Constipation and Abdominal Pain: What To Do and When To Worry

Link for CME Credit Coming soon!

This episode explains how to distinguish functional constipation from organic causes in children, outlines the key red flags that require further workup or referral, and reviews evidence-based management including clean-outs, maintenance with polyethylene glycol (Miralax), dietary guidance, and when imaging or tests are appropriate.

Host Holly Wayment and Dr. Anandini Suri also discuss practical advice, toilet-training guidance, how to ensure medication adherence, and nonpharmacologic strategies like breathing and exercise for functional abdominal pain.

Adolescent Relationships in the Digital Age: Violence, Risk, and Prevention

Link for CME Credit:

https://cmetracker.net/UTHSCSA/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/getCertificate/10101483

Dr. Jeff Temple presents findings from the long-running longitudinal study tracking youth relationships, dating violence, mental health, substance use, firearms, and sexting from adolescence into adulthood. The episode highlights key findings such as the high cumulative prevalence of bidirectional dating violence, links between parental IPV and later perpetration, and the association between childhood corporal punishment and future dating violence.

The talk also covers sexting research showing harms mainly when non‑consensual or coerced, the addition of firearm measures after 2013, and the study’s strong retention and diverse sample. Dr. Temple discusses prevention, including the successful Fourth R relationship curriculum that reduced violence and long‑term depression, and the importance of continuing prevention into the 20s and across generations.

Imaging With Intention: Optimizing Care Through Collaboration in Diagnostic Radiology

Link for CME Credit:

https://cmetracker.net/UTHSCSA/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/getCertificate/10101474

Host and Executive Producer Holly Wayment and UT Health San Antonio's Department of Pediatrics bring us this Grand Rounds episode with Desi Schiess, MD, pediatric radiologist. This episode reviews evidence-based imaging choices, radiation considerations, and practical tips for ordering X‑ray, ultrasound, CT, MRI, fluoroscopy, and nuclear medicine in children. It includes case examples, a quiz, and guidance on when to consult a radiologist to ensure safe, effective pediatric imaging.

When to Worry: Neck Lumps, Bumps, and Enlarged Lymph Nodes in Kids

Link for CME Credit:

https://uthscsa.edu/medicine/education/cme/pediatrics-now-podcast

In this episode of Pediatrics Now, Host Holly Wayment and Pediatric Oncologist Dr. Shafqat Shah discuss how clinicians should evaluate new lumps, bumps, and enlarged lymph nodes in children, adolescents, and young adults. Dr. Shah explains features that suggest reactive vs. malignant nodes, when to observe versus order imaging or labs, when to biopsy, and considerations about steroids, infections like cat scratch disease, and transitioning care for young adults.

Dr. Shah's email address is: ShahS2@uthscsa.edu

Stopping Bedwetting: Urology Insights from Dr. Tim Baumgardner

Link for free CME credit:

https://cmetracker.net/UTHSCSA/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/getCertificate/10101417

Dr. Tim Baumgardner discusses his pediatric urology practice at UT Health San Antonio, and University Health, focusing on nocturnal enuresis—its evaluation and treatment (behavioral strategies, alarms, and DDAVP)—and describes multidisciplinary care, transition urology, clinic locations, and humanitarian outreach to Honduras.

Link for CME Credit:

https://cmetracker.net/UTHSCSA/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/getCertificate/10101401

In this episode Host Holly Wayment interviews Dr. Sarah Marucci and they discuss the gut-brain axis, common GI conditions (IBS, H. pylori, celiac), diet, hormones, and mental health for women and children. Sarah reviews red flags for early cancer detection, screening options like colonoscopy and stool tests, and practical prevention tips—hydration, fiber, exercise, and open conversations about bowel habits.

Holly Wayment interviews Dr. Alice Gong about updated newborn screening guidelines, expanded blood tests (now 59–60), additions like lysosomal storage disorders and SMA, point-of-care screens (hearing and critical congenital heart disease), and newborn blood spot retention and consent policies.

The episode covers testing timelines, follow-up coordination between hospitals and pediatricians, counseling families about results, special considerations for premature or critically ill infants, and emerging genomic approaches.

Holly Wayment and the Department of Pediatrics at UT Health San Antonio bring you this episode featuring Dr. Eric Horvitz from Microsoft, who explores the history, recent breakthroughs, and future directions of AI in medicine. He discusses advances from early expert systems to modern generative, multimodal, and agentic AI, and practical applications like diagnostic orchestration and tumor board support.

Dr. Horvitz highlights trends such as scale, real-time reasoning, cross-modality models, and human-AI collaboration, and emphasizes challenges around reliability, integration, ethics, and regulation while arguing for thoughtful adoption to improve healthcare outcomes.