2018 AAP Joint District V & IX Meeting (July 12-15) Report By AAP-CA2 Past President (2014-2016) Paula Whiteman, MD, FACEP, FAAP

Each year, the AAP has joint district meetings combining two different districts to allow chapter leaders to meet and discuss important timely issues with many networking opportunities.

Our district, composed of the four chapters in California, was joined by District V, representing Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Ontario, Canada. The meeting was held in the beautiful new American Academy of Pediatrics Headquarters in Itasca, Illinois. This 5 story building allows for the AAP to move forward with the latest in technology and the AAP staff to work the best that they can on behalf of its members.

Representatives from Districts V and IX at the 2018 Joint District Meeting in Itasca, Illinois.

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2018 AAP Joint District V & IX Meeting (July 12-15) Report

Colleen Kraft, MD, MBA, FAAP spoke with us on the latest issues facing our patients as well as our members. Immigration and family separation was front and center. Dr. Kraft has traveled to the border and has spoken with many news outlets.

AAP CEO Report

Mark Del Monte, JD, Interim CEO/Executive Vice President presented the CEO report, including a focus on membership data, finances, strategic planning, and key trends shaping the future of pediatric health care. In addition, Mr. Del Monte discussed several key AAP initiatives, including the clinical data health registry, the digital transformation initiative, AAP bylaws referendum, AAP Policy Task Force, the Gun Safety and Injury Prevention Research initiative, and partnering with UNICEF.

AAP President Elect Candidates

The two AAP-President Elect candidates were present to introduce themselves and discuss their priorities for the Academy. This year’s candidates are: Sara “Sally” H. Goza, M.D., FAAP from Fayetteville, GA and George C. Phillips, M.D., M.B.A., FAAP from Overland Park, KA.

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2018 AAP Joint District V & IX Meeting (July 12-15) Report

In addition to voting for the AAP-President Elect candidates, there will be a contested election for both the position of District IX Chair and District IX Vice Chair (DVC). Running for District IX Chair are: AAP-CA2 Immediate Past President Ed Curry, MD, FAAP, and District IX Vice Chair Yasuko Fukuda, MD, FAAP (AAP-CA1). The candidates for the office of District IX Vice Chair are: AAP-OC President Eric Ball, MD, FAAP ,and AAP-CA2 Past President (2014-2016) Paula Whiteman, MD, FACEP, FAAP. Closer to the election, AAP-CA will send out short videos featuring each of the District IX candidates. Voting will open for a month on November 2, 2018 coinciding with the beginning of the AAP NCE.

The early career, resident and medical student representatives, including California’s own Emily Fletcher, MD, FAAP, Suzanne Stewart, MD, and Alexa Manrriquez led the group through an interactive leadership development exercise based on the teachings of Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner in their book, “The Leadership Challenge”, emphasizing the 5 practices of exemplary leadership, including Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Division, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act and Encourage the Heart. Role playing skits followed their presentation and engaged attendees.

(From left) Medical Student Representative Alexa Manrriquez; Resident Representative Suzanne Stewart, MD; Early Career Physicians Representative Emily Fletcher, MD, FAAP; and session moderator/ Dist. IX CATCH Facilitator Janice H. Kim, MD, MPH, FAAP.

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2018 AAP Joint District V & IX Meeting (July 12-15) Report

“Moving Towards Diversity and Inclusion: Mitigating Implicit Bias and Its Effects” presented by Cara Lichtenstein, MD, FAAP was a focus topic. Dr. Lichtenstein is the Associate Program Director for the Pediatric Residency Training Program at Children’s National Health System where she focuses her teaching, clinical work and research on addressing health disparities in underserved populations. In advance of the meeting, participants were asked to participate in the Harvard Implicit Bias test, which was developed by a group of researchers from Harvard University. It is free and confidential. The tests are designed to help one better understand our implicit biases and recognize how our unconscious can drive our decision-making with regards to factors such as: race, gender, religion, culture, sexual orientation and obesity. If you would like to take the test yourself, please see this link: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html There were workshops on chapter development to discuss different ways to develop both fundraising and disaster preparedness plans to enhance chapter capacity by working on proven strategies, techniques and best practices. Chapter leaders then broke down into small groups as how to best implement the strategies shared. Each joint district meeting celebrates the participants with an awards banquet. CALIFORNIA 1

Pictured from left to right: Maria Sperber, JD (AAP-CA1 Executive Director), John Takayama, MD, MPH, FAAP (AAP-CA1 President), Raelene Walker, MD, FAAP (AAP-CA1 VP)

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2018 AAP Joint District V & IX Meeting (July 12-15) Report

AAP-CA1 Individual Special Achievement Awards

● Renee C. Wachtel, MD, FAAP, for spirited leadership of the Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics Committee and fervent advocacy on behalf of children with autism.

● Mika Hiramatsu, MD, FAAP, for inspirational leadership of the Medical Education Committee (and tireless and detailed editing of chapter newsletters before publication).

● Jolie Limon, MD, FAAP, for unparalleled leadership, exquisite teaching and thoughtful mentoring at Valley Children’s Hospital in Fresno, California.

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(From left) AAP-CA2 Executive Director Tomas Torices, MD; AAP-CA2 Past President (2014-2016) Paula Whiteman, MD, FACEP, FAAP; AAP-CA2 President Alice Kuo, MD, PhD, MBA, FAAP; AAP-CA2 Vice President Damodara Rajasekhar, MD, FAAP; and, AAP-CA2 Immediate past President Edward Curry, MD, FAAP.

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2018 AAP Joint District V & IX Meeting (July 12-15) Report

AAP-CA2 Individual Special Achievement Awards ● Priyanka Fernandes, MD, FAAP, for her enthusiastic dedication and leadership as an

Infectious Diseases Expert on the AAP-CA2 Quality Improvement Team. ● Gifty-Maria Ntim, MD, MPH, FAAP, for her enthusiastic dedication as Quality Improvement

Expert on the AAP-CA2 Quality Improvement Team. ● Megha Shah, MD, FAAP, for enthusiastic dedication and leadership as Quality

Improvement Expert in the AAP-CA2 Quality Improvement Team.

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(From left) Meredith Kennedy, MPH (AAP-CA3 Executive Director), Marsha Spitzer, MD, FAAP (AAP-CA3 President)

AAP-CA3 Individual Special Achievement Awards

● Dean Sidelinger, MD, MSEd, FAAP, in recognition of his outstanding collaboration with the chapter as our go-to liaison for the county.

● Nancy Graff, MD, FAAP, for her many years of service on SGA, for teaching residents, and for obtaining a Rome Visiting Professorship grant for our chapter.

● Toluwalase Ajayi, MD, for representing AAP-CA3 at CMA & AMA and serving as the co - CATCH facilitator.

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2018 AAP Joint District V & IX Meeting (July 12-15) Report

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Picture from left to right: Jamie S. McDonald, MPH, MCHES (AAP-CA4 Executive Director), Eric Ball, MD, FAAP (AAP-CA4 President), Kate Williamson, MD, FAAP (AAP-CA4 VP) AAP-OC Individual Special Achievement Awards ● Dean Jacobs, MD, FAAP, for his incredible leadership as a longtime board member and

past president of California Chapter 4, and for establishment of the Young Physicians Committee.

● Quynh Kieu, MD, FAAP, for her dedication to the health of the people of Vietnam, through Project Vietnam, as well as the Vietnamese community in Orange County.

● Farrokh Shadab, MD, FAAP, for his passionate leadership of the Chapter’s Mental Health Committee, and his commitment to improving mental health care for children in Orange County. Congratulations to all of the district’s special achievement award recipients!

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2018 AAP Joint District V & IX Meeting (July 12-15) Report

(Left) Michael Weiss, DO, FAAP, Vice President, Population Health, CHOC Children’s Hospital and Matthew Garber, MD, FHM, FAAP, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Florida COM Hospitalist, Wolfson Children’s Hospital, Medical Director, Value in Inpatient Pediatrics Network, Jacksonville, Florida presented a session on “Pediatrics of the Future is Now/Value Based Practice Transformation.” They discussed ways to change the practice of medicine by incorporating practice care coordinators to try and prevent hospitalizations as well as length of stay when hospitalization is deemed necessary. There was a presentation celebrating the 25th Anniversary of CATCH. It all started on a napkin when the first CATCH grant project was mapped out when a couple of members got together and thought up the idea. CATCH stands for: Community Access to Child Health. Many of our members are involved in CATCH grants. Donations to this amazing program: Click to donate Federal Advocacy Update by Mark Del Monte, JD, Interim CEO/Executive Vice President Discussion of what is going on with regards to immigration and family separation/unification. Advocacy fatigue given the current issues of the day. NCE ends on Election Day and it is important to remind participants to arrange to vote in advance. Scott Needle, MD, FAAP, Member, Disaster Preparedness Advisory Council talked about having disaster preparedness plans in place; however, planning is essential for preparedness unanticipated events in order to meet children’s basic needs. This also applies to families and pediatric practices in general. Chapter leaders broke into small groups to discuss chapter preparedness and discuss plans should there be an emergency.

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2018 AAP Joint District V & IX Meeting (July 12-15) Report

Todd Wolynn, MD, FAAP spoke to the group about how to manage the impact of social media. Dr. Wolynn is the President, CEO and co-owner of Kids Plus Pediatrics, a cutting-edge, independent practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He talked about weaponized social media and strategies pediatricians can use to combat its effects on pediatric practice. Please feel free to reference these AAP resources: AAP Children & Disasters Web Site (www.aap.org/disasters) AAP Pediatric Preparedness Resource Kit (www.aap.org/disasters/resourcekit) AAP Preparedness Checklist for Pediatric Practices (www.aap.org/disasters/checklist) The AAP Strategic 5-year Plan was shared regarding the key trends shaping the future of pediatric health care.

Goal #1 : Strengthen the Academy’s impact on child health through, policy, advocacy, and education. Goal #2 : Enrich member value and engagement. Goal #3 : Broaden and diversify pathways for general pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists, pediatric surgical subspecialists, and trainees to exercise leadership within the Academy and the broader public sphere beyond pediatrics. Goal #4 : Enhance the Academy’s communication with members and stakeholders. Goal #5 : Support strong bi-directional relationships, interaction, and leadership development between AAP and chapters.

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