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A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN   I am pleased announce the formation of a Division of Internal Medicine –Pediatrics.  Effective July 1, 2011 Dr. John McCormick, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, will head this new Division.  Other members include Dr. Denise Edwards and Dr. Brian Knox.  As most of you know this discipline requires 4 years of training and results in Board Certification in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.  Dr. McCormick is the Associate Program Director for the Med-Peds Residency and a graduate from both the USF College of Medicine and the USF Med-Peds Residency program.  After a few years in private practice he joined the Department.  The Division has clinics in the STC which include Dr. Edwards' Healthy Weight Clinic.  Dr. Knox, in addition to interest in Healthy Weight, is also trained in the use of Botox.  Please congratulate Dr. McCormick and his team.  They are delighted to accept referrals.

" On June 18 we had graduation for residents and fellows at the Center Club.  A happy occasion with a touch of sadness for all.  Saturday we welcomed the new residents in Pediatrics and Med-Peds.  For those who were unable to attend the events we will share pictures in this issue of the newsletter.

In the News 2-3 Tourette Syndrome Walk 4

Publications 5 Resident News 5

Skit Night 6 Allergy and Immunology News/Wiffle Ball 7-8

Child Development 9-10 Graduation/Welcome Party 10-12

Pediatrics’ Growing Family 12 Birthdays/Notes 13-14

Inside this Issue:

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PEDIATRICSIn the News

! The University of South Florida will be well represented at the 2011 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition to be held in Boston on October 14-18, 2011.

! Dr. Jennifer Takagishiʼs abstract, Needs Assessment of Behavioral Health Issues In Children In Medical Foster Care Homes, has been accepted for presentation.

! Dr. Takagishi and Dr. Sharon Dabrow have had their abstract, Doulas and Residents Together (DART): A Novel Educational Approach to Teach Breastfeeding and Cultural Comptency to Pediatric Residents, accepted as well.

! The doctors also gave a lecture to the Hillsborough County Foster Care Parents Association

on Saturday June 4th. They lecture concerned issues of well child care. There were over 80 people in attendance.

! Also accepted for presentation at the conference is Dr. Jeannine Del Pizzoʼs abstract, Efficiency in Sedation for Forearm Fracture Reduction In Children: Propofol Vs. Ketamine-Propofol Vs. Ketofol.

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! Dr. Eric Storch had his National Institute of Health Research Project Grant in Childhood Obsessive Compulsive Disorder officially awarded earlier this month. Congratulations Dr. Storch!

! Dr. John Malone, along with co-authors Alicia Diaz-Thomas, MD and Kathleen Swan, PhD, had their work, “Problem with the new born screen for galactosaemia”, published in the British Medical Journalʼs Case Reports this month.

! Several practitioners; including Dr. Sharon Dabrow, Dr. Carol Lilly, Dr. Bernard Pollara and Jeanette Fleischer; participated in doing sports physicals on Saturday June 11 at Antioch in Plant City.

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PEDIATRICSTourette Syndrome Walk

! The Rothman Center took part in the first Florida Step-Up for TS! Walk on June 11 in Lakeland. They helped raise money for the Tourette Syndrome Association (TSA) and the TSA-FL Youth Ambassador Program. The TSA is the only national not-for-profit organization serving the needs of those touched by this disorder. TSAʼs mission is to fund research to discover the cause and find a cure, while providing programs to help those living with TS.

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Residency News

Dr. Stefany Honigbaum has been accepted to the Pediatric GI Fellowship program at Johns Hopkins. Congratulations Stefany!

Dr. Caroline Thompson has been accepted to the Pediatric GI Fellowship program at Washington University in St. Louis. Congratulations Caroline!

Adam Lewin, Ph.D. received a University of South Florida Research Counsel International Travel Grant ($2500) to present the following symposium talk: “Neuro-executive predictors of cognitive behavioral treatment response in youth with obsessive compulsive disorder” at the biennial World Congress of Psychiatry in Buenos Aries, Argentina.

! He has also recieved notification of his Board Certification in Child and Adolescent Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. (ABPP)

Lewin, A.B., Peris, T. Bergman, R.L., McCracken, J., & Piacentini, J.  (in press).  The Role of Treatment Expectancy in Youth Receiving Exposure-based CBT for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.  Behaviour Research and Therapy.

Finally, Dr. Lewin also had the following manuscript accepted for publication:

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PEDIATRICSSkit Night!

! The annual skit night celebration was held at Dr. Sharon Dabrowʼs house on June 15, 2011. Skit night is a chance for all of the residents, faculty and staff to come together to close out another year by lightly poking fun of each other and sharing a few laughs. This year proved to be no different!

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! Dr. Elena Perez published an article in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology entitled, “Genome-wide association identifies diverse causes of common variable immunodeficiency” from research conducted on her NIH grant 5R03.

Jordan S. Orange, MD, PhD, Joseph T. Glessner, MS, Elena Resnick, MD, Kathleen E. Sullivan, MD, Mary Lucas, MD, Berne Ferry, MD, Cecilia E. Kim, BS, Cuiping Hou, BS, Fengxiang Wang, BS, Rosetta Chiavacci, BSN, Subra Kugathasan, MD, John W. Sleasman, MD, Robert Baldassano, MD, Elena E. Perez, MD, Helen Chapel, MD, Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles, MD, and Hakon Hakonarson, MD, PhD. Genome-wide association identifies diverse causes of common variable immunodeficiency. J Allergy Clin Immunol, Vol. 127, Number 6. p. 1360-1367. June, 2011.

Allergy and Immunology News

! Dr. Sleasman had a number of newsworthy events take place over this past month in addition to the above publication. First, he gave a case-based lecture on pediatric rash diseases to the third year medical students.! As a delegate, he attended the World Immunology Conference focused on Primary Immunodeficiencies. The four day symposium took take place June 1st – June 5th at Rockefeller University in New York City. Dr. Sleasman also gave a lecture on primary immune deficiency disorders at the Childrenʼs Hospital of Southwest Florida during the 9th Annual Pediatric Conference for Physicians and Nurses on June 4th.

! Dr. Sleasman also had an editorial printed in the St. Petersburg Times on May 27th:

Veto of health test shortsighted

Gov. Rick Scott has vetoed funding for statewide public health support services that would add testing for severe combined immune deficiency (SCID) to the existing newborn screening program that tests all infants for genetic diseases. This was a foolish and shortsighted decision. Considerable effort and deliberations led to the passage of the bill.

The new molecular-based technology to diagnosis SCID from a single drop of blood has only recently become available. In states such as Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New York and California, it has already been shown that testing can be easily implemented and is highly sensitive in identifying infants at risk. Treatment in the form of transplantation cures the condition but late diagnosis is uniformly fatal due to overwhelming infections.

Adding this test was unanimously approved by Florida's Newborn Screening Advisory Board based on the test's excellent cost-benefit ratio. In short, testing saves lives and money. We have to assume the governor was not aware of this when he vetoed this legislation.

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" On July 3rd, the Beach Bash and Wiffle Ball Tournament benefitting the Jeffrey Modell Foundation for Kids with Primary Immune Deficiencies will take place in St. Petersburg at the Don Cesar Beach Resort. Last year the tournament attracted 450 people and raised more than $175,000. To learn more about the event and to view pictures from last years tremendously successful benefit please follow this link: http://www.medicalchampion.com/

Wiffle Ball Tournament!

Make sure to register your team early by clicking on the link posted above!

We hope to see you there!!

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PEDIATRICSChild Development

! Two former Psychology interns from the Division of Child Development successfully defended their dissertation/thesis:

Amy Patenaudeʼs thesis - An Examination of Demographic Variables and their Relationships with Perceived Stress Among Caregivers Beginning a Parent Training Program. Amy will be a school psychologist in Hillsborough County.

Marissa Feldman dissertation - Cyber bulling in high school: Associated individual and contextual factors of involvement. Marissa will complete a post doc at Chicagoʼs Childrenʼs Hospital.

! A sad farewell to Lisa Clifford - Parent Support Specialist for Baby Behavior Bootcamp and HOT DOCS projects. She is moving to Ft. Bragg, NC with her family, and hopes to bring these programs with her to enrich the lives of military families.

! Treasurer Heather Agazzi and President Kathi Armstrong celebrate with a friend, following the annual conference for the Florida Association of Infant Mental Health, held at the Embassy Suites in Tampa.

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PEDIATRICS! Dr. Alison Salloum, a Pediatrics affiliate from the Department of Social Work, was just awarded an NIMH R34 titled “Stepped Care for Young Children after Trauma.” This promises to be an extremely innovative study that will be beneficial to many children. Congratulations Dr. Salloum!

Graduation! The Department of Pediatrics help itʼs annual graduation ceremony on June 18, 2011 at the Centre Club in Tampa. It was a wonderful event enjoyed by all. Residents from both the Pediatrics and Med/Peds programs, as well as those completing Fellowship, were honored in front of family and friends.

! A number of awards were handed out that night as well. The winners included Laura Johnson, ARNP who took home the “Outstanding Faculty Teaching” award. The “Attending Teacher of the Year” awards went to Drs. Jennifer Casatelli, Juan Dumois, Lana Soylu, and Maya Balakrishnan. Mary Baker won the “Intern of the Year” award, Erin Cipko was named the “ACH NICU Resident of the Year”, and many others also received plaques in recognition of their hard work. Congratulations to all!

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Welcome Party! The Nelsons held their annual welcome party for the new Peds and Med-Peds residents at their home on Saturday, June 25th. It served as an opportunity for many of our current residents and faculty to meet with the new interns before they officially start work on July 1st.

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! Dr. Pam Kilbride and her husband Aaron welcomed their first child on May 24, 2011. Aubrey Nicole measured 7 pounds, 6 ounces. Mom and baby are doing well!

Pediatrics’ Growing Family

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PEDIATRICSJuly Birthdays!

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Christopher Tappan

Emily Shaffer

Clara Marselli

Kenneth Young

Michael Fant

Danielle Bond

Maxine Sutcliffe

Stephen Karges

Nancy Muscato

Katherine Bennett

Mark Glaum

Leah Jung

Heather Hartling

Anthony Morelli

Linda Giffin

Eileen Acevedo

Angel Luciano

Jennifer Casatelli

Duane Eichler

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Mudra Kumar

Tawania St. John

Tammy Myers

Kathleen Farrar

Sandra Leack

Hossain Marandi

Todd Wells

Page Dunning

Laura Aviles

Lark Mitchell

Araceli Elizalde

Carmen Khadaroo

Julie Ford

Nicole Nations

John Cannon

Marjorie Peak

Elizabeth Wos

Naseema Abbasi

Nancy Wallace

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Lorena Ballard

William Hays

Natraj Ballal

Raju Marisiddaiah

Kathy Guertin

Jamie Malloy

John O’Neill

Scott McKinley

Monica Watson

Michelle McKinney

Coralia Diaz

Tina Pastoor

Heather Zerby

Amy Baldwin

Hugo Matias Jasin

Janet Sullivan

Belinda Hsiao

Kendra Vehik

Christopher Eberhard

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PEDIATRICSGrand Rounds - July 2011

Lectures are from 8:00 to 9:00 AM at MacInnes Auditorium; Tampa General Hospital. Lectures are also videoconferenced to the All Childrenʼs Hospital/USF Childrenʼs Research Institute first floor conference room and to the CMS Building, Room 2004.

EditorEd Kelly

Phone: (813) 259-8847Fax: (813) 259-8792

Email: ekelly@health.usf.eduUSF Health - Pediatrics

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PLEASE NOTE: There will be no Pediatric Grand Rounds during July and August. The first lecture in the fall will be September 8. Have a great summer!