Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics Newsletter
DATE : 2008-03-21
ITEMS TO BE COVERED IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
Important Dates
Faculty News
Faculty Publications and Presentations
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 1 ½ 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 11th 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), CME credits will be available.
April 23, 2008: The Personal Genome: Consequences for Society. 7pm–9pm Kane Hall. Reservation required, free admission. Speakers: George Church, Harvard University, Bill Gates III, Microsoft, Inc, Eric Lander, Broad Institute, Leena Peltonen, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Moderator: Maynard Olson, University of Washington. Reservations can be made at: http://si.gs.washington.edu/sympreg/register.aspx
April 24, 2008: The Personal Genome: Implications for Medicine. 10am–6pm, Hogness Auditorium. No registration required. Speakers: George Church, PhD, Harvard University, David Haussler, PhD, University of California at Santa Cruz, Eric Lander, PhD, Broad Institute, Richard Lifton, MD,PhD , Yale University, Leena Peltonen, MD,PhD, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Nancy Wexler, Ph.D., Columbia University. Information may be found at: http://www.gs.washington.edu/news/symposium08/index.htm
Questions? Email symposium@gs.washington.edu
April 25, 2008: Fellows’ Research Day, 7:45am-3:00pm at SCHRI. Fellows’ Research Day will highlight the wide range of exciting research being conducted by fellows throughout Children’s Hospital. Join us at Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute at Building 1 for oral and poster presentations by fellows, leading off with a keynote presentation by Marlene Rabinovitch, MD. Frequent shuttles to/from the hospital and free parking will be available. The event is free and open to all faculty and staff. Please help us plan for attendance by submitting the registration form by April 11, 2008. This annual event is sponsored by the Department of Pediatrics and the Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute. To register contact Brooke Freed 206-987-2961 or brooke.freed@seattlechildrens.org
Tom Jinguji, MD, was presented with the UW Medicine Service Excellence Award, recognizing his exemplary adherence to the standards for service excellence. Congratulations, Tom.
The Craniofacial Center received a 1.2 million dollar NIH grant to study the pathogenesis of craniosynostosis. Michael Cunningham, MD and his co-investigators Jackie Starr, PhD (Craniofacial Medicine), Mark Rieder (Genome Sciences), Katie Kerr (Biostatistics), and Fred Farin, Theo Bammler, and Dick Beyer (Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health) announce receipt of a 1.2 million dollar four-year grant from NIDCR entitled: Single Suture Craniosynostosis: Candidate Gene and Pathway Discovery.
Helen Dichek, MD received a Royalty Research Fund Award of $36,962.00 for her proposal "Investigating mechanisms that confer protection against diet-induced obesity in mice”.
Mark Lewin, MD has been awarded $500,000 through the National Institutes of Health Pediatric Heart Network to enroll patients into a multicenter trial comparing Atenolol vs. Losartan for the treatment of aortic root dilation in Marfan syndrome.
Ed Marcuse, MD, MPH, has been appointed to serve on an IOM Committee to Review the Priorities of the National Vaccine Plan.
Monica Vavilala, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Pediatrics has accepted a position as Associate Director of the Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center (HIPRC). In addition to her new role, Dr. Vavilala provides anesthesia care and teaching for pediatric and adult patients at Harborview Medical Center.
Faculty Publications and Presentations
Mark Lewin, MD: chapter in The Practice of Clinical Echocardiography entitled "Echocardiography in Patients with Inherited Connective Tissue Disorders".
Michelle Gurvitz, MD: chapter in The Practice of Clinical Echocardiography entitled "General Echocardiographic Approach to the Adult with Suspected Congenital Heart Disease".
Karen Stout, MD: chapter in The Practice of Clinical Echocardiography entitled "Role of Echocardiography in the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Disease in Pregnancy".
Joseph Flynn, MD: Puri M, Flynn JT, Garcia M, Nussbaum H, Freedman K, DiMartino-Nardi JR. The frequency of elevated blood pressure in obese minority youth. Journal of Clinical Hypertension 10:119-124, 2008.
Dennis Mayock, MD, and Chris Gleason, MD: Ngai AC, Mondares RL, Mayock DE, Gleason CA. Fetal alcohol exposure alters cerebrovascular reactivity to vasoactive intestinal peptide in adult sheep. Neonatology 2008; 93: 45-51.
Shilpi Chabra, MD: S Chabra. Gastroschisis and omphalocele codes all-inclusive: Urgent need for modifications! J Ped Surgery 2008, in press.
Karen Murray, MD: Goodman ZD, Makhlouf HR, Liu L, Balistreri W, Gonzalez-Peralta RP, Haber B, Jonas MM, Mohan P, Molleston JP, Murray KF, Narkewicz MR, Rosenthal P, Smith LJ, Robuck PR, Schwarz KB. Pathology of chronic hepatitis C in children: Liver biopsy findings in the Peds-C Trial. Hepatology 2008;47(3):836-843.
Linda Latta, RN, PhD, CNAA, Ronald Dick, MD, Carol Parry, MA, and Glen Tamura, MD, PhD: Parental responses to involvement in rounds on a pediatric inpatient unit at a teaching hospital: A qualitative study. Academic Medicine, March 2008.
Please let us know of your latest publications, awards, and honors by emailing Brooke Freed ( brooke.freed@seattlechildrens.org ).
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