Seattle Children's
Department of Pediatrics Newsletter
DATE : 2009-08-14
Items to be covered in this edition:
August 19: Visiting Professor Lecture. 12:00-1:00pm in Wright Auditorium. “Scaling Up the Care and Treatment of HIV-Infected Children Globally: Lessons from the Field in Romania and Sub-Saharan Africa” presented by Mark Kine, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine. For more information contact sylvia.lago@seattlechildrens.org
September 21-25: 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: 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.
September 28: Visiting Scientist Seminar. 11:45-12:45 in Soundgarden, Bldg 1. “Progress towards treatment of SCID-X1 with self-inactivating lentiviral vectors” presented by Brian Sorrentino, MD, Director, Experimental Hematology; Member, Department of Hematology; St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Hosted by David Rawlings, MD and Andrew Scharenbeg, MD.
October 28: Department of Pediatrics Faculty Meeting. 5:30-8:00pm in Wright Auditorium. The topics will be: a presentation of Children’s University Medical Group (our practice plan); A presentation of our CPI staff on how to use a tool called the A3 to do spot improvements using the Toyota system in your areas. These two topics were specifically requested by our faculty and the program should be very informative and interactive. Contact Diane Wade (dmw@u.washington.edu or 206-987-1713) with questions.
November 5: 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
| Name | Rank | Division |
|---|---|---|
| August Appointments | ||
| Heather Brandling-Bennett, MD | Assistant Professor | Dermatology |
| Tashi Gyaltsong, MD | FTCF – Clinical Assistant Professor | Hospital Medicine |
| Alexander Hamling, MD, MBA | FTCF – Clinical Instructor | Hospital Medicine |
| Kristen Hayward, MD | Assistant Professor | Rheumatology |
| Jennifer Jerome, MD | FTCF – Clinical Assistant Professor | Hospital Medicine |
| Sarah Leary, MD | Assistant Professor | Hematology/Oncology |
| Danae Nakoneczny, MD | FTCF – Clinical Instructor | Hospital Medicine |
| James O’Callaghan, MD | FTCF – Clinical Assistant Professor | Hospital Medicine |
| Jan-Marino “Nino” Ramirez, PhD | Professor, joint | Primary Neurological Surgery |
| Holly Romero, MD | FTCF – Clinical Assistant Professor | Hospital Medicine |
| Jennifer Ruddy, MD | Assistant Professor | Pulmonary |
| Donna Schoonover, MD | FTCF – Clinical Assistant Professor | Hospital Medicine |
| Anjali Sharma, MD | FTCF – Clinical Assistant Professor | Hospital Medicine |
| Anne Slater, MD | FTCF – Clinical Assistant Professor | Emergency Medicine |
| Patrick Solari, MD | FTCF – Clinical Assistant Professor | Hospital Medicine |
| Kristina Toncray, MD | FTCF – Clinical Instructor | Hospital Medicine |
| Carlos Villavicencio, MD | FTCF – Clinical Assistant Professor | Hospital Medicine |
Lisa Cranmer, MD, a 3rd year pediatric resident, was awarded an AAP Resident Research Grant.
F. Curt Bennett, MD, has been named President-Elect for the Washington Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics for the 2009-2010 term. He will become President for the 2011-2012 term.
Kenneth Schenkman, MD, grant proposal: Noninvasive clinical monitor for early detection of shock has been selected for an award of $150,000 from the LSDF 2009 Winter Commercialization Grant Competition.
Aaron Olson, MD, grant project: Metabolic Substrate Utilization During c-Myc Induced Cardiac Hypertrophy was awarded $128,979.
Cari McCarty, PhD, Research Associate Professor, received funding for her R-34 grant "Prevention Depression within Salient Adolescent Contexts" 09/09-08/12.
Luke Hoffman, MD, has been awarded a one-year grant from the Royalty Research Fund, for his project, "Community-level physiologic profiling to identify new therapies for polymicrobial infectious diseases: A pilot study" July 1, 2009-June 30, 2010.
Joyce P. Yi-Frazier, PhD, received funding for her ITHS Small Pilot Grant: “Personal Risks and Resources of Adolescents with Type 1 diabetes: Correlates with glycemic control, self-care and quality of life” and was also a NIH Loan Repayment Program Recipient.
Bruder Stapleton, MD was visiting professor at Michigan State University and presented grand rounds on July 16, 2009 at Sparrow Hospital.
Ed Marcuse, MD, MPH, was elected to the Faculty Senate. He has been appointed the Cabinet of the Chair of the Faculty Senate.
Annie Nguyen-Vermillion, MD, Neonatology Fellow, was selected for the Culture of Safety Hospital Goal Award. This award recognizes staff for being part of the solution by demonstrating accountability through reporting safety-related concerns through eFeedbackNOW and self identifying for follow-up.
Lenna Liu, MD, MPH, received this year’s Odessa Brown Ken Feldman Award for excellent patient care.
The Clinical Training Unit, Center on Human Development and Disability recently received a competitive supplemental award to the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities training grant. The award of $65,000 per year for three years will increase the number of short and long term pediatric audiology trainees. The award will expand didactic content and augment clinical experiences in infant/pediatric audiology available to pediatric residents during their developmental/behavioral pediatrics rotation. The competition was made possible through a contract to the Association of University Centers on Disabilities from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
V. FACULTY PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Danny Mallon, MD, 3rd year resident and a chief resident next year had abstract entitled "Hormonal dysregulation in Diencephalic Syndrome: A case with new data" selected for a Clinical Vignette poster presentation at the NASPGHAN Annual Meeting, November 12 - 14, 2009 in National Harbor, MD.
Phoenix Ho, MD, senior fellow in the Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, was featured in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO) as the recipient of the 2009 Young Investigator Award (YIA). The title of his award-winning research is “Implications of s-SHIP Expression and SHIP Alterations in Acute Myeloid Leukemia.”
Fred Rivara, MD, MPH: The Intergenerational Transmission of Witnessing Intimate Partner Violence. EA Cannon, AE Bonomi, ML Anderson, FP Rivara. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med Vol 163, No 8, Aug 2009.
Jerry Zimmerman, MD, PhD: Incidence and Outcomes of Pediatric Acute Lung Injury. JJ Zimmerman, SR Akhtar, E Caldwell, GD Reubenfeld. Pediatrics, Vol 124, No 1, July 2009.
Cora Breuner, MD, MPH, published a chapter (chapter #18, “Integrative Adolescent Medicine”) in Integrative Pediatrics by Oxford.
Rachel Katzenellebogen, MD: NFX1-123 increases hTERT expression and telomerase activity post-transcriptionally in HPV 16E6 keratinocytes. Journal of Virology 83: 6446-6456, July 2009. RA Katzenellenbogen, P Vliet-Gregg, M Xu, DA Galloway.
Drs. Doug Opel, Ben Wilfond, Dena Brownstein, Doug Diekema: Characterisation of organisational issues in paediatric clinical ethics consultation: a qualitative study. Opel DJ, Wilfond BS, Brownstein D, Diekema DS and Pearlman RA Journal of Medical Ethics 2009;35;477-482.
Charlotte Lewis, MD, MPH: Preventive dental care for young, Medicaid-insured children in Washington State. Pediatrics. 2009 Jul;124(1):e120-7. Lewis C, Teeple E, Robertson A, Williams A.
Soren Gantt, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Intermittent preventive treatment using artemisinin-based combination therapy reduces malaria morbidity among school-aged children in Mali. Barger B, Maiga H, Traore OB, Tekete M, Tembine I, Dara A, Traore ZI, Gantt S, Doumbo OK, Djimde AA. Trop Med Int Health. Volume 14 no 7 pp 1–8 july 2009
Maida Chen, MD: Model-based assessment of cardiovascular autonomic control in children with obstructive sleep apnea. Sleep, 32(7): 927-938, 2009. J. Chaicharn, Z. Lin, M.L. Chen, S.L.D. Ward, T. Keens, M.C.K. Khoo.
Cari McCarty, PhD, Research Associate Professor: Longitudinal associations among obesity, alcohol use disorders, and depression in young adulthood. General Hospital Psychiatry. McCarty, C. A., Kosterman, R., Mason, W. A., McCauley, E., Hawkins, J. D., Lengua, L. J., & Herrenkohl, T. I. (in press).
Bruder Stapleton, MD: A position statement on kidney disease from powdered infant formula-based melamine exposure in Chinese infants. CB Langman, U Alon, J Inglefinger, M Englund, JM Saland, MJG Somers, FB Stapleton, NO Sibu, P Cochat, W Wong, FU Eke, L Satlin, I Salusky. Pediatr Nephrol 2009, 24:1263-1266.
Bonnie Ramsey, MD: Patient-reported respiratory symptoms in cystic fibrosis.J Cyst Fibros 2009;(4):245-52.Goss CH, Edwards TC, Ramsey BW, Aitken ML, Patrick DL.
Drs. Ron Gibson, Julia Emerson, Bonnie Ramsey:; Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Development Network. Impact of Pseudomonas and Staphylococcus Infection on Inflammation and Clinical Status in Young Children with Cystic Fibrosis. J Pediatr 2009;154(2):183-8. Sagel SD, Gibson RL, Emerson J, McNamara S, Burns JL, Wagener JS, Ramsey BW;
Drs. Luke Hoffman and Bonnie Ramsey: Pseudomonas aeruginosa lasR mutants are associated with cystic fibrosis lung disease progression. J Cyst Fibros 2009;8(1):66-70. Hoffman LR, Kulasekara HD, Emerson J, Houston LS, Burns JL, Ramsey BW, Miller SI
Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH:
- Teaching by Listening: The Importance of Adult-Child Conversations to Language Development. FJ Zimmerman, J Gilkerson, JA Richards, DA Christakis, D Xu, S Gray, U Yapanel. Pediatrics, Vol 124, No 1, July 2009.
- Variations Between Hospitals in Antireflux Procedures in Children. AB Goldin, M Garrison, DA Christakis. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, Vol 163, No 7, July 2009.
Jeffrey G Demain, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics:
- Increasing insect reactions in Alaska: Is this related to climate change? Demain JG, Gessner BD, McLaughlin JB, Sikes DS, Foote JT. Allergy Asthma Proc 30:238-243, 2009.
- Environment, public policy, and human health: Implications of current events for the next generation of patients and physicians. Steinberg DG, Kagen SL, Epstein PR, Demain JG, Peden DB, Bernstein JA. Allergy Asthma Proc 30:215-216, 2009.
*Please let us know of your latest publications, awards, and honors by emailing Brooke Freed.