Public Health
Obesity
Hospital-based Medicine
Hematology/Oncology
Children with Chronic Conditions
Pharmacology
Nephrology
General Pediatrics
Endocrinology
Emergency Medicine
Critical Care
Cardiology
Adolescent Medicine
Don Batisky, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatric Nephrology
Emory University/Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Daniel Feig, MD/PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
University of Alabama, Birmingham, School of Medicine
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
This session will focus on secondary causes of hypertension. There will be an overview of testing and evaluation for secondary hypertension with a focus on who should be tested, when this assessment should occur, and how patients should be evaluated. The session will then shift to provide an overview of the epidemiology, presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of secondary causes of hypertension. Topics to be covered will include: pheochromocytoma, obstructive sleep apnea, hereditary causes of hypertension, and renovascular hypertension.
Presenter: Don Batisky, MD – Emory University/Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Presenter: Zubin J. Modi, MD, MS – Michigan Medicine/University of Michigan
Presenter: Gaurav Kapur, MD – Central Michigan University, Children's Hospital of Michigan
Presenter: Ian Macumber, MD, MS – Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
Presenter: Jillian K. Warejko, MD – Yale University
Presenter: Michael A. Ferguson, MD – Boston Childrens Hospital
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