Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics Newsletter
DATE : 2004-10-08
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
Faculty Meeting
SPARC-Participate!
Faculty News
Important DatesTuesday, October 12, 2004, 12-1 PM, SDR #2&3 in Sound Caf 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. Friday, October 15, 2004: SPARC - Survey deadline. The Strategic Plan for Advancing Research at Children's (SPARC) faculty survey is available online. Click here to take survey. If you have questions about the survey or SPARC, please contact Project Officer Heather Lindemann via e-mail or at ext. 7-1741.
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.
Wednesday, October 20, 2004, 6:00-9:00PM, McCormick & Schmicks: Puget Sound Women's Pediatric Society Dinner and Child Advocacy Workshop. Please contact Diane Wade (dmw@u.washington.edu) for more information.
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.
November 9, 2004, 5-7 PM, Sound Caf: Non-Mandatory Promotions Faculty Meeting. Please note on your calendars. Thank you for participating in this important process.
Friday, November 19, 2004, 8:00am-12:00pm: New Faculty Orientation. This program gives new faculty an overview of the School of Medicine, helpful faculty resources, and an opportunity to meet some of the School's leaders. All new faculty and those who have not attended are encouraged to mark this date on your calendar. Details forthcoming.
Wednesday, December 15, 2004: Deadline for NIH repayment applications.
Faculty MeetingMonday, October 18, 2004, 5:30-8:00PM in Sound Caf. Agenda includes introduction of new faculty, department financial update, and focused presentation on teaching and mentoring. Moderated by Tom Pendergrass and Fred Rivara.
SPARC - Survey deadline: Friday, Oct. 15SPARC: Faculty surveys for the Strategic Research Planning Initiative at CHRMC should be filled out this week. Please take a moment to complete the survey and share your thoughts about the future direction of research at Children's.
The Strategic Plan for Advancing Research at Children's (SPARC) faculty survey is available online. If you have questions about the survey or SPARC, please contact Project Officer Heather Lindemann via e-mail or at ext. 7-1741.
Faculty NewsPeter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD has been selected as the founding co-chair of the International Medical Informatics Associations new working group "Informatics in Genomic Medicine". Congratulations, Peter!
Congratulations to F. Curt Bennett, MD who has been elected Chairman of the American Board of Pediatrics Subboard of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics for 2005-2006.
PUBLICATIONS
Congratulations to Jane L. Burns, MD on her recent publications:
Watson, M.E. Jr, Burns, J.L., and Smith, A.L. Hypermutable Haemophilus influenzae with mutations in mutS are found in cystic fibrosis sputum. Microbiology 150(Pt 9): 2947-2958, 2004. Urban, T.A., Griffith, A., Torok, A.M., Smolkin, M.E., Burns, J.L., and Goldberg, J.B.: Contribution of Burkholderia cenocepacia flagella to infectivity and inflammation. Infect Immun 72:5126-5134, 2004.Congratulations to Janet Englund, MD and Jin-Young Han, MD, PhD on their recent publication:
Johnson LN, Han JY, Moskowitz, SM, Burns JL, Qin X, Englund JA. Pandoraea bacteremia in a cystic fibrosis patient with associated systemic illness. Pediatr Infect Dis J 23(9): 881-882, 2004.Congratulations to Jin-Young Han, MD, PhD, Sam Moskowitz, MD, Jane Burns, MD, and Janet Englund, MD on their recent publication:
Han JY, Rosenzweig SD, Church JA, Holland SM, Ross LA. Variable presentation of disseminated nontuberculous mycobacterial infections in a family with an interferon-receptor mutation. Clin Infect Dis 15;39: 868-870, 2004.Congratulations to Soheil Meshinchi, MD, PhD for the following publication:
Meshinchi S, Brown P, Levis M, Alonzo TA, Gerbing R, Lange B, Arceci R, Small D. Pediatric AML primary samples with FLT3/ITD mutations are referentially killed by FLT3 inhibition. Blood. 2004 Sep 15;104(6):1841-9.Congratulations to Heln Dichek, MD for her latest publication:
HL Dichek, K Qian, N Agrawal "Divergent Effects of the Catalytic and Bridging Functions of Hepatic Lipase on Atherosclerosis". ATVB. 2004. 24(9):1696-1702.Congratulations to Sandy Melzer, MD, MBA for the following publication:
Meyers KM, Sulzbacher S, Melzer SM. Telepsychiatry with Children and Adolescents: Are Patients Comparable to Those Evaluated in Usual Outpatient Care? Telemedicine and e-health 2004; 10:278-285Congratulations to Sandy Melzer MD, MBA and Gail Richards, MD for their recent publication:
Melzer SM, Covington ML, Richards GE. Reimbursement and costs of pediatric ambulatory diabetes care by using the resource-based relative value scale: is multidisciplinary care financially viable? Pediatric Diabetes 2004; 5:133-142Congratulations to Cari McCarty, MD who had an article in Pediatrics looking at the development of alcohol abuse.
Congratulations to Jim Taylor, MD and Dimitri Christakis, MD for their paper:
Use of Incident Reports by Physicians and Nurses to Document Medical Errors in Pediatric Patients. PediatricsCongratulations to Paula Lozano, MD, MPH who was lead author on:
P Lozano, JA Finkelstein, EH Wagner, TS Inui, AL Fuhlbrigge, SB Soumerai, et al. A Multisite Randomized Trial of the Effects of Physician Education and Organizational Change in Chronic-Asthma Care: Health Outcomes of the Pediatric Asthma Care Patient Outcomes Research Team II Study. Arch Peds. 2004. 158(9): 875-883.Congratulations to Jim Stout, MD, MPH whose work on the multi-center asthma project was published in the New England Journal.
Congratulations to Angela Peck, MD for her recent publication:
Peck AJ, Corey L, and Boeckh M. Pretransplantation Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection: Impact of a Strategy to Delay Transplantation. Clin Infect Dis, 2004;39:673-80.Congratulations to Mark Lewin, MD for his recent publications: Lewin MB, McBride KL, Pignatelli R, Fernbach S, Combes A, Menesses A, Lam W, Bezold LI, Kaplan N, Towbin JA, Belmont JW. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Asymptomatic Parental and Sibling Cardiovascular Anomalies Associated With Congenital Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Lesions. PEDIATRICS Vol. 114 No. 3 September 2004, pp. 691-696. Lewin MB, Glass IA, Power P. Genotype-phenotype correlation in congenital heart disease. Curr Opin Cardiol. 2004 May;19(3):221-7. Kung GC, Lewin MB, Mott AR, Bezold LI. Functional acquired pulmonary atresia secondary to subpulmonary aneurysmal tissue: a rare form of pulmonary outflow tract obstruction. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2004 Mar;17(3):284-5.
Congratulations to Hans Ochs, MD who had the lead editorial in this months Pediatric Resesarch:
Etzioni A, Ochs H. The Hyper IgM Syndrome-An Evolving Story. Ped Research. 2004. 56(4):519-525.GRANT AWARDS
Congratulations to Carrie Heike who has been selected by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Genetics and Birth Defects (SOGBD) as the 2004 Young Investigator Research Grant Award winner for your proposal."