pain management for painful procedures to improve patient care.
As a critical care fellow, I worked in the sedation unit at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital. I really enjoyed my time in the unit and have been coming to SPS since then.
I don't get to work in my hospital's sedation unit right now, but do get to sedate the sicker children in our PICU.
I'll be speaking about ketamine and sedating with electrolyte abnormalities, two topics I do get to deal with on the regular.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
2A: Sedating Children with Laboratory Abnormalities
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.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
2:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Research
Location: Lucerne
3:30 PM - 3:37 PM
COVID-19 Infection and Airway Adverse Events in Pediatric Procedural Sedation: A report from the PSRC
Location: Lucerne
Friday, September 22, 2023
11:50 AM - 12:20 PM
4B: Setting the Stage for a Successful Nitrous Experience
Location: Lucerne
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Developing a Nitrous Sedation Service Line - Pre-registration required
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
Verona, WI
Bio
I completed medical training at the Western University of Health Science, Pomona, CA. I went on to complete the Pediatric Residency Program at Advocate Children's Hospital, Park Ridge,IL, and the Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Program at The University of Wisconsin - Madison, American Family Children's Hospital. I took my first position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas McGovern School of Medicine working in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital where I provided pediatric critical care in a mixed unit. This also included sedation for painful and minimally invasive procedures. From there I accepted a position at the Diagnostic and Therapy Center at American Family Children's Hospital at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I have been working full time as a sedation provider since April of 2021. My academic focus is on quality improvement, specifically on improving both internal and interdepartmental processes, workflow, and communication.
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.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
4:20 PM - 4:50 PM
3B: Successful Implementation of Non-Pharmacologic Strategies for Pain Prevention and Management
Assistant Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care
University of Chicago, Comer Children's Hospital
Chicago, IL
Bio
Dr. Ellen Choi is an Assistant Professor and Section Chief of Pediatric Anesthesiology at the University of Chicago/Comer Children’s Hospital. She received her BA in molecular and cell biology with an emphasis in neurobiology from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned her MD from the University of California, San Francisco. She completed her internship and residency training in anesthesiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she also served as chief resident. She completed a pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital and served on faculty at UCLA before relocating to Chicago. Her interests include graduate and continuing medical education, systems and quality improvement, and best practices in pediatric anesthesiology.
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.
Courtney M. Cox is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She is in her third year of practice at Arkansas Children's Hospital, where she is an active member of both the pediatric critical care and procedural sedation faculty. She completed her undergraduate medical education and pediatric residency at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans before relocating to Arkansas for pediatric critical care fellowship. She currently serves as the Director of Sedation Education at Arkansas Children's and is the Chair of the SPS Provider Course. Her greatest accomplishment is being a mom to two young boys, ages 4 & 2.
I started out working as a pediatric nurse in a regional hospital in a small town in Belgium.
I got my BANABA degree whilst working there, and moved to Leuven where I started working at the university hospitals in Leuven in 2006.
I started at the NICU departement and stayed there for 13 years. The last year I became an assistant to the head nurse at the NICU department.
After that I moved on to the pediatric ambulatory care department at University hospitals Leuven, as an assistant to the head nurse.
I briefly worked as an assistant to the head nurse at the pediatric COVID ward during the pandemic.
From 2022 to the present day, I am the coördinator of the PROSA team at University hospitals Leuven, a team consistent of 7 nurses who support children during procedures in the hospital.
I am currently combining work with obtaining the degree of Nurse Specialist.
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.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
EMR: Friend or foe?
Location: Lucerne
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Question and Answer
Location: Lucerne
4:20 PM - 4:50 PM
3D: Show Me The Money - Demonstrating value in your sedation service
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.
During my pediatric critical care medicine fellowship, I worked on the pediatric sedation service, developing a passion for pediatric sedation. I spent the next several years actively involved in the pediatric sedation service as an academic faculty member at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. With my interest in education, I became the pediatric sedation education director, where I developed educational curricula for rotating residents and fellows. Our team provided pediatric sedation services for a wide variety of procedures outside of the operating room (OR) in the outpatient and inpatient realms. A move to a new institution, where all sedated procedures were historically performed in the OR, revealed an untapped opportunity. I am now beginning a sedation service at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha, NE, where we will perform sedation for minor procedures outside the OR for our pediatric patients.
Saturday, September 23, 2023
8:05 AM - 8:35 AM
Sedation for Minor Procedures Outside of the Operating Room
Claire Foster is a third year fellow at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences who is completing dual training in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics as well as Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. She is engaged in clinical and research activities that seek to improve care for children with developmental differences, as well as to advance outcomes after critical illness in childhood.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Pharmacologic Techniques to Safely Sedate the Aggressive Child
I received my PhD in 1982. I started at UChicago as an assistant professor in 1987 and was tenured in 1990. I was promoted to professor in 1998. I started my as an assistant professor studying voltage gated calcium channels and synaptic transmission. Afterwards I branched out to studies of hypoxia and anesthetics. It was my collaboration with Dr. Zheng Xie which caused me to become interested in anesthesia. We have worked together for 2o years.
Stephen is a 3rd year fellow physician in pediatric critical care medicine at the University of Chicago. During his time here, he has developed an interest in procedural sedation and the challenges that various disease processes pose towards selecting appropriate agents.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care
University of Chicago Medicine
Chicago, IL
Bio
Ahmeneh Ghavam is an ethicist and assistant professor of pediatrics in the section of pediatric critical care at The University of Chicago, Comer Children’s Hospital. Dr. Ghavam received her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from Colorado State University and subsequently her medical degree from the American University of the Caribbean. She completed pediatric residency at the University of Arizona and pediatric critical care fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and Medical College of Wisconsin. While in fellowship she developed an interest in ethics and completed a Masters degree in bioethics from the Medical College of Wisconsin. She has published and presented on various ethical issues relating to pediatrics primarily pertaining to organ donation, donation after circulatory death and death determination.
Friday, September 22, 2023
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Standardizing Informed Consent for Procedural Sedation in Children
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.
Friday, September 22, 2023
7:00 AM - 7:45 AM
PBLD 4: The Doctor Is In: Bring your most complex cases for advice
Location: Alpine 1
Saturday, September 23, 2023
9:35 AM - 9:50 AM
Question and Answer
Location: Lucerne
9:50 AM - 10:20 AM
Ask the Experts
Location: Lucerne
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Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Bio
I am a Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Medical Director of the Pulmonary Habilitation Program, which serves pediatric patients with home ventilation via tracheostomy. My scholarly focus includes issues related to children with medical complexity, including utilization, comorbidities, and outcomes. In addition I am the Medical Director of Case Management and Care Coordination/Senior Physician Advisor at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.
Saturday, September 23, 2023
9:05 AM - 9:35 AM
Sedating Children with Chronic Illness: How sick is too sick?
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.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
1B: Working with Patients with Sensory Needs: Sensory seeking and sensory avoidant
Location: Lucerne
Friday, September 22, 2023
11:50 AM - 12:20 PM
4D: Patient Prescreening for Successful Attempts at Non-Sedated Procedures
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
University of New Mexico Health Sciences
Albuquerque, NM, United States
Bio
Dr. Gunderson is a graduate of the University of Utah School of Medicine, and also holds a Master's degree in Global Health from Duke University. He completed residency training in pediatrics at Phoenix Children's Hospital and Maricopa Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at the University of New Mexico.
Saturday, September 23, 2023
10:35 AM - 11:05 AM
5D: Global Health in Pediatric Procedural Sedation
Michigan State University School of Human Medicine
Grand Rapids, MI
Bio
After completing my fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at Children’s Hospital of Michigan, 33 years ago, I came to Grand Rapids, Michigan to practice critical care medicine at what has become Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital. My partners and I started doing sedation for hematology/oncology patients informally in the early 1990’s. By the late 90’s we had a well-established pediatric sedation service as part of our division which now sees over 6,000 visits a year. I am currently medical director for the service and Associate Professor for Clinical Pediatrics at Michigan State University. The dramatic growth in our pediatric neurosciences center in the last several years has greatly increased the number of kids we see with complex seizure disorders and neuromuscular diseases who require sedated procedures. In my spare time, I enjoy cycling, especially gravel racing which allows my inner child to play in the dirt and the mud.
I attended Edgewood College in Madison, WI where I graduated with a bachelors in both Child Life and Studies in Education. I have been a Certified Child Life Specialist since 2015. I have been employed at American Family Children's Hospital for 8 years and have worked in the Emergency Department and helped begin a program for teen Sports Medicine surgeries at our sister hospital. I am the primary Child Life Specialist within our Diagnostic and Therapy Center covering our Day Treatment (infusion), Sedation, and Radiology areas. In 2021 I became our first Facility Dog Handler and have worked to grow our program including the creation of our volunteer visiting dog program.
Friday, September 22, 2023
11:50 AM - 12:20 PM
4B: Setting the Stage for a Successful Nitrous Experience
Accomplished Registered Nurse committed to providing exceptional, compassionate care. Nursing experience inclusive of PICU, ECMO, pediatric vascular access, and for the past 12 years, pediatric sedation at a Level 1 pediatric trauma center and
Magnet designated institution.
Friday, September 22, 2023
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Family and Patient Stories
Location: Lucerne
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Question and Answer
Location: Lucerne
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
WORKSHOP: The Role of Ultrasound in Difficult IV Access (ADVANCED) - Pre-registration required
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.
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.
Jason Kane is an Attending Physician in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Sedation Service at Comer Children's Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Chicago. Dr. Kane is currently the Director for Quality and Outcomes for the Pediatric ICU. He has a focus of pediatric health services research, and seeks to identify the most effective ways to organize, manage, finance, and deliver high-quality pediatric care. He holds a master's degree in healthcare quality and patient safety. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP) and Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM).
Thursday, September 21, 2023
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Sedating Children with Organ Failure: How much is too much?
Dr. Khan is the director of Pediatric Sedation at Advocate Children's Hospital, Park Ridge, and attending physician in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
Friday, September 22, 2023
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
WORKSHOP: The Role of Ultrasound in Difficult IV Access (ADVANCED) - Pre-registration required
With a background in pediatric emergency medicine, Dr. Kost started the procedural sedation service at Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware, nearly 25 years ago. She has practiced pediatric sedation both at Nemours and at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and she is a founding member and former president of the Society of Pediatric Sedation. She participated in the original AHRQ-funded SPS "Defining Quality" conference in 2011, which in turn led to on-going involvement in the SPS Center of Excellence program.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
2B: Optimizing the Environment for Post Procedural Care
Location: Geneva
Saturday, September 23, 2023
9:35 AM - 9:50 AM
Question and Answer
Location: Lucerne
9:50 AM - 10:20 AM
Ask the Experts
Location: Lucerne
10:35 AM - 11:05 AM
5D: Global Health in Pediatric Procedural Sedation
Dr. Kromash received his degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine. He then completed a General Practice Residency at St. Joseph's Hospital in Reading, Pennsylvania followed by a residency in anesthesia at Illinois Masonic Medical Center here in Chicago. He is the Program Director of the Dental Anesthesia Residency at Illinois Masonic, one of only 9 in North America, and is the head of Pain and Anxiety Control in the Department of Dentistry where he is responsible for the anesthesia education for 9 General Practice Residents. He is married to Joanne Oppenheim, a pediatric dentist in Chicago and works as an anesthesiologist in her practice. He is the father to two adult children, Benjamin and Jacqueline and he is very honored to be asked to speak today.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
1D: Nuts and Bolts of Creating Sedation Services for Dental Procedures
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.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
7:45 AM - 9:45 AM
The Sedation Prescreen: Choosing the Appropriate Patients
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.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
4:20 PM - 4:50 PM
3D: Show Me The Money - Demonstrating value in your sedation service
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital
Cleveland, OH
Bio
Amy E. Manzo, MD is an attending physician in Pediatric Anesthesiology at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, and is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.
Dr. Manzo attended Baldwin Wallace University for undergraduate studies, followed by medical school at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. She completed her medical training in Pediatrics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Pediatric Anesthesiology at University Hospitals. She is board certified in all four of these specialties.
Friday, September 22, 2023
7:00 AM - 7:45 AM
PBLD 2: Stories From The Frontline: When the surgeons want to bring their cases to the sedation unit
Location: Gstaad
Saturday, September 23, 2023
8:05 AM - 8:35 AM
Sedation for Minor Procedures Outside of the Operating Room
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine physician and Medical Director of Pediatric Procedural Sedation and Advanced Vascular Access at Advocate Children's Hospital - Oak Lawn.
Friday, September 22, 2023
11:50 AM - 12:20 PM
4A: What's In A Nose?
Location: Currents
Saturday, September 23, 2023
10:35 AM - 11:05 AM
5A: How to Grow Without Roots: Building a mobile sedation service
I completed undergraduate education at Xavier University with a bachelor of science degree in biology and went onto attend medical school at the University of Toledo College of Medicine. I completed both pediatric residency and pediatric critical care fellowship at Indiana University School of Medicine and trained at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, Indiana. In 2018, I joined the critical care division as faculty. I became the medical director of procedural sedation, which is staffed by our intensivists.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
1D: Nuts and Bolts of Creating Sedation Services for Dental Procedures
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.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
1B: Working with Patients with Sensory Needs: Sensory seeking and sensory avoidant
Location: Lucerne
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Non-Sedated Procedures: The impact of 'trying without'
Alexa is the Advanced Practice Provider Clinical Lead for the Mobile Anesthesia Sedation Team and Acute Pain Service at Seattle Children's Hospital. She received her undergraduate nursing degree from Boston College and went on to work as an Emergency Department RN before attending the University of Pennsylvania for Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program. She has been interested in sedation since her work in the ED. At SCH, she is a founding member of the sedation team, developing policies and procedures, advocating for institutional culture change, and creating a mobile sedation service from the ground up. Alexa is passionate about the benefits safe, appropriate sedation and pain management can bring to the overall hospital experience and positive outcomes for children and families.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Non-Sedated Procedures: The impact of 'trying without'
In 2008 Jessica graduated as a nurse majoring in pediatric nursing from the Catholic University College Limburg (now University Colleges Leuven Limburg (UCLL)). Afterwards she did further training and obtained her master's degree in nursing at the Catholic University of Leuven in 2010.
Pain, and especially pain in children, has always had her attention. The roots were laid in her master's thesis: a randomized controlled trial examining the effect of audiovisual distraction on pain in children between 6 and 10 years old during venipuncture.
In 2010 she started at the University Hospitals of Leuven in a general pediatric department and since 2018, after reforms, more specifically in a department of pediatric gastroenterology, immunodeficiency and hematology.
During her job as pediatric nurse, she completed another two-year course in pain nurse specialist in 2011. She was also the pain reference nurse on her ward.
Since 2020, she has been working on two international projects: (1) Cosmo@home: development of an app to prepare children at home to decrease need of sedation and/or general anesthesia (2) Little NIRVANA: a novel, digital pediatric pain management solution directed towards empowerment and trust.
Besides her clinical activities, she also teaches nursing students at the UCLL.
Saturday, September 23, 2023
10:35 AM - 11:05 AM
5B: Harnessing AR and VR to Optimize Procedural Sedation
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.
Friday, September 22, 2023
11:50 AM - 12:20 PM
4C: Translating a 1.0 Clinical FTE Into Protected Time
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.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
2B: Optimizing the Environment for Post Procedural Care
Emory University Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program
Atlanta, GA
Bio
Dr. Anna Rodenbough is a Pediatric Intensivist at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Assistant Professor of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Emory University. She serves as an Associate Program Director for the Emory Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship. Dr. Rodenbough received her undergraduate, medical, and public health degrees at the University of North Carolina. She completed her residency and chief residency in pediatrics at the University of Chicago, followed by her fellowship training in pediatric critical care medicine at Emory University.
Dr. Rodenbough’s primary focus is prevention of pediatric critical illness and injury. She serves on the Children’s Injury Prevention Program Intentional Injury Task Force and the Injury Prevention Research Center at Emory Violence Prevention Task Force. She studies the intersection of adverse childhood experiences and pediatric critical illness and is an active member of the Pediatric Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network subgroup on Social Determinants of Health.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
The Intersection of Public Health and Procedural Sedation
Lurie Children's Hospital/Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Bio
Matt Rowland is a dual-trained pediatric anesthesiologist and intensivist practicing at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago. Matt is a member of the liver transplant, complex spine and neuro anesthesia teams. He serves as co-lead for the vascular access team and rapid difficulty airway response team (RaDAR). His research interests focus on pediatric airway management especially difficult airway management and sedation practices in the intensive care unit that optimize patient comfort and minimize adverse events.
Saturday, September 23, 2023
9:05 AM - 9:35 AM
Sedating Children with Chronic Illness: How sick is too sick?
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Pediatric Intensive Care
University of Chicago Medicine - Comer Children's Hospital
Chicago, IL
Bio
Dr. Said is a clinical pharmacy specialist for the pediatric intensive unit at Comer Children’s Hospital. She also serves as the residency program coordinator of the University of Chicago Medicine’s PGY1 pharmacy residency program. She received her PharmD from the University of Illinois at Chicago’s College of Pharmacy. Dr. Said then completed both her PGY1 pharmacy residency and PGY2 pediatric pharmacy residency at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System.
I am board certified in general pediatrics and pediatric critical care medicine, attending faculty as a pediatric intensivist as well as the Medical Director for Pediatric Sedation at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, RI. I am also Associate Professor of Pediatrics, CE at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. My scholarship focuses on quality improvement and systems-based solutions to medication use errors in pediatrics, and proactive safety improvements in pediatric sedation. In terms of medical education scholarship, I have collaboratively developed multiple curricula for medical students and residents since joining the faculty at Alpert Medical School. I am the physician co-Chair for the Pediatric Medication Safety Team at Hasbro, the Chair of the Committee on Academic Standing and Promotion at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, and Co-Chair of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee at Lifespan Healthcare.
Dr. Schultz’s research lies at the intersection of global health and medical education. She has developed curricula on various subjects for community health workers, medical students, nurses and residents in such countries as the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Peru, Malawi, Lesotho, and Rwanda. Her research involves evaluating the longitudinal efficacy of these curricula in changing clinical practice. Dr. Schultz also has a research interest in how to safely and effectively provide pediatric procedural sedation in limited-resource settings, and wrote a pediatric sedation curriculum that has been implemented in Liberia, Malawi, and Kenya.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
4:20 PM - 4:50 PM
3C: Charting A Career Path in Education
Location: Alpine 1
Saturday, September 23, 2023
10:35 AM - 11:05 AM
5D: Global Health in Pediatric Procedural Sedation
I am a practicing pediatric Intensivist and sedationist with nearly 30 years of experience. I am an active speaker in the realm of pediatric sedation over the past few years, with expertise in the business aspects, intranasal sedation techniques, and quality aspects of pediatric procedural sedation. I am currently the Secretary/Treasurer of the Society for Pediatric Sedation. It is my great honor to be a member and speaker of this Society.
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.
Friday, September 22, 2023
11:50 AM - 12:20 PM
4D: Patient Prescreening for Successful Attempts at Non-Sedated Procedures
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.
Friday, September 22, 2023
7:00 AM - 7:45 AM
PBLD 3: When Will This Sedation Stop? What to do when the MRI becomes the EEG leads, ABR and ECHO?
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.
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.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Research in Sedation Education
Location: Lucerne
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Question and Answer
Location: Lucerne
4:20 PM - 4:50 PM
3B: Successful Implementation of Non-Pharmacologic Strategies for Pain Prevention and Management
I have been a pediatric hospitalist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia since 2006. In addition to my role as a pediatrician on our hospitalist service in the Division of General Pediatrics, I serve as a member of the CHOP Sedation Service. I am also a CHOP Global Health faculty member and coordinator for the Global Observer Program in General Pediatrics. I have given lectures on sedation in China, Chile, the Dominican Republic, and Botswana. In Botswana I spent several months observing the sedation practice, collaborating with colleagues there to identify areas of improvement, and conducting simulation sessions for residents.
Saturday, September 23, 2023
10:35 AM - 11:05 AM
5D: Global Health in Pediatric Procedural Sedation
Dr. Werner is at Attending physician at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She has served as Medical Director of Sedation Services since 2017.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
3:51 PM - 4:00 PM
Propofol vs. Pentobarbital - A pre-implementation quality improvement study to standardize medication choices in children under the age of 2
Barbara Weyn received her PhD in medical image processing from the University of Antwerp (UA) in 1998 on the differential diagnosis of mesothelioma. She later led a UA spin-off company that created high-content image analysis software for JnJ. Since 2009, she has been innovation manager of the Medical Image Research Centre (MIRC) at KU Leuven, Belgium. MIRC is an interdisciplinary research centre of KU Leuven and University Hospitals Leuven dedicated to R&D in medical imaging. Barbara Weyn assisted member groups in the valorisation of new clinical imaging applications for diagnosis and prognosis of diseases or for patient empowerment during medical procedures. During the last 4 years, she led 2 European projects focused on the empowerment of children with digital tools such as VR or AR. In the latest little NIRVANA project, an innovative AR pain&anxiety toolkit was developed to help children during needle procedures. This platform is currently being extended for paediatric dental procedures.
Saturday, September 23, 2023
10:35 AM - 11:05 AM
5B: Harnessing AR and VR to Optimize Procedural Sedation
Working in the field of Child Life for over ten years, I have provided procedural support and normalization of the hospital environment for all ages, stages and populations of patients. Nearly four years ago I advocated for and created a dedicated child life role within the mobile anesthesia and sedation team. This work has aided my understanding and knowledge about the wide range of sedation practices and the critical role that child life plays in this process.
Friday, September 22, 2023
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
WORKSHOP: Developing a Nitrous Sedation Service Line - Pre-registration required
Clinical Nurse Specialist and Sedation Program Manager at Stanford Children’s Hospital since 2018. Over 20 years of a variety of pediatric experience at Stanford, including bedside, education, systems-based improvements, and program development. This has led to fostering strong interdepartmental relationships while building the sedation program, including with the Department of Family Centered Care. Projects include partnering with staff and parents to develop strategies for successful sedation workflows and improving communication strategies.
Lisa Wolff has been a child life specialist at the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital for five years and primarily supports a sedation unit and outpatient cancer center. She received her master's degree in Child Life and Family-Centered Care from Wheelock College in Boston, MA. Lisa partnered with two other members of the health-care team to create a child life-focused elective for medical students and recently collaborated on a community engagement elective for residents. Lisa's primary clinical focus is the support of hematology and oncology patients and their families. She also has a passion for educating healthcare team members on the role of child life to increase interdisciplinary collaboration and improve the care of patients and families.
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