Bio Ethics and Pediatric Trauma

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Many of our children come from diverse backgrounds which may be informed by Adverse Childhood Experiences that existed before a particular pediatric diagnosis. The trauma may or may not be connected to the illness. Understanding the nature of trauma and how pediatric disease and treatment may extrapolate trauma factors is essential to providing appropriate psycho-social care.

Suggested Domain: Ethics

1.5 PDUs

Learning Objectives:

1) Understanding the underlying biology and sociology of trauma.
2) Using that understanding to create the architecture of a healing environment.
3) Measuring our own personal stressors that may impede our ability to “be present” for our patients.

Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg

Founder & Global Director

Kids Kicking Cancer

Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg, who holds a First Degree Black Belt in the Korean art of Choi Kwon Do, first provided a therapeutic martial arts program at Camp Simcha, where he served as the Director from 1990 to 2002.

Having lost his first child to leukemia at the age of 2 years, Rabbi Goldberg brings a wealth of personal experience and sensitivity to dealing with children and families facing life-threatening illness. His commitment to ease the pain of very sick children and his dream of bringing healing through the empowering focus of the martial arts resulted in the creation of the Kids Kicking Cancer organization in June, 1999.

Rabbi Goldberg, was a recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leader's Award (2004) and the McCarty Cancer Foundation's Humanitarian of the Year Award (2004). He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Wayne State University School of Medicine. Rabbi Goldberg received his BA from Yeshiva University, summa cum laude. Ordination and graduate training were also at Yeshiva University.