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UTMB receives grant to help children with disabilities

UTMB was recently awarded a four-year, $800,000
training grant funded by the U.S. Department of
Education to prepare licensed physical and
occupational therapists to work with infants to
school-aged children who have disabilities.
Read more about this program in Impact Magazine...

Anti-bullying program inspires students

Ultimate Pearland, July 23, 2010
When librarian Penny Gallop launched a bullying education program at Alexander Middle School, she had no idea how far the effort would progress. By year’s end, students were asking her to help them reach out beyond their Pearland campus to young hospital patients in Galveston. The students made prayer pillows and one who remembered hearing about the damage Hurricane Ike inflicted on UTMB, suggested giving the pillows to UTMB’s pediatric department. “It carried the idea that someone out there was thinking about them,” said Cindy Riley, executive director of donation services for UTMB. “Mrs. Gallop told me the students felt great knowing it was going to someone stuck at the hospital.”
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Take steps to protect your family from mosquitoes

Galveston County Daily News, July 28, 2010
There are many types of mosquitoes that carry dangerous diseases, and more than 80 species of mosquitoes live in Texas. In their Keeping Kids Healthy column, UTMB Drs. Sally Robinson and Keith Bly offer tips for parents to protect their children and themselves. “First, avoidance is the best protection. Check your yard to spot cans, pails, or any container-like depression that may hold stagnant water. … Dress children in light-colored, long-sleeved and long-legged clothing so less skin is exposed. Mosquitoes and other bugs are drawn to floral scents, so change to an unscented soap; avoid perfumes or scented lotions and deodorants.” Read more here ...

Kids need to be prepped for storms, too

Galveston County Daily News, July 25, 2010

You might have your hurricane kit ready, but have you prepared your children? Alongside the plywood and flashlights, experts said store up some chats with children, whose fears might not show on the surface as storms brew. “Now is the perfect time to have that discussion,” said Dr. John F. “Fred” Thomas, UTMB director of Community-based Mental Health Services in the Office of Health Policy and Legislative Affairs. “It’s important to talk to them directly about their thoughts and feelings.” Thomas was part of a team of clinicians and researchers studying post-traumatic stress in elementary school children in the wake of Hurricane Ike. Read More here ...

Take extra steps to keep bacteria out of food

Galveston County Daily News, July 21, 2010
Warm, sunny weather — you love it, the children love it and bacteria love it. Yet summer is prime time for food poisoning because disease-causing microorganisms thrive in the warmer temperatures, wrote UTMB Drs. Sally Robinson and Keith Bly in their Keeping Kids Healthy column.

Pediatric Faculty Accomplishments

Garafalo Heads NIH Study Section

Roberto P. Garofalo, M.D., professor in the department of pediatrics and the department of microbiology and immunology and inaugural holder of the Sealy and Smith Professorship in Pediatrics, has been appointed chairman of the NIH Study Section on Innate Immunity and Inflammation.

Malloy Named Distinguished Professor

Michael Malloy, M.D., professor in the department of pediatrics, division of neonatology, has been appointed the inaugural holder of the John P. McGovern Distinguished Professorship in Oslerian Education.

An expert in the field of neonatal and perinatal medicine, Malloy was selected by his peers a number of times as one of the Best Doctors in America and America’s Top Doctors. Read more here ...

John P. McGovern Excellence in
Clinical Teaching Awards

Patricia Rogers, M.D.,
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics