Dear Colleagues – Spring 2015
David Urion, MD, FAAN
Spring 2015
I hope everyone is having an excellent spring, as some of us are finally recovering from a memorable winter. As we all look ahead to this coming year, when we…
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From Cherry Blossoms to Lilacs to National Harbor
Nina F. Schor, MD, PhD | CNS President
Spring 2015
The CNS Executive Board met, this year, at the AAN meeting in Washington, DC. The cherry blossoms greeted us as we arrived. How appropriate that this beautiful symbol of the…
Read More Dear Colleagues – Winter 2015
David Urion, MD, FAAN
Winter 2015
This coming year is one of fairly significant transition for programs in Child Neurology and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities. We will all need to initiate the use of the ACGME Milestones as…
Read More Jack (and Jill) Be Nimble … Like a Child Neurologist
Nina F. Schor, MD, PhD | CNS President
Winter 2015
It seems those who deal with low incidence, high severity disorders, whether as clinicians, researchers, educators, legislators, or parents, must develop the ability to roll with the punches. One never…
Read More What Holds Us Together?
Nina F. Schor, MD, PhD | CNS President
October / November 2014
There is one thing at which I am definitely not very good. That is staying inside of a box with a conventional label. “Pediatrician”, “neurologist”, “child neurologist”, “neuroscientist” – each…
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Summer/Fall 2014
Phillip L. Pearl, MD
August/September 2014
I write this PCN Report as the outgoing president, with some reflection as to our progress and direction over the past two years. The term began in a tumultuous time…
Read More Rising to the Occasion
Nina F. Schor, MD, PhD | CNS President
August / September 2014
Charles Dickens definitely had it right. These are the “best of times”; these are the “worst of times”. On the one hand, never before have we had such an extensive…
Read More PCN Spring 2014 Report
Philip L. Pearl, MD
April/May 2014
The PCN had an opportunity to review several key areas in academic child neurology during the 2013 annual meeting in Austin. Training Program Directors should be aware that the new…
Read More Happy Synergies
Nina F. Schor, MD, PhD | CNS President
April / May 2014
The 2014 Annual Meeting of the Child Neurology Society (CNS) may seem a long way off. But only the summer lies between now and then. It is a curious task,…
Read More Focus on a Universal Curriculum and Case Based Teaching Series – January/February 2014
Philip L. Pearl, MD
January/February 2014
This year’s PCN activities are focused on establishing a content-based universal curriculum for child neurology trainees including a case based teaching series. This work will be coordinated with the efforts…
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