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That's Pediatrics: Understanding Adolescent Mental Health Treatment with Dr. Radovic Jul 01, 2025

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Dr. Radovic is interested in increasing adolescent and parent participation in mental health treatment when depression or anxiety treatment is recommended within primary care. She is especially interested in using internet technology such as social media to enable connections between adolescent and young adult peers as well as parent peers who have mental health illness in common and has developed a publicly available website intervention for teens and young adults (sova.pitt.edu) and for parents (wisesova.pitt.edu). Currently, she is has a career development award from National Institute of Mental Health and is conducting a pilot randomized controlled trial of the SOVA intervention. She is also part of the ETUDES (Enhancing Treatment and Utilization for Depression and Suicidality in Pediatric Primary Care, etudes.pitt.edu) team, an NIMH funded ALACRITY center. Collection

That's Pediatrics: Implementing an Antiracist Curriculum for Pediatric Residents with Dr. Orquidia Torres Jul 01, 2025

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Orquidia “Kiki” Torres, MD, MS, director of Medical Student and Resident Education and Fellowship Program director in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, discusses the development of an antiracist curriculum to educate trainees on the impact of racism, especially in healthcare and in Pittsburgh. Collection

That's Pediatrics: Breast Milk Antibodies and the Prevention of Necrotizing Enteritis in Premature Infants with Timothy Hand, MD May 27, 2025

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Dr. Timothy Hand, associate professor of pediatrics and immunology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, discusses his research into the vertical transmission of immunity from mothers to their infants through breast milk and the importance of maternal antibodies in preventing necrotizing enteritis in preemies.

That's Pediatrics: How the RK Mellon Institute is Advancing Pediatrics with George K. Gittes, MD Apr 29, 2025

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George K. Gittes, MD, Benjamin R. Fisher Chair of Pediatric Surgery, chief of pediatric general and thoracic surgery, scientific co-director of research at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and director of the Richard King Mellon Foundation Institute for Pediatric Research, discusses the Institute’s role in supporting research and academic work across Children’s Hospital.

That's Pediatrics: The Safar Center: Reimagining the Future for Pediatric Head Trauma with Patrick M. Kochanek, MD, MCCM Apr 15, 2025

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Patrick M. Kochanek, MD, MCCM, distinguished professor of Critical Care Medicine, the Ake N. Grenvik professor and vice chair of Critical Care Medicine; director of the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research; and professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, discusses the future for studying and treating pediatric head trauma at the Safar Center.

That's Pediatrics: Understanding Child Advocacy Centers with Adelaide L. Eichman, MD Mar 18, 2025

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Adelaide L. Eichman, MD, associate professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the Division of Child Advocacy and assistant medical director of the Allegheny County Child Healthy Evaluation and Coordination Services (CHECS) Program, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, discusses how Child Advocacy Centers work and the future goals for broadening the scope of care within this critical specialty.

That's Pediatrics: Understanding Acute Flaccid Myelitis and Enterovirus D68 with Infectious Disease Physician Megan Freeman, MD, PhD. Feb 18, 2025

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Megan Culler Freeman, MD, PhD, pediatric infectious disease physician at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and assistant professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, discusses her recent studies on acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) and enterovirus D68 (EV-D68), performed at The Freeman Laboratory, which she heads.

That's Pediatrics: The Cleft-Craniofacial Center: Caring for Children with Complex Cleft and Craniofacial Differences with Matthew Ford, MS, CCC-SLP Jan 21, 2025

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Matthew Ford, MS, CCC-SLP, clinical coordinator, Cleft-Craniofacial Center, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, discusses the journey of new parents learning their child will have a cleft or birth anomaly. He describes the breadth of treatment options available for kids with craniofacial differences who remain patients of the center until adulthood.

That's Pediatrics: The Multifaceted Care Needs of Children with Neuromuscular Disease with Hoda Z. Abdel-Hamid, MD, FAAN, Jan 07, 2025

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Dr. Hoda Abdel-Hamid, director of the Pediatric Neuromuscular Program, Pediatric EMG Lab, and Pediatric MDA Clinic at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, discusses the care of children with chronic neuromuscular diseases and the coordination of subspecialists needed to treat them and their families.

That's Pediatrics: Informatics, Electronic Health Records, and the Learning Health System with Christopher M. Horvat, MD, MHA Dec 24, 2024

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Dr. Christopher Horvat, director of Health Informatics for Clinical Effectiveness at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, and our hosts discuss the emergence of electronic health records (EHRs) and their potential to deliver efficiencies and equities in care. Dr. Horvat describes how evidence-based medicine has informed the training of new physicians and how clinical trials help evolve and create new standards of care.

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