GRAND ROUNDS

CLINICAL ACADEMIC BUILDING
125 PATERSON STREET
CONFERENCE ROOM 1302

THURSDAYS 8:30 AM

RECEPTION TO FOLLOW

Click here to view grand rounds schedule (pdf).

Contact:

Julie Manganaro, Grand Rounds Coordinator
Department of Pediatrics
One Robert Wood Johnson Place
Medical Education Building , Room 312
New Brunswick , New Jersey 08903

(732) 235-7354 or e-mail: manganja@umdnj.edu

01/03/08
In Honor of Dr. David Carver Community Onset
MRSA Infections in Children; A Real And Current Challenge

P. Joan Chesney MDCM
Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Tennessee College of Medicine
Director, Office of Academic Programs
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis, TN

01/10/08
Disrupting The Microenvironment - New Strategies For The Treatment of Pediatric Solid Tumors

John Glod MD, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey 
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, N.J

01/17/08 
The Newborn With Prenatal Hydronephrosis What Is A Pediatrician To Do?

Joseph Barone, MD, FACS, FAAP
Associate Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of Urology
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Surgeon and Chief, Bristol Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital
New Brunswick, NJ

01/24/08
Quality And Leadership; The Two Go Hand In Hand

Steve Shelov, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Chairman and Vice President
Department of Pediatrics
Maimonides Infants and Children's Hospital
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Brooklyn, NY

01/31/08
Margaret Bendersky Memorial Lecture Biomarkers And Moderators Of Fetal Alcohol Exposure In Two Longitudinal Cohorts: New Findings From Detroit and Cape Town 

Sandra W. Jacobson, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
Director of Child Development Research

Joseph L. Jacobson, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Detroit, MI

02/07/08*
Pediatric Disaster Preparedness: Are We Evolving

George L. Foltin, MD, FAAP, FACEP
Director, Center for Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Bellevue Hospital and NYU Medical Centers
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY

02/14/08
Arthritis In Childhood

L. Nandini Moorthy, MD, MS, FAAP
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Pediatric Rheumatology
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, NJ

02/21/08*
Culturally Effective Clinical Care: A Strategy for Reducing Health Disparities

Robert C. Like, MD, MS
Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Director, Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, NJ

02/28/08 
NO And The Innate Immune System: Problems In  Pediatric Pulmonology?

Andrew Gow. MD
Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy,
Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Piscataway, NJ

03/06/08
Newborn Screening for Cystic Fibrosis in New Jersey
Improving the Health of Children Through Early Diagnosis and Treatment

Thomas F. Scanlin, Jr., MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Pulmonary Medicine and Cystic Fibrosis Center
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, NJ

03/13/08
Pediatric Immunodeficiency

W. Borkowosky, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Director of the Saul Krugman Division of  Infectious Diseases
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY

03/20/08
Type 2 Diabetes In Children And Adolescents

Berrin Ergun-Longmire, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Endocrinology
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, NJ

03/27/08 
Sickle Cell Disease - Where We've Been and Where We're Going

Richard A. Drachtman, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Interim Chief, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Medical Director, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Clinical Program
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, NJ

04/03/08  
Kidney Transplantation In Children: Advances And Persistent Problems 

Lewis Reisman, MD, MPH
Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Nephrology
Medical Director, Pediatric Transplant Program
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, NJ

04/10/08
A Review Of The Guidelines For The Acute Medical Management Of Traumatic Brain Injury In Infants, Children And Adolescents

Brahm Goldstein, MD, MCR, FCCM
Director, Clinical Research - Hemostasis and Biopharmaceuticals Novo Nordisk Inc.
Princeton, NJ
Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics
UMDNJ- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, NJ

04/17/08
Brain Imaging and the Development of Inhibitory Control

Dennis Carmody, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
Institute for the Study of Child Development
UMDNJ- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, NJ  

04/24/08
Overview of Pediatric Heart Failure

Marcelo Auslender, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Pediatric Critical Care
Director (Interim), Pediatric Cardiology
The Fink Children's Ambulatory Care Center
New York University School of Medicine 
New York, NY

05/01/08  
Autism Treatments: What is Evidence Based And What Is Not

Kapila Seshadri, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Section Head, Section of NeuroDevelopmental  
Disabilities Division of Child Neurology and
NeuroDevelopmental Disabilities
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, NJ

05/08/08  
Life At The Extremes: Lessons From Altitude And Depth

Peter Cox, MBChB, DCH, FFARCS (UK), FRCP(C)
Associate Chief and Clinical Director
Education Program Director
Department of Critical Care Medicine Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Professor, Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pediatrics
Adjunct Professor, Industrial and Mechanical Engineering University
Toronto, Canada

05/15/08
Newborn Screening  in New Jersey

Susan Sklower Brooks, MD
Chief, Division of Pediatric Genetics
Chief, Section of Perinatal Genetics
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and 
Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, NJ

05/22/08
Beyond The Hype—Making Patient Safety Real

Ann E. Thompson, MD
Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Critical Care Medicine
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA

05/29/08
Macrophages and Inflammation:  Tissue Injury and  Repair

Debra Laskin,MD
Professor II and Chair, Department of
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Roy A. Bowers Chair
Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Piscataway, NJ

06/05/08
Brainstem Research In SIDS

Hannah Kinney, MD
Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Children’s Hospital Boston
Boston, MA

06/12/08
Viral Hepatitis

William F. Balistreri, MD
Director, Pediatric Liver Care Center
Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology
Hepatology, and Nutrition
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio 

For additional information contact:

Julie Manganaro, Grand Rounds Coordinator

UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Department of Pediatrics

One Robert Wood Johnson Place

Medical Education Building , Room 312

New Brunswick , New Jersey 08903

(732) 235-7354 or e-mail to:

manganja@umdnj.edu