Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics Newsletter
DATE : 2006-06-02
ITEMS COVERED IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
Important Dates
Faculty News
New Chief of Biochemical Genetics Recruited
Faculty Publications
Important Dates
Wednesday, June 21, 2006: DEADLINE for Society for Pediatric Research nominations. http://www.aps-spr.org/SPR/mbrinfo.htm
Friday, July 14-Saturday, July 15: The second annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference, Current Controversies: Ethical Issues Related to Vaccination of Children, sponsored by the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics, will be held in Seattle at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center. Registration is available online at: www.seattlechildrens.org/bioethics Contact Angel Latterell (987-7825) with any questions.
Tuesday, July 25: Department of Pediatrics Faculty Picnic at Gasworks Park. More information forthcoming.
Monday, July 31: SAVE THE DATE for the New Fellows Orientation and Reception. More information forthcoming.
Monday, July 31, 2006: DEADLINE for American Pediatric Society applications. http://www.aps-spr.org/APS/mbrinfo.htm
Monday, September 25, 5:00 PM: Autumn 2006 Royalty Research Fund (RRF) Proposal deadline. The application is an interactive-PDF. 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 If you have questions about the program contact RRF Program Manager, Barbara Thompson (bthompso@u.washington.edu)
Monday, September 25: NEXT FACULTY MEETING- Children's Hospital Strategic Plan.
Faculty NewsChildren's Hospital and Regional Medical Center is one of four institutions participating in a new study of rare genetic airways disorders, such as primary ciliary dyskinesia, which is being launched as part of the National Institute of Health's Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN). Margaret Rosenfeld, MD, MPH will lead the research study at Children's, along with Ron Gibson, MD and Dr. Moira Aitken. Other participating institutions in the network, called the Genetic Diseases of Mucociliary Clearance Consortium, include the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Washington University St. Louis, and The Children's Hospital in Denver. NIH announced the launch of the network's clinical studies, a $71 million effort to address neglected conditions, on May 4.
Fred Rivara, MD, MPH announced that Matthew Kreuter, MD, will be the Pfizer Visiting Professor in Health Literacy from November 1-3, 2006. The grant application bringing Dr. Kreuter was written by Drs. Paula Lozano and Beth Ebel.
Congratulations to Peter Gilbreath, a student from Craig Rubens lab, who was selected as one of the recipients of the 2006 Erling Ordal Undergraduate Research Award.
Congratulations to the following Divisions who had 100% compliance with the physician telephone response guidelines: Adolescent Medicine, Craniofacial, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Genetics, Cardiology, Hematology-Oncology, Infectious Disease, Neurodevelopmental Medicine, Pulmonary, and Rheumatology. Thank you for your commitment to our referring physicians.
New Head of Biochemical GeneticsSihoun Hahn, MD, PhD, currently Associate Professor of Pediatrics and the Director of the Biochemical Genetics Screening Laboratory at the Mayo Clinic, has agreed to join the faculty in September 2006 as Head of the Section of Biochemical Genetics in the Division of Genetics and Developmental Medicine. Dr. Hahn is an outstanding scientist and laboratory director, whose specialty is lysosomal disorders.
Faculty PublicationsCongratulations to Jason Mendoza, MD and Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH, on their recent publication: Dietary Energy Density Is Associated with Selected Predictors of Obesity in U.S. Children. Jason A. Mendoza, Adam Drewnowski, Allen Cheadle, and Dimitri A. Christakis. 2006 American Society for Nutrition. J. Nutr. 136: 1318-1322, 2006.
Congratulations to Adam Cohen, MD, MPH, fellow in General Pediatrics, on his recent publication: Economic Analysis of Prevaccination Serotesting compared with Presumptive Immunization for Polio, Diphtheria and Tetanus in Internationally Adopted and Immigrant Infants. PEDIATRICS Vol. 117 No. 5 May 2006, pp. 1650-1655
Congratulations to Ruth McDonald, MD, for her publication: Safety and Efficacy of a Calcineurin Inhibitor Avoidance Regimen in Pediatric Renal Transplantation. William Harmon, Kevin Meyers, Julie Ingelfinger, Ruth McDonald, Matthew McIntosh ||, Martin Ho ||, Leslie Spaneas , Jo Ann Palmer, Marena Hawk, Chris Geehan, Kathryn Tinckam, Wayne W. Hancock, and Mohamed H. Sayegh. J Am Soc Nephrol. 17:1735-1745, 2006.
Bruder Stapleton, MD recently published: Returning to the Basics: A New Era in Pediatric Education. A Friedman, E Schor, B Stanton, B Stapleton, B Zuckerman. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med/ Vol 160, May 2006.
*Please let us know of your latest publications, awards, and honors by emailing Brooke Freed (brooke.freed@seattlechildrens.org).