Are you emotionally intelligent? In this new episode Drs. Temara Hajjat and Jason Silverman sit down with Dr. Brian McFerron to review what emotional intelligence is, and how it applies to medical training, healthcare practitioners and everyone as individuals. We also discuss ways to improve and resources to consider.

Dr. McFerron is the Director of the Fellowship Training Program for the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at Indiana University School of Medicine/Riley Hospital for Children. Dr. McFerron has clinical interest in pancreatic diseases and has been involved in clinical research involving acute recurrent and chronic pancreatitis, collaborating with colleagues nationally within the INSPPIRE consortium. He was awarded the NASPGHAN Terri Li Young Educator Award in 2022.

Learning objectives

1. Review the components of emotional intelligence and how gaps in these components may present
2. Discuss the importance of emotional intelligence in a variety of professional and personal domains
3. Review strategies for improving dimensions of emotional intelligence

Episode links

1. Learning the Lasso Way
2. How to Use Emotional Intelligence as a Career Catalyst
3. Assessment of Medical Students' Emotional Intelligence
4. Emotional Intelligence and Academic Performance in First and Final Year Medical Students
5. The Best Leaders Aren't Afraid to be Vulnerable (HBR)
6. The Power of Vulnerability (TED Talk by Brené Brown)

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In this episode, hosts Drs. Peter Lu and Jennifer Lee talk to Dr. Ruba Abdelhadi about enteral nutrition and feeding tubes.

Dr. Abdelhadi is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Children's Mercy in Kansas City, MO where she is the Director of Nutrition Support Program. She is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine.

Learning Objectives:

1. Define enteral nutrition and patient populations who may benefit from enteral nutrition therapy.
2. Understand the types, use cases, and complications of enteral feeding tubes.
3. Review troubleshooting and treating common clinical scenarios related to feeding tube such as redness and leaking

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This episode is eligible for CME credit! Once you have listened to the episode, click this link to claim your credit. Credit is available to NASPGHAN members (if you are not a member, you should probably sign up). And thank you to the NASPGHAN Professional Education Committee for their review!

As always, the discussion, views, and recommendations in this podcast are the sole responsibility of the hosts and guests and are subject to change over time with advances in the field.

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In this episode, hosts Drs. Peter Lu and Temara Hajjat talk to Dr. Tanaz Danialifar about diagnosing and treating disaccharidase deficiencies in children, including lactase deficiency and congenital sucrase-isomaltase deficiency (CSID).

Dr. Danialifar is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, where she is Associate Director of their Gastroenterology Fellowship Program, and an Assistant Professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

Learning Objectives:

1. Recognize aspects of a child's clinical presentation that would raise concern for a disaccharidase deficiency.
2. Understand the roles of the various diagnostic tests available for disaccharidase deficiencies.
3. Understand the treatment and prognosis of disaccharidase deficiencies in children.

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This episode is eligible for CME credit! Once you have listened to the episode, click this link to claim your credit. Credit is available to NASPGHAN members (if you are not a member, you should probably sign up). And thank you to the NASPGHAN Professional Education Committee for their review!

As always, the discussion, views, and recommendations in this podcast are the sole responsibility of the hosts and guests and are subject to change over time with advances in the field.

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In this episode, hosts Drs. Temara Hajjat and Peter Lu talk to Dr. Arun Singh about some of the challenges we face when caring for children with celiac disease.

Dr. Singh is Co-Director and Research Program Director of the Center for Celiac Disease at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and an Assistant Professor in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the latest gluten challenge recommendations to help facilitate celiac disease diagnosis.
2. Recognize the differences between various celiac serologies.
3. Recognize resources available to children diagnosed with celiac disease and their families.

References:
Gluten Challenge: Singh A, et al. A Clinician's Guide to Gluten Challenge. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2023 Dec 1;77(6):698-702.
SAGE Guidelines: https://celiac.org/schoolmanagementplan/
College Toolkit:
https://www.beyondceliac.org/living-with-celiac-disease/school/info-for-college-students/
https://www.beyondceliac.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/College-Toolkit.pdf

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This episode is eligible for CME credit! Once you have listened to the episode, click this link to claim your credit. Credit is available to NASPGHAN members (if you are not a member, you should probably sign up). And thank you to the NASPGHAN Professional Education Committee for their review!

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In this episode, hosts Drs. Temara Hajjat and Peter Lu talk to Dr. Maria Oliva-Hemker about diagnosing and managing Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) in children who have inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Dr. Oliva-Hemker is the Director of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition and the Stermer Family Professor for Pediatric IBD at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is also the Vice Dean for Faculty and the Mary Wallace Stanton Professor for Faculty Affairs.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn how to diagnose Clostridioides difficile, particularly when there is concern about a new IBD diagnosis.
2. Learn how to manage C. diff infection in a patient with known IBD.
3. Learn how to manage recurrent and refractory C. diff infection in a patient with IBD.

• Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)
• AGA Clinical Practice Guideline on Fecal Microbiota–Based Therapies for Select Gastrointestinal Diseases
• ACG Clinical Guidelines: Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Clostridioides difficile Infections

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This episode is eligible for CME credit! Once you have listened to the episode, click this link to claim your credit. Credit is available to NASPGHAN members (if you are not a member, you should probably sign up). And thank you to the NASPGHAN Professional Education Committee for their review!

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In this episode, hosts Drs. Jason Silverman and Temara Hajjat talk to Drs. Michael Narkewicz and Zachary Sellers about screening, evaluation and management of children with cystic fibrosis with hepatobiliary involvement and advanced CF liver disease. We review the new consensus recommendations paper published in the May issue of Hepatology (open access link below).

Dr. Narkewicz is a pediatric gastroenterologist and transplant hepatologist at Children’s Hospital Colorado and professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado with a strong clinical and research interest in cystic fibrosis and in particular on liver disease in cystic fibrosis who has presented and published extensively in this area over his career.

Dr. Sellers is a pediatric gastroenterologist, Adjunct professor and physician-scientist at Stanford with clinical interests in the GI manifestations of cystic fibrosis and pancreatitis in children who has worked with the INSPPIRE consortium and has presented and published widely on CF and liver disease in CF.

Learning objectives:

1. Define cystic fibrosis with hepatobiliary involvement (CFHBI) and advanced cystic fibrosis liver disease (aCFLD)
2. Outline recommendations for screening and evaluation for patients with CF and liver involvement
3. Outline the recommendations for management of patients with CF and liver involvement

Papers discussed in this episode (both are open access!:

1. Cystic fibrosis screening, evaluation, and management of hepatobiliary disease consensus recommendations
2. Towards a Standardized Classification of the Hepatobiliary Manifestations in Cystic Fibrosis (CFHBI): A Joint ESPGHAN/NASPGHAN Position Paper

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This episode is eligible for CME credit! Once you have listened to the episode, click this link to claim your credit. Credit is available to NASPGHAN members (if you are not a member, you should probably sign up). And thank you to the NASPGHAN Professional Education Committee for their review!

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In this episode, hosts Drs. Peter Lu and Temara Hajjat talk to Dr. Jason Silverman about how social media can be used in pediatric gastroenterology for patient care, research, medical education, and professional development.

Dr. Silverman is an Associate Professor in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Stollery Children's Hospital, where he is also the Program Director for the Pediatric Gastroenterology training program and co-lead for the CHildren's Intestinal Rehabilitation Program (CHIRP).

He is also (of course) one of our podcast co-founders and hosts!

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the need for pediatric gastroenterology providers to be active participants on social media and incorporate this participation in their patient education and advocacy efforts.
2. Understand how individual researchers and academic journals can use social media to increase the impact of their peer-reviewed work on broader audiences and recognize that social media can be an important source of feedback, engagement, and cross-disciplinary interaction.
3. Recognize that a strong societal social media presence will amplify the resources and messaging from our society for its members, our patients, and the public.

Links:
Silverman JA, Chugh A, Hollier JM, Martin N, Raghu VK, Rosas-Blum E, van Tilburg MAL, Venkataraman-Rao P, Venkatesh RD, Lu PL. Using social media for patient care, research, and professional development: A North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition position paper. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2024 Feb;78(2):414-427. doi: 10.1002/jpn3.12051.

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This episode is eligible for CME credit! Once you have listened to the episode, click this link to claim your credit. Credit is available to NASPGHAN members (if you are not a member, you should probably sign up). And thank you to the NASPGHAN Professional Education Committee for their review!

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In this episode, hosts Drs. Peter Lu and Jennifer Lee talk to Dr. Michael Wilsey about the evaluation and management of esophageal strictures in children, including congenital strictures and those arising from eosinophilic esophagitis and caustic ingestions.

Dr. Wilsey is an advanced endoscopist at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL and is a Professor at the University of South Florida.

Learning Objectives:

1. Review the presentation, evaluation, and management of congenital esophageal strictures.
2. Understand the diagnostic tools used in the evaluation of an esophageal stricture, including the utility of functional luminal imaging probe (FLIP) testing.
3. Understand the treatment options used for esophageal strictures, including the different types of dilation and the role of steroid injections and stenting.

Links:
Laughrey M, Kidder M, Rivera D, Wilsey M, Karjoo S. Development of an esophageal stricture following paradichlorobenzene mothball ingestion. SAGE Open Med Case Rep. 2020 Nov 13;8:2050313X20974210. PMID: 33240502

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This episode is eligible for CME credit! Once you have listened to the episode, click this link to claim your credit. Credit is available to NASPGHAN members (if you are not a member, you should probably sign up). And thank you to the NASPGHAN Professional Education Committee for their review!

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