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District III Update
Spring into Read, Lead and Succeed:
Happy Summer District 3,
After a long winter and chilly spring, it is nice to have some
sun. For those of you who have ended your residency or fellowship
either to enter practice or fellowship-- CONGRATULATIONS!!
Don’t forget as you make this next stage in your journey to keep the
AAP as a part of these plans. If you are continuing onto fellowship
you are still a member of our section, the Section on Medical
Students, Residents and Fellowship Trainees (SOMSRFT); if you
are going to be going onto practicing then don’t forget to join the
Young Physician group. This is your opportunity to continue with an
organization that continues to advocates for the needs of children. If
you have any questions about how to join don’t hesitate to contact
either of us.
If you are new to our section as a new intern or fellowship traineeWELCOME! We will have many exciting opportunities in the
upcoming months, and are here for assistance as your SOMSRFT
district III leaders. As we move further into Summer we have had an
opportunity to see some of the great work each of your programs
have done on the national advocacy effort of increasing literacy
through Read, Lead, and Succeed and also throughout our own
district work. We have seen programs get more books for their
clinics, some provide library cards, provide literacy info to families
and so much more. Many of you also participated in our national
literacy week, as seen by your posts on Facebook. Keep up the great
work advocating for children!
Lisa Costello
Justin Schreiber
District III Coordinator
Assistant District III Coordinator
Costello.lisa@gmail.com schreiberj@upmc.edu
Contents
Page 1
Introduction
Page 2
ALF and Resolutions
Page 3-4 Read-Lead-Succed
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Upcoming Deadlines
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District Work groups
Page 7 Split Brain Syndrome
Page 8-10 Program Updates
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2013 Annual Leadership Forum
National Conference and Exhibition 2013
Over 500 chapter officers, committee, council, section chairpersons,
guests and staff attended this year’s Annual Leadership Forum (ALF)
held at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel and Convention Center on
March 14-17, 2013. Eligible voters heard and voted on eighty-two
resolutions covering issues related to advocacy, education, practice,
healthcare finance and AAP operations. The Forum offered a variety of
special topic sessions, a burning issue presentation by Andrew Garner
MD, PhD, FAAP, on the topic of Toxic Stress, a variety of leadership
development sessions and “how-to sessions,” and several AAP district,
committee, council and section meetings. Additionally, the reference
committee hearings and voting sessions resulted in the adoption of
sixty-five resolutions which were referred to AAP committees, sections,
councils, departments and divisions for appropriate response. For more
information on the status of the 2013 resolutions debated at the ALF,
please visit My AAP at http://www.aap.org/en-us/my-aap/chaptersand-districts/Resolutions/Pages/2013-Resolutions.aspx. Resolutions
will be discussed at all upcoming 2013 district meetings.
"Magical Moments"
This year the Section on Medical Students, Residents and Fellowship
Trainees had 1 resolution in the top 10 of the ALF. It was:
• Physical Education in Schools – RESOLVED that the
Academy advocate for legislation mandating that physical 19
activity and physical education be an integral part of
elementary, 20 middle and high school curricula.
October 26-29th
Orlando, FL
Featuring: Kathryn Sebillius (Sec of Health and
Human Services), Atul Gwande (Checklist
Manifeston)
Network, Get educated, Enjoy the Magic
Kingdom!
Resolutions
Resolutions are a way for members to bring issues you
believe are important to the practice of pediatrics forward
for discussion at the Chapter, District and National
levels. The purpose of a resolution is to provide a formal
mechanism whereby the members of the Academy can
provide input regarding Academy policies and activities.
Resolutions may be submitted pertaining to any aspect of
pediatric advocacy, finance, practice, education, or AAP
operations. Resolutions if adopted by our section will be
sent to the AAP's Annual Leadership Forum (ALF) held
each year in March. We will provide help with composing
the resolution, but we want and need your ideas! We will
further discuss resolutions on future conference calls and
via email.
How to get your own resolution to the National Conference and Exhibition
Is there an issue that is important to you? Would you like the voice of the AAP supporting your advocacy
efforts? Then submit a resolution for this years National Conference and Exhibition (NCE) .
1) Think of an issue that is important to you (eg. oral health, obesity) and an intervention you want the
AAP to take up (eg. all children having dental coverage, no more sugary drinks at schools)
2) On our August conference call we will discuss how to fill out the resolution
3) From August to the NCE we will be available to help with resolutions and answer questions. Finished
resolutions will be due before the NCE with a date TBD
4) At the NCE we will meet in our district time to vote on what resolution we would like to support to be
brought before the Section on Medical Students Residents and Fellowship Trainees, where it might be
approved to go before all of the AAP for adoption of one of the top 10 priorities for the AAP that year!
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Read. . Lead . . SUCCEED
Each year the AAP Section on Medical Students, Residents, and Fellowship Trainees picks
a topic to focus our advocacy efforts. The 2012-2013 campaign dubbed “Read ~ Lead ~
Succeed” focuses on the importance of early childhood literacy. When researching for
projects, the SOMSRFT executive committee members learned that one-third of 4th
graders read so poorly they cannot complete their schoolwork successfully and children
who are read to regularly are 3-4 times less likely to drop out of school. Statistics like this
coupled with recent budget cuts to important programs stood out to the group and inspired
everyone to try and make changes.
The national SOMSRFT advocacy subcommittee has created various resources for medical
students, residents, and fellowship trainees to use to advocate for childhood literacy.
Resources, such as the advocacy PowerPoint, literacy calendar, and among others a
prescription for reading may be found at the Read ~ Lead ~ Succeed campaign web page,
http://www2.aap.org/sections/ypn/r/advocacy/Read_Lead_Succeed.html. Information is
also available on the SOMSRFT Facebook page.
From our District conference calls we know many of you are doing great things at your
programs, and we want to know more about it! We have also created a District III
advocacy workgroup that is working on collecting books to support those still recovering
from SuperStorm Sandy.
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Deadlines/Updates
To find out about upcoming deadlines and great opportunities check out
http://www2.aap.org/sections/ypn/r/whats_new/
- New resources available to help address trauma. Located at www.aap.org/traumaguide
- AAP Partners on New Resource on Learning Difficulties and Disabilities
The AAP has partnered with the National Center for Learning Disabilities and the National Association of Pediatric Nurse
Practitioners to develop the LD Navigator, a free comprehensive resource guide about learning difficulties and disabilities (LD) for
pediatric health care professionals. The online hub is a unique and easily accessible way to navigate a child's LD and delivers
evidence-based tools and strategies into the hands of busy pediatric healthcare professionals. Please visit http://ldnavigator.ncld.org/
to access this new resource.
NEW LOOK / NEW NAME – Resident Report is Now News and Views
The Section on Medical Students, Residents and Fellowship Trainees (SOMSRFT) newsletter now has a new look AND a new name.
SOMSRFT Resident Report is now being called News and Views of Pediatricians in Training. Check out the updated newsletter for articles
on advocating for early childhood literacy, a residents personal encounter with child abuse, environmental exposures in childhood, and
funding opportunities (a.k.a. FREE MONEY).
2013 AAP Children’s Art Contest - Entry Deadline Extended!
The deadline has been extended in the American Academy of Pediatrics annual children’s art contest! This year’s theme, “A World Free
from Tobacco and Secondhand Smoke”, encourages children to envision a world without tobacco or exposure to secondhand smoke. Entries
will be accepted from children in the US in grades 3-12 and children abroad ages 13-18. Winners can receive up to $500 and a trip to
Orlando, FL, as well as a matching amount for their school. Entries must be postmarked by August 30, 2013. For full contest information,
visit www.aap.org/artcontest.
Healthy Active Living Grants - Deadline August 21, 2013
The American Academy of Pediatrics announces the availability of Healthy Active Living Grants for chapter/pediatric residency program
pairs. These $25,000 grants are intended to build partnerships with community organizations to develop and implement sustainable strategies
to support Healthy Active Living for families. Application deadline is August 21, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. CDT.
Leadership Opportunities for Residents and Fellowship Trainees (Posted 07/13)
Are you interested in becoming a leader in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Medical Students, Residents and
Fellowship Trainees? Each year the section recruits interested residents and fellowship trainees into leadership positions.
The following positions are open:
- District coordinator
- Assistant district coordinator
- Section secretary
- Section vice chairperson
The deadline for the above positions is September 13, 2013.
Section liaisons: Committee on Federal Government Affairs (COFGA), Community on Pediatric Research (COPR) – Resident Research
Grant (RRG), Committee on Residency Scholarships (CORS), Community Access to Child Health (CATCH), Council on Clinical
Information Technology (COCIT) , Council on Community Pediatrics (COCP) , Medical Student Subcommittee Chair & AMSA Liaison,
Section on Administration & Practice Management (SOAPM), Section on Adolescent Health (SOAH), Section on Breastfeeding (SOBr),
Section on Child Abuse & Neglect (SOCAN) , Section on Early Education & Child Care (SOEECC) ,cSection on Emergency Medicine
(SOEM) ,cSection on Home Care (SOHCa) ,cSection on International Child Health (SOICH) , Section on Osteopathic Pediatricians (SOOPe)
The deadline for liaison positions is November 1, 2013.
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More information can be found on our Leadership Opportunities page
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District Work Groups
These work groups were created to give residents, medical students and fellows an opportunity to get more
involved in the district around issues that many have indicated are of significant importance. We hope to
have at least one resident representative from each program on each work group. Notify Justin and Lisa if
you want to participate.
Advocacy
Mentorship
Chair: Dorothy Chu (dorothychu369@gmail.com)
- Focus on trying to expand the mentorship
opportunities in the district
The advocacy work group was created this year to promote the
annual advocacy project at the district level and to assist
individual programs with implementation of the project. My
name is Dorothy Chu and I am a third year resident from
Jersey Shore University Medical Center who was chosen to
chair this work group. This year is unique in that our district
was impacted by Superstorm Sandy. Thus, in response,
District 3 has begun work on a district wide book drive in
order to give back to the victims and promote Read, Lead and
Succeed.
- Connect the interests of medical students, residents
and fellows with other professionals in the district
- If you are interested let us know!!
Thank you to all who have participated in the conference calls.
For those who couldn't make it, here is an update. The goal of
the book drive is to collect books for donation to schools or
libraries affected by Sandy. This project will run until the next
AAP NCE in October. Currently, we are in the process of
identifying the donation sites and there will hopefully be more
updates on that topic in the coming weeks. Once we have the
sites identified, we can decide what types of books we need
and how many. We understand that books are hard to move,
so our plan was to have more book donations from programs
closer to the affected area, such as New Jersey, and more cash
donations from programs further away. However, we
encourage book donations at all programs to be donated to
children in need in your area. One great idea that was
suggested on the conference call was having attendings and
residents bring books to the graduation party or a grand
rounds presentation in order to collect books at your program.
Membership
Chair: Mahi Ekambaram (ekambarm@einstein.edu)
- Making sure that the AAP provides membership
oppurtunities that reflect the needs and concerns of
medical students, resitdents and fellows
- Increase the amount of fellows and recent
graduates to participate in the AAP
- Work with the District wide membership group
- Contact Mahi if you want to participate!!
We recognize that this is an ambitious project and we need
your help to make it a success. Ideally, we would like to
identify a point person at each program to coordinate
donations. Please email our district coordinators or myself at
dorothychu369@gmail.com if you are interested. If anyone
has any questions about the book drive or implementing the
advocacy project, feel free to contact me. I look forward to
working with you all and changing the lives of children in our
district.
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Split Brain Syndrome
I call it ‘Split Brain Syndrome’. It is the conflicting thoughts and perspectives that go through the mind of every
health care provider.
As a resident, we get excited and feel challenged when dealing with a rare/ complicated/ or even a classic case
- just out of the books! We strive to, and feel lucky to have witnessed an interesting patient. It undoubtedly
expands our knowledge base and experience. This is how we learn in medicine.
But the other part of the brain is confronted with: how the patient and the family feels. For them it may be a life
changing and traumatic experience. Their ailment might be useful for progress of medicine and its trainees. But
wonder how they feel about being chosen as a guinea pig? How it feels to be poked and prodded by so many
residents and students?
Is good to be interesting? For the patient, definitely not! Learn from your interesting and complicated patients
but also learn be sensitive and humane in every situation.
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Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Our program has several exciting projects planned
to promote literacy! A group of residents have
partnered with primary care clinics to complete two
literacy Quality Improvement projects. Residents
gave a noon conference for the pediatric residents
on Reach Out and Read, literacy milestones, and
ways to improve anticipatory guidance on literacy
with the ROR program (giving the book at the
beginning of the visit, using it in your
developmental assessment & age-appropriate
anticipatory guidance/expectations with regards to
reading). Meghan Harper-Shanke, 3rd year resident,
was able to get trained as a ROR trainer.
Residents will be making a learning module for all
residents which will be used at the beginning of the
year. In addition, the CHP attendings are making
changes where a MA will put an age-appropriate
book outside of the door so that the provider will
have the book at the beginning of the visit. They
are also re-educating attendings on the ROR model.
In addition, another CHP Resident is promoting
literacy at a rural primary care office. Bookmarks
will be passed out with each ROR book. The
bookmarks will have age-specific information about
literacy. The back of each bookmark contains
information about local libraries and the hours for
storytime. Furthermore, we are trying to plan a
week of events for the Read, Lead, Succeed
Jersey Shore University Medical Center
The residents at Jersey Shore University Medical Center have found success
with their research projects and case reports. Dr Dorothy Chu, the PGY-3
chief resident, presented her research "Family Centered Rounds: Pediatric
Residents' Perspectives" at the New York Academy of Medicine Pediatric
Trainees Night. She will also be presenting her research at the Pediatric
Academic Society (PAS) meeting in Washington DC. The fourth year chief
resident, Dr Gerald Almazan, will be presenting his poster on the use of our
fantasy football teaching system to encourage and evaluate resident teaching
of medical students at the spring Association of Pediatric Program Directors
(APPD) National meeting in Memphis, TN. Finally, PGY-3 Dr Viola
Cheung had her case report on a patient with Group A Strep toxic shock
syndrome published in Pediatrics in Review.
Congratulations to our graduating class of 2013 as they move on in their
careers:
Dr Puja Aggarwal, MD: Neurology at NYU Langone Medical Center
Dr Anna Arcaro, MD: Hospitalist at CentraState Hospital in Freehold, NJ
Dr Viola Cheung, DO: Developmental Pediatrics at Yale-New Haven
Children's Hospital
Dr Dorothy Chu, MD: 4th year Chief Resident at Jersey Shore University
Medical Center
Dr Nicole Deptula, MD: Neonatology at St Louis Children's Hospital
Dr Ruth Kanthula, MD: Infectious Disease at Seattle Children's Hospital
Dr Gurpreet Phull, MD: Pulmonology at Children's National Medical Center
"Graduating residents (from left): Gurpreet Phull MD, Dorothy Chu MD,
Viola Cheung DO, Ruth Kanthula MD (kneeling), Puja Aggarwal MD, Nicole
Deptula8MD and Anna Arcaro MD standing with K Hovnanian Children's
Hospital Mascot Dr Bernard.
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John’s Hopkins
Our literacy efforts are closely linked with the
national Reach out and Read initiative. The
fundraising for our Reach out Read efforts is
coordinated by the Director of Development—a
position that is not filled at this moment. In the
interim, some have reached out to department
stores (e.g. Target) to ask if they could partially
fund books to be given out in clinic.
Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia
Updates: A total of 10 posters (including 6 platform presentations) by
our residents have been accepted to the 2013 ESPR (Philadelphia) and
2013 PAS (Washington). The following residents will be presenting:
Gosia Skarzynska, Amman Hassan, Ramiro Lizano, Meyrick
Sarmiento, Monique Mondesir, Samuel Ajayi, Maheswari
Ekambaram, Michelle King, Stefan Mandakovic, Hilda Kabali,
Cassandra Arevalo, Imeline and Alfred Troncales, Anoop Rao and
Maytham Srayyih.
Read, Lead Succeed: The Reach Out and Read program has been in
place in our clinic for almost a year now. All residents are excited to
start their well visit with a book. For this year’s project, we will be
organizing a fund raiser during graduation. We will be collecting
donations and will also have a raffle draw for a prize!! The money
collected will be used to conduct a “Reading day” where we plan to
enroll under 5 kids from our clinic for a fun day of “Books and
Chocolates”. Many residents have volunteered for this event.
St Christopher’s Hospital for
Children
Updates: Lorena Pereira, PGY3 and the HIV QI
group have made great strides to increase the
number of patients who are screened for HIV.
They are working to screen all patients over the age
of 13 years in the inpatient, outpatient, and ED
setting.
Advocacy Projects: Maheswari Ekambaram is currently doing a 1
month internship with AAP department of federal affairs. She will
also be attending the Legislative Conference this year (April 28-30).
Residents Anna Siao, Johelin DeFreitas, and Saritha Ranabothu are
working on a CATCH grant for a smoke cessation project.
Read, Lead, Succeed: We are working on
developing a Literacy Day to celebrate reading and
a QI project to improve the implementation of
Reach Out and Read.
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Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
Congrats to our graduating senionrs:
Valerie Agbeko-Chief Resident NBI
Okwudili Akarue-Primary care
Mohamed Elsaid-hematology/oncology (university of wisconsin)
Jazmin Foglio-GI (yale)
Marianna Gagin-primary care (new hampshire)
Theresa Giannattasio (primary care, nj)
Myriam Spears-Primary care, nj
Evita Recio-chief resident (sbmc)
Suhasini kaushal- nicu (georgetown)
Renjithkumar Thekkeveedu-nicu (cleveland clinic)
Hongchao zhou- GI (boston children's)
Eleanor Calma- nicu (loma linda)
Rani Thekumparampil (nicu, albert einstein)
Luis Correa (primary care, med/peds, ny/nj)
Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia
The CHOP residents have been
partnering with Reach Out and Read
to develop an ambitious portfolio of
projects to promote early childhood
literacy in the Philadelphia
community. Efforts will kick off on
May 23 with a book drive at the
annual CHOP Prom. Meanwhile,
several residents are collaborating to
develop printable patient family
education materials, linked to the
electronic medical record, that will
enhance office-based counseling about
developmentally appropriate literacy
skill development, community library
For the read lead succeed campaign we are initiating a book drive! Books will
access, and the use of literacybe dropped off at community clinics.
promoting accessible technology
(such as websites and smartphone or tablet applications).
West Virginia University Pediatrics and Med-Peds Update:
Others are working to develop a
Many pediatric and med-peds members attended the WV AAP Chapter meeting at Stonewall
screening and intervention
Jackson Resort in April, where they had the opportunity to network with various AAP members,
pathway to identify and address
including medical students, residents, young physicians, and FAAPs throughout the state.
adult caregiver difficulties with
Pediatrics Intern, Stephanie Sisler presented an oral case report in the Martin E. Weisse Resident
literacy. Residents are also
Research Competition and placed second. Med-Peds second year resident Lisa Costello also
developing a multi-media
spoke to the assembly about Motivating Involvement in the AAP.
educational tool that will model
skills that parents can use to read
To support the SOMSRFT advocacy campaign, Read, Lead, Succeed, residents helped staff a
with their toddlers and prebooth at the WVU Children's Hospital Health Fair. Materials to make bookmarks were provided
schoolers; this tool may be used
as were prescriptions for reading, literacy milestones, and a calendar of reading events. This
in the clinic, at home, or at an
booth was very well received that the residents have continued to offer a bookmark making
Early Head Start program linked
station in the clinic waiting room.
to a major CHOP clinic site. Our
team is also exploring
Congratulations to graduating seniors:
partnerships with the medical
Pediatrics:
school and undergraduate
Jennifer Bailey, DO – Academic Primary Care West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
community at the University of
Jan McNiel-Glassford, MD – Primary Care
Pennsylvania to collect books and
Chris Mercer, MD - WVU Pediatrics Chief Resident
funds for Reach Out and Read
M. Cody Smith, MD - WVU Neonatal Fellowship
through the end of 2013.
Amy Zidron, DO – Academic Primary Care- Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic
Medicine
Sarah Zirkle-Hall, MD – Primary Care
Med-Peds:
Kishore Bingi, MD- WVU Adult Cardiology Fellowship
Kelley Gannon, MD- Medicine Chief Resident
Hafiz Imran Iqbal, MD- WVU Adult Nephrology Fellowship
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