L100925 HYBRID Grand Rounds: Innovations in Pediatric Care and Quality Improvement

October 9, 2025

Children's Minnesota hosts this one-hour pediatric grand rounds presentation featuring Children's Minnesota professional staff who received grants from the Professional Executive Council (PEC):

Ann Downey, MD, MS, Children's Minnesota Neonatal Medicine - Improving Equity in Neonatal Care: A Qualitative Pilot Study of the Experiences of Black/African American Caregivers and Staff in Our Level III and IV NICUs

Jill Johnson, PharmD, Children's Minnesota Pharmacy: Pharmacy PEC Grant Review 2024 & 2025

Aimee Sznewajs MD, Children's Minnesota Vice President Chief of Specialty Pediatrics, Christine Mathiowetz PsyD, LP, Children's Minnesota Mental Health Clinic, Chestevia Gibson, PharmD, Children's Minnesota Pharmacy:  Update on Professional Staff Women and Nonbinary Leadership Retreat


This presentation will be held both in-person in the 2nd Floor Education Center on the Minneapolis Campus with light refreshments provided while quantities last or virtually. We will try our best to provide refreshments for you; however, all is dependent on final number of attendees.

When you register, you will be asked to enter whether you will be attending in-person or virtually.

Target Audience

Healthcare clinicians caring for pediatric patients and their families. 

Learning Objectives

Improving Equity in Neonatal Care: A Qualitative Pilot Study of the Experiences of Black/African American Caregivers and Staff in Our Level III and IV NICUs

  • Discuss the rationale for the study
  • Review the study itself
  • Outline recommendations from our study participants to improve equity in neonatal care at Children's Minnesota

Pharmacy PEC Grant Review 2024 & 2025

  • Review ideas to improve cross-campus team-building and relationships
  • Identify a new tool for gauging resident burnout
  • Learn about ideas for cultivating resident resilience

Update on Professional Staff Women and Nonbinary Leadership Retreat

  • Explain and describe what need was identified when submitting an application for Professional Staff Funding
  • Summarize outcomes and learnings from four years of Women and Nonbinary Professional Staff Retreat
  • Discuss future impact and direction for Professional Staff Women and Nonbinary Professional Staff Retreat
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ACPE
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy technician
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 ANCC
  • 1.00 Attendance
    • 1.00 Approved AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Course opens: 
08/07/2025
Course expires: 
11/09/2025
Event starts: 
10/09/2025 - 8:00am CDT
Event ends: 
10/09/2025 - 9:00am CDT

PRESENTERS: enter speakers

DISCLOSURE STATEMENT:

It is our intent that any potential conflict should be identified openly so that the listeners may form their own judgments about the presentation with the full disclosure of the facts. It is not assumed any potential conflicts will have an adverse impact on these presentations. It remains for the audience to determine whether the speaker’s outside interest may reflect a possible bias, either the exposition or the conclusions presented.                                                                                                               

Planning committee members and presenter(s) have disclosed they have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing selling re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients and have disclosed that no conflict of interest exists with the presentation/educational event.

 

 

Accreditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, Children’s Minnesota is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Children’s Minnesota takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific interest of its accredited continuing education events.

Credit Statement:

AMA

Children’s Minnesota designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent to their participation in the activity.

ANCC

Children's Minnesota designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 ANCC nursing contact hour. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

ACPE

Pharmacists and Pharmacy Techs will have their attendance reported in the CPE Monitor for ACPE credits provided they have entered their NABP-ePID and birth month and day where indicated when setting up their profile.


This program offers 1.0 contact hours of continuing education.  Most medical professional organizations accept AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  It is the individual’s responsibility to determine whether an education activity meets the continuing education requirements of their respective licensures and/or professional boards.  Go to your respective organization’s website for more detailed information regarding credit requirements.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 ACPE
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy technician
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 ANCC
  • 1.00 Attendance
    • 1.00 Approved AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
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Required Hardware/software

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