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

March 14, 2025 | Evidence-Based Reasoning

Tiny Minds, Big Challenges: Stimulant Use For Children Younger than 6yo With ADHD

Facilitated by Rachel Scales, Isabelle Hudson & Sonya Tkachman

Learning Objectives

  • Discuss long-term safety in use of extended-release stimulants for children aged 4-6yo
  • Discuss whether the results from this study can be applied to our practices here at DCH

March 21, 2025 | Morbidity & Mortality

Facilitated by Heidi VanCampen & Jaclyn Bowker

2024-2025 Schedule

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 1, 2024 | Clinical Reasoning
Found Down at Home: A Distressing Puzzle
Alyssa Penning

November 8, 2024 | Evidence-Based Medicine
NSAID‐Associated Acute Kidney Injury in Hospitalized Children A Prospective Pediatric Nephrology Research Consortium Study
Brett Boyer, MD; Sarah Craven, MD; Sahil Mehta, MD

November 15, 2024 | Health Equity Rounds
Equitable Care for Immigrant Families
Joe Nathanson, DO, MEd & Chris Phanthavong, MPH

November 22, 2024 | Research in Progress
A Prospective Pediatric Nephrology Research Consortium Study
Michelle Noelck, MD

December 6, 2024 | Clinical Reasoning
When a Common Disease Leads to Another Common Disease Through an Uncommon Mechanism
Jared Austin, MD

December 13, 2024 | Evidence-Based Medicine
Wildfires & Pediatric Asthma Exacerbations
Jaide Farr, DO; Lauren Nguyen, MD; Juhi Shah, DO

December 20, 2024 | Morbidity & Mortality
Lost in Transition: Lessons from a Case of Neonatal Hypoglycemia with Multiple Transfers
Catherine Caruso, DO; Sarah Baker, MD; Ashley Stone, MD

January 10, 2025 | Clinical Reasoning
Mental Gymnastics
Andrew Arndt, MD

January 24, 2025 | Health Equity Rounds
Pediatric Safe Sleep: Conversations on Where They Lay Their Head
Jonathan Junqua, DO, MPH & Maya Johnson

January 31, 2025 | Research in Progress
The Trials and Triumphs of a Fellowship Researcher
Rachel Palting, DO

February 7, 2025 | Clinical Reasoning
Back to Base-ics
Richard Cohen, MD; Jessica Binkley, PsyD; Joshua Vazquez, MD

February 14, 2025 | Evidence-Based Medicine
Grace Gavin, DO; Danna Garcia, MD; Carley Haft, MD

February 21, 2025 | Morbidity & Mortality
Lorne Walker, MD, PhD & Emily Rosenthal, MD

March 7, 2025 | Clinical Reasoning
David Rozansky, MD, PhD

March 14, 2025 | Evidence-Based Medicine
Rachel Scales, MD; Isabelle Hudson, MD; Sonya Tkachman, MD

March 21, 2025 | Morbidity & Mortality
Jaclyn Bowker, MD & Heidi VanCampen, MD

April 4, 2025 | Clinical Reasoning
Michael Jones, MD

April 11, 2025 | Evidence-Based Medicine
Mehak Kaur, DO; Tulsi Patel, DO; Rachel Ye, MD

April 18, 2025 | Health Equity Rounds
Cristian Cruz, MD

May 2, 2025 | Clinical Reasoning 
Allison Simpson, DO

May 9, 2025 | Evidence-Based Reasoning
Juliana Sarwary, MD; Nancy Tran, MD; Chantel Tran, DO

May 16, 2025 | Morbidity & Mortality
Morgan Goff, MD

May 23, 2025 | Ethics

May 30, 2025 | Research in Progress

June 6, 2025 | Clinical Reasoning
Laura McWhirter, MD; Boone Rhinehart, DO; Austen Yeager, MD

June 13, 2025 | Evidence-Based Medicine
Amy Lorber, MD;  Margaret DeBell, MD; Shannon Huggins, DO

June 20, 2025 | Ethics

June 27, 2025 | Morbidity & Mortality
Madeleine Duarte, MD