Pediatric News
Updates from the Department of Pediatrics
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In This Issue
CHRI Pediatric Research forum; Medicinal Musings; Facilitators Needed for Acute Care Block Training; Celebrations
Division Infographics: Adolescent Medicine & Child Abuse Pediatrics; CTR-MSP Accepting Applications for Scholars
Five Questions; Service Anniversaries; Approved Templates
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CHRI Pediatric Research Forum
Open for Abstract Submissions
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The Child Health Research Institute's annual Pediatric Research Forum is an opportunity for medical scientists and trainees to network and share their current work via abstract submissions and a poster session.
Eligible abstract submissions by trainees will be judged by a review panel, and winners in each category will be invited to present their research at the award ceremony. This year's forum will be held May 5 and 6 at Children’s Hospital & Medical Center. At this time, we are planning for the CHRI Pediatric Research Forum to be a live event but will have a contingency plan in place.
The event is open for submissions until April 1, 2021. All who submit will automatically be registered for the event. Open registration for non-presenting attendees will open in mid-March. Click here for abstract and poster guidelines.
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Medicinal Musings Seeks Creative Works from Physicians and Medical Students |
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Are you a physician or medical student who writes, makes visual art or creates music? If so, we invite you to submit your work to the Medicinal Musings Showcase, a celebration of the healing power of the arts. This is a complementary, but independent, exhibit in conjunction with the CHRI Pediatric Research Forum. You do not have to be presenting research at the CHRI Pediatric Research Forum to submit your creative works for Medicinal Musings.
We are seeking original written short works or excerpts of poetry and prose (both fiction and non-fiction), photography, visual art (drawing/painting/printmaking/mixed media works on paper) and musical compositions that highlight the art and humanistic aspect of medicine.
While the theme of the forum is centered around child health, related or general topics of health, illness and physician wellness are encouraged. Pictured above is an entry from last year's Medicinal Musings.
The categories for submission will be: poetry, prose, photography/graphic art, 2D visual art and musical compositions. Outstanding work will be recognized in each category.
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Please complete the online submission form
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Once the submission form is complete, you will be directed to send your work/link to apeyton@unmc.edu
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Poetry/Prose entries are encouraged to use the CHRI abstract template and be no more than 400 words (not including title, authors and affiliations)
- Entries should not contain any identifying patient information
- One entry per artist per category
- Must be submitted by 4:00 pm CST on April 1, 2022
- Late submissions will NOT be accepted
- All who submit will automatically be registered for the event.
Submissions will be reviewed by a small panel of physicians to ensure appropriate content and confidentiality. A judging panel of local artists will help grant awards for each category. If your work is submitted and accepted, it can be listed on your CV as a "poster" presentation. All accepted pieces will be presented digitally via an online gallery, and a physical showcase is also being considered for the evening of May 5. More information to come.
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Facilitators Needed for Acute Care Block Training for Med Students |
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The UNMC College of Medicine is looking for facilitator volunteers for Acute Care Block training intended to prepare second year medical students for their clerkships. There are four afternoons of small group cases with two cases each afternoon (eight cases total). We currently have about five to eight facilitators volunteering at each session, and 17 per session are needed. All pediatric physicians including specialists, PCPs, fellows and third year residents are encouraged to help. Even if you haven’t examined a child’s ear for a decade or held a newborn since residency, you can do this! All the answers will be provided to you. It’s low pressure. You can volunteer for one case or for as many cases as your schedule allows.
The Acute Block Training Schedule is below:
March 7 & 8 1-1:30 p.m. Newborn case with well visits
March 7 & 8 1:30 - 3 p.m. Practice writing an H&P
March 9 & 10 1-1:30 p.m. Acute Otitis Media – how to look in an ear, appropriate antibiotics
March 9 & 10 1:30-3 p.m. Difficult parent cases
There will be a session March 2 at noon on Zoom to discuss how to approach the cases scheduled for March 7 and 8, and a session March 3 at noon to discuss the cases on March 9 and 10. They will be recorded if you cannot attend.
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Our Successes:
Department Celebrations
The Department of Pediatrics shares accomplishments, publications and appointments.
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The Division of Adolescent Medicine is a new academic division in the Department of Pediatrics. We are the only academic adolescent and adult clinic service with board certified specialists in the geographic regions from Nebraska and North Dakota. Our mission is to bring a care model focused and centered on the needs of teenagers and to create a clinic environment that feels welcoming and inviting for teenagers to seek care and ask sensitive health questions.
We work closely with the UNMC Pediatric Residency program to train future physicians to be comfortable providing complicated adolescent-focused care throughout the region. We partner with community organizations in the Omaha-Lincoln region on issues to improve access to behavioral and reproductive health services. This includes relationships with OneWorld Community Health Centers and Douglas County Juvenile Detention. We intend to develop similar connections with Girls Inc, Charles Drew Health Center and substance abuse treatment facilities in the area, such as NOVA Treatment Community and Omaha Home for Boys.
We are beginning a new service for Children’s Hospital & Medical Center to offer multi-discipline, gender-affirming care for transgender individuals. Our advocacy work encompasses the entire state and region through expert guidance to local and state policy makers and includes partnerships with regional chapters of Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM), AAP-Committee on Adolescence and the Nebraska Medical Association.
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The Child Abuse Division includes the only board-certified child abuse pediatrician in the state. The Children’s Advocacy Team (CAT) reviews all cases of suspected abuse or neglect in the Children’s enterprise and provides expert review of cases for both Nebraska and Iowa professionals, including medical, law enforcement and child protection. We have outpatient clinics in both Omaha and Lincoln. The CAT clinic sees physical abuse and neglect patients for both follow-up and ongoing care, and the Foster Care program provides comprehensive evaluation for children in foster care. |
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CTR-MSP Accepting Applications for Scholars
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The program offers a master's or PhD track designed to develop scientists or health professionals who are at the junior faculty stage into productive and independent clinical and translational researchers by providing mentored research training.
The application deadline to join the program is April 29.
The CTR-MSP at UNMC was created in 2007. The overall aim of the program is to provide multidisciplinary didactic education and practical research grant training to early-career faculty, who intend to develop a career in clinical translational research, in order for them to acquire the skills to design, implement and report ethically sound research.
CTR-MSP scholars also can apply for the program's pilot research projects, which provide $25,000 through the university in pilot grant funding for CTR-MSP scholars to generate preliminary data needed for successful extramural grant applications.
The grant applications are open to CTS-MSP scholars holding a faculty appointment at any college at UNMC at the time of admission to the program. Early-career faculty (e.g., MD, DPH, PharmD, PhD) with a rank of assistant professor shall be given preference. A minimum of 0.25 FTE protected time is required.
For more information on becoming a CTR-MSP scholar, email Molly Cowgill, interdisciplinary programs coordinator, or reach her by phone at 402-559-5141.
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This month we feature Lynne Le, MPH, Inclusive Strategies Manager, and K. Meghan Kendall, DO, assistant professor, Division of Critical Care. |
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Lynn Le
This month we feature Lynne Le, MPH, Inclusive Strategies Manager, and K. Meghan Kendall, DO, assistant professor, Division of Critical Care.
Lynn Le
What brought you to your given specialty/role?
Two things have led me to where I am today: my lived experience and a lifelong passion for health and justice. I studied Public Health in grad school (at UNMC’s College of Public Health) and am thrilled to have found a field that promotes the pursuit of my passion and interests.
Before moving to Nebraska for higher education, I spent 18 years living through the contemporary effects of redlining, economic injustice and environmental injustice. My community has not had – and still does not have – access to many important social determinants of health: safe housing, reliable public transportation, livable wages, clean air, etc., and it has become my life’s mission to advocate for and promote access to these critical social factors for people across the country.
What’s your favorite place in the world?
It is so hard for me to choose favorites! I love to travel so one of my favorite places (that I have visited) is Mexico City. It is beautiful there! I really enjoyed walking around different parts of the city to explore shops, museums, restaurants, bookstores and plazas. Mexico City is lively, bright, colorful and beautiful. Just outside of the city is Teotihuacan and visiting the ancient pyramids was just amazing.
Another favorite place that carries deep meaning is the temple in my hometown. For me, it is a place of family, culture, religion and serenity. My family has gone to our chosen temple for decades. I still make it a point to go there every time I visit my parents.
What are you a fan of or very interested in?
Outside of public health, I love science. I am by no means an expert in any scientific field, but I find it all so interesting and a great source of wonder. I’ve taken a lot of different science classes in the broad areas of chemistry, biology and physics. I also find space SO intriguing. For example, the recent launch and deployment of the James Webb space telescope has been exciting. I can’t wrap my mind around how this telescope will shed light on the very first stars and galaxies from 13.5 billion years ago!
During the first year or so of the pandemic, I fostered a handful of dogs that would’ve otherwise been euthanized. This is a picture with my first foster dog, Kona. She loves to chase bugs in the yard and play tug. She was happily adopted into her furever home after a couple short weeks in our care. I highly recommend fostering animals!
Is there any medicine-based book, music or TV series or movie that you admire and would recommend to others? Or anything outside of the medical world that you recommend?
Entertainment is usually my way to escape work life, but I will say that the show “Call the Midwife” on Netflix is pretty good. Although it is not about health equity specifically, it demonstrates the important role that nurse midwives played in the area throughout the 20th century and how important it is for healthcare providers to meet people (patients) where they are. And, although they don’t explicitly talk about the social determinants of health, viewers can see the role that housing, employment, transportation, etc. play in a family’s health, especially around the pregnant person and their infant. Doulas and midwives used to play a major role in providing birth support but, upon the standardization of medical care in the United States, their role was greatly diminished in mainstream healthcare - a trend that I’m happy to report is reversing.
For entertainment that is not related to health: a couple of my favorite books are The Martian by Andy Weir and The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami.
What was the most important lesson taught to you during your career training?
In the roles I’ve held at CityMatCH, I’ve had the privilege of working with many leaders across the country and have learned so much. A recurring theme in conversations with people who have fought for justice for the past 20 or 30 years is personal sustainability in the work. This includes healing, self-care, alignment with your passion and continuing to push for the greater good. The journey towards improving equity is not a short one, and it requires intention around caring for yourself in a way that promotes longevity and prevents burnout. For me, equity is as much a personal pursuit as it is a professional one, and personal sustainability is key. We have to take care of ourselves – whatever that looks like for each person – so that we can continue to show up every day for the things we care about.
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Dr. K. Meghan Kendall
What brought you to your given specialty/role?
What brought you to your given specialty/role?
I often refer to myself as a general pediatrician with an adrenaline problem. I love being able to build the long-term and longitudinal relationships with families that are unique to pediatrics, but with the high intensity and acuity of the ICU.
What’s your favorite place in the world?
New York City. I'm originally from there, and love that I can spend the day on a beautiful beach in Queens with my very large family, eat amazing food from around the globe for dinner and be at a Broadway show by curtain.
What are you a fan of or very interested in?
I love to travel, especially somewhere with a beautiful body of water. I've been Omaha-bound thanks to COVID the last few years, so I miss having some of the adventures. I also love to cook. My next project is perfecting char siu bao (a personal favorite my toddler recently discovered in a book).
Is there any medicine-based book, music or TV series or movie that you admire and would recommend to others? Or anything outside of the medical world that you recommend?
I like to completely turn off my medical brain when I leave the hospital. That includes lots of reading for pleasure. On top of my usual fiction, I recently read Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle and Raising Good Humans, both of which I found excellent.
What was the most important lesson taught to you during your medical training?
There are two lessons that I find so important and try to pass on to trainees. 1. You are capable of any job, even if it isn't yours. This is a team sport; sometimes you lead the code team and sometimes the most helpful thing you can do is help change a bed or clean up a mess in a patient's room. 2. Know who your friends are and what they are better at than you. It is impossible to know everything.
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Staff Milestones:
Recent Service Anniversaries
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Congratulations to those celebrating recent work anniversaries. We wish you all the best for continued success! |
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What Template Should I Be
Using for Department Documents?
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If you are in need of a template for a Word document or a PowerPoint, they can be found on UNMC's Brandwise templates page. The Department of Pediatrics PowerPoint is the widescreen style on the left listed as UNMC/Children's. |
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The Word file is on the left and also labeled UNMC/Children's.
Clicking on the file you need will download a zip file. Within the zip file you will find the template file you can use for your project. You can also click the PowerPoint and Word hyperlinks above to download the files.
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University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics
982155 Nebraska Medicine
Omaha, NE 68198-2155
402-955-3933
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