University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle Children's
Department of Pediatrics Newsletter

DATE : 2008-10-03

PDF version

Items to be covered in this edition:

  1. Important Dates
  2. Fred Rivara named recipient of CDC Injury Prevention and Control Health Impact Award
  3. Faculty News
  4. Faculty Publications and Presentations
  5. New Faculty Appointments

top I. IMPORTANT DATES

October 6, 2008: Fall Pediatric Faculty meeting , 5:30-6pm buffet dinner with the program to follow from 6-8pm in Sound Cafe at Children's Hospital. The major topic of this meeting will include new promotion documents and expectations at the University of Washington School of Medicine, along with small group discussions of our promotion process. This is an important event and your participation is greatly appreciated. Childcare will be available from 5:30-8:30 PM for children between the ages of 4 -10 years of age. Please contact Diane Wade by 9/29/2008 if you will be using this service (dmw@u.washington.edu; 206-987-1713).

October 11, 2008: Seattle Children’s and UW Department of Pediatrics reception at the AAP national meeting, Boston. 6:30-8:30pm at Marriott Copley Plaza, Suffolk Suite. Also stop by Children’s booth 3740 and if you can volunteer some time it would be much appreciated.

October 11 and November 22: Flu vaccinations for children of medical staff and Children’s workforce. This year everyone who works at Children’s can bring their kids to special Saturday vaccine clinics on Oct. 11 and Nov. 22 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the flu vaccine room, W-4861 (next to the Whale Pharmacy). The cost of each vaccine is $20; only cash and checks will be accepted. You will receive a receipt to submit to your insurance company. If your child is an enrolled dependent on Children’s insurance policy through Premera or Group Health, Children’s can bill insurance directly for your child’s vaccine. However, medical staff who have insurance through CUMG or UWPN should plan to pay and get a receipt. Please RSVP to saturdayfluclinics@seattlechildrens.org with the number of kids you’ll bring and which day you plan to come.

Starting October 13: Flu vaccinations for staff. Free flu vaccinations will be offered to everyone who works at Seattle Children’s. You are expected to either get a flu vaccination or sign a declination form as part of your yearly immunization requirements. You can get your vaccination from any staff member wearing a “vaccinator” button or at Occupational Health Services (OHS). For faster service, call ext. 7-2555 to make an appointment.

Starting October 13: Flu vaccinations for patients and families. Children’s patient and family program starts on Oct. 13. Patients will be screened on the inpatient units and in clinic, and household contacts can get their shots in the flu vaccine room W-4861.

October 25, 2008: First Annual Nutrition Symposium, 8:00am-3:00pm. Pediatric experts from the fields of medicine and nutrition will address healthy feeding relationships; guiding parents on infant feeding and formulas; the infant or child who is not thriving; when a feeding tube is needed and how to access consultation and services to make the intervention successful; practical approaches for office visits to help children and adolescents achieve healthier weights and fitness levels; the provider’s role in the obesogenic society; motivational interviewing and counseling. For on-line registration: http://www.seattlechildrens.org/nutrition_symposium

top II. FRED RIVARA NAMED RECIPIENT OF CDC INJURY PREVENTION AND CONTROL HEALTH IMPACT AWARD

Fred Rivara, MD, MPH has been named the recipient of the CDC’s 2008 Injury Prevention and Control Health Impact Award. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is honoring Fred for his longstanding and exemplary leadership and contribution to the injury prevention community. Among his other contributions, Fred was instrumental in initiating and proving the hypothesis that bicycle helmet use decreased significant head injuries. He and colleagues used this information to build a community-based program for the original bicycle helmet campaign that has served as a model for similar programs throughout the United States and the world. 2008 marks the second year of the annual Injury Prevention and Control Health Impact Awards. CDC established these awards to recognize efforts in achieving greater health impact in the field of injury prevention; promote best practices and success stories in the field of injury prevention and control; and, Demonstrate CDC’s commitment to achieving health impact. Experts in injury prevention and control and public health reviewed the nominations. CDC will present the 2008 awards on Tuesday, October 28, 2008, in San Diego, California as part of the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association.

top III. FACULTY NEWS

Congratulations to Abe Bergman, MD who, with Forrest Gerard, is receiving the Henry Jackson Distinguished Public Service Award from the Henry M. Jackson Foundation. They are being recognized for their work together to craft the landmark Indian Health Care Improvement Act of 1976. The recipients in 2006 were John McCain and Joe Lieberman.

Congratulations to Ken Feldman, MD for receiving the 2008 Ray E. Helfer Award for his lifetime of service on behalf of abused children. The Award is given by the Helfer Society to the physician who has made the greatest lifetime contribution to the field of Child Abuse Pediatrics.

Kyle Yasuda, MD has been elected AAP vice chair for District VIII.

Karen Murray, MD has been asked to be the Principal Investigator for both the USA and European Union portions of the Gilead sponsored study, “A Phase 3, Randomized, Double-Blind Evaluation of the Antiviral Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Versus Placebo in Adolescents with Chronic Hepatitis B Infection”. She has also been elected to an officer position in the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, as Councilor.

H. Mollie Greves Grow, MD MPH received official notice of award for a 5-year NIH K23 “Enhanced Community-Based Health Promotion Program for Overweight Children” with NIDDK.

Christine Gleason, MD has been awarded an NIH R21 “Neonatal morphine: long-term cerebrovascular effects” 2008-2010, $275K.

Thor Wagner, MD received a K23 from the NIH entitled: Persistent HIV-1 Replication in the Respiratory Tract Despite Antiretroviral Treatment, which will run 2008 through 2013.

Margaret Rosenfeld, MD, MPH has received a grant for Infant Study of Inhaled Saline in Cystic Fibrosis National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, NIH Award period: 9/15/2008 – 7/31/2012 Total award: $1,518,402

Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD has been invited to serve on the Scientific Program Committee, AMIA 2008 Summit on Translational Bioinformatics as well as the External Advisory Board, U. of Utah Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CTSA)

Congratulations to Drs. Charlotte Lewis, Benjamin Wilfond, Charles (Skip) Smith, and Brian Saelens who were elected to Faculty Senate for the term September 16, 2008 to September 15, 2010.

On behalf of MG Hawley-Bowland, Chief of the Medical Corps, we are pleased to announce that the following Medical Corps officers have been approved by the Surgeon General to receive the "A" Proficiency Designator in their designated specialty. Congratulations to these excellent Medical Corps Officers for achieving this distinguished recognition of academic excellence: COL Don McClellan, Clinical Associate Professor; LTC Delores Gries, Clinical Assistant Professor; COL Robert Puntel, Clinical Associate Professor; COL David Estroff, Clinical Professor.

top IV. FACULTY PUBLICATIONS, INVITED LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS

Samuel M. Moskowitz, MD and Nicole Mayer-Hamblett, PhD: Shifting patterns of inhaled antibiotic use in cystic fibrosis. Samuel M. Moskowitz, Stefanie J. Silva, Nicole Mayer-Hamblett, David J. Pasta, David R. Mink, Jenny A. Mabie, Michael W. Konstan, Jeffrey S. Wagener, for the Investigators and Coordinators of the Epidemiologic Study of Cystic Fibrosis (ESCF). Pediatric Pulmonology, Volume 43, Issue 9, Pages 874-881, September 2008.

Sheela Sathyanarayana, MD: Maternal and infant urinary phthalate metabolite concentrations: Are they related? Sathyanarayana S, Calafat AM, Liu F, Swan SH. Environ Res. 2008 Aug 18. [Epub ahead of print].

John Neff, MD: Editorial “Paid Family Leave for Parents of Chronically Ill Children” Neff JM. JAMA. 2008;300 (9): 1080-1081). http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/543876/?sc=dwhp

Abraham Bergman, MD: Editorial “The right of children with disabilities to have fun”. Arch Pediatr Adol Med/Vol 161, No 11, Nov 2007.

Tim Rose, PhD: Jacques Garrigues and Yelena Rubinchikova, in the laboratory of Tim Rose, created the the image of cell surface localization of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV; pink) on fixed HT1080 fibrosarcoma cells featured on the cover of the September 2008 issue of the Journal of Virology, Volume 82, Number 17. This image was originally created for their article published in the January 2008 issue of the same journal, identifying the cellular receptor for the Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus.

Sam Zinner, MD was asked to author the Tourette Syndrome module for the Utah Collaborative Medical Home Project. It's now available at http://www.medhomeportal.org/diagnosis/tourette-syndrome/description

Ed Marcuse, MD, MPH was invited by UC Irvine School of Biological Sciences to give the Howard A Schneiderman Memorial Bioethics Lecture next March.

Sam Moskowitz, MD: Spread of colistin resistant non-mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa among chronically infected Danish cystic fibrosis patients. Krogh Johansen H, Moskowitz SM, Ciofu O, Pressler T, Høiby N (2008). J Cyst Fibros, 7: 391-397

Christine Gleason, MD: The effects of binge alcohol exposure in the 2nd trimester on the estimated density of cerebral microvessels in near-term fetal sheep. Simon KE, Mondares RL, Born DE, Gleason CA. Brain Research 2008 1231: 75-80.

Shilpi Chabra, MD: A cluster study of gastroschisis: single center experience. Chabra S, Hall BD. J Ky Med Assoc 2008; 106(8).

Kristie F. Bjornson, PhD, PT, PCS: The Relationship of Physical Activity to Health Status and Quality of Life in Cerebral Palsy. Kristie F. Bjornson, PhD, PT, Basia Belza, PhD, RN, Deborah Kartin, PhD, PT, Rebecca Logsdon, PhD, John McLaughlin, MD, and Elaine Adams Thompson, PhD, RN. Pediatric Physical Therapy.

Thor Wagner, MD & Lisa Frenkel, MD: Potential Limitation of CCR5 Antagonists: Drug Resistance more often linked to CXCR4-utilizing than to CCR5-utilizing HIV-1. Wagner, T. and Frenkel, L. In press (AIDS).

Lisa Frenkel, MD:

  1. Optimization of the oligonucleotide ligation assay, a rapid and inexpensive test for detection of HIV-1 drug resistance mutations, for non-North American variants. Beck IA, Crowell C, Kittoe R, Bredell H, Machaba M, Willamson C, Janssens W, Jallow S, van der Groen G, Shao Y, Jacob M, Samuel NM, de Rivera IL, Ngo-Giang-Huong N, Cassol S, Alemnji G, Frenkel LM. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2008 Aug 1;48(4):418-27.
  2. Transmission Cluster of Multiclass Highly Drug-Resistant HIV-1 Among 9 Men Who Have Sex With Men in Seattle/King County, WA, 2005-2007. Buskin SE, Ellis GM, Pepper GG, Frenkel LM, Pergam SA, Gottlieb GS, Horwitch C, Olliffe JF, Johnson K, Shalit P, Heinen C, Schwartz M, Wood RW. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2008 Sep 2. [Epub ahead of print]

Heather Jaspan, MD, PhD:

  1. Community perspectives on the ethical issues surrounding adolescent HIV vaccine trials in South Africa. Jaspan HB, Soka NF, Strode AE, Mathews C, Mark D, Flisher AJ, Wood R, Bekker LG. Vaccine. 2008 Sep 6. [Epub ahead of print]
  2. The role of polyclonal intravenous immunoglobulin in treating HIV-positive children with severe bacterial infections: a retrospective cohort study. Huang L, Myer L, and Jaspan HB. BMC Infectious Diseases 2008, 8:127
  3. Bacterial Disease and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns in HIV-Infected, Hospitalized Children: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Jaspan HB, Huang LC, Cotton MF, Whitelaw A, Myer L (2008) PLoS ONE 3(9): e3260.

Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD:

  1. “People and Organizational Issues in Research Systems Implementation”. Ash, JS, Anderson, NR, Tarczy-Hornoch, P. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2008; 15(3):283-289.
  2. “Incorporating collaboratory concepts into informatics in support of translational interdisciplinary biomedical research.” Lee, ES, McDonald, DW, Anderson, NA, Tarczy-Hornoch, P. Int J Med Inform 2008 Aug 13 [Epub ahead of print].

Maneesh Batra, MD, MPH:

  1. Wylie BJ, Davidson LL, Batra M, Reed SD. Method of delivery and neonatal outcome in very low-birthweight vertex-presenting fetuses. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2008 Jun;198(6):640.e1-7
  2. Darmstadt GL, Miller-Bell M, Batra M, Law P, Law K. Extended-interval dosing of gentamicin for treatment of neonatal sepsis in developed and developing countries. J Health Popul Nutr. 2008 Jun;26(2):163-82. Review.
  3. Moore HM, Reed SD, Batra M, Schiff MA. Risk factors for recurrent shoulder dystocia, Washington state, 1987-2004. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2008 May;198(5):e16-24.

Anne Stevens, MD:

  1. Failure of antigen presenting cells to express programmed death ligand-1 during active systemic lupus erythematosus. N Mozaffarian, AE Wiedeman, AM Stevens (2008) Rheumatology, 47(9):1335-41. Epub.
  2. Are pediatric autoimmune diseases primarily genetic diseases? E Shaw, AM Stevens (2008). Current Opinion in Rheumatology. 20(5):589-94.

Joseph T. Flynn, MD, MS, Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology:

  1. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in children and adolescents: Recommendations for standard assessment. Urbina EM, Alpert B, Flynn J, Harshfield G, Hayman L, Jacobson M, Mahoney L, McCrindle B, Mietus-Snyder M, Steinberger J, Daniels S. Hypertension, 52:433-451, 2008.
  2. Blood pressure in children with chronic kidney disease: Preliminary findings from the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children cohort study. Flynn JT, Mitsnefes M, Pierce C, Cole SR, Parekh RS, Furth SL, Warady BA. Hypertension, DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.108.110635, 2008.

top V. WELCOME TO NEW FACULTY AND CHANGES TO CURRENT FACULTY

New faculty

Rank

Division

J. Elaine Albert, MD

FTCF-Clinical Assistant Professor

Critical Care Medicine

Kym R. Ahrens, MD, MPH

Acting Instructor

General Pediatrics

Scott J. Diede, MD. PhD

Acting Instructor

Hematology/Oncology

J. Wesley Diddle, MD

FTCF-Clinical Instructor

Hospitalist

Charles M. Haberkern, MD

Adjunct Professor 

primary  department- Anesthesiology

Thor A. Wagner, MD

Acting Assistant Professor

ID

Jeffrey A. Conwell, MD

FTCF-Clinical Assistant Professor

Cardiology

Ryan M. McAdams, MD

Assistant Professor

Neonatology

Elena M. Shephard, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Emergency Medicine  

Changes in rank:

   

Karyn Yonekawa, MD

FTCF-Clinical Instructor

Nephrology

Elinor Graham, MD, MPH

Associate Professor Emeritus

General Pediatrics

Jessica A. Pollard, MD

Acting Assistant Professor

Hematology/Oncology

Sandra E. Juul, MD PhD

Professor

Neonatology

Craig Bennett, PhD

Research Assoc. Prof 

Genetics & Dev Med

Michael L. Cunningham, MD, PhD

Professor

Craniofacial

Janet A. Englund, MD

Professor

ID, Immun, Rheum

Anne V. Hing, MD

Associate Professor 

Craniofacial

Cari A. McCarty, PhD

Research Assoc. Prof.

General Pediatrics

Ruth A. McDonald, MD

Professor

Nephrology

Sanford M. Melzer, MD, MBA

Professor

General Peds

Jacqueline R. Starr, MPH, PhD

Research Assoc. Prof

Craniofacial

William O. Walker, Jr, MD

Professor

Genetics & Dev. Med

Samuel H. Zinner, MD

Assoc Prof

Genetics & Dev Med

Please let us know of your latest publications, awards, and honors by emailing Brooke Freed.