Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics Newsletter
DATE : 2004-10-22
ITEMS COVERED IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
Important Dates
Resident Applicant Interviews
Faculty Meeting
Faculty News
Important Dates
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. Professors, Associate Professors and Assistant Professors only. 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.
Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 2004 8:30 a.m. - 12:00pm in the South Campus Center, Room 316L.: Faculty Development Workshops for the UW School of Medicine, presented by the Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, will begin in December. Date and topic for upcoming workshop: December 7, 2004: Clinician-Educators: Staying on Track and Getting Promoted. All School of Medicine and Health Sciences faculty are invited to register to attend a 2005 Faculty Development Workshop. Enrollment is limited and registration is required. For more information and registration, visit: http://www.dme.washington.edu/facdev.html.
Wednesday, December 15, 2004: Deadline for NIH repayment applications.
Sunday, January 30, 2005: A one day PALS Provider course for physicians will take place on January 30th and will be advertised by mail to AAFP and AAP members in Washington in the next few weeks. Go to the medical staff web site http://medicalstaff.seattlechildrens.org for additional information and registration. This compressed PALS course should be attractive to the experienced physician who is in need of PALS certification for practice credentials.
Resident Applicant InterviewsBeginning October 22, we will begin visits from outstanding medical students who are applying for our pediatric residency program. Please assist our residency program by being available for interviews. Your evaluations, input, and recruitment skills will be important, as we again attract the best students to our pediatric internship program. Thank you in advance.
Faculty MeetingThe faculty meeting on October 18, 2004 was the most successful of our seven-year evening faculty meeting program. 116 individuals participated. A special thanks goes to Tom Pendergrass, MD, Director of Medical Education, and Fred Rivara, MD, Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, who organized this exceptional program. Thanks also to Christine Gleason, MD, Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH, Heather McPhillips, MD, MPH and Sherilyn Smith, MD, for their leadership and outstanding presentations. The initiation of faculty development programs and a department wide mentoring program are the result of input from the faculty and last year's faculty strategic planning process. We look forward to seeing the inevitable success of these important efforts.
Faculty NewsRoger Meyer, MD, MPH, asked for your assistance in the following statement:
"Calling all pediatric historical ideas and contributions: Mac Smith, Roger Meyer, Ted McMahan &Bill Warmington are interested in supplementing our medical library archives to include important pediatric history contributions, publications and materials to preserve them for future scholars & interested students. See one of us to advance this area, which was started 6 years ago with the first Warmington Lecture notes. Roger J Meyer MD, MPH, Secty, Warmington Society.Peter Talbot, MD, received the Academy of Pediatrics Native American Child Health Advocacy Award by the American Academy of Pediatrics at this year's annual meeting.
PUBLICATIONS
Congratulations to Andrew Hallahan, MD, Richard Ellenbogen, MD, Irv Bernstein, MD, and Jim Olson, MD, PhD, for the following publication which was selected as the cover story for Cancer Research, November 1:
Hallahan AR, Pritchard JI, Hansen S, Benson M, Stoeck J, Hatton B, Russell TL, Ellenbogen RG, Bernstein ID, Beachy PA, Olson JM. Notch Signaling Is Critical for the Growth and Survival of Sonic Hedgehog- Induced Medulloblastomas. Cancer Research. Nov. 2004Congratulations to Tom Shepard, MD and Ron Lemire, MD, who have published:
A Catalog of Teratogenic Agents, 11th edition, Hopkins Press.Congratulations to Ann Melvin, MD, MPH and Lisa Frenkel, MD, on their recent publication:
Melvin AJ, Alarcon J, Velasquez C, Rodriguez C, Piscoya J, Giraldo A, Dinh P, Frenkel LM. Rapid HIV Type 1 Testing of Women Presenting in Late Pregnancy with Unknown HIV Status in Lima, Per. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. Oct 2004, Vol. 20, No. 10: 1046-1052.Congratulations to Michael Portman, MD, for the following publications:
Portman MA, Fearneyhough C, Karl T, Tong E, Mott A, Cohen G, Tacy T, Lewin M, Permut L, Pignatelli R, Schlater M, Azakie A. The Triidothyronine for infants and Children undergoing Cardiopulmonary Bypass (TRICC) Study: Design and Rationale, American Heart Journal 148:3: 393-398, 2004 McMullan DM, Hanley FL, Cohen GA, Portman MA, Riemer RK. Pulmonary Arteriovenous Shunting In The Normal Fetal Lung. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 44: 1497-500, 2004David B. Shurtleff, MD, has recently given the following lectures:
3 Ss and 3 Ts: Survival, Sex & Separation; Transition & Toilet Training, Spina Bifida Team Conference, University of Missouri Medical School, Kansas City, MO 47 Years Experience with the Management of Myelomeningocele Pediatric Grand Rounds, Mercy Childrens' Hospital, Kansas City, MO Etiology, Epidemiology and Prevention Of Neural Tube Defects Neurology and Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, University of Kansas Medical School, Kansas City, MO History and Current Management of Myelomeningocele and Prevention of Neural Tube Defects, American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, Los Angeles, CACongratulations to Hans Ochs, MD, for his recent publications:
Ochs HD, Notarangelo LD: X-linked immunodeficiencies; Curr Allergy Asthma Rep. 4(5):339-348, 2004. Hallstrand TS, Ochs HD, Zhu Q, Liles WC: Inhaled IFN-? for persistent non-tuberculous pulmonary disease due to functional IFN-? deficiency. Eur Respir J. 24(3):367 -370, 2004. Ye P, Thompson AR, Sarkar R, Shen Z, Liilicrap DP, Kaufman RJ, Ochs HD, Rawlings DJ, Miao CH: Naked DNA transfer of factor VIII-induced transgene-specific, species-independent immune response in hemophilia A mice. Molecular Therapy 10(1):117-126, 2004.We also want to congratulate Hans Ochs on the renewal of his RO1 Merit Award entitled: "DEVELOPMENTAL AND GENETIC DEFECTS OF IMMUNITY" for another 5 years (09/06/2004 - 08/31/2009) $1,195,279 total direct costs; $1,844,716 total costs.
GRANT AWARDS
Helen Emery, MD, has just received notification for receipt of an ACR fellow award for 2006-2007. The award provides $25,000 towards funding a fellow. She has received this fellow award every time since the program started three years ago at the program's inception. Congratulations, Helen!