Webinars
Join SENTAC for our Upcoming Webinar Series!
Updates in Pediatric Vestibular Evaluation and Diagnosis
Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
The fouth webinar in our 2022 series will be held on
Wednesday September 21st from 5:00pm- 6:30pm CDT ( 3pm Pacific, 6pm EDT )
This webinar is free to SENTAC members and only $25 for non-members.
1.0 CME will be awarded and the webinar will be awarded ASHA credits
This 4th webinar in our series will be moderated by our own SENTAC member Madison Howe, AuD-CCC and will consist of case discussions with panelists.
Batoul Berri, AuD, University of Michigan, Michigan Medicine
Megan Cherry, AuD, CCC-A, CH-AP, University of Michigan, Michigan Medicine
Arielle Darvin, AuD, CCC-A, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Upon completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Identify patients who may require vestibular evaluation
- Describe vestibular evaluation accommodations for children and children with hearing loss
- Describe recommendations for pediatric patients with vestibular disorders
Past Webinars
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Diagnosing and Managing Auditory Neuropathy
Wednesday, July 6th, 2022
The third webinar in our 2022 series A Multidisciplinary Approach to
Diagnosing and Managing Auditory Neuropathy will be held on
Wednesday July 6th from 5:00pm- 6:30pm CDT ( 3pm Pacific, 6pm EDT )
This webinar is free to SENTAC members and only $25 for non-members.1.0 CME will be awarded and the webinar will be awarded ASHA credits
In this one hour course moderator Keri Colio will briefly present various cases and then ask each of our panelist to share thieir thoughts and experiences with similar cases.
Upon completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:Describe auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD)Describe how to determine cochlear implant (CI) candidacy for people who have ANSDList 3 advantages to using a multidisciplinary approach for pre- and post-CI recipients who have ANSD.
Tracy B. Pate, M.S., CCC-SLP
Listening and Spoken Language Specialist/ Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapist, is the Program Coordinator for The Listening Center at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. The Listening Center is an evaluation, therapy, and consultation program designed for the development of listening and spoken language skills for children and adults who are deaf and hard of hearing. For the past thirty years, she has worked exclusively with this population.
Her responsibilities include working directly with families to educate and empower them on issues related to hearing loss. She consults with Early Intervention professionals and school districts statewide to educate them on intervention for students using cochlear implant technology. She provides direct speech language therapy and telehealth sessions to families as well. She also uses a telehealth format to consult and educate other professionals who are serving the deaf and hard of hearing population.
She received certification to practice Auditory-Verbal Therapy in 1998, which places her in a group of highly qualified individuals specifically training to teach listening and spoken language to young children who are deaf and hard of hearing.
Dr. Victoria Kivlan, AuD., CCC-A
Dr. Victoria Kivlan is a pediatric audiologist at the Mississippi Center for Advanced Medicine (MCAM), a graduate level adjunct professor at Louisiana Tech University, and a Captain serving in the United States Army Reserves. Dr. Kivlan has experience working in a multitude of different settings from serving as an educational audiologist at the Mississippi School for the Deaf as well as stents at two children’s hospitals. Victoria received her bachelor’s degree from the Mississippi University for Women and her Doctorate of Audiology from Idaho State University. Dr. Kivlan currently serves on the Board of Directors for Mississippi Early Hearing Detection and Intervention. Dr. Kivlan has specialized interest in the diagnosis and management of Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder and has presented locally and nationally on the topic.
Dr. Daniela Carvalho
Dr. Daniela Carvalho is a pediatric otolaryngologist with focus in pediatric otology. She is the Director of the Hearing and Cochlear Implant Program at Rady Children’s Hospital of San Diego (RCHSD) since 2003 and is the EHDI Chapter Champion of the AAP-CA3. She is also the Medical Director of Surgical Services at RCHSD, where more than 20,000 surgeries are performed in children annually.
She has been invited extensively as a guest speaker and is very active in several national and international otolaryngology societies. Dr. Carvalho is currently the President of SENTAC.
Keri Colio
Keri Colio joined the Rady Children’s Hospital Audiology Team in 2013, where she serves as the cochlear implant clinical coordinator. She received her doctorate in audiology from East Tennessee State University in 2013 following completion of a four-year residency program. Prior to that, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in audiology from the University of Tennessee. Keri is certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She maintains an audiologist license from the state of California and serves as a subject matter expert on the Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board. Keri also serves on the board of directors for the Society of Ear Nose and Throat Advancement in Children (SENTAC).
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gastrostomy Tube Weaning in Medically Complex Children
Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
The second webinar in our 2022 series Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gastrostomy Tube Weaning in Medically Complex Children will be held on Wednesday May 11th from 5:00-6:00pm PST (6pm Mountain, 7pm CST, 8pm EDT )
This webinar is free to SENTAC members and only $25 for non-members.
This 1-hour course will present approaches from two different hospital systems on feeding tube weaning in medically complex children. During this live webinar, panelists from a variety of disciplines will discuss how feeding tube weaning is approached in their clinic and provide a model for an interdisciplinary pathway toward full oral feeding for children with tube dependence. Participants will have opportunities to ask questions and engage in discussion.
1.0 CME will be awarded
*All other disciplines will receive a certificate of completion and if requested, other documents required to submit for CE credit.
Learner Objectives:
After completion of this course, learners will be able to:
- Describe two models for interdisciplinary feeding tube weaning clinics
- Identify the roles of different professions (SLP, RD, GI, etc) for interdisciplinary, evidence-based feeding tube weaning programs
- Name three potential barriers to progression to full oral feeds, and outline management options
Panelists
From Children’s Medical Center Dallas:
Meghana Sathe MD: Meghana.sathe@utsouthwestern.edu
Lauren Hollaway RD: lauren.hollaway@childrens.com
From the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne:
Sarah James SLP: Sarah.James@rch.org.au
Rachael Martin RD: Rachael.Martin@rch.org.au
Vascular Anomalies : Updates and Insights
Wednesday, March 16th, 2022
The first webinar in our 2022 series Vascular Anomalies : Updates and Insights will be held on Wednesday March 16th from 5:00-6:00pm PST (6pm Mountain, 7pm Pacific, 8pm EDT )
This webinar is free to SENTAC members and only $25 for non-members.
Please join this amazing webinar highlighting the newest information and insight into the world of vascular anomalies from experts in Plastic Surgery, Dermatology, Genetics, and Interventional Radiology. These speakers will be introduced and moderated by our own SENTAC past president and pediatric otolaryngologist. The aim is to update our membership to the newest ideas in the vascular anomalies space in terms of treatment strategies for hemangiomas and vascular malformations. These brief presentations from each speaker will keep your interest and assist in your own approach to vascular anomalies.
1.0 CME will be awarded
*All other disciplines will receive a certificate of completion and if requested, other documents required to submit for CE credit.
Moderator:
Gresham Richter, MD
Presenters:
Dov Goldenberg, MD Plastic Surgery
Eulalia Baselga Torres, MD Dermatology
Pinar Bayrak-Toydemir, MD Geneticist
John Naheedy, MD Radiology
1.0 CME will be awarded
*All other disciplines will receive a certificate of completion and if requested, other documents required to submit for CE credit.
Multidisciplinary Pediatric Airway Program: Patient Centric and Value-based Healthcare Delivery
Wednesday, September 22nd
Multidisciplinary Pediatrics Aerodigestive Program: role of an ENT: Karen F. Watters, MB, BCh, BAO, MPH
Pulmonologist Role in a Multidisciplinary Pediatric airway Program: Amit Agrawal, MD
Speech Language Pathology Role : Brandon Viet, SLP and Emily Hughes, MA, CCC-SLP
Financial Impact of a Multidisciplinary clinic: Janine Petitgout, DNP, ARNP, CPNP
1.0 CME will be awarded
*All other disciplines will receive a certificate of completion and if requested, other documents required to submit for CE credit.
Upcoming New Technologies – Hearing Devices
Wednesday, July 28th
Presenters:
Richard Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, MBA is Distinguished Professor and Chairman of Otolaryngology at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, in Brooklyn, New York, where he also serves as Program Director for residency training, and CEO of the University Physicians of Brooklyn ENT Faculty Practice. He has published more than 350 articles and chapters, given more than 1,000 scientific presentations, and is recognized as an international authority in guideline methodology, evidence-based medicine, and childhood ear problems. Dr. Rosenfeld is the founder and inaugural president of the International Society for Otitis Media and is the top expert worldwide in tympanostomy tubes (middle-ear ventilation) and otitis media with effusion on Expertscape (www.expertscape.com), which objectively ranks people and institutions by their expertise in more than 29,000 biomedical topics.
Angela Peng, MD is an Otolaryngologist with Neurotology subspecialty board certification at Baylor College of Medicine and adjunct assistant professor at Texas Children’s Hospital. She completed her residency at Virginia Commonwealth University and her neurotology fellowship at the University of Minnesota. Her clinical interests include treatment of various types of hearing loss, cochlear implantation, chronic ear conditions, and tumors of the lateral skull base.
Dr. Daryl Scott received his undergraduate training at Brigham Young University. After graduation, he was accepted to the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Iowa. There he completed his MD training and also graduated with a PhD degree in genetics. He then moved to the University of Utah where he did a residency in Pediatrics and then to Baylor College of Medicine where he did a second residency in Clinical Genetics. He is currently a board certified in both specialties.
Dr. Daniela Carvalho is a pediatric otolaryngologist at Rady Children’s Hospital of San Diego and Professor of the Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Department at UCSD. She is also the director of the Hearing and Cochlear Implant program at RCHSD and is SENTAC’s president elect!
This webinar is free to SENTAC members and only $25 for non-members.
1.0 CME will be awarded
*All other disciplines will receive a certificate of completion and if requested, other documents required to submit for CE credit.
Complex Dysphagia: 4 Case Studies of Children with Swallowing Difficulties
Wednesday, May 26th, 5pm CST
This 1-hour course will present approaches to multidisciplinary management of complex dysphagia in the pediatric population through discussion of four case studies. During this live webinar, four expert panelists will each present a case study after which participants will have opportunities to ask questions and engage in discussion.
Moderator: Julian Bergen White, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, CLC is an Assistant Professor at Southern Connecticut State University. Julian received her doctorate in 2021 from James Madison University where she also received her Master’s in Speech-Language Pathology. Her clinical and research interests are in pediatric dysphagia, and her primary area of research investigates best practices for instrumental evaluation of infant swallowing. Julian continues to practice clinically with a focus in pediatric and adult voice and swallowing disorders.
Presenters:
Jeannine Hoch, M.A., CCC-SLP, CLC is a Pediatric Speech Language Pathologist at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System/ Children’s Hospital of Richmond. Clinical and research interests include multidisciplinary care for children with complex dysphagia and feeding/ swallowing outcomes for infants with congenital heart disease, including co-authorship of peer-reviewed articles. Prior clinical experience includes employment at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and at Nemours/ Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, where she completed clinical and instrumental assessments for infants and children with complex dysphagia involving collaborative teamwork with Otolaryngology and other aerodigestive specialists.
Maleah Blake, M.A., CCC-SLP is a Speech-Language Pathologist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Her clinical interests include the treatment of feeding and swallowing disorders in infants with cleft palate and other craniofacial anomalies, as well as pediatric dysphagia associated with medically complex patients. She specializes in completing Video Fluoroscopic Swallowing Studies (VFSS) and Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) and has gained experience in a variety of medical settings including outpatient services and associated clinics, inpatient and intensive care units, and the neonatal intensive care unit.
Christina Rappazzo M.A., CCC-SLP, BCS-S (SENTAC Board Member) has been privileged to service children and families at Texas Children’s Hospital for over 15 years. Christina’s clinical experience has ranged from treating children with various communication disorders to ultimately finding a primary focus in pediatric feeding-swallowing. She has obtained extensive training in caring for children with medically-complex backgrounds including tracheostomy/ventilator-dependent patients, and in completing videofluoroscopic and fiberoptic swallowing exams. Christina is a member of the Aerodigestive Team, Tracheostomy Team, Head and Neck Tumor Program, and collaborated with otolaryngology to form the Swallowing Disorders Clinic. She has serviced children in a variety of medical settings including outpatient, intensive care units, and the neonatal intensive care unit. Christina is board certified in swallowing disorders by the American Board of Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders.
Ashley Brown, M.S., CCC-SLP (SENTAC Board Member) is a Speech Language Pathologist and Board-Certified Specialist in Swallowing and Swallow Disorders. Her clinical focus is with dysphagia and voice management in children with complex airway diagnoses and tracheostomy, including instrumental assessment (FEES and VFSS). She is the lead SLP in the Airway Management Program at Children’s Health Medical Center in Dallas, TX.
1.0 CME will be awarded.
The Multidisciplinary Approach to Treating Children with Complex Sleep Apnea
Wednesday, March 24th
- Javan Nation, MD – Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego (moderator)
- David Zopf, MD – Mott Children’s University of Michigan
- Andre Wineland – Arkansas Children’s
- Evan Propst – Hospital for Sick Children Toronto Canada
1.0 CME will be awarded
*All other disciplines will receive a certificate of completion and if requested, other documents required to submit for CE credit.
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