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

DATE : 2008-11-07

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Items to be covered in this edition:

  1. Important Dates
  2. Children's Prenatal Diagnosis and Treatment Program Moves to Springbrook
  3. WWAMI News
  4. Faculty News
  5. Faculty Publications and Presentations
  6. Academic Enrichment Fund Recipients

top I. IMPORTANT DATES

November 19, 2008: Meeting of Professors and Associate Professors to discuss non-mandatory promotions, 7:30-9am, Sound Cafe. A continental breakfast will be served. Contact Diane Wade (dmw@u.washington.edu or 206-987-1713) with questions.

December 3, 2008: Promotion Criteria meeting, 5-6:30 PM, G-1026 at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Chris Gleason and Fred Rivara give a talk annually for faculty on promotion criteria for different faculty tracks and the promotion process. The goal is to take some of the mystery out of the process, help you think ahead to what are the components of the promotion packet that need to be assembled, and to prepare now to make this process less stressful. This is intended for junior faculty as well as all new faculty so that all can understand the criteria and process. Please RSVP to Diane Wade (dmw@u.washington.edu)

December 11, 2008: “The World Report on Child Injury Prevention”: An International Forum on Children’s Health, 1:30-5:00pm in Hogness Auditorium, University of Washington. An international forum on children’s health, featuring the US introduction of the World Health Organization and UNICEF-sponsored World Report on Child Injury Prevention. The event will provide an overview of children’s injuries worldwide and generate discussion of prevention strategies. Featured speakers include international injury experts and representatives from WHO and UNICEF. The event is complimentary and open to individuals with an interest in global children’s health.

January 21, 2009, 7:30-8:30 AM, Wright Auditorium at Children's AND February 24, 2009, 5-6 PM, G-1026 at Children’s: Promotion preparation meeting. The Department of Pediatrics Promotions Committee requires that faculty members who will be considered in the summer/fall of 2009 for promotion to Associate Professor or Professor attend one of these seminars. If you are being considered in 2009 for promotion (to be effective July 1, 2010), you, your Division Head and your Division Head's assistant MUST attend one of these meetings even if you attended last year (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 (206-987-1713 or dmw@u.washington.edu).

February 26, 2008: SAVE THE DATE- Next faculty meeting. More information forthcoming.

top II. CHILDREN’S PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT PROGRAM MOVES TO SPRINGBROOK

In June 2007, we were proud to launch Children’s Prenatal Diagnosis and Treatment Program – a service for pregnant women and their families that includes fetal diagnosis, counseling, and linkage to pediatric specialists when the pregnancy is complicated by one or more congenital anomalies. This clinic has moved to a dedicated clinic space at the Springbrook Professional Building, two blocks south of the hospital. Free patient parking is on-site at the Springbrook building (Springbrook Professional Building #1, 4540 Sand Point Way NE, Suite #320).

If you encounter patients at the hospital who have prenatal appointments and need help finding where to go, please call Brittany Peterson (206-987-5629) in the Prenatal Clinic for assistance. Some prenatal appointments will occur in individual specialty clinics on the main hospital campus, while others will occur in the Prenatal Clinic at the Springbrook Building.

The program offers advanced prenatal diagnostic services and facilitation of coordinated consultations with perinatal and pediatric specialists including:

top III. WWAMI NEWS

A new clerkship site has been approved starting Autumn 2009 at the Wenatchee Valley Clinic. Dr. Phil Milnes is the site director.

top IV. FACULTY NEWS

Linda Quan, MD has been invited to become a member of the Committee on Research for the Drowning Prevention Commission of the International Lifesaving Organization.

Drs. Eric Chrisinger, Rhonda Levitt, and Ellen Passloff were honored on October 21, 2008 by Premera Blue Cross for their "exemplary performance in the area of preventive care" for their efforts to deliver care "based on nationally recognized standards". This is the second year in a row that their practice has been honored by insurers for the quality of care that they provide.

Dr. Peter Tarczy-Hornoch was elected to the Executive Committee of the American College of Medical Informatics (Term: Jan-Dec 2009).

top IV. FACULTY PUBLICATIONS, INVITED LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS

Sandra E. Juul, MD, PhD will present a Science in Medicine Lecture on January 14 from 12-1 in the Hogness Auditorium.

David Suskind, MD reported that the first annual Nutrition symposium was a success, with over 100 participants. They have already started planning for next year’s program.

Heather Jaspan, MD, PhD, Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellow presented " Retention, sexual risk, and behaviour change in a cohort of HIV-negative South African adolescents" at the AIDS Vaccine 2008 conference in Cape Town, South Africa, October 13th-15th.

Sihoun Hahn, MD PhD, was invited speaker for XVI World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics. Title: Conundrum of Wilson disease. October 11-15, 2008, Osaka, Japan. He also recently published: Tryptic Peptide Analysis of Ceruloplasmin in Dried Blood Spots Using Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry: Application to Newborn Screening. Dewilde A, Sadilkova K, Sadilek M, Vasta V, Hahn SH. Clin Chem. 2008 Oct 9.

Drs. David Loren, Eileen Klein, and Dena Brownstein: Medical error disclosure among pediatricians: choosing carefully what we might say to parents. Loren DJ, Klein EJ, Garbutt J, Krauss MJ, Fraser V, Dunagan WC, Brownstein DR, Gallagher TH. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2008;162:922-927.

Drs. Sandra Juul and Christine Gleason: Neonatal stress or morphine treatment alters adult mouse conditioned place preference. Boasen JF, McPherson RJ, Hays SL, Juul SE, Gleason CA. Neonatology 2009;95:230-239. (DOI: 10.1159/000165379)

Nicholas Gorden, Melissa Parisi, Abigail Hikida, Dana Knutzen, Phillip Chance, Ian Glass, Dan Doherty: CC2D2A is mutated in Joubert syndrome and interacts with the ciliopathy-associated, basal body protein CEP290. Nicholas T Gorden, Heleen H Arts, Melissa A Parisi, et al. American Journal of Human Genetics

Lisa Frenkel, MD: Transmission Cluster of Multiclass Highly Drug-Resistant HIV-1 Among 9 Men Who Have Sex With Men in Seattle/King County, WA, 2005–2007. Susan E. Buskin, PhD, MPH, Giovanina M. Ellis, BS, Gregory G. Pepper, MT, Lisa M. Frenkel, MD, Steven A. Pergam, MD, Geoffrey S. Gottlieb, MD, PhD, Carrie Horwitch, MD, MPH, Jeffrey F. Olliffe, MD,Karen Johnson, ARNP, MSN, Peter Shalit, MD, PhD, Corinne Heinen, MD, Margot Schwartz, MD, MPH, and Robert W. Wood, MD. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. Volume 49, Number 2, October 1, 2008.

Timothy Cox, PhD: Compensatory Growth of Healthy Cardiac Cells in the Presence of Diseased Cells Restores Tissue Homeostasis during Heart Development. Jörg-Detlef Drenckhahn, Quenten P. Schwarz, Stephen Gray, Adrienne Laskowski, Helen Kiriazis, Ziqiu Ming, Richard P. Harvey, Xiao-Jun Du, David R. Thorburn, and Timothy C. Cox. Oct. 14 edition of Developmental Cell.

Angela Peck Campbell, MD:

  1. Nasal Washes Put to the Test: Self Collection of Nasal Swabs for Diagnosis of Respiratory Viruses. Poster presentation at the 48th ICAAC/46th IDSA Annual Meeting, Washington DC, October 27, 2008. (Abstract D-2251) Peck Campbell AJ. Kuypers J, Englund JA, Corey L, Boeckh M. Received a Joint Meeting Program Committee Award in the area of Clinical Microbiology and Diagnosis, ICAAC/IDSA Annual Meeting, one of 6 awards to recognize research excellence through outstanding abstract preparation.
  2. Human Bocavirus (BoV) Detection in Nasal Washes of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Recipients. Slide presentation at the 48th ICAAC/46th IDSA Annual Meeting, Washington DC, October 28, 2008. (Abstract V-3777) Peck Campbell AJ, Kuypers J, Nguyen P, Englund JA, L Corey, Boeckh M.
  3. Detection of WUV and KIV Polyomaviruses in Nasal Wash Specimens from Hematopoietic Cell Transplant RecipientsPoster presentation at the 48th ICAAC/46th IDSA, Washington DC, October 27, 2008. (Abstract V-1642) . Kuypers J, Peck Campbell AJ, Wright NJ, Englund JA, Corey L, Boeckh M.

Benjamin Wilfond, MD:

  1. All in the family: Disclosure of "unwanted" information to an adolescent to benefit a relative. Denny CC, Wilfond BS, Peters JA, Giri N, Alter BP. Am J Med Genet A. 2008 Oct 1. Epub ahead of print
  2. From Genetics to Genomics: Ethics, Policy, and Parental Decision-making. Wilfond B, Ross LF. J Pediatr Psychol. 2008 Jul 22. Epub ahead of print

Drs. Aaron Olson and Michael Portman:

  1. Superior Cardiac Function Via Anaplerotic Pyruvate in the Immature Swine Heart After Cardiopulmonary Bypass and Reperfusion. A Olson, O Hyyti, G Cohen, X Ning, M Sadilek, N Isern, M Portman.
  2. Cardioselective dominant-negative thyroid hormone receptor (? 337T) modulates myocardial metabolism and contractile efficiency. Outi M. Hyyti, Aaron K. Olson, Ming Ge, Xue-Han Ning, Norman E. Buroker, Youngran Chung, Thomas Jue, and Michael A. Portman.

top VI. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE RECIPIENTS OF THE 2008 ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT FUNDS

Gwen Glew, MD, MPH
David Loren, MD
Xuan Qin, PhD
Min Xu, MD, PhD
Thomas Lendvay, MD
Heidi Blume, MD, MPH and Cora Breuner, MD, MPH
Avery Weiss, MD and Dr. Sumit Pruthi
Daniel Rubens, MB, BS
Patrick J. Javid, MD
Brian Soriano, MD and Randolph Otto, MD
Teresa Chapman, MD, MA
David Michael McMullan, MD
Samuel Browd, MD, PhD
Fredric Hoffer, MD and Jonathan Perkins, MD
Raj Kapur, MD, PhD
Thomas Jinguji, MD, Dr. Monique Burton, and David Breiger, PhD
Gisele Elias Ishak, MD
Richard Grady, MD
Jack C. Salerno, MD
Terrence Chun, MD
Samuel H. Zinner, MD

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