A T1D Exchange Quality Improvement Collaborative project designed to observe the impact and benefits of initiating continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) within six months of a patient being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D) was recognized …
Department of Pediatrics members’ work with UW Health Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment Center is featured in ‘Quarterly’ magazine
The Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment Center opened in March 2022. It works in tandem with the Center for Perinatal Care, a joint program between UW Health and UnityPoint Health–Meriter Hospital, where it is located. Recently …
New Faculty Focus: Samantha Cordum
Q&A with Samantha Cordum, MD, assistant professor, Division of Neonatology and Newborn Nursery Hometown: Boise, Idaho Educational/professional background: I earned by undergraduate degree at the College of William and Mary. I attended medical school at …
Ellen Selkie named new director of pediatric fellowship programs
After two years as interim director of pediatric fellowship programs, Cathy Lee-Miller, MD, assistant professor and fellowship program director for the Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Bone Marrow Transplant, has handed the baton to a …
Department of Pediatrics welcomes new fellows
On July 13, incoming director of fellowship programs, Ellen Selkie, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, welcomed new fellows to the Department of Pediatrics during the Allen Inspiring Children Lecture. …
Pediatrics faculty share expertise: July 2023
July 3: How we teach reading has changed a lot over the last decade, but racial gaps have not Interview: Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD, professor, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health | Source: …
New APP Focus: Meghan Furstenberg-Knauff
Q&A with Meghan Furstenberg-Knauff, MSN, FNP-BC, APNP, pediatric nurse practitioner/inpatient diabetes nurse practitioner in the Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes Hometown: Waupaca, Wisconsin Educational/professional background: I worked as a nurse for five years at Children’s …
Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Pediatric Health
Speaker: Lenore Jarvis, MD, assistant professor, George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, director of advocacy and health policy, Emergency Medicine and Trauma Services, Children’s National Hospital Presentation (.pdf)
Novel non-mammalian adaptive immune system function revealed in study by post-doc researcher in Huttenlocher Research Group
An investigation using zebrafish genetically developed to remain transparent into adulthood by the laboratory of Anna Huttenlocher, MD, professor in the Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology and in the Department of Medical Microbiology and …
Centering Community Voice Across the Life-course
Speakers: Adrian Jones, UW Health program manager Community Health Improvement, UW Health and Shawn Koval, program coordinator, Healthy Kids Collaborative, UW Health