Eight Pediatrics providers, three staff members and three clinic teams were among the winners recognized at UW Health’s Ambulatory Patient Experience and Quality Excellence Celebration event, held June 7, 2016, at Monona Terrace. Lindsay Geier, …
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Dr. Nina Menda to Serve as WIAAP Liaison for the Wisconsin Perinatal Quality Collaborative (WisPQC)
Nina Menda, MD, has been invited to be the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Adademy of Pediatrics (WIAAP) Liasion to Wisconsin Perinatal Quality Collaborative (WisPQC). Led by the Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care, the WisPQC …
Mei Baker, MD, To Serve on National Committee on Heritable Disorders
Mei Baker, MD, a professor in the Division of Genetics and Metabolism, has accepted an invitation to serve on the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children. The …
Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, Collaborates on PCORI Pipeline to Proposal Award Project
Dr. Elizabeth Cox and her PROKids team have collaborated with researchers from West Virginia University and the West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence to submit a proposal, “The West Virginia Collaborative for Intimate Partner Violence …
Yashica Seymour Brings it Home
After she graduates in June, pediatric critical care fellow Yashica Seymour, MD, will return to her home country of the Bahamas to become its only pediatric intensivist. Dr. Seymour will work at Princess Margaret Hospital, …
Anticipating Outcomes of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and long-term disability in children, affecting over 30,000 children each year. Although clinicians use advanced neuroimaging tools such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to …
Eldridge Lab Students Receive Awards
At the April 2016 Experimental Biology Meeting in San Diego, CA, three students in the laboratory of Marlowe Eldridge, MD, won several awards. Undergraduate students Adelaide (Atzie) Sobotik and Taylor Levin both received the David …
Research & Development Committee Awards Announced
The Department of Pediatrics Research and Development Committee recently awarded grants to thirteen faculty members for the following projects: Awni Al-Subu, MD – Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Incidence and Epidemiology (PARDIE) Study Pelin Cengiz, MD …
Peter Ferrazzano, MD, Awarded NIH-NINDS Funding
Peter Ferrazzano, MD, was recently awarded an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH-NINDS) for his proposal entitled, “MRI Markers of Functional Outcome after Severe Pediatric TBI”. …
Judy Smith, MD, PhD Awarded NIH Funding with Brazil’s Foundation for Research Development
Congratulations to Judy Smith, MD, PhD, who will serve as a Co-Investigator/Subaward Principal Investigator for a grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH-NIAID) to the Foundation for Research …