Talking Pediatrics
Talking Pediatrics is a clinical podcast by Children's Minnesota, home to The Kid Experts, where the complex is our every day. We bring you intriguing stories and relevant pediatric healthcare information as we partner with you in the care of your patients. Our guests, data, ideas and practical tips will surprise, challenge and perhaps change how you care for kids. We want to know the issues and concerns that are important to you in your clinical practice so that we can continue to partner with you in caring for kids. Email us at talkingpediatrics@childrensmn.org. Learn more at childrensmn.org/talkingpediatrics Episodes will resume in 2024.
Episodes
August 25, 2025 • 28 mins
When a child faces a life threatening illness or injury, we often assume that they have "recovered" when they leave the ICU, the hospital or graduate from follow up. For many kids and families, however, the traumatic stress of an ICU stay or a life threatening illness or injury lingers, with families often searching for help and answers in how to best support their child. Joining us on this episode is Jen Aspengren, founder and CEO...
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Talking about disability in clinical encounters with parents, families, and patients can be very challenging. Decision-making around benefits and burdens of interventions and how they impact what future life for a child might be like inherently includes discussions of disability. However, it is easy for these conversations to view disability as something wholly negative, making it feel, or even it becoming, subject to many types of...
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July 25, 2025 • 30 mins
Join James Burroughs as he sits down with Dr. Joseph L. Wright, Chief Health Equity Officer and Senior Vice President at the American Academy of Pediatrics. In this episode, they delve into the significance of providing equitable care, the journey towards achieving equity in clinical guidance, and the empowerment of learners in the healthcare field.View the transcript here:
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July 11, 2025 • 30 mins
This episode's Trailblazer is Dr. Marc Gorelick, President and CEO of Children's Minnesota since 2017, who will be retiring this summer. His career has been marked by a legacy of public health advocacy, innovative pediatric leadership and unwavering commitment to equitable and inclusive health care for all children. Listen to how he led through a pandemic and racial justice protests in Minneapolis, and why advocacy has been such a ...
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June 20, 2025 • 41 mins
There is a lot of mis and dis information out there around gender affirming care for youth. This is both fueled by and leads to a general misunderstand about the basic ethical considerations present similar to other aspects of clinical care. On this episode of A Question of Ethics, Dr. Wolfe talks with the head of Children's Gender Clinic to discuss the ethical considerations around gender affirming care for youth.
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Evaluation of a child with edema can be stress-inducing given the differential diagnoses invoked including nephrotic syndrome, liver disease, and heart failure. Determining the cause involves dusting off some principles of physics. Protein, namely albumin, hangs onto water to maintain intravascular osmotic pressure. Not having enough protein causes leakage into surrounding tissues to create characteristic puffiness, begging the que...
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May 23, 2025 • 27 mins
Measles is back, with the largest outbreak in this country in 30 years. Two children have died and several people have been hospitalized by the extremely contagious disease that was once considered eliminated, but has surged again as vaccine hesitancy has spread. As public health funds are cut across the country and misinformation about measles and vaccines permeate our highest public health positions, Patsy Stinchfield, MS, CPNP, ...
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May 9, 2025 • 19 mins
In this episode, Dr. Courtney Herring talks with Dr. Nadia Maccabee-Ryaboy about cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS), a malevolent downstream condition related to cannabis use being seen in a growing uptrend of adolescent emergency department visits and hospital admissions. Listen in on the discussion that circles around clinical practice guidelines addressing how best to identify, manage, and support patients with CHS as public...
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April 25, 2025 • 17 mins
In this episode of Equity Actions, James Burroughs engages in a compelling conversation with Yinka Ajose, Senior Director of Clinical Operations, and Tonya Montesinos, Senior Director of Clinical Practice. Together, they explore the importance of advocating for equitable roles among staff, providing essential resources to patients and families, and gaining a deeper understanding of community needs.
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On today's "Specialty Spotlight With Siva", Siva welcomed Dr. Steven Goudy, President Elect of the American Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Association. He is a passionate advocate for patients and families navigating the challenges of cleft and craniofacial conditions and in this episode they explore his insights into cleft and craniofacial care and his vision for advancing advocacy and improving outcomes for these patients. This co...
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March 28, 2025 • 22 mins
On this "Outside Hospitalist" segment, Dr. Gabi Hester speaks with guest Dr. Courtney Herring, Pediatric Hospitalist, about evidence-based care of acute respiratory illnesses and nuances to consider in differently resourced settings.
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March 7, 2025 • 16 mins
On this "Outside Hospitalist" segment, Dr. Gabi Hester speaks with guest Dr. Courtney Herring, Pediatric Hospitalist, about evidence-based care of acute respiratory illnesses and nuances to consider in differently resourced settings.
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https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-the-outside-hospitalist-dont-hold-your-breath-acute-respiratory-illnesses-part...
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https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-the-outside-hospitalist-dont-hold-your-breath-acute-respiratory-illnesses-part...
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February 14, 2025 • 26 mins
Pediatric clinicians have obligations to their patients and law enforcement. But it can be challenging to figure out how to navigate situations where these obligations conflict or where there is uncertainty about the right thing to do. This has increased with recent exectuive branch agendas. Dr. Alyssa Burgart is the Associate Director of Pediatric Bioethics at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, Medical Director of Ethics f...
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February 7, 2025 • 21 mins
We are blessed to have a very international patient population at our clinic in Minneapolis, helped by the Twin Cities reputation as a safe and supportive place for immigrants, refugees and asylees. With roots abroad, many of our families frequently travel home, where infectious disease exposures carry a unique profile compared to that of the U.S. It is therefore not surprising that having a returning traveler with fever, especiall...
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January 24, 2025 • 22 mins
On this episode of Equity Actions, we dive into an inspiring conversation as James Burroughs welcomes Tikki Brown, the Commissioner for the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families. Listen in as the two converse on Tikki’s background, her journey into human services, and taking on her new role as a Commissioner. James and Tikki explore her remarkable journey into human services, her strategic vision for building a dive...
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January 10, 2025 • 21 mins
On today's episode EBC, Courtney sits down with pediatric gastroenterologist, Dr. Ramalingam Arumugam, to discuss a lurking danger in our own homes.With approximately 3500 button battery ingestions per year, it is the 4th leading cause for calls to poison control centers in the United States.With high risk of morbidity and and an escalating risk of severe morbidity and mortality due to the increased use of larger and more powerful ...
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"Conscience-based objection' is a term that has been around a long time. Since the pandemic and a number of political and legal efforts in the nation, the term has been employed more frequently. But what is a conscience-based objection? What are the ethical considerations around when and how one might have a claim of concience? What is required of a clinician when it might impact a patient's right to access care? What is required o...
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December 13, 2024 • 30 mins
On this episode, we navigate the overwhelming world of teens and screens with Erin Walsh, co-founder of the Spark and Stitch Institute and formerly with the National Institute on Media and the Family. Join us as we tackle social media, setting limits, the bottomless pit of YouTube and how pediatric clinicians can advise patients and parents toward healthier relationships with the screens in their lives.
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December 2, 2024 • 21 mins
In this episode of Equity Actions, James Burroughs chats with Malik Rucker, V3 Sports Executive Director. Malik was a high school star athlete in North Minneapolis. He used his excellent skills as a student athlete and football cornerback to show others how they can strive for success and accomplish community building goals. Malik has dedicated his post football career to bringing attention to the importance of health and well be...
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November 15, 2024 • 40 mins
On this "Outside Hospitalist" episode of Talking Pediatrics, Dr. Gabi Hester chats with Children's Minnesota Sports Medicine and Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician Dr. Laura Nilan, and Tria Orthopedics Certified Athletic Trainer, Micaela Kelso-Otieno, about keeping young athletes healthy.
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