To Be So Honored - Department of Pediatrics - University of Chicago

Chicago Pediatrics Monthly

March 2015

To Be So Honored Brad Stolbach was awarded a $50,000 Urban Health Initiative Faculty Fellowship, which will support a partnership with Ignition Community Class to conduct research, program development, and pilot implementation of a therapeutic program for youth injured by violence. The program combines glass-‐arts education, mentoring, and trauma psychoeducation. Marcus Leaks, second-‐year social work intern in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, was awarded the prestigious Council on Social Work Education Minority Fellowship, which is given to approximately 20 students nationwide. The $6,000 stipend and mentorship are designed to promote the professional development of racial ǯ students committed to working in underserved communities. Timothy Sentongo was appointed to the program planning committee for Clinical Nutrition Week 2016, the American Society of Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition, to be held in Austin, Texas, in February 2016.

Stacy Kahn was an invited participant to the Chicago Collaboration for Women in STEM Career Development and Leadership Retreat on February 20. Melanie Brown graduated from an Integrated Medicine fellowship and is now board-‐eligible in this specialty, which complements her expertise in Palliative and Comfort Care. In collaboration with the not-‐for-‐profit buildOn, Jennifer Burns, Emily Obringer, and Ellen Acree immunized 40 Chicago public high-‐ school students against yellow fever and typhoid. The students will be traveling to Burkina Faso in West Africa, and Pediatric Infectious Diseases will be providing telemedicine support while the students are abroad.

To Have and To Hold: Grants Michael Kohrman is Principal Investigator for three new clinical trials. One is a multi-‐site, prospective, randomized, double-‐blind, placebo-‐controlled, parallel-‐group interventional study, sponsored by Lundbeck, to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of clobazam as adjunctive therapy in pediatric patients (ages 1 to 16) with Dravet Syndrome. The second, also sponsored by Lundbeck, is a multi-‐site, prospective, open-‐label, long-‐term, flexible-‐dose interventional study to evaluate the safety and tolerability of clobazam as adjunctive therapy in pediatric patients with

Dravet Syndrome. The third clinical trial, sponsored by Pfizer, is a double-‐blind, placebo-‐ controlled, parallel-‐group, multi-‐center study of the efficacy and safety of pregabalin as adjunctive therapy in children 1 month through 3 years of age with partial onset seizures. Ranjana Gokhale is Principal Investigator for a multi-‐center, randomized, double-‐blind, placebo-‐controlled study, sponsored by AbbVie, of the human anti-‐TNF monoclonal antibody adalimumab in pediatric subjects with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis.


March 2015

David Gozal is Principal Investigator for the clinical trial EON: a multi-‐center retrospective with prospective follow-‐up study of early onset childhood narcolepsy, sponsored by Jazz Pharmaceuticals. Rena Conti received two research grants. One from NIH ($28,477) is to study Alliance NCORP Research Base. The second, awarded by the Health Care Cost Institute ($148,254), is to study the impact of provider consolidation on outpatient cancer-‐care spending. Allison Bartlett received two outreach grants from CDC/CDPH for University of Chicago Care to Prevent: Category D3; Prevention with negative behavioral interventions ($50,000) and University of Chicago Care to Prevent: Category A1; Targeted HIV testing and linkage to care ($165,000).

Brad Stolbach received a $40,000 outreach grant from Michael Reese Health Trust for the University of Chicago Healing Hurt PeopleȄ Chicago Program.

On the Page Rena Conti published Pricing in the Market for Anticancer Drugs, Howard DH et al. Journal of Economic Perspectives. 2015; 29[1]: 139-‐62. Timothy Sentongo is author of the chapter Assessment of Nutrition Status by Age and Determining Nutrient Needs in the American Society of Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.) Pediatric Nutrition Support Core Curriculum, 2nd Edition, pages 531-‐566, published February 2015. Stacy Kahn published ǲ ǡǡǳ Fellows to Care for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients? Kahn SA and Rubin DT. Letter to the editor, Inflamm Bowel Dis, in press.

Kahn also wrote the chapter Fecal Microbial Transplant: For Whom, How and When? Kahn SA and Kaplan J. Textbook of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 2nd Edition. Editor Stefano Guandalini, published by Taylor & Francis, in press. In addition, she presented the abstract ǯͼ weeks after Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT). Kelly K et al. Advances in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Orlando, in December 2014. Catherine Humikowski published For What It's Worth in ǯ A Piece of My Mind column, Feb. 24, 2015.


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Michael David, Susan Boyle-‐Vavra, and Robert Daum published Chlorhexidine Baths to Decrease MRSA Carriage in the Dallas County Jail: A Randomized, Controlled Trial. David MZ et al. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2014;35(12):1466-‐73. Michael David published Pathologic Features of Early Pauciimmune Necrotizing Vasculitic Glomerulonephritis: Predominance of M2 Macrophages in Early Lesions. Zhao L et al. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, e-‐published ahead-‐of-‐print, Dec. 16, 2014. Neha Kumar, Michael David, Susan Boyle-‐ Vavra, and Robert Daum published High S aureus Colonization Prevalence Among Patients with SSTIs and Controls in an Urban Emergency Department. Kumar N et al. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, e-‐published ahead-‐of-‐print, Dec. 24, 2014.

David Gozal and Leila Gozal submitted the following articles for publication: Allergies and Disease Severity in Childhood Narcolepsy: Preliminary Findings and Pediatric OSAS: Oximetry can Provide Answers When Polysomnography is Not Available. Along with co-‐author Rakesh Bhattacharjee, they submitted for publication Pupillometric Findings in Children with Obstructive Sleep Apnea and C-‐ reactive Protein as a Potential Biomarker of Residual Obstructive Sleep Apnea Following Adenotonsillectomy in Children.

Talks About Town and Far Afield William Meadow ǲ ǳǯ MacLean Series on End of Life on February 11. ͳʹǡǲ ǳǤ Timothy Sentongo ǲ parenteral nutrition and monitoring patients in ǳ Ƭǯ Nutrition Week 2015 on February 14. Julie Bubeck Wardenburg presented her research on Staphylococcus aureus infection in the Department of Microbiology Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar Series at the University of California, San Francisco, on February 17, the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research on

February 18, and in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Yale on February 26. Jennifer Burns ǲǣǳ at Grand Rounds at Lutheran General on January 12.

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