Department of Pediatrics

Grand Rounds



July 3

 “Developing Excellence in Teaching for Faculty and Residents: How to be the Teacher Everyone Wants to Have”
David S. Geldmacher, MD, FACP
    The Patsy and Charles Collat Endowed Professor of Neuroscience
    Director, UAB Division of Memory Disorders and Behavioral Neurology
Elizabeth A. Crooks, DNP, RN, CNE/Instructor
    Nurse Educator Masters Track Coordinator, WHO Collaborating Center Scholar,
    UAB School of Nursing
July 10 “Patient Safety: Error Prevention Training”
Leslie W. Hayes, MD, FAAP
   Associate Professor, UAB Division of Pediatric Critical Care
   Medical Director, Children’s Hospital Assessment Team
July 17 “Retinopathy of Prematurity”
Joseph B. Philips, MD
   Professor, UAB Division of Neonatology
July 24

 “Interventional Radiology at Children’s of Alabama”
Rachel F. Oser, MD
   Associate Professor, UAB Department of Radiation Oncology
July 31

 Hugh C. Dillon Memorial Lectureship:
“Antibiotic Resistance: A Global Crisis”
Supported by the Jefferson County Pediatric Society
Jason G. Newland, MD, MEd
   Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri – Kansas City
   Medical Director, Patient Safety and System Reliability,
   Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO

To view live Pediatric Grand Rounds for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ go to:
www.childrensal.org/cme

Grand Rounds are held each Thursday at 12 noon
in the Bradley Lecture Center, 4th Floor of the Children's Center for Research & Innovation

Children's of Alabama designates these live activities for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Children's of Alabama is accredited by the Medical Association of the State of Alabama to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  

The Alabama Board of Nursing will acknowledge programs of continuing medical education designated as category 1 as acceptable activities for the renewal of license to practice nursing.

Children's of Alabama Continuing Medical Education relies upon its faculty to provide information in a manner that is objective and as free from bias as possible.  All activity faculty are asked to disclose any real or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentation.

Grand Rounds Regularly Scheduled Series Objectives:

Upon completion of the live activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Recognize and review current management options for a variety of illnesses related to the field of pediatrics.
  2. Discuss research related to a variety of pediatric illnesses.
  3. Recognize and utilize new advances in technology and physician practice for the care and treatment of the pediatric patient.
  4. Utilize a multidisciplinary approach to provide optimal outcomes for the pediatric patient.
  5. Discuss improvement methodology to provide quality care for the pediatric patient.
CME Contact

Office of CME - (205) 638-9898    
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