Inside Pediatrics Winter 2021

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Pioneering surgery spares infants from helmets

ADMINISTRATION Tom Shufflebarger, President and CEO Coke Matthews, Executive Vice President Garland Stansell, Chief Communications Officer EDITORIAL Jody Seal, Editor Trent Graves, Design

App helps families navigate child’s cancer care

Children’s adds next-generation dialysis machines

Amy Dabbs, Digital Content Denise McGill, Photography Eric Gray, Photography Patrick Deavours, Photography CONTRIBUTORS

How to heal a broken heart

Andre Green Adam Kelley Rhonda Lee Lother Conan Gasque John Tracy PHYSICIAN MARKETING Tiffany Kaczorowski MEDICAL LEADERSHIP Mitchell Cohen, M.D. Katharine Reynolds Ireland Chair of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham Physician-in-Chief, Children’s of Alabama Mike Chen, M.D. Joseph M. Farley Chair in Pediatric Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham Chief of Pediatric Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief, Children’s of Alabama Lee I. Ascherman, M.D., M.P.H. Chief of Service, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Alabama at Birmingham For questions or additional information or to share feedback, please contact us at insidepediatrics@childrensal.org. An online version of the magazine is available at childrensal.org/insidepediatrics.

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