Newsletters | Department of Pediatrics | University of Washington

DATE : 2005-09-30

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Important Dates
Fall Faculty Meeting: Oct. 17, 5:30pm
Memo: Disposing of UW Property, Equipment, Supplies
Clinic Access Continues to Improve
Faculty News
Publications

Important Dates

Thursday, October 6, 2005 - Mark your calendars for the Faculty vs. Housestaff softball game. The game is scheduled for 6 pm, Thursday, October 6th, at Lower Woodland Softball Field #6 (located between the 2 soccer fields at Lower Woodland Playfield). There will be a BBQ to follow.

Saturday, October 8, 6:30-8:00 PM-- CHRMC/UW Faculty Alumni Reception at the AAP Meetings. Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel, Meeting Room 14.

Monday, October 17, 5:30pm Sound Caf: Fall Faculty Meeting. 5:30-6:00 PM buffet dinner; 6:00-8:00 PM program

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

September 1, 2005- December 1, 2005 8:00 p.m. EST: Starting Thursday, September 1, 2005, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will begin accepting applications for its five Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs). All applications for 2006 awards must be submitted online by 8:00 p.m. EST, December 1, 2005. For an online application, program information, or other assistance, visit the LRP Web site at www.lrp.nih.gov, telephone the Helpline at 866-849-4047, or send email inquiries to lrp@nih.gov.

Fall Faculty Meeting

October 17, 5:30 PM Sound Caf: Fall Faculty Meeting. Dean Ramsey will be visiting with faculty and answering questions about the UW School of Medicine. (Sound Caf: 5:30-6:00 PM buffet dinner; 6:00-8:00 PM program). Please submit to Dr. Stapleton any questions that you would like to present to Dr. Ramsey. The Dean will also be accepting questions at the meeting.

Reminder: Disposing of UW Property, Equipment, Supplies

A reminder of the UW policy regarding UW property or equipment:

Regardless of original source of funds Property/equipment/supplies purchased on a UW budget Is state property. Location of state property must be monitored by the Department or Division

Thanks to Sid Gospe, Bill Walker, Ian Glass, Greg Redding, Ted Carter, Mark Smith, Cora Breuner, and Cate Pihoker for their leadership and support of this goal.

John Neff, MD, has been selected to serve a two-year term on the Council on University Relations.

Curt Bennett, MD, has been elected as a trustee of the Washington Chapter of the AAP.

Carol Miao, PhD, was recently awarded a new R01 NIH grant: $1,000,000 for 4 years. Title: "Modulation of immune responses for hemophilia following replacement therapy."

Tamara Pozos, MD, PhD, Senior Fellow, was honored recently as the recipient of the Department of Immunology's AMGEN Outstanding Postdoctoral Poster Award for her poster entitled, "Innate Immunity to Tuberculosis: Using Embryonic Zebrafish to Model Early Responses to Mycobacteria." This poster competition is held annually at the Department of Immunology Fall Retreat.

Are Language Barriers Associated with Serious Medical Events in Hospitalized Pediatric Patients? Adam Cohen, MD, MPH, Fred Rivara, MD, MPH, Ed Marcuse, MD, MPH, Heather McPhillips, MD, MPH, and Robert Davis, MD, MPH. Pediatrics Sept. 2005.

Motor vehicle crash brain injury in infants and toddlers: A suitable model for inflicted head injury? Shah M, Vavilala MS, Feldman KW, Hallam DK. Child Abuse Negl. 2005 Sep 10;

Gender Differences in Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity and Autoregulation between the Anterior and Posterior Circulations in Healthy Children. Vavilala MS, et al. Pediatr Res. 2005 Sep;58(3):574-8.

Unmet dental care needs among children with special health care needs: Implications for the medical home. Charlotte Lewis, MD, MPH, A. Roberston, S. Phelps. e426 Pediatrics electronic pages.

Multi-institutional development and utilization of a computer-assisted learning program for the pediatrics clerkship: The CLIPP project. L. Fall, N. Berman, S. Smith, C. White, J. Woodhead, A. Olson. Academic Medicine Sept 2005. 847.

Congratulations to the following members of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Immunology, and Rheumatology on their recent publications:

Anne M. Stevens, Betty P. Tsao, Bevra H. Hahn, Katherine Guthrie, Nathalie C.. Lambert, Allison J. Porter, Tracy S. Tylee, J. Lee Nelson. Maternal HLA Class II Compatibility in Men with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Arthrit Rheumat; Vol. 52, 2768-73.
Ye, P., Thompson, A. R., Sarkar, R., Shen, Z., Lillicrap, D. P., Kaufman, R. J., Ochs, H. D., Rawlings, D. J., Miao, C. H. (2004) "Naked DNA transfer of factor VIII induced transgene-specific, species-independent immune response in hemophilia A mice", Mol. Ther. 10, 117-126.
Miao, C. H., Brayman, A. A., Loeb, K. R., Ye, P., Zhou, L., Mourad, P., & Crum, L. A.(2005) "Enhancement of nonviral gene transfer of factor IX into mouse livers by ultrasound" Human Gene Therapy, 16, 893-905.
Miao, C. H. (2005) "A novel gene expression system: non-viral gene transfer for hemophilia as model systems", Adv. Genet. 54,143-77. (currently, only "Abstract" is available)
F. Pessler, H. Emery, L. Dai, Y.-M. Wu, B. Monash, R. Q. Cron, and M. Pradhan. 2005. The spectrum of renal tubular acidosis in paediatric Sjgren syndrome. Rheumatology (Oxford) Volume 44, Number 10 . Moskowitz S., Foster J.M., Emerson J.C., Gibson R.L., and Burns, J.L. Use of Pseudomonas biofilm susceptibilities to assign simulated antibiotic regimens for cystic fibrosis airway infection. J Antimicrob Chemother, Volume 56, October 2005.
Oda A, Miki H, Wada I, Yamaguchi H, Yamazaki D, Suetsugu S, Nakajima M, Nakayama A, Okawa K, Miyazaki H, Matsuno K, Ochs HD, Machesky LM, Fujita H, Takenawa T. WAVE/Scars in platelets. Blood 105:3141-3148, 2005.
Ochs HD, Notarangelo L. Structure and function of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein. Current Opinion in Hematology 12:284-291, 2005.
Vogt G, Chapgier A, Yang K, Chuzhanova N, Feinberg J, Fieschi C, Boisson-Dupuis S, Alcais A, Filipe-Santos O, Bustamante J, de Beaucoudrey L, Al-Mohsen I, Al-Hajjar S, Al-Ghonaium A, Adimi P, Mirsaeidi M, Khalilzadeh S, Rozensweig S, de la Calle Martin O, Bauer TR, Puck JM, Ochs HD, Furthner D, Engelhorn C, Belohradsky B, Mansouri D, Holland SM, Schreiber RD, Abel L, Cooper DN, Soudais C, Casanova JL. Gains of glycosylation comprise an unexpected large group of pathogenic mutations. Nature Genetics 37:692-700, 2005.
Tettelin H, Masignani V, Cieslewicz MJ, Donati C, Medini D, Ward NL, Angiuoli SV, Crabtree J, Jones A, Durkin AS, DeBoy RT, Davidsen TM, Mora M, Scarselli M, Maione D, Margarity RI, Peterson JD, Hauser CR, Sundaram JP, Nelson WC, Madupu R, Brinkac LM, Dodson RJ, Rosovitz MJ, Sullivan SA, Daugherty SC, Haft DH, Selengut J, Gwinn ML, Zhou L, Zafar N, Khouri H, Radune D, Dimitrov G, Watkins K, Smith S, Utterback TR, White O, Rubens CE, Grandi G, Madoff LC, Kasper DL, Telford TL, Wessels MR, Rappuoli R, and Fraser CM. 2005. Genome analysis of multiple pathogenic isolates of Streptococcus agalactiae: Implications for the microbial "pan-genome." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:13950-13955.

*Please let us know of your latest publications, awards, and honors by emailing Brooke Freed (brooke.freed@seattlechildrens.org).