A Year in Review: Looking Back at 2023!

As 2023 comes to a close, we want to highlight several of the key accomplishments of The Roadmap Project over this past year.

• In February, members of the Roadmap Project Patient and Parent Advisory Group shared their experiences in The impact of being Black while living with a chronic condition: Inpatient perspectives, published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine. 

• Dr. Mary Pat Gallagher (NYU Pediatric Endocrinology) shared her Roadmap experience at the Children’s Hospital Association meeting. 

• Drs. Lori Crosby and Jill Plevinsky presented Roadmap strategies at the Association of Pediatric Program Directors meeting in March. 

• In April, Drs. Kenya McNeal-Trice, Jill Plevinsky, and Erica Sood presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting.

• The Roadmap Change Package was updated based on feedback from clinicians, patients, and family partners who have participated in Roadmap initiatives.

• We kicked off the 2023 Roadmap Emotional Health Collaborative in May with 17 hospitals, 39 teams across 15 subspecialties.  

• In August, The Roadmap Project presented at the Cincinnati Children's Pediatric Grand Rounds. Physicians who review the session and answer two questions are able to receive American Board of Pediatrics MOC Part 2 credit through 8/2/2024 on the Cincinnati Children’s website.

• Roadmap presented an overview at a virtual panel discussion, "Supporting the Emotional Health of Children, Adolescents and Young Adults with Chronic Conditions and their Families," hosted by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).

• Roadmap patient partner Meg Didier, Roadmap parent partner Robyn Kinebrew, Roadmap faculty Lori Crosby, PsyD, and Carole Lannon, MD, MPH, joined American Academy of Pediatrics Board of Directors member Dr. Lia Gaggino on her podcast, Pediatric Meltdown, to discuss the importance of addressing emotional health in patients with chronic conditions and strategies for doing so.

• As part of the mid-point journey of the collaborative, we held a virtual Fall Learning Session. Patient Partner Tyler Sajdak shared the importance of addressing mental health along the patient journey. Teams shared their great work and good progress, with the UNC Sickle Cell Disease team leading a session on process mapping. 

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• The Roadmap Project shared several resources for addressing maternal health at the National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives, with stories highlighting the importance of addressing emotional health beginning in the antenatal period from a parent of a now two-year-old born at 24-weeks' gestation, neonatologist Dr. Ana Ribeiro, and cardiologist Dr. Corey Stiver. 

Recap: Roadmap Collaborative Virtual Fall Learning Session

During last month's virtual fall Learning Session, teams shared the headlines that they hope to accomplish for their networks within the next two years as well as some of the moments that have made them most proud during the collaborative. The future looks bright! Here are a few that stood out:

Thank you for your support, feedback, and participation in making this Roadmap's best year yet! We look forward to more resources, partnerships, and more emotional health growth for our patients and their families. We hope you have a happy and healthy new year!

The Roadmap Project is made possible with support from the American Board of Pediatrics Foundation and the David R. Clare and Margaret C. Clare Foundation.