I would like to welcome our new chapter members and encourage them to make use of the resources available on our website, aapca2.org

We are continuing to take volunteers to form the Advocacy Committee in our chapter to plan and improve our advocacy efforts. If you wish to take an active part in that committee, please click here to sign up, or contact Tomas at [email protected]. Thank you to Lingie Chiu, MD, MBA, FAAP for signing up recently.

Danielle Shaw, MD, MS, FAAP, a pediatrician and child and adolescent psychiatrist in Camarillo is featured in this month's Member Spotlight. Furthermore, we are continuing to feature the finalists of the 2021 Research Awards. This month we have Paige Kingston, a 3rd year medical student at USC, and Isabel Sunshine, a 2nd year medical student at USC. I hope to see more of you participate and make this part of the newsletter interesting, by submitting your personal narratives to be published.  Please read the submission guidelines below and contact [email protected] for more information.

During the awards ceremony, three of our Chapter 2 members received AAP Special Achievement Awards in recognition for their accomplishments. I would like to congratulate Alice Kuo, MD, PhD, FAAP; Chris Landon, MD, FAAP, FCCP, CDM; and Nava Yeganeh, MD, MPH, FAAP. They all showed sustained interest and participated in one or more activities of our chapter, over and above that is expected by the membership at large. Please see the details below.

We have two opportunities for engagement this month. May 18 is the Early Career Pediatricians Town Hall, and May 27 is session 2 of the Infection Prevention and Control Series: SARS-CoV-2 Virus Dynamics, Host Immune Response and Vaccines, presented by Ishminder Kaur, MD, FAAP. This session will open at 6 PM for a Virtual Mixer. Please register below.

Being pediatricians and mothers, our two worlds intersect and overlap constantly. However, many pediatrician mothers will tell you that being a parent is by far the most challenging role they have had to play. In honor of Mother’s Day this year, we wanted to celebrate the pediatricians who are mothers in our Chapter. We had a conversation with five local area pediatricians and asked them to share their thoughts and wishes with us. Here’s what they had to say… Continue reading

Currently, the leading cause of death in individuals between 10-24 years of age is suicide, and the rate of mental health conditions has risen 20.9%. Pediatricians serve a vital role in identifying and managing mental health conditions in children. Read more ...

You are finishing a physical form for your patient in high school. Her mom exchanges small talk about COVID-19 being such a disaster, and how they are looking forward to the end of it. “Yes,” agrees the teenager with cutting pessimism. “Then, we will only have to worry about climate change and fires again.”

Over the last 40 years, humans have been causing high levels of carbon dioxide and other gas emissions.  Continue reading...

Please read the March 26 Los Angeles County Public Health Department Health Advisory Network (LAHAN) message: School and Childcare Immunizations and Filing Medical Exemptions, which provides a detailed list of steps needed to meet the new (effective Jan 1, 2021) requirements for immunization medical exemptions. 

A summary of the needed steps may be accessed in this document.

On May 19th, 2021, the organization Trainees For Childhood Injury Prevention (T4CIP) will be promoting a national Day of Action surrounding high-powered magnets safety and the serious harm they pose. These small rare-earth magnets are powerful and easily ingested or inhaled, Read more...

Candidates for District IX Chairperson are Yasuko Fukuda, MD, FAAP and

Zoey Goore, MD, FAAP.

Candidate for District IX Vice Chairperson is Eric Ball, MD, FAAP

For the ninth year in a row, the AAP-CA2 is a recipient of the 2020 AAP Award of Chapter Excellence in recognition for its accomplishments during the 2020 calendar year. We would like to thank you, our members, for your loyalty as we advocate for children, pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists, bringing you opportunities for engagement and professional development.

Congratulations to the following chapter members who are recipients of the 2020 AAP Special Achievement Award for distinguished service and dedication to the mission and goals of the Academy.

For leading the School Health Committee, advocating for safe school reopening guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic in Los Angeles County.

For developing a comprehensive Adverse Childhood Experiences training program for health care providers in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.

For her efforts in the School Health Committee, advocating for safe school reopening guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic in Los Angeles County.

In this video, Dr. Chris Landon, pediatrician in Ventura County, provides an overview of the sustainable partnerships his foundation has built over the years.

The Immigrant Health Committee, led by Dr. Sural Shah (Committee Chair) and Dr. Lisa Gantz (AAP-CA2 Member-at-Large) held a webinar on May 6th. during which they provided an update on the situation of unaccompanied minors being held in local facilities, and what pediatricians can expect when these children are brought for a medical exam once they are released.

The AAP-CA2 Immigrant Health Resource Guide provides multiple National and Local resources, easily accessible via QR codes. Be sure to down load it and save it for future reference.

Next time you are on Amazon.com, go to smile.amazon.com and select "American Academy of Pediatrics District IX Chapter 2" as your charity of choice. There after, always be sure to begin at smile.amazon.com when you make purchases, or they will not count. Amazon will donate half a percent of all purchases. This is a way of supporting the chapter so that we may have a greater impact through our programs. We thank you for your support!

Use this link to select us as your charitable organization at AmazonSmile.

Please join us for session 2 of this two-webinar series on infection prevention and control, sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics through a Project First Line grant from the CDC. CME: maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM per session.

Note: If you registered for session 1, you are already registered for session 2.

Zoom session will open at 6 PM for a Virtual Mixer.

Speaker: Ishminder Kaur, MD, FAAP

CHOC Children’s Virtual Pediatric Lecture Series provides online CME lectures at no cost.

Registration is open for Bridges to Resilience! The live, virtual event focuses on educating and increasing awareness about the widespread impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and provides hopeful strategies to build resilience within our communities and system of care.

For more information, visit www.bridgestoresilience.com

CME/CE credits available. AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ has been approved for this activity. The SB County Consortium for CME is accredited by the CMA to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Continuing education credit has been approved for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the Board of Behavioral Sciences

REGISTER HERE! Registration closes June 3rd at midnight.

Signing up your entire practice (clinical and non-clinical staff) qualifies for a 20% discount on Chapter membership dues. Contact us for details.

The Immigrant Youth Task Force (IYTF) at UCLA and the American Academy of Pediatrics California Chapter 2 (AAP-CA2) invite you to visit The Los Angeles County Immigrant Youth Resource Toolkit, a website consolidating community resources in the greater LA area for immigrant youth and families. Our goal is to help professionals from all disciplines address the needs of their immigrant youth patients/clients with regards to health care, legal services, education, social services, and more. As our toolkit continues to evolve, we encourage you to explore and use it in your practice going forward.

The Landon Pediatric Foundation received a grant from ACEs Aware to provide supplemental training to providers in Ventura County (and neighboring counties)... Read more >>>

Learn about the 3-Tiered Medi-Cal Provider Training Reward System, here

Learn about the implementation steps, here

For more information visit acesawareventuracounty.org and subscribe to our events page at acesawareventuracounty.org/webinars for updates on upcoming trainings."

Chapter committees are great opportunities to get involved in areas that interest you the most. Furthermore, if you are a Fellow member (FAAP), local involvement could position you for leadership opportunities at National AAP. To learn more about our various Committees and Sections, and to sign up, please visit aapca2.org/committees.

New: ADVOCACY

Be the voice in your County. Share local issues that need to be addressed with grassroots efforts.

New: CLIMATE CHANGE

Join discussions on what pediatricians can do to address climate change in our region.

New: MEDIA and COMMUNICATIONS

Do you have an interest in media and communications? Would you like to learn how to structure sound bytes when speaking with the media? Or perhaps how to be a more effective Tweetrician? .

Please visit our website: aapca2.org