Welcome and Introductions: Pancreatic Disease

Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Welcome to managing the Disease pancreas in Children. Today it's going to be a really good event. We have a really interesting topic, uh, something we're talking about the pancreas, which most of us don't know too much about and fortunately we have a panel of experts who know more than the rest of the world, it seems, uh, from what I've been reading, so. Uh, I'm excited to see what we have to talk about today. Let's get through some ground rules first. Uh, as everyone knows who's done these events in the past, I first want to thank Cincinnati Children's, who really has been leading the world in pediatric surgical education. Uh, without Cincinnati Children's, we would be deprived of all these events that we have throughout the year. Um, specifically, ah, right now we're sort of venturing out not just to pure pediatric surgery, but we're talking about multidisciplinary topics and specifically today the pancreas is a, is a great example where we have experts from all sorts of different specialties who focus on one disease process that's difficult to manage and, ah, some housekeeping before we get into it. Uh, we're, we're relying on tech, and this means that at any moment the internet can go down, your browser may not work, the bandwidth may be a problem. Usually just restarting your browser is all you need to do to fix the problem, and, uh, and you'll be back online. Uh, all of this is recorded as it always is and will be available after 48 hours. Uh, pretty soon we'll have our new, uh, video portal where you can actually type in any keyword you want and I don't have to watch the entire event, but just watch that few minutes on that particular topic that you're interested in, uh, specifically for the pancreas that's good because there's a lot to talk about. Uh, we want this to be interactive. We want, we have this, uh, panel of experts, but we really want the audience to participate. Send in your questions. Send in your thoughts. Answer the poll questions. If you have an idea for a poll question, let us know. We want this to be a team approach to learning and we want everyone involved. Um So you know, right now, by the way, we're broadcasting you from the center of telehealth at Cincinnati Children's, and this is a very unique center. I've never seen it in any other hospital where there's this large center really designed for for the experts here at Cincinnati Children's to be helping other physicians and other patients around the world, and I asked them this morning, they said they, they use this every day, so it's just incredible to me how much they're using this center. Uh, and so I want to thank them for letting us broadcast out of here yet again. You know, the pancreas is something like I said, most of us don't deal too often, uh, with. We either have it once in a while or we'll send the patients to a place like Cincinnati Children's where there's experts, and it was incredible to me seeing this list of faculty that not only is their center made up of one or two people, but they have this center that's really made up of a large group of people that really take care of these patients from every aspect and. I'm anxious to learn a lot of these things today, and we're going to start off with introducing our course director for today, Doctor Jamie Nathan. Doctor Nathan is assistant professor of surgery and pediatrics. He's a pediatric surgeon and a transplant surgeon here at Cincinnati Children's. He's faculty at University of Cincinnati, and he is also the surgical director of the pancreatic Care Center. And uh he's put together a fantastic agenda today that uh me for someone who doesn't do too much pancreatic work, I'm actually really excited to learn from you guys. So Jamie, thanks for putting this together and I'll let you take it from here. Great, thanks Todd. We are thrilled to be here. We have a great series of sessions this morning. Everything. Anything you wanted to know about the pancreas, uh, and we'll spend the next 4 hours talking about surgical approaches. We'll talk about interventional endoscopic approaches, ah, but first we'll start out with acute, uh, pancreatitis, acute recurrent pancreatitis, and chronic pancreatitis, medical management, uh, and a series of, uh, um, concepts that will, uh, hopefully help the audience recognize how to take care of these complicated problems in children. So I'd like to start by introducing the rest of the team, the rest of our panel, uh, and to my left is, uh, Doctor Joe Palermo, pediatric gastroenterologist, uh, who, uh, is also our medical lead of our total pancreatectomy and eyelet auto transplantation program. We have Ken Goldschneider. Who is director of pain management here in Cincinnati Children's, uh, and professor of, uh, uh, clinical pediatrics and anesthesia and plays a central role on the pain management, uh, team for patients with, uh, pancreatic diseases. We've Doctor Massam Abu al Haija, another gastroenterology colleague and co-director of our course today, uh, and she's also the medical director of our pancreas care center. Then we have Tom Lynn, another esteemed gastroenterologist who in fact, uh, takes care of, uh, the vast majority and if not all of our, uh, endoscopic needs in, uh, children with, uh, pancreatic, uh, disorders. Uh, he's a director of endoscopy for our pancreas care center, uh, and also a co-director of endoscopy for the division of, uh, gastroenterology. And then we have, uh, Andrew Trout. Who, uh, is our, uh, lead, uh, radiologist, uh, for our multidisciplinary, uh, pancreas, uh, care center, uh, assistant professor of, uh, radiology, and, uh, he's, uh, dual certified in pediatric radiology and nuclear medicine. And then, uh, later this morning we'll be joined, uh, by, uh, Doctor Deb Elder who is our, uh, endocrine, uh, director for the pancreas Care Center, and also Doctor Milton Smith who's a, uh, fantastic, uh, colleague. Uh, he's a, um, medical director of therapeutic, uh, ERCP at University of Cincinnati. And so, uh, with that, um, please we'd like to keep this, uh, uh, highly interactive, so, um, bring us your questions, bring us your comments, and, uh, we hope to be able to answer them.