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Dr. Lisa R. Young Announced as the 2021 Norman J. Siegel Outstanding Science Award Recipient
The American Pediatric Society (APS) is pleased to announce Lisa R. Young, MD, as the recipient of the 2021 Norman J. Siegel Outstanding Science Award for her considerable contributions to pediatric science. The award will be presented to Dr. Young on May 3 during the APS Presidential Plenary at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2021 Virtual Meeting. Read More.
Dr. Sherin U. Devaskar Announced as the 2021 John Howland Award Recipient
The American Pediatric Society (APS) is pleased to announce Sherin U. Devaskar, MD, as the 2021 APS John Howland Award recipient, the highest honor bestowed by the APS. The prestigious award signifies the society’s recognition of Dr. Devaskar for her significant contributions to advancing child health and the profession of pediatrics. The award will be presented to Dr. Devaskar on May 3 during the APS Presidential Plenary at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2021 Virtual Meeting. Read more.
Accidental Discovery That Lead to Parkinson’s Disease Cure in Mice
While attempting to better understand the function of a protein in connective tissue cells, UC San Diego School of Medicine scientists found a way to transform multiple types of cells into neurons. This discovery has led to the development of a treatment that eliminates symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in mice. Read study co-authored by 23-year APS Member, Dr. William Mobley here..
Q&A: Journal Retractions ‘Due to a Rush to Publish’ Information on COVID-19
As researchers work rapidly to publish research on COVID-19, major medical journals have retracted articles because of issues regarding data transparency and methodology. 26-Year APS Member, Dr. Eugene Shapiro, professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, discussed the flaws with the peer-review process, as well as possible solutions. Read the interview with Dr. Shapiro here.
Texas’ Early Reopening and Surge in Coronavirus Cases
In a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, 4-year APS Member, Dr. Peter Hotez, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, comments on why companies and civic leaders should delay reopenings and keep workers at home until the surge in coronavirus trends down. Read Dr. Hotez’s remarks here.
Expectation of Coronavirus Surge in D.C. Region
APS CODI Committee Co-Chair, Dr. Joseph Wright, Interim President and CEO, and Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Capital Region Health within the University of Maryland Medical System, and new member Dr. Roberta DeBiasi, Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s National Hospital, comment in The Washington Post article about areas opening and the expectation of a coronavirus surge in D.C. Read Drs. Wright and DeBiasi’s comments here.
12-Year APS Member, Michael DeBaun, MD, MPH, Named to Maryville University Board of Trustees
Congratulations to Dr. Michael DeBaun! He is founding director of the Vanderbilt-Meharry Center for Excellence in Sickle Cell Disease and has been named to the Maryville University Board of Trustee. “Dr. DeBaun . . . has dedicated [his career] to ensuring young people are able to reach their full potential, especially young people of color and young people from underrepresented groups,” the president of Maryville University said in a statement. Read more about Dr. DeBaun’s career and selection here.
APS Past President and 12-Year APS Member, Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH, Announced as Home Secretary of the National Academy of Medicine
Chair of Pediatrics at UCSF, Chief of Pediatrics at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Medicine, has been appointed as Home Secretary of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Read more about the NAM and Dr. Fuentes-Afflick’s service to the NAM here. Congratulations Dr. Fuentes-Afflick!
Kathryn Edwards, APS 2020 John Howland Awardee and Member of 18 Years, and Paul Offit, MD, 8-Year APS Member, Share Optimism in Search for COVID-19 Vaccine
Dr. Edwards, scientific director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, shared her thoughts on the research pace and safety of these vaccines. Dr. Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, discussed the number of vaccines and dosage. Read more of their comments here.
Maria Trent, MD, MPH, APS Member of 3 Years: How to Talk to Your Children About the Protests
As protests following the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police continue, parents are talking with their children about the demonstrations and the precipitating events. Dr. Trent, a professor of pediatrics at John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, shared her advice on explaining the violence and ways to recognize when children are struggling. Read Dr. Trent’s advice here.
4-Year APS Member Jason Newland, MD, MEd, and 2-Year APS Member, Kristina Bryant, MD, Editorial: Children in the Eye of the Pandemic Storm
Dr. Jason Newland, a professor of pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis, and Dr. Kristina Bryant, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, co-authored an editorial on the need for more research on the multisystem inflammatory syndrome linked to COVID-19 and the causes of racial disparities in infections and outcomes. Read their editorial here.
APS Member of 9 Years, Joseph Flynn, MD, MS, Named Co-Editor of the Journal Pediatric Nephrology
The International Pediatric Nephrology Association (IPNA) has selected Dr. Joseph Flynn, the Dr. Robert O. Hickman Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nephrology, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, and Chief, Division of Nephrology, Seattle Children’s Hospital, as the next co-editor of the journal Pediatric Nephrology, which is the ‘home journal’ for pediatric nephrologists worldwide. Dr. Flynn’s term will begin on January 1, 2021. Congratulations! Read more about Dr. Flynn and his career here.
6-Year APS Member, Gary Shaw, PhD, Discusses Research on Potential Link Between Residential Proximity to Oil/Gas Wells and Preterm Birth
Dr. Gary Shaw is a professor of pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine and senior author of the study focused on how exposure to oil and gas wells may affect spontaneous preterm births. Read more about the results of this study that was published in Environmental Epidemiology.
Dr. Yvonne (Bonnie) Maldonado, APS CODI Committee Member and Senior Author on Self-Swabbing COVID-19 Tests Study
Fourteen-year APS member Yvonne (Bonnie) Maldonado, MD, a professor of pediatric infectious diseases at Stanford University School of Medicine and senior author of study on self-swabbing COVID-19 tests, discusses the testing accuracy and advantages. Read more about this COVID-19 testing here.
Philip Ozuah, MD, PhD, APS Member of 14 Years, New York Times Opinion Piece: I Fought Two Plaques and Only Beat One
As president and chief executive of Montefiore Medicine, Dr. Philip Ozuah penned an opinion piece sharing his experiences with two of the nation’s crises, COVID-19 and racism. Read Dr. Ozuah’s letter: I Fought Two Plagues and Only Beat One here.
Waldemar “Wally” Carlo, MD, APS Council Member and Member of 24 Years, on One-Dose Antibiotic for Prevention of Maternal and Infant Sepsis
Professor and Co-Director of the Division of Neonatology at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dr. Carlo is the lead investigator on a study to test a low-cost intervention that would reduce the death toll of pregnancy-related infections worldwide. Read Dr. Carlo’s remarks here.
2-Year APS Member, Dr. Sallie Permar’s Opinion Piece: Children Are Key to the Coronavirus Response
Sallie Permar, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics, immunology, and molecular genetics and microbiology at Duke University School of Medicine, wrote an opinion piece on the reasons why the role of children in this pandemic is critical to overcoming it. Read Dr. Permar’s opinion contribution here.
1-Year APS Member, Huda Zoghbi MD, Co-Awardee of the Lundbeck Foundation’s 2020 Brain Prize
Huda Zoghbi, MD, professor of genetics at Baylor College of Medicine and director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital, and Professor Sir Adrian Bird have been awarded The Brain Prize 2020 for their groundbreaking work to map and understand epigenetic regulation of the brain and for identifying the gene that causes Rett syndrome. Read more about Dr. Zoghbi’s work here.
11-Year APS Member, Tina L. Cheng, MD, MPH, Selected for New Roles at Cincinnati Children’s
Dr. Tina L. Cheng will be the new chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, the new chief medical officer at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and director of the Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation. She will succeed the retiring Margaret Hostetter, MD, also an APS Member, and become the ninth B.K. Rachford Memorial Chair in Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s. Congratulations! Read more about Dr. Cheng’s career here.
Sally Permar, MD, MPH, APS Member of 2 Years, Comments on Research at Warp Speed
As a professor of pediatrics, immunology, and molecular genetics and microbiology at Duke University School of Medicine, Dr. Permar comments on the current state of medical research: “The thing I worry the most about is the loss, potentially, of a generation of researchers who are facing major obstacles in productivity and being able to develop independent [research] programs that are outside of SARS-COV-2.” Read more from Dr. Permar here.
4-Year APS Member, Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, Discusses COVID-19 Vaccine Developers Search for Antibodies That First Do No Harm
Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine remarks on developing a vaccine that elicits the right antibodies against COVID-19 without provoking severe immune reactions. Read more of Dr. Hotez’s comments on this topic here.
Dr. David Kimberlin, MD, 5-Year APS Member: How Moms With COVID-19 Might Pass Coronavirus to Babies
As coronavirus cases continue to climb, pregnant women around the globe worry about becoming infected with the virus and passing it their newborns. Dr. Kimberlin, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the University of Alabama, discusses the possibility of vertical transmission. Read more of Dr. Kimberlin’s remarks here.
New APS Member, Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH, on Food Allergy Being Underdiagnosed in Children on Medicaid
Senior author on the study analyzing Medicaid claims to estimate prevalence of food allergy diagnosis, Dr. Ruchi Gupta, a pediatrician and food allergy researcher at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, discusses the potential under-diagnosis of food allergy in children enrolled in Medicaid compared to the general population. Read more on Dr. Gupta’s study here.
James Crowe, MD, APS Member for 10 Years, Among Vanderbilt University Researchers Joining Worldwide Fight Against COVID-19
Dr. James Crowe, Jr. directs the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center and is the Ann Scott Carrell Professor of Pediatrics and professor of pathology, microbiology, and immunology, and is among the researchers working to identify and analyze antibodies to be used against COVID-19. Read more about Dr. Crowe and his colleague’s efforts here.
New Member Roberta DeBiasi, MD, MS, and Past President and 15-Year APS Member, Robin Steinhorn, MD: Latest Research Showing Significant Number of Children Become Seriously Ill with COVID-19
In an article recently published online in The Journal of Pediatrics, Drs. DeBiasi and Steinhorn are among those who authored the study “Severe COVID-19 in Children and Young Adults in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Region.” Study leader Dr. DeBiasi, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s National Hospital, shares the institution’s experience with an influx of children infected with COVID-19. Read more of Dr. DeBiasi’s comments here.
4-Year APS Members Maria Elena Bottazzi, MD and Peter Hotez, MD, PhD: Sitting in Freezer for Years, Potential SARS Vaccine Ready for Coronavirus Trial
Dr. Bottazzi, professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, Co-Director of Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, and Dr. Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, are the developers of the SARS vaccine sitting in storage in Houston, Texas. Dr. Bottazzi explains how the vaccine could work to fight COVID-19 here.
Obituary of Saul Brusilow, MD, 52-Year Member of APS
Dr. Saul Brusilow, a pediatrician and biochemical geneticist who developed groundbreaking therapies to treat the complications of rare and often fatal genetic defects, died on April 19, 2020. He was 92 years of age, lived in Bethesda, Maryland, and taught at Johns Hopkins University for over 50 years where he retired as a Professor Emeritus. The cause of death was complications of Parkinson’s disease. Read more about Dr. Brusilow’s incredible life and career here.
Genuine Thanks to Norman Rosenblum, MD, 14-Year APS Member, Council Member and Committee Chair
Dr. Norman Rosenblum, paediatric nephrologist and senior scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children and the Sickkids Research Institute in Canada, began his term in 2015 as an APS Council Member and Co-Chair to the APS’ Career Support committee (formerly known as APS’ Leadership Committee). Dr. Rosenblum completed his APS Council term May 5, 2020 and will continue as Co-Chair of the Career Support Committee until 2021. The APS is grateful for your 5-years of leadership on Council, as well as your continued engagement supporting the professional aspirations of APS members as an APS committee chair. Read about Dr. Rosenblum’s career here.
In Heartfelt Gratitude: Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH, 12-Year APS Member, Past President, and Committee Chair
Dr. Elena Fuentes-Afflick, Professor and Vice-Chair of Pediatrics, Chief of Pediatrics at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, began her leadership with the APS in 2012 as a council member and founding chair to the taskforce that developed APS’ Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, serving two 3-year terms. In 2014, she began co-chairing APS’ Career Support committee (formerly known as APS’ Leadership Committee). Dr. Fuentes was elected in 2016 as Incoming President and served as President in 2017. During her time as an officer, she partnered with fellow APS councilors to develop the APS’ 2019 Strategic Plan. Dr. Fuentes-Afflick has been instrumental in advocating and shaping academic pediatrics, as well as the APS. The APS is deeply grateful for your committed leadership. Read about Dr. Fuentes-Afflick’s career here.
With Sincere Appreciation: Bruce Gelb, MD, 12-Year APS Member, Past President and Councilor
Dr. Bruce Gelb, Director of Mindich Child Health and Development Institute at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has been a member of the APS Council since 2013. He served as APS President from 2018-2019. As he concludes his most recent role as APS’ 2019-2020 Past President, it is with sincere appreciation that the APS says thank you for 7-years of committed engagement and leadership. The APS is honored to name you among its lineage of distinguished leaders. Read about Dr. Gelb’s career here.
35-Year APS Member, Stuart H. Orkin, MD, Receives The 2020 Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine
The Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine and The American Society for Clinical Investigation honors Dr. Stuart H. Orkin, the David G. Nathan Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, for breakthrough discoveries on red blood cells that offer new treatments for patients with sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia. Read more about Dr. Orkin’s notable work here.
APS 2020 John Howland Awardee and 18-Year APS Member, Kathryn Edwards, MD, Comments on the Ethicality of Infecting People With Coronavirus to Find a Vaccine
Dr. Kathryn Edwards, scientific director of the Vanderbilt University Vaccine Research Program and APS 2020 John Howland Awardee, weighs in on the debate to infect people with coronavirus when there is no cure for the disease. Read Dr. Edwards’ comments here.
Rohit Kohli, MBBS, MS, 2-Year APS Member: Can Non-Caloric Sweeteners Improve Signs of Fatty Liver Disease?
Dr. Rohit Kohli, Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and Professor at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, and Professor of Pediatrics at Keck School of Medicine of USC, discusses his research showing that stevia extract can reduce markers of fatty liver disease. Read more about Dr. Kohli’s pre-clinical research that led to a clinical trial, now in progress
4-Year APS Member, Akhil Maheshwari, MBBS, Discusses an Investigative Therapy for Necrotizing Enterocolitis
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a rare inflammatory bowel disease that primarily affects premature infants and is a leading cause of death in the smallest and sickest of these patients. There is no effective treatment. Dr. Akhil Maheshwari, professor of pediatrics and Director of Neonatology at John Hopkins University School of Medicine, is the senior author of a new preclinical study offering promise for a specific treatment for NEC. Read more about Dr. Maheshwari’s research here.
Dr. Joseph Wright, 4-Year APS Member, Accepts Co-Chair Position on APS Committee on Diversity and Inclusion
Joseph L. Wright, MD, MPH, FAAP, interim President and CEO, and Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Capital Region Health within the University of Maryland Medical System, recently accepted the position of Co-Chair on the APS Committee on Diversity and Inclusion. Congratulations, Dr. Wright! Read more about Dr. Wright’s career here.
Dr. Catherine Gordon, Incoming Council Member and 6-Year APS Member, to Co-Chair APS Career Support Committee
As Catherine M. Gordon, MD, MSc, Division Chief of Adolescent Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, begins her new term on the APS Council, she is also the Career Support Committee’s new Co-Chair. Congratulations, Dr. Gordon! Read more about Dr. Gordon’s career here.
1-Year APS Member, Melissa Stockwell, MD, MPH: For Flu Vaccine Dosing in Kids, Two Is Better Than One
Commenting on a recent study that a double dose of influenza vaccine was more effective than a single dose, Dr. Melissa Stockwell, Chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Health and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, notes these findings reinforce prior studies. Read more of Dr. Stockwell’s statements here.
APS Secretary/Treasurer and 11-Year Member, Clifford Bogue, MD, on Yale’s Community Health Care Van’s New Mission During COVID-19 Epidemic
Yale’s Community Health Care Van has repurposed its activities to assist with combating the COVID-19 epidemic in vulnerable neighborhoods in the New Haven community. “This initiative is so important to our new mothers and their newborn babies,” said Clifford Bogue, Chair, Department of Pediatrics and Chief Medical Officer of Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital. Read Dr. Bogue’s additional comments here.
9-Year APS Member, Mark Denison, MD, Remarks on Experimental Drug Remdesivir’s Effectiveness on Coronavirus in U.S. Study
Dr. Mark Denison, Division of Infectious Diseases Director and Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, shares his excitement and optimism for the NIH study of remdesivir for treatment of Coronavirus. Read more of what Dr. Denison has to say about remdesivir here.
6-Year APS Member, Michael Agus, MD, Comments on Pediatric Patients and COVID-19
Michael Agus, MD, chief of medical critical care at Boston Children’s Hospital, on pediatric patients and COVID-19: “We are seeing kids with a full range of illness.” Read more of Dr. Agus’ first-hand experience with this pandemic here.
Jason Newland, MD, MEd, APS Member of 4 Years, Discusses Antibiotic Resistance Benchmarking Tool
Dr. Jason Newland, a professor of pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis and St. Louis Children’s Hospital, discusses the growing problem of antibiotic resistance and a metric for measuring antibiotic use developed by the CDC—the Standardized Antimicrobial Administration Ratio (SAAR). Read more of Dr. Newland’s remarks here.
APS Past President and 12-Year APS Member, Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH, Announced as a Member of American Academy of Arts & Sciences Class of 2020
APS Past President and current Co-Chair to APS’ Career Support Committee, Dr. Elena Fuentes-Afflick, Professor and Vice Chair of Pediatrics at UCSF, Chief of Pediatrics at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Medicine, has become of a member of the Academy’s class of 2020. Read more about the Academy’s rich history of honoring accomplished individuals here.
50-Year APS Member, Rodney Howell, MD, Recognized with 2019 ISNS/PerkinElmer Guthrie Award
Dr. Rodney Howell, chairman emeritus of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics, was awarded recently with the 2019 International Society for Neonatal Screening (ISNS) for his contributions to the field. Read more about Dr. Howell and his worldwide work as a pediatrician, researcher, and educator.
Dr. Rich Whitley, APS Member of 28 Years, to Join International Search for Drugs Effective Against COVID-19
Rich Whitley, MD, the Loeb Eminent Scholar Chair in Pediatrics at University of Alabama at Birmingham, will lead the UAB in this international effort to test drugs for COVID-19. The work centers around ReFRAME, a vast collection of drugs developed for other diseases that are already known to be safe for humans. Read more about Dr. Whitley’s work in this unprecedented health crisis here.
32-Year Member, Dr. Richard Krugman: All Health Care Providers Are an Important Part of Oral Health Care
Poor oral health has been linked to a wide range of medical conditions, but the push to have all health care providers participate in oral health has only been over the past few decades. Richard D. Krugman, MD, first vice chancellor for health affairs for the University of Colorado at Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora Colorado shares strategies his institution uses to improve uptake of oral health care in primary care. Dr. Krugman discusses his institution’s efforts here.
Former St. Geme Awardee and 19-Year APS Member, Carol Carraccio, MD, Selected as a Recipient of NBME’s 2020 John P. Hubbard Award
Dr. Carol Carraccio, Vice President of Competency-Based Assessment at the American Board of Pediatrics, is one of two individuals awarded the 2020 NBME’s 2020 John P. Hubbard Award for outstanding contributions to the pursuit of excellence in the field of evaluation in medicine. Read more about Dr. Carraccio’s contributions here.
4-Year APS Member Dr. Peter Hotez on the Race to Develop a COVID-19 Vaccine in Texas
Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, and his team of researchers had developed a vaccine for SARS that was ready for testing in 2016, but funding had dried up. Dr. Hotez discusses the similarities between SARS and COVID-19 and the possibility of repurposing the SARS vaccine for the COVID-19 outbreak. Read more of Dr. Hotez’s comments here.
Dr. Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, APS Member of 8 Years, on Launching the Global COVID 19 Observatory and Resource Center for Childhood Cancer
Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, MD, Executive Vice President and Department Chair of Global Pediatric Medicine at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, explains the website launched in partnership with Society of Paediatric Oncology to offer health care providers around the world a place to share information in treating pediatric cancer patients who are infected with COVID-19. Read more about this collaboration here.
7-Year APS Member Dr. Jonathan McCullers: Kids and COVID-19, No Reason for Alarm
Jon McCullers, MD, chief pediatrician at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and dean of clinical affairs at the College of Medicine at UT Health Science Center in Memphis, offers his thoughts on COVID-19 infection in children and why there is no reason for alarm, but stresses the importance of social distancing and good hygiene. Read more from Dr. McCullers here.
APS Council Member, Dr. Susan Baker, Receives 2019 Murray Davidson Award
Dr. Susan Baker, Co-Director of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition Center at State University of New York at Buffalo, was awarded the 2019 Murray Davidson Award for her outstanding service and contributions, and her significant impact on pediatrics. Read about Dr. Baker’s remarkable career here.
Dr. Paul McCray, APS Member of 17 Years, Co-Led Vaccine Study With Implications for Coronavirus
Dr. Paul McCray, a pediatric pulmonologist and coronavirus expert at the University of Iowa, co-led a study that describes a promising vaccine candidate against the MERS virus. The researchers’ approach for a MERS virus vaccine may also work against coronavirus. Read more about the study here.
Dr. Philip Pizzo, 25-Year APS Member, Discusses COVID-19 and Retired Doctors
Dr. Philip Pizzo, the David and Susan Heckerman Professor and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford, examines the push for retired healthcare professionals to rejoin the workforce to combat COVID-19. Read Dr. Pizzo’s thoughts on the subject here.
Dr. Karin Nielsen-Saines, APS Member of 7 Years, on Coronavirus Unknowns for Pregnant Women and Newborns
Dr. Karin Nielsen-Saines, a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, discusses coronavirus unknowns and concerns for pregnant women and newborns. Dr. Nielsen-Saines’ insightful comments can be read here.
Dr. Jean-Laurent Casanova, APS Member of 6 Years, Leading Study to Identify If Gene Mutations Explain Coronavirus Cases in Young Patients
Dr. Jean-Laurent Casanova, an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute at The Rockefeller University, is leading a study to identify genetic mutations that make some younger people at high risk for severe illness from COVID-19. Read more about Dr. Casanova and his team’s efforts.
Dr. David Kimberlin, APS Member of 5 years, on Pregnant Women With COVID-19
Dr. David Kimberlin, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the University of Alabama, discusses three small and preliminary studies from China on COVID-19 being transmitted from mother to fetus during pregnancy. Read what Dr. Kimberlin had to say here.
Dr. Mark Denison, APS Member of 9 years, Presents at Coronavirus Virtual Webinar Series
On April 2, 2020, Dr. Mark Denison, Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, at Vanderbilt University, shared a presentation on SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19: Emergence, Biology, and Countermeasures). Register for on-demand viewing for this first event in a free webinar series.
Dr. Harvey Levy, 35-Year APS Member, Receives 2020 David L. Rimoin Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Genetics
Dr. Harvey Levy, senior physician in medicine and genetics at Boston Children’s Hospital and professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, is being honored by the ACMG Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine for his many years of groundbreaking work with patients who have genetic metabolic diseases. Read more about Dr. Levy’s exceptional medical career spanning more than 60 years.