Seattle Children's
Department of Pediatrics Newsletter
DATE : 2009-04-03
Items to be covered in this edition:
April 15, 2009, 7:30-9:00am: Professors and Associate Professors Meeting to discuss second term assistant professor reappointments. Wright Auditorium. Review material information will be sent out prior to the meeting. Your participation is appreciated in this important process. 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. Contact Audrey.Lum@seattlechildrens.org with questions.
IMPORTANT MEETING: April 28, 2009, 5:00-6:00pm: Dean Paul Ramsey will meet with the Department of Pediatrics faculty to highlight UW Medicine finances and strategic planning. Additionally, our new Director, Pediatric Administration, Erin Allen will be introduced. Please make every effort to attend this special faculty meeting. Wright Auditorium. Contact Diane.Wade@seattlechildrens.org with questions.
November 5, 2009: The Lana Staheli Endowed Lecture followed by the Annual Work-Life Balance Symposium. The theme for the day will be: Survive and Thrive: Promoting Resilience and Balance among Pediatric Health Care Professionals, and will feature guest lecturer, Dan Shapiro, PhD, who is Professor and Chair of the Humanities Department at Penn State College of Medicine. Contact Charlotte W. Lewis, MD, MPH with questions: charlotte.lewis@seattlechildrens.org
Name |
Rank |
Division |
Dr. K. Scott Baker |
Professor |
Hematology/Oncology |
Dr. Eve Golden |
Full Time Clinical Faculty—Clinical Assistant Professor |
Hospital Medicine |
Dr. Linda Wallen |
Full Time Clinical Faculty—Clinical Professor |
Neonatology |
Frederick Rivara, MPH, (1980) is the recipient of the University of Washington School of Public Health’s Distinguished Alumni Award for 2009. Dr. Rivara will be presented with the award during our School’s graduation ceremony on June 12. Congratulations to Fred for this well-deserved honor.
Congratulations to Eileen Klein, MD, MPH, emergency medicine (Seattle Children’s-based), and Hal Quinn, MD, Mercer Island Pediatrics (Community-based), recipients of the 2009 Richard A. Molteni Medical Staff Awards for Professionalism and Quality.
Soren Gantt, MD, PhD received a Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) HIV Associated Malignancy Pilot Award for proposal, "ACTIVITY OF HIV PROTEASE INHIBITORS AGAINST HUMAN HERPES VIRUS REPLICATION" (direct costs $48,000).
Congratulations to Pulmonary's Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center for their 5-year re-accreditation.
Hematology/Oncology is ranked #1 (for the fourth year in a row!) for total enrollment in COG and number of studies approved, and continues with excellent data currency scores, audit results, QARC submission and RT compliance.
Congratulations to our Departmental and Division of Hematology/Oncology leaders in the national Children’s Oncology Group’s research committees. Doug Hawkins, MD, is chair of the Soft Tissue Sarcoma Committee, Julie Park, MD, is the vice-chair for Neuroblastoma Committee, and Soheil Meshinchi, MD, PhD, is the vice-chair for Myeloid Disease Committee.
Congratulations to Drs. Abe Bergman, Stanley Stamm, and Ben Danielson who each were honored as Superheroes for Washington Families in Seattle ParentMap magazine, April 2009.
IV. FACULTY PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Dr. Donna Denno: Tri-County Comprehensive Assessment of Risk Factors for Sporadic Reportable Bacterial Enteric Infection in Children. Denno DM, Keene WE, Hutter CM, Koepsell JK, Patnode M, Flodin-Hursh D, Stewart LK, Duchin JS, Rasmussen L, Jones R, Tarr PI. J Infect Dis. 2009 Feb 15;199(4):467-476.
Dr. Karen Murray: Impact of Hepatitis C Virus Infection on Children: Quality of Life, Cognitive, and Emotional Outcomes. Rodrigue JR, Balistreri W, Haber B, Jonas M, Mohan P, Molleston JP, Murray KF, Narkewicz MR, Rosenthal P, Smith LJ, Schwarz KB, Robuck, P, Barton B, González-Peralta RP. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr, 2008;48(3):341-347
Jack Salerno, MD and Stephen Seslar, MD, PhD: Supraventricular Tachycardia. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, Vol 163, No 3, March 2009.
Dr. Lakshmi Rajagopal: Understanding regulation of Group B Streptococcal virulence factors. Future Microbiol 2009;4:201-221.
Lakshmi Rajagopal’s 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.
Linda Quan, MD:
1. Editorial : To measure Delay to CPR interval or not to measure - is that the question? Resuscitation. 2009; 80:291-292.
2. The Drowning Report in the Unicef/WHO Report on Childhood Injury. Peden M, et al Quan L. Drowning Report. Unicef/ WHO The World Report on Child Injury Prevention. Dec, 2008.
Drs. Howard Jeffries and Jerry Zimmerman: 2007 American College of Critical Care Medicine clinical practice parameters for hemodynamic support of pediatric and neonatal septic shock. Brierley J, Choong K, Cornell T, DeCaen A, Deymann A, Doctor A, Davis A, Duff J, Jeffries H, Zimmerman J, et al. Crit Care Med 2009 Jan; 37(1):1-23.
1. Complications related to the transplantation of thoracic organs: consensus definitions from the Multi-Societal Database Committee for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease. Jeffries H, Bird G, Law Y, Wernovsky G, Weinberg P, Pizarro C, Stellin G. Cardiol Young 2008 Dec; 18(Suppl. 2):265-70.
2. Databases for assessing the outcomes of the treatment of patients with congenital and pediatric cardiac disease – the perspective of critical care. LaRovere JE*, Jeffries HE*, Sachdeva RC, Rice TB, Wetzel RC, Cooper DS, Bird GL, Ghanayem NS, Checchia PA, Chang AC, Wessel DL. Cardiol Young 2008 Dec; 18(Suppl. 2):130-136.*Co-first authors
3. Congenital cardiac surgical complications of the integument, vascular system, vascular line(s), and wounds: consensus definitions from the Multi-Societal Database Committee for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease. Walters HL, Jeffries HE, Cohen GA, Klitzner T. Cardiol Young 2008 Dec; 18(Suppl. 2):245-55.
4. Neurologic complications associated with the treatment of patients with congenital cardiac disease: consensus definitions from the Multi-Societal Database Committee for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease. Bird GL, Jeffries HE, Licht DJ, Wernovsky G, Weinberg PM, Pizarro C, Stellin G. Cardiol Young 2008 Dec; 18(Suppl. 2):234-9.
Cate Pihoker, MD, PI for the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study (and Lenna L. Liu, MD, MPH, co-investigator) published several papers in a supplement on diabetes in minority youth in Diabetes Care:
1. Introduction to Diabetes Care Supplement The Many Faces of Diabetes in American Youth: Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes in Five Race and Ethnic Populations. Mayer-Davis EJ, Bell RA, Dabelea D, D’Agostino RB, Jr, Imperatore G, Lawrence JM, Liu LL, Marcovina SM for the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study Group. The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study. Diabetes Care 2009;32:S99 – S101..
2. Diabetes in Non-Hispanic White Youth: Prevalence, Incidence, and Clinical Characteristics. Bell RA, Mayer-Davis EJ, Beyer JW, D’Agostino RB, Jr, Lawrence JM, Linder B, Liu LL, Marcovina SM, Rodriguez BL, Williams DE, Dabelea DM for the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study Group. The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study. Diabetes Care 2009;32:S102 – S111..
3. Diabetes in African American Youth Prevalence, Incidence and Clinical Characteristics. Mayer-Davis EJ, Beyer JW, Bell RA, Dabelea D, D’Agostino RB, Jr, Imperatore G, Lawrence JM, Liese AD, Liu LL, Marcovina SM, Rodriguez BL for the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study Group. The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study. Diabetes Care 2009;32:S112 – S122.
4. Diabetes in Hispanic American Youth: Prevalence, Incidence, Demographics and Clinical Characteristics. Lawrence JM, Mayer-Davis EJ, Reynolds K, Beyer JW, Pettitt DJ, D’Agostino RB, Jr, Marcovina SM, Hamman RF. The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study. Diabetes Care 2009;S123 – S140.
5. Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes in Asian and Pacific Islander U.S. Youth. Liu LL, Yi JP, Beyer JW, Mayer-Davis EJ, Dolan LM, Dabelea D, Lawrence JM, Rodriguez BL, Marcovina SM, Waitzfelder BE, Fujimoto WY for the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study Group. The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study. Diabetes Care 2009;32:S133 – S140.
6. Diabetes in Navajo Youth: Prevalence, Incidence and Clinical Characteristics. Dabelea D, DeGroat J, Sorrelman C, Glass M, Percy CA, Avery C, Hu D, D’Agostino RB, Jr, Beyer JW, Imperatore G, Testaverde L, Klingensmith G, Hamman RF for the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study Group. The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study. Diabetes Care 2009;32:S141 – S147.
*Please let us know of your latest publications, awards, and honors by emailing Brooke Freed.