Our Impact Grows: AACPDM Meeting

The final program of the annual meeting for the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine in Las Vegas
The mini symposia will be two hours in length total with a short discussion after. Topics include:
- Building a Center of Excellence in Cerebral Palsy: Care Delivery Models Across Cerebral Palsy Research Network Sites – Laurie Glader, MD, a developmental pediatrician, CP Research Network Steering Committee member and Scientific Co-chair for the AACPDM meeting, will lead a presentation and discussion of different “models of care” from leading centers in the CP Research Network.
- The State of Tone Management in Children with CP in North America: What Can We Learn from Each Other? CP Research Network investigator Sruthi Thomas, MD, PhD, is leading a session with other physicians from the network to discuss different strategies for tone management.
- Using Quality Improvement (QI) to Change Systems and Improve Care in Cerebral Palsy – Amy Bailes, PT, PhD, and CP Research Network QI coach, will lead a discussion including clinical leaders and consumers about three of our active quality improvement initiatives including adult care, dystonia diagnosis, and hip surveillance.
Our morning seminars, each of which are one hour in length, include:
- How to Participate in Multi-center Clinical Research and Quality Improvement (QI) with the CP Research Network
- NINDS Cerebral Palsy Common Data Elements for Lower Extremity Orthopedic Interventions
- Communication is a Gateway to Participation: State of the Science and Future Directions
And our free papers and posters include:
- The Development and Sensibility Evaluation of the CPCHECKList© – A Comorbidity Index for Severe Cerebral Palsy and;
- an Update from the Cerebral Palsy Research Network Registry.
These symposia, seminars, posters, and papers all seek to improve care and advance research at the national level. The breadth and depth of the network’s activities are very visible at this annual meeting and will draw new clinician researchers into our circle, eventually expanding our impact.