Target audience: Child Health staff physicians; all pediatric subspecialists; all courtesy faculty and referring physicians; pediatric residents, medical students and other professional staff at Children’s Hospital.

Objective: To improve the knowledge of physicians and therefore, their care for children in rural Missouri, especially those hospitalized or seen at Children’s Hospital.  To offer presentations which are clinically applicable but basic science that applies to the most contemporary treatments or illnesses.

Speaker Disclosure: Usiakimi Igbaseimokumo, MD, FRCS (SN) has no relationship with any commercial firm having products related to topics discussed at this conference.  Additionally, as the chairman of this series, Dr. Michael Cooperstock has no conflict of interest to disclose that would lead to bias in the selection of topics and/or speakers of this series.  Actual disclosure forms are available upon request.

The Office of Continuing Education, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.