Inside Pediatrics Winter 2015

Children’s of Alabama 1600 7th Ave. S. Birmingham, Alabama 35233 (205) 638-9100 www.childrensal.org Inside Pediatrics President and CEO... Mike Warren Chief Communications Officer............... Garland Stansell Editor......................Kathy Bowers Design..................... Trent Graves Photography........... Denise McGill Digital Content........... Amy Dabbs Contributors............. Andre Green Adam Kelley John Tracy Physician Marketing.......Tiffany Kaczorowski Mitchell Cohen, M.D. Katherine Reynolds Ireland Chair of Pediatrics University of Alabama at Birmingham Physician-in-Chief, Children’s of Alabama W. Jerry Oakes, M.D. Dan L. Hendley Chair in Pediatric Neurosurgery University of Alabama at Birmingham Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery and Surgeon-in-Chief, Children’s of Alabama Tina Wilson Hollie Odom

News, Honors & Awards

• Peter W. Glaeser, M.D. , Emergency Medicine, received the 2015 Rocco V. Morando Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing a lifetime of commitment and contributions to Emergency Medical Services (EMS). It is the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT)’s most prestigious award. • Waldemar A. Carlo, M.D. , Neonatology, is a Southern Society for Pediatric Research (SSPR) Founders Award recipient for 2016 in recognition of his work in promoting the SSPR and research in pediatric health. • Randy Cron, M.D., Ph.D. , Rheumatology, has been selected to serve a three-year term on the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR) Fellows Basic Research Awards Selection Committee. • The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) announced the appointment of Prescott Atkinson, M.D., Ph.D. , Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, to the ACGME Review Committee for Allergy and Immunology. • Crayton A. Fargason, Jr., M.D. , General Pediatrics, has had his appointment on the Healthcare Safety & Quality Improvement Research study section of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality extended for a year. • Drew Davis, M.D. , Rehabilitation Medicine, has been selected by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation to serve a three-year term as an item writer for the Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Board Examination. • David W. Kimberlin, M.D. , Infectious Diseases, received the American Academy of Pediatrics – Alabama Chapter Special Achievement Award. He also presented the annual Philip Porter Lecture at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children and Harvard University. • David B. Joseph, M.D. , FAAP , FACS , the Beverly P. Head Chair in Pediatric Urology at Children’s of Alabama, received the 2015 Wallace Alexander Clyde Distinguished Service Award for Excellence in Pediatrics from the UAB Department of Pediatrics, Children’s and AL- AAP. The award, initiated in 1984, recognizes outstanding physicians who have devoted a lifetime of service to children and their families. Recipients are chosen by a committee of leaders in the pediatrics field. • Richard Whitley, M.D. , Infectious Diseases, has been named as Co-Chair of the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee’s Biosafety Committee. • Myriam Peralta-Carcelen, M.D. , M.P.H. , FAAP , General Pediatrics, has been elected to serve as a member of the Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Executive Committee for a three-year term.

• Susan Walley, M.D. , Hospital Medicine, has been selected as a member of the Executive Committee of the national AAP Section on Tobacco Control (SOTC) and currently serves as the AAP SOTC Publications Chair and Newsletter Editor. She has also been selected to author the AAP Policy Statement on Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (i.e., electronic cigarettes). • William S. McMahon, M.D. , and Mark Law, M.D. , Cardiology, were recently certified to implant a new device used for closure of patent ductus arteriosus. This new device, specifically designed for percutaneous PDA closure, facilitates non-surgical closure of PDA in infants and children. • Children’s of Alabama has been granted a three-year term of accreditation in the area of Pediatric Transthoracic Echocardiography by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC). Accreditation by the IAC means that the lab has undergone a thorough review of its operational and technical components by a panel of experts. The IAC grants accreditation only to those facilities that are found to be providing quality patient care in compliance with national standards through a comprehensive application process, including detailed case study review and ongoing quality improvement initiatives. Children’s has the only pediatric echo lab in the state with IAC accreditation. • The American College of Radiology awarded accreditation to Children’s Russell Campus CT and MRI, and renewed accreditation to the Children’s South MRI. • The Joseph S. Bruno Pediatric Heart Center at Children’s became the first pediatric cardiovascular center in the Southeast, and one of only eight in the nation, to be recognized as a pediatric heart failure institute by The Healthcare Colloquium. • Children’s is the first pediatric hospital to earn ABRET accreditation for its neurophysiologic intraoperative monitoring. The neurophysiology lab is one of the few labs in the country to be accredited in EEG, EMU and NIOM. • The UAB Pediatric Pulmonology division at Children’s of Alabama was recently selected as a recipient of the annual quality care award by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. • Children’s of Alabama welcomed the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Brookings Institution to Birmingham in July to present Volume 25, Number 1 Spring 2015 issue of The Future of Children, Policies to Promote Child Health . This collaboration of two world-class institutions is aimed at translating the best social science research about children and youth into information that is useful to policymakers, practitioners, grant-makers, advocates, the media and students of public policy. The presentation of The Future of Children marks the first time the journal has been unveiled in a pediatric hospital.

Lee I. Ascherman, M.D., M.P.H. Chief of Service, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University of Alabama at Birmingham

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