Learning Objectives

• Recognize the degree of variability and complexity in lead testing and management recommendations across the United States.
• Recognize that competing recommendations exist for lead testing and management on the local level between health department, national priorities, and insurance mandates.
• Explain how lead testing rates can be impacted by targeting clinical decision support to align with local recommendations.
• Understand how to align competing evidence-based recommendations in a clinical decision support tool.
• Explain how lead management can be impacted by targeting clinical decision support to align with local recommendations.

Presenters: 

Jeremy J. Michel, MD, MHS, FAAP

Faculty, Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness (CPCE), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)

Pediatrician, Karabots Pediatric Care Center in West Philadelphia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marissa Hauptman, MD, MPH, FAAP

Assistant Director, Pediatric Environmental Health Center

Region 1 Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit General Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital 

 

 

 

 

 

Presenter: Jennifer A. Lowry, MD, FAAP

Jennifer A. Lowry, MD, FAAP

Director, Division of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutic Innovation

Children's Mercy

Kansas City, MO

PEHSU Region 7

 

 

 

 

 

Webinar recording (MP4):

Presenter: Jennifer A. Lowry, MD

Jennifer A. Lowry, MD

Director, Division of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutic Innovation

Children's Mercy

Kansas City, MO

PEHSU Region 7

 

 

Learning Objectives

1. Cite potential sources of lead exposure
2. Identify vulnerable populations of children eligible for lead exposure monitoring
3. Describe health consequences of childhood lead exposure
4. Cite barriers/strategies to improve testing in office practice

Presenter: Alan Woolf, MD, MPH, FAAP, FAACT, FACMT

 

Director, New England Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units

Associate Chief Medical Education Officer, Boston Children's Hospital

Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Region 1 PEHSU

 

 

Learning Objectives

• Discuss potential sources of lead exposure at the shooting range and how that translates to appropriate questions to ask the patient.
• Describe personal protective and hygiene measures that reduce/prevent exposures from shooting.
• Describe measures to control lead exposure in the firing range environment.
• Discuss potential adverse health effects of lead exposure to adolescents.
• Describe a strategy of medical surveillance that a health care provider could recommend.

Presenter: Rose Goldman, MD, MPH

Associate Professor, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Director of Faculty Affairs, Dept. of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance

Associate Director, Region 1 PEHSU