2023 Department of Pediatrics Academic Annual Report

Med Teach. 2023 Jun 29;1-5. A patient-centered approach to learning social determinants of health for first-year medical students. Stephanie Berger, Caroline Harada. J Hosp Med. 2023 Jul 26. Clinical progress note: Update in management in community acquired pneumonia in children. Ariel E Carpenter, Meghan E Hofto. Acad Pediatr. 2023 May 17;S1876-2859(23)00151-1. Burnout During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Report on Pediatric Residents. Linessa M Zuniga, Abigail Schuh, Alan Schwartz, Patricia Seo-Mayer, Rachel Cramton, Kira Sieplinga, Ruchi Kaushik, Lauren Nassetta, Jason H Homme, Jessica Babal, John D Mahan, Maneesh Batra; Pediatric Resident Burnout and Resilience Study Consortium. J Hosp Med. 2023 May 14. Putting equity at the forefront as telehealth advances: A hospitalist perspective. Courtney Sump, James D Odum, Marie A Pfarr. N Engl J Med. 2023 Nov 9;389(19):1822-1824. Randomized Trial of Hyperimmune Globulin for Congenital CMV Infection—2-Year Outcomes. Brenna L Hughes, Rebecca G Clifton, Dwight J Rouse, George R Saade, Mara J Dinsmoor, Uma M Reddy, Robert Pass, Donna Allard, Gail Mallett, Cora MacPherson, Ronald Wapner, Torri Metz, William H Goodnight, Alan T N Tita, Maged M Costantine, Geeta K Swamy, Kent D Heyborne, Edward K Chien, Suneet P Chauhan, Yasser Y El-Sayed, Brian M Casey, Samuel Parry, Hyagriv N Simhan, Peter G Napolitano, George A Macones; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal–Fetal Medicine Units Network; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development Maternal–Fetal Medicine Units Network. EXTRAMURAL AWARDS, RECOGNITION & LEADERSHIP ROLES Stephanie Berger, M.D., has been selected as co-lead of the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics Technology Collaborative. She also serves on the national Learning Communities Institute Council. Meghan Hofto, M.D., serves as co-chair of the Global Health Special Interest Group of the Academic Pediatric Association and co chair of the Subcommittee on Global Health for the American Academy of Pediatrics Section of Hospital Medicine. Brian May, M.D., is a member of the American College of Graduate Medical Education Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship Milestones Review Committee. In this role, he co-authored subspecialty focused milestones in Hospital Medicine that fellowships nationally will use as a standard to evaluate their fellows’ competencies in critical areas related to the specialty. Lauren Nassetta, M.D., was invited to serve on the Pediatric Resident Burnout-Resilience Study Consortium Steering Committee. Paul Scalici, M.D., was selected for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Hospital Medicine Subcommittee on Intermediate Care. This year he was invited to speak in panels on Intermediate Care models at the Pediatric Hospital Medicine meeting in Philadelphia and the AAP National Conference and Exhibition in Washington, DC. Erin Shaughnessy, M.D., serves as the Consortium of Pediatric Hospital Medicine representative at the Council of Pediatric Subspecialties. Dr. Shaughnessy is deputy editor for Reviews and Perspectives at the Journal of Hospital Medicine. Cassi Smola, M.D., serves on the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association’s Learning Resources Committee. She also is a co leader of the national American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association’s Genetics and Pediatrics Discipline Forum. Chang L. Wu, M.D., MSCR was selected as Vice Chair of Recruitment of the AAP PHM Fellowship Directors Group. PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL MEDICINE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM The UAB Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship Program successfully completed its first ACGME site visit. Our fellowship program is currently led by Chang L. Wu, M.D., MSCR, as program director and Erinn Schmit, M.D., MEd, as associate program director. Adolfo Molina, M.D., MSHQS, completes the leadership team as fellow advocate. The fellowship established a new partnership with the pediatric hospitalist group at Huntsville Hospital in a new community hospital medicine rotation. UAB PHM fellows will rotate for a combined eight weeks per year in Huntsville Hospital and assist in the education of UAB Family Medicine trainees. Additionally, a new virtual conference called Journal Court was created in collaboration the fellowship programs of the University of Arkansas, University of Tennessee Memphis and Vanderbilt University. In a mentored setting, faculty and fellows will meet to critically appraise selected manuscripts on a quarterly basis. The fellowship successfully graduated two fellows in the last year. Since the program’s inception, every graduate of the program has been successful in obtaining an academic hospitalist appointment upon graduation. In 2023, both Dr. Meghan Harrison and Dr. Elizabeth Mertens joined our division at UAB as faculty. We welcomed the addition of two outstanding fellows— Dr. Kennon Ulicny from Akron Children’s Hospital and Dr. Francesca Prewitt from St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. The fellowship continues to be successful in a highly competitive subspecialty. Click here for the full list of publications from the division faculty in 2023.

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