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December/January 2005
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Keeping the lines
of communication open |
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Advisors
Ralph D. Feigin,
M.D.
Physician-in-Chief
Texas Children's Hospital
Professor and Chairman
Department of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Jeffrey R. Starke,
M.D.
Medical Staff President
Director, Infection Control
Texas Children's Hospital
Professor and Vice Chairman of Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine
Editor
Cindy Shanley
Marketing and
Public Affairs
Texas Children’s Hospital
832-824-2180
Designer
Marilyn Crawford
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For members of the Texas Children's Hospital medical staff
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From the medical
staff president
Keeping the lines of communication
open
By Jeffrey R. Starke, M.D.
 Welcome to the first edition of
Progress notes, the newsletter
for the Texas Children’s Hospital medical staff. This
publication has been a long time coming, but it will now be a
regular publication. This will be the only edition to appear in
print form. All subsequent editions will be located on a
dedicated Web page to allow for more widespread and timely
dissemination of important information. You will receive e-mail
alerts when new editions or addenda become available so you can
keep abreast of developments at Texas Children’s.
Several months ago, the hospital’s Marketing department surveyed
members of the medical staff about whether they wanted a
newsletter and, if so, what the content should be. The response
was heavy and overwhelmingly positive in support of a regular
newsletter that caters to the needs of the medical staff. This
is your newsletter, and we want the content to reflect your
needs and goals. You are always welcome to contact the
medical
staff president or
Cindy Shanley, newsletter editor, to suggest
ideas or send information you think should be included in
upcoming issues.
In the survey, we asked what you thought should be included in a
newsletter. Your responses indicated a desire for reports on
medical staff committee activities, as well as information about
new medical staff members, new Texas Children’s programs and – the
focus of this first issue – patient safety. Many patient safety
initiatives have been started by Texas Children’s in the past
two years, but the medical staff has received little specific
information about them. Through this newsletter, we aim to
improve on that because it is critical that our physicians be
intimately involved in the hospital’s efforts to provide the
safest possible environment while continuing to be leaders in
pediatric medical and surgical innovation.
The pace of medical innovation is accelerating quickly, and the
need for and capabilities of information technology have changed
dramatically in the past few years. Mechanisms to alert
and educate staff members about the increasingly complex
environment of the Texas Children’s IDS are more important than
ever. We hope this newsletter will be a first step toward
improved communications for and between members of the medical
staff. Let us know how we can make it better for you.
Jeffrey R. Starke, M.D., is the 2004 president of the Medical
Staff and director of Infection Control at Texas Children’s and
professor and vice chairman of Pediatrics at Baylor College of
Medicine.
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Grand Rounds Calendar
8:30 a.m., Fridays,
Texas Children's Hospital, lower-level Auditorium unless
otherwise listed.
December 24 & 31
Holiday
January 7, 2005
End-of-Life Guidelines
Laurence B. McCullough, Ph.D., professor of Medicine and of
Medical Ethics; Daniel G. Glaze, M.D., associate professor of
Pediatrics
and Neurology
1 credit Medical Ethics
January 14
Evaluation of the Child
with Fever of Undetermined Origin
Debra L. Palazzi, M.D., assistant professor of Pediatrics
January 21
Clinical Pathological Conference: Virginia and Russell
McFarland Lectureship in Pediatric Pathology: Current Concepts
of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Henry F. Krous, M.D., professor of Pathology, University of
California
January 28
What Primary Care Physicians Need to Know About Short
Stature: Which Children to Refer and What To Do While Waiting
for An Appointment With the Endocrinologist
John L. Kirkland, M.D., professor of Pediatrics
February 4
Topic TBA
Alvin H. Crawford, M.D., chief of Pediatric Orthopaedics at
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
February 11
An Overview: Speech and Language Disorders
Anna L. Eifert, M.S., CCC-SLP, Hazel Hewitt, M.A., CCC-SLP |
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