Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics Newsletter
DATE : 2007-12-07
ITEMS TO BE COVERED IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
Important Dates
Faculty News
Faculty Publications, Invited Lectures and Presentations
December 13, 8:00-9:00am: Grand Rounds-Bruder Stapleton, MD, Chair of the Department of Pediatrics, will be presenting "Department of Pediatrics 2007: Launching a New Era in Research".
December 18: The CUMG Annual Membership Meeting/CUMG Holiday Party from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Ciao Bella Restaurant, located a few blocks west from Children's Hospital, at 5133 Sand Point Way NE. The evening will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a hosted reception and hors d'oeuvres buffet, followed by a brief business meeting at approximately 6:00 p.m. RSVP to ida.motoshige@seattlechildrens.org
February 4, 2008: SAVE THE DATE for the next faculty meeting. Topics include "Improving feedback to students, residents and fellows" and the CTSA and what it means to the Department of Pediatrics. More information forthcoming.
February 14, 2008: NIH Career Development Grant Writing Workshop, 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Children's in room W3747A. This workshop, by the UW Research Funding Service, is targeted towards fellows and junior faculty planning to apply for an NIH (K23, K01, K08) or foundation career development awards. It provides invaluable advice for writing a successful application. The workshop is very interactive and engaging, and gets uniformly great reviews from attendees. This is the first time it's being offered at Children's Hospital. These workshops always fill up quickly! RSVP to Brooke (brooke.freed@seattlechildrens.org) to ensure that you get a reminder to register once on-line registration begins on January 24th, 2008.
April 25, 2008: SAVE THE DATE for the fifth annual Fellows' Research Day. Abstract submission information coming soon!
Dana Matthews, MD will be Chair of the Sub-Board of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology effective 2008.
Lisa Frenkel, MD, was selected to serve on the Council on University Relations for a two-year term.
Dr. David Rawlings was awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to develop an effective and safe pre-clinical model for gene therapy in Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome (WAS). This grant will run through September 2008.
Dr. Janet Englund will lead the Children's Hospital portion of the Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit contract granted by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease to Group Health, Children's Hospital and the University of Washington. This unit is one of eight contracts awarded to strengthen and expand its nationwide group of institutions conducting clinical trials of promising candidate vaccines and therapies for infectious diseases. VTEU investigators have tested and advanced vaccines for many diseases, including influenza, pneumonia, whooping cough. "Haemophilus influenzae" infection, cytomegalovirus infection, malaria, smallpox, anthrax and tularemia. Childhood vaccines and combination vaccines -- the delivery of several vaccines through one inoculation -- have been and remain an important part of the VTEU’s research goals. Other sites awarded contracts include: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Emory University, Atlanta. Georgia; Satin Louis University. St. Louis, Missouri; University of lowa, lowa City, lowa; University of Maryland Baltimore, Maryland; Vanderbilt University, Nashville. Tennessee.
Faculty Publications, Invited Lectures and Presentations
Jason Debley, MD, MPH, Greg Redding, MD, and Jerry Zimmerman, MD, PhD: Methods to improve measurement of cysteinyl leukotrienes in exhaled breath condensate from subjects with asthma and healthy controls. Debley JS, Hallstrand TS, Monge T, Ohanian A, Redding GJ, Zimmerman J. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2007 Nov;120(5):1216-7.
Congratulations to Dr. Jamie Feinstein, pediatric intern, on his publication in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine Dec issue entitled "What new information pediatric autopsies can provide: A retrospective evaluation of 100 consecutive autopsies using family-centered criteria.
Drs. Almut Meyer-Bahlburg and David Rawlings: B cell intrinsic TLR signals amplify but are not required for humoral immunity. Meyer-Bahlburg A, Khim S, Rawlings DJ. (2007) J Exp Med. 2007 Nov 26; [Epub ahead of print].
Carol Walace, MD, had her article “Pursue Remission” featured on the front page of The Rheumatologist, November 2007 edition (Vol 1, No. 11)
Srinath Sanda, MD, Assistant Professor, Endocrine Division: Type 1 diabetes as a relapsing-remitting disease? von Herrath M, Sanda S, Herold K. Nat Rev Immunol. 2007 Nov 2: [Epub ahead of print]
Karen Murray, MD, Division of Gastroenterology:
- Murray KF, Schwarz KB, Rodrigue JR, Gonzalez-Peralta RP, Shepherd J, and Barton BA, for the PEDS-C Clinical Research Network. Design of the PEDS-C Trial: Pegylated Interferon +/- Ribavirin for Children with Chronic Hepatitis C Viral Infection. Clinical Trials, 2007.
- Goodman ZD, Makhlouf HR, Liu L, Balistreri W, Gonzalez-Peralta RP, Haber B, Jonas M, Mohan P, Molleston JP, Murray KF, Narkewicz MR, Rosenthal P, Smith LJ, Robuck P, Schwarz KB. Pathology of Chronic Hepatitis C in Children: Liver Biopsy Findings in the Peds-C Trial. Hepatology, 2007
Christian L. Roth, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Endocrinology:
- Roth CL, Hunneman DH, Gebhardt U, Stoffel-Wagner B, Reinehr T, Muller HL. Reduced sympathetic metabolites in urine of obese patients with craniopharyngioma. Pediatr Res. 2007 Apr;61(4):496-501. PMID: 17515878 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
- Roth CL, Mastronardi C, Lomniczi A, Wright H, Cabrera R, Mungenast AE, Heger S, Jung H, Dubay C, Ojeda SR. Expression of a tumor-related gene network increases in the mammalian hypothalamus at the time of female puberty. Endocrinology. 2007 Nov;148(11):5147-61. Epub 2007 Jul 5. PMID: 17615149 [PubMed in process]
- Heger S, Mastronardi C, Dissen GA, Lomniczi A, Cabrera R, Roth CL, H, Galimi F, Sippell W, Ojeda SR. Enhanced at puberty 1 (EAP1) is a new transcriptional regulator of the female neuroendocrine reproductive axis. J Clin Invest. 2007 Aug;117(8):2145-54. PMID: 17627301 [PubMed indexed for MEDLINE]
- Reinehr T, de Sousa G, Niklowitz P, Roth CL. Amylin and its relation to insulin and lipids in obese children before and after weight loss. Obesity ( Silver Spring). 2007 Aug;15(8):2006-11. PMID: 17712118 [PubMed indexed for MEDLINE]
- Reinehr T, de Sousa G, Roth CL. Obestatin and ghrelin levels in obese children and adolescents before and after reduction of overweight. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2007 Sep 14; [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 17854392 [PubMed as supplied by publisher]
- Reinehr T, de Sousa G, Roth CL. Fasting glucagon-like peptide-1 and its relation to insulin in obese children before and after weight loss. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2007 May;44(5):608-12. PMID: 17460495 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Please let us know of your latest publications, awards, and honors by emailing Brooke Freed (brooke.freed@seattlechildrens.org).
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