Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics Newsletter
DATE : 2007-04-06
ITEMS TO BE COVERED IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
Important Dates
Faculty News
Faculty Publications and Presentations
ALERT: PAS Requires Foreign Travel Authorization
Monday, April 16, 2007, 5-6:30 PM, Wright Auditorium: Meeting of Professors and Associate Professors to discuss reappointments.
Wednesday, April 18, 11:30-1:00 PM, G1026: Reception welcoming Leslie Walker, MD, Chief of Adolescent Medicine.
Thursday April 19, 8-9:00am, Wright Auditorium: Annual Warmington Lecture. Dr. Morris from Los Angeles will be presenting Grand rounds topic "Juvenile Justice: Progress and Problems". Anyone wishing time with Dr. Morris after his lecture should contact Tom Pendergrass, Roger Meyer or Jim Owens.
Wednesday, April 25: Fellows' Research Day with keynote speaker Joseph St. Geme, MD. Come support our fellows! Oral Presentations in basic and clinical research will take place in Wright Auditorium from 7:45am-12:00pm, with poster presentations in basic and clinical research from 12:00-3:00 in G-1026. Dr. Joseph St. Geme, MD is Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Duke University Medical Center and is a nationally recognized expert in basic research and clinical treatment for pediatric infectious diseases.
Monday, May 7, 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.
Monday, June 4: NEXT FACULTY MEETING. 5:30-6:00PM buffet dinner; 6:00-8:00PM, Program. Sound Cafe, CHRMC. Topics to be covered: Research planning, Educational innovations, Transplantation programs.
SAVE THE DATE: Tuesday, July 24: Department of Pediatrics Faculty Picnic at Gasworks Park.
Congratulations and thank you for the 100% completion of our CUMG required billing and coding education. Your commitment to the highest quality of clinical business practices is an outstanding example of professionalism.
David Rawlings, MD has been elected to the Association of American Physicians. Congratulations, David, for this outstanding honor. Few pediatricians are selected for this prestigious society.
Dr. Sheela Sathayanarayana's project "Is Ambient Air Pollutant Exposure Associated with Preterm and Small for Gestational Age Birth in the Puget Sound Air Basin?" has been selected for funding under the APA/AHRQ Young Investigators Grant Program. She will receive $9,996 in funding.
Dr. Mollie Greves' project "Measuring the Impact of School Physical Activity Policies: Can We Identify Best Practices Through Behavior Outcomes?" has been selected for funding under the APA Young Investigators Grant Program. She will receive $9,981 in funding.
FACULTY PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
John F. McLaughlin, MD:
1. McLaughlin JF. Definition of cerebral palsy: Clinical perspective. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology (Supplement 109) 49:s27-s28, 2007.
2. Bjornson, KF, Belza, B, Kartin, D, Logsdon, R, McLaughlin, JF. (2007) Ambulatory Physical Activity Performance in Youth with Cerebral Palsy and Youth Developing Typically. Physical Therapy,87(3):248-57.
Luke Hoffman, MD:
1. Hoffman LR, Deziel E, D'Argenio DA, Lepine F, Emerson J, McNamara S, Gibson RL, Ramsey BW, Miller SI. Selection for Staphylococcus aureus small-colony variants due to growth in the presence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 26;103(52):19890-5, 2006.
2. Hoffman, LR; Miller, SI. The systems biology of infection in animal models bears fruit. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2006. 103:9377-8.
Darcy A. Thompson, MD, MPH, Paula Lozano, MD, MPH and Dimitri A. Christakis, MD, MPH: Parent Use of Touchscreen Computer Kiosks for Child Health Promotion in Community Settings. PEDIATRICS Vol. 119 No. 3 March 2007, pp. 427-434 (doi:10.1542/peds.2006-2669)
Heather A. McPhillips, MD, MPH and F. Bruder Stapleton, MD: Toward Creating Family-Friendly Work Environments in Pediatrics: Baseline Data From Pediatric Department Chairs and Pediatric Program Directors. Heather A. McPhillips, MD, MPH, Ann E. Burke, MD, Kate Sheppard, MPH, Adam Pallant, MD, F. Bruder Stapleton, MD and Bonita Stanton, MD. PEDIATRICS (doi:10.1542/peds.2006-2397)
Timothy C. Cox, PhD, was an Invited Speaker at the Keystone Symposium on Molecular Pathways in Cardiac Development and Disease (Breckenridge, Colorado, USA, January, 2007). His talk was entitled "Regeneration of the fetal heart in a model of mitochondrial respiratory chain deficiency".
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD was lead guest editor for the February 2007 special issue of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics on "Bio*Medical Informatics and Genomic Medicine: Research and Training" as well as serving as first author on the editorial (pages 1-4) and senior author on the lead article "Methodological Review: Data Integration and Genomic Medicine" Louie, B, Mork, P, Martin-Sanchez, F, Halevy, A, Tarczy-Hornoch, P. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 40(1):5-15; 2007
Remember that foreign travel that is funded through University or CHRMC accounts requires prior authorization.
*Please let us know of your latest publications, awards, and honors by emailing Brooke Freed (brooke.freed@seattlechildrens.org).