Posts Tagged ‘Guest Editorial’
The Quest to Reduce Health Disparities in Congenital Heart Disease: Moving beyond Descriptions of Race-Based Outcomes
Despite medical and surgical advances in congenital heart disease (CHD), recent data has shown that racial/ethnic disparities in CHD mortality continue to persist throughout the lifespan.[1] For many years, the…
Read MoreCall to Action: Examining Health Disparities at the Institutional Level
“Yeah, but do you really think we treat kids differently because of their race?” It was a common question interviewers would ask me as I navigated subspecialty fellowship interviews across…
Read MoreWomen in Leadership
As I gathered my thoughts for this newsletter, I reflected on my experiences as a woman (and now a woman leader) in pediatric cardiac critical care. Although pediatric training has…
Read MoreEvery Rainbow Requires A Spectrum
I cannot think of another profession where it is of the utmost importance to have a thorough understanding and active participation in diversity, equity, and inclusion than healthcare. Each shift,…
Read MoreSawubona
Nearly ten years ago, my family and I spent about two weeks in South Africa during the Christmas and New Year holiday. We traveled to Johannesburg, Durban, and Cape Town.…
Read MoreImplicit Bias in the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” – Martin Luther King, Jr As we cross the 1-year mark of living through…
Read MoreGoodbye 2020 and New Year’s Resolutions
The year 2020 was defined by the pandemic, injustice, and politics. For me the year included denial about the pandemic, fear when the pandemic hit, pain when George Floyd died,…
Read MorePCICS 2020: An Early Career Perspective
As I reviewed the PCICS 2020 schedule in the days leading up to the conference, I reflected on what this annual gathering means to others and to me. For some,…
Read MoreNursing Editorial February 2021
While there is much time spent focusing on the growth and development of new and established leaders, it is less common to discuss how we are growing the next leaders…
Read MoreChange is Good, Especially At The End Of A Year Like 2020
Nearly 4 years ago, as a PICU trainee still on the job hunt, I was “voluntold” that I would be in charge of creating a newsletter for PCICS. With literally…
Read MoreWe are there at the beginning, we can help in the middle
The impetus for home monitoring two decades ago was unrelenting interstage mortality despite marked improvement in survival following stage 1 Norwood palliation. Interstage home monitoring was designed to prevent death…
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Interstage Love in the Time of COVID:
Using telemedicine to bridge the social distance
Like many Interstage Single Ventricle Programs, our team at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago utilizes Interstage Home Monitoring (IHM) to provide an additional safety net for…
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