Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to

1.  Develop differential diagnoses for direct hyperbilirubinemia using a systems-based and mechanism-based approach.
2.  Explain how the differential diagnoses change with patient age.
3.  Interpret the initial evaluation and management of infants and children with direct hyperbilirubinemia.

Faculty

Jacquie Fable, MD, MS
Pediatric Hospitalist
UMMS - Baystate

Katherine Harer, MD
Pediatric Hospitalist
UMMS - Baystate

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.