Medicaid and Children with Medical Complexity: From Policy to Bedside
Medicaid and Children with Medical Complexity: From Policy to Bedside
Grand Rounds Episode
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Host Holly Wayment, and the department of Pediatrics bring you this grand Rounds talk by Dr. Ryan Van Ramshort. He explains how Texas Medicaid and CHIP support children with medical complexity, covering program basics, managed care versus fee‑for‑service, and specialized programs like STAR Kids and the MDCP waiver.
The episode highlights care coordination, value‑based initiatives, service access (including long‑term supports and behavioral health), and challenges such as high‑cost therapies, social determinants of health, and program integrity.
26 Sept 2026
It's Hard to Be a Teen: Eating Disorders, GLP-1s, and How to Help
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Dr. Jelena Castillo and Holly Wayment discuss adolescent health, focusing on recognizing and managing eating disorders, the rise and risks of GLP‑1 medications, and how social media, sports pressure, and family dynamics affect teens.
The episode offers practical guidance for pediatric practitioners on screening, when to refer, treatment options, and how to support parents and teens through growth, nutrition, and mental health concerns.
18 Sept 2026
Stopping Lyme at the Source: The Science Transforming Tick-Borne Disease Prevention
Stopping Lyme at the Source: The Science Transforming Tick-Borne Disease Prevention
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What if we could stop Lyme disease before an infected tick ever reaches a child or family?
For nearly 30 years, Dr. Janakiram Seshu has pursued a bold vision: instead of relying solely on people to avoid infected ticks, could scientists interrupt Lyme disease in nature—before the bacteria ever have the chance to reach us?
Now, that vision is showing extremely promising results.
In this episode of Pediatrics Now, host and executive producer Holly Wayment, MSJ, talks with Dr. Seshu, a UT San Antonio researcher whose team has developed an oral vaccination strategy designed to target Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, in the wildlife that serves as its natural reservoir.
Using specially designed bait pellets, the approach aims to prevent ticks from acquiring the Lyme disease bacterium when they feed on wildlife—breaking the chain of transmission before those ticks can pass the infection to people or pets.
Dr. Seshu shares the science behind the breakthrough, the results his team is seeing, and how a vision decades in the making could ultimately reshape the prevention of Lyme disease. He says they’re already working on the potential beyond Lyme, offering a new way to target other tick-borne pathogens.
He also explains the work that remains before the technology could move from successful research to something we use lawns, fields and forests soon
It’s a remarkable story of persistence, prevention and a fundamentally different way of thinking about tick-borne disease: stop the pathogen at its source, before the bite ever happens.
Guest: Dr. Janakiram Seshu — [Read his bio]Host: Holly Wayment, MSJ — Host & Executive Producer, Pediatrics Now — [Read her bio]
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