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During this season of giving, the UAB Department of Pediatrics is thankful for the contributions that we have been fortunate enough to make throughout 2016. Whether it has been donating goods for back-to-school, giving items to hurricane victims in Haiti or flood victims in Louisiana, participating in the Spring Scramble, giving to the Benevolent Fund, partaking in the residency’s Coat of Arms program, or helping out a long-time patient in one of our clinics after a devastating house fire, we have been fortunate to give in these situations. This is not to mention what each of you contribute to your favorite organizations year-round.
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In addition, the department has partnered with Booker T. Washington Elementary School (just 1.5 miles away from Children’s) to provide two programs to these students.
Read to Lead is a program where interested faculty, staff, and trainees can volunteer time on the first and third Fridays of each month to spend one-on-one time reading with first grade students. If you are interested in participating in this program, click here.
HERO (Health Explorers Realizing Opportunities) is a program in which UAB Pediatrics faculty and trainees conduct monthly (3rd Fridays) interactive sessions to stimulate interest in health and health care careers among middle school children. Topics covered, to date, have included sickle cell disease, nutrition, and smoking. If you are interested in participating in this program, click here.
To view more photos from these initiatives, click here.
These have been very rewarding initiatives and we look forward to continuing and expanding upon these in 2017. As we reflect on the season of giving, let’s allow the holidays to be a starting point to a life of year-round giving. Continue to check FYI Fridays for more opportunities and become engaged with your colleagues in their organizations. As always, thank you for all you do to contribute to your community and your everyday work to improve the lives of the children of Alabama and beyond.
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In addition, the department has partnered with Booker T. Washington Elementary School (just 1.5 miles away from Children’s) to provide two programs to these students.
Read to Lead is a program where interested faculty, staff, and trainees can volunteer time on the first and third Fridays of each month to spend one-on-one time reading with first grade students. If you are interested in participating in this program, click here.
HERO (Health Explorers Realizing Opportunities) is a program in which UAB Pediatrics faculty and trainees conduct monthly (3rd Fridays) interactive sessions to stimulate interest in health and health care careers among middle school children. Topics covered, to date, have included sickle cell disease, nutrition, and smoking. If you are interested in participating in this program, click here.
To view more photos from these initiatives, click here.
These have been very rewarding initiatives and we look forward to continuing and expanding upon these in 2017. As we reflect on the season of giving, let’s allow the holidays to be a starting point to a life of year-round giving. Continue to check FYI Fridays for more opportunities and become engaged with your colleagues in their organizations. As always, thank you for all you do to contribute to your community and your everyday work to improve the lives of the children of Alabama and beyond.
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The Drucker Prize, considered by some the Nobel Prize of management, is awarded annually to one non-profit organization that meets Drucker’s definition of innovation: “change that creates a new dimension of performance.” ImproveCareNow was selected for this award from among 495 applicants and will receive a $100,000 prize and well-deserved recognition.
ImproveCareNow is a network of care centers with clinicians, researchers, patients, families and improvers working together to transform the health, care and cost for children and youth with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Currently, there are 92 centers, with 790 pediatric gastroenterologists and 26,000 patients with IBD, in ImproveCareNow.
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Wendy Landier, Ph.D., RN, Pediatric Hematology & Oncology, was recently selected for funding of her project titled: A Nurse-Led Structured Discharge Teaching Intervention for Parents of Newly Diagnosed Pediatric Oncology Patients. This grant is awarded onbehalf of the Board of Directors and the Nursing Advisory Board of Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer (ALSF). This grant is in the amount of $100,000 for the period of 1/15/2017 to 1/14/2019.
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Fred Biasini, Ph.D., director of the UAB Civitan-Sparks Clinics, is the 2016-2017 recipient of the coveted McNulty Civitan Scientist Award. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and he is the director of the Lifespan Developmental Psychology Program. His research and teaching interests include autism spectrum disorder, developmental disability, social development and children of substance abusers.
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Appointments can be made by calling 934-4983. Click here for more information.
Please join us in welcoming Associate Professor Ismail S Mohamed, M.D., FAAP, FRCPC, to the UAB Department of Pediatrics and the division of Pediatric Neurology.
Ismail S. Mohamed, M.D., FAAP, FRCPC, joins us from the IWK Health Center in Halifax, Canada. Dr. Mohamed graduated from Alexandria University in Egypt and completed pediatric neurology residency at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, clinical neurophysiology fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio and an epilepsy fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. His research interests are in functional brain imaging, in normal development, and reorganization after brain injury.
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