| Announcing Stead Family Department of Pediatrics' Research Day Winners | We are sending a big thank you to everyone who participated in the Stead Family Department of Pediatrics Research Day, whether you attended to learn more about research across the department, or you presented your research as a talk or a poster.
Special thanks to Cheri Stevens and Angi Roemerman for their coordination and planning, as well as to Mike Tansey, MD, Polly Ferguson, MD, Paul McCray, MD, and Kathy Mathews, MD (chair) for their work on the planning committee.
Thanks also to Claire McGranahan for photographing the event (photos can be found at S:\\COMMON\\_Clinical Research Resources\\Photos\\2022 Peds Research Day (note: special access to this folder may be required)).
Selected for platform presentation by graduating fellows
Michael Cole
“Prevalence and impact on quality of life of gastrointestinal and genitourinary symptoms in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy”
June Kinoshita, Angelena Edwards, Christopher S. Cooper, Eyad M. Hanna, M. Bridget Zimmerman, and Katherine D. Mathews
Gopinathan Gangadharan Nambiar
“Pancreatic enzymes digest obstructive meconium from cystic fibrosis pigs”
Sussette Gonzalez, Christian Zirbes, Ian Thornell, David Stoltz, Anthony Fischer
Gino Bardi Lola
“Predicting Cerebellar Mutism Syndrome”
Jax Skye, Joel Bruss, Sebastian Toescu, Aaron D Boes
Best resident or fellow posters
Christopher Monson
“Assessing the Impact of Iowa County Ordinances on All-Terrain and Utility Vehicle Crashes”
P. Vakkalenka, C. Jennissen
Melanie Morris
“Hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus exposure is associated with impaired glucose tolerance among extremely preterm infants in the first 14 postnatal days”
Susan Carlson, Patrick J McNamara, Regan E Giesinger
Best graduate student or post-doctoral fellow posters
Saul Rodriguez
“Naltrexone, a mu-opioid receptor antagonist, decreases neuroinflammation and prevents post-traumatic epilepsy”
Shaunik Sharma, PhD, Grant Tiarks, BSc, Zeru Peterson, BSc, Kyle Jackson, BSc, Daniel Thiedens, PhD, Angela Wong, BSc, David Keffala-Gerhard, BSc, Joseph Glykys, MD, PhD, Thomas Nickl-Jockschat MD, Alexander G. Bassuk, MD, PhD
Brittany Todd
“Role of Type I Interferon Signaling in Traumatic Brain Injury Pathogenesis”
Noah Gilkes, Zili Luo, Alexander Bassuk, Elizabeth Newell
Best medical student posters
Kelsey Blocklinger
“Raising a child with intellectual and developmental disability: Impact on maternal stress and social support”
Tanner Kempton MS, Emese Chmielewski BA, Linder Wendt MS, Patrick Ten Eyck MS PhD, Lane Strathearn MBBS PhD
Alyssa Gingerich with co-first-author Allison Hagenow
“AWAKENing Acute Kidney Injury Surveillance in Neonates at the University of Iowa”
*Hagenow, A; Steinbach, EJ; Klein, J; Jetton, JG
| | | | Welcome to the Team
- Garret House, Research Assistant, division of Medical Genetics & Genomics, started May 9.
We Want to Feature YOU
We are always looking for staff and providers to feature in the Stead Family Department of Pediatrics. If you would like to tell your story, contact Claire McGranahan or fill out our Spotlight Survey.
Open Positions in the Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
We currently have multiple opportunities for people to join our department - we encourage you to view them and share them as you like:
| | | Featured Positions in the Stead Family Department of Pediatrics Here are a couple of the open positions within the Stead Family Department of Pediatrics and Stead Family Children's Hospital, which we invite you to share through your own professional networks - whether that be through a targeted email, or by posting the link to your professional social media accounts:
Thank you for your help and dedication in continuing to grow this department with world-class talent. | | | | YOU Make a Difference, Stephanie Lee! "Dr. Lee has been a wonderful asset to the NICU team, as a staff physician she has been outstanding in partnering on the unit for many multidisciplinary project. Dr. Lee representation for the medical team on our unit based developmental care and pain shared governance is impactful to the care we provide. She has gone above and beyond to be present and participate in improving patient care. The collaboration and connection Dr. Lee has created with nursing, has increased nursing leadership job satisfaction. We are so appreciate of all of her hard work, contributions, and connections she has created to impact patient care. Dr. Lee has helped lead 2 of our most successful events over this past year our NICU Kangaroo‐a‐thon and our Books for babies read‐a‐thon. Words cant express how thankful I am for her. THANK YOU!"
Nominated by: Marissa Johnson
Awarded on: April 22, 2022 | | | The Iowa Neuroscience Institute has awarded a total of $2.4 million to four research teams to carry out Research Programs of Excellence over the next three years. Funded by the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, the research ranges from fundamental biology to translational studies and is focused on schizophrenia, autism, dementia, and neuroplasticity.
Aaron Boes, MD, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics and neurology and division director of pediatric neurology, along with colleagues Mark Blumberg, PhD, professor of psychological and brain sciences, and Thomas Nickl-Jockschat, MD, associate professor of psychiatry, was one of four research teams to earn this award. Click through to read more. | | | Featured in Medicine Iowa | | | | UI Health Care is the first in Iowa and only one of a handful of centers nationally to use the Harmony valve for pediatric and adult patients with severe pulmonary regurgitation—or blood leaking backward into the right lower chamber of the heart.
Patients with certain congenital heart disease, which disrupt blood flow from the heart to the lungs, may have previously had multiple open-heart surgeries over the course of their lifetime. Osamah Aldoss, MBBS, MD, UI clinical associate professor of pediatrics-cardiology, says the Harmony valve, recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), offers these patients not only a less invasive treatment than open-heart surgery, but also one with less recovery time and fewer restrictions before returning to work or other activities.
Click through for the full story. | | | When Aliye Uc, MD (95R, 97F), formed INSPPIRE [INternational Study Group of Pediatric Pancreatitis: In search for a cuRE] in 2009, she had a straightforward goal:
“Our mission was to improve the lives of children and their families,” says Uc, professor of pediatrics in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. “We wanted to find therapies for pediatric pancreatitis.”
Since then, Uc has become a world-renowned pediatric gastroenterologist and has led INSPPIRE in creating the first and most comprehensive natural history study of the disorder.
Click through for the full story. | | | DEI Corner and Wellness Updates | | | | DEI Newsletter Going Quarterly After the May issue of the Stead Family Department of Pediatrics' DEI Newsletter, we will be shifting this to come out quarterly. As always, we welcome your input on content you find useful. In addition, we remain open for anyone in the department to write a Diversity Spotlight to share with the department. Simply email Joyce Goins-Fernandez, PhD with interest.
If you are interested in volunteering for a two-hour shift to help with the Cultural Awareness Appreciation Day event, please visit this SignUpGenius link. | | | liveWELL is offering UI employees Recharge+™, a digital program designed to help you increase your resilience. People with higher resilience are less likely to be depressed and more likely to have better health.
Recharge⁺ utilizes the Resilience Evaluation Measure© (REM), an innovative and validated assessment of resilience, which provides you with a snapshot of your current level of resilience and immediate feedback on how you can improve.
Tailored text messages delivered daily, at the time you choose, provide you with guidance in three key domains; reset, rethink, and reconnect. Learn more about Recharge+™ here. | | | | Frontiers in Pediatric Research Lectures
- Second and fourth Mondays of the month, from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. via Zoom.
Grand Rounds
- Every Friday from 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. in JCP 2415 and via Zoom. CME credit available.
- May 20: Tvedt Lecture Speaker Stanley Perlman, MD, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics; "Coronaviruses and COVID-19: Past and Future."
- May 27: Alissa Doobay, PhD, Iowa Center for School of Mental Health (ICSMH) Director of Clinical Services; Gerta Bardhoshi, PhD, ICSMH Director of Research and Training; Kari Vogelgesang, PhD, ICSMH Director of Professional Development; Taylor Ford, MSW, LISW, ICSMH Crisis Coordinator and Clinical Supervisor, University of Iowa; "ICSMH: Recognizing and Responding to Psychological Trauma in Pediatric Primary Care."
| | | Non-Profit Event Features 2022 Walk to End Epilepsy
Join our division of Neurology's team NoMoSeizures in the June 4th Walk to End Epilepsy! It's free to register, and the team does plan on attending in person.
For the fourth year in a row, Peds Neurology is engaging in a friendly fundraising competition with Adult Neurology and Neurosurgery. If you feel compelled to donate to either team, you may do so directly on their team page.
Questions? Reach out to Liberty Taeger.
14th Annual Heart Friends Golf Outing
This year's Heart Friends Support Group's annual event takes place on Friday, June 10: 9:00 a.m. at Saddleback Golf Course, 4646 180th St. NE, Solon, IA 52333. | | | Help Us Improve this Newsletter | Thank you for being a Peds Express subscriber! This newsletter goes out to all staff, providers, and trainees in the Stead Family Department of Pediatrics, as well as additional people who've expressed interest in this content, every other Monday afternoon.
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