Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics Newsletter
DATE : 2004-07-07
MISSION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS
Through excellence, innovation and collaboration, we will improve the health of all children and adolescents by educating the pediatric and physician leaders of the future, advancing research, advocating for children and providing the nation's best primary and specialty pediatric clinical care. In partnership with our health care and academic institutions, we will create a collegial environment where academic faculty can reach their personal and professional goals.
ITEMS COVERED IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
Important Dates
New Faculty Appointments
Sleep Disorders Center Accredited
Faculty News
Important DatesWednesday, July 28, 2004. Department of Pediatrics Family Picnic. Location: Gas Works Park. Time 6:00-8:00PM. Invitations have been mailed out. Be sure to RSVP to dmw@u.washington.edu or brooke.freed@seattlechildrens.org.
Friday, July 30, 2004. Deadline for receipt of nominations for American Pediatric Society (aps_spr.org).
Monday, September 27 (5:00PM). Deadline for submission of proposals for the Autumn 2004 round of the Royalty Research Fund (RRF). Application is an interactive PDF. The application, packet, and information about previous awards may be found on the Office of Research website at: http://www.washington.edu/research/rrf.html. If you have any questions about the program, contact Malcolm (Mac) Parks, Ph.D., UW Box 351202, 206-221-3249, or his assistant, Barbara Thompson at bthompson@u.washington.edu.
New Faculty AppointmentsThe following
individuals have or will be joining our Department this
year:
| Name | Rank | Division | Effective Date |
| Terrence Chun | Assistant Professor | Cardiology | 08/01/04 |
| Jane (Lin) DiGennaro | Acting Instructor | General Peds | 08/01/04 |
| Marshall Dressel | Clinical Faculty | Neonatology | 07/01/04 |
| Luke Hoffman | Acting Instructor/Senior Fellow | Pulmonary | 08/01/04 |
| Catherine Karr | Acting Assist. Prof. | General Peds | 07/01/04 |
| David Loren | Acting Assist. Prof. | Neonatology | 07/01/04 |
| Robert Mazor | Assistant Professor | Critical Care | 09/01/04 |
| Suzan Mazor | Assistant Professor | Emerg. Med. | 09/01/04 |
| John McGuire | Assistant Professor | Critical Care | 09/01/04 |
| Jay Mendoza | Acting Instructor/Senior Fellow | General Peds | 07/01/04 |
| Nerissa San Luis | Acting Instructor/Senior Fellow | General Peds | 07/01/04 |
| Beth Tarini | Acting Instructor/Senior Fellow | General Peds | 07/01/04 |
| Darcy Thompson | Acting Instructor/Senior Fellow | General Peds | 07/01/04 |
| Troy Torgerson | Acting Assist. Prof. | Immunology | 07/01/04 |
| Delphine Yung | Assistant Professor | Cardiology | 07/01/04 |
| Ghassan Wahbeh | Assistant Professor | Gastroenterology | 07/01/04 |
Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center Accredited
Congratulations to the Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center. Yemi Kifle, M.D.
and Greg Redding, M.D. along with Jennifer Abermanis, Administrator,
Clinical Systems & Logistics, and Bruce Bonner, R.P.S.G.T., R.R.T.,
Manager of the Sleep Disorder Center, announced that the recent site visit
by the AASM awarded a five-year accreditation. The site visitors stated,
"You are developing the standard for the development of pediatric sleep
centers." Dr. Kifle has recently received full certification in Sleep
Medicine by the AASM. Congratulations to all.
Faculty NewsPUBLICATIONS
Daniel G. Miller, M.D., Ph.D., Acting Assistant Professor in the Division of Medical Genetics, along with Lisa M. Petek & David W. Russell, just published an article entitled, "Adeno-associated virus vectors integrate at chromosome breakage sites" in the July 2004 issue of Nature Genetics (Volume 36, No. 7. pp.767 - 773).
Thomas K. Jones, M.D., Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories in the Division of Cardiology, has had a paper accepted for publication: Shah MJ, Jones, TK, Cecchin F. Improved localization of right sided accessory pathways with microcatheter assisted right coronary artery mapping in children. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology.
Daniel Gunther, M.D., M.A., Associate Professor in the Division of Endocrinology, has just published a paper about a rare case of cyclical Cushing syndrome. Gunther DF et al. 2004 Cyclical Cushing Syndrome Presenting in Infancy: An Early Form of Primary Pigmented Nodular Adrenocortical Disease, or a New Entity? Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 89(7):3173-3182.