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New Fellows' Orientation for 2009-10
- This optional fellows' orientation, to be repeated monthly, will focus on the questions that fellows need answered when they first arrive at Children's Hospital and in Boston, such as:
- Are you unfamiliar with the Harvard institutions and their focuses?
- Do you know how and when to choose a health plan for you and your family?
- Do you need information on accessing articles using the Children's Hospital Library or Countway?
- Are you wondering what training you must take - Lab safety training, IACUC(Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee) orientation training?
- Are you unsure about occupational health screening requirements?
- Do you seek answers about your positive tuberculosis test?
- Do you need information on high quality childcare for less?
- Do you wonder how to get discount tickets?
Led by Fern Remedi-Brown, Coordinator, Office of Fellowship Training, together with Jordan Kreidberg, MD, PhD, Director, Office of Fellowship Training
When:
Thursday, January 7, 2010
3:30-4:30pm for everyone
4:30-5:00pm component for newly arrived international fellows
Where:
EN 844 (Enders building, 8th fl conf rm)
2010 dates for orientation:
EXPECTED DATES: Th 2/4 (confirmed); M 3/8; Th 4/8; Th 5/6; M 6/7; M 7/5; Th 8/5
Registration required!
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"Career Progression and Life Management," formerly "Fellows Career and Family Balance 2009-10 Network Luncheon Series"
- Jason Dearling, PhD, Research Instructor, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, and Clare Mehta, PhD, Research Fellow, Division of Adolescent Medicine, (a developmental psychologist by training) will chair for the fellows 2009-10.
Fellows' Family Outing
Apple Picking
Sunday, October 11, 2009, 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Shelburne Farm, 106 West Acton Road, Stow, MA 01775, tel. (978) 897-9287
Shelburne Farm has apple picking, pony rides, hay for children to jump in, an inflatable "moon bounce," and miniature tractors for toddlers and preschoolers. They also have a general store where you can buy candied apples and many other items.
All Fellows from all Departments and your families are invited
Sponsored by the Office of Fellowship Training
E-mail Office of Fellowship Training and let us know you're coming!
- Dates for Fellows Career and Family Network Luncheon:
2009-10 academic year dates (all Tuesdays, 12:15-1:45, including lunch in Karp 9 conference room, unless otherwise noted):
Sept. 8: "Hormonal behavioral influences in the workplace," led by Jason Dearling, Ph.D., Research Instructor, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Children?s Hospital, Boston and Harvard Medical School and "Navigating Venus and Mars: Effective Cross-Gender Communication at Work and at Home," led by Clare M. Mehta, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston
Thurs., Oct. 29, NOTE TIME 12:00-1:00pm: Michael Rich, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Center on Media and Child Health, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, "Raising Healthy, Successful Children in a Media-Saturated World"
Nov. 24: Ross Greene, PhD, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and author of "The Explosive Child" and "Lost at School" and originator of the Collaborative Problem Solving approach, will speak on "Challenging Behavior as a Developmental Delay: Implications for Assessment and Treatment" (ref.: Dr. Ross' web site, "Lives in the Balance") in Folkman Auditorium (formerly Enders Auditorium), Enders Building - co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Development and Children's Hospital Library
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- Wednesday, Dec. 16: panel discussion: "When should I have kids?"
When to eat dinner & when to have kids: Negotiating life and work as a dual career couple
Faculty Discussants Leonard Zon, MD, Director of Stem Cell Research and Lynda Schneider, MD, Director of the Allergy Program;
faculty discussants Martha Sola-Visner, MD, Neonatologist and Gary Visner, DO, Pulmonary Division;
fellow discussants Aruna Ramachandran, PhD, Department of Urology, and her husband Noman Siddiqi, who is Director of the BL3 (biosafety lab) facility at the Harvard School of Public Health (previously a postdoc at HSPH);
and fellow discussants Jia-Ren Liu, MD, PhD, staff scientist (postdoctoral research fellow) and Xiaohui Han, research technician, both in the Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative & Pain Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston.
+ list of activities to do with families during the holidays
Jan. 12: Office of Sponsored Programs experts Chad Restrick and Jamie Singer will speak to the fellows about Funding for the Career Scientist: What every fellow should know about grant funding
To register for a meeting, e-mail Clare Mehta
Fri., Feb. 26, 12:15-1:45pm: Mark Schuster, MD, PhD, William Berenberg Professor of Pediatrics, Chief, Division of General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Boston and co-author of Everything You Never Wanted Your Kids to Know About Sex (but were afraid they'd ask) Folkman Auditorium (formerly Enders Auditorium), Enders Building - co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Development. Registration required! For this event, register at "Mark Schuster - Everything You Never Wanted Your Kids to Know About Sex (but were afraid they'd ask) "
Mar. 23, 12:15-1:00pm: Erik Halvorsen, Ph.D., Director, Technology & Innovation Development Office (TIDO), Children's Hospital Boston will speak to the fellows about Intellectual property as an alternative career,
Apr. 13
May 11
June 1
More about "Career Progression and Life Management"
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Clinical Discussion Sessions
- Beginning in September 2005, the Office of Fellowship Training, initiated a discussion session for fellows that focuses on clinical issues in pediatric medicine. (See OFT Past Events page) This will continue again in September.
The clinical discussion sessions are held in the HU 352 conference room (usually) on the 4th Monday of every month from 12:00 until 1:00pm. Lunch is provided.
For 2009-10, the schedule is:
NOTE DATE CHANGE: Tuesday, September 22 Michael Jaung, Harvard Medical School student, and Amy Burack, in the Child Advocacy Office of Children's Hospital Boston, led a discussion on the Boston Chinatown Asthma Swim Program. (Date change due to Yom Kippur)
NOTE DATE CHANGE: Tuesday,October 27 Michelle Lee, MD, PhD, Attending Physician (formerly clinical fellow), Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Children's Hospital Boston and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, led a discussion on "Childhood Cancer in the Developing World - Tending "the Wound that Won't Heal." Dr. Lee gave a poster presentation at the 2009 Dr. M. Judah Folkman Research Day on the same topic. Dr. Lee is one of the recipients of the 2008 Houseofficer Development Award and she reported on the project that resulted from her award funding.
November 23 Albert Sean Chiou and Jessie Tao, Harvard Medical School students, in conjunction with their mentor, Dr. Li-Li Hsiao, Instructor, Renal Division, BWH and Director of the BWH Asian Renal Clinic, discussed their service project, working with renal health among Chinese-Americans.
Tuesday (NOTE DAY), December 15 Mjaye L. Mazwi, MD, Clinical Fellow, Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, led a discussion on "The demographic transition in disease patterns and how that has implications for us as pediatricians." (Date change due to Christmas)
January 25 Stefanie Gauguet (Koch), MD, PhD, Pediatric Critical Care Fellow, Children's Hospital Boston, will lead a discussion on "Pediatric Staph pneumonia - from the bedside to the bench"
February 22 Sheila Nutt, Ed.D., Director of Educational Outreach, Office for Diversity and Community Partnership Harvard Medical School, will lead a discussion on a summer program hosted by their office: Project Success. Since 1993 Harvard Medical School and its affiliate hospitals and research labs have been working together to provide valuable research opportunities and mentorship to underrepresented minorities and disadvantaged youth who reside in Boston and Cambridge.
March 22: Eva Maria Walter, MD, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cardiac Surgery, will lead a discussion
April 26
May 17 (Date change due to Memorial Day)
June 7 (Date change due to graduation)
Due to copyright law, the Office of Fellowship Training is unable to post Clinical Discussion Session articles on the Office of Fellowship Training web site; however, registered participants can request a copy from the OFT through Office of Fellowship Training .
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Journal Club to Discuss Basic Science
- In September 2005, the Office of Fellowship Training started a journal club for fellows that focuses on basic science issues. This will continue again in September. (See OFT Past Events page)
The journal club is held in the Karp 8th floor conference room on the last Friday of every month from 12:30 until 1:30pm. Lunch is provided.
For 2009-10, the schedule is:
September 25: Daniel Brown, MD, PhD, Clinical Fellow, Division of Rheumatology, Children's Hospital Boston, led a discussion on "A granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and interleukin-15 fusokine induces a regulatory B cell population with immune suppressive properties"
October 16 - Won-Il Kim, PhD, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital Boston, led a discussion on "The B Cell Mutator AID Promotes B Lymphoid Blast Crisis and Drug Resistance in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia"
November 6 - Chaoshe Guo, MD, PhD, Research Fellow in Urology, Children's Hospital Boston, led a discussion on "PRDM16 controls a brown fat/skeletal muscle switch."
December 18 - Melissa Thurman, PhD, Research Fellow in the Immune Disease Institute (IDI), Children's Hospital Boston, led a discussion on "Adaptive suppression of the ATF4-CHOP branch of the unfolded protein response by toll-like receptor signaling."
January 29 - Sladjana Prisic, PhD, Research Fellow in Infectious Disease, Children's Hospital Boston, will lead a discussion on "Molecular mechanisms of HipA-mediated multidrug tolerance and its neutralization by HipB" (Schumacher MA, Piro KM, Xu W, Hansen S, Lewis K, Brennan RG. Science. 2009 Jan 16;323(5912):396-401).
February 19 - Clare M. Mehta, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, will lead a discussion on "Greater expectations: Adolescents' positive motivations for sex" (Ref.: Ott M, Millstein S, Ofner S, Halpern-Felsher B. Greater expectations: Adolescents' positive motivations for sex. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health [serial online]. June 2006;38(2):84-8.)
March 26
April 30
May 21 - changed due to Memorial Day
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Global Health Center at Children's Hospital Boston, established July 2009
First meeting to be held this Thursday, July 30, 5:30pm in the NADAS conference room, Farley (FA) 230
Dear Colleagues:
There has been considerable momentum within the Children's Hospital community for developing a more organized institutional approach to global health. We are fortunate in that our hospital community is already substantially engaged in programs with a global scope and we have considerable resources in our immediate community to draw from (Harvard School of Public Health, Partners in Health etc...).
There was formal recognition of this momentum in the course of the last year and it has led to the formation of a "Global Child Health Center" at CHB. Clinical fellows and the attending staff have been primarily invloved to date, but the goal is to make this an institution wide effort. Specifically the goals are:
1) Establishment of a central clearinghouse for information relevant to global health concerns - this will be in the form of a website and office within the institution that will provide updated information on travel grants (an other sources of funding), existing projects, available mentors, global institutional relationships/partners, educational resources and cultural activities within the community.
2) Creating an advocacy front/institutional umbrella - for individuals interested in pursuing global health projects.
3) Providing a forum - for visiting speakers involved in relevant global health issues.
I believe that this is an exciting opportunity for any of you interested in incorporating global health experiences into your fellowship training/research. The term "global health" makes the assumption that states of health and disease exists in the regional patterns that were once the case. Globalization has eliminated those boundaries and so to some extent we all practice global medicine. If you are interested in hearing more about this effort, or think that you might want to join the core group of fellows working with the attending staff establishing the center, please feel free to come to a meeting in the NADAS conference room FA 230 this Thursday (7/30/2009) at 17:30. I understand the difficulty of co-ordinating schedules. If you cannot come, but would like to be involved feel free to e-mail me at Mjaye Mazwi, MD.
Sincerely,
Mjaye
Mjaye L. Mazwi MD
Fellow: Pediatric Cardiology
Children's Hospital Boston
300 Longwood Ave
Boston MA 02115
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Fellows' International Health Interest Group, established October 2008
Dear Colleagues,
From conversations I know that many of us share an interest in International health. Within the hospital community and affiliated institutions there are an impressive number of people and organizations involved in global health issues and a large number of fellows from other parts of the globe with insight that we would all benefit from. As a result of our relative isolation within our departments and the demands of fellowship we are largely unaware of these opportunities. I have been in communication with the Children's Office of Fellowship Training (OFT) and they have kindly agreed to assist in setting up an International health group within the fellow community. The objectives of the group would be:
1) To serve as a clearinghouse for information:
Ideally, we would create a constantly updated database of current international health experiences available to all fellows with detailed information about areas of particular need and sources of funding available for travel.
2) Advocacy:
For greater recognition of the importance of such opportunities for fellows. A central part of our advocacy would be securing institutional support, both in credit for time spent and funding/resource provision wherever possible.
3) Educational:
The group would keep fellows updated on lecture series, visiting speakers and educational resources here in Boston and meet periodically to hear from members about trips they have taken and discuss current issues in global health.
The ultimate ambition is to make a greater involvement with the international community an integral part of fellowship and a part of this would be making international health experiences available to any fellow who wishes to travel. As a result of globalization health and disease no longer exist in the isolated pockets that they once did. In the final analysis we will all practice global health. We have a unique opportunity with our (endless) training to share the goodwill that I know we feel.
If you are interested in joining our group, please e-mail me at Mjaye Mazwi, MD or page me at (617) 355-PAGE, i.d. 4596. I would be delighted to hear from you about any additional ideas you have.
Sincerely,
Mjaye L. Mazwi MD
Clinical Fellow: Pediatric Cardiology
Children's Hospital Boston
300 Longwood Ave
Boston MA 02115
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CANCELLED: "Fellows Financial Seminar Lunchtime Series"
- Kim Riggs, Financial Advisor, Ameriprise Financial, will speak to the fellows on financial matters that are relevant to your daily lives.
October 8th will be the first meeting for 2008-09:
TOPIC: "Tax brackets"
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
12:00-1:00pm
Karp 8th floor Conference Room
Lunch will be provided
- Fellows Financial Seminar Lunchtime Series:
LOCATION: Enders 8th floor conference room (EN 844)
2008-09 academic year dates (all Thursdays, 12:30-1:30, including lunch):
November 6: Flexible Savings Accounts
December 4: 403(b)/Retirement Options
January 8: Short Term/Long Term Disability and Life Insurance
February 5: Family Security
March 5: Investing: What can I do with $100 extra every month?
April 2: Child Care/Education Planning
May 7: Topic TBD (in accordance with registrant needs and suggestions)
June 4: Topic TBD
The Office of Fellowship Training (OFT) is sponsoring this luncheon series as a means for fellows to gain a deeper understanding of their financial situations, to be able to make decisions that will assist them in the present and in future planning.
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