Dr. Sandra Seigel

Specialty:

Paediatrics

About The Speaker

Dr. Seigel is a pediatrician in Hamilton Ontario. She has had a consulting outpatient practice since 1990 seeing a large range of general paediatric issues including a large number of children with behavioural/learning and mental health difficulties. Since 1995 , Dr. Seigel  has been the paediatrician in the SIS (Special Immunology Services) Clinic at Hamilton Health Sciences taking care of HIV positive children and adolescents as well as infants of HIV positive mothers. Dr. Seigel was a member of the CAAP (Child Advocacy and Assessment Program) team from 1998-2020 assessing infants and children being assessed for possible child maltreatment.

 

Dr. Seigel was Deputy Chief in the Division of General Paediatrics at St Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton from 2006-2019. She continues to be a staff paediatrician at St. Joseph’s Healthcare working in the level 2  nursery. St Joseph’s sees a large number of infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)/ Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS) and in addition to caring for those infants in hospital she is  one of the paediatricians who continues to follow them in our NAS/NOWS follow up clinic.

 

Dr. Seigel was the recipient of the 2020 Sister Joan O’Sullivan award from St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton and  received the Hamilton Health Sciences Medical Staff Association Humanitarian Award in 2021.

Dr. Mitchell Shulman

Specialty:

Emergency Medicine

About The Speaker

Dr. Mitch Shulman (or “Dr Mitch” as he’s known to those who follow him on radio, TV and in print) has always loved teaching. He’s an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at McGill and an attending physician in the emergencies of the 2 campuses of the McGill University Health System teaching medical students and residents. He has presented at McGill’s Thursday Evening Lecture series and its Lunchtime Webinars, at the McGill Refresher Course for Family Physicians and at many other professional meetings. He’s an ACLS Master Instructor. He’s also actively engaged in educating the public. He appears daily on Bell Media Radio, weekly on Global TV’s, Montreal This Morning and is an award-winning columnist with a weekly column in the largest English language weekly in Quebec, The Suburban. He volunteers his time speaking at many charitable events.

After completing his undergraduate training at Harvard, he came back home to Montreal to attend McGill Medical School and then did a residency in Emergency Medicine (where he was Chief Resident). He was among the first Royal College certified Emergency Medicine specialists (1983) and served as an examiner for the Royal College. He was acting Director of the Emergency Department and served as its Research Director. He’s been a community doc and an occupational health physician. Currently, as well as his emergency department clinical responsibilities, he also serves as a medical scientist on an ethics review committee and works at the McGill Student Health Center. His commitment to his community runs deep. He was its Medical Director responsible for First Response and coached hockey to the Junior level. He still refs local ice hockey and plays. His philosophy on teaching has always been that we all have valuable knowledge to share and so he sincerely looks forward to hearing from you as we share the learning at this Sea Courses event.

CME Topics

Child Health, Newborn Health and Emergency  Medicine

Dr. Seigel-

• Approach to Infants Born after Limited Prenatal Care
  • Review major infectious and non-infectious issues for infants born after limited prenatal care
  • Review appropriate investigations and interventions to optimize outcomes for these infants and their mothers
• Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) /Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS)
  • Discuss the epidemiology and clinical manifestations of NAS/NOWS
  • Review important treatment considerations and short and long term follow up of infants exposed to opioids and /or illicit substances in utero

• Transitions of Care for Children with Chronic Medical Conditions from Pediatric to Adult care
  • Review important considerations and processes of transitioning children with chronic health conditions from pediatric to adult care
  • Discuss several tools available to aid in transition

• Approach to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Children with ADHD
  • Review diagnostic approach to a child presenting with concerns about possible ADHD
  • Review treatment recommendations for children with ADHD

• Diagnosis and Management of Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Review common presentations and evaluation for children with autism spectrum disorder
  • Discuss treatment recommendations for children with autism spectrum disorder

• All About Baby Heads: different shapes, fontanelle size, swelling and trauma
  • Review approach to concerns re appearance of newborn heads including molding , craniosynostosis, large or small fontanelles, macrocephaly and microcephaly, caput succedaneum vs cephalohematoma vs subgaleal hemorrhage : when to investigate and refer
  • Review protocol for infants falls during the initial birth hospitalization focusing on head trauma

• Vitamin K refusal in the newborn period and vaccine hesitancy
  • Review vitamin K deficiency bleeding in newborns and young infants and discuss approach to recent increase in vitamin K refusal by parents
  • Discuss approach to vaccine hesitancy in children

Dr. Shulman-

• Concussion: It’s Not Just About Athletes
  • Understand the causes and pathophysiology of concussion
  • Develop an understanding of the situations where concussions can occur without direct trauma to the head
  • Review / understand the logic behind the guidelines on management of concussion and how to apply them
• Office Emergencies: Do You Know What To Do?
  • How to deal with medical emergencies (such as syncope)
  • How to stock / equip their office for emergencies
  • How to prepare for disruptions to their practice caused by natural and man-made disasters
  • How to protect themselves, their patients and their staff
• Dr Google Says…. A guide to how the Internet and social media can affect your practice of medicine
  • Identify how patients use the internet
  • Understand how to interact with the Internet safely and ethically in their practice
  • Explore the laws relating to and learn how best to handle being recorded and recording their own patient interactions
  • Review some interesting medical stories from the Internet
• In-Flight Medical Emergencies: Is There A Doctor On Board?
  • Understand the special aspects of air travel that can create medical emergencies
  • How to manage medical emergencies on board an airplane
  • Understand the implicated laws and liability issues
• Managing Pain in the Emergency Room: Useful tips that you can apply elsewhere too!
  • Have a structured approach to managing patient pain
  • Understand why it's important to manage patient pain
  • Be aware of the many modalities that can help to manage the pain without medications
  • Know how to safely and effectively use pain medications
• Basic & Advanced Cardiac Life Support:  Latest  Updates: What Do They Mean For Me and My Patients?
  • Review the BCLS and ACLS algorhythms and the most recent updates
  • Understand the algorhythms
  • Know how to apply them
  • Understand how our experience with Covid-19 has modified ACLS/BCLS practices
• Managing COPD in the ED: Information that will help in your office too!
  • Have a more complete understanding of the significance of the disease
  • Be able to managing it more effectively
  • Understand and be able to apply logical and safe criteria for admission and discharge
  • Be able to minimize COPD exacerbations/recurrences