Resources: 1) Wisconsin DPI Carbohydrate Counting 2) Calorie King Website and App 3) Healthy Snack Suggestions 4) UW Health Videos Carbohydrate Counting: Healthy Eating with Diabetes Prediabetes:
What We Published in January 2021
Barker AK, Moreno MA. Effects of Recreational Marijuana Legalization on College Students: A Longitudinal Study of Attitudes, Intentions, and Use Behaviors. J Adolesc Health. 2021 Jan;68(1):110-115. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2020.03.039. Epub 2020 May 8. PubMed PMID: 32402801; PubMed Central …
Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, Receives OVCRGE Award to Support DRAW
Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, professor, General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, along with co-Principal Investigators Dawn Davis, MD, PhD, professor, and Michelle Kimple, PhD, associate professor, both from the Department of Medicine, received a Pandemic-Affected Research …
PROKids Partners with UW Applied Population Lab to Identify Wisconsin Clinics Serving Priority Populations for Cervical Cancer Prevention
The Program of Research on Outcomes for Kids (PROKids) research team, led by Elizabeth Cox MD, PhD, professor, General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, recently received a Fall Research Competition Award from the Office of the Vice …
Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, and UW Investigators Awarded R24 Grant from NIH
Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, and Co-Principal Investigators, Shaoqin “Sarah” Gong, PhD, Biomedical Engineering and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, David Gamm, MD, PhD, Department of Visual Sciences and Ophthalmology, and Christopher Ahern, PhD, University of Iowa, recently …
Mei Baker, MD, FACMG, Awarded Paster Family Foundation Innovation Award
Congratulations to Mei Baker, MD, FACMG, Wynne Mateffy Professor of Pediatrics and co-director of the Newborn Screening Laboratory at Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, who was recently awarded the Paster Family Foundation Innovation Award. The award, …
DiSH Session 9: Hybrid Closed Loop Systems in Schools
Resources: Is My CGM Accurate? (Dexcom): https://www.dexcom.com/faqs/is-my-dexcom-sensor-accurateTeacher’s Guide to Kids with Type 1 Diabetes (Beyond Type 1): https://beyondtype1.org/a-teachers-guide-to-kids-with-type-1-diabetes/CGM and Pumps Safe at School Videos (ADA): https://www.diabetes.org/resources/know-your-rights/safe-at-school-state-laws/training-resources-school-staff/diabetes-care-tasks-school DiSH Session #9 Presentation (.pdf)
Department of Pediatrics Researchers Elected into Renowned Pediatric Research Society
Four physician-scientists from the University of Wisconsin Department of Pediatrics were recently selected to join the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR). Awni Al-Subu, MD (Associate Professor, Division of Critical Care), Tony Garcia-Prats, MD, MSc (Associate Professor, Divisions of General …
Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, Nominated for ACTS 2021 Distinguished Investigator Award
Congratulations to Paul Sondel, MD, PhD (Professor, Division of Hematology, Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplant), on being selected as UW-Madison’s nominee for the Association of Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS) 2021 Distinguished Investigator Award. Sondel was …
Pediatric ‘Dream Team’ Members and Others Recognized with SITC’s Team Science Award
Congratulations to Christian Capitini, MD, Kenneth DeSantes, MD, Amy Erbe-Gurel, PhD, Jacquelyn Hank, PhD, Anna Huttenlocher, MD, Mario Otto, MD, PhD, Alexander Rakhmilevich, MD, PhD, Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, and researchers at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center who were recently recognized …