MCHRI provides funding to DBP faculty and fellows:

• Stanford Maternal Child Health Research Institute (CHRI) named Irene Loe, MD, a Faculty Scholar for her proposal, “Promoting Growth Mindset: A School-Based Intervention Targeting Health, Behavior and Learning in Underserved Communities.” Faculty Scholars receive $100,000 per year for 5 years.
• Sarah Dubner, MD, received a CHRI Clinical Trainee Support Award based on her proposal, "Inflammation, White Matter Microstructure, and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Preterm Infants". The award provides two years of support for fellowship training and research.
• Yair Bannett, MD, received a CHRI Clinical Trainee Support Award based on his proposal, “Management of Developmental and Behavioral Conditions in Primary Care: Objective Measures of Variation” and has been named Charles B. Woodruff Endowed Fellow.

Janice Lowe, MD, edited "Spanish for Pediatric Medicine, 3rd edition," published in November 2018. It features a quick-reference design that enables the user to rapidly identify and explore common medical problems. English and Spanish equivalents are shown side-by-side for quick reference. It is consistent with the new Bright Futures Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents.

Stanford DBP team presents at SDBP annual meeting:

The Stanford DBP team was well represented at the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediartrics annual meeting in Anaheim, CA, Sept. 13-17:

• Irene Loe, MD, served as a research mentor for the Research Scholars Symposium and presenting a half-day workshop titled "Raciscm: Another Adverse Childhood Experience."
• Lynne Huffman, MD, led two workshops: "Reviewer Immersion Experience Through Mock Editorial and Program Committee Meetings" and "Voice and Choice: Developing and Demonstrating the Role of the Family Partner."
• Casey Krueger, PhD, presented a symposium as part of an interdisciplinary team titled "Developmental Behavioral Diagnosis and Management in Pediatrics: ADHD and Autism." The symposium was co-sponsored by SDBP and NAPNAP (National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners) and organized by Anne DeBattista, PhD.
• DBP Fellow Yair Bannett, MD, participated as a presenter at a concurrent session tittled "Conducting Electronic Health Record Research in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics: Challenges and Opportunities."
• DBP Fellow Sarah Dubner, MD, presented a poster titled "Neonatal Inflammation, Corpus Callosum Microstructure, and Verbal IQ in 6-Year-Old Children Born Preterm."

Faculty member David Ansel, MD, gave a presentation titled "Chips on Their Shoulders: Childhood Anger and Aggression" at Stanford’s 26th Annual Pediatric Update Conference, July 20-21. The conference is designed to give family pediatricians and primary care providers comprehensive, up-to-date knowledge on a wide range of clinical issues encountered in daily pediatric practice.

The Division received a 2018 HRIF Follow-up Rate Award from the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative. The award is given to HRIF Programs that met the following recommendations for HRIF eligible infants born in 2014: 1st Visit ≥ 80%, 2nd visit ≥ 70%, and 3rd visit ≥ 60%.

At the tenth annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language in Québec City, Canada, August 16-18, faculty member Katie Travis, MD, and postdoctoral scholar Lisa Bruckert, PhD, will be presenting on our research examining white matter microstructure and language abilities in 8-year-old children. Dr. Travis will give at talk titled "More than Myelin: Interrogating white matter tissue properties underlying receptive and expressive language abilities in 8-year-old children." Dr. Bruckert will present an abstract titled "Reading efficiency is associated with fractional anisotropy, but not with myelin content, in the superior cerebellar peduncles."

Xiomara Gervacio, DBP Intake Coordinator specializing in the Middle Childhood Program, received Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Gold ROSE Award for 2018. The Gold ROSE Award was established to recognize employees that deliver extraordinary family-centered care. 

Our fellows, along with faculty members Lynne Huffman, MD, and Irene Loe, MD, traveled to San Diego, CA for the Maternal Child Health Bureau (MCHB) DBP Conference, April 11-13. Hannah Perrin, MD, Yair Bannett, MD, and Dana Won, MD, gave oral presentaions, while Sarah Dubner, MD, and Emily Whitgob, MD, gleaned valuable suggestions from small group sessions. A particular highlight for fellows was interactions with colleagues from across the country; all exchanged best practices. 

Dr. Feldman co-chairs 2018 Childx conference:

Division Chief Heidi Feldman, MD, PhD, co-chaired the 2018 Childx conference, where hundreds of pediatricians, educators, scientists, and policy experts from a variety of disciplines came together to address the challenges and solutions in child health. Dr. Feldman and co-chair, David Cornfield, MD, conceived of the conference as poised at the intersection of science, medicine, health care delivery, and public policy. The goal was to present a series of modern advances in biomedical and behavioral science and technology and to emphasize that discoveries must be transformed into safe, effective treatments to become accessible to the populations at need. Public policy is a critical vehicle to assure that access to these treatments is equitable. This year, the organizers decided to showcase Stanford faculty.

• By all metrics, program was a stunning success. Approximately 400 people attended. The keynote speeches were each extremely stimulating. The format of the topical sessions encouraged interaction among the presenters and between the audience and the presenters. 
• The entire conference has been recorded and made publicly available here. Dr. Feldman was quoted in a Stanford Medicine Scope blog story in anticipation of the conference, and a summary of the conference was featured on the blog of PLOS Medicine, a prestigious open-access journal.