Making History - Akron Children's Hospital
Making History - Akron Children's Hospital
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Dianne Kulasa-Luke, MS, RN, Neurology Nurse<br />
Practitioner, presented “Neurological Chronic Illnesses<br />
in Children” to University of <strong>Akron</strong> child development<br />
students; “Seizures in Children” to Kent State<br />
University College of Nursing students.<br />
Starla Martinez, MD, Director, Undergraduate<br />
Medical Education, presented “Nuts and Bolts of<br />
CF: Pulmonary Overview” at the North American<br />
Cystic Fibrosis Conference, Orlando, Florida, October<br />
2012; “Medical Student Peer Assessment: Should I<br />
be Using This in My Clerkship?” at a workshop at the<br />
Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics,<br />
March 2012; “CLIPP: Not Just the Facts, Ma’am” at a<br />
workshop at the Council on Medical Student Education<br />
in Pediatrics, March 2012.<br />
Marc Nelson, MD, MS, FAAP, Director, Center for<br />
Hearing and Communication Disorders, presented<br />
“Pediatric Sleep Disorder Breathing” at the <strong>Akron</strong><br />
Dental Society.<br />
Patrick Riley, Sr., MD, presented “The Incidence of<br />
Femoral Head Osteonecrosis in Pediatric Femoral Neck<br />
Fractures: A 25 Year Study” at Pediatric Orthopedic<br />
Society of North America, Denver, CO, May, 2012 and<br />
at the American Academy of Pediatrics, New Orleans,<br />
LA, October 2012.<br />
Sarah Rush, MD, Director, Neuro-Oncology<br />
presented “Volume of Vestibular Schwannoma does<br />
not Correlate with Hearing Loss in Pediatric Patients<br />
with Neurofibromatosis Type 2” at the International<br />
Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Toronto,<br />
Canada, June 2012 and at the Children’s Tumor<br />
Foundation NF Conference, June 2012; “Brainstem<br />
Low Grade Tumors Presenting with BRAF V600E<br />
Mutation and Successful Treatment with Vemurafenib”<br />
at International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-<br />
Oncology, Toronto, Canada, June 2012; “The Use<br />
of Bevacizumab in the Treatment of Schwannomarelated<br />
Pain in a Patient with Neurofibromatosis<br />
Type 2” at International Symposium on Pediatric<br />
Neuro-Oncology, Toronto, Canada, June 2012 and<br />
at Children’s Tumor Foundation NF Conference, June<br />
2012; “Protein Expression is a Potential Independent<br />
Prognostic Factor in Pediatric Pilocytic and Pilomyxoid<br />
Astrocytoma” at the International Symposium on<br />
Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Toronto, Canada, June<br />
2012.<br />
Dennis Weiner, MD, Co-Director, Regional Skeletal<br />
Dysplasia Center, Professor of Orthopedics, NEOMED,<br />
ABIA, and Mark Adamczyk, MD, presented “Microarray<br />
Analysis of Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis Growth<br />
Plates” at Ohio Orthopedic Society, Dublin, OH, May<br />
2012.<br />
Publications<br />
Micah Baird, MD, Medical Director, Inpatient<br />
Rehabilitation, wrote “Interrater Reliability and<br />
Convergent Validity of the American Academy<br />
for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine<br />
Methodology for Conducting Systematic Reviews” with<br />
L. Wiart L, K. Kolaski, C. Butler, L. Vogtle, L.R. Logan,<br />
R. Hickman, J. Romeiser, L. Samson-Fang, C.A.<br />
Matsuba, L. Roxborough, T. Mayson, I. Dinu in 2012.<br />
“Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology” July<br />
54(7):606-611.<br />
Michael T. Bigham, MD, Pediatric Intensive Care<br />
Physician, Medical Director, Transport Services,<br />
Assistant Patient Safety Officer, wrote “<strong>Making</strong> Good<br />
Better: Implementing a Standardized Handoff in<br />
Pediatric Transport” with C. Weingart, T. Herstich,<br />
P. Baker, M.L. Garrett, M. Bird, J. Billock, and H.P.<br />
Schwartz. Air Med J. January 32(1):40-6, 2013;<br />
“Interleukin-27 is a Novel Candidate Diagnostic<br />
Biomarker for Bacterial Infection in Critically Ill<br />
Children” with H.R. Wong, N.Z. Cvijanovich, M. Hall,<br />
G.L. Allen, N.J. Thomas, R.J. Freishtat, N. Anas, K.<br />
Meyer, P.A. Checchia, R. Lin, A. Sen, J. Nowak, M.<br />
Quasney, J.W. Henricksen, A.Chopra, S. Banschbach,<br />
E. Beckman, K. Harmon, P. Lahni, T.P. Shanley. Crit<br />
Care October 16(5):R174, 2012; “The Pediatric Sepsis<br />
Biomarker Risk Model” with H.R.Wong, S.Salisbury,<br />
Q. Xiao, N.Z. Cvijanovich, M. Hall, G.L. Allen, N.J.<br />
Thomas, R.J. Freishtat, N. Anas, K. Meyer, P.A.<br />
Checchia, R. Lin, T.P. Shanley TP, A.Sen, J. Nowak, M.<br />
Quasney, J.W. Henricksen, A. Chopra, S. Banschbach,<br />
E. Beckman, K. Harmon, P. Lahni, and C.J. Lindsell.<br />
Crit Care October 16(5):R174, 2012.<br />
Michelle Burke, MD, Medical Director, School Health<br />
Services, wrote “Young Athletes,” with Angela D.<br />
Smith, and Keith J. Loud. Team Physician Manual:<br />
Intervention Federations of Sports Medicine. Ed.3<br />
2013. Chapter 9: 196-215.<br />
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