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October 2014
To Be So Honored Stacy Kahn was named a Bucksbaum Institute Associate Junior Faculty Scholar. Kahn was also co‐course director (with David Rubin) for the 2014 AGA James W. Freston Single Topic Conference Award: “Therapeutic Innovations in Microbiome Research and Technology: A Further Look into Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT).” This was the first international conference on FMT with almost 150 attendees from around the globe and representatives from the NIH, FDA, AGA, NASPGHAN, IDSA, CCFA, and thought‐leaders in this emerging field. Susan Cohn and nurse researcher Alyssa Kirk received congratulations from the NANT (New Approaches to Neuroblastoma Therapy) Operations Center in October that their application for Comer Children’s Hospital to become a NANT MIBG (meta‐iodobenzylguianidine) site was approved. Eric Beyer served on the American Heart Association Review Panel for Established Investigator Awards. He was also a visiting professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Veena Ramaiah was appointed to the Cook County Child Death Review Team B. Daniel Johnson was invited to be a member of the Sexually Transmitted Infection Policy Advisory Group co‐hosted by the Chicago Department of Public Health and the Illinois Department of Public Health. Lolita Alkureishi was named a Fellow of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators for a three‐year term beginning in November. She will be recognized at the Academy’s eighth annual Medical Education Day on November 20 at 5 p.m. in the DCAM 4th floor atrium. Lisa McQueen was also named a Fellow of the Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators. Jill Glick was appointed co‐chair of the Children and Family Advisory Committee by Governor Pat Quinn. She was also appointed co‐chair of the Multidisciplinary Team Subcommittee of the Children’s Justice Task Force, and reviewer of the Department of Children and Family Services’ investigational protocol procedures 300. Karl Yu was honored with one of the five Pediatric Fellow Poster Awards by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society at IDWeek in Philadelphia in October. Karin Vander Ploeg Booth was named co‐chair of the Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Development. Peter Smith was elected to the Executive Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. Michael Msall was elected to the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine’s complex care committee.
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To Have and To Hold: Grants Icy Cade‐Bell received a one‐year $50,000 grant from the RBC Foundation for “The Pediatric Mobile Medical Unit.” Nancy Schwartz was awarded a five‐year $2,618,822 grant from NIH for the “University of Chicago Initiative for Maximizing Student Development.” Stacy Kahn received a one‐year Bucksbaum Institute pilot grant for “Transitional Clinics for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Comprehensive Approach to Improving Patient Care.”
On the Page Stacy Kahn published the following: Trajectories of Oral Medication Adherence in Youth with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Greenley RN et al. Health Psychology. doi: 10.1037/hea0000149. Transition of Care in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Abraham BP and Kahn SA. Gastroenterology & Hepatology, in press. Fecal Microbial Transplant: For Whom, How and When? Kahn SA and Kaplan J. Textbook of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 2nd Edition. Editor: S Guandalini. Published by Taylor & Francis, in press. Stefano Guandalini published Celiac Disease, Nenna R et al. Autoimmune Diseases. doi: 10.1155/2014/623784. Tara Henderson, Navin Pinto, Samuel Volchenboum, Susan Cohen, and fellow Mark Applebaum published Second malignancies in patients with neuroblastoma: The effects of risk‐based therapy. Applebaum MA et al. Pediatric Blood Cancer 2014 Sep 23. doi: 10.1002/pbc.25249. Margaret Tsien and Ruba Azzam published Topiramate‐Induced Acute Liver Failure in a Pediatric Patient: Case Report and Review of Literature. Tsien MZ et al. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, September 2014. Benjamin Heilbrunn published Reducing Anxiety in the Pediatric Emergency Department: A Comparative Trial. Heilbrunn BR et al. Journal of Emergency Medicine. Published online September 27, 2014. doi: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2014.06.052. Eric Beyer published Connexin40 Abnormalities and Atrial Fibrillation in the Human Heart. Gemel J et al. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 2014 Sep 6;76C:159‐168. doi: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2014.08.021. He also published Degradation of a Connexin40 Mutant Linked to Atrial Fibrillation is Accelerated. Gemel J et al. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 2014 Sep;74:330‐ 9. doi: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2014.06.010.
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Colleen Nash submitted the abstract Indication‐based Antimicrobial Derestriction: Ceftazidime Derestriction for Febrile Neutropenia, which was accepted for poster presentation at ID Week on October 9. She also received a trainee award of $1,000 to attend the meeting. Rakesh Bhattacharjee published Long‐term Effects of Caffeine Therapy for Apnea of Prematurity on Sleep at School Age. Marcus CL et al. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2014 Oct 1; 190(7):791‐9. His study Association of Adenotonsillectomy with Asthma Outcomes in Children: A Longitudinal Database Analysis will be published in PLOS Medicine on November 4th. Lev Becker published the cover article Metabolic Dysfunction Drives a Mechanistically Distinct Pro‐ inflammatory Phenotype in Adipose Tissue Macrophages. Kratz M et al. Cell Metabolism. 7, 614‐625. Yang Wang and David Gozal published Effect of Resveratrol on Visceral White Adipose Tissue Inflammation and Insulin Sensitivity in a Mouse Model of Sleep Apnea. Carreras A et al. International Journal of Obesity. 2014 Oct 9. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2014.181. Gozal also published Inflammatory Markers and Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Obese Children: The NANOS Study. Gileles‐Hillel A et al. Mediators of Inflammation. doi: 10.1155/2014/605280 and Exosomal MiRNAs as Potential Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Risk in Children. Khalyfa A and Gozal D. Journal of Translational Medicine. doi: 10.1186/1479‐5876‐12‐162. Michael Msall published the following: Executive Function of Adult Survivors of Prematurity, Chapter 3. Winchester SB et al. In KP Bennett (Ed) Executive Function: Role in Learning Processes, Impairments in Neurological disorders and impact of Cognitive‐Behavior Therapy, NOVA Publishers. Elevated blood levels of inflammation‐related proteins are associated with an attention problem at age 24 months in extremely preterm infants. O'Shea TM et al. Pediatric Research. 2014 Jun; 75(6):781‐7. Impaired visual fixation at the age of 2 years in children born before the twenty‐eighth week of gestation: Antecedents and correlates in the multicenter ELGAN study. Phadke A et al. Pediatric Neurology 2014 Jul; 51(1):36‐42.
A Sampling of Talks About Town and Far Afield Brojendra Agarwala spoke on “Fetal Echocardiogram: Past and Present” at the 2014 World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics in Taiyuan, China, on October 24. He was also invited to be a visiting professor at the Children’s Hospital in Taiyuan. Stefano Guandalini gave the keynote lecture at the 2014 Frontiers in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition meeting at Harvard Medical School on September 12. He spoke on “The Spectrum of Gluten‐Related Disorders: Facts and Fallacies of Celiac Disease.” Ruba Azzam was an invited speaker at the Fifth Scientific Day of the department of pediatrics at the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan, on September 4. She spoke on “Gastrointestinal and 3
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Hepatobiliary Manifestations of Cystic Fibrosis in Children” and “Fatty Liver Disease in Children‐‐Not All is Obesity.” Lolita Alkureishi spoke on “Breaking Away from the iPatient to Care for the Real Patient” at the Gold Humanism Honor Society Biennial Conference in Atlanta, GA, in October. Daniel Johnson spoke on “Enterovirus D68 in the United States: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment” to the CDC’s Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity Call on September 16. Rakesh Bhattacharjee spoke on "Adenotonsillectomy Outcomes in Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children” at the annual meeting of the Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine in New Orleans in October. Karl Yu presented “Evidence for Staphylococcus aureus alpha‐Toxin as a Dominant Antigen in Severe Pediatric Influenza‐Staphylococcal Co‐infection — Implications for Therapy" at IDWeek in Philadelphia in October. This work was co‐authored by Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg. Allison Bartlett presented the following posters at IDWeek in Philadelphia in October: “Indication‐based Antimicrobial Derestriction: Ceftazidime Derestriction for Febrile Neutropenia”;”Evaluation of Vancomycin Loading Dose in Pediatric Patients”; “Evaluation of Extended‐ Interval Aminoglycoside Dosing (EIAD) at a Pediatric Institution”; “Influenza Among Afebrile and Vaccinated Healthcare Workers”; “Social Media as a Tool for Antimicrobial Stewardship” and “Voriconazole Restriction in Addition to Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) Protocol Results in Optimized Dosing.” Bree Andrews presented Pediatric Grand Rounds at Loyola University on October 13, speaking on "Optimizing Extremely Low Birthweight Neuro‐Developmental Outcomes." Bradley Stolbach gave a Plenary at the Illinois Chapter of the AAP conference on September 19. Peter Smith, Karin Vander Ploeg Booth, and Michael Msall, presented “Measuring Functioning in Persons with Down Syndrome Across the Life Course” at the International Jerome Lejeune Clinical Conference in Paris. The efforts of the University of Chicago Developmental and Behavioral Pediatric Group were supported in part by a pilot UChicago‐French Exchange Grant, the LeJeune Foundation Planning Grant for U.S. Clinical Trials, and Illinois LEND. Michael Msall was a member of the Research Strategic Planning Committee of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine. At the AACPDM meeting in San Diego in September, he presented “Cerebral Palsy Registers and Surveillance Systems: Why They are Useful, How to Start One and What to do Next.” He also organized the seminar “Health Disparities, Prematurity, and Cerebral Palsy: Opportunities and Challenges.” Msall’s and Michael Schreiber’s paper “Relationship Between White Matter Fractional Anisotrophy and General Movement Assessments in High‐risk Premature Infants: Atract‐based Spatial Statistical Analysis” was nominated for the best scientific paper at the meeting. Msall also presented a poster “Review of Cerebral Palsy Registries: Exploration of Knowledge Dissemination and the Relationship Between Database Variables and the International Classification of Function, Disability and Health.” 4
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October 2014
Hilary Jericho gave the keynote lecture on advances in celiac disease at the Annual Iowa Celiac Conference on October 3. She was also the moderator of the session “Virtual Celiac Disease: The Spectrum of Gluten‐Related Disorders” at the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA, on October 23. Erika Claud spoke on “The Mystery of NEC Pathogenesis: Are There Answers from the Microbiome” at the Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Pediatric Research Seminar on September 28. She also spoke on “Intrauterine Influence on the Infant Microbiome” at the Indiana University Neonatology/Maternal Fetal Medicine Conference on October 15. She spoke on “In Search of an Optimal Neonatal Microbiota” at the Indiana University Neonatology Research Conference on October 16. Julie Bubeck Wardenburg presented the University of Chicago site contribution to studies of “Influenza and Staphylococcus aureus Co‐infection” at the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators Meeting on Oct. 10. She also spoke on “Staphylococcus aureus Alpha‐Toxin: Complexities of a Host‐ Pathogen Interaction” at the University of Chicago Committee on Immunology Seminar on Monday Oct. 20. Emily Dawson presented at the national EPIC meeting in San Diego on her EPIC‐based workflow for systematic, early identification, and initiation of therapy in pediatric patients with sepsis.
Upcoming Talks Jennifer McNeer will be speaking on “Optimizing Care for Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Patients” at the Women’s Health Symposium at Chicago Booth’s Gleacher Center on November 8. Stefano Guandalini will give the keynote lecture “New Frontiers in Celiac Disease” at the annual meeting of the Italian Association for Celiac Disease in Rome on November 7. Lainie Ross will participate in a debate at the American Society of Nephrology’s Kidney Week in Philadelphia on November 13: “Do You Want the Good or the Bad News? Counseling Your Patients about the New National Kidney Allocation Policy.” She will speak on “The New Kidney Allocation System: Cons.” Ross will also give the following lectures:“Children are Not Canaries,” the keynote address at the University of Chicago Law School on November 14; “Solid Organ Transplantation: The Child as Donor and Recipient,” the keynote address at Transplant Day 2014 at the University of British Columbia on November 20; “Ethical and Policy Issues in Newborn Screening: Case Studies From Around the World,” pediatric grand rounds at the University of British Columbia on November 21; and “Living Kidney Donors and Their Recipients: Who Wants to Know What?” at the Transplant Ethics Symposium at the University of British Columbia on November 21. Hilary Jericho will speak on “Advances in the Field of Type I DM and Celiac Disease” at the Healthy Living with Diabetes Family Fair in Palos Hills, IL, on November 1. She will also be speaking on “Complicated Cases of Celiac Disease” at the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center Preceptorship Program on December 4 and 5. 5
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October 2014
Rachel Wolfson will lead the session "Building a Better Scholarly Concentration Experience: Program Format and Student Performance" and the session "Emerging Solutions: What is the Impact of Scholarly Concentration Programs on Learners and Faculty?" with colleagues from the Columbia University and the University of Massachusetts during the AAMC Annual Meeting: Learn Serve Lead 2014, held in Chicago in November. Editorial note: Please submit details of awards, grants, publications, and talks to your section administrator by November 15 for inclusion in next month’s newsletter.
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