Bactrim is a commonly prescribed antibiotic used to treat a variety of conditions, including urinary tract infections, acne and skin and soft tissue infections. The American Academy of Dermatology recently revised its guidelines discouraging the use of Bactrim to treat acne based on research conducted by my next guests – Dr. Jenna Miller, pediatric…

In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Garrett is joined by Courtney Berrios and Kimberly Freeman. They will be discussing the topic of pediatric rare diseases and the development of a community-led research agenda for better understanding the needs and priorities of patients and families living with rare diseases. Click here to read Dr. Garrett's article foc…

To accelerate precision medicine for pediatric oncology, Children’s Mercy Kansas City, together with its Research Institute (CMRI), pioneered a new whole-exome-sequencing-based genetic test for all children diagnosed with cancer. While many pediatric research institutions in the country conduct genetic sequencing of tumors, CMRI is one of the few i…

Children’s Mercy Kansas City, one of the nation’s leading independent pediatric health organizations, announced it is the first health care system to use 5-base HiFi sequencing, the world’s most-advanced genomic sequencing technology from PacBio, in the clinical setting to accelerate diagnoses for even more patients and families.…

Incredible advances in the care of patients born with single-ventricle heart disease have led to significantly better quality of life and survival. Complex surgical palliation culminating in the Fontan procedure is effective and can allow patients to grow and develop similar to their peers. Unfortunately, changes related to Fontan anatomy lead to s…

In this episode, Dr. Betty Kassa, who will lead a discussion focusing on international medical care, and what being a practicing pediatric intensivist is like in Ethiopia.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

In this episode, Dr. Mark Clements leads a discussion focusing on population health management and pediatric type 1 diabetes.By Children’s Mercy Kansas City

In this episode, Dr. Ian Wolfe, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Pediatric Ethics, moderates a discussion with Drs. Joseph Shapiro and Jeremy Garrett breaking down their recent article on decision-making in Pediatric Emergency Care from the pages of the Fall issue of JPE.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

In this episode, Dr. Ian Wolfe leads a discussion focusing on the concept of a child's relational potential and the role that this concept might play in certain pediatric cases.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

Data science -- often discussed with terms like artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, data goverernance -- has the potential to transform every aspect of health care, from the patient experience to how, when and where care is provided, and improving outcomes. In this Transformational Pediatrics episode, Mark Hoffman, PhD, Chief Resea…

The health care sector has begun to embrace coaching to promote resilience and innovation during a time of massive disruption while also cultivating healthier workplace cultures. In this podcast, Alyssa Stephany, MD, Director of the Physician Leadership Center at Children's Mercy Kansas City shares how professional and peer coaching can help reduce…

In this episode Dawn Hood-Patterson will talk with Joshua Morris, MDiv, PhD, BCC about moral injury. Dr. Morris will expand the definition of moral injury, once reserved for use with military personnel and service members, into healthcare and clinical settings. Dr. Morris will highlight way in which moral injury nuances our understanding of traumat…

Rev. Cody Sanders, PhD will delineate what providers and ethicists can learn about life and relationships from tending the corpse. Death is an unavoidable part of the human experience and Dr. Sanders will describe what professionals should consider when caring for the bodies of the dead and dying.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

In this episode, Dr. Bryanna Moore and Dr. DeeJo Miller lead an interactive discussion focusing on Bryanna Moore's recent published article, "Exploring the Ethics of the Parental Role in Parent-Clinician Conflict"By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

On this episode, Brian Carter and Dawn Hood-Patterson will discuss the role of hope and spirituality in bioethics.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

Nearly 1 in 5 children in the United States live in rural areas. Rural children experience health and health care disparities compared to their urban peers and represent a unique and vulnerable pediatric patient population. Important disparities exist in all-cause mortality, suicide, firearm-related unintentional injury, and obesity. In this episod…

Intraprofessional disagreements about complex cases.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

The zone of parental discretion: an ethical tool for dealing with disagreement between parents and doctors about medical treatment for a child.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

Dr. Joanna Clark leads a discussion on dysthanasia.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

Joseph Millum is the author of a new book about a new theory for bioethics. The volume offers a carefully argued, compelling theory of bioethics while eliciting practical implications for a wide array of issues including medical assistance-in-dying, the right to health care, abortion, animal research, and the definition of death. The authors’ dual …

Dr. Jane Lee, associate professor of pediatrics in the Medical College of Wisconsin's Complex Care department, discusses her new book Catastrophic Rupture: A Memoir of Healing.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

Dr. Weisleder discusses the role that neurologists played in the eugenics movements of the twentieth century.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

After her son was born with a life-threatening congenital heart condition, Wendy Hind, Ph.D., J.D., began using poetry and essay as a form of narrative medicine - it's her way of expressing herself and connecting to others through issues of health and healing. She is the founder and curator of #tinypoetryproject - short poems posted weekly as narra…

What is informatics and why is it important in health care? Listen as Jill Westcott, MD, MS, FACOG, Physician Informaticist for the Fetal Health Center at Children's Mercy, shares her expertise on the topic and how informatics is improving patient outcomes in fetal health.By Children’s Mercy Kansas City

The Children’s Mercy Research Institute® is undertaking a research initiative to build a first-of-its-kind pediatric data repository to facilitate the search for answers and novel treatments for pediatric genetic conditions. Our goal is to collect genomic data and health information for 30,000 children and their families over the next seven years, …

Dr. Carter discusses the ways words shape our perceptions of medical interventions, and why there are hesitations with immunization.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

How do we create a healthier future for children? The Children's Mercy Research Institute with a core focus on genomics, personalized therapeutics, population health, health care innovation and bioethics is positioned to fundamentally transform pediatric research and create a world of well-being for all children. Listen as Thomas Curran, PhD, FRS, …

Children’s Mercy Kansas City is recognized as one of the top 10 nephrology programs in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, and the kidney transplant program has incorporated a number of innovative practices into their management plan that are designed to enhance patient outcomes. Join us as Dr. Bradley Warady discusses how the program’s persona…

To reduce the risk of complications related to hemodialysis, the Children’s Mercy Kansas City Division of Nephrology has implemented several strategies. Listen as Dr. Bradley Warady shares how the institution of standardized infection prevention practices has resulted in more than 1,200 consecutive days without an outpatient central line-associated…

Devika Maulik MD shares her translational research as it relates to folic acid and different responses to dosing among women of various races and ethnicities. She is using the information gathered to create recommended guidelines for folic acid dosing. She discusses current literature on this topic, as well as her studies in this area.…

Dr. Angela Myers discusses whether or not children should receive the new COVID-19 vaccine.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

Dr. Barbara Pahud discusses ethical questions concerning the COVID-19 vaccine(s) and children.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

Dr. Christina Low Kapalu discusses cases and literature surrounding pediatric recurrent intentional foreign body ingestion.By Children’s Mercy Kansas City

In this three-person panel, Shelby Rebeck MSN, RN, Dr. Jeremy Garrett, and Vanessa Watkins, MPH discuss how school nurses are handling COVID-19.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

Dr. Sarah Tsai discusses his recent findings from his study surround serum morning cortisol levels.By Children’s Mercy Kansas City

Dr. Jeremy Garrett, Vanessa Watkins MPH, Alaina Burns, PharmD discuss finding a work-life balance during the pandemic.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

In this panel interview, Dr. Jeremy Garrett and Vanessa Watkins, MPH, discuss the decisions parents are facing regarding sending their children to school and what the best approach is for their child's education.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

Dr. Phoebe Danziger discusses the possible pushback from a COVID-19 vaccine, and how to overcome doubts of the safety and efficacy of a new vaccine.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

Dr. Nathaniel Beers discusses the ethical, epidemiological, economic, and emotional issues surrounding the conversation on whether or not children should return to school or resume online learning.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

Dr. Shari Barkin shares what the next phase of COVID-19 will look like, what society has learned, and where society all goes from here.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

Dr. Erica Salter joins Dr. Lantos to discuss the arguments for and against the best interest standard.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

Dr. Emanuel "Mike" Vlastos discusses the algorithm for diagnosing and trading twin to twin transfusion syndrome.By Children’s Mercy Kansas City

Susan Wootton, MD discusses COVID-19 and the issues that parents and children are facing as we move towards the fall and the new school year.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

Dr. James Daniel discusses improved outcomes for liver transplantation with Biliary Atresia.By Children’s Mercy Kansas City

The UK was hit hard by COVID-19. One of the UK's leading bioethicists, Dr. Dominic Wilkinson from Oxford University, will talk about some of the decision makings that was crucial to getting through the crisis.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

Dr. Louis Bell shares what the pediatricians at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have learned from the pandemic and how they can move forward.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

Dr. Nathan Fleishman discusses the clinical characteristics of fractures in pediatric patients exposed to PPIs.By Children’s Mercy Kansas City

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented work environment for pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists. How we practice medicine has been dramatically changed. When discussing physical precautions such as PPE and social distancing, provider mental well-being also should be a part of the conversation. In this podcast, Jennifer Bickel, MD…

Dr. George Hardart shares what it is like in New York City, the epicenter of COVID-19 in the United States.By Children's Mercy - Pediatric Ethics

Dr. Kelsee Halpin discusses Endocrinology and Diabetes.By Children’s Mercy Kansas City