Evidence-Based Imaging in Pediatrics

lt;b>Summer Kaplan, MD MS, is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and is Director of Emergency Radiology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Dr. Kaplan is board certified in diagnostic radiology with a certificate of added qualification in pediatric radiology. She completed both medical school and graduate work in neuroscience at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kaplan has authored numerous peer-reviewed original research papers on utilization of pediatric imaging in the emergency department and acute inpatient settings. She advises the Clinical Pathways Committee at CHOP on imaging use and has assisted in establishing clinical decision support guidelines for pediatric imaging. Dr. Kaplan also administers multiple interdepartmental quality improvement (QI) projects and teaches QI methodology in global health settings.
Hansel Otero, MD is a core faculty member of the Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness (CPCE) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a practicing pediatric diagnostic radiologist with special interest in advanced genitourinary and cardiovascular imaging. He received his MD from the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas and is board certified in diagnostic radiology. He completed his radiology residency at Tufts Medical Center in Boston and pediatric radiology fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Otero completed two years of Management and Hospital Administration research fellowships at Brigham & Women's Hospital, an affiliated hospital of Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. His main research interest is in health services including imaging utilization and imaging related outcomes. He has over 60 peer-review publications including more than 30 related to health services.

L. Santiago Medina, MD, MPH

Co-Director of Neuroradiology-Neuroimaging, Department of Radiology

Director, Health Outcomes, Policy and Economics HOPE Center

Miami, FL, USA

Professor of Clinical Radiology

Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

Florida International University

Miami, FL, USA

Former Lecturer in Radiology

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA, USA

Kimberly E. Applegate, MD, MS, FACR

Professor of Radiology and Pediatrics

University of Kentucky Children's Hospital

Retired

C. Craig Blackmore, MD, MPH

Director, Center for Health Services Research and Department of Radiology

Virginia Mason Medical Center

Seattle, WA, USA

Part I: Imaging Children: Principles, Methodology, and Risks.- Principles of Evidence-Based Imaging.- Evidence Synthesis in Pediatric Radiology: Demonstrating Value.- Imaging Associated Risks: Radiation, Sedation and Children Specific Safety Concerns.- Quality Improvement in Pediatric Radiology.- Pediatric imaging in Low-Resource Settings.- Part II Prenatal Imaging.- Fetal Anomalies.- Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia and Lung Lesions.- Ventriculomegaly.- Part III Neurological Imaging.- Headache.- Seizures.- Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury.- Neonatal brain hemorrhage.- Brain Neoplasm.- Head and Neck Infections.- Imaging of Spinal Dysraphism.- Part IV Musculoskeletal Imaging.- Scoliosis.- Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease.- Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis.- Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip.- Knee and Shoulder Sports Injuries.- Complex fractures: Hip, Elbow and Ankle.- Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.- Hematogenous Osteomyelitis and Septic Arthritis.- Part V Cardiothoracic Imaging.- Asthma.- Pediatric airway.- Childhood Interstitial Lung Disease.- Congenital Heart Disease.- Congenital Disease of the Aortic Arch: Coarctation and Arch Anomalies.- Chronic Lung Disease of prematurity.- Chest Infections.- Part VI Abdominal Imaging.- Intussusception in Children: Diagnostic Imaging and Treatment.- Imaging of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Children.- Imaging of Clinically Suspected Malrotation in Children.- Imaging of Appendicitis in Pediatric Patients.- Imaging of Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis (IHPS).- Imaging of Nephrolithiasis and Urinary Tract Calculi in Children.- Urinary Tract Infection in Infants and Children.- Imaging of Female Children and Adolescents with abdominopelvic pain Caused by Gynecological Pathologies.- Imaging of Boys with an Acute Scrotum: Differentiation of Testicular Torsion From Other Cause.- UTD.- Part IV Pediatric Oncology and Multisystemic Disease.- Pediatric Bone Tumors: Osteosarcoma and Ewing Sarcoma.- Mediastinal Masses.- Pediatric Abdominal Tumors: Neuroblastoma.- Liver masses.- Cancer pre-disposition syndromes.- Sickle Cell Disease and Stroke.- Cystic Fibrosis.- Part VI Trauma and Emergency.- Foreign Bodies.- Traumatic Brain Injury in Children.- Abusive Head Trauma.- Non-CNS Abusive Trauma.- Spine Trauma.- Blunt Trauma to the Pediatric Torso.- Part VII Interventional Radiology.- Imaged-guided Management of Pleural Effusions.- Imaged-guided Management of Abdominal Abscesses.- Vascular Access in Children.- Imaging guided biopsies.- Management of Vascular Anomalies.