In 2005, obesity cost us $190 billion in obesity-related illnesses, $14 billion of which was related to kids. The military has a hard time finding recruits who are not overweight. What we previously called “adult-onset …
Juan Boriosi, MD, Receives The James Sutherland Award from MWSPR
Congratulations to Dr. Juan Boriosi, who was presented with the James Sutherland Award at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Society for Pediatric Research. The Sutherland Award is presented for the outstanding abstract presentation …
Dr. James Conway Discusses Vaccine Rejectionism
Vaccine rejectionism has been around for 200 years, since Edward Jenner used the harmless cow pox virus to immunize people against deadly small pox. Cartoons from the early 1800s showed people sprouting cow heads because …
John Frohna, MD, MPH, Named to the Board of Directors of American Board of Pediatrics
Congratulations to John Frohna, MD, MPH, for recently being named to the Board of Directors of the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP). The Board of Directors of the ABP consists of distinguished pediatricians in education, …
Peds GI Clinical Initiatives Flourish
Children who have complex intestinal disease or who are failing to thrive benefit from new pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition clinical initiatives at American Family Children’s Hospital (AFCH)—initiatives that parallel the AFCH specialty’s improved ranking by …
Med Students Experience the Third Year Clerkship
Third-year medical student Jasmine Zapata was a little nervous before her pediatrics clerkship. Not because she thought it would be too challenging, but because it might not be challenging enough. “I knew the inpatient part …
Pediatrics Faculty Honored as Madison Magazine Top Doctors
For its annual Top Doctors feature, Madison Magazine asked doctors in the Madison area which local physicians they would recommend to their friends, family and loved ones. In the 13 pediatric specialties, the overwhelming answer …
Ken DeSantes, MD, Awarded Solving Kid’s Cancer Foundation Funding
Ken DeSantes, MD, has received an award of $136,000 from the Solving Kid’s Cancer Foundation to develop and pursue a collaborative research study titled “Phase I Trial of Ex-Vivo Expanded Haploidentical NK Cells and Hu14.18-IL2 …
Dr. Christian Capitini Awarded UWCCC Funding
Dr. Christian Capitini has received an award of $48,942 from the UWCCC to pursue pilot studies of “Monitoring of 19F-labeled NK cell trafficking for cancer immunotherapy using MRI”. This work is developing a new way …
Philip Giampietro, MD, PhD, Given the ‘Heart of the Matter’ Award by the National Marfan Foundation
Congratulations to Philip Giampietro, MD, PhD, who was honored with the 2012 ‘Heart of the Matter’ award by the National Marfan Foundation at their annual conference in Chicago. The Heart of the Matter Award is …