Congratulations to Mei Baker, MD, FACMG, and Philip Farrell, MD, PhD, for their 2-year research award of $415,273 from the Legacy of Angels Foundation. Their project, “Improving IRT/DNA newborn screening for cystic fibrosis to reduce …
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Dr. De-Ann Pillers Awarded National Institutes of Health Grant
De-Ann Pillers, MD, PhD, along with Dan Butz from Isomark, LLC were awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NIH-NICHD). This …
Christine Sorenson, PhD, Receives National Institutes of Health Award
Congratulations to Christine Sorenson, PhD, on her recent award from the National Institutes of Health – National Eye Institute (NIH-NEI). The R21 research grant of $413,875 over 2 years is for her project entitled, “Bcl-2 …
New Drug, New Hope for Cystic Fibrosis
Over 65 people gathered in person and via webcast at the UW Health Sciences Learning Center (HSLC) on Saturday, November 10, 2012, for the second Family Education Day for Cystic Fibrosis. At the event, people …
‘A Place for Kids’ in the ED
Children who need emergency care now have a place at American Family Children’s Hospital (AFCH) just for them. The new pediatric emergency unit, a separate area within the UW Hospital and Clinics Emergency Department (ED), …
Caring for the Amish Children of Wisconsin
In 1989, in a cornfield in southeastern Pennsylvania, Holmes Morton, MD, built a timber-frame clinic to care for the area’s Old Order Amish and Mennonite children, many of whom had poorly understood, complex medical problems …
Using Pulse Oximetry to Find Hidden Congenital Heart Defects
Each year in the United States, approximately 10,000 babies are born with critical congenital heart defects (CCHDs)—life-threatening anatomic problems that require surgery within the first month of birth. Fortunately, in nearly all cases, CCHDs are …
Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD Receives IMAP Physician Advocacy Merit Award
Congratulations to Dr. Dipesh Navsaria on being awarded the Physican Advocacy Merit Award by the Institute on Medicine as a Profession. The IMAP Physician Advocacy Merit Award seeks to give national recognition to two to …
Dr. Dipesh Navsaria Receives AAP Special Achievement Award
Congratulations to Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD, on receiving the AAP Special Achievement Award. A specialist in early childhood development and children’s librarian by training, Dr. Navsaria champions the value of literacy for long-term learning …
David Bernhardt, MD, Receives WIAAP Recognition of Service Award
Congratulations to David Bernhardt, MD, on receiving the WIAAP Recognition of Services Award. Dr. Bernhardt has served for six years on the WIAAP Board of Directors and continues in his leadership role as the chair …