Susan L. Cohn, MD
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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November 19 , 2009
8:00a.m.—9:00a.m. Billings Auditorium—P117
Juvenile Dermatomyositis: Clues to Pathophysiology
Lauren M. Pachman, MD
Professor of Pediatrics Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Director, Cure-JM Program of Excellence in Juvinile Myositis Research
Objectives:
~Recognize the impact of the length of time of untreated chronic inflammation on the child’s physical findings and laboratory data at diagnosis.
~ Recognize abnormalities in muscle microvasculature and in nailfold capillary end row loops as hallmarks of JDM and their effect on therapy.
1 hour CME credit offered
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...
Special Treatment: U of C Childhood Cancer Survivors Center focuses on what comes after the cure
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...
Event: Comer Kids Classic
Get your running shoes ready. It's time to start training for the seventh annual Comer Kids' Classic 5K Run, Walk, and Kids' Dash!
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