This episode of Pediatrics On Call looks at environmental issues in global pediatric health and pediatric subspecialty fellows' readiness for unsupervised work after two years of training.
Welcome to Pediatrics On Call: a podcast on children’s health from the AAP. Each episode features interviews about new research and hot topics in the field of pediatrics. Hear about the most important innovations in pediatrics, from the people who are behind them. While designed for pediatricians and other health professionals, the podcast will also appeal to parents, caregivers and anyone else interested in the science behind children’s health.
Co-hosts -- pediatricians David Hill, MD, FAAP, and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP – draw on their expertise and training as physicians, as well as their many conversations with families and their own experiences as parents to inform their interviews.
The podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music/Audible, Spotify and wherever podcasts are found.
03/25/2025
In this episode Philip Landrigan, MD, MSc, FAAP, talks about environmental issues in global pediatric health. David Hill, MD, FAAP, and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP, also speak with Sarah Pitts, MD, FAAP, about whether pediatric subspeciality fellows are ready for unsupervised work after two years of training.
03/17/2025
In this episode Sanjiv Harpavat, MD, PhD, FAAP and Saul J. Karpen, MD, PhD, FAASLD, talk about detecting biliary atresia in infants. David Hill, MD, FAAP, and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP, also speak with Bobbi Byrne, MD, FAAP, and Gary Freed, MD, MPH, FAAP, about discrepancies in pediatric work hours.
03/11/2025
In this episode Dr. Sandeep Narang, MD, JD, FAAP, discusses abusive head trauma in infants and children. David Hill, MD, FAAP, and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP, also speak to Dr. Barrie Rich, MD, about delays in diagnosing adnexal torsion in children and adolescents.
03/04/2025
In this episode Lewis First, MD, MS, FAAP, editor-in-chief of Pediatrics, is back for “First Up.” He offers an overview of the March issue of the journal. David Hill, MD, FAAP, and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP, also speak to Doctor Sean O’Leary, MD, MPH, FAAP, chair of the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases, about the emerging measles crisis in the U.S. and the 2025 vaccine schedule.
02/25/2025
In this episode Mark R. Corkins, MD, FAAP, discusses new recommendations for what children should be drinking. Hosts David Hill, MD, FAAP, and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP, also speak to Kao-Ping Chua, MD, PhD, about a new study on the use of prescription stimulants by U.S. children between the years 2017 and 2023.
02/18/2025
In this episode Suzanne B. Haney, MD, MS, FAAP, discusses a new report on evaluating young children with fractures for signs of child abuse. Hosts David Hill, MD, FAAP, and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP, also talk to Alexandria Albers, MPH, MS, and Sophia R. Newcomer, PhD, MPH, about a new study that explores the impact invalid vaccine doses have on children.
02/11/2025
In this episode Matthew E. Oster, MD, MPH, FAAP, discusses a new algorithm to help screen for CCHD before infants leave the hospital. Hosts David Hill, MD, FAAP, and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP, also talk to Dylan B. Jackson, PhD, MS, and Rebecca L. Fix, PhD, MS, about how when Black families talk about potential police interactions, children feel less stressed.
02/04/2025
In this episode Alex R. Kemper, MD, MPH, MS, FAAP, deputy editor of the journal Pediatrics, offers a bird’s-eye view of the February issue. Hosts David Hill, MD, FAAP, and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP, also talk to AAP President Susan J. Kressly, MD, FAAP, about how to help patients and families affected by Pediatric Acute Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome or PANS.
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Joanna became a pediatrician because “she’s just too nice” was a frequent trope of her medical school evaluations. As an attempt to spice things up, she became a neonatologist but still saves babies with a smile on her face. However, it wasn’t until she became a mother that she endured her most intensive training in infant care and learned how to write personal bios while breastfeeding.
Her education has been bicoastal: from Harvard College in Boston to Mount Sinai Medical School in New York City, all the way to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles for pediatrics residency and the University of California, Los Angeles for neonatal fellowship. For her first job as an attending, she came back to the east coast and has landed in Philadelphia. There she works as an assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She cocreated the podcast Baby Doctor Mamas as her first foray into podcasting and has been a contributor and writer for many media outlets including The New York Times, National Public Radio, SELF Magazine, and NBC News.
When she’s not doctoring, parenting or podcasting, she is usually watching television with her husband Danny, a cinematographer who is always excited about how they got that cool dolly shot. She’s frequently embroiled (but never consistent) in some new exercise routine and is hoping to do her first pull-up during the pandemic (tips and encouragement are encouraged!).
Listen to the podcast & share fitness tips with her on twitter @JPBelinkieMD.
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Dr. David Hill is a hospitalist pediatrician practicing in Goldsboro and Wilmington, NC, and is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the UNC School of Medicine. He is also an author and editor, most recently of the AAP’s top-selling childcare book, Caring for Your Baby and Young Child, Birth to age 5, 8th Edition. He serves as a medical communications expert and is a former chair of the AAP Council on Communications and Media, where he helped craft the Academy’s updated 2016 media use guidelines. Dr. Hill lectures nationally and internationally on media and child health, the use of media for healthcare advocacy, and effective patient communication, drawing from his own extensive experience with media as well as from evidence-based best practices. He lives in Wilmington, NC, with his wife, Christy, a pediatric physician assistant, with whom he has raised a blended family of five adult children.