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2025 Kentucky Children's Hospital Affiliate Network Conference
The 2025 Kentucky Children's Hospital Affiliate Network Conference is designed to enhance the knowledge, skills, and confidence of healthcare providers in the assessment and treatment of pediatric patients across a variety of clinical settings, including emergency departments, NICUs, and general pediatric units. Through evidence-based presentations and interactive breakout sessions, participants will explore key topics such as child abuse evaluation, procedural pain management, antimicrobial stewardship, and foreign body removal techniques. The conference aims to close gaps in pediatric care by equipping providers with practical tools and up-to-date protocols to improve outcomes and promote safe, compassionate care for children.
Target Audience
This activity is intended for physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, respiratory therapists, and other allied healthcare professionals who are involved in the care of pediatric patients in hospital and emergency settings, particularly in community hospitals or rural healthcare systems.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Apply appropriate comfort techniques and procedural pain interventions to reduce distress and improve coping in pediatric patients undergoing medical procedures.
- Evaluate injuries and determine when findings should raise concern for child maltreatment, utilizing standard workups and available consultative resources.
- Analyze the multidisciplinary approach of the Neuro-NICU and its application in the management of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE).
- Implement efficient and effective strategies for pediatric foreign body removal, identifying cases requiring specialist consultation.
- Differentiate between appropriate and inappropriate antimicrobial use in pediatric patients, including the identification of candidates for penicillin allergy delabeling and updated Lyme disease treatment protocols.
- Describe a variety of comfort techniques and positioning strategies that improve clinical outcomes, reduce pain, and enhance coping in pediatric patients.
- Explain what injuries should raise concern for child maltreatment.
- Discuss basic current HIE pathophysiology and management.
- Identify high-risk situations that require early intervention and often specialist consultation for foreign body removal
- Explain the limitations of cefdinir for common pediatric infections and identify scenarios for penicillin allergy delabeling.
- Analyze case-based scenarios to understand how interdisciplinary collaboration impacts decision making and delivery planning.
- Define medical traumatic stress & describe impact of trauma exposure
- Evaluate and implement current best practices for managing NOWS
- Explain the special considerations in the early phases of pediatric trauma resuscitation
Affiliate Network Conference Agenda
September 25–26, 2025
Kroger Field | Kentucky Children’s Hospital
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Location: Kroger Field, Longship Club
General Sessions
7:15 AM – 8:00 AM
Registration / Breakfast / Exhibitor Showcase
8:00 AM – 8:10 AM
Welcome
Scottie Day, MD
8:10 AM – 8:25 AM
State of UK
8:25 AM – 9:15 AM
Creating Calm: Strategies for Pediatric Comfort and Care
Jennifer Guilliams, CCLS
9:15 AM – 9:45 AM
Child Abuse Evaluation
Christina Howard, MD, FAAP
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM
Break / Exhibitor Showcase
Breakout Sessions 1
10:00 AM – 10:40 AM
1A – Current Landscape at UKHC: HIE, Neuro-NICU, and Neonatal Neurology Clinic
Diane Buckley, MD & Ranjit Torgalkar, MD
1B – Pediatric Foreign Body Removal: Tips and Tricks
Jaryd Zummer, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
General Sessions (Continued)
10:40 AM – 10:55 AM
Return to Longship Club / Exhibitor Showcase
10:55 AM – 11:50 AM
From Doxy to Delabeling: Antimicrobial Stewardship Hacks for Busy Clinicians
Joel Howard, MD & Erich C. Maul, DO, MPH, FAAP, SFHM
11:50 AM – 1:00 PM
Lunch / Exhibitor Showcase
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM
Fetal Care Program: Advancing Care of Complex Fetal Conditions
Divya Khattar, MD & Lindsay Ragsdale, MD
1:45 PM – 2:30 PM
Trauma-Informed Approach to Supporting Mental Health in Healthcare
Meghan L. Marsac, PhD
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM
Break / Exhibitor Showcase
Breakout Sessions 2
2:45 PM – 3:25 PM
2A – Redefining Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS)
Rupin Sharma, MD & Julie Springate Spalding, MD
2B – When Minutes Matter: Pediatric Trauma Resuscitation
Andrea Doud, MD
General Sessions (Continued)
3:25 PM – 3:40 PM
Return to Longship Room / Exhibitor Showcase
3:40 PM – 4:25 PM
Pediatric Respiratory Therapy: Let’s Talk About Education and Training
Josh Curtis, BHS, RRT-NPS & Lisa V. Wright, MHA, RRT-NPS, RRT-ACCS, FACHE
4:25 PM – 4:30 PM
Wrap-up / Trivia
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Networking Reception
Friday, September 26, 2025
Physician Track
Location: Kentucky Children’s Hospital, HA1116 / UK Simulation Center
7:30 AM – 8:15 AM
Registration / Breakfast
Neonatology Physician Training – HA1116
8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Line Placement Lab + Chest Tube Lab
Muralimohan Palla, MD
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM
Break
10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Intubation, Resuscitation, POCUS
Anthony Haase, MD
11:15 AM
Departure
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician Training – UK Simulation Center
8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Assessment and Management of the Hemodynamically Unstable Pediatric Patient
Alexis Luedke, MD & Jaryd Zummer, MD
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM
Break
10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Recognizing and Responding to Pediatric Respiratory Distress and Airway Emergencies
Alexis Luedke, MD & Jaryd Zummer, MD
11:15 AM
Departure
Nursing Track
Location: Kroger Field, Central Bank Field Club
7:30 AM – 8:15 AM
Registration / Breakfast
Pediatric Nurse Training
8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Behavioral Health Safety Processes
Kelly Barnett, MSN, RN, CPN & Jessica Lawrence, MSN, RN, CPN
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM
Break
10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Escalations, Mock Codes, Respiratory Support
Kelly Barnett, MSN, RN, CPN & Jessica Lawrence, MSN, RN, CPN
11:15 AM
Departure
Neonatology Nurse Training
8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Respiratory Support Simulation
Kate Fletcher, APRN & Transport Team Nurses
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM
Break
10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Tiny Baby Scenarios
Kate Fletcher, APRN & Transport Team Nurses
11:15 AM
Departure
Available Credit
- 8.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
In support of improving patient care, UK HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
This Live activity is designated for a maximum of 8.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 8.50 ANCC (UK Healthcare CECentral)
In support of improving patient care, UK HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 8.50 nursing contact hour(s).
- 8.50 ParticipationUK Healthcare CECentral certifies this activity for 8.50 hour(s) of participation.