Chronic Conditions in Young Adults: Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Care

Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital Specialty Review

Chronic Conditions in Young Adults: Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Care 2019   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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