Seattle Children's
Department of Pediatrics Newsletter
DATE : 2009-03-06
Items to be covered in this edition:
- Important Dates
- Welcome to New Faculty & Faculty Promotions
- Faculty News
- Faculty Publications and Presentations
March 15th, 4:00-7:00pm: Residents, Faculty and their families are invited to attend the Residency Winter Party at Lucky Strike Lanes and Lounge (on the 2nd floor of Lincoln Square) 700 Bellevue Way, Bellevue. The Luxe Lounge and a total of 8 lanes have been reserved for unlimited bowling, including shoe rental. A menu of gourmet pizza, burgers, soft drinks and more will be served. Email Scott.Olson@seattlechildrens.org no later than March 11th to RSVP.
April 15, 2009, 7:30-9:00am: Professors and Associate Professors Meeting to discuss second term assistant professor reappointments. Wright Auditorium. Contact Diane.Wade@seattlechildrens.org with questions.
April 22, 2009: Fellows Research Day, Bldg 1, SCRI. George Lister, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas, Southwestern, will be the keynote speaker. Come support our fellows and hear the interesting research going on around Children's!
II. WELCOME TO NEW FACULTY & FACULTY PROMOTIONS
| Welcome | Rank | Division |
| Robert Chad Atkins, MD | Full Time Clinical Faculty—Clinical Assistant Professor | Hospital Medicine |
| Margaret Hood, MD | Full Time Clinical Faculty—Clinical Associate Professor | Hospital Medicine |
| David Breland, MD, MPH | Assistant Professor | Adolescent Medicine |
| Robert Sidbury, MD, MPH | Associate Professor | Head, Dermatology |
| Joyce Yi-Frazier, PhD | Research Assistant Professor | Endocrinology |
| Promotions of Current Faculty | ||
| Rachel Katzenellenbogen, MD | Assistant Professor | Adolescent Medicine Section/General Pediatrics |
| Sheela Sathyanarayana, MD, MPH | Assistant Professor | General Pediatrics |
| Alan Fantel, PhD | Research Professor Emeritus | Genetics & Developmental Med |
| Shilpi Chabra, MD | Associate Professor | Neonatology |
| Jack C. Salerno, MD | Associate Professor | Cardiology |
| David L. Suskind, MD | Associate Professor | GI |
| Eileen J. Klein, MD, MPH | Professor | Emergency Med |
| Mark B. Lewin, MD | Professor | Cardiology |
| Soheil Meshinchi, MD, PhD | Associate Professor | Hem/Onc |
| Daniel Miller, MD, PhD | Associate Professor | Genetics & Develop Med |
| James Olson, MD, PhD | Professor | Hem/Onc |
| Andrew M. Scharenberg, MD | Professor | Immunology |
| Anne M. Stevens, MD, PhD | Associate Professor | Rheumatology |
Dr. Hans Ochs received the 2009 Clinical Immunology Society President’s Award, to be presented June 10 in San Francisco at the CIS Annual Business Meeting.
Luke Hoffman, MD, PhD was awarded a Small Pilot Award from the Institute of Translational Health Sciences for 2009, entitled "Community-level physiologic profiling: A novel method to characterize polymicrobial infectious diseases and to identify new therapeutic strategies."
Margaret Rosenfeld, MD, MPH received an Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) pilot award, “Parent Report of Signs of a Respiratory Exacerbation in Infants and Young Children with Cystic Fibrosis: A Feasibility Study.”
Yosuke Miyashita, MD, Pediatric Nephrology, received a UWHA grant for 2009-2010: Pediatric severe hypertension. Dr. Miyashita will use data from Seattle Children's Hospital to complete a retrospective evaluation of the second-generation calcium channel blocker israpadine used in severe hypertension in a pediatric hospitalized population to determine efficacy and risks.
IV. FACULTY PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Drs. Hans Ochs and Troy Torgerson: Immunologic reconstitution during PEG-ADA therapy in an unusual mosaic ADA deficient patient. Liu P, Santisteban I, Burroughs LM, Ochs HD, Torgerson TR, Hershfield MS, Rawlings DJ, Scharenberg AM. Clin Immunol 2009;130(2):162-174. PMID: 18952502
- Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome: diagnosis, clinical and laboratory manifestations, and treatment. Ochs HD, Filipovich AH, Veys P, Cowan MJ, Kapoor N. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2008;15(1 Suppl):84-90. PMID: 19147084 [PubMed - in process]
- Interleukin-21 stimulates B-cell immunoglobulin E synthesis in human beings concomitantly with activation-induced cytidine deaminase expression and differentiation into plasma cells. Kobayashi S, Haruo N, Sugane K, Ochs HD, Agematsu K. Hum Immunol 2009;70(1):35-40. PMID: 19026702 [PubMed - in process]
Lakshmi Rajagopal, PhD and her lab: Threonine phosphorylation prevents promoter DNA binding of the Group B Streptococcus response regulator CovR. Lin W-J, Walthers D, Connelly JE, Burnside K, Jewell KA, Kenney LJ and Rajagopal L. Mol Microbiol 2009;71:1477-1495.
Drs. Sam Moskowitz and Julia Emerson: Pseudomonas aeruginosa Type III secretion system interacts with phagocytes to modulate systemic infection of zebrafish embryos. Brannon MK, Davis JM, Mathias JR, Hall CJ, Emerson JC, Crosier PS, Huttenlocher A, Ramakrishnan L, Moskowitz SM. Cell Microbiol. 2009 Feb 6. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 19207728 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Drs. Margaret Rosenfeld, Ron Gibson, and Bonnie Ramsey: Approach to eradication of initial pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in children with cystic fibrosis. Treggiari MM, Rosenfeld, M, Retsch-Bogart G, Gibson R, Ramsey B. Pediatric Pulmonology 42:751-756, 2007.
Sam Zinner, MD: Freeman RD, Zinner SH, Muller-Vahl KR, Fast DK, Burd LK, Dano Y, Rothenberger A, Roessner V, Kerbeshian J, Stern JS. Coprophenomena in Tourette syndrome. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 2009; 51(3):218-227
Drs. Thomas Strandjord, Dennis Mayock, and Sandra Juul: Effects of transfusions in extremely low birth weight infants: a retrospective study. Valieva OA, Strandjord TP, Mayock DE, Juul SE. J Pediatr 2009 in press.
Dr. William O. Walker, Jr.: Primary care providers and medical homes for individuals with spina bifida. Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine: An Interdisciplinary Approach 1 (2008) 337–344.
Jerry J. Zimmerman, MD, PhD: Incidence And Outcome of Pediatric Acute Lung Injury. Jerry J. Zimmerman, MD, Ph.D, Saadia R. Akhtar, MD, Ellen Caldwell, MS, Gordon D. Rubenfeld, MD, MSc. Pediatrics.
Drs. Amy Staples and Jodi Smith: Anemia and Risk of Hospitalization in Pediatric Chronic Kidney Disease. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 4:48-56, 2009.
*Please let us know of your latest publications, awards, and honors by emailing Brooke Freed.