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Pediatric Views has a new medical editor—Claire McCarthy, MD. With nearly 20 years of experience in both primary care and writing on medical and parenting topics, Dr. McCarthy truly brings the best of both worlds to her new role with Pediatric Views.
This summer, Children's Hospital Boston entered into a new collaboration with Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (CHaD) to enhance the specialty pediatric care available at CHaD's practice in Manchester, NH.
In July, Children's gastroenterologists began providing outpatient care and endoscopy services. A Children's nephrologist will join them. CHaD and Children's also jointly recruited a cardiologist who will split his time between the
two sites.
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World-renowned sleep expert Richard A. Ferber, MD, director of the Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders, will be retiring this fall. Dr. Ferber did his Pediatrics training at Children's and, in 1978, co-founded the world's first comprehensive program for the diagnosis and management of pediatric sleep problems at Children's. Through his monumental achievements, Dr. Ferber emerged as the most recognized childhood sleep expert in the world. His program at Children's grew and flourished through the years, retaining its place among the premier pediatric sleep programs in the United States. Dr. Ferber has stopped seeing patients, but will continue his academic work and teaching until he retires at the end of September.
This summer, Children's and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) joined forces in an innovative and cutting-edge partnership: the Children's Hospital Boston/MIT Research Enterprise. The Enterprise fosters the collaboration of investigators from the two institutions in a common pursuit of groundbreaking basic and translational research through the "chemical reaction" triggered by the combination of diverse perspectives.
The Enterprise builds on a long history of informal yet broad and deep connections between Children's and MIT, and kicked off in June with the first annual cross-institutional symposia and the announcement of joint research grants spanning both institutions.
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Mark L. Waltzman, MD, has been appointed chairman of South Shore Hospital's (SSH) Department of Pediatrics, succeeding Michael L. McManus, MD, MPH, who has decided to return to his academic and clinical activities at Children's Hospital Boston after serving for 15 years as SSH's department chair. Dr. Waltzman joined the Children's staff in 1999 and, since 2008, has served as the assistant medical director of the division of emergency medicine at Children's.
On September 12, at 6 pm EDT, join Mark R. Proctor, MD, director of the Brain Injury Center, as he leads a dynamic discussion on concussions in pediatric patients during a live, interactive Webcast. A multidisciplinary team, including members of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neuropsychology, Neuroradiology and Sports Medicine, will discuss the signs of mild and severe concussions, on-field symptom management, the psychological toll of concussions and best practices for treatment and follow-up.
Sign-up for a reminder email:
on.chbos.org/pv0811concussionswebcast
by William Meehan, MD, director of the Sports Concussion Clinic
This book explains how concussion can alter brain function and discusses new technologies and equipment that aim to prevent concussion. It also looks at the incidence of concussion in different sports, emerging research that investigates better treatments and the potential role of genetics.
by Joanne Wolfe, MD, MPH, director of Pediatric Palliative Care, Pamela Hinds, RN, PhD, FAAN, and Barbara Sourkes, PhD
This text aims to inform interdisciplinary teams about palliative care of children with life-threatening illness. It addresses critical domains such as language and communication, symptoms and quality of life and the spectrum of life-threatening illnesses in great depth.
by Sanjeev Kothare, MD, Department of Neurology, and Suresh Kotagal, MD
This book addresses the myriad of sleep-wake issues associated with neurological disturbances from the newborn period through adolescence. It offers a resource for understanding, diagnosing and treating neurologic sleep problems in children and includes diagnostic tables, key points, clinical pearls and treatment algorithms to enhance clinical utility.
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