We are pleased to announce that the UW School of Medicine and Public Health CHS Appointment and Promotion Committee has approved the promotion to Professor (CHS) for Aaron Carrel, effective July 1, 2011. Congratulations Aaron!
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Judith Smith, MD, PhD, Awarded UW Graduate School Funding
Judith Smith, MD, PhD was recently awarded over $41,000 from the UW Graduate School for her project, “The interaction of IFN-beta and endoplasmic reticulum stress in mediating hepatic ischemia reperfusion injury.” The objective of this …
Dr. Pamela Kling Receives UW Graduate School Award
Pamela Kling, MD, recently received an award of over $34,000 from the UW Graduate School for her project, “Regulating Placental Iron Transfer in Fetal Growth Restriction.” This project will examine the role of NO signaling …
D.B. Sanders, MD, MS, Earns Harry Shwachman Clinical Investigator Award from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics, Inc.
Congratulations to D.B. Sanders, MD, MS, on receiving a Harry Shwachman Clinical Investigator Award from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics, Inc. This 3-year award of over $260,000 is for his project, “Determinants of lung health in …
Lifecourse Initiative Improves Birth Outcomes in Wisconsin
Last year, Department of Pediatrics Professor Philip Farrell, MD, PhD, became steering committee co-chair of the Lifecourse Initiative for Healthy Families (LIHF), a $10 million initiative to improve birth outcomes in Wisconsin. Why? Because the …
Cathy Lee-Miller, MD, Named Pediatrics Resident Teaching Award Recipient
Congratulations to Cathy Lee-Miller, MD, for being awarded the Pediatrics Resident Teaching Award by the UWSMPH Class of 2011. This annual award recognizes those individuals who have made significant contributions to medical student education. Dr. …
Jennifer Rehm, MD, Earns 2011 Fellow Clinical Research Award from the Society of Pediatric Research
Congratulations to Jennifer Rehm, MD, who has been chosen to receive the 2011 Fellow Clinical Research Award from the Society for Pediatric Research, for her abstract entitled “Fatty Liver Disease in Overweight Adolescent Girls Measured …
Immunotherapy for Children with High-Risk Neuroblastoma
Research from the laboratory of Professor Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, has played a key role in the development and testing of an effective new treatment for some children with high-risk neuroblastoma. Neuroblastoma is a cancer …
Dr. Anna Huttenlocher, MD, Earns WARF Kellett Mid-Career Award
Congratulations to Anna Huttenlocher, MD, on her recent WARF Kellett Mid-Career Award. This award is intended to recognize and support mid-career faculty, five to twenty years past their first promotion to a tenured position. The …
A Year in the Life of Rylee
Rylee’s story began on January 8, 2009, at the emergency department at American Family Children’s Hospital (AFCH). She was brought there with bloody diarrhea and dehydration, which was found to be caused by two types …