Medical Advisory Work Group

The Florida Medical Advisory Work Group for Health Care Transition is comprised of approximately 30 health care providers from throughout the state. The MAC provides guidance in identifying best practices, establishing quality of care guidelines, implementing medical education and training, developing service networks that span pediatric and adult systems, and advocating for public policy that supports effective health care transition.

The group’s inaugural meeting was held in January 2011.  Meeting documents and updates are posted below.

Work Group Meeting Documents

• 6-17-15 Meeting Minutes
• 5-23-14 Meeting Minutes
  • Results from Florida Children’s Hospital Survey
• 5-30-13 Meeting Minutes and Agenda
  • Med-Peds Competencies for Transitional Care  (working document)
  • University of Miami Transitional Care Project (2013)
  • Proposal to Florida Association of Children’s Hospitals
• 5-19-12 Meeting Minutes and Meeting Presentation
• 11-3-11 Education & Training Subcommittee
  • 11-3-11 Teleconference Recording (1 hour)
  • USF Med Peds Curriculum (John McCormick)
• 5-21-11 Meeting Minutes
• 2-15-11 Education & Training Subcommittee
• 1-8-11 Meeting Minutes
• FloridaHATS Overview (PP presentation)

Grand Rounds/Presentations

* also see Education & Training for Professionals

• Transitional Care and Florida Children’s Hospitals (10-3-13, presentation to Florida Association of Children’s Hospitals)
• Transition to Adult Care for Individuals with ID/DD  (9-18-12, 1 hour presentation in free, 12 credit-hour webinar series entitled Physician Education in Developmental Disabilities.  For more information and recorded session, visit https://aadmd.org/page/pedd-webinar-series)
• Lost in Transition (9-27-12, USF Internal Medicine Grand Rounds)

Other Resources and Publications

• The Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics conducted a survey in 2012 concerning pediatric medical homes, with FloridaHATS highlighted as an important resource for transition. See FCAAP Survey survey results.
• Health Care Transition for Emerging Adults with Chronic Health Conditions and Disabilities (Reiss, Pediatric Annals, 2012)
• Parag Shah (Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago) and colleagues have identified health care transition articles through Medline. This list of 600+ citations is updated each month and is available by going to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/collections/public/1zASvcPaHoBPiUGrn_tf1aI/
• Transition From Pediatric to Adult Care: Internists’ Perspectives (Pediatrics, 2009)
• Inpatient Experience in Children’s Hospitals (Pediatrics, 2011)
• Growing Up With a Chronic Illness: Social Success, Educational/Vocational (Journal of Adolescent Health, 2011)
• Solid Organ Transplantation in Childhood: Transitioning to Adult Care (LaRosa et al, Pediatrics 2011)
• ARSHEP
• Care of the Growth Hormone Deficient Patient: Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood
• Access to Medical Care (World Institute on Disability)
• Internal Medicine Residents Unprepared for Primary Care (Newswise)
• Adolescent with Chronic Illness (Burns et al.)
• St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital/Chronic Complex Center (2010 presentation to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
• More Young People in Nursing Homes (Sarasota newspaper article)
• Florida Department of Health Report (3-1-11)