Inside Pediatrics Spring/Summer 2024

NEWS, HONORS AND AWARDS

The Children’s of Alabama/UAB Pediatric Transplant and Heart Failure team receives PHTS Vanguard Award The Pediatric Heart Transplant Study (PHTS) has awarded the Children’s of Alabama/UAB Pediatric Transplant and Heart Failure team its PHTS Vanguard Award. This award is given to centers that have met criteria signaling a program’s reliability, timeliness and adequate volume. The PHTS is the world’s largest and oldest registry for pediatric patients who require listing for heart transplantation. PHTS was started in the mid 1990s at UAB as a collaborative effort between UAB Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and UAB Pediatric Cardiology.

Three faculty elected to Society for Pediatric Research Vivek Shukla, M.D., Samuel Gentle, M.D., and Jegen Kandasamy, M.D., all assistant professors in the Division of Neonatology, have been elected to the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR). The mission of the Society for Pediatric Research is to create a multidisciplinary network of diverse researchers to improve child health.

Goncalves wins Society for Pediatric Radiology’s Berdon Award Fabricio Goncalves, M.D., distinguished professor of pediatric imaging at UAB, was presented with the Walter E. Berdon Award for Best Clinical Research Paper by the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR). Goncalves’ paper, “The Role of Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Histogram Metrics for Differentiating pediatric Medulloblastoma Histological Variants and Molecular Groups,” was published in Pediatric Radiology . The Bedon Award recognizes the best clinical research paper submitted to Pediatric Radiology in the previous year.

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