Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics Newsletter
DATE : 2007-11-05
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Important Dates
Faculty News
Faculty Publications, Invited Lectures and Presentations
November 6, 2:30-5:00: Retirement reception for Dave Bary, in the Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall Room 225, (Presentation at 3:30pm). Contact Jen Gopalan (616-4670) for more information and to RSVP.
November 15, 8:00-9:00am: Grand Rounds- Renee Jenkins, MD, President of the American Academy of Pediatrics, will be presenting the Annual Humanism Lecture on the topic of health insurance coverage for children.
November 28, 2007- Abstract Writing Workshop: All fellows and junior faculty are invited to attend 8:00-9:30am in M305 (located in the John Olerud modular building). Refreshments will be served. The deadline for submission of abstracts for the PAS meeting is December 4. In preparation for this deadline, the workshop will cover how to write an effective abstract and have time for critiquing each other's abstracts. Please bring your abstract or draft with you to the workshop, with 20 copies to distribute to the group. Please RSVP to Brooke Freed (brooke.freed@seattlechildrens.org).
December 4, 2007: Deadline for submission of abstracts for the PAS meeting.
Jason Debley, MD, MPH, assistant professor of pediatrics, received the Young Investigator of the Year Awards last month from the UW General Clinical Research Center. This award is presented annually to two junior faculty members who have a record of significant peer-reviewed publications and have demonstrated excellence in research supported by the GCRC at the UW and at Children's Hospital.
Margaret Rosenfeld, MD has been awarded first year direct costs $640,312 for a Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Grant: “Infant Study of Inhaled Saline (ISIS).
Amanda Jones, PhD, received the “Teacher of the Year” Award for teaching students in the Pathobiology Graduate Program at the UW School of Public Health.
Soren Gantt, MD, PhD, received the Center for AIDS Research New Investigator Award for his project "Primary Human Herpesvirus 8 Infection in Ugandan Children". The award provides $80,000 over 2 years.
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, is the Director of the Biomedical Informatics Core of the newly awarded Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) grant for the Institute for Translational Health Sciences (total ITHS award $63M over 5 years). Dr. Tarczy-Hornoch is also the PI on the renewed NIH training grant Biomedical and Health Informatics Research Training Grant ($5.1M, 7/1/07-6/30/12), and is the PI on a subcontract on an R01 titled "Detecting Errors in Blood Labs Using Bayesian Networks" (7/1/07-5/31/09). In addition, Dr. Tarczy-Hornoch has been asked to continue for another 3-year term as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association and also invited to serve on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Biomedical Informatics for a 4-year term.
The following members of the Neonatology Division were recipients of the Department’s Academic Enrichment Fund: Dennis Mayock, Transfusion practices in very low birth weight infants ($18,000) and Shilpi Chabra (PI), Michael Neufeld, Dennis Mayock, Vitamin A status and bronchopulmonary dysplasia in preterm infants after routine intramuscular Vitamin A supplementation ($22,000).
Drs. Sheela Sathyanarayana and Catherine Karr accepted an award at the joint EPA/NIEHS children’s Environmental health meeting, from US EPA for their UW based Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit. They were selected as one of the ten 2007 Childrens Environmental Health Excellence Awardees. The National PEHSU Network for which they are members was also awarded.
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/
ochpweb.nsf/content/2007_CEH_Awards.htm.
Drs. Timothy Cox, Michael Cunningham and Richard Hopper were awarded the following: The Murdock Charitable Trust Award, with supporting funds from the Children's: Value $621,858 PI: Timothy Cox, Co-Pi’s: Michael Cunningham and Richard Hopper. Title: Children’s Craniofacial Image Analysis Center Support to establish a multi-dimensional imaging center incorporating a Skyscan 1076 in vivo X-ray microcomputed tomography scanner and a Bioptonics optical projection tomography scanner (both for small animal research), as well as a dedicated multiterrabyte-scale server for storage and analysis of animal and clinical imaging data.
Faculty Publications, Invited Lectures and Presentations
Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH:
Violent Television Viewing During Preschool is Associated with Anti-social Behavior During School Age” November 2007 issue of Pediatrics.
Effect of Block Play on Language Acquisition and Attention in Toddlers A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. Dimitri A. Christakis, MD, MPH; Frederick J. Zimmerman, PhD; Michelle M. Garrison, PhD Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2007;161:967-971.
Dr. Elinor Graham: Graham Elinor, Jacobs Troy A, Kwan Gett Tao S, Jane Cover, Health Services Utilization by Low-Income Limited English Proficient Adults. J Immigr Minor Health. 2007 Aug 9; [Epub ahead of print]
Peter Rowinsky, MD, pediatric intern, presented a poster “Serious Bacterial Infection and Risk Factors for Extended Length of Stay in Children Hospitalized with Rotavirus Gastroenteritis” at the IDSA conference in San Diego.
Drs. Robert Mazor and Harris Baden published “Trends in Pediatric Organ Donation After Cardiac Death” in PEDIATRICS 2007; 120:e960-e966
Rita Mangione-Smith, et al: The quality of Ambulatory care delivered to children in the United States. NEJM October 2007.
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD:
"People and Organizational Issues in Clinical and Research Systems Implementation" (half day tutorial led by Dr. Tarczy-Hornoch, N. Anderson, J. Ash), Fall 2007 AMIA Symposium, Chicago, IL, Nov 11, 2007.
"IPHIE Workshop: Eight Years of Experience of an International Partnership in Health Informatics Education" (panelist), Fall 2007 AMIA Symposium, Chicago, IL, Nov 10, 2007. Louie B, Detwiler T, Dalvi N, Shaker R, Tarczy-Hornoch P, Suciu D. Incorporating uncertainty metrics into a general-purpose data integration system. Scientific and Statistical Database Management 2007, p.19-29
Anderson NA, Lee ES, Brockenbrough JS, Minie ME, Fuller S, Brinkley J, Tarczy-Hornoch P. Issues in biomedical research data management and analysis: needs and barriers. JAMIA 2007; 14: 478-88.
Dr. Linda Quan and Elizabeth Bennett participated in the World Water Safety meeting in Porto, Portugal, Sept 27-29 where they gave a presentation: Drowning risk and prevention in ethnic/cultural minorities; had a Poster: Drownings in Washington State and Seattle City Parks: a Tale of Two Agencies; and presided over a Workshop: Achieving consensus on Open Water safety messages for parents.
Drs. Sunny Juul and Ron McPherson:
Juul SE, Aylward E, Richards T, McPherson RJ, Kuratani J, Burbacher TM. Prenatal cord clamping in newborn Macaca nemestrina: a model of perinatal asphyxia. Dev Neurosci 2007; 29: 311-20.
McPherson RJ, Juul SE. High-dose erythropoietin inhibits apoptosis and stimulates proliferation in neonatal rat intestine. Growth Horm IGF Res 2007; 17: 424-30.
Dennis Mayock, MD:
Di Fiore JM, Hibbs AM, Zadell AE, Merrill JD, Eichenwald EC, Puri AR, Mayock DE, Courtney SE, Ballard RA, Martin RJ. The effect of inhaled nitric oxide on pulmonary function in preterm infants. J Perinatol 2007 Sept 6 [Epub ahead of print].
Drs. Andy Scharenberg and David Rawlings: Scharenberg AM, Humphries LA, and Rawlings DJ. Calcium signalling and cell-fate choice in B cells. (2007) Nat Rev Immunol. 7(10):778-789.
Greg Redding, MD:
Redding G, Song K, Inscore S, Effmann E, Campbell R. Lung function asymmetry in children with congenital and infantile scoliosis. Spine J. 2007 June 21; [Epub ahead of print].
Brogan TV, Mellema JD, Martin LD, Redding GJ, Glenny RW. Spatial and Temporal heterogeneity of regional pulmonary blood flow in piglets. Pediatr Res 62(4):434-439, 2007.
Jason Debley, MD, MPH, and Greg Redding: Debley JS, Hallstrand TS, Monge T, Ohanian A, Redding G, Zimmerman J. Methods to Improve Measurement of Cysteinyl Leukotrienes in Exhaled Breath Condensate from Asthmatics and Healthy Controls. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2007 Jul 24; [Epub ahead of print].
Joseph T. Flynn, MD, MS, Professor of Pediatrics, Nephrology: 1. Rafaelli RM, Paladini M, Hanson H, Kornstein L, Agasan A, Slavinski S, Weiss D, Fennelly GJ, Flynn JT. Child care-associated outbreak of E.coli O157:H7 diarrhea and Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 26:951-953, 2007.
2. Flynn JT. Children with first urinary tract infection may not benefit from antibiotic prophylaxis (Invited commentary) Journal of Pediatrics 151:552-553, 2007.
Michael Cunningham, MD, PhD:
Cunningham ML. Is cleft lip and palate ever isolated? Phenotype is in the eye of the beholder. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2007; 161(8):811-812.
Cunningham ML. Keynote Speaker, Cleft & Cranio-Maxillofacial Anomalies: Combined Meeting of the Australasian Cleft Lip and Palate Association and the Biennial Paediatric Plastic & Maxillofacial Surgery Meeting, Presentations: “Anatomy of cleft/craniofacial service–Seattle experience”; “Plagiocephaly – diagnosis and management”; “Molecular pathogenesis of syndromic synostosis and historical overview”; “Single suture craniosynostosis, genetics, and neurocognitive outcomes,” Melbourne, Australia, September 2007.
Jackie Starr, PhD and Michael Cunningham, MD, PhD:
Ruiz-Correa S, Starr JR, Lin HT, Kapp-Simon KA, Cunningham ML, Speltz ML. Severity of skull malformation is unrelated to pre-surgery neurobehavioral status of infants with capital synostosis. Cleft Palate Craniofac J 2007; 44(5):548-554.
Dr. Timothy Cox:
Anderson PJ, Cox TC, Roscioli T, Elakis G, Smithers L, David DJ, Powell B. Somatic FGFR and TWIST mutations are not a common cause of isolated non-syndromic single suture craniosynostosis. J Craniofac Surg 2007; 18:312-314.
Massiah MA, Matts JAB, Short KM, Simmons BN, Singireddy S, Zou Y, Cox TC. Solution structure of the MID1 B box2 domain: Insights into an evolutionary conserved RING fold. J Mol Biol 2007; 369:1-10.
Please let us know of your latest publications, awards, and honors by emailing Brooke Freed (brooke.freed@seattlechildrens.org).
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