David Galloway, M.D., Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, and Megan V. Yanik, M.D., Pediatric Nephrology Fellow, recently completed the Clinical Investigator Training Program (CITP). The CITP is designed to be a hands-on didactic and pragmatic training and education program to prepare young investigators in the conduct and implementation of human subject research. The general outline of the program was not only to review the key topics of designing, preparing, conducting and overseeing a clinical trial, but also navigating UAB’s regulatory and research support infrastructure.
March was Brain Injury Awareness Month and the UAB Division of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) celebrated by setting up an information booth in the lobby of Children’s Harbor. Each year more than 3.5 million children and adults sustain an acquired brain injury, and brain injury continues to be the leading cause of acquired disability in childhood. The UAB Division of PRM provides services for children and adolescents with a wide variety of acquired brain injuries due to sports related concussion, trauma, stroke, brain tumor, and infection, among others, and acquired brain injury is the most common diagnosis for patients receiving intensive inpatient rehabilitation at Children’s of Alabama.
Pictured right: Janet Ezekiel, Children's of Alabama Sunshine School, and Angela Hamby, Nurse Clinician, Children's of Alabama and UAB Division of Pediatric Rehab Medicine
Pictured right: Janet Ezekiel, Children's of Alabama Sunshine School, and Angela Hamby, Nurse Clinician, Children's of Alabama and UAB Division of Pediatric Rehab Medicine
Brian Sims, M.D., Ph.D., Neonatology, recently received the Outstanding Alumni Award from the UAB Department of Biology. Dr. Sims will be honored at the UAB Alumni House at a special Spring Awards Presentation Luncheon on April 24.
David E. Dixon, a long-time member of the Children’s of Alabama Board of Trustees, has been honored for his service with the establishment of an endowed chair in his name.
Dixon began his volunteer leadership service at Children’s in 1998, serving on the Board’s Research and Education Committee, Executive Committee and as an officer of the Alabama Children’s Hospital Foundation. He has contributed to the community through his commitment to numerous philanthropic boards, especially his family’s foundation, the Dixon Foundation. The Dixon Foundation has a strong partnership with the UAB Department of Pediatrics, including its support of the Dixon Fellowship Training program.
Reed Allen Dimmitt, M.D., is the first holder of the David E. Dixon Endowed Chair in Pediatric Gastroenterology. Dr. Dimmitt is a professor in the UAB Department of Pediatrics, the director of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, and the medical director of Children’s Intensive Feeding Program. In addition, Dr. Dimmitt will serve as the president of the Children’s of Alabama medical staff and chair of the medical executive committee beginning in January 2018. Dimmitt’s research includes mucosal immunology, the role of intestinal microbiota in the pathogenesis of injury, and the causes of intestinal failure associated liver disease.
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Dixon began his volunteer leadership service at Children’s in 1998, serving on the Board’s Research and Education Committee, Executive Committee and as an officer of the Alabama Children’s Hospital Foundation. He has contributed to the community through his commitment to numerous philanthropic boards, especially his family’s foundation, the Dixon Foundation. The Dixon Foundation has a strong partnership with the UAB Department of Pediatrics, including its support of the Dixon Fellowship Training program.
Reed Allen Dimmitt, M.D., is the first holder of the David E. Dixon Endowed Chair in Pediatric Gastroenterology. Dr. Dimmitt is a professor in the UAB Department of Pediatrics, the director of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, and the medical director of Children’s Intensive Feeding Program. In addition, Dr. Dimmitt will serve as the president of the Children’s of Alabama medical staff and chair of the medical executive committee beginning in January 2018. Dimmitt’s research includes mucosal immunology, the role of intestinal microbiota in the pathogenesis of injury, and the causes of intestinal failure associated liver disease.
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Join us in welcoming Samuel P. Hopper, M.D., to the UAB Department of Pediatrics!
Samuel Hopper, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Neurology, earned his medical degree from Tulane School of Medicine. He completed his pediatric residency at UAB. He joins us from Jackson, Mississippi, where he worked with Children’s Medical Group, Batson Children’s Hospital and University of Mississippi Medical Center, and Mississippi Baptist Medical Center. His clinical and research interest is headaches in children. He sees headache patients at Children's South.
Samuel Hopper, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Neurology, earned his medical degree from Tulane School of Medicine. He completed his pediatric residency at UAB. He joins us from Jackson, Mississippi, where he worked with Children’s Medical Group, Batson Children’s Hospital and University of Mississippi Medical Center, and Mississippi Baptist Medical Center. His clinical and research interest is headaches in children. He sees headache patients at Children's South.
In January 2017, representatives from the Pediatric Simulation Center at Children’s of Alabama and the Office of Interprofessional Simulation accepted the certificate designating the UAB Simulation Consortium as accredited in Research, Education/Teaching, and Systems Integration by the Society of Simulation in Healthcare. Members of the Children's of Alabama and UAB simulation community traveled to the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare to accept this designation (pictured right). For more information on UAB Simulation Consortium, visit http://www.uab.edu/simulation/uab-simulation-consortium.
A new study from UAB suggests that women at risk of preterm delivery, from as early as 23 weeks of pregnancy, should receive corticosteroids due to strong associations with a lower rate of death and serious illness for their babies. The study, published in the British Medical Journal, says that very premature babies seem to benefit the most from the steroids, even those born at 23 weeks of gestation.
“Indeed, the benefits of antenatal corticosteroids were substantially larger for infants born at the lowest gestations, including less than 28-week infants, for which data from randomized controlled trials are most limited,” said Wally Carlo, M.D., senior investigator of the study and director of the UAB Division of Neonatology.
Compared to babies born at term, premature babies carry a greater risk of death or serious complications after birth, with problems tending to be more severe the earlier a baby is born. Infants exposed to antenatal corticosteroids had lower mortality and lower rates of brain bleeding.
Colm Travers, M.D., third-year fellow in the UAB Division of Neonatology and principal investigator of the study, and a team of researchers analyzed data for 117,941 infants born between 23 and 34 weeks of gestation from 2009 to 2013 at 300 neonatal intensive care units across the United States. Death or major illness was analyzed by gestational age and exposure to antenatal corticosteroids, adjusting for factors such as birth weight, sex, mode of delivery and multiple births.
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“Indeed, the benefits of antenatal corticosteroids were substantially larger for infants born at the lowest gestations, including less than 28-week infants, for which data from randomized controlled trials are most limited,” said Wally Carlo, M.D., senior investigator of the study and director of the UAB Division of Neonatology.
Compared to babies born at term, premature babies carry a greater risk of death or serious complications after birth, with problems tending to be more severe the earlier a baby is born. Infants exposed to antenatal corticosteroids had lower mortality and lower rates of brain bleeding.
Colm Travers, M.D., third-year fellow in the UAB Division of Neonatology and principal investigator of the study, and a team of researchers analyzed data for 117,941 infants born between 23 and 34 weeks of gestation from 2009 to 2013 at 300 neonatal intensive care units across the United States. Death or major illness was analyzed by gestational age and exposure to antenatal corticosteroids, adjusting for factors such as birth weight, sex, mode of delivery and multiple births.
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We are proud to announce our Resident Intern Class of 2017-2018! We matched 24 Pediatric Residents, four Internal Medicine-Pediatric Residents, one Genetics-Pediatric Resident, and one Child Neurology Resident. We are so proud to have these incredibly strong, academically talented, well-rounded interns joining our Residency Programs this July.
Click here to view the incoming class!
Click here to view the incoming class!
The UAB Commission on the Status of Women presents these awards annually to honor women in the UAB and Birmingham communities who have mentored or served other women, taken a courageous stance or overcome adversity to achieve a goal. Carolyn S. Ashworth, M.D., General Pediatrics, was the recipient of the Becky Trigg Outstanding UAB Faculty Member. Click here to read more about her devotion to her colleagues, leadership, and courage.
Stephen Russell, M.D., associate professor of internal pediatrics and pediatrics, recently published his third novel, "Control Group."
Books will be available in print and e-book format on Amazon and in Audiobook format from audible.com, Amazon, and iTunes. Locally, they will be sold at the new location of Little Professor in Homewood.
Russell has two upcoming book signings at Little Professor in Homewood on April 4 from 5 - 7 p.m., and at Emmet O’Neal Library in Mountain Brook on April 9. See more on his website at www.authorstephenrussell.com.
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Books will be available in print and e-book format on Amazon and in Audiobook format from audible.com, Amazon, and iTunes. Locally, they will be sold at the new location of Little Professor in Homewood.
Russell has two upcoming book signings at Little Professor in Homewood on April 4 from 5 - 7 p.m., and at Emmet O’Neal Library in Mountain Brook on April 9. See more on his website at www.authorstephenrussell.com.
Read this story at UAB News.