Child Neurology Society 2012

Important Dates

• Nominations sought for Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award - Deadline June 1, 2012
• Nominations sought for Bernard D’Souza International Fellowship Award - Deadline May 15, 2012
• Second Child Neurology Self Assessment Exam now available.
• 2011 Child Neurology Annual Meeting Presentations Available now in Annual Meeting Section
• Spring Newsletter to be mailed/posted on-line June 7
• Roster of accepted abstracts posted on-line May 24

Child Neurology and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Match Moves to NRMP

NRMP site opens September 1.

For more information about Child Neurology and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities training programs, go to the Career Page

Child Neurology/NDD Match Update

Where does one obtain an application form?

A formal agreement has been reached with ERAS allowing Child Neurology/NDD to utilize their application forms. However, for a variety of reasons beyond our control, all completed applications for the March 2012 Child Neurology/NDD match will need to be forwarded to the Association of University Professors of Neurology (AUPN) for processing. Application forms via ERAS become available July 1, 2011.

Full PDF document with instructions

In a June 15 press release issued by The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation it was announced that CNS member, Huda Y. Zoghbi, MD, will receive its 2011 Neuroscience Prize, to be awarded November 13 in Washington, DC at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Dr. Zoghbi received the CNS Young Investigator Award in 1988 and was given the Bernard Sachs Award in 2001. As Professor of Pediatrics, Molecular and Human Genetics, Neurology, and Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and Director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital, she has mentored several outstanding young neuroscientists, including the two most recent recipients of the CNS Philip R. Dodge Young Investigator Award: Drs. Jeffrey Neul and Stephen Maricich.

In its press release, the Gruber Foundation cited Dr. Zoghbi’s “pioneering work in unlocking the genetic and molecular mysteries behind a number of devastating neurological disorders, including Rett syndrome, spinocerebellar ataxia type 1, and brain tumors called medulloblastomas. Her contributions to these discoveries have greatly advanced our scientific understanding not only of these disorders, but also of more common ones, including autism, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease....Her work has inspired many researchers in the broad field of neurological disorders, and serves as an exemplar of how complex brain disorders can be better understood by basic genetics and molecular neuroscience.”

The Quality and Safety Special Interest Group will focus on how to best alter or transform health care delivery to best deliver quality care for patients with pediatric neurological conditions. The special interest group will allow members to share, discuss, and present their experience in implementation research, quality improvement and safety concerns.

It will be a forum to exchange information, collaborate, and form consortiums. We anticipate that the special interest group will focus on outcome and process measures, usefulness and implementation of practice guidelines, performance in practice modules for maintenance of certification in neurology, overlap between implementation research and quality improvement, ethical implications, and how to assess quality. We will attempt to move beyond classic research questions of what is efficacious and what is effective to how to implement those practices and how to ensure that they are appropriately and consistently provided.

Organizers: Charlotte Jones, MD, PhD and Tobias Loddenkemper, MD

Target Audience: Pediatric neurologists and subspecialists, quality consultants, fellows, residents, nurse practitioners, and (pediatric) neurology nurses.