SAHM 2025 Annual Meeting: Virtual SIG Meetings
SAHM 2025 Annual Meeting Virtual SIGs are open to all SAHM members and non-members who have registered to attend the in-person 2025 SAHM Annual Meeting.
Registration is free and requires only your name and email address. A confirmation email will be emailed to you after registering that includes your unique zoom access link.
Virtual SIG Meeting Schedule
Climate & Adolescent Health SIG Meeting
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 – 6:00-7:00 p.m. CT
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SIG Organizers: Sadhana Dharmapuri, MD & Eve Shapiro, MD, MPH
Session Description: During this session we will update the attendees on the new Position Paper on Climate Change and Adolescent Health. We will discuss actions the SIG and SAHM can take to implement the position statements. We will have an invited guest, Dr. Vi Nguyen, MD, FAAP, a Fellow of Environmental Health as part of the American Academy of Pediatrics and Co-founder of San Diego Pediatricians for Clean Air and Co-chair of the Public Health Advisory Council for Climate Actions Campaign in San Diego. She will share her expertise on advocating for children and youth and engage attendees on how they can involve youth in their communities to advocate on climate issues.
Early Career Professionals SIG Meeting
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 – 7:00-8:00 p.m. CT
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SIG Organizers: Julia Durante, MD, MPH & Sam Master, DO
Session Description: Early career professionals include those who completed specialty training and entered the workforce within the last 5 years. While traditional mentorship relationships often involve guidance from individuals with more experience than the mentee, this SIG leverages the power of peer mentorship and networks of collective experience and support to enrich the experience of the early career professional.
The reality of navigating the ups and downs of being an early career physician can often differ from the vision of a future career that medical trainees cultivate during training. Day-to-day dilemmas of balancing clinical output, academic expectations, and personal life lead many young physicians to feel overwhelmed and experience burnout. Fiscal wellbeing after emerging from a decade of training can feel strained when entering the job market in a financially undervalued medical specialty.
This year’s SIG will involve sharing peer wisdom among the group of professionals undergoing similar challenges. We will review data collected from a survey of early-career adolescent medicine physicians regarding financial compensation, practice setting, and other factors influencing job satisfaction. Small breakout groups will discuss prompts and examples that challenge us to clarify our career priorities, share ideas and tools to build upon our strengths, and set ourselves up for success in one’s early career trajectory. This is a great chance to network with other early career physicians and to reframe your career goals.
The Early Career Professional SIG Meeting organizers ask that you please complete the following anonymous Adolescent Medicine Physician Salary Survey. The results of this survey will be shared during the February 18th SIG Meeting.
Internists in Adolescent Medicine SIG Meeting
Monday, February 24, 2025 – 4:00-5:00 p.m. CT
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SIG Organizers: Jeri Lantz, MD, FAAP, FACP & Anne Laverty, MD
Session Description: The Internists in Adolescent Medicine SIG session will be an opportunity for internists and med/peds providers to discuss updates to ABIM certification and re-certification process. The group will brainstorm about some collaborative ideas and activities to share adolescent medicine and health care transition information with our internal medicine colleagues. The SIG will provide a forum to network and discuss strategies to facilitate chronic disease management and prevention opportunities for the care of complex adolescents as they become adults.
Ethical & Legal SIG Meeting
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CT
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SIG Organizers: Mary Ott, Abigail English, JD, Sharon Enujioke, MD, MPH & Catherine Shubkin, MD, HEC-C
Session Description: The Ethics and Legal SIG is addressing the concept of self-censorship by providers. Globally, governments are passing laws and regulations that place limits on providers ability to provide standard-of-care services to adolescents, and these laws and regulations are frequently accompanied by severe penalties to providers and health systems. Fearful of sanctions (both real and perceived), many adolescent providers and health systems are voluntarily limiting the care provided to adolescents so as not to attract attention. This is a form of self-censorship. Provider-level examples include provider not feeling that they can provide legally allowable care (e.g. when laws restrict abortion procedures, and a provider does not feel they can safely provide all-options counseling) or not feeling able to provide best practice in their environment (e.g. a provider does not feel they can ask parents to leave the room to provide adolescents with a confidential space during a well check). Health system level examples include putting in place restrictive practices preemptively to protect itself. These restrictive practices are barriers to care that may not be illegal (e.g. requiring parental consent for things that should not require parental consent) or are a lower-level care (e.g. not providing confidentiality). Among adolescent health professionals, there is significant risk for moral distress, burnout and providers leaving the field or moving from restricted states. Adolescent health professionals strive to provide the highest quality of care for young people, and self-censorship is often the end result of difficult ethical choices about how best to provide adequate care for youth people, engage with families, and comply with both evolving laws and their health system’s requirements. The Ethics and Legal Issues SIG provides space for conversations about providers’ experiences and ways forward in challenging times.
The SIG will discuss the following questions:
- Where have participants experienced the need for self-censorship? What other options exist, if any?
- Is it ever appropriate to self-censor and provide a lower level of care? When? Why?
- How can we prevent and/or address moral distress and burnout among adolescent providers continuing to practice in restrictive conditions?
What are some useful strategies for working with health systems when it is the system censoring the provider, rather than the government?
Electronic Health Records SIG Meeting
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 – 2:00-3:30 p.m. CT
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SIG Organizers: Keith Loud, MD, MSc Cathy Shubkin, MD & Jennifer Carlson, MD
Session Description: The Electronic Health Records (EHR) SIG exists as a forum for clinical informaticists in SAHM to meet with adolescent health professionals with an interest in maximizing the benefits of digitized health information for adolescent and young adult health outcomes. With special attention to balancing access to information via patient portals against confidentiality, the SIG meeting will allow an opportunity to: 1. share innovations developed at individual institutions and/or by EHR vendors, 2. discuss how to disseminate best practices to all SAHM members through delivery of workshops or institutes, 3. identify important topics for advocacy, including potential SAHM Position papers.
Adolescents with HIV/AIDS SIG Meeting
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 – Noon-1:00 p.m. CT
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SIG Organizers: Adam Leonard, MSN, MPH & Kyzwana Caves, MD, MPH, FAAP
Session Description: This Special Interest Group (SIG) offers a platform for researchers and healthcare providers working with HIV-infected and at-risk adolescents and young adults to network and share experiences. The focus will be on empowering youth voices in the fight against HIV by discussing regional, national, and international activities impacting their care, as well as collaborative research, health policy, ethics, and advocacy. With young people continuing to be disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic, this SIG will highlight how clinicians, researchers, and local community partners can work together to improve outcomes for these populations. Emphasis will be placed on opportunities for youth voices to inform and shape clinical practice and research in the field, with participants encouraged to share and network on projects ranging from protocol development and quality improvement to various types of research.
Bone Health SIG Meeting
Friday, March 14, 2025 – 10:00-11:00 a.m. CT
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SIG Organizer: Sarah Pitts, MD
Session Description: Interactive bone health cases will be discussed to illustrate evidence-based bone health teaching points.