Schedule 2022

January 5

"Residency Education Update "

Matt Brunner, MD
Assistant Professor,
Program Director
Divisions of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine Residency Programs 
WVU School of Medicine

Tim Lefeber, MD
Associate Professor & Residency Director,
Division of Pediatric Hospitalists
WVU School of Medicine

January 26

"Pediatric Gastrointestinal Feeding and Flushing Tubes" 

Frederico Seifarth, MD, FAAP, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery, Chief Pediatric Surgery,
Surgeon-in-Chief, WVU Children's Hospital
WVU School of Medicine

February 2

"Updates to the Management of Febrile Infants (8-60 days old" 

Joseph Lynch, MD, FAAP
Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Hospitalist 
Director of Pediatric Simulation
WVU School of Medicine

February 9

"Equine Therapy: More Than Just Horsing Around" 

Melissa Winkie, MD
PGY-3 Resident, Pediatrics 
WVU School of Medicine

February 16

"No Grand Rounds!  -  Moving Day!

February 23

"The Changing Landscape of Genetic Testing"

Joan Pellegrino, MD, FAAP, FACMGG
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics 
Director, Inherited Metabolic Specialty Center at Upstate
Upstate Medical University

March  2

"Expanding Pediatric Supportive Care at WVU"

Laura Petras, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Palliative Care 
WVU School of Medicine

Katherine Seachrist
Assistant Professor, Palliative Care 
WVU School of Medicine

March 9 

Perioperative Grand Rounds: "Congenital Cardiac Care at WVU Medicine"

March 16

"Pediatric Swallowing Dysfunction"

Hussein Jaffal, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
WVU School of Medicine

March 23

"Morbidity, Mortality & Improvement"

Florette Tshiaba, MD
Peds Resident, PGY-2
WVU School of Medicine

Jason Stemple, MD
Peds Resident, PGY-2
WVU School of Medicine

March 30

"Low Bone Mass in Anorexia Nervosa: Challenges and Opportunities"

Pouneh K. Fazeli, MD, MPH
Director, Neuroendocrinology Unit, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Director, Center for Human Integrative Physiology
University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine

April 6

"Maternal & Neonatal Outcomes Related to COVID-19"

Tricia Moran, MD
Peds Resident, PGY-3
WVU School of Medicine

April 13

"AKI: Peering into the Future"

Ankit Sakhuja, MBBS, FACP,FASN,FCCP
Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Critical Care
WVU School of Medicine

April 20

"Morbidity, Mortality & Improvement"

Alyssa Engle, MD
Med/Peds Resident, PGY-2
WVU School of Medicine

Delaney Wagener, MD
Peds Resident, PGY-2
WVU School of Medicine

April 27

     GWEN HOGAN DAY !

"Hospice/Palliative Medicine 101"

Nadia Tremonti,  MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
University Pediatricians & Central Michigan University
Medical Director, Pediatric Palliative Care Team
Children's Hospital of Michigan
Physician Leader, Angela Hospice My Nest is Best Pediatric Program

May 4

"Journey of the Single Ventricle"

Chris Mascio, MD
Professor and Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
Department of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery
Executive Director, WVU Medicine Children's Heart Center
WVU School of Medicine

May 11

"Baby Friendly, Our Journey"

Miranda Nuzum, Director
Perinatal Nursing Services
WVU Medicine

Jennifer Tallerico Manager
Birth Center CCMC
WVU Medicine 

May 18

"Morbidity, Mortality & Improvement"

Callum Lewandrowski, DO
PGY-3 Resident, Med/Peds
WVU School of Medicine

Natslie Osiecki, DO
PGY-2 Resident, Med/Peds
WVU School of Medicine

May 25

"Asthma Diagnosis & Management, New Update"

Saif Al Qatarneh. MD
Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Pulmonology
WVU School of Medicine

June 1

"What's New with Pneumococcal Disease and Pneumococcal Vaccines"

Tina Q. Tan, MD, FAAP, FIDSA, FPIDS
Attending, Division of Infectious Diseases
Medical Director, International Patient & Destination Services Program
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine

June 8

Combined Grand Rounds Peds/OB

"Psychosocial Aspects of DSD Care: A Focus on Parents and Surgical Decisions"

Amy Wisniewski, PhD
Research Professor of Psychology
Oklahoma State University

June 15

"Lesson Learned"

Chris Kincaid, MD
Associate Professor,
Divisions of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
WVU School of Medicine

June 22

"Navigating the IRB System"

Leslie Cottrell, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, WVU Center for Excellence in Disabilities
WVU School of Medicine

June 29

"The Birth of a Subspecialty: Evolution of Cardiac Critical Care"

Darren Klugman, MD, MS
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Director, Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Director of Quality & Safety, Blalock-Taussig-Thomas Pediatric & Congenital Heart Center
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

July 6

"Residency Education Update"

Matt Brunner, MD
Assistant Professor, Divisions of Pediatric and Internal Medicine
Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
WVU School of Medicine

Tim Lefeber, MD
Associate Professor, Division of Pediatric Hospitalist
Program Director, Pediatric Residency Program
WVU School of Medicine

July 13

"Children Interstitial Lung Disease  (CHILD)"

Cassie Arevalo-Marcano, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Pulmonology
Associate Director Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Center
WVU School of Medicine

July 20

"COVID-19 Vaccination Updates and Communication Strategies to Protect Pediatric Populations in WV"

Lisa Costello, MD, MPH, FAAP
Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine
Clerkship Co-director
WVU School of Medicine

July 27

"Constipation: Diagnosis, Treatment and When to Refer"

Cortney Ballengee Menshini, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
WVU School of Medicine

August 3

"Avoiding Pot Holes: Navigating the Cautionary Trail of Cannabis"

James Berry, DO
Professor, Chair/Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry
WVU School of Medicine

August 10

Combined OB/Peds Grand Rounds
"An Early Present from WV Newborn Screening"

TC Narumanchi, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric Genetics
WVU School of Medicine

August 17

"Sleep Disordered Breathing in Pediatric Chest Wall Disorders"

David E. Thomas, MD, PhD  
Assistant Professor
Division Chief, Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine
WVU School of Medicine

August 24

"WVU Medicine Children's Updates"

Amy Bush, BSN, MBA, RN, CNOR
West Virginia University Health System, Vice President, Clinical Operations
Chief Operating Officer, WVU Medicine Children's

August 31

"Mobidity, Mortality & Improvement"

Morgan Decker, MD
PGY-2 Resident, Department of Pediatrics
WVU School of Medicine

Holly Chiles, DO
PGY-2 Resident, Department of Pediatrics
WVU School of Medicine

September 7

"Avoiding Pot Holes: Navigating the Cautionary Trail of Cannabis"

James Berry, DO
Professor, Chair/Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry
WVU School of Medicine

September 14

"People, Programs & Places"

Amy Bush, BSN, MBA, RN, CNOR
West Virginia University Health System
Vice President, Clinical Operations
Chief Operating Officer
WVU Medicine Children's

September 21

"Preparing and Providing Medical Care for Large Camping Gatherings"

Lee Pyles, MD, MS
Professor of Pediatrics
Vice-Chair for Pediatric Research
Director, Preventive Pediatric Cardiology 
WVU School of Medicine

September 28

"Multidisciplinary Approach to Cerebral Palsy"

Elizabeth McQuade, MD
Mary Russell, MD
David Tager, MD
Kimberly Hamilton, MD
Rachel Alderson, Physical Therapy
Stacey Artimez, Occupational Therapy
WVU School of Medicine

October 5

"What is Pediatric Neuropsychology? And how do I get it?"

Krestin Radonovich, PhD
Vice Chair of Research,
Director of Child Neuropsychology 
Associate Professor
WVU School of Medicine

DJ Bernat, PhD
Pediatric Neuropsychologist
Assistant Professor, Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry
WVU School of Medicine

Sam Eckrich PhD
Pediatric Neuropsychologist
Assistant Professor, Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry
WVU School of Medicine

October 12

"Morbidity, Mortality & Improvement"

Seth Deskins, MD
PGY-3 Resident, Med/Peds 
WVU School of Medicine

Giles Knowles, DO
PGY-3 Resident, Med/Peds
WVU School of Medicine

October 19

"Coding Grand Rounds"

Coding Team
WVUMedicine

October 26

“Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Cell Autotransplantation: Advanced treatment option for Debilitating Pancreatitis in Children”

Jaimie D. Nathan, MD, FACS
Chief of Pediatric Abdominal Transplant and Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery
Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Balamurugan N. Appakalai, PhD
PI, Center for Clinical and Translational Research
Nationwide Children’s

November 2

"Supraventricular Tachycardia"

Utkarsh Kohli, MD
Associate Professor
Division of Pediatric Cardiology 
WVU School of Medicine

November 9

"OB/Peds Combined Grand Rounds"
"Standards of Behavior

November 16

"An Update on Monkeypox"

Michael Stevens, MD, MPH, FSHEA, FIDSA, FACP
System Healthcare Epidemiologist, WVU Health System
Professor of Internal Medicine & Public Health,
WVU School of Medicine

November 23

"NO GRAND ROUNDS"  Happy Thanksgiving

November 30

"OB/Peds Combined Grand Rounds"
"Neonatal Brachial Plexopathies"

Kimberly Hamilton, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Neurosurgery
WVU School of Medicine

December 7

"Antimicrobial Stewardship at WVU Medicine Children’s"

December 14

"Short Bowel Syndrome – Intestinal Failure: For the General Pediatrician”

December 21

"NO GRAND ROUNDS"  Happy Holidays

December 28

"NO GRAND ROUNDS"  Happy Holidays