Drs. Coghill and Klasner Elected to APTC
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Dr. Lal Selected to Participate in AAP YPLA
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Pediatrics Participates in 4th Avenue North Health Fair
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Drs. Howard and King Appointed as Professor Emeritus in the School of Medicine and Department of Pediatrics
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2016 Dixon Fellows
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Chu Family Educational Scholarships
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Please join us in congratulating the recipients for the 2016-2017 academic year:
Kathryn Hines, M.D. – Upcoming 2nd year Pediatric Hospital Medicine fellow
Dr. Hines will use funds towards completing a Medical Education Certificate Program through the University of Cincinnati.
Adolfo Molina, M.D. – Upcoming 1st year Pediatric Hospital Medicine fellow
Dr. Molina will use funds to attend the UAB Quality Academy/UAB Graduate Certificate Program in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety.
Practices Improve Screening and Referrals for Children with Developmental Delays and Autism
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Rural Children at Risk for Worse Health Outcomes, Higher Health Care Costs
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Chang Wu, M.D., Pediatric Hospital Medicine, and Marjorie White, M.D., Pediatric Emergency Medicine, were among the investigators who looked at patient admissions in 41 freestanding tertiary-care pediatric hospitals across the United States, where rural children account for 12 percent of all admissions. The most common admissions were for asthma, bronchiolitis and seizures. Children from rural areas are particularly vulnerable, as they often experience worse health outcomes, and higher rates of obesity and tobacco exposure, and 71 percent had at least one chronic medical condition.
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Fox 6 News interviewed Dr. Wu in regards to this study. Click here to view the segment.
OFD Presents Faculty Scholars Program Recipients
The Office of Faculty Development is pleased to announce the inaugural class for the Department of Pediatrics (DOP) Faculty Scholars Program. Congratulations to:
Heather Austin, Ph.D., General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine; Krista Casazza, Ph.D., RD, LD, General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine; JR Hartig, Ph.D., General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine; Morissa Ladinsky, M.D., General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine; Claire Lenker, LCSW, CCM, Pediatric Pulmonary; Leslie Rhodes, M.D., Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care; Mary Lauren Scott, M.D., Pediatric Endocrine; Nicole Sims, M.D., Pediatric Critical Care; Cassi Smola, M.D., Pediatric Hospital Medicine and Stephenie Wallace, M.D., MSPH, General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
This one-year program is designed to strengthen our cadre of teaching faculty and support the development, implementation, and evaluation of innovative curricula designed to improve pediatric graduate medical education.
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This one-year program is designed to strengthen our cadre of teaching faculty and support the development, implementation, and evaluation of innovative curricula designed to improve pediatric graduate medical education.
Eight DOP Members Participate in the CCTS Panels Done Quickly/Nascent Panel Project
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PDQs and NPPs provide investigators across the UAB Campus and throughout the CCTS Partner Network with expert feedback during a critical window of grant development - within 6 weeks of an application deadline. Reviewingproposals at this stage requires an agile, highly focused response that is only possible with the involvement of accomplished scientists. Those who participated from the DOP include: Drs. Smita Bhatia, Randy Cron, Maaike Everts, Tom Harris, Wendy Landier, Jeffrey Lebensburger, Melissa McBrayer, and Alyssa Reddy
Dr. Benton to Serve on AAP MOC Panel
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Pediatric Science Day Review
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Click here to view the Pediatric Science Day 2015 Lectures.
ConscienHealth highlights the work of Drs. Casazza and Allison
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Welcome Civitan - Sparks Clinic!
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The Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine Announces Division of Congenital Cardiac Anesthesiology
The new division, approved by the Board of Trustees on April 8, represents a move to more fully align and integrate with other clinical divisions that provide care for congenital cardiac patients at Children's of Alabama, said Department Chair Dr. Keith A. (Tony) Jones. “Because of the highly complicated nature of these surgical procedures, the faculty members who provide this care have become highly subspecialized,” Jones said. “Moving forward, they will be fully dedicated to congenital cardiac anesthesiology and will have their own space at Children’s.”
Yung R. Lau, M.D., director of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology and the Thomas N. Carruthers Endowed Chair in Cardiology, welcomed the new division. “The formation of the Division of Congenital Cardiac Anesthesiology is a welcomed step by all the stakeholders of the Pediatric and Congenital Heart Center at Children’s of Alabama. We see this as an important part of the evolving understanding that congenital heart disease is one of the unique and signature programs that UAB has,” he said. “Having dedicated Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia colleagues codifies the practice of focused multidisciplinary care of patients as well as research efforts that contribute significantly to the knowledge.”
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Breaking the Poverty Cycle
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“Frederick Douglass once said, ‘It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men,’” said Dr. Jaime McKinney, a general pediatrician at UAB who moderated the event. “I think that really encapsulates what we are trying to do.”
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Read the Spring/Summer 2016 Issue of Inside Pediatrics
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Among the highlights: our innovative pediatric concussion clinic, global surgery program, and Alan Percy, M.D., as one of the world's leading experts in Rett Syndrome.
If you have not received your printed issue, click here for a link to the electronic, flipping book version of the recent edition of Inside Pediatrics. Please feel free to share this link with any colleagues around the country.
Dr. Atkinson in Birmingham Medical News.
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New medical research is ushering in big changes in how doctors think about food allergies and the way they will be treated in the near future.
The turning point came last year with the LEAP (Learning Early About Peanut) Study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. This five-year study showed that avoidance of food allergens by children at risk for food allergy is often the wrong strategy, which, of course, is contrary to something doctors had been advising for decades.
Data in the study were so powerful that doctors have already changed the advice they are giving to parents with children pre-disposed to food allergies.
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Fox 6 Interviews Dr. Maddox on Later School Start Times and Teen Sleep Deprivation
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"Over 50 percent of teenagers nationwide do not get sufficient sleep,” Dr. Maddox said. Dr. Maddox is a sleep medicine specialist. Typically, she says 56 percent of teenagers ages 15 to 17 get fewer than seven hours of sleep.
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Dr. Madan-Swain Uses Caring Attitude to Help Children, Families Cope with Cancer Diagnosis
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One of the lessons Avi Madan-Swain learned early in life was the importance of seeing the beauty and good in individuals and reaching out to provide a helping hand to those in need. She observed this directly through her experiences as a young woman studying to be a teacher and working at a school for multi-handicapped children in Kolkata (previously known as Calcutta), India. It was the only school in Kolkata that provided services to school-aged children regardless of their ability to pay.
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