Pediatric Chair's Friday For​um

Pediatric Chair's Friday Forum is designed to instill lifelong learning practices for participants and to further develop critical-thinking skills essential to the practice of medicine and translational science. This weekly, interactive session is facilitated by Department of Pediatrics faculty and residents, and is structured around rotating themes:

  • Week 1 - Clinical Reasoning
  • Week 2 - Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Week 3 - Morbidity & Mortality or Health Equity Rounds
  • Weeks 4 & 5 - Research in Progress or Ethics

Due to confidentiality of some topics, attendees must be OHSU employees.

Time: Fridays, 12 noon-1 p.m.

How to attend: Friday Forum is held in person in DCH Auditorium unless otherwise noted on our weekly announcements. A Webex option is available (OHSU login required) for those who wish to watch sessions virtually. If you are an OHSU employee and would like to attend via Webex, please email Jessica Willhite to be added to the distribution list.

Upcoming Friday Forum Sessions

November 15, 2024 | Health Equity Rounds

Equitable Care for Immigrant Families

Facilitated by Joe Nathanson & Chris Phanthavong

Learning Objectives

  • Define immigrant, refugee, and asylee
  • Identify some of the most common obstacles that children and families who are immigrating to the United States face
  • Internalize evidence-based tools to help with universal screening of children who are immigrating to the United States
  • Discuss nuances of health care assimilation 

November 22, 2024 | Research in Progress

Facilitated by Michelle Noelck

October 4, 2024 | Clinical Reasoning
Smoldering Sickness in a Young Girl
Abbie Bauer, MD, MS

October 11, 2024 | Evidence-Based Medicine
Novel Score to Predict Immunoglobulin Resistance in Kawasaki Disease
Diego Molina Ochoa, MD; Andrea Vosberg, MD; Emily Steelquist, MD

October 18, 2024 | Morbidity & Mortality
Planning for a Difficult Discharge
Amit Mehta, MD & Christina Daragan, MD

October 25, 2024 | Ethics
"But You Promised!” When Neonatal Reality Calls Into Question Prenatally-Presented Options
Robert Macauley, MD & Shanti Rice, MSW

November 3, 2023 | Clinical Reasoning
Brenna Yard, MD & Eric McClellan, MD

November 10, 2023 | Research in Progress
Andrew Gledhill, MD

November 17, 2023 | Health Equity Rounds
Lucia Covert, MD

December 1, 2023 | Clinical Reasoning
Abbie Bauer, MD, MS

December 8, 2023 | Evidence-Based Medicine
Morgan Goff, MD; Matthew Dally, MD; Joshua Vasquez, MD

December 15, 2023 | Morbidity & Mortality
Kevin Kron, MD

January 5, 2024 | Clinical Reasoning

January 12, 2024 | Evidence-Based Medicine
Jonathan Junqua, DO, MPH; Madeline Lyons, MD; Diego Molina Ochoa, MD

January 19, 2024 | Health Equity Rounds
Austen Yeager, MD

January 26, 2024 | Ethics

February 2, 2024 | Clinical Reasoning

February 9, 2024 | Evidence-Based Medicine
Taryn Meacham, MD; Amy Lorber, MD; Shaily Patel, DO

February 16, 2024 | Morbidity & Mortality
Zayna Bakizada, MD

February 23, 2024 | Research in Progress

March 1, 2024 | Clinical Reasoning, 

March 8, 2024 | Evidence-Based Medicine
Cristian Cruz, MD; Rachel Scales, MD; Jacob Corpron, MD

March 15, 2024 | Morbidity & Mortality
Hayden Leeds, MD

March 22, 2024 | Ethics

April 4, 2024 | Clinical Reasoning

April 12, 2024 | Evidence-Based Medicine
Cambrynne DeJong, MD; Grace Gavin, DO; Christina Nguyen, DO, MS

April 19, 2024 | Health Equity Rounds
Erin Madison, MD

April 26, 2024 | Research in Progress

May 10, 2024 | Clinical Reasoning 

May 17, 2024 | Evidence-Based Reasoning
Christina Daragan, MD; Brett Boyer, MD; Kyla Graeser, DO

May 24, 2024 | Research in Progress

May 31, 2024 | Morbidity & Mortality
Olivia Brasher, MD

June 7, 2024 | Clinical Reasoning
Carlee Beckler, MD; Aaron Davis, MD; Joanna Odenthal, MD

June 14, 2024 | Evidence-Based Medicine
Drew Groshong, MD; Sofia Aedo, MD; Jaide Farr, DO

June 21, 2024 | Morbidity and Mortality
Boone Rhinehart, DO

June 21, 2024 | Ethics