Presenter: Travis Odom, MD, MBA, MSCR, FAAP
Fellow, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, UT Health San Antonio, Texas
Overview:
Genetics for the Pediatrician: How to Incorporate New Testing into Clinical Practice
Objectives:
To increase awareness and education for pediatric providers
Dr. Travis Odom is one of our pediatric critical care fellows here at UT Health San Antonio and will complete his training with us next month. Dr. Odom is originally from North Carolina, and it was there he completed medical school and pediatrics residency training at East Carolina University prior to pursuing fellowship here. He will soon begin his new job as an attending at The Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Virginia. During fellowship here, Dr. Odom studied bleeding outcomes associated with our institution’s unique whole blood program for children undergoing heart-lung bypass during open heart surgery. This research was accepted and presented earlier this year at the 2024 Congress of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
Financial Disclosures: Travis Odom, MD, MBA, MSCR, FAAP has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat MD, PhD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. Planning Committee member Steven Seidner, MD has disclosed he receives funding from Draeger Medical for the Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of the Infinity Acute Care System Workstation Neonatal Care Babylog VN500 Device in High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) Mode in Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) Neonates for which he is a co-principal investigator.
Credits:
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hour)
Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hour)
MOC-2 credit (1.00 hour)
Target Audience:
Pediatric Doctors and Providers
Faculty, residents, health care providers; medical students and trainees.
Accreditation:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Designation:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Attendance. For information on applicability and acceptance, please consult your professional licensing board.