The New York Times named The Magic City as one of its 52 Places to Go in 2017! Find Birmingham, Alabama at #45 in the NYT bucket list.Click here to see the article highlight Birmingham's revitalization and find things to do around the world.
Matthew Kutny, M.D., Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, has been appointed to the NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) Physician Data Query (PDQ) Pediatric Treatment Editorial Advisory Board. The NCI provides evidence-based cancer information summaries for health professionals and the public on the NCI’s website: http://www.cancer.gov. These PDQ summaries are available for the treatment of children and adults, cancer genetics, screening, prevention, supportive and palliative care, and integrative, alternative and complementary therapies. The summaries are created and maintained by Editorial Boards and the content is then reviewed and edited by advisory boards consisting of national experts in that field. Dr. Kutny was selected to the advisory board for the NCI’s recommendations for “Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia/Other Myeloid Malignancies Treatment."
A new study from the UAB Department of Pediatrics shows that national magazine advertisements and manufacturers of infant cribs continue to depict unsafe sleep environments, despite longtime guidelines established by the American Academy of Pediatrics to protect against SIDS and other sleep-related deaths.The study published in Pediatrics, “Safe Sleep Guideline Adherence in Nationwide Marketing of Infant Cribs and Products,” analyzed 1,758 crib advertisements and 1,893 print magazine advertisements from 1992, 2010 and 2015.
Investigators on the study include Brad Troxler, M.D., assistant professor and director of the UAB Pediatric Pulmonary Center , Matthew Kreth, M.D., former fellow in UAB’s Department of Pediatrics; Tammy Shikany, RT, respiratory therapist in the UAB PPC; and Claire Lenker, LICSW, CCM, clinical social worker in the UAB PPC.
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A study recently published by Smita Bhatia, M.D., MPH, Pediatric Hematology & Oncology, and Julie Wolfson, M.D., MSHS, Pediatric Hematology & Oncology, addresses the impact of care at comprehensive cancer centers. See the study here. Kaiser Health News interviewed Dr. Wolfson to give her input on access to Cancer Centers in a changing marketplace plan environment. To read the article, click the following links: Kaiser Health News, NPR, and CNNMoney.
May great miracles happen here during this holiday season that will provide us with inspiration to increase health, peace, and goodwill for all in the coming year. Wishing all a very happy holiday season!
Please join us in welcoming Assistant Professor, Brandi McClain Pernell, DNP, to the Department of Pediatrics and the division of Pediatric Hematology & Oncology.
Brandi McClain Pernell, DNP, joins us from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN. Dr. Pernell earned her undergraduate degree in nursing from Tennessee State University. She received a Master of Science in Nursing from Vanderbilt University and UAB. She earned her Doctorate of Nursing Practice & Nursing Education from Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include clinical and translational research in children with sickle cell disease with and without comorbid pulmonary complications.
Brandi McClain Pernell, DNP, joins us from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN. Dr. Pernell earned her undergraduate degree in nursing from Tennessee State University. She received a Master of Science in Nursing from Vanderbilt University and UAB. She earned her Doctorate of Nursing Practice & Nursing Education from Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include clinical and translational research in children with sickle cell disease with and without comorbid pulmonary complications.
Bill Britt, M.D., Pediatric Infectious Disease, is the recipient of the 2017 Graduate Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentorship. Dr. Britt will be honored at an awards ceremony in April 2017. The Graduate Dean’s Excellence in Mentorship Award recognizes UAB faculty members who have demonstrated exceptional commitment as mentors of graduate students and/or postdoctoral fellows. Click here to read more about this award.
Health Services Foundation (HSF) will have an awards ceremony today to celebrate HSF Service Awards. The Department of Pediatrics has numerous employees being recognized. HSF employees with 20 plus years of service include: Steven Baldwin, Judson Barber, Peter Glaeser, William McMahon, Margaret Thiele, Carolyn Ashworth, Wally Carlo, Carl Coghill, Alana Davis, Crayton Fargason, Walter Johnson, Vinit Mahesh, Marsha Sturdevant, Robert Pass, Joseph Phillips, Sergio Stagno, and Richard Whitley. To see a full list of Department of Pediatrics employees being recognized with 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years of service, click here.
Susan Walley, M.D., Pediatric Hospital Medicine, is one of three winners who will share $40,000 in grants for quality improvement projects from the first SPARC (Sourcing Progress & Advancing Research Collaboration) competition, a UAB Medicine and Medscape innovation initiative. Dr. Wally and her collaborator, Kathy Harrington, PhD, MPH, won with their project: Improving Patient Access to Tobacco Use Treatment During Hospitalization. Drs. Walley and Harrington’s project aims to increase systematic screening for tobacco use among adult and adolescent patients at Children’s of Alabama and University Hospital in addition to increasing tobacco dependence treatment resources at both hospitals. Other project aims include adding electronic cigarette/vaping to tobacco screening, as e-cigarettes are now the most common tobacco product used by youth “We are pleased to receive this funding to increase tobacco-use screening, including electronic cigarettes, and to promote dependence treatment at University Hospital and Children's of Alabama,” Walley says. “Our goal is to improve not only the health of an individual tobacco user by treating their dependence, but to improve the health of their family and the entire community.”
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Children’s will be hosting the 4th Annual “Genetics and Genomics in Day to Day Medical Practice” Rare Disease Symposium in the Bradley Lecture Center from 8 a.m. till 3:30 p.m. on Friday, March 3, 2017. Cost to attend is $35. Register at www.childrensal.org/genetics. Keynote address by Dr. Deborah Krakow of UCLA. Contact Shaila Handattu with questions at hande@uab.edu. More information is available here.