Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Clinical Research,
Section of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Susan L. Cohn, MD, is a highly respected expert in pediatric cancers and blood diseases. She is a leading authority on neuroblastoma, a cancer of nerve cells, and the most common type of cancer found in infants.
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February 11, 2010
12:00 a.m.— 1:00 p.m.
Billings Auditorium—P117
Pediatric Heart Disease: A Global Problem and Possible Solution
William M. Novick, MD
Professor of Surgery and International Child Health, University of Tennessee
Founder and Medical Director, International Children's Heart Foundation - Memphis, Tennessee
Objectives:
~ Participants will understand magnitude of Pediatric heart disease globally.
~ Participants will understand why children with heart disease around the world are under-served.
~ Participants will understand how they can help to solve this problem for children with heart disease.
1 hour CME credit offered
Researcher Developing Urine Test for Sleep Apnea
A pilot study has found that levels of four proteins in a child's urine can reliably distinguish between obstructive sleep apnea, which should receive prompt treatment, and habitual snoring, which does not require medical attention.
- University of Chicago 'Science Life' Blog
A researcher will do a lot for grant money, the fuel necessary to power a laboratory's work.
Pediatric oncologist Sam Volchenboum took that adage to its follicular extreme, volunteering to go bald for funds from the St. Baldrick's Foundation.
Robotic surgery marks Chicago breakthrough for pediatric patients
On Jan. 7, ten-year-old Jaime Bazan returned to school and sports activities—a monumental feat considering that only 11 days earlier, he became the first Chicago pediatric patient to undergo robot-assisted urologic surgery...
The University of Chicago is featured in a Chicago Parent article about the University of Chicago Childhood Cancer Survivors Center, where teams of specialists focus on the long-term risks associated with child cancer survivors. "We are learning from those patients so they are altruistic as well ... so that we can identify these problems and then for the new children who are being diagnosed we can tailor their therapy to ensure we reduce the risks as much as possible of the long-term effects," said John Cunningham, section chief of pediatric hematology/oncology at the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital...
Get your running shoes ready. It's time to start training for the seventh annual Comer Kids' Classic 5K Run, Walk, and Kids' Dash!