As the new president of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI), Robert Lemanske, MD, wants to improve school-based care for children with asthma. It’s a focus that not only fits his professional …
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Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer Awards Eight Grants
The Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer (MACC) Fund has declared that it will fund each of eight separate grant requests made by the Departments of Pediatrics and Human Oncology. The grants will fund each project …
David McCulley, MD, Selected as ICTR KL2 Scholar to Study Genetics of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernias
Congratulations to David McCulley, MD, for awarding of his UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) grant entitled, “Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia: Genetic Mechanisms of Pulmonary Hypoplasia and Pulmonary Hypertension,” in the amount of $297,594. …
Faculty Receive St. Baldrick’s Summer Fellowship to Fund Medical Students
Congratulations to Christian Capitini, MD, and Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, who were recently awarded a joint St. Baldrick’s Summer Fellowship worth $5,000 to fund two medical students in their respective labs this summer. Tara Gavcovich, …
Margo Hoover-Reagan, MD, Receives ICTR Voucher Award to Study Prevention of Mucositis in Bone Marrow Transplant
Margo Hoover-Reagan, MD, was recently awarded a $5,000 voucher from the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR), for her project entitled, “Topical Phenylephrine to Prevent Mucositis in Bone Marrow Transplant.” This funding mechanism …
Endocrinology Team Members Receive Pediatric Endocrine Society’s Travel Award
Congratulations to Endocrinology/Diabetes fellows Tasa Seibert, MD, Allison Pollock, MD, and Robert Strait, MD for being selected as recipients of the Pediatric Endocrine Society’s Travel Award for 2015. Each received $750 to support their travel …
Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, Among Speakers at June 4 “Partnering With Patients” Mini Med School
Elizabeth Cox, MD, and colleagues from the UW Center for Patient Partnerships and the UW Departments of Family Medicine and Surgery, will speak at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s upcoming Mini Med …
Three Pediatrics Faculty Receive UW Health Physician Excellence Awards
Jamie Limjoco, MD, Kathleen Maginot, MD, and David Wargowski, MD, were among 10 UW Health physicians who received Physician Excellence Awards at a May 5, 2015, ceremony at the Health Sciences Learning Center. The awards …
New PICU Protocol Reduces Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections
American Family Children’s Hospital’s pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) has instituted a protocol that has reduced central line associated blood stream infections (CLA-BSIs) — and likely decreased the time very sick patients spend in the …
Pediatric Cardiology Team Wins National Lipid Association Award for Best Abstract
An abstract by resident Hilary Stempel, MD, nurse practitioners Ann Dodge, MS, RN, CPNP, and Erin Marriott, MS, RN, CPNP, and pediatric cardiologist Amy Peterson, MD, received the The Foundation of the National Lipid Association …