Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics Newsletter
DATE : 2005-04-29
ITEMS COVERED IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
Important Dates
Faculty Meeting - June 6, Sound Cafe
Ben Danielson, MD named to endowed chair
Faculty/Housestaff News
Important Dates
Monday, May 2, 2005, 2:00-4:00PM, Wright Auditorium: Introduction to Human Subjects Protection Seminar. This will be led by Douglas Diekema, MD, MPH, Chairman for the IRB at Children's. Please contact Thomas Boedeker at irb@seattlechildrens.org for more information and to RSVP for this seminar. (Please note that this was originally scheduled for May 20th. Please remove that date from your calendar)
Monday, May 16, 2005, 7:00-9:00PM, Grand Hyatt, Washington, DC: University of Washington Department of Pediatrics and Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center Faculty/Alumni reception. 7:00-9:00pm in the Roosevelt/Wilson room at the Grand Hyatt Washington, DC.
Friday, May 27, 2005: The Continuing Human Subjects Protection Seminar. Please contact Thomas Boedeker at irb@seattlechildrens.org for more information and to RSVP for this seminar.
Tuesday, June 21, 2005: SPR Application Deadline
July 22-23, 2005: SAVE THE DATE: The Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center sponsors it's first annual conference in pediatric bioethics on "Current Controversies in Pediatric Research Ethics" to be held July 22-23, 2005, in Seattle, Washington. This conference will focus on pediatric research-regulations, issues related to consent and assent, ethical conduct, defining minimal risk, academic and industry relations and conflicts of interest. Registration fee is $150 before May 1st and $225 after May 1st. Access additional conference information and register at www.seattlechildrens.org/bioethics
Sunday, July 31, 2005: APS Application Deadline
FACULTY MEETING - June 6, 2005The next faculty meeting will be held on June 6, 2005 (Sound Cafe: 5:30-6:00pm buffet dinner; 6:00-8:00pm program). This meeting will address current budgeting issues, improvements in hospital care, changes in Emergency Services and Departmental updates. In addition, the Fellows' Research Day awards will be presented to ten fellows.
Ben Danielson named to endowed chairBen Danielson, MD has been named the first recipient of the Janet and Jim Sinegal Endowed Chair for the Odessa Brown Clinic Director. Dr. Danielson is a Clinical Associate Professor and Medical Director of the Odessa Brown Clinic.
Faculty/Housestaff NewsMichelle Terry, who works at UWPN/Des Moines, and teaches in the School of Medicine College was awarded a two year Soros Fellowship in Physician Advocacy. There were four fellows selected from an applicant pool of around 50. The fellowship will cover 50% of her salary. She will be based at Harborview, and collaborate with the Children's Alliance. Her project will involve attempting to link pediatric care and nurse home visiting to Harborview's Maternity Support Services (MSS). What this means: The highest risk OB patients in the state are seen at Harborview, and provided nurse and social service support services. They then deliver at UWMC. But there is no automatic link afterwards to pediatric follow up, and especially to nurse home visits. Basically she will be trying to get the Health Department to carry out the David Olds model of nurse home visiting for high risk families.
Mark Grubb, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor practicing in Bonney Lake, WA is going to Amsterdam on April 24 to present a paper to the 2005 Otitis Media International meeting. His paper is entitled "Safety of Office-Based Tympanocentesis". The web site for the meeting is www.om2005.nl.
Congratulations to the Hematology/Oncology, ID/Virology, Cardiology and GI clinics for being "best practice" clinics with wait times of less than two weeks for new, non-emergent referrals.
PUBLICATIONS
Congratulations to the following for their recent publications:
Michael J. Cieslewicz, Donald Chaffin, Gustavo Glusman, Dennis Kasper, Anup Madan, Stephani Rodrigues, Jessica Fahey, Michael R. Wessels, and Craig E. Rubens. Structural and Genetic Diversity of Group B Streptococcus Capsular Polysaccharides. Infect Immun 2005;73 3096-3103.
Nair, B.M., Joachimiak, L.A., Chattopadhyay, S., Montano, I., Burns, J.L. Conservation of a novel protein associated with an antibiotic efflux operon in Burkholderia cenocepacia. FEMS Microbiol Lett, 245:337-344, 2005.
AE Carroll, FJ Zimmerman, FP Rivara, BE Ebel, DA Christakis. Perceptions about computers and the internet in a pediatric clinic population. Amb Peds March April 2005, 5:2 122-126.
DA Christakis, CA Cowan, MM Garrison, R Molteni, E Marcuse, DM Zerr. Variation in inpatient diagnostic testing and management of bronchiolitis. Pediatrics April 2005. 115:4; 878
JA Englund, EB Walter, MP Fairchok, AS Monto, KM Neuzil. A comparison of 2 influenza vaccine schedules in 6- to 23- month-old children. Pediatrics April 2005. 115:4; 1039
DM Zerr, MM Garrison, AL Allpress, J Heath, DA Christakis. Infection control policies and hospital-associated infections among surgical patients: Variability and associations in a multicenter pediatric setting. Pediatrics electronic pages, April 2005 e387.
MP Porter, et al. Hypospadias in Washington state: Maternal risk factors and prevalence trends. Pediatrics electronic pages, April 2005 e495.
FP Rivara, FB Stapleton. Closing the quality chasm in health care: The role of critical reading. Arch Peds April 2005. 159:4 394-395
FB Stapleton. Asymptomatic microscopic hematuria: Time to look the other way? Arch Peds April 2005. 159:4 398-399
S Chabra. Fetal and Neonatal Physiology. Arch Peds April l2005. 159:4 402.
L Richardson. Helping your teenager beat depression: A problem-solving approach for families. Arch Peds April 2005. 159:4 402.
Peck AJ, Holman RC, Curns AT, Lingappa JR, Cheek JE, SIngleton RJ, Carver K, and Anderson LJ. Lower Respiratory Tract Infections among American Indian and Alaska Native Children and the General Population of US Children. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 2005;24:342-51.