Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics Newsletter
DATE : 2008-02-15
ITEMS TO BE COVERED IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
Important Dates
Dr. Ben Danielson honored with MLK Jr. Award
Environmental Health Unit receives EPA Award
Academic Enrichment Fund: Call for submissions
Faculty News
Faculty Publications and Presentations
Message from the Chair
Remembering Ronald J. Lemire, MD
I miss Ron. Yesterday I heard a great, funny story and for the first time since arriving in Seattle 12 years ago, I didn’t have my friend, mentor and advisor to immediately share it with. An accomplished neuroscience scholar, outstanding physician, gifted arbitrator, patient advocate, and wise counselor is no longer here, smiling in his khaki pants, fleece vest and baseball hat. Yet he will never leave the hearts of his friends at the Children’s Hospital, the University of Washington, or in the community. Ron Lemire is an irreplaceable treasure that graced everyone he touched. We all miss Ron.
- Bruder
Dr. Lemire’s family would like to invite those who knew him to join in a celebration of his life at the Museum of Flight on Sunday, Feb. 17 at 6 p.m.
February 20, 2008:Abstract submission deadline for the fifth annual Fellows’ Research Day. See below for information about Research Day, which will be held on April 25 th.
February 21, 2008: Promotion preparation meeting , 7:00-8:00AM in G-1026 at Children’s (Please note the change in time). The Department of Pediatrics Promotions Committee requires that faculty members who will be considered in the summer/fall of 2008 for promotion attend one of these seminars (along with their Division Head and divisional assistant). If you are being considered in 2008 for promotion (to be effective July 1, 2009), you, your Division Head and your Division Head's assistant MUST attend one of these meetings (note, you do not all need to attend on the same date). For more information or to RSVP your attendance at one of these meetings, contact Diane Wade (dmw@u.washington.edu or 206.987.1713).
March 3, 2008, by 5:00 PM. The Spring 2008 round of the Royalty Research Fund (RRF) proposals are due Monday, March 3, by 5:00 PM.Awards will be announced by June 15, 2008. The application materials, including an interactive PDF version of the RRF-1 application form are available for download from the Office of Research web site located at: http://www.washington.edu/research/4researchers/rrf.php
If you have questions about the program, new applicants should contact Peter Wilsnack (doogieh@u.washington.edu, or 685-9316) and existing awardees should contact Barbara Thompson (bthompso@u.washington.edu or 616-9089).
March 7, 2008: 4th Annual Developmental Disabilities Health Care Update: Focus for Primary Care Providers. 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Swedish Medical Center Glaser Auditorium. Keynote Address by Leslie Rubin, M.D., “Challenges and Solutions to Providing Inclusive Care”. Find complete up-to-date conference information and register online after January 10, 2008 at: http://www.swedish.org/cme
March 28, 2008: 29th Annual Duncan Seminar . Cerebral Palsy Today and Tomorrow: Updates in Evaluation and Treatment. Wright Auditorium. Guest Speaker: Diane Damiano, PhD, PT, Associate Professor, Neurology and Physical Therapy; Director, Motion Analysis Laboratory, Washington University, St. Louis; President, American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine.
Register online at: www.seattlechildrens.org/education/outreach.asp
April 11-12, 2008: The Northwest Pediatric Liver Disease Symposium. The American Liver Foundation Pacific Northwest Chapter, in conjunction with Children’s Hospital, is putting on a 1½ day symposium on Pediatric Liver Disease, April 11th & 12th, 2008. The function will take place at Washington Mutual Leadership Center at Cedarbrook. The event will host local (Children’s Medical Staff- Sihoun Hahn, Simon Horslen, Karen Murray, Jorge Reyes, Pat Healey), regional, and national expert speakers on topics of Pediatric Liver Disease. Additionally, Children’s will be hosting a dinner the evening of April 11 th for all participants, and there will be a round-table Question and Answer session, over lunch, from 11 AM to 12 PM on Saturday April 12th, at the conclusion of the symposium lectures, for any patient attendees. Registration is free (http://nwped.goliver.org), and CME credits will be available.
April 25, 2008: SAVE THE DATE for the fifth annual Fellows’ Research Day, at the Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute. This will be a daylong event showcasing the research of our fellows, presented in oral and poster sessions. Abstract applications are being accepted. The submission deadline is Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 5:00PM. Contact Brooke Freed (brooke.freed@seattlechildrens.org) with questions and to obtain the submission form and guidelines.
Dr. Ben Danielson honored with MLK Jr. Award
Ben Danielson, MD, clinical associate professor and medical director of Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic, was awarded the 2008 UW Health Sciences Center Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Service Award for his work in addressing inequality in health care. Congratulations, Ben, for this honor.
Environmental Health Unit receives EPA Award
The Northwest Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit received the Environmental Protection Agency’s Children’s Environmental Health Excellence Award for its leadership in protecting children from environmental health risks. Dr. Catherine Karr, associate professor of pediatrics and environmental health sciences, directs the program. The program’s activities include integration of pediatric environmental health topics into the UW pediatric residency core curriculum, initiation of a pediatric environmental health residency conference series, and intensive mentorship of medical students, graduate students, and fellows.
Academic Enrichment Fund: Call for submissions
Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center has created the Academic Enrichment Fund to support the scholarship and research of faculty who devote the majority of their effort to clinical service and medical education. The fund’s annual budget of $500,000 will be administered by Chief Academic Officer Dr. Bruder Stapleton based on recommendations from the Academic Enrichment Fund Committee. The fund is established to support a wide range of activities, including hypothesis-driven investigations, educational programs, research related to patient safety or medical administration, and establishment and implementation of registries. Funds will be distributed as non-renewable intramural grants that must be utilized within two years. Requests will be accepted for up to $25,000 per individual applicant and up to $50,000 for projects that involve multiple eligible investigators from different divisions or departments. Funds may be used for a wide range of activities including, but not limited to, support research staff, research clinical tests, data managers, and small equipment.
For eligibility requirements and to apply see website: http://www.seattlechildrens.org/health_care_professionals/
resources/academic_enrichment_fund.asp
Angela Peck Campbell, MD received a K23 award from the National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for her research on Parainfluenza Virus Infection in Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients.
Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH was awarded a 3 million dollar 4 year grant from NICHD (NIH) called media impact on preschool behavior.
Luke Hoffman, MD, PhD has been awarded " The Impact of S. aureus normal and SCV forms in Cystic Fibrosis Lung Disease", with funding beginning Jan. 1. It is for the 2008 ATS/Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Research Grant, for $50,000/year in direct costs for two years.
Amanda L. Jones, PhD was awarded a grant by the University of Washington Royalty Research Fund to study the "Role of penicillin binding proteins in evasion of innate immunity by invasive bacterial pathogens".
Maureen Kelley, PhD along with UW humanities faculty, Michael Blake, Jamie Mayerfeld, Adam Moore, and William Talbott, have received $35,543 from the Simpson Center for the Humanities to sponsor a 2009 conference, “Global Justice in the 21 st Century”.
Craig Rubens, MD, PhD has recently been appointed as director of Seattle Children’s Office for Prevention of Prematurity and Stillbirth; the office is developing programs that will bridge basic science, epidemiology and applied public health research on an international scale to accelerate discovery and translational science for interventional strategies to improve maternal and neonatal health outcomes.
Seattle Children’s Office for Prevention of Prematurity and Stillbirths has received a grant from the Gates Foundation to complete a Landscape Literature Review and to review unpublished data to identify gaps in scientific knowledge and epidemiological studies on the global burden of Stillbirth and Prematurity. These findings will be presented at an international summit on Prematurity and Stillbirth prevention, funded in part by the Gates Foundation, to be held in Seattle in 2009 sponsored by Children's hospital and in partnership with the UW Departments of Pediatrics and OB-Gyn.
Faculty Publications, Invited Lectures and Presentations
Drs. Kym Ahrens, Laura Richardson, Ming-Yu Fan, and Paula Lozano: Youth in Foster Care with Adult Mentors During Adolescence Have Improved Adult Outcomes. Pediatrics, Feb 2008. Vol 121, No 2.
Maida Chen, MD and Yemi Kifle, MD: Hsieh T, Chen M, McAfee A, Kifle Y . Sleep-related breathing disorder in children with vagal nerve stimulators. Sleep-related breathing disorder in children with vagal nerve stimulators. Pediatr Neurol, 38( 2): 99-103, 2008.
Maida Chen, MD, assistant professor, and Mandy Striegl, MD, pulmonary fellow: Striegl AM, Chen ML . Response to Clinical Corners in Sleep Medicine: "Management of obstructive sleep apnea in patients with congenital heart disease and Fontan procedures" (Sleep Med 2007;8:537-8). Sleep Med, [Epub ahead of print], 2007.
Ted Carter, MD : Birnkrant DJ, Panitch HB, Benditt JO, Boitano LJ, Carter ER, Cwik VA, Finder JD, Iannaccone ST, Jacobson LE, Kohn GL, Motoyama EK, Moxley RT, Schroth MK, Sharma GD, Sussman MD. American College of Chest Physicians Consensus Statement on the Respiratory and Related Management of Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Undergoing Anesthesia or Sedation. Chest, 132:1977-1986, 2007
Amanda L. Jones, PhD: Asplin, I.R., Carl, D.J., Way, SS and A.L. Jones. (2008) Role of Toll-like receptor 2 in innate resistance to virulent group B Streptococcus. Microbial Pathogenesis 44: 43–51.
Maureen Kelley, Ph.D., has been selected to present a paper entitled, “Freedom as Development: Rethinking the Human Rights Approach to Children” for the conference “Bearing and Rearing Children: The Ethics of Procreation and Parenthood” sponsored by the University of Cape Town, South Africa, May 26-28, 2008.
Greg Redding, MD: Pearce N, Aït-Khaled N, Beasley R, Mallol J, Keil U, Mitchell E, Robertson and the ISAAC Phase III Study Group [Redding GJ] Thorax 62:757-765, 2007.
Sheela Sathyanarayana, MD, MPH, Catherine J. Karr, MD, PhD, and Paula Lozano, MD, MPH: Baby Care Products: Possible Sources of Infant Phthalate Exposure. Sheela Sathyanarayana, MD, MPH, Catherine J. Karr, MD, PhD, Paula Lozano, MD, MPH, Elizabeth Brown, PhD, Antonia M. Calafat, PhD, Fan Liu, MS, Shanna H. Swan, PhD. PEDIATRICS Volume 121, Number 2, February 2008
Sheela Sathyanarayana, MD, MPH: Phthalates and Children’s Health. Curr Probl Pediatr Adolesc Health Care, February 2008
Tony Woodward, MD: Agitation Treatment for Pediatric Emergency Patients. RJ Hilt, TA Woodward. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 47:2, Feb 2008.
Drs. Danielle Zerr, Janet Englund, Ed Marcuse, Michelle Garrison, Dimitri Christakis: Hospital-Based Influenza Vaccination of Children: An opportunity to prevent subsequent hospitalization. Pediatrics, Feb 2008. Vol 121, No 2.
Please let us know of your latest publications, awards, and honors by emailing Brooke Freed (brooke.freed@seattlechildrens.org).
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