Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics Newsletter
DATE : 2007-03-09
ITEMS TO BE COVERED IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
Important Dates
Faculty News
Faculty Publications and Presentations
Saturday, March 24, 2007: The Medical Staff Social will be held the evening of Saturday, March 24th at the Science Fiction Museum.
Monday, April 16, 2007, 5-6:30 PM, Wright Auditorium: Meeting of Professors and Associate Professors to discuss reappointments.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007, Fellows’ Research Day with keynote speaker Joseph St. Geme, MD. Joseph St. Geme, MD is Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. St. Geme is a nationally recognized expert in basic research and clinical treatment for pediatric infectious diseases. Come support our fellows! Contact brooke.freed@seattlechildrens.org for more information.
Monday, May 7, 2007, 6:45-8:30 PM: UW Department of Pediatrics/CHRMC Faculty and Alumni Reception at PAS. Toronto, Fairmont Royal York, Room: Tudor 8. Invite your colleagues and friends and plan to join us! No RSVP necessary.
SAVE THE DATE: Tuesday, July 24, 2007: Department of Pediatrics Faculty Picnic at Gasworks Park.
Curt Bennett, MD, was named President-Elect to the Western Society for Pediatric Research for 2007. He will become President in 2008.
Greg Redding, MD, was elected President of the American Lung Association of the Northwest (Washington, Idaho, and Alaska).
Dr. Sing Sing Way was awarded the Basil O'Conner award from the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. The grant is for $150,000 and runs from 2/1/07 to 1/31/09 and will examine the role of Toll-like receptors in regulating the function of Regulatory T cells in adults and neonates after infection.
Tony Woodward, MD, MBA, has been named to a new UW Medicine faculty advisory committee on recruitment and retention of faculty in clinical departments.
Karen Murray, MD has been certified as a Pediatric Transplant Hepatologist.
Sherilyn Smith, MD will be giving a platform presentation at the research presentations, a workshop on scholarship of teaching and was also elected to the executive committee at COMSEP.
Dr. William Osborne has been named as a member of the Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering Study Section, Center for Scientific Review for the term beginning July 1, 2007 and ending June 30, 2010.
FACULTY PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Ron Gibson, MD: Gibson RL, Retsch-Bogart G, 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 41:656-665, 2006.
William Walker, MD: Assistive Technology Use Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Spina Bifida. Kurt L. Johnson, PhD, Brian Dudgeon, PhD, Carrie Kuehn, MPH, and William Walker, MD. American Journal of Public Health, February 2007, Vol 97, No. 2
Greg Redding, MD: Waldhausen JHT, Redding GJ, Song KM. Vertical expandable prosthetic titanium rib for thoracic insufficiency syndrome – A new method to treat an old problem. J Pediatr Surg 42; 76-80, 2007.
John Neff, MD: Neff J.M., "Finance matters: "How Do We Pay for the care of Children with Special Health Care Needs?" -Chapter 3 in Optimizing Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs: Knowledge and Strategies for Navigating the System. Ed: Sobo E.J., Kutin P.S., Brooks Publishing Co. Baltimore, 2007: 49-80
Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH: What to do about the new and growing digital divide? Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161: Feb 2007.
Drs. Darcy Thompson and Dimitri Christakis: Thompson DA, Christakis DA. The association of maternal mental distress with television viewing in children under 3 years old. Ambul Pediatr. 2007 Jan-Feb;7(1):32-7
Cate Pihoker, MD and colleagues published results from a national trial entitled: Serum Lipids and Glucose Control. The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study. Axh Pediatr Adolesc Med 161: Feb 2007.
Drs. Dena Brownstein, Eileen Klein, and Ed Marcuse: Reporting and disclosing medical errors: pediatricians' attitudes and behaviors. Garbutt J, Brownstein DR, Klein EJ, Waterman A, Krauss MJ, Marcuse EK, Hazel E, Dunagan WC, Fraser V, Gallagher TH. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2007 Feb;161(2):179-85
Lincoln S. Smith, MD: “CD14 GENE EXPRESSION RESPONSES TO MECHANICAL VENTILATION OF YOUNG AND ADULT MICE” (abstract n°A15-733) was accepted as an oral presentation at the 5th World Congress on Pediatric Critical Care, June 24-28, 2007 in Geneva.
Catherine J. Karr, MD, PhD, MS: Health Effects of Common Home, Lawn, and Garden Pesticides. Catherine J. Karr, MD, PhD, MS, Gina M. Solomon, MD, MPH, Alice C. Brock-Utne, MD. Pediatr Clin N Am 54 (2007) 63–80
Kenneth W. Feldman, MD: "Renal and urologic manifestations of pediatric condition falsification/Munchausen by proxy". Pediatric Nephrology.
Drs. Charlotte W. Lewis, Brian D. Johnston, Kristi A. Linsenmeyar, Alexis Williams, and Wendy Mouradian: Preventive Dental Care for Children in the United States: A National Perspective Pediatrics 2007;119 E544-E553
Drs. Charlotte Lewis, Wendy Mouradian, Rebecca Slayton, and Alexis Williams. Dental insurance and its impact on preventive dental care visits for U.S. children. J Am Dent Assoc 2007;138 369-380
Jane Burns, MD: Cheung, K., Li, G., Urban, T.A., Goldberg, J.B., Griffith, A., Lu, F., and Burns, J.L. Pilus-mediated epithelial cell death in response to infection with Burkholderia cenocepacia. Microbes and Infection, in press, 2007.
Ben Wilfond, MD:
1. Ravitsky V and Wilfond BS. Disclosing Individual genetic results to research participants. Am J Bioethics 2006; 6(6):8-17.
2. Wade CH and Wilfond BS. Ethical and clinical practice dilemmas for genetic counselors associated with direct-to-consumer marketing of genetic tests. Am J Med Gen. 2006: 142(4):284-92.
David Rawlings, MD:
1. Miguel E. Moreno-García, Karen M. Sommer, Ashok D. Bandaranayake, and David J. Rawlings. Proximal signals controlling B-cell antigen receptor (BCR) mediated NF-κB activation. (2006) In Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Vol. 584. CD Tsoukas, ed. Springer, New York, New York. Pgs. 89-106.
2. Rawlings, DJ, Sommer K, Moreno- García ME. The CARMA1 signalosome links the signalling machinery of adaptive and innate immunity in lymphocytes. (2006) Nat Rev Immunol 6(11):799-812.
3. Humblet-Baron S, Sather B, Anover S, Becker-Herman S, Kasprowicz DJ, Khim S, Nguyen T, Hudkins-Loya K, Alpers CE, Ziegler SF, Ochs H, Torgerson T, Campbell DJ, Rawlings DJ. Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein is required for regulatory T cell homeostasis. (2007) J Clin Invest. 1;117(2):407-418.
Jane Mitchell Rees, PhD, MS, RD:
1. Tejeda, S, Thompson, B, Coronado, B, Rees, J: Evaluation of a cervical cancer curriculum for Hispanic adolescents in rural high schools. J Health Care Poor Underserved 17:734-44, 2006.
2. Reeves, AF, Rees, J, Schiff, M, Hujoel, P: Total body weight and waist circumference associated with periodontitis among adolescents in the United States. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 160:894-9, 2006.
3. Kohn, M, Rees, J, Brill, S, Fonseca, H, Jacobson, MS, Katzman, DK, Neumark-Sztainer, D, Schneider,M: Preventing & Treating Adolescent Obesity, Position Paper, Soc Adol Med . J Adol Health 38:784-7, 2006
Monica S. Vavilala, MD:
1. Vavilala MS, Waitayawinyu P, Lam AM. Neurointensive care; impaired cerebral autoregulation in infants and young children early after inflicted traumatic brain injury: a preliminary report.J Neurotrauma. 2007 Jan;24(1):87-96.
2. Rozet I, Muangman S, Vavilala MS, Lee LA, Souter MJ, Domino KJ, Slimp JC, Goodkin R, Lam AM. Related Articles,Clinical experience with dexmedetomidine for implantation of deep brain stimulators in Parkinson's disease. Anesth Analg. 2006 Nov;103(5):1224-8.
3. Miller P, Mack CD, Sammer M, Rozet I, Lee LA, Muangman S, Wang M, Hollingworth W, Lam AM, Vavilala MS. The incidence and risk factors for hypotension during emergent decompressive craniotomy in children with traumatic brain injury.Anesth Analg. 2006 Oct;103(4):869-75.
4. Vavilala MS, Muangman S, Tontisirin N, Fisk D, Roscigno C, Mitchell P, Kirkness C, Zimmerman JJ, Chesnut R, Lam AM. Impaired cerebral autoregulation and 6-month outcome in children with severe traumatic brain injury: preliminary findings. Dev Neurosci. 2006;28(4-5):348-53.
*Please let us know of your latest publications, awards, and honors by emailing Brooke Freed (brooke.freed@seattlechildrens.org).