Revolutionizing Pediatric Care: A Scoping Review of Synchronous Virtual Care Approaches

In this webinar, we will discuss our scoping review that aimed to generate learnings to inform the delivery of synchronous virtual care/telehealth in pediatrics. Our review assessed a decade of published literature (2013-2023) to extract key learnings from 117 articles. We focused our review on the perspectives of pediatric patients and their family caregivers who participated in virtual care/telehealth delivery. In our webinar, we will summarize results, priorities and considerations for accessible and inclusive synchronous virtual care/telehealth approaches. Akey focus will be to highlight evaluative approaches, promising strategies including frameworks(e.g., social determinants of health) and infrastructural considerations (e.g., technical, logistical and training) to deliver equitable virtual care. Speakers: Rosslynn Zulla Assistant Professor University of Calgary Dr. Rosslynn (Roz) Zulla is an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Social Work. She has over 10 years of experience working with neurodivergent children, immigrant,refugee families, and LGBTQ2S+ communities. Her research tackles the intersectional barriers these groups face through participatory, community-based methods. Her research program spans child/youth mental health/disability, community development, and well-being. Her work ultimately seeks to improve the quality of life for children with health/mental health/neurodevelopmental conditions and their families. Vina Mohabir SickKids: The Hospital for Sick Children Vina Mohabir (she/her) has lived with chronic pain since she was a teenager. She is a PhD student in Health Systems Research (Health Informatics Emphasis) at the University of Toronto’s Institute for Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation and a trainee in the iOUCH Pain Research Lab at The Hospital for Sick Children. Under the supervision of Dr. Jennifer Stinson and Dr. Chitra Lalloo, her research focuses on the co-design and implementation of a digital stigma-reduction intervention for youth with sickle cell disease using participatory and user-centered design methods. She actively facilitates patient engagement in health research and digital health innovation across Canada and internationally. She integrates Justice, Equity, Decolonization, Indigenization, Inclusion, and Accessibility (JEDIIA) principles into her work to ensure that interventions are meaningfully developed with and for equity-deserving communities. As a cancer survivor and chronic pain advocate, Vina is deeply committed to centering Disabled, diverse, and low-income youth in research, policy, education, and clinical practice. Eyal Cohen Program Head, Child Health Evaluative Services; Professor,Department of Pediatrics; Professor and Full Graduate FacultyMember, Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation; Co-Executive Director, Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children SickKids: The Hospital for Sick Children Dr. Eyal Cohen received academic training at the University of Toronto (medicine) and McMaster University (health research methodology), and clinical training at The Hospital for Sick Children(SickKids) and the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in Sydney, Australia. Dr. Cohen co-founded the Complex Care Program with his colleagues in the Division of Paediatric Medicine at SickKids. He is currently the Program Head of Child Health Evaluative Sciences at SickKids Research Institute and Co-Executive Director of the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children. Dr. Cohen is a Professor of Paediatrics and Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. He is also a Scientist with the CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research at McMaster University and an adjunct scientist at ICES. Dr. Cohen serves in a number of advisory roles for the Provincial Council of Maternal and Child Health, BORN Ontario, and the Ontario Public Drug Program.