22nd Annual Virtual Pediatric Conference

Join us for CoxHealth's 22nd Annual Pediatric Conference. We have decided to go virtual again this year! This educational event is designed for all health care professionals who work with children and their families. Topics include: autism, human trafficking, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, technology effects on child development and children’s response to trauma.

Tentative Agenda:

0725 - 0730: Welcome/Disclosures

0730 -0800: Linda Terry, MA, CCC-SLP

• Thinking Like a Child: Cognitive Evaluations in Pediatrics

0800 -0900: Kayleigh Stark, BS, CCLS, CPST

• Children's Response to Trauma

0900 -0915: Break

0915 -1015: K. Brain Thompson, Maj(MD), USAF

• Pediatric Trauma Case

1015 -1115: Tracy Stroud, DO

• Advances in the Medical Work up for the Child with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

1115 -1200: Lunch 

1200 -1300: Jennifer Sturdivan, MA, LPC

• Stand Against Trafficking 

1300 -1400: Katherine Hefner, MD

• Diabetes

1400 -1415: Break

1415 -1515: Stephanie Huffman, Ed.D

• Technology and the Effects on Child Development  

1515 -1615: Thomas Ferkol, MD 

• Changing Cystic Fibrosis

1615-1630: Questions and Answers/Evaluations

We reserve the right to substitute speakers and topics in case of emergency or cancellation. 

• CoxHealth Education Center is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Midwest Multistate Division, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Midwest MSD Provider Approval #MO623-8. 7.75 contact hours.

• This program has been approved by the Arkansas Board of Physical Therapy for 7.5 contact hours (and it is deemed equivalent by the Missouri Board of Healing Arts per 4 CSR 150-3.203-5A.

• The Missouri Board for Respiratory Care has approved this program for 7.75 hours of continuing education credit. The MBRC approval number for this course is 8000054. Licensed respiratory care practitioners are responsible for maintaining their own documentation records of continuing education and should claim only those hours actually spent in the activity.

• This program meets the criteria for category PDU #13 (attending employer-provided continuing education) and Missouri Board of Occupational Therapy per 20 CSR 2205-5 and qualifies as 7.5 contact hours (equivalent to 7.5 NBCOT©  Professional Development Units).

• CoxHealth Prehospital Services is an approved provider of continuing education by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Unit of EMS.  This activity has been approved for __ contact hours. The Training Center number is 07710C. Credit is pending.

• This program has been approved by CoxHealth for 2 pediatric trauma contact hours for CoxHealth employees in which __ of those contact hours may be used as pediatric trauma contact hours for CoxHealth employees.

Please check back for updated credits as they are approved.

Thomas Ferkol, MD 

• Alexis F. Hartmann Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology
• Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Katherine Hefner, MD

• Pediatric Endocrinologist, CoxHealth

Stephanie Huffman, Ed.D

• Department Head of the Reading, Foundations, and Technology Department, Missouri State University

Kayleigh Stark, BS, CCLS, CPST

• Certified Life Specialist, CoxHealth

Tracy Stroud, DO

• Associate Professor Child Health, University of Missouri

Jennifer Sturdivan, MA, LPC

• LPC/Family Therapist for Cox North Inpatient
• CoxHealth Psychological Services

Linda Terry, MA, CCC-SLP

• Speech-Language Pathologist
• CoxHealth, Outpatient Rehabilitation Therapy North

Brain Thompson, Maj(MD), USAF

• Instructor, C-STARS St. Louis
• SSM Health CGCH Assistant Trauma Medical Director
• Assistant Professor, Clinical Educator
• Division of Pediatric Critical Care
• USAF, Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO

Carol Cummings Smothers, RRT

• NICU/Pediatric Respiratory Team Leader

Bridget Gladman, RN, BSN, RNC-MNN

• Enterprise Educator
• Primary Nurse Planner/Conference Coordinator

Mike Ingram, RCP, RRT, NPS

• NICU/Pediatric Respiratory Supervisor 

Brittany Perches, RN, BSN, RN-BC

• Pediatric Nurse Manager

Holly Rogers, RN, BSN

• Pediatric Educator

Jacki Roland, RN

• Outreach and Education Coordinator, Trauma Services 

Kayleigh Stark, BS, CCLS, CPST, CPMT

• Certified Life Specialist

Kristi Vandeloecht, PTA, GC, CDR, MS

• Clinical Therapist Educator 

Cancellations received by the date indicated on the program webpage will be entitled to a full refund, less Eventbrite’s fees. Eventbrite registration fees are nonrefundable and vary with each course.

No refunds will be made for cancellations received the day of the activity.

Refunds will be credited back to the same credit card in which the payment was received. If the payment was made in cash or check, the refund will be provided within 4-6 weeks in the form of a check and mailed to the address obtained at the time of registration.

In the event Education Center cancels or reschedules a course, participants are entitled to a full refund or the participant may transfer registration to the next scheduled activity.

CoxHealth is not responsible for travel, hotel, booking fees, or other cancellation fees for registrants when a program is cancelled.

All refunds must be received in writing via email or by calling the Education Center.

CoxHealth Education Center Contact Information:

CoxHealth Education Center

1423 N. Jefferson Ave.

Springfield. MO 65802

Phone: 417-269-4117

Fax: 417-269-4787

Email: educationcenter@coxhealth.com