In this episode AAP President-elect Moira Szilagyi, MD, PhD, FAAP, who co-wrote the policy statement and clinical report on trauma-informed care, explains why health systems need to teach workers at every level the best ways to communicate with families. Hosts David Hill, MD, FAAP, and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP, also talk to Matthew Yeung, a medical student at the University of Calgary, about his Pediatrics article, “Emergency Department Pediatric Visits in Alberta for Cannabis After Legalization.”
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Moira Szilagyi, MD, PhD, FAAP
Guest
Dr. Moira Ann Szilagyi, AAP President-elect, is a primary care pediatrician, Professor of Pediatrics, and Division Chief of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics at UCLA, where she is also the Peter Shapiro Term Chair for Enhancing Children’s Developmental and Behavioral Health. Her broad experience includes primary care for vulnerable populations, suburban private practice, education of trainees, leadership of several multisystem collaborative partnerships to improve care for children in foster care, research on evidence-based screening and the integration of mental health into primary care and a long history of advocacy at the federal, state and local levels. Dr. Szilagyi has held numerous AAP leadership positions, chairing the AAP NY-District II Task Force on Foster Care and the national Council on Foster Care, Adoption and Kinship Care. She is editor of Fostering Health (the manual for providers and systems) and has co-authored several AAP policy statements and clinical and technical reports on child welfare-involved children. She is Principal Investigator of an AAP case-based online educational program to help pediatricians integrate trauma-informed care into practice. Dr. Szilagyi sees patients in L.A. County’s foster care system.
Matthew Yeung
Guest
Matthew Yeung is a first-year medical student at the University of Calgary and budding emergency medicine researcher. While completing his undergraduate degree in Health Sciences, also at the University of Calgary, Matthew was able to combine his studies in population and public health with interests in emergency medicine by spearheading several projects with his mentor, Dr. Eddy Lang. Through Dr. Lang, Matthew was able to develop an initial project focusing on fall-related injuries specific to Calgary’s variable winter climate and was able to progress on to other salient topics, such as the impact of cannabis on emergency department visit volume.
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*The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and not necessarily those of the American Academy of Pediatrics.