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Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Fellowship Greenville

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200A Patewood Dr.
Suite A200
Greenville, SC 29615

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Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Greenville

The DeLoache Fellowship in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Prisma Health is a three-year ACGME accredited training program that offers a wide range of training, research and community outreach opportunities. First-year fellows also participate in the South Carolina LEND (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities) program with an emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration and leadership. The Fellowship program is part of the dynamic and rapidly expanding Children’s Hospital in a vibrant community where faculty are enthusiastic about sharing their knowledge and experience as well as developing innovative programs.

Our fellows work closely with the seven board certified developmental-behavioral pediatricians and six doctoral-level psychologists on the faculty. Our clinical staff also includes six developmental pediatric nurse practitioners and three social workers. Fellows participate in multispecialty clinics including the Neuro-Developmental-Genetics Clinic, Rett Clinic, and a Neuro-Motor Disorders and Tone Clinic.

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i'm karen ratliffshaub i'm a

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developmental behavioral pediatrician

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and the program director of the

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developmental behavior peds fellowship

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here at prisma health in greenville

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south carolina

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i've been a developmental behavior

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pediatrician for a good long time

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and excited about the opportunities to

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get more

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new trainees so being the program

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director is is really fun

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we are the only program in the country

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that i'm aware of that is supported by

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an

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endowment and our endowment enable us to

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offer our

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trainees a variety of clinical services

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without having to worry

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about their billings make up for that

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salary support

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so we're able to offer more flexibility

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in terms of the types of patients that

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they see the

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opportunities they have we have all of

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the pediatric subspecialties

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mostly here in this building it's just

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the perfect size that i can go down the

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hall and grab a cardiologist if i need

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to

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we share patients and have that close

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communication and collaboration around

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patients

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my name is ryan baker i am currently the

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graduating third year fellow

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in developmental and behavioral

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pediatrics at prisma health

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i think the best part of the program was

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probably the interdisciplinary teams

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that you get to work with

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our department here is very very open to

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letting you train and learn how to do a

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lot of the testing that you get to do

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like i learned how to do all the

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testing so i got certified to do that as

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well as a lot of the more

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basic cognitive testing while i was here

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my name's sarah lilly and i'm one of the

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pediatric developmental behavioral

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fellows i'm currently the first year

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fellow

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i was looking for a program where i

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could get lots of exposure to different

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areas so i wanted to make sure that i

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got to hit the key

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areas that i felt were important for a

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developmental and behavioral fellowship

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and this program had all of those we

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also loved the city of greenville

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it was important for us to be able to

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have a city where we felt like we could

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raise our family

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and a diverse and busy and thriving city

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and greenville kind of checked all those

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boxes for us best part of the program

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has been

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just getting to work with the the people

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in my department i feel like

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the different personalities and the

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different ways of practicing have really

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allowed me to grow a lot as a physician

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as far as being able to talk with

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families and

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manage some more complex patients so i

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think all of the different teaching

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styles have been really helpful into

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growing into a more competent physician

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you know i think the pandemic has

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certainly had us all kind of

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rapidly kind of adapting and changing

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the way that we do things but i've been

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you know really kind of surprised and

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happy to see that

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we've been able to do that as a

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department all of a sudden we realized

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that

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hey our specialty is well adapted for

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telehealth

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whereas some specialties i think really

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struggled developmental and behavioral

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pediatrics

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as long as telehealth was available it

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just went with

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unrolling you know we really weren't

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down for very long before we were able

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to kind of

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pick back up where we started and keep

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seeing our families

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going forward there's no way that

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telehealth is going to go away it might

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not look exactly how it looks now but as

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long as we have the opportunity to

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continue to do it here we're going to

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continue because we have seen

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the value of it so it's been a great

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silver lining

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Specialty Rotations

Psychiatry
Genetics (with the Greenwood Genetics Center)
Pediatric Neurology
Pediatric Sleep Medicine
Opportunities for other elective rotations
Others among the many subspecialty divisions of the Children’s Hospital:
Pediatric Rheumatology
Pediatric Neurosurgery
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Pediatric Infectious Disease
Pediatric Endocrinology
Pediatric Cardiology

The division receives over 2,000 new referrals each year for the evaluation of children with a wide range of developmental and behavioral concerns and fellows are assured of the opportunity to manage a variety of complex and challenging patients with an active NICU and Drug Exposed Babies Follow Up Clinic.

Evaluate and Management

Motor
Language
Learning
Attention
Autism spectrum disorders
Challenges associated with genetic disorders
Other conditions affecting neurodevelopment

We have a comprehensive interdisciplinary program for autism diagnosis and work closely with community agencies providing therapeutic and behavioral services and family support.

The Fellowship is designed to provide increasing levels of clinical responsibility, beginning with a focus on infants, toddlers and preschool children in the first year and advancing to school-age children and adolescents in the second year. The fellows spend clinical time during the first year at the Center for Developmental Services (CDS), a unique co-location of agencies serving preschool-aged children. This allows close interaction with the local school district, early intervention agencies and a family mentoring program.

The Children’s Hospital’s pediatric developmental therapies group (with over 40 therapists) is also housed at CDS, as well as a unique therapeutic day care program for medically fragile children. In addition to these clinical activities, there are many opportunities for developing skills in teaching and research. Prisma Health is an academic health center with a robust array of interprofessional health care workforce development activities, and a rapidly growing research portfolio that focuses on translational and health services delivery research addressing the challenges of population health.

The Pediatric and Internal Medicine-Pediatric Residency programs at the Children’s Hospital consistently attract residents of the highest caliber and our fellows are actively involved in their teaching as well as presenting at our annual regional continuing medical education conference. Fellows also instruct medical students from the University of South Carolina (USC) School of Medicine Greenville. Fellows receive didactic instruction and practical training in research principles through the Clinical and Translational Research Graduate Certificate course offered by the Clemson University Department of Public Health Sciences and Prisma Health. Participation as SC LEND trainees in the statewide training program in partnership with the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and the University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at the USC School of Medicine in Columbia, greatly expands the educational and research opportunities for our trainees across the state. The Division of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics is a leader in community outreach in the region and the state.

Our Focus

Promoting healthy child development
Early identification
Intervention for children with developmental problems

We are at the forefront of the national replication of the Help Me Grow system for early identification of developmental and behavioral concerns and linkage of children and families to appropriate community-based resources. Fellows will have the opportunity to work with community agencies and strengthen their advocacy skills through interaction with Prisma Health Children’s Hospital Bradshaw Institute for Community Child Health and Advocacy and with the Institute for Child Success, which is a research and policy think tank focused on child development and school readiness.

Thus, in addition to the appeal of Greenville, with its scenic attractions, mild climate and positive lifestyle, the Fellowship provides a well-rounded and flexible training experience that will prepare our graduates to be leaders in our subspecialty.