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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. 24 CHILDREN’S PROGRESS | SPRING 2013
Dianne Kulasa-Luke, MS, RN, Neurology Nurse Practitioner, presented “Neurological Chronic Illnesses in Children” to University of Akron child development students; “Seizures in Children” to Kent State University College of Nursing students. Starla Martinez, MD, Director, Undergraduate Medical Education, presented “Nuts and Bolts of CF: Pulmonary Overview” at the North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference, Orlando, Florida, October 2012; “Medical Student Peer Assessment: Should I be Using This in My Clerkship?” at a workshop at the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics, March 2012; “CLIPP: Not Just the Facts, Ma’am” at a workshop at the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics, March 2012. Marc Nelson, MD, MS, FAAP, Director, Center for Hearing and Communication Disorders, presented “Pediatric Sleep Disorder Breathing” at the Akron Dental Society. Patrick Riley, Sr., MD, presented “The Incidence of Femoral Head Osteonecrosis in Pediatric Femoral Neck Fractures: A 25 Year Study” at Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America, Denver, CO, May, 2012 and at the American Academy of Pediatrics, New Orleans, LA, October 2012. Sarah Rush, MD, Director, Neuro-Oncology presented “Volume of Vestibular Schwannoma does not Correlate with Hearing Loss in Pediatric Patients with Neurofibromatosis Type 2” at the International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Toronto, Canada, June 2012 and at the Children’s Tumor Foundation NF Conference, June 2012; “Brainstem Low Grade Tumors Presenting with BRAF V600E Mutation and Successful Treatment with Vemurafenib” at International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro- Oncology, Toronto, Canada, June 2012; “The Use of Bevacizumab in the Treatment of Schwannomarelated Pain in a Patient with Neurofibromatosis Type 2” at International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Toronto, Canada, June 2012 and at Children’s Tumor Foundation NF Conference, June 2012; “Protein Expression is a Potential Independent Prognostic Factor in Pediatric Pilocytic and Pilomyxoid Astrocytoma” at the International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Toronto, Canada, June 2012. Dennis Weiner, MD, Co-Director, Regional Skeletal Dysplasia Center, Professor of Orthopedics, NEOMED, ABIA, and Mark Adamczyk, MD, presented “Microarray Analysis of Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis Growth Plates” at Ohio Orthopedic Society, Dublin, OH, May 2012. Publications Micah Baird, MD, Medical Director, Inpatient Rehabilitation, wrote “Interrater Reliability and Convergent Validity of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine Methodology for Conducting Systematic Reviews” with L. Wiart L, K. Kolaski, C. Butler, L. Vogtle, L.R. Logan, R. Hickman, J. Romeiser, L. Samson-Fang, C.A. Matsuba, L. Roxborough, T. Mayson, I. Dinu in 2012. “Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology” July 54(7):606-611. Michael T. Bigham, MD, Pediatric Intensive Care Physician, Medical Director, Transport Services, Assistant Patient Safety Officer, wrote “Making Good Better: Implementing a Standardized Handoff in Pediatric Transport” with C. Weingart, T. Herstich, P. Baker, M.L. Garrett, M. Bird, J. Billock, and H.P. Schwartz. Air Med J. January 32(1):40-6, 2013; “Interleukin-27 is a Novel Candidate Diagnostic Biomarker for Bacterial Infection in Critically Ill Children” with H.R. Wong, N.Z. Cvijanovich, M. Hall, G.L. Allen, N.J. Thomas, R.J. Freishtat, N. Anas, K. Meyer, P.A. Checchia, R. Lin, A. Sen, J. Nowak, M. Quasney, J.W. Henricksen, A.Chopra, S. Banschbach, E. Beckman, K. Harmon, P. Lahni, T.P. Shanley. Crit Care October 16(5):R174, 2012; “The Pediatric Sepsis Biomarker Risk Model” with H.R.Wong, S.Salisbury, Q. Xiao, N.Z. Cvijanovich, M. Hall, G.L. Allen, N.J. Thomas, R.J. Freishtat, N. Anas, K. Meyer, P.A. Checchia, R. Lin, T.P. Shanley TP, A.Sen, J. Nowak, M. Quasney, J.W. Henricksen, A. Chopra, S. Banschbach, E. Beckman, K. Harmon, P. Lahni, and C.J. Lindsell. Crit Care October 16(5):R174, 2012. Michelle Burke, MD, Medical Director, School Health Services, wrote “Young Athletes,” with Angela D. Smith, and Keith J. Loud. Team Physician Manual: Intervention Federations of Sports Medicine. Ed.3 2013. Chapter 9: 196-215. AKRONCHILDRENS.ORG/GIVING 25
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