Dear Colleagues,
The new UNC Hospitals Children's Specialty Clinic in Raleigh is now open! We had a wonderful open house on December 5th. Local referring physicians, UNC Health Care leadership, and providers working in this new space came together to tour the building and foster strong working relationships. It is an exciting time and we are all eager to see the new facility flourish.
I would like to thank all of you for your hard work serving families across NC and beyond this past year. Our faculty has grown significantly along with our clinical and research programs.
We continue to strive towards our vision of “Transforming care & inspiring hope for
all children.
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Opening the Urgent Care space is our next adventure - we're ready to see patients on January 13th. There is another Open House in the new space scheduled for January 25th - I hope everyone can plan a visit. We also look forward to beginning our service in the new Rex Inpatient unit mid-January. So many exciting things happening in 2020!
As we close out 2019, may your holidays be filled with peace, joy, and warm memories.
Happy Holidays!
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Pediatric Missions Update
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Please Welcome our New Providers!
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Erin Parrish Reade, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Hospital Pediatrics
Erin joined UNC on December 9th. She is with us part-time - splitting her efforts between Pediatric Hospitalist service at UNC Rex (50%) and the Pediatric Critical Care service at UNC Medical Center (25%).
Dr. Reade grew up in Smithfield, North Carolina. She graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before completing her medical education at East Carolina University. During her pediatrics residency at East Carolina University, she also graduated with a master’s degree in Public Health. Following a year of pediatrics practice on the North Carolina Outer Banks , she trained in pediatric critical care at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She practiced pediatric critical care medicine in Chattanooga, Tennessee from 2009 to 2019 Erin also led the Pediatrics Residency training program at Children's Hospital at Erlanger, serving as the Associate Program Director (August 2017-June 2018) and then the Program Director (July 2018-June 2019).
Erin enjoys her time with her 2 kids, Coleman and Campbell, and her husband, Clifton Reade, MD, who recently joined
Cardiothoracic Surgery at
UNC Rex.
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KUDOS to Newborn Critical Care Center Zero Heroes!
The NCCC CLABSI Prevention Team would like to recognize, the
NCCC Zero Heroes.
Despite the high census and acuity in the unit, they were organized and collaborative in the participation of the
2019 CLABSI Boot Camp: Back to Basics.
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We are very pleased to announce that 161 members of the NCCC and 23 colleagues from different units attended this event last week. The Zero Hero Team is growing dramatically, and we believe that we, all together, will be able to protect our tine, fragile heroes from CLABSI, NEC, sepsis and other infections.
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UNC Children's Providers are
2020 Healthcare Heroes Winners
The Triangle Business Journal has unveiled the winners of its
2020 Class of Health Care Heroes Awards! This year’s winners include doctors, nurses, volunteers and administrators. The 24 winners work in a variety of health care settings, including major hospital systems, small physician groups, life sciences firms and nonprofit health charities.
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We are so proud that UNC Children's is home to
THREE
of the winners:
Stuart Gold, MD
(Chief of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology);
Andrea Hayes-Jordan, MD
(Surgeon-in-Chief of UNC Children’s
); &
Mahesh Sharma, MD
(Surgeon & Co-Director of the NC Children’s Heart Center & Director of Pediatric Heart Transplant
).
In addition to a recognition event planned for February 2020, profiles of the winners will be published as part of a special section of the Triangle Business Journal on February 14th.
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Wednesday was Match Day!
The wait is over for our fellowship programs and our residents entering the Match!
We are thrilled for our residents that matched into fellowships!
Chris Cummings, MD - Medical Genetics at Nebraska
Nikkan Das, MD (2019 graduate) - Cardiology at Pittsburgh
Alex Despotes, MD - Pulmonary Medicine (Adult) at UNC
Laura Lemley, MD - Hospital Medicine at Duke
Andy Liu, MD - Critical Care at Vanderbilt
Brooke Prestridge, MD - Endocrinology at UNC
Bobby Slater, MD - Cardiology at Michigan
Derica Sams, MD - Gastroenterology at Vanderbilt
Justin Sperlazza, MD - Hematology-Oncology at UNC
And we are excited to welcome these individuals to fellowships at UNC Children's!
Critical Care Medicine
Robin Atha, MD - Rush University Medical Center
Christen Seaman, MD - University of Louisville
Gastroenterology
Seth Morrison, MD - University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Hematology-Oncology
Jennifer Newcome, MD - East Carolina University
April Shipp, MD - University of Kentucky
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Neha Hassan, MBBS - East Carolina University
Simone Schneider, MD - University of Chicago
Lana Zhang, MD - Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters (EVMS)
Pulmonary Medicine
Richard De Vuyst, MD - University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Nicole Stephenson, MD - East Carolina University
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TEAM ADVANCE Faculty Mentoring Training
Registration is open for Spring 2020
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Faculty who complete the five-session core curriculum will receive a certificate of completion and recognition from the Office of the Provost, TEAM ADVANCE, and the Center for Faculty Excellence.
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Check Out These New Awards!
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Julie Blatt – Orphan Disease Center, 2019 Million Dollar Bike Ride Grant
Title: Engineered microvessels derived from human lymphatic endothelium as an in vitro model for drug repurposing for lymphatic malformations.
The long-term goal of this work is to advance repurposed anti-angiogenic agents to clinical trials to develop effective therapeutic interventions for treating lymphatic malforamtions.
Awarded $62,862
Neal DeJong in collaboration with the CIDD - NC
Department of Health and Human Services
Title:
UNC Pediatrics Complex Care Intellectual/Developmental Disability Service Enhancement
and Expansion.
To expand the scope of the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (CIDD) by enabling them to support the UNC Complex Care Clinic by providing
intellectual/developmental disability
and behavioral complexity expertise.
Awarded $245,089
Stuart Gold – St. Baldrick’s Foundation
Title: Psychosocial Chair for Pediatric Oncology.
Support for BMT and phase I/II trials
Awarded $50,000
Carl Seashore & Saif Khairat
- UNC 2019 Innovation Will-Being Pilot Award
Title: “Promoting Physician Well Being through Improved Epic Experience.”
Funded through the UNC System-Wide Integrated Well-Being Program and the Center for Health Innovation, the project proposes that use of electronic health records (EHR) directly contributes to physician burnout. Poor EHR design can affect decision making and cause delays in care, medical errors, and unanticipated patient-safety events. By providing individualized training for physicians struggling with EHR documentation, this project aims to improve EHR use and mitigate EHR-related stressors, decreasing the EHR burden and improving physician well-being.
Awarded $24,720
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Mike Steiner - US DHHS, Collaborative Child Health Effort with Duke University
Title: Integrated Care for Kids (InCK).
A federal funding award of up to
$16 million
to Duke University, in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the NC Department of Health and Human Services,
will help establish an innovative approach to providing health and wellness services to children in five North Carolina counties.
The model was one of eight nationally to be awarded funding from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The initiative aims to integrate a variety of services that children receive from different agencies and providers, including those for physical and behavioral health, housing, food, early care and education, child welfare, mobile crisis response services and juvenile justice and safety.
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Find Funding in ONE PLACE
The Department is trying to keep emails to a minimum by collecting information into newsletters like this one and others through out the month. Likewise, rather than sending multiple funding opportunities to your email we recommend that you always check the
CRI Website
for
the latest funding notices,
listed alphabetically.
We centrally collect information from the School of Medicine Office of Research, the UNC Office for the Vice Chancellor of Research, NC TraCS, Corporate and Foundation Relations Office, and others.
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K2 Challenge
2400 calories, 12 doughnuts, 5 miles, 1 hour
Saturday, February 1, 2020
Proceeds benefit the
UNC Children’s Raleigh Specialty Care Clinic
.
Thanks to the NCSU Park Scholars for their continued support!
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Friday, February 7, 2020 at 7:00p
The Carolina Inn,
211 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill
The Benefit Reception is a silent and live auction that raises money for the patients and families of UNC Children’s.
The cost of attendance is $70 for an individual, $120 for a couple, or $250 for a group of five.
Checks can be made payable to Carolina For The Kids.
Payment can be presented upon arrival or mailed to:
Carolina For The Kids
P.O. Box 628
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
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Carolina Hurricanes Visit UNC Children's!
What makes UNC Children's a "different kind of hospital?" Incredibly generous people who give back. Like the 'Canes! Thank you Carolina Hurricanes!
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In cooperation with the UNC Health Care System, we are continuing our work in developing a rapid response team to react to events of violence toward underrepresented groups. We hope to share more on our efforts soon.
Please join us at Grand Rounds! There are three diversity grand rounds scheduled over the next 6 months.
The Diversity Committee wishes everyone an uplifting holiday season!
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Our unsung hero this month is
Wren Wallace, RN BSN
Nominated by
Meg Kihlstrom
Wren Wallace, RN, BSN, serves as the Quality and Organizational Excellence Analyst for the Department of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery.
Wren wears many hats in her role, including leading the Cardiac Improvement Team, coordinating database reporting, and spearheading a family support video for families with children with congenital heart disease. She is a true unsung hero in her role – humble and unassuming yet so accomplished and dedicated to her job. Even in the face of adversity, Wren perpetually has a smile on her face and an optimistic, can-do attitude. Also, as a nurse who worked with cardiac patients in the past and a mother of a daughter with congenital heart disease, Wren adds empathy and compassion to all her interactions.
Our program could not succeed without her as part of the team!
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