|
New Fellows' Orientation for 2008-09
- 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?
- 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:
Monday, June 29, 2009
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)
2009 dates for orientation:
M 8/3; Th 9/3; T 10/6; T 11/3; Th 12/3
Registration required!
|
|
|
"Fellows Career and Family 2009-10 Network Luncheon Series"
- The Office of Fellowship Training is seeking co-chairs for 2009-10.
- Dates for Fellows Career and Family Network Luncheon:
2009-10 academic year dates (all Tuesdays, 12:15-1:45, including lunch):
September 8
October 13
November 10
December 8
|
|
|
"Fellows Career and Family 2008-09 Network Luncheon Series"
- Eduardo Abreu, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Orthopaedic Surgery) and Jaeyoung "Jay" Kim (Instructor, Urology Research) will chair for the fellows 2008-09.
June 9th was the last meeting for 2008-09:
TOPIC: Joyce Bischoff, PhD spoke on the balance between career andfamily for women scientists.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
12:15-1:45pm
Karp 9th floor Conference Room
Lunch will be provided
- Dates for Fellows Career and Family Network Luncheon:
2008-09 academic year dates (all Tuesdays, 12-1:30, including lunch):
September 29 (NOTE: Monday): Setting the agenda for the upcoming year: Come share your concerns and ideas on balancing career and family
October 14: Aruna Ramachandran, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Urology at Children's spoke about her experience being a successful scientist and the mother of a toddler and infant twins and Jessica Tytell, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Pathology at Children's spoke about her experience being a successful scientist and the mother of a toddler and an infant.
November 4: Catherine Chia-Chi Chen, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Surgery at Children's will speak about her career path as a surgeon while being the mother of three young children.
December 9: George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital Boston: "Physician-Scientist Careers in the 21st Century"
- 2009 dates - all Tuesdays in the Karp 9 conference room NOTE TIME CHANGE: 12:15-1:45pm unless otherwise noted:
CANCELLED: January 20: Joyce E. Bischoff, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Vascular Biology, Children's - The balance between career and family for women scientists
Friday, February 6, 12:00-1:00pm: Shuk-mei Ho, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati Medical School will speak. She is known as a motivational speaker on minority women in science and on work-family balance. This event will be co-sponsored with the Office of Faculty Development.
Friday, February 13, 1:15-1:45pm: Special breakout session for members of OFT career-family balance networking luncheon in Byers A/B after the 12noon seminar: Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out: Editor Emily Monosson and author Aviva Brecher will be two of the presenting panelist contributors to this book of essays by women scientists of all ages. This event will be co-sponsored with the Office of Faculty Development.
|
- March 17: Rosalyn Mare Adam, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, Children's - How to be a successful PhD scientist in the hospital environment. She will suggest a win-win game plan between clinicians and basic scientists.
Wednesday, April 29: Diane Bielenberg, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Vascular Biology, Children's and Zhe Li, PhD, Instructor, Genetics Division, Brigham and Women's - "Climbing the academic ladder and its impact on our families."
May 12: Career-Family Balance: Lessons Learned We will summarize what we learned in 2008-2009 regarding balancing career and family - in our meetings, and your suggestions. We will also plan a family outdoor activity. Please come and discuss your thoughts.
June 9: Joyce E. Bischoff, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Vascular Biology, Children's - The balance between career and family for women scientists
The Office of Fellowship Training (OFT) is sponsoring this luncheon series, an innovative model developed by Drs. Lydia Shrier and Jenifer Lightdale. The program includes a series of informal networking lunches, addressing those balancing a career in academic medicine and family life. This is an open invitation to all fellows who are parenting or have other competing family and career concerns. Please come and plan to participate. Lunch is provided. The information that fellows share with the OFT will be used to encourage constructive changes at Children's Hospital.
|
|
|
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.
Fall 2008 dates will be:
SEPTEMBER 22 Mjaye L. Mazwi, MD, Pediatric Cardiology Clinical Fellow, Children's Hospital Boston, led a discussion on "The impact of the medically complex child from an economic, social and medical perspective."
OCTOBER 27 Michael Ching, MD, MPH, Clinical Fellow, Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics, will lead a discussion on "Health Care Reform: a discussion of the president-elect proposals."
NOVEMBER 24 Sanjay Prabhu MBBS, FRCR, Pediatric Neuroradiology Clinical Fellow, Children's Hospital Boston, will lead a discussion on "3D and multi-planar reformats of imaging studies-are they clinically useful?"
DECEMBER 15 Patrick Vavken, MD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Sports Medicine Research Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, will lead a discussion on "Health care costs keep growing, but do we get anything for the extra money?" - a theoretical discussion.
JANUARY 26 Clare Mehta, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, led a discussion on "How to become a productive scientific writer without the sacrifice."
FEBRUARY 23 Gani Abazi, MD, MPH, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Neurosurgery Department will lead a discussion on "Diagnosis of shunt malfunction in patients with hydrocephalus and application of the shuntcheck thermal technique."
MAY 18 Yoon-Jae Cho, MD, Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School and Assistant in Neurology, Children's Hospital Boston, will lead a discussion on "Risk stratification in medulloblastoma using an integrative genomics approach."
NOTE DATE CHANGE: JUNE 8Caroline Davit, BS, Research Assistant, Developental Medicine Center, Children's Hospital Boston, will lead a discussion on "Increasing Blood Draw Compliance in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)." Ms. Davit gave a poster presentation at the 2009 Dr. M. Judah Folkman Research Day on the same topic.
For 2009-10, the fall 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, will lead a discussion on the Boston Children's Asthma Swim Program. (Date change due to Yom Kippur.)
October 26 Michelle Lee, MD, Clinical Fellow, Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital Boston, will lead 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.
November 23
Tuesday (NOTE DAY), December 15 - changed due to Christmas
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 .
|
|
|
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.
2008-09 dates are:
September 26: Sanjay Rakhade, MD PhD, Research Fellow, Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital Boston, led a discussion on his recently published article in the Journal of Neuroscience, "Early Alterations of AMPA Receptors Mediate Synaptic Potentiation Induced by Neonatal Seizures."
October 31 : Patrick Vavken, MD, Research Fellow in Orthopedic Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, led a discussion on "Is evidence-based orthopedic surgery building on sand - and who needs EBM anyway?"
November 21 Patrick Vavken, MD, Research Fellow in Orthopedic Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, led a discussion on "Tissue Engineering is a highly interesting research field in surgery, but will it ever make into clinical life? Consider Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation as an example."
December 5: Chaoshe Guo, MD, PhD, Research Fellow in Urology, Children's Hospital Boston, led a discussion on "IGFBP-4 is an inhibitor of canonical Wnt signaling required for cardiogenesis."
January 30: Eduardo Abreu, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Orthopaedics, Children's Hospital Boston led a discussion on "Reprogramming cells to pluripotency."
February 27: M. William Lensch, PhD, Instructor in Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital Boston led a discussion on "Little changes make a big difference in stem cells: An overview of Chou et al., Cell, 2008."
March 20: Thomas Bartnikas, MD, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Pathology, will lead a discussion on "Alpha-synuclein is part of a diverse and highly conserved interaction network that includes PARK9 and manganese toxicity."
April 24: Bin Zhou, MD, PhD, Postddoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Cardiology, will lead a discussion on "Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Free of Vector and Transgene Sequences."
May 29: Chaoshe Guo, PhD, Research Fellow, Department of Surgery, will lead a discussion on "Regulation of a remote Shh forebrain enhancer by the Six3 homeoprotein"
June 5: Jason Dearling, PhD, Research Fellow, Department of Radiology, will lead a discussion
For 2009-10, the fall schedule is:
September 25: Daniel Brown, MD, PhD, Clinical Fellow, Division of Rheumatology, will lead a discussion
October 16 - changed due to room availability
November 6 - changed due to room availability
December 18 - changed due to Christmas
|
|
|
Fellows' International Health Interest Group
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
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
