Objectives for this presentation include: 1. State key principles for effectively combining education and care at the bedside 2. Describe the utility of the ESP model for FCR 3. State how teaching “problem representation” can enhance learning and case presentation efficiency 4. Identify key roles for team members

In the talk Margaret Grey reviews US and global trends in obesity and diabetes, describes a program of research on childhood obesity & type 2 diabetes and draws conclusions for practice and policy.

Todd Varness, MD, MPH will review the medical consequences for severe childhood obesity, explain the criteria that might warrant a charge of medical neglect and help you to determine when severe childhood obesity might constitute medical neglect and warrant removal from the home.

Martha Gaines gives an overview of the Center for Patient Partnerships and shares how you can help your patients get the care they need.

Social marketing uses commercial marketing techniques to solve public health and public safety problems. By focusing on the individual whose behavior they are trying to manage, public health practitioners can gain an understanding of the barriers to the desired behavior and the benefits that are needed to accommodate self-interest. By focusing on the environment within which the individual lives, practitioners gain an understanding of the competitive choices available and the daily hassles within which the person must function. In this way, social marketing can be used to develop products/programs/services that will lead to the desired public health behavior. Behavior is managed through environmental change, rather than through messages or law enforcement. The presentation considers ways to use social marketing to reduce childhood obesity.

Alexandra Adams, MD, PhD leads a family-based intervention project - Healthy Children, strong families - to reduce obesity and cardiac risk factors in American Indian children. This participatory research project, a partnership between four Wisconsin Tribes, great Lakes inter-Tribal Council and UW researchers, is a randomized controlled trial examining the effect of a home visiting intervention on reducing metabolic risk and improving lifestyles in the children and their primary caregivers.

Frank Greer, MD reviews the importance of vitamin D as a hormone and its potential impact on chronic diseases (not just rickets!), explains the rationale behind the new AAP recommendations for vitamin D and clarifies the role of serum 25-OH vitamin D level in determining vitamin D status.

Jonathan Temte, MD, reviews the influenza vaccine (why, who and what to expect) and shares how you can enhance the use of this and other vaccines (where we are, where we want to go and how to get there.)

Gwen McIntosh, MD, defines the scope of the problem of gun violence against children, describes the barriers to reducing gun violence against children and identifies successful strategies to prevent gun violence.

Claude Gilmore explores current trends in teenage pregnancy through information gathered from the Milwaukee Community. He assesses the impact of the problem, ranging from racial disparities to STI rates and occurrence of sexual abuse to the monetary cost of teen childbearing for the taxpayers of Wisconsin. Lastly, he explains current state action being taken to decrease teenage sexual activity and pregnancy.

While many aspects of "health" focus on the physical, much of what we do in the classroom is centered on cognitive, emotional, and social well-being of children. Navsaria discusses what can we do to help ensure positive outcomes in these areas. More specifically he introduces strategies as to how educators and parents can best communicate with health care providers on these topics. Navsaria proposes the kinds of advice educators and health care providers can jointly provide to parents and families about their children.

We are what we eat! This is not just a saying, but it is literally true, as every cell in our bodies is constructed and fed from the building blocks contained in the food we eat. This is true for our children as well. Academic performance, attention span, behavioral problems, mental, and emotional health all are directly related to whether children’s developmental nutritional requirements are being met. Hear about the successes that other districts have had in implementing healthy foods, and how these efforts are working in Madison, Wisconsin.

James McCarthy, MD, speaks on the evaluation and treatment of scoliosis. The learning objectives of this presentation are: 1. To identify children with scoliosis from clinical exam. 2. To understand the natural history of idiopathic scoliosis. 3. To know the clinical findings that suggest diagnosis other than idiopathic scoliosis.

Hear the following presentations from the 2007 Medical Student Research Fall Forum: "Phenotype Segregation Network Analysis of Risks Associated with Low Birth Weight" Nana-Ama Ankumah, Mentor: Theresa Duello, PhD "Developing Interventions to Treat Tobacco Dependence in a Free Clinic" Brian Hilgeman, Mentors: Tom Jackson, MD; Bruce Christiansen; Jennifer Brown "A Novel Method for Classification of Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease" Charles Czeczok, Mentor: Paul Anderson, MD "Utilizing Systems Engineering Applications to Improve HIV Flow Laboratory Capabilities in Nairobi, Kenya" Brian Frederick, Mentors: Harold Steudel, PhD; Barbara Payne, PhD; Judd Walson, MD, MPH "Little Association Between Choice of Chemotherapy Treatment and Self-Related Health Among Women Diagnosed with Invasive Breast Cancer" Mary Rhodes, Mentor: Amy Trentham-Dietz, PhD

The objectives of this presentation are to allow you to: 1) Appreciate the natural development of the foot and arch 2) Develop a strategy for examining and treating children with flat feet 3) Recognize the role that obesity plays in foot development and foot pain

Carmen Valdez,PhD, speaks on "Promoting Well-Being in Latino Children Affected by Parental Depression: A Family and Community Approach" at the CDH Research Symposium on June 28, 2007.

The objectives of this presentation are to: 1) Become familiar with the different tracheostomy tubes 2) Identify common tracheostomy emergencies 3) Review EMS management of tracheostomy emergencies 4) Demonstrate suctioning and changing a tracheostomy tube

Dr. Murray Katcher and Patrice Onheiber speak on Racial Disparities in Birth Outcomes at the Health Sciences Learning Center on March 29th, 2007.

This video contains the following presentations related to Education and Training from the 2007 Global Health Symposium: Pediatric Neurosurgery in East Africa Given by: Leland Albright, MD Family Medicine Development in China Given by: Jie Wang, MD, PA-C The Ethiopian Surgical Training Project Given by: Girma Tefera, MD Hackett Hemwall Foundation: Prolotherapy and Sclerotherapy Training in Central America Given by: Jeffrey Patterson, DO International Federation of Primary Care Research Networks Given by: John W. Beasley, MD

Presenters from the Wisconsin Division of Public Health and the Department of Health and Family Services speak on Disparities in Birth Outcomes: A Continuing Challenge in Wisconsin.

Hear a lactation counselor share real-life concerns of patients relating to breastfeeding...and what doctors can do to help them.