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SPECIAL EVENT: Dr. Moira Szilaygi
Join us for a special event featuring Dr. Moira Szilagyi
Thursday, April 20 from 4-6pm at WOSU’s Ross Community Studio
Join the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy and Nationwide Children’s Hospital School Health Services for a special event featuring Moira Szilagyi, MD, PhD, FAAP, and the 2022 president of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Dr. Szilagyi will discuss childhood trauma and resilience and the need to coordinate between systems of care, specifically in healthcare settings, schools and early childhood centers, through a trauma-informed lens. Dr. Szilagyi will share success stories and inspiring ideas.
This event is relevant for pediatricians, healthcare leaders or practitioners, school counselors, children’s health advocates, researchers, or those who teach or care for young children. We look forward to learning, networking, and engaging with one another to improve children’s well-being.
ABOUT DR. MOIRA SZILAGYI
Dr. Szilagyi is a primary care pediatrician, educator, and professor of Pediatrics at UCLA, where she is division chief of developmental and behavioral pediatrics. She completed her MD, PhD, and pediatric residency at the University of Rochester. During her career and work with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), she developed a community-based, integrated-care medical home for children in foster care, worked in a suburban private practice, created and led a regional child abuse program, and conducted research highlighting vulnerable children.
Dr. Szilagyi led the team that developed the first healthcare standards for children in foster care that are now the national standards. She has served in numerous leadership roles and authored several AAP policy statements, clinical and technical reports and speaks widely about child welfare, vulnerable children, and childhood trauma and resilience. Dr. Szilagyi is also a dedicated advocate who works closely with the AAP’s Washington Office on legislation related to equity, diversity and the care of vulnerable children. She also collaborates with mental health and child welfare to integrate evidence-based interventions into pediatric care.
EVENT SCHEDULE
4:00 – 4:10pm
WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS
Dr. Laura Justice, executive director of the Schoenbaum Family Center and Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy
Dr. Sara Bode, primary care pediatrician and the medical director of Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s School-Based Health and Mobile Clinics
4:10 – 5:00pm
LECTURE
Dr. Moira Szilagyi, 2022 president of the American Academy of Pediatrics
Audience Q&A will be moderated by Dr. Mary Kay Irwin, senior director of School Health, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
5:00 – 6:00pm
RECEPTION
Enjoy heavy hors d’oeuvres and drinks while you connect with others and have the opportunity to meet Dr. Szilagyi.
ABOUT THE HOSTS
Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy
Children are shaped by their ongoing experiences at home, at school, and in their communities, and benefit from research and thought leadership that recognizes and respects their extraordinary capability to grow, learn, and thrive. The Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy aims to build the collective knowledge base in research areas that impact young children and families in order to influence policy and practice related to early childhood learning, development, and well-being.
As part of the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University, the Crane Center is a multidisciplinary research center that helps to connect leading experts, faculty, researchers, staff, and students in collaborative early childhood research, evaluation, policy, and practice. Its unique partnership with the Schoenbaum Family Center and A. Sophie Rogers School for Early Learning create one-of-a-kind opportunities – united in the mission to improve outcomes for children – to connect in one place, under one roof.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Named to the Top 10 Honor Roll on U.S. News & World Report’s 2022-23 list of “Best Children’s Hospitals,” Nationwide Children’s Hospital is one of America’s largest not-for-profit free-standing pediatric healthcare systems. Nationwide Children’s provides unique expertise in pediatric population health and health equity, behavioral health, and genomics as the next frontiers in pediatric medicine, leading to best outcomes for the health of the whole child.
Part of its whole child efforts include serving as a national leader in school health. Nationwide Children’s School Health Services are offered in the areas of highest need. These services encompass 15 school-based health centers offering primary and behavioral health care right at school; school-based asthma therapy in more than 250 schools across 30 districts; wellness education programming with an annual reach of more than 9,000 students; two Mobile Care Centers that travel to schools and other community locations to provide primary care; a dental program; a diabetes program, mobility and complex care services and individual and schoolwide behavioral health services in more than 50 schools. The Nationwide Children’s School Health team also leads interventions to enhance early learning opportunities for preschool-age children as well as provides school health technical assistance statewide.