In this episode Julia Hecht, MD, FAAP, explains the need for hearing assessments for infants, children and adolescents beyond the newborn screenings. Hosts David Hill, MD, FAAP, and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP, also speak with Elizabeth Welshe, PhD, about how a virtual driving assessment for new drivers helped predict the likelihood of first crashes.
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Julia Hecht, MD, FAAP
Guest
Dr. Hecht is a long-time AAP Chapter Champion for Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI). She served as the Medical Director and school physician at the New Mexico School for the Deaf in Santa Fe and created a bilingual-bicultural medical home for deaf children and children of the Deaf community in Albuquerque. After retiring from clinical practice, she has continued working at the state and national levels in EHDI, particularly in service delivery to rural and remote areas and across different cultures within New Mexico. At the AAP she is currently a member of the Council on Children with Disabilities (COCWD) Equity Diversity and Inclusion workgroup and a co-chair of the EHDI Advisory Group. She is affiliated with the University of New Mexico School of Medicine as a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics.
Elizabeth Walshe, PhD
Guest
Dr. Walshe is a cognitive neuroscientist and research scientist at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at CHOP. Dr. Walshe co-leads the Neuroscience of Driving research program at CHOP that conducts studies at the population-, clinical-, and neuroimaging lab-level to identify at-risk drivers, to inform interventions and policies for safe driving, and to use driving as a novel probe to better understand neural and cognitive function in different populations.
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Conflict of Interest Disclosure:
Elizabeth Welshe’s coauthors, Flaura Winston and David Grethlein, have an intellectual property and financial interest in Diagnostic Driving, Inc. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has an institutional interest in Diagnostic Driving, Inc. Diagnostic Driving, Inc., created a virtual driving assessment system that is used in Ohio as an assessment at licensing centers and in driving schools to assess driver training programs. Flaura Winston serves as the chief scientific advisor of Diagnostic Driving, Inc. This potential conflict of interest is managed under a conflict-of-interest management plan from CHOP and the University of Pennsylvania whereby Flaura Winston has no interaction with participants (all field data collection procedures were conducted by Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles personnel), and all analyses were reviewed and approved by outside consultants with no intellectual or financial interest (John Bolte, a traffic injury researcher at the Ohio State University, and Nancy Kassam-Adams, a behavioral researcher at CHOP and the University of Pennsylvania). David Grethlein works as a Data Scientist at Diagnostic Driving Inc. His conflict is managed in the same manner as Dr. Winston: David Grethlein has no interaction with participants and was not directly involved in the analysis of this paper, which has been reviewed and approved by outside consultants with no intellectual or financial interest (named above).
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"Steadfast" by Blue Dot Sessions at www.sessions.blue
Theme music composed by Matthew Simonson at Foundsound.media
*The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and not necessarily those of the American Academy of Pediatrics.