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Watch a Webcast in which Children’s specialists show the repair of a frontal encephalocele and a life-threatening arachnoid cyst in a young patient. John Meara, MD, DMD, MBA, plastic surgeon- in-chief, and Edward Smith, MD, neurosurgeon, provide commentary, and David Walton, MD, of Partners in Health, discusses the journey to bring the child to Children’s from his home in Haiti.
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In December, colleagues, mentors and protégées of Judah Folkman, MD, gathered at Harvard Medical School to pay tribute to the late surgeon, researcher and founder of the field of angiogenesis. Moving personal tributes were followed by a scientific symposium with presentations by members of Children’s Vascular Biology Program, former members of Dr. Folkman’s lab and colleagues from Emory University, Johns Hopkins, the University of Colorado and Sweden’s Karolinska Institute. All gave testimony to Dr. Folkman’s influence on fields as diverse as cancer, ophthalmology, cardiology, diabetes, neurosurgery and vascular anomalies.
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The new 2009-2010 Children’s Pediatric Specialist Guide (PSG) is now available. It is organized by specialty and subspecialty, and provides contact information, including phone and fax
numbers, email addresses, office locations and directions/maps to Children’s. In addition, the PSG provides department/division descriptions, guidelines on how to refer and accepted health insurance.
Mary Ellen McCann, MD, perioperative anesthesiologist at Children’s, has initiated a study with collaborators in Australia, the United Kingdom and Europe that will compare regional (localized) anesthesia to general anesthesia in young children. The participants will be given a developmental test at age 2 and an intelligence test at age 5. Her aim is to see if there is a difference in cognition between the two groups. The study was covered in a Newsweek article about anesthesia and children.
The SonneWheel, invented by Children’s dietician Kendrin Sonneville, MS, RD, LDN, and colleagues, is a pediatric body mass index (BMI) calculator that allows
clinicians to combine BMI with a child’s age and gender to estimate BMI percentiles.
Place an order: childrenshospital.org/bmi (10 piece minimum order; $50 for package of 10)
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