This special series of expert commentaries is part of a collaboration between Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Medscape and is designed to provide practicing clinicians with updates and analysis on a range of clinically important topics from specialists affiliated with this world-famous pediatric facility.

• Behavioral Health Takes Center Stage at PAS 2023   If you missed this year's PAS meeting, here is a brief overview of the latest studies in pediatric behavioral health from CHOP's Katie Lockwood.
  CHOP Expert Commentary, May 12, 2023
• Advice on Antibiotics For Kids During Shortages Prescribing antibiotics for children with viral infections has led to a shortage of the most commonly used antibiotics.
  CHOP Expert Commentary, February 3, 2023
• The New 5-Minute Concussion Test Along with a video demonstration, CHOP's Dr Daniel Corwin tells Medscape how this rapid clinical test, known as the VVE, has both diagnostic and prognostic value in youth concussion.
  CHOP Expert Commentary, August 11, 2021
• School's Open: Should Our Approach to Sick Kids Change? Colds, flu, COVID, asthma. They are all likely to show up in medical offices this fall. How should these children be evaluated and managed?
  CHOP Expert Commentary, October 5, 2020

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Paul A. Offit, MD Director, Vaccine Education Center and Attending Physician, Division of Infectious Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Paul Offit is the co-inventor of the RotaTeq® vaccine, but he receives no financial remuneration for sales of the vaccine from either the manufacturer or his employing institution.

• Not Vaccinating Migrant Children Is 'Unconscionable'   Dr Paul Offit comments on the US Customs and Border Protection agency's decision to not vaccinate migrant children against influenza.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, September 2019
• What Will It Take to Eradicate Mumps?   Mumps isn't a trivial infection because it can lead to sterility. How can we end these outbreaks?
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, April 2019
• Measles: Will It Take a Death to Get Kids Vaccinated?   Paul Offit argues that it's unconscionable to let unvaccinated kids get and transmit measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, February 2019
• The Overwhelming Safety of the HPV Vaccine Why has one of the most well-studied vaccines in history been unable to dispel fears about its safety?
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, September 2018
• Vaccine Science Taken Hostage? Paul Offit Responds Paul Offit responds to a column in the New York Times that claims there is a 'conspiracy of silence' among vaccine scientists about the harms of vaccines.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, August 2018
• FluMist: Flu Vaccine Option or 'Last Resort'?   Dr Paul Offit discusses the 'new, improved' FluMist and clarifies competing recommendations for its use.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, June 2018

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L. Gregory Lawton, MD is a pediatrician with Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Primary Care, HighPoint, Chalfont, Pennsylvania. He attended Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia on a scholarship from the US Air Force and completed his pediatric residency at a teaching affiliate of the University of California, Davis, at Travis Air Force Base, California. He exchanged the polyester Air Force uniform for cotton fiber in 2003 when he moved to the Philadelphia suburbs.

• Back to School: In Praise of the Routine Summer is wonderful, but many welcome the return to the well-worn routines of fall. Helping families establish those routines is the unique purview of pediatrics.
  Medscape Pediatrics, September 2018
• Pediatrician Burnout: Similar, yet Different Burnout in pediatricians has some of the same root causes as in all types of physician. But some causes are unique to the challenges and joys of caring for children.
  Medscape Pediatrics, July 2018
• Pediatrics by the Numbers: Putting Our Time Where It Works Best Are you asking the right questions? Providing the right advice? Greg Lawton, MD, discusses the issues and hazards that provide the biggest risk to kids and how to use our time wisely to mitigate them.
  Medscape Pediatrics, June 2018
• A Musing on Interpreters in the Pediatric Exam Room Interpreters can become a critical part of the interaction with a family.
  Medscape Pediatrics, March 2018
• Can Teenagers Solve Our Nation's Most Intractable Problem? Can impetuous, unruly, infuriating, passionate, inspiring teenagers prevail where adults have failed?
  Medscape Pediatrics, February 2018
• SOAP to EHR to Scribe: What's Next? From handwritten notes to the loved and hated EHR. Will scribes change the game?
  Medscape Pediatrics, February 2018

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