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The 2026 Hot Topics in Pediatric Primary Care will focus on various aspects of safety. All sessions in the series will be held over Zoom on the first Wednesday of the month from 6:00-7:00PM, January through May. Join us for any or all of the events.

CME credits will be offered for participants who attend the live presentations.

Course Description

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Presented by: Dr. Diekema

Dr. Diekema is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine with adjunct appointments in the Departments of Bioethics & Humanities in the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health. Dr. Diekema founded the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children’s in 2004 and currently serves as its Director of Education. He is past-Chair of the Committee on Bioethics of the American Academy of Pediatrics, past-chair of the Secretary’s Advisory Committee for Human Subjects Protections (SACHRP) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and a former Board member of the American Society for Bioethics & Humanities. He is currently a member of the FDA’s Pediatric Advisory Committee. Dr. Diekema is the author of numerous scholarly publications in medical ethics and pediatric emergency medicine and an editor of Clinical Ethics in Pediatrics: A Case-based Textbook. He is an elected Fellow of the Hastings Center and was honored by the American Academy of Pediatrics as the 2014 recipient of the William G. Bartholome Award for Ethical Excellence.

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Presented by: Seattle Children’s – Christina Delgado

Christina Delgado is a Program Manager on the Community Health team at Seattle Children’s. Her portfolio includes secure firearm storage, opioid overdose prevention, and safe medication storage. She received her MN degree from University of Minnesota and a DNP in Population Health and Systems Leadership from the University of Washington. Her areas of specialty include violence and injury prevention, trauma-informed approaches, social and structural drivers of health, organizational quality improvement and clinical education. She is interested in practice-and-policy-relevant research focused on health equity, community-partnered program evaluation, and public health systems.

Course Description

Clinicians promoting safe firearm storage and preventing youth firearm injury and violence.

In the U.S., an estimated 1 in 3 homes with children have guns, many unlocked or loaded. Additionally, 8 children are unintentionally injured or killed every day as a result of “family fire,” which is a shooting involving an improperly stored or misused firearm found in the home. Since 2019, the number of children, teens and young adults killed by firearms each year in Washington ranged from 127 in 2019 and 169 in 2021 – most of these were due to suicide and homicide.

Patient-provider counseling on safe firearm storage during clinic visits is an important strategy to potentially reduce firearm-related injuries among children and teens.

Many families expect their pediatrician to advise about safe storage of firearms and are comfortable discussing firearm safety with their child’s pediatrician.

Practicing secure firearm storage is an effective and important way to protect children and teens from firearm suicide and unintentional shootings, reduce the risk of firearm injuries and saves lives. Since 2017, Seattle Children’s has collaborated with teams across the state to provide education and device distribution to increase home safety and reduce barriers a family may have to practice safe storage of firearms.

Firearm Safety Demo Kits can be sent to interested practices in advance of the March training – free of charge. On the registration form, please indicate if you would like to receive a kit.

Registration Open:

Presented by: Seattle Children’s – Christina Delgado

Christina Delgado is a Program Manager on the Community Health team at Seattle Children’s. Her portfolio includes secure firearm storage, opioid overdose prevention, and safe medication storage. She received her MN degree from University of Minnesota and a DNP in Population Health and Systems Leadership from the University of Washington. Her areas of specialty include violence and injury prevention, trauma-informed approaches, social and structural drivers of health, organizational quality improvement and clinical education. She is interested in practice-and-policy-relevant research focused on health equity, community-partnered program evaluation, and public health systems.

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Presented by: Seattle Children’s Hospital

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Credit Offered

This  activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies
of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACME) through the joint providership of Skagit
Regional Health and Help Me Grow Skagit. Skagit Regional Health is accredited by the Washington State Medical
Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Skagit Regional Health designates this online live activity for a maximum of 5.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM
Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity meets the criteria for up to 5.0 hours of Category I CME credit to satisfy the relicensure requirements of
the Washington State Medical Quality Assurance Commission.