Newsletters | Department of Pediatrics | University of Washington

DATE : 2005-08-12

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Important Dates
Fall Faculty Meeting: Oct. 17 - Sound Cafe
Intern Retreat - COverage Needed: September 19-23, 2005
Faculty News

Important Dates

Friday, September 9, by 4:00 PM: Deadline for Fred Hutchinson/University of Washington Cancer Consortium members Cancer Center Support Grant funds application. More information at (www.cancerconsortium.org/membership) or contact Gail Campagna 667-5736.

Monday, September 26, by 5:00 PM: Autumn 2005 Royalty Research Fund (RRF) proposals are due Monday, September 26, by 5:00 PM. 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 Contact Malcolm Parks (macp@u.washington.edu), or Barbara Thompson (bthompso@u.washington.edu) if you have questions about the program.

November 1, 2005. Deadline for nominations to Western Society for Pediatric Research.

FACULTY MEETING - October 17, 2005

Dean Ramsey will be visiting with faculty and answering questions about the UW School of Medicine. (Sound Cafe: 5:30-6:00pm buffet dinner; 6:00-8:00pm program)

Intern Retreat - September 19-23, 2005

Reminder: Coverage is NEEDED for Intern retreat week, September 19-23, by faculty and fellows. Please contact Diane Wade (dmw@u.washington.edu) to participate.

Faculty News

Jason Mendoza, MD, Nerissa San Luis Bauer, MD, and Abraham Bergman, MD were featured in the July 14 edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer concerning their outstanding work with foster children.

Sarah Ringold, MD, Fellow in Rheumatology, has been named as co-editor of JAMA On Call and is an editorial board member of JAMA. Sarah also authored an article entitled "Viral Encephalitis" in the July 27 edition of JAMA.

Helen Dichek, MD, was elected to the School of Medicine Council on Academic Affairs. In addition, her research group had two scientific abstracts accepted for the national meeting of the American Heart Association in Dallas, Texas (the acceptance rate is around 30%). Helen will have one platform presentation and one poster.

Dr. Hans Ochs received the 2005 Burton Zweiman Lectureship of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI).

Jason S. Debley, MD, MPH has been awarded a K23 award.

Congratulations to the following clinics with decreased waiting times for new patients to less than 19 days in June: Cardiology, Craniofacial, Endocrine, GI and Hem/Onc.

The Rheumatology Clinic received the "Teamwork" award from the CHRMC Family Experience Surveys for the first quarter of the CHRMC fiscal year for 2005. Congratulations.

PUBLICATIONS

Congratulations to the following for their recent publications:

Wendy Sue Swanson, MD, 3rd year resident, published a paper entitled, "The Impact of the Interview in Resident Selection" in the July-August edition of Ambulatory Pediatrics.

Donald Shifrin, MD, Clinical Professor, published an article in June AAP News entitled, "Bombarded by Media".

Sandra Watkins, MD, Karen Murray, MD, Dennis Christie, MD, Eileen Klein, MD: Relative Nephroprotection During Escherichia coli 0157:H7 infections: Assoction with Intravenous Volume Expansion. Pediatrics 2005; 115; 673-680

John F. McLaughlin, MD:
GMFM 1 year after continuous intrathecal baclofen infusion. Pediatric Rehabilitation, July 2005.

Hans D. Ochs, MD:

Inhaled IFN-gamma for persistent nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease due to functional IFN-gamma deficiency. Hallstrand TS, Ochs HD, Zhu Q, Liles WC. Eur Respir J. 2004 Sep;24(3):367-70. Mutations of the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein (WASP): hotspots, effect on transcription, and translation and phenotype/genotype correlation. Jin Y, Mazza C, Christie JR, Giliani S, Fiorini M, Mella P, Gandellini F, Stewart DM, Zhu Q, Nelson DL, Notarangelo LD, Ochs HD. Blood. 2004 Dec 15;104(13):4010-9. Epub 2004 Jul 29. Rituximab inhibits the in vivo primary and secondary antibody response to a neoantigen, bacteriophage phiX174. Bearden CM, Agarwal A, Book BK, Vieira CA, Sidner RA, Ochs HD, Young M, Pescovitz MD. Am J Transplant. 2005 Jan;5(1):50-7. Molecular analysis of a large cohort of patients with the hyper immunoglobulin M (IgM) syndrome. Lee WI, Torgerson TR, Schumacher MJ, Yel L, Zhu Q, Ochs HD. Blood. 2005 Mar 1;105(5):1881-90. Epub 2004 Sep 9. FOXP3 acts as a rheostat of the immune response. Ochs HD, Ziegler SF, Torgerson TR. Immunol Rev. 203:156-164, 2005

Craig Rubens, MD, PhD and his Lab:

Cieslewicz MJ, Chaffin D, Glusman G, Kasper D, Madan A, Rodrigues S, Fahey J, Wessels MR, and Rubens CE. 2005. Structural and genetic diversity of group B Streptococcus capsular polysaccharides. Infect Immun 73:3096-3103. Rajagopal L, Vo A, Silvestroni A, Rubens CE. 2005. Regulation of purine biosynthesis by a eukaryotic-type kinase in Streptococcus agalactiae. Mol Microbiol 56:1329-1346. Chaffin DO, Mentele LM, and Rubens CE. 2005. Sialylation of group B streptococcal capsular polysaccharide is mediated by cpsK and is required for optimal capsule polymerization and expression. J Bacteriol 187:4615-4626.

Janet Englund, MD:

Englund JA, Walter EB, Fairchok MA, Monto AS, Neuzil KM. A comparison of two influenza vaccine schedules in 6-23 month old children. Pediatrics 2005;115:1039-47. Wendelboe AM, Van Rie A, Salmaso S, Englund JA. Duration of immunity against pertussis after natural infectionor vaccination. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2005;24(Supppl) ; S58-61 Van Rie A, Wendelboe AM, Englund JA. Role of maternal pertussis antibodies in infants. Pediatric Inf Dis J 2005; 24 (Suppl): S62-65

Jane L. Burns, MD:

Nair BM, Joachimiak LA, Chattopadhyay S, Montano I, Burns JL. Conservation of a novel protein associated with an antibiotic efflux operon in Burkholderia cenocepacia. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2005 Apr 15;245(2):337-44.

Dan Doherty, MD, PhD:

Prenatal diagnosis in pregnancies at risk for Joubert syndrome by ultrasound and MRI. Doherty D , Glass IA , Siebert JR , Strouse PJ , Parisi MA , Shaw DW , Chance PF , Barr M Jr , Nyberg D . Prenat Diagn. 2005 Jun;25(6):442-7.

Nicole Tobin, MD:

Evidence that Low-Level Viremias during Effective Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Result from Two Processes: Expression of Archival Virus and Replication of Virus. Nicole H. Tobin, Gerald H. Learn, Sarah E. Holte, Yang Wang,,Ann J. Melvin, Jennifer L. McKernan, Diane M. Pawluk, Kathleen M. Mohan, Paul F. Lewis, James I. Mullins, and Lisa M. Frenkel. J Virol, 79:9625-9634, 2005.