Newsletters | Department of Pediatrics | University of Washington

DATE : 2006-06-23

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Important Dates
Housestaff Awards
Faculty News
Faculty Publications

Important Dates

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 6:00-8:00pm at Gasworks Park. Bring your family to see the "Reptile Man". Invitations with potluck assignments have been mailed out. Contact Diane Wade (dmw@u.washington.edu) with questions.

Monday, July 31: New Fellows Orientation, 8:00am to 1:00pm, at the Graham Visitors Center at the Arboretum. The Orientation is designed to provide an overview of fellowship survival skills and to allow fellows an opportunity to meet one another. It has been very well received in the past. While it is geared towards incoming fellows, all are welcome to attend. There will be a reception that evening at Margaret Rosenfeld's house from 6:00-8:00pm. Please help spread the word! RSVP to Brooke Freed (brooke.freed@seattlechildrens.org)

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.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006: A symposium on "Creating Institutional Change for Work/Life Balance in Medical Careers" will be held in the Wright Auditorium on October 11, 2006. The symposium is a day-long event (8:30 - 5:00) and will be an overview of and a chance to break out into work groups to find ways to affect change in four specific areas: (1.) Family Support Structures, (2.)Flexible Training and Work Supported by Efficient Clinical Practice,(3.) Academic Advancement Issues, and (4.)Facilitating Mid-Life Career Change.The Keynote Speaker is Dr. Bonita Stanton, Chair of Pediatrics at Wayne State. Please contact Janine Jijina, Symposium Coordinator, if you wish to attend (janine.jijina@seattlechildrens.org).

Housestaff Awards

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2006 Housestaff Awards:

Resident Teaching Award: John Cowden, MD
Bergman Prize: Jessica Pittman, MD
Family Centered Care Award: Eleanor Click, MD, PhD
Fellow Teaching Award: Maneesh Batra, MD
Faculty Teaching Award: Ghassan Wahbeh, MD and Jack Salerno, MD
Stanley Stamm Award: David Woodrum, MD

Faculty News

Charlotte W. Lewis, MD, MPH, had her R21 grant funded: R21-DE - 017364-01A1 (Lewis) Caries prevalence in orofacial clefting: A pilot study for an oral health case management RCT.

Daryl Okamura, MD, has received a K08 award from the NIH/NIDDK for his investigation of the Multifunctional role of CD36 in Progressive Renal Fibrosis.

Ruth McDonald, MD, has been elected to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Board of Directors for a 2-year term beginning June, 2006.

Congratulations to Kyle Yasuda, MD, who just accepted an appointment from the secretary of DSHS to be a member of the Title XIX Advisory Committee, AKA the Medicaid Advisory Committee. This is exciting because Mary Selecky, the Secretary of DOH, was also recently appointed. Dr. Yasuda is hopeful that they will be able to impact policy that affects the health status/care of kids.

Linda Quan, MD, is a PI on an AAP Healthy People 2010 grant ($20,000) awarded to Washington State to develop and assess a drowning prevention program for Vietnamese families and children in the Seattle area.

Faculty Publications

Congratulations to Naomi Sugar, MD and Elinor A. Graham MD, MPH on their publication:
Common Gynecologic Problems in Prepubertal Girls. Sugar, N. F., Graham, E. A. Pediatrics in Review. 2006; 27: 213-223.

Congratulations to Linda Quan, MD and colleagues' (Reder S, Cummings P, Quan L) who published a paper on "Randomized controlled trial of teaching modalities for CPR in high school students" was published in Resuscitation. 2006; 69:443-453.

Congratulations to Bill Walker, MD on his publication:
WO Walker, CP Johnson. Mental Retardation: Overview and Diagnosis. Pediatrics in Review 2006. Vol. 27: 6.

Congratulations to Jane Burns on her recent publications:

Gibson RL, Retsch-Bogart GZ, Oermann C, Milla C, Pilewski J, Daines C, Ahrens R, Leon K, Cohen M, McNamara S, Callahan TL, Markus R, Burns JL. Microbiology, safety, and pharmacokinetics of aztreonam lysinate for inhalation in patients with cystic fibrosis. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2006 Jul;41(7):656-65.

Smith EE, Buckley DG, Wu Z, Saenphimmachak C, Hoffman LR, D'Argenio DA, Miller SI, Ramsey BW, Speert DP, Moskowitz SM, Burns JL, Kaul R, Olson MV. From the Cover: Genetic adaptation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa to the airways of cystic fibrosis patients. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 May 30;103(22):8487-92. Epub 2006 May 10.

Chen Y, Vasil AI, Rehaume L, Mant CT, Burns JL, Vasil ML, Hancock RE, Hodges RS. Comparison of biophysical and biologic properties of alpha-helical enantiomeric antimicrobial peptides. Chem Biol Drug Des. 2006 Feb;67(2):162-73.

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