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

DATE : 2009-07-01

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Items to be covered in this edition:

  1. Important Dates
  2. Welcome to New Faculty and Changes to Current Faculty
  3. Faculty News
  4. Annual Faculty and Resident Awards
  5. Faculty Publications and Presentations

top I. IMPORTANT DATES

July 17-18, 2009: Tourette Syndrome medical symposium. Tourette Syndrome Association (TSA), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control, will be holding a 1.5-day workshop free of cost on July 17 and 18, on Tourette Syndrome (and behavioral tic management), featuring internationally known Doug Woods, PhD. Geared to physicians, nurse practitioners and psychologists and counselors. For information contact: irena.shtemler@tsa-usa.org or 718-224-2999 X225.

July 21, 2009: Annual Pediatrics Faculty and Family Picnic, Gas Works Park, 6:00-8:00 PM. Invitations and details forthcoming. Please mark this fun event on your calendar and contact Diane Wade (dmw@u.washington.edu) if you have any questions.

September 21-25, 2009: Intern Retreat. The Chief Residents need your help to work with our senior residents to cover a variety of services, which include General Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Medically Complex Children and the Newborn and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the UW. More details to follow. Contact Pam Burke (pam.burke@seattlechildrens.org) with questions.

September 22, 2009: Meeting of Professors and Associate Professors to discuss mandatory promotions. 7:30-9:00 AM, Wright Auditorium. Contact Diane Wade (dmw@u.washington.edu or 206-987-1713) 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 Kathie Kohorn with questions: kathie.kohorn@seattlechildrens.org

top II. Welcome to New Faculty and Changes in Current Faculty

Name

Rank 

Division 

July Appointments

Sara Dow, MD

Acting Instructor/Senior Fellow

General Pediatrics

Rebecca Emmons, MD

Acting Instructor

Hematology/Oncology

Christopher Goss, MD, MSc

Associate Professor (Adjunct)

Primary Medicine

Phoenix Ho, MD

Acting Instructor

Hematology/Oncology

Leslie Lytle, PhD

Professor

General Pediatrics

Edward Novotny, Jr., MD

Professor (Joint)

Neurology

Jessica Slusarski, MD

Acting Instructor

Neonatology

Craig Taplin, MD

Assistant Professor

Endocrinology

Gary Walco, PhD

Professor (Adjunct)

Primary Anesthesiology

John Welsh, PhD

Professor

Developmental Peds/ Ctr for Neuroscience

Changes in Current Faculty Appointments

Angela Badaru, MD

Assistant Professor

Endocrinology

Marie Bleakley, MD

Acting Assistant Professor

Hematology/Oncology

Angela Campbell, MD

Assistant Professor

ID

Mollie Greves Grow, MD

Assistant Professor

General Pediatrics

Doug Opel, MD

Acting Assistant Professor

Bioethics

Kendra Smith, MD

FTCF-Clinical Associate Prof

Neonatology

top III. FACULTY NEWS

George (Tony) Woodward, MD was Elected as a new member of the 2009 AAP Section on Emergency Medicine Executive Committee. The term is effective November 1, 2009 thru October 31, 2012. Dr Woodward will be eligible for a 2nd 3-year term in 2012.

Maureen Kelley, PhD, Assistant Professor, Bioethics was awarded a grant from the Greenwall Foundation: “Research participation with Wards of the State: Evaluating IRB and Investigator Perspectives”. The objective is to study the ethical challenges faced by pediatric investigators and IRBs in the review and research process involving orphans, runaways, foster children, and homeless children in the context of clinical and social science research, including international trials.

top IV. ANNUAL FACULTY AND RESIDENT AWARDS

Congratulations to each of the following individuals for these well-deserved recognitions:

Resident teaching award: William C. Van Cleve, MD, Third year pediatric resident

Fellow teaching award: Shaun Jackson, MD, Nephrology fellow; Kihan Kim, MD, Critical Care fellow

Faculty teaching awards: Maneesh Batra, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Division of Neonatology; Tyler Burpee, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology

Harborview Medical Center Bergman resident award: Lisa M. Cranmer, MD, MPH, Third year pediatric resident

Seattle Children’s Parent Advisory Committee Family-Centered Care Resident Award: Samuel M. Kohn, MD

Stanley Stamm Role Model Award: James Taylor, MD, MPH, Professor, Division of General Pediatrics

Faculty Mentor Award: David Woodrum, MD, Professor, Division of Neonatology

top V. FACULTY PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Daryl Okamura, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Nephrology: Tipping the redox balance of oxidative stress in fibrogenic pathways in chronic kidney disease.Okamura DM, Himmelfarb J. Pediatr Nephrol. 2009 May 7. [Epub ahead of print]

Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH: Audible Television and Decreased Adult Words, Infant Vocalizations, and Conversational Turns: A Population-Based Study. Christakis D, Gilkerson J, Richards JA, Zimmerman FJ, Garrison MM, Xu D, Gray S, Yapanel U. Ach Pediatr Adolesc Med, Vol 163, p 554.

Holly Tabor, PhD, and Maureen Kelley, PhD: Direct-to-Consumer Personal Genome Testing with Children. H. Tabor, Kelley M. The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 9, Issue 6 & 7 June 2009 , pages 32 – 34.

Brian D. Soriano, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics: Transcatether closure of an atrial redirection baffle leak. Soriano BD, Stout KK, Cailes CD, Jones TK. Annals of Pediatric Cardiology 2009;2:85-6

Doug Diekema, MD, MPH: Growth Attenuation Therapy: Principles for Practice. Allen DB, Kappy M, Diekema D, Fost N. Pediatrics 2009; 123 (2): 1156-1561.

Drs. Doug Opel, Doug Diekema and Ed Marcuse: Social Marketing as a Strategy to Increase Immunization Rates. Opel DJ, Diekema DS, Lee NR, Marcuse EK. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 2009: 163(5): 432-437.

Drs. Naomi Sugar and Jenny Radesky (pediatric resident, lead author): Femur fracture in an infant. Radesky JS, Sugar NF. BMJ. 2009;338:b1583.

Naomi Sugar, MD:

  1. Editorial: Diagnosing child abuse. Editorial. BMJ 2008;337:a1398.
  2. Three lectures at the Washington State Children's Justice Conference Seattle April 2009:
    • Munchausen’s by proxy with Ana Brown MSW.
    • Physical and mental health issues of children in foster care with Michael McDonell PhD.
    • Child sexual abuse medical evidence and issues.
  3. Presentation at the WAMI Conference June 2009 Seattle WA: Child abuse, When to worry, what to do.

David Shurtleff, MD:

  1. Complications Following Introduction of Programmable Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts. Hatlen TJ, Shurtleff DB, Avellino AM, Loeser JD. Presented before 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida, June 24th 2009, Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland.
  2. Contributory Factors to Post-Op Spinal Fusion Complications for Children with Myelomeningocele. Timothy Hatlen, BA, Kit Song, MD, David Shurtleff, MD, and Sharon Duguay, BS. Spine. Accepted.
  3. Contributory Factors to Post-Op Spinal Fusion Complications for Children with Myelomeningocele. Timothy Hatlen, BA, Kit Song, MD, David Shurtleff, MD, and Sharon Duguay, BS. Pediatric Neurosurgery. In Press.
  4. Haemophilus influenzae and Streptococcus pneumoniae Infections in Children with Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts. Shurtleff DB, Duguay S, Loeser JD, Avellino AM, Englund JA, Marcuse E, Peterson D. Journal of Neurosurgery, Pediatrics.
    Note from David Shurtleff: not in a pediatric journal, they are not interested in indications for immunizations!

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

  1. Relationship between adiponectin and ambulatory blood pressure in obese adolescents. Shatat IF, Freeman KD, Vuguin PM, Dimartino-Nardi JR, Flynn JT. Pediatr Res. 2009; 65:691-5.
  2. Management of hypertensive emergencies and urgencies in children. Flynn JT. In: UpToDate, Basow, DS (Ed), UpToDate, Waltham, MA, 2009.
  3. “Control of Hypertension in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease: A Report from the CKiD Study,” Invited Presentation, American Society of Hypertension Annual Scientific Meeting, San Francisco, CA, May 8, 2009.
  4. “Changing Epidemiology of Childhood Hypertension,” “Hypertension and Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease in Children,” and “Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Chronic Kidney Disease.” Invited Presentations, Fourth Congress of the Argentine Society of Pediatric Nephrology, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 14-16, 2009.

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