University of Washington School of Medicine
Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics Newsletter

DATE : 2005-11-18


ITEMS COVERED IN THIS NEWSLETTER:

Important Dates
Announcements
Recipients of CHRMC Steering Committee Awards
Participants in the AAP National Meeting
Faculty News


Important Dates

December 1, 2005: Deadline for PAS awards

December 5, 2005, 5:00PM, G-1026: Chris Gleason and Fred Rivara give a talk annually for junior faculty (or those interested), on the promotion process. The goal is to take some of the mystery out of the process, help faculty think ahead to what is needed in a promotion package, and to prepare now to make this process less stressful. It will be held on DECEMBER 5, 2005 from 5-6:30 PM in room G-1026 at Children's. Please RSVP to Diane via e-mail (dmw@u.washington.edu) if you would like to attend.

Tuesday, December 6, 2005, 4:30-5:30 PM, Turner Auditorium (D-209), Health Sciences Bldg: Next ThINK seminar "Potential and Real Financial Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Research"Michael Corn, JD and Malcolm Parks, Ph.D. No registration is required. This lecture is open to all faculty, staff and students. Refreshments will be provided. For more questions, or additionalprogram information contact veewhite@u.washington.edu.

December 7, 2005, 4:00-6:00PM, G-1026: All faculty and housestaff are invited to attend a reception honoring new Department of Pediatrics faculty members and new CEO Dr. Tom Hansen.

December 8, 2005, 8:00-9:00AM Wright Auditorium: Grand Rounds, Department Update presented by Bruder Stapleton, Chair, Department of Pediatrics.

December 14, 2005, 8:15AM-1:00PM: Launching a Successful Academic Career. the Department of Pediatrics will be offering its first annual half - day workshop entitled, "Launching a Successful Academic Career," geared towards senior (2nd and 3rd year) fellows, acting instructors and acting assistant professors. The workshop will take place from 8 am to 1 pm at the Center for Urban Horticulture. Please contact Brooke Freed (brooke.freed@seattlechildrens.org) to RSVP and for more information.

December 14, 2005: Children's Hospital Holiday Party, Sound Cafe.

February 13, 2006, 5:30-8 PM, Sound Cafe: Next Faculty meeting

Announcements

New State Immunization Registry. Child Profile is a project of the Washington Department of Health, in partnership with the Medical Assistance Administration of DSHS. It is a secure, web-based registry allowing physicians and other provider to look up a child's immunization history, ensuring them an accurate record is available in an emergency or when families move or change physicians.

The program is now working with DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, acellluar pertussis) program to see that children receive all their immunizations on time.

This registry is free for physicians and, if interested, CHILD Profile can be reached at (800) 325 5599 or cphelpdesk@metrokc.gov or visit the website www.childprophile.org.

Recipients of CHRMC Steering Committee Awards

Congratulations to the following Department of Pediatrics faculty recipients of the 2005 CHRMC Steering Committee Awards:

Basic Science
Helen Dichek
Sandra Juul
Lakshmi Rajagopal
Andrew Scharenberg

Clinical Research
Sandra Juul
Ken Schenkman
Danielle Zerr

Outcomes Research
Dimitri Christakis
Paula Lozano
Laura Richardson

Participants in the AAP National Meeting

Congratulations to the following faculty members who participated in the annual meeting of the AAP in Washington, DC, in October:

Cora Breuner
Karen Stout
Frank Virant
Paul Williams
Tony Woodward

Faculty News

New Division of Craniofacial Medicine: Michael Cunningham, MD, PhD, chief of the new division of Craniofacial Medicine, was recently presented with a Family Choice Award which he describes as the "single most important achievement of my career." We congratulate him on a job well done

Congratulations to Craig Rubens, MD, PhD, who was recently asked to join the Editorial Advisory Board of a new journal entitled, Future Microbiology. The first issue of this journal is scheduled for June 2006.

Congratulations to Elinor Graham, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics who will receive the first Helen Rodriquez-Trias Award for Social Justice from the American Public Health Association. Ellie directs the Children and Teen Clinic at Harborview Medical Center and will be presented with the award during the Association's annual meeting in December.

Congratulations to Frederick Rivara, MD, MPH, Division Chief of General Pediatrics, who has been elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine, chartered in 1970 as a component for the National Academy of Sciences. New members are elected by the current membership on the basis of their professional achievement and their demonstrated interest, concern and involvement with problems and critical issues that affect the health of the public.

We are proud to announce that John Stirling, MD, Clinical Instructor of Pediatrics, is to be honored by the American Academy of Pediatrics for his exemplary work in child protection. John is Medical Director of the Clark County Child Abuse Intervention Center in Vancouver, Washington, and a member of the University of Washington Pediatric Department Child Abuse Consultation Network.

Congratulations to Susan Marshall, MD, Pulmonary Division and Pam Mitchell, RN, PhD who were granted a T32 grant that seeks to develop and provide didactic and research experience for pre-doctoral clinical research training, specifically focusing on interdisciplinary clinical investigators. The program will span three primary health professions - medicine, dentistry, and nursing, as well as involve students in Pharmacy, Rehabilitation Sciences, Epidemiology and Health Services.

Congratulations to Phillip Chance, MD, Head, Division of Genetics and Development, and Mark Hannibal, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Medical Genetics, for the discovery of hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy (HNA). This disorder may cause sudden onset of severe attacks of pain in the shoulders and arms, along with paralysis of arm/hand function and loss of sensation. Their lab first mapped the gene for this disorder to chromosome 17 in 1995 and have spent the last 10 years searching for the actual gene. During the past year, in collaboration with research groups in Antwerp and Meunster, they found the gene for HNA. Modeling this disorder in transgenic animals could have important implications for future research and treatment of severe, chronic pain in humans. The paper appeared in Nature Genetics 37, 1044-1046 (01 Oct 2005), Brief Communications.

Bruder Stapleton, MD, was a guest faculty member at the VII Congress of Latin American Pediatric Nephrologists in San Jose, Costa Rica, November 4-8, 1002. He presented three lectures.

PUBLICATIONS

Congratulations to the following authors for their paper recently published in the Journal Neurogenetics: Bennett, C.L., Huynh, H.M., Chance, P.F., Glass, I.A. and Gospe, S.M., Jr. (2005) Genetic heterogeneity for autosomal recessive pyridoxine-dependent seizures. Neurogenetics, 6, 143-149.

Congratulations to Julian Davies and Julie Bledsoe for their article in this month's Pediatric Clinics of North America. Davies JK, Bledsoe JM. Prenatal alcohol and drug exposures in adoption. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2005 Oct;52(5):1369-93, vii.

Congratulations to Monica Vavilala on the following publication: Coates, Brian M.; Vavilala, Monica S. MD; Mack, Christopher D. MS; Muangman, Saipin MD; Suz, Pilar MD; Sharar, Sam R. MD; Bulger, Eileen MD; Lam, Arthur M. MD, FRCPC. Influence of definition and location of hypotension on outcome following severe pediatric traumatic brain injury. Critical Care Medicine. 33(11):2645-2650, November 2005.

Congratulations to the new Division of Craniofacial Medicine for the following articles:

Congratulations to Cora Breuner, MD for her paper recently published: Breuner CC. Natural Contraception. Adolescent Medicine Clinics 2005;16(3):603-616.

Congratulations to Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH who co-authored the following article with Colin Sox: Pediatrician's Screening Urinalysis Practices. The Journal of Pediatrics, September 2005, 147(3):362-365.

Allison Galbraith, David Grossman, Tom Koepsell and Dimitri Christakis published an article entitled "Medicaid Acceptance and Availability of Timely Follow-up for Newborns with Medicaid. Pediatrics. November 2005, 116:1148

Congratulations to Margaret Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, who authored "Overview of Published Evidence on Outcomes with Early Diagnosis from Large US Observational Studies. Supplement to The Journal of Pediatrics, September 2005; 147 (3):S11-S14.

Congratulations to Gwen Glew, MD, Pediatric Fellow, Division of Developmental/ Behavior at CHDD, Ming-Yu Fan, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington; Wayne Katon, MD, Professor & Vice Chairman, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington, Fred Rivara, MD, MPH, Division Head, General Pediatrics, and Mary Kernic, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Epidemiology - HIPRC for the following article: Gwen M. Glew, MD; Ming-Yu Fan, PhD; Wayne Katon, MD; Frederick P. Rivara, MD; Mary A. Kernic, MPH. Bullying, Psychosocial Adjustment, and Academic Performance in Elementary School. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. November 2005 159.1:1026.

Lucas R. Hoffman, MD, PhD; Elizabeth H. Yen, MD; Jeffrey P. Kanne, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Radiology; Eric L. Effmann, MD, Professor of Radiology; Ronald L. Gibson, MD, PhD, Professor, Pediatrics, Pulmonary Medicine; Cornelius W. Van Niel, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Lipoid Pneumonia Due to Mexican Folk Remedies: Cultural Barriers to Diagnosis. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. November 2005 159.1:1026.

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