2023 Department of Pediatrics Academic Annual Report

Carmen Tong, D.O.

UAB/Children’s

• Director of pediatric robotic surgery • Course director, robotic surgery curriculum, Department of Urology • Co-chair, Communications Committee, AAPI Faculty Association, UAB • Antibiotic Stewardship Committee, Children’s of Alabama • Mary Heersink Institute for Global Health Steering Committee

Extramural

• Chair-elect, Young Urologists Committee, American Urological Association • Urology Care Foundation Technology & Publications Committee • American Academy of Pediatrics Surgical Advisory Panel Rural Health Workgroup • Societies for Pediatric Urology Social Media Task Force • American College of Surgeons NSQIP-Pediatric Specialty Advisory Council for Pediatric Urology

Note: The Young Urologists committee represents the voice of early-career adult and pediatric urologists (in practice 10 years or less) of the American Urological Association. The American Urological Association has more than 24,000 members around the world.

INVITED TALKS

Stacy Tanaka, M.D., M.S.

• Evolving pediatric urologic care for myelomeningocele. Nemours Children’s Hospital Florida, pediatric surgery grand rounds (virtual), February 2023. • Clean intermittent catheterization and training regimens/neurogenic urinary incontinence in children and adolescents. International Neuro Urology Society (INUS) Annual Congress. Athens, Greece, June 2023. • Thomas Jefferson University/Nemours Children’s Health urology visiting professor, October 2023.

• University of Connecticut Walzak Pediatric Urology visiting professor, October 2023. • University of Minnesota Urology Leo C.T. Fung memorial lectureship, November 2023.

• Technical aspects of pediatric urodynamics/neurogenic bladder—what we’ve learned from UMPIRE. International Children’s Continence Society annual meeting, Salvador, Brazil, November 2023. • Neurogenic bladder from birth to adulthood. Congreso Brasileiro de Urologia, Salvador, Brazil, November 2023.

David Joseph, M.D.

• University of Iowa pediatric urology visiting professor, June 2023.

Carmen Tong, D.O.

• Let’s talk about sex: bridging the gap in sexual health education among female spina bifida patients. American College of Osteopathic Surgeons: mid-year meeting at the American Urological Association annual meeting, April 2023. • Invited faculty, American Urological Association Intern Academy Hands-on Skills Training, June 2023. • Pediatric trauma. Urology grand rounds, Main Line Health, September 2023. • Newborn circumcision. Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, September 2023. • Pediatric renal trauma. American Academy of Pediatrics National Convention and Experience, Section on Urology Masterclass Symposium, October 2023. • Invited faculty, Columbia University Virtual Urology Course

Tim Boswell, M.D.

• Endoscopic treatment of primary obstructive megaureter. Boston Children’s Urology Journal Club (virtual), November 2023.

DIVISION GRANTS David Joseph, M.D., Jeffrey Blount, M.D., Research approaches to improve the care and outcomes of people living with spina bifida— component B (5U01DD001237-05) FY 2023 $80,000 David Joseph, M.D., Research approaches to improve the care and outcomes of people living with spina bifida—component B (5U01DD001236-05) FY 2023 $25,000

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