2025 Annual Meeting & Pediatric Update - September 12-14, 2025
Attendee Handouts & Important Links!
Welcome to our 2025 Annual Meeting! The Alabama Chapter-AAP Executive Board is pleased to host you for this information-packed conference. Many thanks to our CME Chair Cary Cavender, MD, FAAP, for his efforts in putting together a great line-up of speakers and topics! In addition to high-quality CME, we will highlight important mental health resources throughout the conference - please be sure to visit our Healthy Mental Development table and take home a number of practical resources. We will also continue our “Locking Arms” Chapter challenge sign-up related to firearm injury prevention & safety. I look forward to talking to each of you and spending time together! —-Norma Mobley, MD, FAAP, Chapter President
Please be sure to review these handouts before and during the meetings!
Leadership & Management Workshop (Friday)
Speaker Bios (in order of program)
PowerPoint Handouts
The Business of Vaccines---Paul Vanchiere, MBA
Building Your Brand: Where to Start and Why It Matters---Natalie Clarke
Insight on Oversight: Auditing Your Pediatric Billing with Confidence---Heidi Chamberlin
SEPARATE AFTERNOON TRACKS
Physician Track
Succession Planning For Pediatric Practices---Paul Vanchiere, MBA
Leading in Today's Challenging Times---Sandy Chung, MD, FAAP, FACHE
Practice Managers/Staff Track
Creating Calm from Chaos: Turning Family Frustration into Billing Clarity---Heidi Chamberlin
10 Simple Steps to Improve Your Practice's Social Media---Natalie Clarke
16 is the New 14: Changes in Alabama's Medical Consent Law---Brandy Boone, JD
Main Meeting (Friday 3 p.m. - 5 p.m./Saturday/Sunday)
Speaker Bios (in order of program)
Resort location (Google maps)
PowerPoint Handouts
Updates in Food Allergy—JaneMarie Freeman, MD
SYMPOSIUM: Iodine's Role During the First 1,000 Days—Lauren Manaker, MS, RDN, LDN, CLEC, CPT
Practical AI for Pediatric Practice: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s Next—Sandy Chung, MD, FAAP, FACHE
How to Integrate Early Hearing Detection into Your Practice—Kari Bradham, DO, FAAP, Amy Ingram, AuD, CCC-A, Maria Katz, JD, Mary Ellen Whigham, RN
HANDOUTS
Continuing Certification: Overview, Updates and Opportunities—Keith Mann, MD, MEd, FAAP
What Pediatricians Need to Know About Screen Time—and How to Talk About It Without Shame—Rachel Franz, MEd, and Jaime McKinney, MD, FAAP
Secure Their Future: Promoting Firearm Safe Storage in the Medical Home—Caitlin Jones Bamman, MD, FAAP
What's in My Bottle? Infant Formula Past and Present—Mark Corkins, MD, CNSC, AGAF, FAAP, FASPEN
Overall Management of a Tracheostomy Tube Patient: Overview and Update—Kamal Sharma, MD, FAAP
Fad Diets: The Good, the Bad and the Just Plain Ugly—Mark Corkins, MD, CNSC, AGAF, FAAP, FASPEN
Questions?
Contact Jill Powell at 334-954-2530 or Linda Lee at 334-954-2543.