NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1950 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 596-596

The University of Minnesota announces a continuation course in pediatrics on April 10-12, 1950. This course, which will be presented at the Center for Continuation Study, is intended for physicians specializing in pediatrics and will be devoted to disorders of metabolism and endocrine function. Distinguished visiting physicians who will participate as faculty members for the course are Dr. Daniel C. Darrow, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn., and Dr. George M. Guest, Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio.

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 388-388
Author(s):  
Jerome S. Haller

Because of the variety of therapies employed in Reye's syndrome, Dr. Peter Huttenlocher of Yale University School of Medicine and I have drawn up a protocol designed to evaluate the effectiveness of frequently used regimens. The study has been devised on a multi-hospital basis with the following hospitals already participating: Harbor General Hospital (Dr. Marvin Weil); Children's Hospital of Buffalo (Dr. M. Cohen); Emory University School of Medicine (Dr. J. Schwartz); Children's Hospital of Michigan (Dr. J. Finnegan); and Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec (Dr. B. Lemieux).


2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30

Guest editor Dunbar Ivy, MD, Chief of Pediatric Cardiology and Director of the Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Colorado led a discussion among Editor-in-Chief Harrison (Hap) Farber, MD, then Professor of Medicine and Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Center at Boston University/Boston Medical Center; Mary P. Mullen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, associate cardiologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Associate Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Service as well as a member of the adult congenital heart program; Jeffrey R. Fineman, MD, Professor and Vice Chair of Pediatrics, Director of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Hypertension, University of California, San Francisco, Benioff Children's Hospital; and Gareth Morgan, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics-Cardiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab at Children's Hospital of Colorado.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shejla Pollozi ◽  
Cindy Xie ◽  
Sumedha Sachar

For more than 20 years, Dr. Florence Bourgeois, MD, MPH has held multiple positions at the intersection of pediatrics, therapeutics, regulatory science, health informatics and research integrity. A graduate of Yale University, Harvard School of Public Health and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dr. Bourgeois’ record transcends academia and medicine. In addition to being a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and the Division of Emergency Medicine and the Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) at Boston Children’s Hospital, she is the Director of PedRx, which aims to advance the development and evidence-based use of novel therapeutics for children globally. As the Scientific Director of the Boston Children’s Hospital Biobank, Dr. Bourgeois’ efforts focus on expanding physicians’ capacity to conduct research in pediatric populations. As the Co-Director of the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science, Dr. Bourgeois also spearheads cross-disciplinary collaborations between academia, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, and regulatory agencies. She is the recipient of an Innovation in Regulatory Science Award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and has served as an Expert Visitor to the European Medicines Agency to analyze the EU’s pediatric drug legislation. As part of this interview, we examine the relationship between clinical trials and drug development in pediatrics as well as their ethical and social impacts.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 98 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven R. Poole ◽  
Deb Efird ◽  
Tom Wera ◽  
Deb Fox-Gliessman ◽  
Kathryn Hill

Background. Locum tenens, the use of a substitute physician to replace a physician who must be temporarily absent from his practice, is widely accepted in the United States. Locum tenens has not previously been described or studied in pediatric practice. Objective. This article describes a locum tenens service for Colorado and Wyoming pediatricians provided by the Division of General Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Children's Hospital of Denver. An analysis and an evaluation of the program are presented, and implications are discussed. Methods. All program data were prospectively collected and tabulated and later analyzed for the period from July 1, 1994, through June 30, 1995. A survey of all physicians using the Pediatric Locum Tenens Service was conducted within 2 months of service to evaluate the program and to refine the orientation, credentialing, and evaluation processes. Results During the year, 35 pediatricians (14% of pediatricians in Colorado and Wyoming) made 97 requests for 398 days of locum tenens coverage. Coverage was used for vacation (85%), medical education (10%), medical leave (3%), and family matters (2%). Solo and rural pediatricians used the service at a higher rate than pediatricians in group or urban practices. Eighty-six percent had never used locum tenens coverage before because of either the expense (67%) or their unwillingness to trust their practices to physicians or services with whom or with which they were unfamiliar (50%). The majority (83%) were willing to pay an amount for locum tenens equal to the net income derived from the locum tenens coverage in the practice. None indicated a willingness to pay more than that. Referrals and admissions to the Children's Hospital from the pediatricians who used the service increased by 22% during the study period compared with the preceding year, whereas referrals and admissions increased by 9% among all other colorado and Wyoming pediatricians. All pediatricians completed surveys, and satisfaction with the locum tenens pediatricians, charges, and program administration was high. Their suggestions are described. Discussion. The following topics are discussed: (1) the economics of pediatric locum tenens; (2) the use of a locum tenens service as a physician relations program by children's hospitals or academic departments of pediatrics; (3) guidelines for orientation of locum tenens pediatricians; and (4) a proposed evaluation and credentialing process for locum tenens physicians.


1981 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-151
Author(s):  
Lillian Glass ◽  
Sharon R. Garber ◽  
T. Michael Speidel ◽  
Gerald M. Siegel ◽  
Edward Miller

An omission in the Table of Contents, December JSHR, has occurred. Lillian Glass, Ph.D., at the University of Southern California School of Medicine and School of Dentistry, was a co-author of the article "The Effects of Presentation on Noise and Dental Appliances on Speech" along with Sharon R. Garber, T. Michael Speidel, Gerald M. Siegel, and Edward Miller of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.


2018 ◽  
pp. E51-E54
Author(s):  
Jennifer Beatty ◽  
Michael Peplowski ◽  
Noreen Singh ◽  
Craig Beers ◽  
Evan M Beck ◽  
...  

The Leader in Medicine (LIM) Program of the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, hosted its 7th Annual LIM Research Symposium on October 30, 2015 and participation grew once again, with a total of six oral and 99 posters presentations! Over 45 of our Faculty members also participated in the symposium. This year’s LIM Symposium theme was “Innovations in Medicine” and the invited guest speaker was our own Dr. Breanne Everett (MD/MBA). She completed her residency in plastic surgery at University of Calgary and holds both a medical degree and an MBA from the University of Calgary. In her inspiring talk, entitled “Marrying Business and Medicine: Toe-ing a Fine Line”, she described how she dealt with a clinical problem (diabetic foot ulcers), came up with an innovation that optimized patient care, started her own company and delivered her product to market to enhance the health of the community. She clearly illustrated how to complete the full circle, from identifying a clinical problem to developing and providing a solution that both enhances clinical care and patient health as well as reduces health care costs and hospital admissions. The research symposium was an outstanding success and the abstracts are included in companion article in CIM.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1958 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 903-909
Author(s):  
James R. Lloyd ◽  
H. William Clatworthy

ALTHOUGH the association between hydramnios and congenital anomalies of the alimentary tract of the fetus has been recognized for more than 75 years, little emphasis has been placed upon this prenatal maternal abnormality as an aid to the earlier diagnosis of obstructive disease in the newborn. With the exception of isolated case reports which were summarized by Taussig in 1927 and the more recent observations of Mengert and Bourland, Castanier et al., and Clatworthy and Lloyd, the diagnostic significance of this relationship has not received proper recognition. Fortunately, today, the majority of anatomic abnormalities of the alimentary tract which are encountered in the neonate can be surgically corrected, if the diagnosis can be established and the treatment instituted before the infant has deteriorated irreversibly. A more general appreciation of the importance of hydramnios as a diagnostic sign of obstructive disease by physicians responsible for the care of the infant during the perinatal period should improve infant salvage. Recent surveys of our experience at the Columbus Children's Hospital with neonates having obstructing lesions of the esophagus or intestine attracted our attention to the fact that many of these infants were delivered of mothers who suffered from acute or chronic hydramnios. In an effort to determine the significance of the interrelationship between hydramnios in the mother and congenital obstruction of the alimentary tract in the fetus, a study was undertaken which included not only a survey of all infants admitted to the Children's Hospital with alimentary tract obstruction but also an analysis of a series of obstetric cases at the University Hospital in women with pregnancy complicated by hydramnios.


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