Chronic Conditions in Young Adults: Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Care
Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital Specialty Review
An immersive CME program geared toward optimizing transition of pediatric patients with chronic conditions into adult care.
Explore Key Topics
Chronic Conditions in Young Adults: Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Care provides state-of-the-art strategies to help you effectively and efficiently transition these patients into your practice. This in-depth CME course includes case-based lectures on topics like congenital heart disease, diabetes, spina bifida, cancer survivorship, cardiovascular risk reduction, solid organ transplant, substance use disorder, and more. It will help you to better:
Develop and implement practical strategies to transfer and accept patients with chronic conditions
Navigate healthcare systems and their impact on transition to adult care
Adhere to best practices for communication and goal setting with patients and families
Get updates for sexuality and fertility with chronic disease
Enhance your approach to patient and family engagement in chronic condition management and help them achieve health equity
Learning Objectives
After viewing this program, participants will be better able to:
Provide state-of-the-art care of chronic childhood conditions in adolescent and adult patients:
Single-system disease, including congenital heart disease and epilepsy
Multisystem disease, including cystic fibrosis and epilepsy
Intellectual/developmental disabilities, including Down syndrome and autism
Develop and implement practical strategies to successfully transfer and accept patients with chronic childhood conditions:
Care coordination and integration
Supported decision-making
Practice redesign and team-based care
Adolescent health and wellness
Better navigate healthcare systems and their impact on transition to adult care:
Quality improvement
Reimbursement strategies
National health policy
Advocacy
Enhance your approach to patient and family engagement in chronic condition management and help them to achieve health equity:
Communication skills
Assessing self-management skills and readiness for transition to adult healthcare settings
Coping with chronic illness
Supports for community living
ACGME Competencies:
This course is designed to meet one or more of the following Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Competencies:
Patient Care and Procedural Skills
Medical Knowledge
Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
TOPICS/SPEAKERS
Leaving Neverland – Niraj Sharma, MD MPH and Kitty O’Hare, MD
Congenital Heart Disease – Keri M. Shafer, MD, FACC
Diabetes – Katharine Garvey, MD, MPH
HIV – Anne M. Neilan, MD, MPH
Expert Panel: Transition Readiness and Self-Management in Chronic Disease – Moderator: Ahmet Uluer, DO MPH
Patient Presentation: Surviving College with Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Patient and Provider Perspectives – Sarah N. Flier, MD, Janis H. Arnold, MSW, LICSW and Rebecca Sailer, BA
Sexuality and Reproductive Health – Susan H. Gray, MD
Assessing Your Current Practice of Transition Care: Primary Care Practice – Kitty O’Hare, MD and Colleen A. Monaghan, MD
Assessing Your Current Practice of Transition Care: Specialty Care Practice – Ahmet Z. Uluer, DO, MPH and Susan Shanske, LICSW
Adolescent Confidentiality – Maurice W. Melchiono, RN, MS, FNP-BC, NE-BC
Tools to Support Self-Management – Kristine D. McKenna, PhD and Lynne Helfand, MSW, MPH, LICSW
Enhanced Communication between Patients and Providers – Donna Lynn Nimec, MD
Negotiating the Patient/Provider Relationship around Transitions in Care – Susan Shanske, LICSW
Workshop: Writing a Transition Policy Statement – Niraj Sharma, MD, MPH, Kitty O’Hare, MD, Elizabeth Petersen, MD, MPH and Susan Shanske, LICSW
Assessing Developmental Progression – Susan Shanske, LICSW
Spina Bifida – Carlos R. Estrada Jr., MD, MBA
Epilepsy – Ann Marie R. Bergin, MB, ScM, MRCP (UK)
Down Syndrome – Stephanie L. Santoro, MD
Autism – Sarah J. Spence, MD, PhD
Expert Panel: Supported Decision-Making — From Healthcare Proxies to Guardianship – Jennifer Turek Queally, PhD, Susan Shanske, LICSW, and Christopher Ryan, MSW, LCSW
Community Living for Young Adults with Cerebral Palsy – Laurie J. Glader, MD
Implementing an Integrated Care, Hybrid Transition Model for Youth and Adults with Complex Needs: Early Experience – Richard C. Antonelli, MD, MS
Incorporating Adults with ID/DD into Your Practice Setting: Primary Care Practice – Kitty O’Hare, MD and Colleen A. Monaghan, MD
Incorporating Adults with ID/DD into Your Practice Setting: Specialty Care Practice – Ahmet Z. Uluer, DO, MPH and Susan Shanske, LISCW
Billing & Coding for Transition Care – Colleen A. Monaghan, MD
Educational Advocacy for Youth with ID/DD – Alison D. Schonwald, MD
Healthcare Reform – Niraj Sharma, MD, MPH
Quadruple Aim Approach to Transition Care – Ahmet Z. Uluer, DO, MPH
Cancer Survivorship – Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH
Arthritis – Jonathan S. Hausmann, MD
Sickle Cell Disease – Maureen M. Achebe, MD
Cystic Fibrosis – Ahmet Z. Uluer, DO, MPH
Patient Presentation: Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Youth with Chronic Conditions – Colleen A. Monaghan, MD and Stacy B. Klickstein, MSW, LICSW
Expert Panel: Chronic Pain and Palliative Care – Emma M. Jones, MD and Rachael B. Coakley, PhD
Solid Organ Transplant – Maureen M. Jonas, MD
Substance Use Disorder – Scott E. Hadland, MD, MPH, MS
Quality Improvement Strategies to Improve Transition Care: Primary Care Practice – Kitty O’Hare, MD and Colleen A. Monaghan, MD
Quality Improvement Strategies to Improve Transition Care: Specialty Care Practice – Ahmet Z. Uluer, DO, MPH and Susan Shanske, LICSW
Cardiovascular Risk Reduction in Young Adults – Anne Marie Valente, MD
Building a Transition Consultation Program – Ahmet Z. Uluer, DO, MPH
Innovative Strategies for Chronic Disease Management – Lori W. Tishler, MD, MPH
Date of Original Release: May 15, 2019
Termination Date: May 14, 2022 (Please note that AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™ will no longer be issued for the activity after this date)
Estimated Time to Complete: 26.75 hours
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