Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics Newsletter
DATE : 2004-09-10
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
Resident News
NIH Loan Repayment Programs: Now Accepting Applications
Phillip Chance, MD appointed Allan and Phyllis Treuer Endowed Chair in Genetics
Faculty News
Important DatesDue to the conflict of the New Physicians Reception, the get-together PREVIOUSLY scheduled for September 14, 2004 HAS BEEN CHANGED TO October 12, 2004, 12-1 PM, SDR#2&3 in Sound Cafe at Children's Hospital: Monthly Get-Together, Junior Faculty. An opportunity for junior faculty to get to know one another, to interact, and to engage in mutual problem solving and mentorship. Bring your own lunch. Please e-mail Christie Villareale (cville@u.washington.edu) if you would like to attend.
Wednesday, September 22, 2004, 6:00PM - Lower Woodland Playfield #5: Faculty vs. House Staff Softball Game. 5851 W. Green Lake way N, corner of Green Lake Way and N 50th St. BBQ to follow, Lower Woodland Park Shelter #7 (Just east of shelter #4 at north end of park. On left as you come up the service road off of W Green Lake Way N). Families are more than welcome! Please RSVP to Karen Murray, Mark Del Beccaro, or Diane Wade (via e-mail).
September 27-October 1, 2004: Intern Retreat Week. Information has been sent out from the Housestaff office about this year's Intern Retreat. Each year, it has become increasingly more difficult to find coverage for our interns. I encourage faculty, fellows and clinical faculty to support this important event and help provide the needed coverage. For further information, contact Tracy Thomas (tdthomas@u.washington.edu).
Monday, October 18, 2004, 5:30-8:00PM. Faculty Meeting in Sound Caf: 5:30-6:00PM Buffet dinner; 6:00PM Program. Topic: Mentoring and Developing Teaching Skills. Leaders: Fred Rivara, Tom Pendergrass.
Monday, November 1, 2004, 5:00-6:30PM, Sound Caf. Please note this important date on your calendars for the annual meeting of Christine Gleason, MD and Fred Rivara, MD to inform junior faculty (or any faculty who are interested) on how to put together a promotion package.
Wednesday, December 15, 2004: Deadline for NIH repayment applications.
Resident News-Congratulations!Rupin Thakkar, MD has been named to the Organization of Resident Representatives of the Association of American Medical Colleges for a two year term. This prestigious committee advises the AAMC on Graduate Medical Education matters.
Parmi Suchdev, MD MPH and Ellie Click, MD, PhD have received notice that they will receive the Anne E. Dyson Child Advocacy Award for their program titled "Children's Health International Medicine Project of Seattle". They will receive the award at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics on October 9, 2004.
NIH LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAMS: Now Accepting ApplicationsStarting September 1, NIH will start accepting applications for its five Loan Repayment Programs. National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs) can repay up to $35,000 a year of qualified educational debt for health professionals pursuing careers in clinical, pediatric, contraception and infertility, or health disparities research. The programs also provide coverage for Federal and state tax liabilities.
Applicants must have a doctoral-level degree, devote 50% or more of their time (20 hours per week based on a 40 hour work week) to nonprofit- or government-funded research, and have educational debt equaling at least 20% of their institutional base salary. U.S. citizens, permanent residents, or U.S. nationals may apply.
The NIH Loan Repayment Programs are a vital component of our nation's efforts to attract health professionals to research careers in areas of national need. The programs are the Clinical Research LRP, Pediatric Research LRP, Contraception and Infertility Research LRP, Clinical Research for Individuals from Disadvantaged Backgrounds LRP, and Health Disparities Research LRP.
Please share this e-mail with the researchers and other individuals in your organization who may benefit from LRP participation.
All applications for 2005 awards must be submitted by December 15, 2004. Visit www.lrp.nih.gov for further information and to apply online.
PHILLIP CHANCE, MD APPOINTED ALLAN & PHYLLIS TREUER ENDOWED CHAIR IN GENETICSPhillip Chance, MD has been appointed by the Board of Regents at the University of Washington as the Allan and Phyllis Treuer Endowed Chair in Genetics. Congratulations Phillip for this singular and prestigious honor!
Faculty NewsYemi Kifle, MD, Director of our Children's Sleep Center, recently received her board certification in sleep medicine. In addition, the Sleep Center received a five-year accreditation from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine in June, 2004.
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD has been asked to serve on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. He has also been invited to serve as a guest editor for a special issue of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics focusing on "Unifying Clinical and Molecular Databases". In addition, he has been selected as one of two co-chairs of the Scientific Program Committee for the 2005 American Medical Informatics Association Symposium and will also be serving as the chair of the Foundations track ("Building Models and Methods for Biomedical Information Systems") for the 2005 AMIA Symposium. He has also been elected to the American College of Medical Informatics and was invited as a consultant and guest lecturer to Utah's informatics program: "Models for Data Integration in Biomedical Research", March 23, 2004, Univ. of Utah. Congratulations Peter!
PUBLICATIONS
Congratulations to Richard Shugerman, MD for the following publication:
McMurray JE, Heiligers PJM, Linzer M, Shugerman RP, and Douglas J for the Career Satisfaction Study Group. Part Time Practice: Where is it Headed? American Journal of Medicine (2004), in press.Congratulations to Chris Gleason, MD, and Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD for the following publication:
Tarczy-Hornoch, P. Eds Taeusch, HW, Ballard, RA, Gleason, CA, "Chapter 3: Evaluation of Therapeutic Recommendations, Database Management, and Information Retrieval" in "Diseases of the Newborn". W.B. Saunders. 2004.Congratulations to Peter Tarczy-Hornoch on his recent publications:
Carroll AE, Tarczy-Hornoch P, O'Reilly E, Christakis DA. "The Effect of Point-of-care Personal Digital Assistant Use on Resident Documentation Discrepancies." Pediatrics. 2004 Mar;113(3 Pt 1):450-4. Pratt, W, Reddy, MC, McDonald, DW, Tarczy-Hornoch, P, Gennari, JH. "Incorporating Ideas from Computer Supported Cooperative Work". Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 37:128-137 Donelson, L, Tarczy-Hornoch, P, Mork, P, Dolan, C, Mitchell, JA, Barrier, M, Mei, H. "The BioMediator System as a Data Integration Tool to Answer Diverse Biologic Queries". In Press - MEDINFO 2004 Shaker, R, Mork, P, Brockenbrough, JS, Donelson, L, Tarczy-Hornoch, P. "The BioMediator System as a Tool for Integrating Databases on the Web". In Press - Proceedings of the 30th VLDB Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2004.Congratulations to Jim Stout, MD, for the following publication:
Morgan WJ, Crain EF, Gruchalla RS, O'Connor GT, Kattan M, Evans III R, Stout J, et al. for the Inner-City Asthma Study Group. Results of a Home-Based Environmental Intervention among Urban Children with Asthma. N Engl J Med 351;11 Sept. 2004, 1068-1080Dan Gunther, MD, MA and colleagues published a paper in Pediatrics on Ascertainment Bias in Turner Syndrome.
Gunther DF, Eugster E, Zagar AJ, Bryant CG, Davenport ML, Quigley CA. 2004 Ascertainment bias in Turner syndrome: New Insights from girls who were diagnosed incidentally in prenatal life. Pediatrics. 114(3):640-644.David Shurtleff, MD presented two papers before the international Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida in Dublin, Ireland, June 23-26. The latter will be published as a commentary in an online publication.
Intrauterine Surgery for Myelomeningocele and MOMS. Epidemiology of Neural Tube Defects and Folic Acid.GRANT AWARDS
Congratulations to David Rawlings, MD, Section Head, Pediatric Immunology and Rheumatology, who recently received funding for three NIH-R01 grants beginning July 2004.
Congratulations to Bonnie Ramsey, MD who has been awarded a $5.4 million (total costs) grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for the study entitled, "Early Antipseudomonal Therapy in Cystic Fibrosis". The study will involve over 60 sites in the US and will begin in Q3 2004.
Congratulations to Sam Zinner, MD who has been awarded a grant through the CDC-AUCD (Centers for Disease Control - Association of University Centers on Disabilities), entitled, "Descriptive Study of Tourette Syndrome: Quality of Life". The study will evaluate elements of quality of life in adolescents diagnosed with Tourette syndrome. Sam will be the principal investigator, along with co-investigators Tari Topolski, Ph.D. (U.W.) and Roger Freeman, M.D. (University of British Columbia). It is a 2-year grant, for $396,230.