Inside Pediatrics Winter 2017

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Children’s, UAB at epicenter of CMV research

ADMINISTRATION Mike Warren, President and CEO Coke Matthews, Executive Vice President Garland Stansell, Chief Communications Officer EDITORIAL Cassandra Mickens, Editor Trent Graves, Design

Children’s introduces new equipment for vestibular, balance disorders

Laser Surgery proves effective for some epilepsy patients

Amy Dabbs, Digital Content CONTRIBUTORS

Andre Green Adam Kelley

John Tracy Tina Wilson Marti Webb Slay L. Amanda Owens PHYSICIAN MARKETING Tiffany Kaczorowski MEDICAL LEADERSHIP Mitchell Cohen, M.D. Katherine Reynolds Ireland Chair of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham Physician-in-Chief, Children’s of Alabama Mike Chen, M.D. Joseph M. Farley Chair in Pediatric Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham Chief of Pediatric Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief, Children’s of Alabama Lee I. Ascherman, M.D., M.P.H. Chief of Service, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Alabama at Birmingham For questions or additional information or to share feedback, please contact us at insidepediatrics@childrensal.org An online version of the magazine is available at www.childrensal.org/insidepediatrics

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Intensive Feeding Programoffers hope for children who refuse to eat

News, Honors and Awards

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