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Provider Grand Rounds

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Provider Grand Rounds Schedule and Topics

2012

January 19, 2012 – Postponed due to inclement weather

Supersized Ethics: Obesity and Child Protective Services 

Sconyers/Godfrey Ethics Lecture
Kyle Brothers, MD
Instructor of Pediatrics, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

January 26, 2012

Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents 

Gary A. Walco, PhD, ABPP
Professor, Anesthesiology; Adjunct Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Director, Pain Medicine, Seattle Children’s

February 2, 2012

What Is New in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Neonatal Herpes 

Lisa Frenkel, MD
Professor, Pediatrics and Laboratory Medicine, UW; Pediatrics-Inpatient, Infectious Disease, Seattle Children’s

February 9, 2012

Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants: Adolescent Health, Developmental Outcomes and Implications for Adult Healthcare 

Doug Picha Lectureship
Maureen Hack, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University; Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, University Hospitals of Cleveland

February 16, 2012

Appendicitis: Building a Standard Approach 

Adam Goldin, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACS
Assistant Professor, Surgery, UW; Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery, Seattle Children’s Hospital

Daniel Ledbetter, MD
Associate Professor, Surgery, UW, Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery at Seattle Children’s Hospital

February 23, 2012

Hepatocyte Transplantation – An Alternative for Orthotopic Liver Replacement 

Ron Scott Lecture
Markus Grompe, MD
Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics and Molecular and Medical Genetics, Oregon Health and Science University; Director of the Pape Family Pediatric Institute; Director, Oregon Stem Cell Center

March 1, 2012

Management of Fever in Young Infants 

M. Douglas Baker, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Vice Chairman for Community Outreach, The Johns Hopkins University

March 8, 2012

Choosing a Site for a Special Pediatric Surgery: Helping Families Make Informed Decisions When Comparing Hospitals and Programs 

Karl Welke, MD
Acting Associate Professor, Surgery, UW; Cardiac Surgery, Seattle Children’s

March 15, 2012

Mast Cells: From Anaphylaxis to Mastocytosis and Beyond 

Adrian Piliponsky, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Center for Immunity and Immunotherapies, Seattle Children’s

March 22, 2012

Propranolol and Vascular Anomaly Treatment 

Jonathan Perkins, DO
Professor, Otolaryngology, UW; Pediatric Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Chief of Vascular Anomalies Program, Seattle Children’s

March 29, 2012

Imaging and Pediatric Epilepsy: Lessons Learned and Future Direction 

Sarkowsky Lecture
James Barkovich, MD
Professor in Residence, Radiology, Pediatrics, Neurology, and Neurological Surgery, UCSF

2012 Archives

January 5, 2012

 Aiming Higher: Ethical Challenges in the Care of Children Without Parents 

Maureen Kelley, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Bioethics; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Bioethics, Humanities and Philosophy, UW; consultant, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics, Medicine

January 12, 2012

 Serving Low-Income Families During an Economic Downturn 

Martin Luther King/Lavizzo Lecture
Benjamin Danielson, MD
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UW; Clinic Chief, Odessa Brown Medical Clinic; Clinical Director, Odessa Brown Children's Clinic

2011 Archives

January 6, 2011

 Improving Neonatal Resuscitation: New Approaches and Outcomes   

Thomas P. Strandjord, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Neonatologist, Seattle Children's

January 13, 2011

 The Structural and Cultural Determinants of Health: How Tomorrow's Healthcare System Will Impact Inequities  

King/Lavizzo Lecture
Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD
Research Director, Social Determinants of Health, Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC

January 20, 2011

Parental Requests for Long-Term Mechanical Ventilation in Children with Overwhelming Neurological Injury 

Sconyers/Godfrey Ethics Lecture 
Walter Robinson, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University; Div. of Allergy, Immunology and Pulmonary Medicine, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital; The Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Nashville, TN

Margaret Hood, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Inpatient Attending, Seattle Children’s

Sidney Gospe, MD, PhD
Professor, Neurology and Pediatrics, UW; Chief, Division of Neurology, Seattle Children’s

January 27, 2011

Naughty or Nice: Media's Impact on Preschool Children's Behavior 

Adkins Lecture 
Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH
George Adkins Professor of Pediatrics, UW; Director, Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development, Seattle Children’s

February 3, 2011

Legal Solutions to Medical Problems: Medical-Legal Partnerships in Pediatric Settings 

Ben Danielson, MD
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UW; Clinic Chief and Clinical Director, Odessa Brown Children's Clinic

Brian Johnston, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Chief of Service, Pediatrics, Harborview

Scott Crain, Esq.
Attorney for Medical Legal Partnership for Children (MLPC) in Seattle

February 10, 2011

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Are We There Yet?   

Blythe Thomson, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, UW; Hematology-Oncology Outpatient Clinical Director, Seattle Children’s

February 17, 2011

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: Diagnosis, Management and Insights   

Susan Apkon, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Rehabilitation Dept. and Program Director, Rehab Medicine, Seattle Children’s

February 24, 2011

Travels Around the Urea Cycle 

Ronald Scott Lecture 
Mark Batshaw, MD
Professor and Chairman, Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Services; Chief Academic Officer, Children’s Research Institute, Children’s National Medical Center

March 3, 2011

Disaster Preparedness: Are We Ready for Children?   

Steven Krug, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; Head, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children’s Memorial Hospital

March 10, 2011

 The Future of Food: Childhood Malnutrition in Malawi, a Rescue and a Fix  

Warmington–Community Pediatrics Lecture 
Mark Manary, MD
Helene B. Robertson Professor of Pediatrics, Washington University in St. Louis; Director, Global Harvest Alliance, Joint Venture between St. Louis University and Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

March 17, 2011

Taking the Fun Out of Functional: An Update on Functional Abdominal Pain in Children 

Tyler Burpee, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Gastroenterologist, Seattle Children’s

March 24, 2011

The Biology of Misfortune: How Biology, Behavior and Environment Create the Social Partitioning of Health 

W. Thomas Boyce, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia; Sunny Hill Health Centre BC Leadership Chair in Child Development in the Human Early Learning Partnership

March 31, 2011

When Your Guts Have Left You: Improving the Quality of Care for Gastroschisis   

Linda Wallen, MD
Associate Division Head for Clinical Operations, Neonatology, Seattle Children’s

April 7, 2011

 Medical-Legal Investigation of Deaths of Infants and Young Children  

Holt Webster Lecture
Richard Harruff, MD
King County Medical Examiner

April 14, 2011

Addressing Medical Errors and Transparency in Pediatrics: Pushing the Envelope for Disclosure  

David Loren, MD
Assistant Professor of Neonatology, UW; Neonatologist, Seattle Children's

April 21, 2011

 Tongue Tie and Frenotomy  

Isabella Knox, MD, EdM

April 28, 2011

Managing Asthma with Onset in Young Children  

William E. Pierson Lecture
Stanley J. Szefler, MD
Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology, University of Colorado Denver; Director of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Health

May 5, 2011

Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension   

Delphine Yung, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Cardiology, Seattle Children’s

May 12, 2011

 Research Involving Benefit to Others: When “Others” May Be Hard to Appreciate   

Sconyers/Godfrey Ethics Lecture
Dave Wendler, PhD
Head, Unit on Vulnerable Populations, Department of Bioethics, NIH Clinical Center

Bryan H. King, MD
Professor and Vice Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UW; Director, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Seattle Children's

May 19, 2011

 The Ongoing Challenge of Pediatric Neurology 

Sarkowsky Lecture
Kenneth F. Swaiman, MD
Professor Emeritus, Neurology and Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School; Senior Editor, Pediatric Neurology Principles and Practices 

May 26, 2011

 The Department of Pediatrics: Serving Our Community  

F. Bruder Stapleton, MD
Chair and Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UW; Associate Dean, UW School of Medicine; Seattle Children's

June 2, 2011

Candidates for AAP President and National AAP Update   

F. Curt Bennett, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, UW; Coordinator, Medical Student Education, Pediatrics, Seattle Children’s

June 9, 2011

Bullying: What Is the Pediatrician's Role?  

Henry Berman, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UW; Adolescent Medicine, Seattle Children's

June 16, 2011

The Power of Registered Therapy Dogs in Medical Settings  

Klavano Lecture
Christi Dudzik, MC, LMHC
President, Healing Paws 

June 23, 2011

 Juvenile Myositis: From Seattle's Bedside to Bethesda 

Lisa Rider, MD
Deputy Unit Chief, Environmental Autoimmunity Group, Office of Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Services, National Institute of Health 

June 30, 2011

 DKA: A Continuous Infusion of Improvement 

Joel Tieder, MD, MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UW; Pediatric Hospitalist, Seattle Children’s

Ildiko Koves, MD, FRACP

Elaine Beardsley, RN

July 7, 2011

 Transforming Healthcare Through Application of a New Science 

Uma Kotagal, MB BS, MSc
Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology; Senior VP, Quality and Transformation; Director, Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness, Cincinnati Children’s

July 14, 2011

 Immunotherapy of Neuroblastoma: The End of the Beginning 

Abelson Lecture
Paul Sondel, MD, PhD
Reed and Carolee Walker Professor, Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin–Madison

July 21, 2011

 CTA Versus MRA: A Primer for Pediatricians 

Rajesh Krishnamurthy, MB BS
Assistant Professor of Radiology and Pediatrics, Texas Children's Hospital

July 28, 2011

Evolving Knowledge of the Teratogenicity of Medications in Human Pregnancy 

Margaret Adam, MD, FAAP, FACMG
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Seattle Children’s

August 4, 2011

Pediatric Transfusion Medicine: Accessing Safe and Effective Blood Products   

Meghan Delaney, DO, MPH
Assistant Professor, Laboratory Medicine, UW; Assistant Medical Director, Puget Sound Blood Center; Transfusion Specialist, Seattle Children’s

August 11, 2011

The SCH Strategic Plan: Setting a Path to the Future in Difficult Times 

Sanford M. Melzer, MD, MBA
Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning, Seattle Children's

August 18, 2011

Operating Rooms of the Future: Simulation and Changes in Surgery Richard M. Satava, MD
Professor, Surgery, Division of General Surgery, UW

August 25, 2011

Translational Research in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury 

Monica S. Vavilala, MD
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology and Pediatrics; Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery and Radiology, UW; Pediatric-Primary Care, Emergency Medicine, Anesthesia, Seattle Children’s

September 1, 2011

Surgical, Cellular and Molecular Perspectives on the Fetus as a Patient 

Tapper Lecture
Alan Flake, MD
Professor of Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Director, Children’s Institute for Surgical Science, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

September 8, 2011

Optimizing Cancer Care for Adolescents and Young Adults 

Rebecca H. Johnson, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Hematology-Oncology, Pediatrics, UW; Hematology-Oncology, Seattle Children’s

September 15, 2011

 Neural Gain Control and Ocular Motor Plasticity: Rethinking Therapy for Childhood Strabismus 

Roger Johnson Lecture
Stephen P. Christiansen, MD
President of Boston University Eye Associates; Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, Boston University School of Medicine

September 22, 2011

Adolescent Health: Can the Delivery of Preventive Services Be Improved? 

Robert Deischer Lecture
Charles Irwin, MD
Professor, Pediatrics; Director, Division of Adolescent Medicine; Vice Chairman, Academic General Pediatrics; UCSF

October 6, 2011

 The Baby Will Tell Us 

Treuman Katz Ethics Lecture
Albert Jonsen, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Ethics in Medicine, UW

October 13, 2011

 Meeting Joint Commission Standards for Effective Communication: Implications and Strategies for Improving Patient Safety and Quality of Care 

Ira SenGupta, MA
Executive Director, Cross Cultural Health Care Program, Seattle, WA

October 20, 2011

Childhood Cancer Survivors: Clinical Care and Research Challenges 

Ronald Chard Lecture
Lisa R. Diller, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Chief Medical Officer and Clinical Director of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center

October 27, 2011

RU Blue? Improving Care for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care Settings 

Laura Richardson, MD
Associate Professor, UW; Adolescent Medicine Specialist, Seattle Children’s

November 3, 2011

Elevating the Quality of Care for the Highest Risk Children in Foster Care 

David Rubin, MD
Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania; Director, PolicyLab: Center to Bridge Research, Practice, and Policy; Director of Research and Policy for Safe Place: The Center for Child Protection and Health at CHOP

Kathleen Noonan, JD
Clinical Associate Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin

November 10, 2011

Paging God: The Experiences of Pediatric Physicians with Religion and Spirituality 

Alhadeff Spirituality Lecture
Wendy Cadge, PhD
Associate Professor of Sociology, Brandeis University

November 17, 2011

Preventing Alcohol Brain Damage: The Pediatrician’s Role 

Ronald Lemire Lecture
Sterling Clarren, MD
Clinical Professor, Division of Developmental Pediatrics, University of British Columbia; CEO and Scientific Director, Canada Northwest Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Research Network

December 1, 2011

Cerebral Palsy: Prevalence, Predictability and Prevention  

Ryan McAdams, MD
Assistant Professor, Neonatology, UW; Seattle Children’s

December 8, 2011

The Hypocritical Oath  

Lana Staheli Lecture
Laura Kastner, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UW

December 15, 2011

Use of Donor Human Milk in High-Risk Infants   

Moll Lecture
Isabella Knox, MD, EdM
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Co-Director, Pediatric Fellows College, Seattle Children’s

2010 Archives

July 1, 2010

Brachial Plexus Palsies in Infants and Children  

Raymond Tse, MD
Assistant Professor, Surgery, UW; Brachial Plexus Program Director, Seattle Children’s

July 8, 2010

The Neck in Down Syndrome: Screening for and Management of the Cervical Spine in Trisomy 21  

Samuel Browd, MD
Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery, UW; Neurosurgery, Oncology, Seattle Children’s

July 15, 2010

Translational Genomics for Neuroblastoma: Recent Discoveries Lead to New Therapeutic Opportunities 

Abelson Lecture 
John M. Maris, MD
Giulio D’Angio Chair in Neuroblastoma Research; Chief, Division of Oncology; Director, Center for Childhood Cancer Research, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

July 22, 2010

Intestinal Failure: Diagnosis, Management and Outcomes 

Patrick Javid, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery, UW; General and Thoracic Surgery, Seattle Children's

Frances R. Malone, ARNP, PhD
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Transplant Services, Seattle Children's

July 29, 2010

Caring for Children in Western Alaska: Improving Care Far from Seattle Children’s Hospital  

Jane McClure, MD
Pediatrician, Chief of Staff, Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation, Bethel, Alaska

August 5, 2010

Polio Eradication: Progress, Problems and Promise  

Walter Orenstein, MD
Vaccine Delivery, Global Health, Gates Foundation

August 12, 2010

Use of Placebos 

Gary Walco, PhD
Professor of Anesthesiology, UW; Director of Pain Medicine, Seattle Children's

Ben Wilfond, MD
Professor, Pediatrics; Chief, Bioethics, UW; Director, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics, Seattle Children's

September 2, 2010

Lessons Learned from the H1N1 Epidemic in Seattle: Implications for the Future 

Jeffrey S. Duchin, MD
Chief, Communicable Disease, Epideimiology and Immunization Section, Public Health–Seattle and King County; Associate Professor in Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, UW

September 16, 2010

Gene Therapy for Inherited Retinal Degenerations 

Roger Johnson Lecture 
Eric Adam Pierce, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Ophthalmology, University of Pennsylvania; F.M. Kirby Center for Molecular Ophthalmology, Scheie Eye Institute

September 23, 2010

Risky Business: What Every Pediatrician and Parent Should Know About the Effects of Media on Adolescents 

Victor Strasburger, MD
Professor of Pediatrics and Family & Community Medicine, University of New Mexico; Chief, Division of Adolescent Medicine

September 30, 2010

Mentored Scholar Program 

Finding Genetic Associations in Pediatric Severe Sepsis 

Jerry Kim, MD
Acting Instructor, Senior Fellow, UW; Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seattle Children's

Outcomes in Reproduction in Childhood and Adolescent Survivors (ORCAS) 

Margarett Shnorhavorian, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Urology, UW; Pediatric Urology, Seattle Children's 

October 7, 2010

Mentored Scholar Program 

Sleep, Temperament and Arousal Regulation in Infants with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure (STAR in PAE) 

Maida Chen, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, UW; Associate Director, Pediatric Sleep Disorders Program, Seattle Children's

Outcomes in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) 

Sarah Ringold, MD
Rheumatology. Board Certified: Pediatrics; Seattle Children's 

October 14, 2010

 Why We Play: Ethics, Drugs and the Future of Sport 

Treuman Katz Ethics Lecture 
Thomas H. Murray, PhD
President and CEO, The Hastings Center, Garrison, New York

October 21, 2010

Reach Out and Read and the Art of Balancing: Children, Advocacy and Changing Pediatric Practice 

Lana Staheli Lecture 
Perri E. Klass, MD
Professor, Journalism and Pediatrics, New York University; Author; Medical Director of Reach Out and Read 

October 28, 2010

Inventing Our Future: Training the Next Generation of Surgeon Innovators 

Tapper Surgery Lecture 
Thomas Krummel, MD
Emile Holman Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine; Susan B. Ford Surgeon-in-Chief, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital; Co-director, Biodesign Program, Stanford University

November 4, 2010

Childhood Cancer Research: 21st-Century Science, 20th-Century Clinical Trials 

Chard Lecture 
Peter Adamson, MD, FRCSC, FACS
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Chief, Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Director, Experimental Therapeutics in Oncology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

November 11, 2010

Medical Relief: Haiti Perspective 

Mark Del Beccaro, MD
Professor of Pediatics, Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, UW; Pediatrician-in-Chief, Seattle Children's

November 18, 2010

Gastroschisis: Etiology and Developmental Pathogenesis 

Lemire Lecture 
Ken Jones, MD
Chief, Division of Dysmorphology/Teratology, Department of Pediatrics, UCSD; Medical Director of CTIS Pregnancy Risk Information

December 9, 2010

Wrestling with the Angels: Understanding and Addressing Religious Struggles Within Healthcare 

Alhadeff Chaplaincy Lecture 
Ken Pargament, PhD
Professor of Clinical Psychology, Bowling Green State University; Adjunct Professor of Psychology in the Counseling Psychology and Religion PhD Program, Boston University

December 16, 2010

Exercise-Induced Hypoglycemia in Type 1 Diabetes: Recognition and Management  

Craig Taplin, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UW; Endocrinologist, Seattle Children's