As we wrap up one year and prepare for the next, we sometimes neglect to share some of the events, activities and accomplishments occurring in our midst. I'd like to revitalize our department newsletter to improve our communications.
Right now, our hospital and clinics are full of patients, and I thank all of you for the care, compassion and dedication you show to children and their families each day. Our educators have been hard at work with interviews for the residency and our fellowship programs and I want to acknowledge the program leaders and faculty for their involvement in the recruitment process. Our Pediatric Transitions Block team instructed the M2s in December, and I thank each of them for sharing their expertise with our students. We have also been busy conducting faculty interviews in many divisions and look forward to welcoming new faculty to the department in 2020.
Meanwhile, our faculty researchers have been diligently moving us ahead and have submitted multiple grants that are under review at the NIH as we enter the new year – and we look forward with anticipation to new projects and efforts expanding with the Child Health Research Institute. Each of us has been providing input and effort daily toward advancing the shared pediatric missions of UNMC and Children's Hospital & Medical Center.
I hope that each of you will have an opportunity to reflect on our accomplishments and that we will enter into 2020 with a renewed sense of pride and purpose. It's my privilege to work with all of you to ensure that our collective efforts help move the UNMC Department of Pediatrics forward into a new decade and toward a future that we are creating together.
Kari
Interim Chair, UNMC Department of Pediatrics
