Faculty who are interested in mentoring a student on a research project for eight weeks during the summer of 2019, please read on!
First-year UASOM Medical Students with an interest in Pediatrics are encouraged to apply for the 2019 Russell Cunningham Memorial Research Program, an eight-week summer internship and research program. Based on these applications, two students will be selected and will work with faculty mentors from the Department of Pediatrics.
Faculty mentor responsibilities include:
1) helping the student design a summer research project
2) providing the student with clinical experience.
This may include observation or participation in clinical activities (clinics or hospital rounds) or attendance at educational conferences. Each student will receive $4000; an additional $1000 is available to cover costs of travel to present the research.
Faculty who are interested in mentoring a student for the summer of 2019 should forward the information and application document to the student. Applications must be submitted no later than February 18, 2019. For questions, please contact Clare Mallette, cmallette@peds.uab.edu.
Deadline: February 18, 2019 | Application and Information
PEDIATRICS WELCOMES TWO NEW FACULTY MEMBERS IN JANUARY 2019
The UAB Department of Pediatrics welcomes two new faculty members during the month of January. Please join us in making them feel at home!
Laura McGuinn, M.D., Professor in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
Rebekah Savage, M.D., Assistant Professor in Adolescent Medicine
Laura McGuinn, M.D., Professor and director of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, earned her medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. Dr. McGuinn completed her pediatric residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch where she was also Ambulatory Chief Resident. She completed her developmental and behavioral pediatrics fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to joining UAB, Dr. McGuinn was an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Dr. McGuinn holds the Thomas Lowder Chair in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. Her clinical interests include diagnostic evaluation for children with developmental and behavioral concerns such as autism and related neurodevelopmental concerns, ADHD, intellectual disabilities, language and learning disorders, sleep, eating, and elimination issues, parent-child interaction concerns, among others. Her advocacy interests include healthcare systems improvement, bridges out of child and family poverty, and health equity. At UAB, she will be working collaboratively to enhance care processes for children with autism and related neurodevelopmental disabilities, as well as creating a medico-legal partnership to support families and children.
Rebekah Savage, M.D., Assistant Professor in Adolescent Medicine, earned her medical degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Savage completed her pediatric residency at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and an adolescent medicine fellowship at UAB. In addition, Dr. Savage completed a Master’s of Public Health at UAB in Maternal and Child Health. Her research/clinical interests include the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders in adolescents as well as the medical management of eating disorders.
Saturday, February 2 | 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. | Bradley Lecture Center
Please join us for the Practical Day of Pediatrics on Saturday, February 2!
Learning objectives include:
1. Reviewing the latest information on prevention and management of important pediatric disorders.
2. Diagnosing and creating a management plan for specific pediatric disorders in a primary care setting.
3. Describing consensus guidelines for specific pediatric diseases.
4. Differentiating when referral to a specialist is necessary for complex pediatric problems.
Registration is $25.
Register here | More information
Veronica Godsey, M.D., Second Year Fellow-Pediatric Critical Care, was awarded the INSPIRE (International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation, Research & Education) Novice Research Award. The $10,000 award is given to support investigators with less than 5 years of simulation-based experience. Dr. Godsey’s study is focused on improving nurse-physician communication using communication strategies based on the book Verbal Judo.
Congratulations Dr. Godsey!
On Thursday, March 21, 2019, we will celebrate the research efforts of our fellows and residents with our 4th Annual Pediatric Science Day! It is a day to illustrate our research activities and support collaboration between young investigators. All fellows and residents are encouraged to submit an abstract for participation. Topics will focus on research activities and clinical case reports.
We encourage you to utilize the day as an opportunity to present your submission to any upcoming meetings (PAS/SPR, etc.). Additionally, you are welcome to submit an abstract highlighting your work that you may have recently presented at a recent scientific meeting.
Click here for the abstract submission template.
Please send abstract submissions and any questions about the day to Michael Stalvey.
***The deadline for abstract submission is Thursday, January 31, 2019.
More information
Welcome to Dr. Laura McGuinn who begins as the director of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics on Monday, January 7. She will also hold the inaugural Thomas H. Lowder Endowed Chair in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics and will serve as the new clinical director of the Civitan-Sparks Clinics. Dr. Fred Biasini will continue as the training program director of the Civitan-Sparks Clinics. I want to add my thanks to Dr. Myriam Peralta who has served as the interim division director for the last 18 months.
Dr. McGuinn earned her Bachelor of Arts in biology from the University of Texas at Austin, and her medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, where she completed her residency training as Ambulatory Chief Resident. Dr. McGuinn completed her fellowship in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics as a Subspecialty Fellow in both Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. She began her academic medical career as a member of the pediatric faculty of the Children’s Hospital of Austin Medical Residency Program, where she served as director of the Developmental Assessment Program and director of the Developmental and Behavioral Pediatric Clerkship. She joined the staff at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, originally as an assistant professor and then as associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics Section of Developmental – Behavioral Pediatrics.
Dr. McGuinn’s service to developmental and behavioral pediatrics is exemplified by her multiple related roles during her years at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, which included: director of the resident rotation and the ACGME approved and MCHB funded, fellowship program; and leadership roles as director of OK-KIDS Systems Improvement Initiative, co-director of the OK Child Heath Practice Based Research Network, and director of the Sooner SUCCESS Care Coordination Program. Through her leadership roles in medical education, Dr. McGuinn has mentored fellows, residents and students. She has provided service and leadership to Oklahoma Head Start, Oklahoma Children’s Oral Health Coalition and the Oklahoma Autism Workforce Initiative, among many.
Laura’s husband, Bill Wells, M.D., is med-peds trained and will commute between Birmingham and Oklahoma City, where he is a neonatal hospitalist. Her two children will be going to school here in Birmingham. Please join us in giving a very warm welcome to Laura and her family to UAB, COA and Birmingham.
Congratulations to the pediatric specialists (listed below) who have been elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society! AOA is a medical professional organization that recognizes and advocates for excellence in scholarship and the highest ideals in the profession of medicine. The official induction ceremony into AOA will be held on March 14th.
Newly Elected Members
Courtney Crayne, M.D., Third Year Fellow- Pediatric Rheumatology
Eunice Dixon, M.D., PGY-3- Pediatric Resident
Michael Barnett, M.D. Palliative Care
Tamera Coyne-Beasley, M.D., Adolescent Medicine
Shawn Gilbert, M.D., Orthopedic Surgery
Tina Simpson, M.D., Adolescent Medicine
Heather Austin, Ph.D., Adolescent Medicine, has been invited to participate in the American Psychological Association (APA) Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology (LIWP). The APA Committee on Women in Psychology established the APA LIWP in 2008 to prepare, support, and empower women psychologists as leaders to promote positive changes in institutional and organizational life and to increase the diversity, number, and effectiveness of women psychologists.
Congratulations Dr. Austin!
Please join us in congratulating Sasha Monteil, M.D., Second Year Fellow- Pediatric Gastroenterology, on receiving the 2018-2019 Fall Fellow Roundtable/Core Conference Attendance Award. This allows her to attend a scientific meeting of her choice, within the continental United States.
Our next award will be presented at the end of July 2019 for the fellow with the highest attendance at Fellows’ Research Roundtable and Fellow Core Conferences from January – July 2019. Click here for more information.
Thank you to all of the fellows who have been dedicated to attending these conferences!!
The January issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health includes a new section entitled, “Perspectives on Adolescence and Young Adulthood.” The vision for Perspectives is to bring readers short essays, poetry and stories of the young people who are at the center of the field. Our hope is that these touching stories of wonder and inquiry will inspire fresh thinking about this period of the life cycle and will encourage our authors and readers to broaden their views of the second and third decades of life.
The editors are pleased to inaugurate this section with a poem written by the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine's Immediate Past President, Tamera Coyne-Beasley, M.D., Adolescent Medicine, when she was 18 years old. Dr. Coyne-Beasley read her poem at the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine's Annual Business Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on March 16, 2018.
Read poem here