2021 Spring Meeting Offers Chance for Health Care Providers to Address Comorbidities of COVID Pandemic Together
Last Friday Ohio AAP hosted our Spring Meeting, bringing together hundreds across the state, including physicians, nurses, teachers, public health workers, social workers, and community organizations. We were excited to have such a diverse group of people together to discuss the issues most affecting healthcare workers and Ohio’s children in the COVID era. The first half of the meeting focused on teen mental health, an issue that has been greatly impacted by the pandemic. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, pediatricians have reported more than a 50% increase in teen depression. Mike Gittelman, MD, FAAP and Sarah Denny, MD, FAAP started off by discussing the Ohio AAP’s Store It Safe Program, which works to identify teens with mental health concerns and create barriers to the most lethal means for suicide, and was followed by Emily Harris, MD, PhD, FAAP who spoke on suicide and depression screening. We were also excited to officially launch our new vaccine advocacy group, Ohio Champions for Vaccines (OC4V). To find out more about the work of this amazing new group and how you can join, check out the article in this issue here. It was a great afternoon filled with informative free educational content and allowed attendees to leave with resources and tools to help pediatric and adolescent patients grow to be healthy, resilient adults.
Thank you to all of our attendees, presenters, and staff for making this year’s Spring Meeting such a huge success!
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