Dr. Tram T. Tran will cover issues related to Hepatitis B and Pregnancy

Volume 2, Issue 4-Hepatitis B and Pregnancy.

Dr. Tram T Tran, Medical Director of the Liver Transplantation Program at the Liver Disease and Transplant Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA will present patient case scenarios which: review current screening recommendations for hepatitis B, Assess strategies to reduce mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of hepatitis B, and review recommendations and vaccination of hepatitis B infected mothers.

Featured Cases: Interventions to Improve Nutrition in Patients with CF

Volume 3, Issue 8.

In this issue, Dr. Elizabeth Yen reviews new research highlighting the strong positive impact of early behavioral and nutritional education. Exploring predictors of long-term response to such interventions she discusss how body image may affect compliance with nutritional recommendations in adolescents; and, then present data describing positive outcomes with gastrostomy tube placement for supplemental enteral intake.