Welcome, Chapter Updates & Annual Awards

• Deb Hagler, MD, FAAP MidCoast Community Hospital
  

  Dr. Hagler is the current President of the Maine AAP.

What is the Data Telling Us?

• Korey Pow, MPH, Project Coordinator Maine Integrated Youth Health Survey
  

  Korey works for the Maine CDC.

Keynote: Promoting Child & Family Health and Wellbeing: The Critical Need for Pediatricians to Address Adverse Childhood Experiences

• Cassie Yackley , Psy. D., PLLC Licensed Psychologist
  

  Dr. Cassie Yackley is a master trainer and trauma-responsive practice content expert. Dr. Yackley has spent her professional career committed to understanding and effectively addressing the impact of traumatic exposure on children, families, and systems by bringing together recent discoveries from developmental neuroscience, attachment, & implementation science to help professionals learn how reflective practice leads to better working environments and outcomes for professionals and those they serve.
  
  Dr. Yackley’s company (Cassie Yackley, Psy.D., PLLC) was formed in 2016 to meet the profound need for expert training and consultation in trauma responsive practices/systems in human service agencies throughout the state faced by impact of the opioid epidemic and the crisis in the children’s mental health and child protection systems. Dr. Yackley has extensive experience consulting with agencies to develop system-wide cultural shifts and to implement organizational change toward trauma-responsive policies and practices. She leads learning communities in trauma responsive care by conducting foundational training and facilitating monthly reflective supervision/consultation to professionals across disciplines and has developed assessment and implementation tools and toolkits to support trauma responsive change.
  
  As a trainer, Dr. Yackley provides keynote presentations at association conferences and offers an array of single event training sessions to audiences of all sizes throughout New England and nationally. Over the past four years, she has presented hundreds of times to more than 75 different agencies, associations, and/or school districts for professionals across human service sectors that include: mental health clinicians, home visitors, early childcare providers, law enforcement agents/emergency first responders, psychiatric providers, integrated health network associates, medical professionals, educators, and substance use disorder providers.
  
  In collaboration with the Behavioral Health Improvement Institute at Keene State College, Dr. Yackley has led (as project director/principal investigator) several statewide projects supporting the implementation of trauma responsive practices across systems by obtaining grant funding through state agencies and private endowments/foundations. Through project GROW (Generating Resilience, Outcomes, and Wellness), Dr. Yackley and the NH Department of Education Office of Student Wellness are working with six NH school districts over a four-year period to align school policies and practices with the principles of trauma-informed care. As director of the NH Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) Provider Network, Yackley has built a statewide, sustainable system of CPP providers across the state by conducting endorsed CPP learning collaboratives to roster mental health clinicians, providing ongoing consultation to CPP supervisors, and by building awareness and providing advocacy for CPP at the state level.
  
  While with the Dartmouth Trauma Interventions Research Center, Dr. Yackley served as administrative director for an Administration for Children, Youth, and Families (ACF) grant transforming New Hampshire’s Division for Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) into a trauma-informed system through the Partners for Change project. Over a three-year period, Dr. Yackley trained all of NH’s child protection and juvenile justice professionals and was embedded in each of the state’s district office consulting with staff implement trauma responsive practice, including instituting universal screening for trauma and mental health for all adjudicated youth.
  
  In addition to more than 25 years as a mental health clinician, psychological evaluator, and program manager, for nearly a decade Dr. Yackley was the Director of Training for an American Psychological Association accredited doctoral internship training program in psychology within a community mental health and integrated primary care setting. In that role, she prepared doctoral interns to serve unserved populations (primarily children with severe emotional disturbances (SED) and adults with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI)) with a focus on trauma and autism spectrum disorders.

Break- Exhibitor and Poster Session Open

Evidence Based Suicide Risk Assessment and Management in All Healthcare Settings

• Greg Marley, LCSW, Clinical Director NAMI Maine
  

  Greg is the Clinical Director at NAMI Maine and a licensed clinical social worker specializing in suicide prevention.

Human Trafficking in Maine

• Carey Nason Saint Andre Home
  

  Carey is the Director of the Courage Lives Program.

• Caitlin Morrow, PharmD Penobscot Community Health Center
  

  Caitlin is a pharmacist at PCHC and involved with the Courage Lives Program.

Plenary Talk - Cannabis (marijuana) in Pregnancy & Human Milk: Myths versus the 2019 Evidence on Newborn Outcomes

• Maureen Gorden Shogan, MN, RNC National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH) - GOVERNMENT Contract NO. HHSN-271-201700021C Phase 2
  

  Maureen is a Clinical Project Director at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH).

Lunch Break - Exhibitor and Poster Session Open

Obesity as a Disease, Bias, and Pathophysiology Overview

• Valerie O'Hara, DO WOW Clinic, Northern Light/Eastern Maine Medical Center
  

  Dr. O'Hara is the Director of the WOW Program (Way to Optimal Weight) and on the Board of Directors for the Maine AAP.

• Allen Browne, MD
  

  Dr. Browne is an Obesity Management Specialist and a retired pediatric surgeon.

Mental Health Considerations -Obesity and Co-Occurring Diagnosis

• Jennifer Curran, PhD Northern Light Health Care - Eastern Maine Medical Center
  

  Dr. Curran works at the WOW Clinic.

Genetics for Severe Obesity

• Sonali Malhotra, MBBS Massachusetts General Hospital
  

  Dr. Malhotra is an attending physician in Pediatric Endocrinology at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School.

Physical Literacy and Obesity

• Emily Keller, MD Western Maine Pediatrics, Maine Medical Center
  

  Dr. Emily Keller is a primary care pediatrician working at Western Maine Pediatrics and Maine Medical Center, where she sees patients ranging from newborns to young adults. She is board certified in General Pediatrics and in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine and works with the MMC Preventive Medicine program.

  Dr. Keller serves on the Board of Directors of the Maine Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is active on the Advocacy and Conference Committees.

  Prior to coming to Maine for pediatric and preventive medicine training, Dr. Keller completed her undergraduate and medical degrees at The University of Vermont. She is passionate about promoting healthy lifestyle habits to empower kids and families to live healthy and happy lives.

Break With Exhibitors

Overview - Substance Exposed Infants in Maine

• Stephen Meister, MD Maine General Medical Center
  

  Dr. Meister is the past president of the Maine AAP and a Developmental Pediatrician and Director of the Edmund Ervin Pediatric Center.

A Disability by any Other Name: Why Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders are not being Diagnosed (and what you can do about it)

• Doug Waite, MD Mount Sinai Hospital
  

  Dr. Waite is a pediatrician and Assistant Clinical Professor at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.

Care of the Opiate Exposed Infant

• Jamie Fey, MD The Barbara Bush Children's Hospital at Maine Medical Center
  

  Dr. Fey is a pediatric hospitalist at the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital.

MOM Model, Safe Plans of Care and ABC Intervention

• Alane O'Connor, DNP MaineHealth
  

  Dr. O'Connor's clinical work focuses on addiction medicine and the management of opioid use disorders using buprenorphine.

Conference Concludes

Welcome and Setting the Stage

• Laura Blaisdell
  

  Dr. Blaisdell is the Vice President of the Maine Chapter of the AAP

Maine CDC - Looking Forward

• Director Nirav Shah, MD, JD Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  

  In June 2019, Nirav Shah, MD, JD, was appointed as the Director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC). Dr. Shah comes to Maine CDC with broad experience in public health, most recently as Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, where he implemented key initiatives to address the State's opioid crisis, reduce maternal and infant mortality, and reduce childhood lead poisoning.

  As an attorney and public health economist, Shah previously advised professionals and governments around the nation and globe on improving the delivery of health care. Earlier in his career, he worked for the Ministry of Health in Cambodia, where his work included investigating and managing disease outbreaks as an epidemiologist.

  Shah received both medical and law degrees from the University of Chicago. He also studied economics at Oxford University.

School Re-Opened: Challenges and Successes

• Commissioner Pender Makin Maine Department of Education
  

  Across her more than 20-year career, Makin has devoted herself to the mission of public education. From 1997 to 2003, she served as a classroom teacher at Fred C. Wescott Junior High School in Westbrook. She went on to became principal at The REAL (Regional Education Alternative Learning) School on Mackworth Island in Falmouth, a position she held for more than a decade from 2003 to 2015. As principal at The REAL School – an alternative and service-based high school for students who have struggled in traditional school settings – Makin and her team supported high risk students from 28 sending school districts through innovative academic and experiential programming. Since 2015, Makin has served as the Assistant Superintendent of the Brunswick School Department.

  Makin has served on Maine's Juvenile Justice Advisory Group since 2014. She is also a co-founder of Collaborative for Perpetual Innovation, a professional development, technical assistance and consulting company for educators, school and district leaders and counselors. Makin has served on a number of legislative work groups and committees seeking to improve educational opportunities for Maine's students and to promote the work of Maine public schools. She also provides trainings for educators and mental health professionals and speaks at state and national conferences on topics such as restorative justice, cognitive neuroscience, dropout prevention, organizational culture and climate.
  
  Makin was named the 2013-2014 Maine Principal of the Year by the Maine Principal’s Association and has also received the Milken Educator Award, a national distinction bestowed upon educators for exceptional educational talent, exemplary educational accomplishments, and an engaging and inspiring presence that motivates and impacts students. Makin has also won the MTV Local Hero Award.
  
  Makin, now the Commissioner of the Maine Department of Education, is charged with leading the state agency that administers both state education subsidy and state and federal grant programs; coordinates the authoring of the rules for Maine State education statutes passed by the Maine State Legislature; provides professional development, information, supports and resources, as well as a system for educator credentialing; and leads many collaborative opportunities and partnerships in support of local schools and districts..
  

On the ground in the schools - school nurse perspectives

• Emily Poland, RN, MPH Maine DOE Consultant
  

  Emily Poland is the School Nurse Consultant for the Maine Department of Education. She has twenty years of nursing experience, most of which has been in school nursing. Emily is dedicated to elevating the practice of school nurses in the State of Maine by educating state government officials, school administrators, and anyone who will listen about the varied experiences of a school nurse on a daily basis.

Symptom Evaluation and Testing Guidance for Clinicians

• Jennifer Jubulis, MD The Barbara Bush Children's Hospital at Maine Medical Center
  

  Dr. Jubulis is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric infectious disease, and works at The Barbara Bush Children's Hospital.

Improving Immunizations and Flu Testing

• Carol McCarthy, MD The Barbara Bush Children's Hospital at Maine Medical Center
  

  Dr. McCarthy is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric infectious disease, and works at The Barbara Bush Children's Hospital.

Update on Sports & Athletics related to COVID

• Michele Labotz, MD Intermed
  

  Dr. Michele LaBotz has been caring for athletes at all levels of participation since 1997. She is certified in pediatrics and completed a sports medicine fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I subsequently served as a team physician, as well as assistant professor and associate director of the sports medicine fellowship at the University of Hawaii.

  In 2006 she began a private practice career at InterMed’s sports medicine clinic. She's a member of American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) Council on Sports Medicine and Fitness, and serve on the board for the AAP’s Maine Chapter. I also serve on the Strategic Health Initiative Committee on Youth Sports and Health for the American College of Sports Medicine.

Discussion - Q & A Session