Department of Pediatrics Researchers Shine During AAP NCE 2020
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Above, a campaign graphic from the American Academy of Pediatrics' National Conference & Exhibition, which took place virtually October 2-5, 2020.
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Seventeen members of the Department of Pediatrics presented work at the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) National Conference & Exhibition (NCE), which took place virtually October 2-5, 2020. The annual NCE is a forum for discussion of current issues in pediatric healthcare and showcases the latest pediatric resources and innovations.
A list of presenters and co-authors from the Department of Pediatrics, along with their poster or lecture title, is below:
- “10 Ways to Use Digital Tools to Promote Health,” a presentation by Megan Moreno, MD, MSEd, MPH (Professor and Academic Division Chief, Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine)
- “Asthma and Respiratory Allergies,” a presentation by Eric Schauberger, DO, PhD (Assistant Professor, Division of Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology)
- “Care Management of Non-emergent Echocardiographic Diagnosis in Newborns,” a poster presentation by John Hokanson, MD (Professor, Division of Cardiology) and Kaitlin Ring (undergraduate)
- “COVID-19 and Sports for the General Pediatrician,” a presentation by David Bernhardt, MD (Professor, Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine)
- “Digital Media Use Differs Between Transgender and Cisgender Youth”, a poster presented by Brittany Allen, MD (Assistant Professor, Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine)
- “Family Centered Care for Patients with Congenital Heart Defects: Enhancing the Role of Palliative Care,” a poster presented by Jesse Boyett Anderson (PL3 Resident), Alida Yee, NP (Division of Hematology, Oncology & Bone Marrow Transport), Allie Kiley (Fetal Care Coordinator, Division of Cardiology), Kristin Shadman, MD (Associate Professor, Division of Hospital Medicine), Sushant Srinivasan, MD (Associate Professor, Division of Critical Care), and Margo Hoover-Regan, MD (Associate Professor, Division of Hematology, Oncology & Bone Marrow Transport)
- “Making Pediatric Advocacy Count for Kids: Building Advocacy Skills,” a presentation by Megan Moreno, MD, MSEd, MPH and Laura Houser, MD (Clinical Associate Professor, Divisions of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine and Global Health)
- “Parents' Knowledge and Acceptability of Mindfulness for Pediatric Asthma Care,” a poster presented by Mala Mathur, MD, MPH (Clinical Associate Professor, Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine)
- “Preparticipation Physical Exam: Billing, Forms, EMRs,” a presentation by David Bernhardt, MD
- “Refusal to walk in a 2-year-old female,” a poster presentation by Stephanie Syu, MD (PL3 Resident), Mathew Davis, MD (PGY-6 Fellow), and Kenneth DeSantes, MD (Professor and Division Chief, Division of Hematology, Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplant)
- “Section on Global Health and Helping Babies Survive,” an update by Nicole St Clair, MD (Associate Professor, Divisions of Global Pediatrics and Hospital Medicine) as part of the Section Executive Committee
- “The PPE: Is it Worth It?,” a presentation by David Bernhardt, MD
Additionally, the AAP’s Council on Communications and Media (COCM) recognized Megan Moreno, MD, MSEd, MPH with the 2020 AAP COCM Holroyd-Sherry Award. The award recognizes AAP Fellows whose outstanding contributions have demonstrated that media's influence on child and adolescent health is an important public health issue, and whose work addresses or suggests solutions to the health implications raised by child and adolescent use of media.
Thanks to the conference’s flexible and virtual format, all of these sessions and poster presentations are available to registered attendees through January 2021.
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Annual AFCH Radiothon Raises $498,241 to Support Pediatric Programs, Initiatives
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Above, a campaign graphic for the 15th annual American Family Children's Hospital Radiothon, which was held virtually October 21-23, 2020.
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Despite the challenges brought to light during the COVID-19 pandemic, our community continues to rally around the families cared for at American Family Children’s Hospital (AFCH). The latest evidence is the success of the 15th annual AFCH Radiothon, which was held October 21-23 on all of Mid-West Family’s radio stations.
In previous years, radio hosts would gather in the lobby at the children's hospital and broadcast from 6am to 7pm, interviewing parents and patients who have been treated at the children's hospital as they share their stories of survival and courage. Like so many other traditions, the storytelling went virtual this year. Families called in to be interviewed by radio hosts, and listeners called in to a safe phone bank to make their gifts.
At the end of the three days, gifts and pledges totaled $498,241. While this total fell short of the Radiothon's fundraising goal, the campaign coordinators were moved by the response of everyone who contributed. The funds raised will support shared AFCH and Department of Pediatrics funding priorities including Patient and Family Support, Child Life, Child Health Advocacy, Research and Faculty Support, Care Innovation Initiatives (safety, pain program, palliative care program), and Pediatric Cancer patient care and research. If you missed the Radiothon but would still like to support these programs and initiatives, donations can be made through the University of Wisconsin Foundation.
Thank you to all of the providers who nominated patients to be interviewed and to all at AFCH who provide the outstanding care that our families brag about!
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GROW: Let Food Be Your Medicine
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Above, assistant scientist Sangita Murali works with a blood specimen from a patient with cystic fibrosis at the Huichuan Lai Lab in the Nutritional Sciences Building. Huichuan Lai, PhD, RD is the PI of the Department of Pediatrics Endocrinology & Diabetes Training Grant. Photo by Michael P. King. Story and photo shared with permission by GROW and the University of Wisconsin College of Agricultural & Life Sciences.
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Medical student Alice Huang was dutifully taking notes during a lecture at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine when she snapped to attention. There on the projection screen, next to the title of a cystic fibrosis study, appeared a familiar name.
“That’s my mom!” she gasped to the student beside her. Alice’s mother happens to be Huichuan Lai, PhD, RD (PI, Department of Pediatrics Endocrinology & Diabetes Training Grant), a renowned cystic fibrosis researcher and professor of nutritional sciences at CALS.
A couple of years later, Huichuan Lai’s younger daughter, Leslie Huang, a genetic counseling student, had her turn to beam with pride when her mother’s influential research turned up in her cystic fibrosis training at Mount Sinai in New York. Of all the ways to measure research impact, perhaps the most surreal is learning that your work is being taught to your children in professional training programs across the country.
“That’s when you know your work is being not just viewed but used to educate the next generation,” says Lai, who also has affiliated appointments in the pediatrics and population health sciences departments in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
After more than a quarter of a century studying cystic fibrosis (CF) and leading the largest prospective, longitudinal birth cohort study of the condition, Lai has made an undeniable impact on the field. Her work has illuminated the role of nutrition in the disease and its progression, changing the standard of care.
Full story.
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New Grants
James Gern, MD, Anne Marie Singh, MD, and Daniel Jackson, MD, Awarded NIH Grant with Johns Hopkins University
  
Congratulations to James Gern, MD (Professor and Division Chief, Division of Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology), Principal Investigator, and Anne Marie Singh, MD (Associate Professor, Division of Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology), and Daniel Jackson, MD (Associate Professor, Division of Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology), Co-Investigators, on their new grant subaward through Johns Hopkins University and supported by the National Institutes of Health/National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID). This project, entitled “New Horizons in the prevention and treatment of food allergy- SUNBEAM,” is under the direction of Johns Hopkins overall PI, Robert Wood, MD. The subaward to the UW was funded in the amount of $370,588 for the first 8 months, with the goal to study the role of genetic, clinical and environmental factors in the development of food allergy and atopic dermatitis.
Matthew Harer, MD, Awarded New Investigator Grant from Wisconsin Partnership Program
 Matthew Harer, MD (Assistant Professor, Division of Neonatology & Newborn Nursery), recently received a $149,960 Wisconsin Partnership Program (WPP) New Investigator Award for his project, “Non-invasive Diagnosis of Acute Kidney Injury in Premature Infants”. The goal of this two-year project is to develop non-invasive diagnostic tools to advance the diagnosis of acute kidney injury (AKI) in premature infants. Neonatal AKI affects nearly 1 in 4 neonates admitted to a Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs). Current diagnostic markers for AKI do not allow physicians to determine etiology of injury, delaying diagnosis from the time of actual injury by 12 to 36 hours, effectively eliminating a clinician’s ability to prevent or provide early effective treatment. The central hypothesis is that focused kidney monitoring with renal tissue oxygenation (NIRS) and urinary metabolomic biomarkers can provide earlier and more specific diagnosis of AKI. The goal of this project is to create guidelines for NICUs throughout the state of Wisconsin with regard to prevention and diagnosis of AKI with these new non-invasive diagnostic methods.
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Amanda Palm, PA, Honored with APP Excellence Award
 Congratulations to Amanda Palm, PA (Division of Child Protection), on receiving UW Health’s annual Unsung Hero Award. The award is one of four Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Excellence Awards sponsored annually by UW Health and the APP Council. The awards recognize excellence across all clinical departments in four areas: clinical practice, teaching, leadership, and “unsung hero.”
“Amanda has been a fixture of the child protection program since her arrival,” read a UW Health statement during the virtual awards ceremony on October 21, 2020. “Recently, after the departure of the only team physician, she shouldered the vast majority of the clinical load herself with poise and grace. She has answered calls all hours of the day or night with compassion, clarity and kindness. She is a fierce advocate for children and their safety. Amanda brings her deep medical knowledge and effective communication skills to the team of social workers, law enforcement and healthcare professionals to create a community response to child abuse or provide education and mentorship.”
Elizabeth Mann, MD, Nominated for Health Literacy Hero Award
 Congratulations to Elizabeth Mann, MD (Assistant Professor, Division of Diabetes & Endocrinology), on being nominated for the Health Literacy Hero Award, which was part of UW Health’s observation of Health Literacy Month in October. The award recognizes individuals and teams who find health literacy problems and act to solve them. The individual who nominated her stated, “[Dr.] Mann does a wonderful job incorporating Health Literacy and Universal Precautions when she talks to children and their families who are hospitalized with a new diagnosis of type 1 diabetes. I have had multiple opportunities to observe her talk with families in the hospital both as a pediatric endocrine fellow, and now an attending physician. She understands the stress and strong emotions children and families are experiencing in this situation and tailors her conversations accordingly. She is skilled and natural at assessing how parents and children learn best, and meets them where they are. In my role as a diabetes educator in the AFCH learning center, it is a pleasure to work with Dr. Mann.”
Three Pediatrics Faculty to Receive Physician Excellence Awards
  
Congratulations to three members of the Department of Pediatrics who have been selected for the 2020 UW Health Physician Excellence Awards. These prestigious peer-nominated awards recognize UW Health's most skilled and dedicated physicians who demonstrate exceptional performance in clinical practice, education or regional services and a commitment to UW Health’s mission, vision and values.
Sharon Bartosh, MD (Professor and Division Chief, Division of Nephrology), will receive the Regional Services Excellence Award, which recognizes physicians who exemplify UW Health's strategic priority in providing extraordinary regional services care for patients at neighboring health care facilities in Wisconsin and beyond.
Paula Cody, MD, MPH (Associate Professor, Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine), was selected for the Physician Excellence Clinical Educator Award. This award recognizes outstanding educators, with significant emphasis on teaching residents and medical students, as well as other interdisciplinary team members, patients and their families.
Neil Paloian, MD (Assistant Professor, Division of Nephrology), will receive the Rising Star Clinical Practice Award. This award honors outstanding clinicians and educators who demonstrate exceptional and measurable contributions to clinical practice.
Bartosh, Cody, Paloian and fellow award recipients will be honored in a virtual ceremony on December 7, 2020.
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"Dr. DeMuri is a phenomenal teacher and an excellent attending to work with. He takes the time with each patient to provide a lesson/pearl that is easily incorporated into daily practice. He is efficient with rounds and thoughtful with all of his patients. He encouraged learners to take charge of their patients, and was thoughtful and respectful of all team members and the ideas that were put forth."
"Thank you both for your clear communication and collaboration while we cared for our patient. As a result, as the bedside nurse I was able to anticipate things and focus more effort on the supportive aspect of his care. In the end, we were able to grant the families wishes in a caring and respectful way. Thank you both again for your kindness and care."
