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CHILDREN’S HANDPRINTS A PUBLICATION OF CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTER OAKLAND PEDIATRIC CANCER A baby born with cancer inspires other cancer patients TRAINING FUTURE PEDIATRICIANS Children’s residency program is one of the largest in the state also inside Winter 2010 WINTER 2012 childrenshospitaloakland.org Fox Theater, Oakland • Saturday, April 28, 2012 www.notesandwords.org CALLING ALL WRITERS! Notes & Words Essay Contest As part of our annual event celebrating FIRST PRIZE: literary and musical talent, Notes & Words is The winner will have one-on-one consultations with: announcing an essay contest. Senior Editor, Random House/Ballantine We want your short personal essay (800 words Top Literary Agent, ICM or less) about the challenges of caring for a child Executive Editor, O, The Oprah Magazine (age 18 or younger), including medical issues (e.g., an accident, illness or diagnosis), emotional and will be introduced to: crises (e.g., a death, Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize winner divorce, breakdown) Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author or one of any one of John Hodgman, The Daily Show, HBO’s Bored to Death the more common Essay Contest Kelly Corrigan, New York Times bestselling author parenting dramas (e.g., academic, social, athletic, Finalists will receive two tickets to Notes & Words on epicurean). We welcome April 28, 2012 at The Fox Theater in Oakland. both humorous and serious essays. Submissions are due March 21, 2012. See notesandwords.org for rules and deadlines. Table of Contents 18 Training Tomorrow’s Pediatricians Children’s Pediatric Residency Program has trained dedicated physicians since 1926. 5 LETTER FROM THE 15 CANCER CENTER 25 GIVING BACK PRESIDENT & CEO Awesome Dawson Radiotón Para Nuestros Niños A baby born with cancer inspires prospers again. 6 WHAT’S NEW and gives hope to other cancer A former patient, Viviana Espinoza, Palliative Care Program opens at patients. Written by Joe Quirk. gives back by volunteering at the Children’s. hospital. 21 TEACHING HOSPITAL 7 FOOD CORNER Children’s Summer Research BlackRock’s Connectivity and This winter minestrone makes for a Program Trains Future Scientists Giving Program raises funds for nourishing, nutrient-rich supper. Since 1981 Children’s. Save the date for the 2012 St. Baldrick’s event. 8 ASK AN EXPERT 22 ADVOCACY Rachel Kuperman, MD, addresses Preserve Healthcare Funding Score Fore Kids golf classic raised one reader’s question about This funding provides organizations over $1.4 million since 2000 for seizures. like Children’s Hospital Oakland the Children’s. opportunity to ensure that all our Costco, a longstanding partner, children, regardless of income or raised over $780,000 for Children’s. 8 KIDS CORNER insurance status, have access to the Last issue’s puzzle solution. highest possible level of healthcare. Spirit Halloween donates Halloween Try your hand at logic puzzle #3. costumes to Children’s patients. AB25 Establishes California as a 10 RESEARCH UPDATE Leading State for Protecting the 30 SPORTS MEDICINE CENTER Ronald Krauss, MD, launches The Safety of Student Athletes New Program Announcement Family Heart and Nutrition Center, Bill addressing concussions is Athlete Development Program opening cardiovascular disease signed by Governor Brown. off ers a training program studies to the public. BONUS: Concussion Guide designed to achieve measurable improvement. 12 FUNDRAISER SPOTLIGHT 24 GOOD NEWS A Children’s staff member shares How to fi nd trustworthy health 31 100 AMAZING YEARS: 1973 her experience swimming in the information on the Internet We start to look back as Children’s San Francisco Bay to raise money reaches its centennial year. for cancer research. Written by Susan Martinez. Swim Across America’s Olympic swimmers visit Children’s. 28 14 100% KID-FOCUSED ADHD: A Common Getting to Zero Children’s recognizes 30 years Struggle for Children at ground zero of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. When left untreated, children with ADHD often feel they don’t do as well as they could in school and may develop poor self-esteem. CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTER OAKLAND BOARD OF DIRECTORS James Keefe, Chair Michael LeNoir, MD, Jeff rey Cheung James Levine Edward Penhoet, PhD Melba Muscarolas, Secretary Matthew Cox Leslie Littleton Sharon Pilmer, MD Vice Chair Jamie Bertasi Zerber Harold Davis Bertram Lubin, MD Ori Sasson Arthur D’Harlingue, MD, Rena Brantley Watson Laetsch, PhD Alexander Lucas, PhD Harold C. Warner, PhD Treasurer Tom Bret, Esq. Lou Lavigne Betty Jo Olson Richard Whitley, MD CHILDREN’S HANDPRINTS Did you know adult Children’s HandPrints is a publication of Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland, 747 52nd Street, Oakland, CA 94609; hospitals can use up to 510-428-3000. Bertram Lubin, MD President and Chief Executive Offi cer 2X to 4X Marketing Communications Department Cynthia Chiarappa Vice President, Marketing and more Corporate Communications Tina Amey x-ray Administrative Assistant Debbie Dare Graphic Design Services Manager radiation Erin Goldsmith Media Relations Manager Kevin Kimbrough dosage Marketing Manager Michele Repine than a children’s Web Content Manager Erika Sandstrom hospital? Senior Graphic Designer Contributing Writers Bernardette Arellano Whether it’s a broken fi nger or a CT scan, Casey Capachi Susie Caragol Children’s Hospital Oakland knows the Jerome Gentes Paula Lykins radiation dosage level appropriate for your child. Rachel Kuperman, MD Susan Martinez Joe Quirk Petra Steinbuchel, MD DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE AT Contributing Photographer Alain McLaughlin TWO CONVENIENT LOCATIONS: The medical information contained in this newsletter should not be substituted for CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OAKLAND advice from your child’s pediatrician. 747 52nd St. If you do not wish to receive future Oakland, CA issues of this publication, please email to 1 [email protected] your name and address 510-428-3000 BENICIA as they appear on the mailing panel. If you’d like to write to the editor of WALNUT CREEK CENTER Children’s HandPrints, please send an 2401 Shadelands Dr. email to [email protected]. Walnut Creek, CA 925-979-3400 7 OAKLAND Walnut Creek PLEASANTON 5 www.childrenshospitaloakland.org www.childrenshospitaloakland.org 4 CHILDREN’S HANDPRINTS WINTER 2012 • www.childrenshospitaloakland.org A WORD FROM DR. LUBIN PRESIDENT & CEO Dear Friend and Neighbor, Did you know over 75% of the pediatricians on the East Bay’s Best Doctors list work at Children’s? The Best Doctors in America® list represents the top 5% of doctors in the U.S. These are the doctors that other doctors recognize as the best in their fi elds. Doctors cannot pay a fee and are not paid to be listed, and they cannot nominate or vote for themselves. Children’s pediatrician Pamela Simms-Mackey, MD, was featured on the cover of the Oakland Magazine December 2011 issue which carried the list. Dr. Simms- Mackey performed her pediatric residency and was Chief Resident at Children’s. She now serves as the residency program’s Associate Director (read more about the Children’s residency program on page 18). The Graduate Medical Education leadership (Drs. James Wright, Pamela Simms- Mackey and Michael Lang), with help from members of our teaching faculty, actively help residents fi nd positions in a variety of professional settings, including some of the most competitive subspecialty fellowships and most highly regarded primary care medical groups and community clinics in the Bay Area and across the U.S. CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL RESIDENTS’ CAREER CHOICES, 2000-2010 Field Overall Percent Working in the Bay Area Primary Care 43% 60% Dr. Simms-Mackey’s profi le can be found at www.oaklandmagazine.com/media/Oakland- Subspecialty 37% 52% Magazine/December-2011/Modern-Medicine. Hospitalist 20% 86% Maybe your child’s pediatrician trained with us. Here, pediatric residents work across a spectrum of clinical rotations and have dedicated themselves to improving the health of children in communities all over the U.S. and throughout the world. Cheers to the program’s 86th year, and cheers to your family’s health! Bertram Lubin, MD Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland President & Chief Executive Offi cer CHILDREN’S HANDPRINTS WINTER 2012 • Donate at www.childrenshospitaloakland.org 5 WHAT’S NEW Palliative Care Program Opens at Children’s Portions of this article were adapted and used with permission from the OaklandNorth.net, November 21, 2011 post by Casey Capachi. “Here’s our Jeff rey,” said Tarassa House staff worked for years Humphrey, proudly pointing to a photo to start the Palliative Care of her only son. In the photo, Jeff rey is Program. Vivienne Newman, MD, fl oating happily in a swimming pool, held Palliative Care Medical Director up by a therapist, a huge smile spread and critical care physician, across his face. The photo, carefully explains, “Many services laminated by strips of clear tape to provided through palliative care preserve its shape, is worn from being are not reimbursable through carried in Tarassa’s purse for so long after most insurance companies. Jeff rey’s passing in 2009. He was only We were fortunate to have the 6 years old. generous philanthropic support The Humphreys and several other of individuals, corporations, families who had lost a child gathered and foundations to launch the with staff and donors at Children’s for program at Children’s Hospital, the recent launch of the hospital’s new and we’ll continue to rely on our Pediatric Palliative Care Program. Jeff rey Sr. and Tarassa Humphrey describe the new community for sustaining and Refl ection Room as “an answer to our prayers.” The program works with healthcare expanding the program.” providers and a patient’s family to The opening of a Bay Area focus on enhancing quality of life and that was painted by the mother of a hospital-based facility was relieving suff ering for the child at any terminally ill child.