Update, March 2005
North Dakota Chapter of The American Academy of Pediatrics
The North Dakota chapter of the AAP has 71 paid members. Our newsletter “The North Dakota Pediatrician” is published 4 times a year and posted on our web site http://www.ndaap.org .
We have a very active pediatric club at the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences. We received a $350 grant to support this effort from the AAP. Several students attend our meetings. Community Pediatrician’s periodically address the club with their experiences and reasons they choose pediatrics as a career.
We have three practices actively participating in PROS
North Dakota currently screens newborns for 39 disorders/conditions at a cost of $36 This includes screening for MCAD disorders, hemoglobinopathies, and we will start screening for cystic fibrosis in July,2005 using a2 tier system.
The entire state is universally screening newborns for hearing loss. We are currently working on a tracking system.
NDAAP is involved in early child care, from our web site licensed daycare anywhere in the state can be found. Currently, over 76% of children in North Dakota under the age of 6 have both parents in the work force. The National Average is 58%. A pediatrician from each quadrant of the state serves as an advisor to the Child Care Consultants in the state. The NDAAP will be sending a member to the Childcare Contact Conference in Orlando, Florida, April 16-17, 2005.
We held our 2004 NDAAP Fall
Conference on October 1, 2004 at the Holiday Inn, Fargo, ND
AGENDA
5:00 pm Board Meeting
6:30 pm – 6:45 pm “Screen Time -- How it Affects Children and Teens” Sara
Myers & Sheila Netz
6:45 pm – 7:30 pm “Childhood Obesity” Parag Kumar, MD, FAAP
7:30 pm - 8:15 pm “Methamphetamines and Drug Use in the State of North
Dakota” Mike Ness state Narcotics Division
8:15 pm – 9 pm “Lets Talk About Suicide and Depression” Todd Twogood, MD
We are currently working on several 2005 legislative bills on use of booster seats, breast feeding, beverages and exercise in the in the school system.
Our
2005 NDAAP Spring Conference and
Meeting will be held Friday April 29th at the Fargodome 1800 North
University Drive,Fargo N D 58102
AGENDA
10 am Board Meeting
Dr Lewis First
Professor and Chair of the University of Vermont College of Medicine,
AAP Rome Visiting Professorship.
Dr Atkinson “Immunization update” (Speaker from the CDC)
Sara Copeland Metabolic specialist from the University of Iowa
Mark Blaufuss Pediatric Gastroenterologist “GERD”
Dr RaNae Doll “Reach Out and Read”
Recent election results:
Effecive date July 1, 2005
President …………….Todd Twogood
Vice President ………Myra Quanrud
Secretary/Treasurer ….Joan Connell