Making History - Akron Children's Hospital

of note
Presentations
Mark Adamczyk, MD, Director, Brachial Plexus
Treatment Center, and Todd Ritzman, MD, Director,
Pediatric Orthopedic Education, presented
“Comparison Between Two Pedicle Screw Constructs
in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Posterior Fusions”
with John Kemppainen and Melanie Morscher at Ohio
Orthopedic Society, Dublin, OH, May 2012.
Michael T. Bigham, MD, Pediatric Intensive Care
Physician, Medical Director, Transport Services,
and Assistant Patient Safety Officer, presented
“Intubation Success Rate Using GlideScope® Video
Laryngoscope in Pediatric Critical Care Transport” at
International Respiratory Congress, 2012; “Pediatric
Transport in Black and White: X-ray Case Reviews” at
American Academy of Pediatrics, New Orleans, LA,
October 2012; “Pediatric Septic Shock: Evaluation
and Management” at Ohio Association of Advance
Practice Nurses 22nd annual Statewide Educational
Conference, November 2012.
Elizabeth A. Bryson, MSN, CNP, CS, Pediatric Nurse
Practitioner presented “Nuts and Bolts of Cystic
Fibrosis: Pulmonary Overview” at North American
Cystic Fibrosis Conference, Orlando, FL, October 2012.
Blaise Congeni, MD, Director, Pediatric Infectious
Disease, presented at the 30th annual Infectious
Disease Update, Naples, FL, December 2012.
Joseph A. Congeni, MD, Medical Director, Sports
Medicine Center, presented “Traumatic Brain Injury
and Post Concussion Care” at 12th annual Ohio
Pediatric Trauma Symposium, Toledo, Ohio, 2012 and
at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, 2012; “Sports
Medicine in Pediatrics” at University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL, 2012.
John C. Duby, MD, Director, Developmental-
Behavioral Pediatrics, presented “Mental Health
Competencies for Pediatric Primary Care” at American
Academy of Pediatrics, Charleston, SC, January 2013.
Richard W. Hertle, MD, Chief, Pediatric
Ophthalmology and Director, Vision Center, presented
“A Story of Change and Discovery: How and What
We Learned from Studying Nystagmus in Infancy
and Early Childhood” at the British Pediatric
Ophthalmology and Strabismus Association Meeting,
Overcliff, Bournemouth, UK, September 2012 and
at the Annual Scientific Meeting, Albuquerque, NM,
September 2012; “Creativity and Inventiveness
in Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus” at
the Annual Scientific Meeting, Albuquerque, NM,
September 2012; “A Surgical Algorithm for the
Treatment of Nystagmus” at 2nd World Congress of
Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, Milano,
Italy; “Pediatric Eye Surgery” at Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH, December 2012; “The Ocular Motor
System” and “Nystagmus in Infancy and Childhood” at
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, December
2012.
Kerwyn Jones, MD, Chair, Department of Orthopedics,
presented “Limited Benefit of Hamstrings Forces for
the ACL-Deficient Knee” at Ohio Orthopedic Society,
Dublin, OH, May 2012; “Gene Expression Differences
in Young Male and Female Ruptured Anterior Cruciate
Ligament Tissue” at American Academy of Pediatrics,
New Orleans, LA, October 2012.
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