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Practice Profiles

Trust and Reassurance: Serving a Diversity of Patients in South Carolina

by Erin Post ■ Jun 2016

Dr. Eliza Varadi, the owner of Pelican Pediatrics in Charleston, South Carolina, has made it her goal to serve a diversity of patients from a multitude of backgrounds. Spurred in part by her own immigrant experience as a child, she has built a team that reflects the community she serves.

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Lessons from the Pandemic: Opening the Doors During COVID-19

by Emily Graf ■ Jun 2016

Motivated to serve his community with his unique expertise, Dr. Scott Wissman took the leap to open an independent practice. When he set his opening date in the spring of 2020, Dr. Wissman could never have predicted the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Wissman discusses the challenges, triumphs, and poignant lessons of opening a practice during a global pandemic.

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Editorial

Cracks in the System: Child Food Insecurity and COVID-19

by Emily Graf ■ Jun 2016

Proper nutrition and food security are essential to the healthy development of a child—physically, emotionally, and psychologically. Dr. Steven Abrams, Chair of the AAP Committee on Nutrition, discusses how pediatricians can improve their screening for and treatment of food insecurity. He also explains the relationship between COVID-19 and food insecurity, and explores how the U.S. can better support its most vulnerable populations. 

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Industry Trends

Making Decisions Together: A Web-Based Approach to Screening and Early Intervention

by Erin Post ■ Jun 2016

In the early 2000s, Dr. Barbara Howard and her husband, Dr. Raymond Sturner, set out to harness the power of the internet to help pediatricians assess patients for mental health issues. Twenty years later, they’ve revolutionized how early screening and intervention unfolds in pediatric offices across the country by making available online more than 600 screening and diagnostic tools.

The approach centers on an evidence-based, standardized approach to screening. A web-based platform they developed called CHADIS, or the Comprehensive Health and Decision Information System, gives pediatricians access to screening, diagnostic, and data collection tools for a range of health issues, from autism and ADHD to depression and asthma.

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Tools & Resources

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The Independent Pediatrician is proud to provide you with a list of resources that we believe can help independent pediatricians survive and thrive. Feel free to share them and pass them on, integrating them into your pediatric community.

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