NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-174

Newborn Symposium: The Seventeenth Annual Angus M. McBryde Newborn Symposium will be held September 14 and 15, 1972, at Duke UniversityMedical Center, Durham, North Carolina. For information write to George W. Brumley, M.D., Division of Perinatal Medicine, Box 2911, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710. The American Academy of Pediatrics Continuing Education Course: The American Academy of Pediatrics will co-sponsor a continuing education course on General Pediatrics with the University of Texas Medical School, San Antonio, Texas, September 14, 15, and 16, 1972, under the chairmanship of Stanley E. Crawford, M.D.

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 350-351

AAP, CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES, 1972-1973: The Continuing Education Courses in Pediatrics that have been arranged by the American Academy of Pediatrics are listed below, with the host institution and the course chairmen. 1. General Pediatrics, September 14-16, 1972, University of Texas Medical School, San Antonio, Texas, Dr. Stanley E. Crawford. 2. Newborn Infants, November 16-18, 1972, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr. Irwin Light. 3. General Pediatrics, December 6-8, 1972, at New Orleans, Louisiana, American Academy of Pediatrics, Evanston, Illinois, Dr. Gerald E. Hughes.


2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-243
Author(s):  
Karen Frutiger ◽  
Martha Kingman ◽  
Abby Poms ◽  
Glenna Traiger

To complement this issue's theme, “Living With Pulmonary Hypertension,” a discussion on assisting patients with therapy decisions was led by guest editor Glenna Traiger, RN, MSN, Pulmonary Hypertension CNS, University of California, Los Angeles. The panelists included Karen Frutiger, RN, Clinical Nurse Coordinator, University of Rochester Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Program, Rochester, NY; Martha Kingman, Nurse Practitioner, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas; and Abby Poms, RRT, Duke University Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program Manager, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-161

AAP Continuing Education Course: The American Academy of Pediatrics will co-sponsor a continuing education course, Problems in Neurology, with the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 8-10, 1973. Guest speakers will be Drs. Robert Eiben, Arnold Gold, Arnold Greenhouse, John Griffith, and Richard Schain. Topics will include infections of the nervous system, seizures, movement disorders, and surgical considerations, and discussions of diagnosis and therapy will have immediate application to the provision of office and hospital care.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1948 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-142

On October 18, 1947, a dinner was given in honor of Dr. Franklin P. Gengenbach by the Rocky Mountain Pediatric Society at the University of Colorado Medical Center. Dr. Gengenbach, the first professor of Pediatrics at the University and one of the founders of the Rocky Mountain Pediatric Society in 1920, was president of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1943-44 and vice-president of the American Pediatric Society in 1932 and 1936. At the dinner


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-307

Failure to Thrive: A postgraduate course entitled, "Failure to Thrive-Prenatal-Preschool and Preteen" will be presented by the Denver Children Hospital and the University of Colorado Medical Center with the sponsorship of the American Academy of Pediatrics September 11-13, 1969. The course chairman will be L. Joseph Butterfield, M.D. Scheduled guest speakers will be Stewart H. Clifford, M.D., and Grant Morrow, III, M.D. The course will present basic information and new approches to the understanding and management of failure to thrive at all ages.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-158

Postgraduate Course Number 5 of the American Academy of Pediatrics: Pediatric Endocrinology, will be held at the Children's Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach, California, January 20-22, 1971. Address correspondence to Dr. Gerald E. Hughes, American Academy of Pediatrics, P.O. Box 1034, Evanston, Illinois 60204. Postgraduate Course The American Academy of Pediatrics will cosponsor a postgraduate course on Recent Advances in the Immunoprophylaxis and Chemotherapy of Infectious Diseases with the American College of Physicians and the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, February 5-7, 1971 under the chairmanship of Vincent A. Fulginiti, M.D.


2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
Victor Tapson ◽  
Robert Frantz ◽  
John Conte

This discussion was moderated by Victor Tapson, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Pulmonary Hypertension and Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina. The participants included Robert Frantz, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; and John Conte, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery and Director of Heart and Lung Transplantation, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.


2010 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. S563-S566
Author(s):  
Patricia M. Butler ◽  
Allison R. Ownby

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1952 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 801-804
Author(s):  
EDWARD A. WISHROPP ◽  
EDGAR E. MARTMER

At the annual meeting of the State Chairmen of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1952, Dr. Edward A. Wishropp made a brief report of the plan for giving comprehensive pediatric care in Windsor, Ontario. This had been studied by the Academy's Committee on Medical Care Plans. In order that the membership of the Academy might have more information about the work of this important committee, the editor of this column requested Dr. Wishropp and Dr. Edgar E. Martmer to prepare a communication on this subject. INSURANCE PLAN REPORT THERE are many programs throughout the United States, Canada and several foreign countries, providing some degree of medical services for infants and children. These range from governmentally financed programs, offering supposedly complete care, to those furnished by individual pediatricians having agreements between the pediatrist and the parents. Because no comprehensive review of these various plans has been made, the Executive Board of the American Academy of Pediatrics created a committee to study insurance plans and programs. The president, Dr. Warren Quillian, appointed a Committee on Medical Care Plans as a fact-finding group. Serving with Dr. Edward A. Wishropp, chairman, are:[See Table In Source PDF] Some basic considerations, presented by Dr. S. J. Axelrod, Assistant Professor of Public Health at the University of Michigan, can be outlined as follows and these must serve as a working nucleus in determining a worth while and workable plan.


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