Annoucements:

PL1s, please make sure to update your ACGME case log regularly. Dr Kahana will be reviewing them today and the ACGME will do the same in January, 2005.

PL1s, please be on time for noon conference as we have an activity planned and need to leave at noon.

Everyone: The AAP 2005 Legislative Conference is April 10-12, 2005 in Washington, D.C. Please stop by our office for more information

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Fire Related Injury

Faculty Guest: Madelyn Kahana, MD, Section of Critical Care

Annoucements:

PL1s, please make sure to update your ACGME case log regularly. Dr Kahana will be reviewing them next week and the ACGME will do the same in January, 2005.

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Reading & Language Disabilities

Faculty Guest: Michael Msall, MD, Section of Development

Annoucements:

PL2s, please stop by our office if you are interested in a travel grant for the 2005 AAP Section on Allergy and Immunology Allergy and Asthma CME course from April 1-3, 2005 in San Diego, CA.  We have application materials; the deadline is January 3, 2005.

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Hemorrhagic Disease of the Newborn

Annoucements:

A revised Holiday Schedule was emailed to all residents yesterday and re-posted on amion and this website. Please look for any changes affecting you.

Please remove any files from the ward services folder in Sandbox that are not the intern signouts, senior signouts, nightfloat signouts, history and physical template, or senior admission templates. Save anything you need into your own personal folder on Sandbox. Act quickly. Of note, Dr. Clardy will delete these files from the Ward Services folder tomorrow.

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Ethics Morning Report: "5 Famous Illinois Cases"

Faculty Guests: John Lantos, MD & Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD, Section of General Pediatrics & MacClean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics

Article: Why Illinois is a Great State for the Pediatrician Interested in Bioethics, previously published in Illinois Pediatrician, reposted with permission of author, Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD

Annoucements:

Reminder, the Section of Development would like to announce the establishment of a three year fellowship in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. The fellowship is already underway with Kruti Acharya, MD as the first fellow in the program. Please contact Mike Msall, MD or Peter Smith, MD if you are interested.

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Annoucements:

The Section of Development would like to announce the establishment of a three year fellowship in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. The fellowship is already underway with Kruti Acharya, MD as the first fellow in the program. Please contact Mike Msall, MD or Peter Smith, MD if you are interested.

The Holiday Schedule will be distributed at noon conference and subsequently posted on amion. We will also email a copy to everyone. Please come to the noon discussion where we will go over coverage.

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Rhabdomyolysis

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Neck Masses- Cat Scratch

Faculty Guest: Jayant Pinto, MD, Section of Otolaryngology

Annoucements:

Please be sure to show for clinic on time in order to reserve time for discussion of the teaching curriculum. Clinic arrival times should be no later than 8:15am or 1:15pm. Please give us feedback about any obstacles to your prompt arrival.

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Recurrent Henoch-Schonlein Purpura (HSP)

Faculty Guest: Barbara Kirschner, MD, Section of Gastroenterology

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Thank you to all attendings who covered the hospital for our annual holiday party.

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Otitis Media & Meningitis

Faculty Guest: Robert Daum, MD, Chief, Section of Infectious Disease

Annoucements:

Holiday party tonight at Grand Lux Cafe from 7:30-11:30pm.

The Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Miinority Health Policy is accepting applications until January 3, 2005 for the one-year degree granting, full-time fellowship from July 2005 to June 2006. For more info or to apply, contact the CFHUF Program Coordinator or visit the CFHUF Website.

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Anti-cholinergic toxidrome

Faculty Guest: Phil Oren, MD, Section of Critical Care

Annoucements:

Housestaff meeting at noon.

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Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone

Guest: Father Victorio Bongiovanni