Inside Pediatrics Spring 2025

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

ADMINISTRATION Tom Shufflebarger, President and CEO Chandler Bibb, Chief Development Officer Garland Stansell, Chief Communications Officer EDITORIAL Conan Gasque, Editor Amy Dabbs

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Division Rounds Quick briefs and news from around the hospital

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Transforming Emergency Mental Health Care New safe area in emergency department leading to improvements

DESIGN Becca Hodges Scott LeBlanc Dana Stuckey PHOTOGRAPHY Eric Gray Chris Luker Andrea Mabry Denise McGill CONTRIBUTORS Katherine Gaither Debra L. Gordon, MS Sarah Handzel, BSN, RN Julia Levet

Flow Restrictors Offer Hope for High-Risk Newborns Tiny devices are showing promise for helping patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome

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Rhonda Lee Lother Maureen Salamon

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The Next Wave How neonatologists are using sounds waves for lung testing

Heather Watts Unlock Health DIGITAL CONTENT Andre Green MEDICAL LEADERSHIP Yung Lau, M.D. Katharine Reynolds Ireland Chair of Pediatrics Chair, UAB Department of Pediatrics Physician-in-Chief, Children’s of Alabama Mike Chen, M.D., MBA Joseph M. Farley Chair in Pediatric Surgery University of Alabama at Birmingham Chief of Pediatric Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief Children’s of Alabama Sonya Pritchard, M.D. Professor Chief of Service, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Children’s of Alabama

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A New Chapter in Neurofibromatosis Care Children’s and UAB building on already successful program

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News, Honors and Awards

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