Podcasts about children's national medical center

This episode features Kathleen Chavanu Gorman, Executive Vice President of Patient Care Services & COO at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Here, she discusses the unique challenges of children's healthcare today, provider resilience and trends in the healthcare workforce.

We're spotlighting another amazing mom on the front lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Dr. Florencia Segura is a board-certified pediatrician, advocate and mother. She is a Children's National Medical Center trained pediatrician who works at Einstein Pediatrics in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.She talks to Hilaria and Daphne about her experience as a doctor during the pandemic and the common questions she gets from parents. Plus, the struggle to fulfill her oath as a doctor and care for her patients while being careful not to bring the virus home to her family. She also touches on the anxiety she's facing while being pregnant during the pandemic and the steps she's taking to give birth safely during this difficult time. Email us with your questions at mombrainpod@gmail.com and follow us on Instagram, just search for @MomBrain. We answer a lot of your questions on there! Check out videos of our episodes on our YouTube channel! We also invite you to become a member of Mom Brain's official Facebook Group.

In this episode of Real Estate for Breakfast, Willy Walker, chairman and chief executive officer of publicly traded Walker & Dunlop, joins host Phil Coover to discuss the capital markets and the impact of the Great Recession and COVID-19 on that industry, as well as Walker and Dunlop’s explosive growth over the past 12 years. While discussing the evolution and growth of Walker & Dunlop, Mr. Walker and Phil discuss specific industry sectors such as hospitality and retail from both the landlord and tenant perspective. In addition, they dive into office space and how the need for and use of space may change moving forward. This includes a discussion of working from home and the development of corporate culture. Phil also gets the chance to ask Mr. Walker about the decision to take the company public and the ramifications of that decision. Willy Walker is chairman and chief executive officer of Walker & Dunlop. Under Mr. Walker’s leadership, Walker & Dunlop has grown from a small, family-owned business to become one of the largest commercial real estate finance companies in the United States. Walker & Dunlop is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and was #17 on Fortune’s 2017 list of “Fastest Growing Public Companies.” The company has also been named a Best Workplace for five of the past six years by the Great Place to Work® Institute. Mr. Walker received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2011 and was named “Financier of the Year” in 2017 by Commercial Mortgage Observer.Mr. Walker received his master’s degree in business administration from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree from St. Lawrence University. He currently serves on the boards of Children's National Medical Center and the Mortgage Bankers Association, and he is a member of the Real Estate Roundtable. Mr. Walker is an avid runner, skier and cyclist, and has run the Boston Marathon in 2:36.For more information, visit https://www.walkerdunlop.com/.

Ross W. Greene is an American clinical child psychologist and New Your Times Best selling author of the books The Explosive Child, Lost at School, Lost & Found, and Raising Human Beings. Greene developed the model of intervention called Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS). He has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Greene is founding director of the non-profit Lives in the Balance, and developed and executive produced the documentary film, The Kids We Lose. Greene's research has been widely published in academic journals, and he and the CPS model have been featured in popular media including The Oprah Show, Dateline NBC, the CBS Morning Show, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), National Public Radio, The Washington Post, Mother Jones magazine, and The Atlantic. Greene received his undergraduate degree at the University of Florida and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Virginia Tech in 1989. He completed his pre-doctoral internship at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC. His academic appointments include the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech (1989-1991, 2012 to present), the Faculty of Science at University of Technology Sydney, Australia (2016 to present); the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (1992 to 2013), the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at University of Massachusetts Medical Center (1991-1992); and the Department of Education at Tufts University (2010 to 2013). Though he originally called his model "Collaborative Problem Solving," he is not affiliated with those now marketing that product and does not endorse what they have done with his work.

Victims of sexual abuse are unfortunately getting younger, as are their perpetrators. Despite the depiction of adolescents as “young adults” in our media, we must remember that they are not. They are children. A 17-year-old assault victim is a child who has been assaulted. The distinction between adults and children is critical. We must remember that the human brain is not fully developed until the early 20s. Although we often use the rhetoric that children are “resilient”, this is not borne out when children are abused. We know that victims who don’t receive the proper treatment are more likely to suffer future abuse and lose their “life momentum”. It is critical, therefore, that we seek out medical treatment when childhood abuse is suspected. I had the privilege of talking with Dr. Allison Jackson who serves as the division chief of the Child and Adolescent Protection Center of the Children's National Medical Center. She's also an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University. For over 19 years Dr. Jackson has been evaluating and treating children victimized by all forms of child maltreatment. In addition to her medical responsibilities, she provides physician leadership to the District of Columbia's multidisciplinary team on child abuse.

This episode of Junctional Thinking features Dr. Veronica Vela from an early episode of the podcast called ""Healthy By Design"". Dr. Vela is a systems engineer and health policy expert who has used HCD for her work at the VA, CMS, and Booz Allen Hamilton, and Dr. Kofi Essel a pediatrician at Children's National Medical Center, and Director of the Clinical Public Health Summit on Obesity. We talk about; the value of ""people learning"" via contact and real interaction with community members in order to gain clarity and context that data-sets and machine-learning alone cannot provide; examples of how they each use a design mentality to do their work; and how they see novel partnerships focused on social determinants of health impacting community health outcomes. Powered and distributed by Simplecast

If you have a celiac child attending school this year, do you have a 504 plan in place? A 504 plan is the only legally enforceable way to ensure GF accommodations. The Celiac Disease Program at Children's National Medical Center is here to help with their free webinar on 504 Planning. You can download the Back to School video on our Celiac and Gluten-Free Channel here. https://www.gotostage.com/channel/cc79ba4508d342db9371712565c967bb/recording/975b5a0aa1fb46448c91d0af1c1006ce/watchNeed more personalized help? Reach out to our CNMC Team for one-on-one support. YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE ONE OF THEIR PATIENTS TO UTILIZE THESE RESOURCES! RECALL ALERT: Martha White Gluten Free Sweet Cornbread Muffin Mix, due to standard quality batch testing that indicated the presence of gluten. Most of the impacted product was sold via Amazon and at Publix stores. Good to check just in case, regardless of where you purchased. Details including case, lot, UPC and best by codes here: https://www.hometownfoodcompany.com/img/recall-press-release_martha-white-gf-sweet-cornbread-muffin-8.27.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0aAwXZmHw4MUmwrEQvLhqKu4Tsju9_MAGN9mjRcB6VB5Z7v6ldIcy_5dg See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Lisa, Misty and special guest host Heather complete their review of the national bestseller The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives by William Stixrud, Ph.D and Ned Johnson. (Or as we like to call them, Bill and Ned.)  William Stixrud, Ph.D. is a clinical neuropsychologist and a faculty member at Children's National Medical Center and George Washington University Medical School. He lectures widely on the adolescent brain, meditation, and the effects of stress, sleep deprivation, and technology overload on the brain. He has published several influential scientific articles and is on the board of the David Lynch Foundation. Ned Johnson is the founder of PrepMatters, a tutoring service in Washington, DC, and the coauthor of Conquering the SAT: How Parents Can Help Teens Overcome the Pressure and Succeed. A sought-after speaker and teen coach for study skills, parent-teen dynamics, and anxiety management, his work has been featured on NPR, NewsHour, U.S. News & World Report, Time, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. And our very special guest host is none other than Heather Stinnett -- Misty's sister! Heather covers every chapter over the course of this special two-part Self-Driven Child Book Review: Introduction: Why a Sense of Control is Such a Big Deal Chapter 1: The Most Stressful Thing in the Universe Chapter 2: "I Love You Too Much to Fight with You About Your Homework": The Parent as Consultant Chapter Three: "It's Your Call": Kids as Decision Makers Chapter Four: The Non-Anxious Presence: How to Help Your Kids Find a Sense of Control by Finding Your Own Chapter Five: Inner-Drive: How to Help Your Kids Develop Motivation Chapter Six: Radical Downtime Chapter Seven: Sleep: The Most Radical Downtime Chapter Eight: Taking a Sense of Control to School Chapter Nine: Wired 24/7: Taming the Beast of Technology Chapter Ten: Exercising the Brain and Body Chapter Eleven: Navigating Learning Disabilities, ADHD, and Autism Spectrum Disorders Chapter Twelve: The SAT, ACT, and Other Four-Letter Words Chapter Thirteen: Who's Ready for College? Chapter Fourteen: Alternate Routes Check out the author's website and purchase a copy here.  Follow heather on instagram here! And here's a link to that amazing TedTalk by Ken Robinson.  And don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review Go Help Yourself!  

This week, Lisa and Misty have a very special guest host on to review the national bestseller The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives by William Stixrud, Ph.D and Ned Johnson. (Or as we like to call them, Bill and Ned.)  William Stixrud, Ph.D. is a clinical neuropsychologist and a faculty member at Children's National Medical Center and George Washington University Medical School. He lectures widely on the adolescent brain, meditation, and the effects of stress, sleep deprivation, and technology overload on the brain. He has published several influential scientific articles and is on the board of the David Lynch Foundation. Ned Johnson is the founder of PrepMatters, a tutoring service in Washington, DC, and the coauthor of Conquering the SAT: How Parents Can Help Teens Overcome the Pressure and Succeed. A sought-after speaker and teen coach for study skills, parent-teen dynamics, and anxiety management, his work has been featured on NPR, NewsHour, U.S. News & World Report, Time, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. And our very special guest host is none other than Heather Stinnett -- Misty's sister! Heather covers every chapter over the course of this special two-part Self-Driven Child Book Review: Introduction: Why a Sense of Control is Such a Big Deal Chapter 1: The Most Stressful Thing in the Universe Chapter 2: "I Love You Too Much to Fight with You About Your Homework": The Parent as Consultant Chapter Three: "It's Your Call": Kids as Decision Makers Chapter Four: The Non-Anxious Presence: How to Help Your Kids Find a Sense of Control by Finding Your Own Chapter Five: Inner-Drive: How to Help Your Kids Develop Motivation Chapter Six: Radical Downtime Chapter Seven: Sleep: The Most Radical Downtime Chapter Eight: Taking a Sense of Control to School Chapter Nine: Wired 24/7: Taming the Beast of Technology Chapter Ten: Exercising the Brain and Body Chapter Eleven: Navigating Learning Disabilities, ADHD, and Autism Spectrum Disorders Chapter Twelve: The SAT, ACT, and Other Four-Letter Words Chapter Thirteen: Who's Ready for College? Chapter Fourteen: Alternate Routes Check out the author's website and purchase a copy here.  Follow heather on instagram here! And don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review Go Help Yourself!  

Dr. Julia Finkel, Pediatric Anesthesiologist, Children's National Medical Center, joins Biotalk host Rich Bendis to discuss pain care management, the founding of startup AlgometRx, and the funding of this new company

This week at The Story Collider, we're presenting two stories about confronting death. Part 1: Science communicator Anthony Morgan receives an invitation to be vacuum-sealed to the bottom of a helicopter -- for science! Part 2: As a medical student, Elorm Avakame befriends a patient who is dying from alcoholism. Anthony Morgan is the Creative Director of Science Everywhere!, an organisation devoted to adult science entertainment. The mission is to build science culture through engaging science entertainment for TV, youtube and live events. He's also on the board of a makerspace (Site 3 CoLaboratory) and has a recurring segment on Daily Planet. His background is in neuroscience/psychology and science communication, but he fell in love with science working at the Ontario Science Centre. Since then he’s been finding as many ways and places to "mic drop science" as he can. Elorm F. Avakame is a Pediatric resident physician at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC. He previously earned a Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School and a Master's of Public Policy from the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government. He was also a Sheila C. Johnson Leadership Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership. Elorm is passionate about health issues affecting children in urban communities and wants to make life better for children on the margins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we explore fetal cardiology with 2 fetal cardiology experts - Mary Donofrio, MD from Children's National Medical Center and Maciej Slodki of Polish Memorial Mother's Research Institute. Both authors/experts discuss the notion of predicting the initial minutes and hours after birth with complex congenital heart disease. Are there new ways to predict the need for atrial septal intervention in HLHS or DTGA? Drs. Donofrio and Slodki help explain.

In this first episode of the second season of this podcast, we hear from a self-proclaimed "crunchy granola mom" Nina, whose fourth child was born with what she calls "a funny shaped head."  Nina goes on to describe her son's first few weeks of life and her appointments with her pediatrician and an osteopathic doctor. With little to no help from the osteopathic doctor, she trusted her instincts and returned to her pediatrician who then referred her to a surgeon at Children's National Medical Center in Washington D.C. and would learn that her son had craniosynostosis.  Nina then discusses their surgical journey and all that in entailed. In addition to the stress of building a new business and homeschooling three other older children, Nina talks about the challenges and emotions that she felt at that time. She also talks about how her view of what a hospital is like has changed and how she talked to her older children about what Cohen was going through.  She attributes the help of her friends and church congregation to helping her family cope with this experience.  If you would like to follow along with Nina and her family, you can find her on Instagram or through her family's wellness business, True Whole Human.     

Hosts, Dr. Timothy Cripe, Dr. Keri Steby, Dr. Ryan Roberts, and Dr. Jonathan Finlay from Nationwide Children's Hospital are joined by Dr. Eugene Hwang, who is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington D.C. Dr. Hwang discusses his work with immunotherapy and pseudo-progression, as well as explains the basics of a solid tumor clinical trial he created in conjunction with Dr. Catherine Bollard. Listen in to learn more.

The fifth episode of the Patients Come First Podcast features an interview with Dr. Kurt Newman, President and CEO of Children's National Medical Center, about his decades as a surgeon, the lessons he's learned in his medical career, and his new book: "Healing Children: A Surgeon’s Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine." Send questions, comments, or feedback to pcfpodcast@vhha.com or contact us on Twitter @VirginiaHHA using the hashtag #PatientsComeFirst

. In questa puntata trasmetteremo la conferenza di Francesca Pistolato su cellule e pensiero e sentiremo da Bruno Mautone le nuove scoperte su Rino Gaetano.Si comincia alle 21 con il collegamento da Curtarolo per la conferenza di Francesca Pistollato, nell'ambito del calendario dell'associazione Realtà allo Specchio.I pensieri e sensazioni influenzano le cellule - con Francesca Pistollato:"Negli ultimi anni molte scoperte scientifiche hanno dimostrato in modo inequivocabile che non siamo esclusivamente predeterminati a livello genetico come si pensava tradizionalmente. Il nostro modo di pensare e nutrirci e le nostre emozioni hanno un enorme impatto sul controllo dei nostri geni, sulle nostre cellule e di conseguenza sul nostro stato di salute. Cercheremo di capire come questi meccanismi di regolazione avvengono e come possiamo influenzarli al meglio con scelte appropriate, con la consapevolezza che il nostro benessere psico-fisico dipende anche e soprattutto da Noi".Francesca Pistollato si è laureata in Biologia presso l'Università degli Studi di Padova, ha conseguito il titolo di Dottore di Ricerca in Scienze dello Sviluppo e Medicina della Programmazione presso l'Università degli Studi di Padova. Ha svolto la sua esperienza di dottorato prevalentemente negli Stati Uniti presso il Children's National Medical Center a Washington, DC. Ha lavorato nel settore delle neuroscienze sia durante l'esperienza negli Stati Uniti sia in seguito presso l'Università di Padova. Ha inoltre svolto attività di docenza di Biologia e Genetica al corso di laurea in Psicologia dell'Educazione dell'università IUSVE, Venezia. Ha lavorato presso il centro di ricerca della commissione europea (Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Varese) sui metodi alternativi alla sperimentazione animale. Ha conseguito un master in nutrizione e dietetica presso l'Universita' Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona. Ha lavorato presso il Physicians Committe for Responsible Medicine, a Washington DC (USA) sulle tecniche alternative alla sperimentazione animale e nutritizione come medicina preventiva. Attualmente lavora presso il centro di ricerca della commissione Europea (Ispra, Varese) sulle metodiche alternative alternative alla sperimentazione animale in tossicologia. E' autrice e coautrice di numerose pubblicazioni scientifiche, libri scientifici, e presentazioni a congressi nazionali e internazionali Nella seconda parte tornerà con noi l'avvocato Bruno Mautone con nuove e recenti rivelazioni sulla figura di Rino Gaetano, ci sono novità e nuove scoperte che sembrano confermare il possesso di informazioni privilegiati su fatti italiani ed internazionali da parte del cantautore.Nella ruota libera con Paolo Franceschetti torneremo a parlare di esoterismo e magia, del rapporto tra conscio e inconscio.Germana Accorsi analizzerà il profilo astrologico di due protagonisti delle cronache di questi mesi.Stefania intervista Miranda Virzi: si parla di psicogenealogia e di come, tramite lo studio dell'albero genealogico e il lavoro su di sé, questa disciplina possa aiutare a individuare e superare situazioni o blocchi emotivi che si presentano nella nostra vita. Completeranno la puntata l'angolo di Barbara Marchand e la scheda del Maestro di Dietrologia.

Burcin Uygungil MD, MPH is a leader in helping children with allergies, asthma, and primary immunodeficiencies.  She practices at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. where she is the lead investigator on the local USIDNET Registry which is a national registry for patients with primary immunodeficiency.   If you have a child or know of one with asthma, you should listen to what Dr. Uygungil has to say.  She is a wealth of knowledge, experience, and she's an absolutely delightful human being! A great addition to the Breathing Easy Podcast!

Burcin Uygungil MD, MPH is a leader in helping children with allergies, asthma, and primary immune deficiencies.  She practices at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. where she is the lead investigator on the local USIDNET Registry which is a national registry for patients with primary immunodeficiency.   If you have a child or know of one with asthma, you should listen to what Dr. Uygungil has to say.  She is a wealth of knowledge, experience, and she's an absolutely delightful human being! A great addition to the Breathing Easy Podcast!

Ep. 67: Riana Anderson is a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Applied Psychology and Human Development Division (APHD). Her current fellowship is with Dr. Howard Stevenson in the Racial Empowerment Collaborative (REC), which centers on cultural pride, coping and parenting, culturally specific parenting strategies, and other ways of reducing race-related stress. She received her doctorate in Clinical and Community Psychology at the University of Virginia and was a Clinical and Community Psychology Pre-doctoral Fellow at Yale University’s School of Medicine. Dr. Anderson graduated from the University of Michigan in 2006 with degrees in Psychology and Political Science. She then taught for 2 years with Teach For America in Atlanta, GA. She has also conducted community based participatory research at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, and neuropsychological research at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Dr. Anderson aims to assist at-risk youth with practical applications of her research and clinical services, as well as through academic instruction and policy recommendations. She strives to improve the psychological outcomes for African American youth through expanded coping strategies, discovery and encouragement of alternative outcomes, culturally and contextually relevant parenting programs, and community building, participation, and collaboration. One of her goals is to create youth centers and interventions that support the mental and physical health— as well as educational goals—of African American youth in urban communities. Dr. Anderson is interested in fostering positive outcomes among impoverished, urban, and Black youth in contextually relevant ways. She investigates how protective familial mechanisms such as parenting and racial socialization operate in the face of risks linked to poverty, discrimination, and residential environment. Dr. Anderson is particularly interested in how these factors predict familial functioning and subsequent child psychosocial and academic achievement, especially relating to family-based interventions. She is currently working on a four-session intervention to assess and alleviate racial stress and trauma in order to facilitate healthy parent-child relationships and racial assertiveness. For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic To subscribe to the Multiracial Family Man, please click here: MULTIRACIAL FAMILY MAN PODCAST   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Doctors doing pediatric heart surgery can now practice their work before the operation, thanks to 3D printing

2012 saw a surge of West Nile Virus infections, particularly in the central United States. What exactly is West Nile Virus and why do outbreaks occur? Join us at ASM headquarters to learn more about the biology of this fascinating virus - how it moves between hosts, how the disease is diagnosed and treated, and how outbreaks can potentially be prevented. West Nile virus was first detected in North America until 1999 when an outbreak occurred in New York City. In the next five years, West Nile virus swept across the continent, reaching the Pacific shore in 2004. Like other Flaviviruses, West Nile is an "arthropod-borne virus" or "arbovirus". Its transmission and the completion of its life cycle critically depends on the feeding activities of mosquitos, who transmit the virus as they feed on the blood of infected animals Despite the incidence of infection among humans, however, Homo sapiens are actually dead-end hosts for the West Nile virus. Indeed, birds are the primary amplifying hosts and their migratory patterns are thought to have promoted the rapid spread of the virus to new habitats.  Guest speakers include: Dr. Lyle Petersen  Lyle R. Petersen, M.D., M.P.H., has served as the director of the Division of Vector-Borne Diseases since 2004. Dr. Petersen began his training at the University of California, San Diego where he received an undergraduate degree in biology. He then studied medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. After medical school, Dr. Petersen completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Stanford University, CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) applied epidemiology training program, CDC's Preventive Medicine Residency Program, and a masters of public health program at Emory University. He served in several positions at CDC before joining the Division of Vector-borne Diseases, first as Deputy Director for Science and then Director. He is the author of more than 175 scientific publications and has received a number of scientific awards. His current research focuses on the epidemiology of arboviral and bacterial vector-borne zoonoses. Dr. Roberta DeBiasi  Roberta Lynn DeBiasi, MD, FIDSA, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine, Acting Chief and Attending Physician in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Children's National Medical Center, and investigator at Children's Research Institute in the Center for Translational Science in Washington, D.C. A fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and a member of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS), she is also a past recipient of IDSA's Young Investigator Award. Dr. DeBiasi's research expertise includes basic science as well as clinical/translational research in several areas. She is currently the Principal Investigator for several clinical research projects and trials, focusing on improved treatments for viral encephalitis, influenza, neonatal herpes simplex virus, congenital cytomegalovirus, and adenovirus in normal and immunocompromised children. An active investigator in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) Collaborative Antiviral Study Group, through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), she also performs research on community acquired pneumonia and hospital acquired infections with multiple drug resistant organisms. Her basic research focused on mechanisms of viral pathogenesis and the development of new treatments for viral myocarditis. She is the author of original research, review articles, and book chapters focusing on severe viral infections, including viral myocarditis, encephalitis, meningitis, West Nile Virus, and adenovirus in patients with compromised immune systems. Dr. DeBiasi also treats immunocompetent and immunocompromised children hospitalized with severe infections at Children's National Medical Center in Washington.

2012 saw a surge of West Nile Virus infections, particularly in the central United States. What exactly is West Nile Virus and why do outbreaks occur? Join us at ASM headquarters to learn more about the biology of this fascinating virus - how it moves between hosts, how the disease is diagnosed and treated, and how outbreaks can potentially be prevented. West Nile virus was first detected in North America until 1999 when an outbreak occurred in New York City. In the next five years, West Nile virus swept across the continent, reaching the Pacific shore in 2004. Like other Flaviviruses, West Nile is an "arthropod-borne virus" or "arbovirus". Its transmission and the completion of its life cycle critically depends on the feeding activities of mosquitos, who transmit the virus as they feed on the blood of infected animals Despite the incidence of infection among humans, however, Homo sapiens are actually dead-end hosts for the West Nile virus. Indeed, birds are the primary amplifying hosts and their migratory patterns are thought to have promoted the rapid spread of the virus to new habitats.  Guest speakers include: Dr. Lyle Petersen  Lyle R. Petersen, M.D., M.P.H., has served as the director of the Division of Vector-Borne Diseases since 2004. Dr. Petersen began his training at the University of California, San Diego where he received an undergraduate degree in biology. He then studied medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. After medical school, Dr. Petersen completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Stanford University, CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) applied epidemiology training program, CDC's Preventive Medicine Residency Program, and a masters of public health program at Emory University. He served in several positions at CDC before joining the Division of Vector-borne Diseases, first as Deputy Director for Science and then Director. He is the author of more than 175 scientific publications and has received a number of scientific awards. His current research focuses on the epidemiology of arboviral and bacterial vector-borne zoonoses. Dr. Roberta DeBiasi  Roberta Lynn DeBiasi, MD, FIDSA, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine, Acting Chief and Attending Physician in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Children's National Medical Center, and investigator at Children's Research Institute in the Center for Translational Science in Washington, D.C. A fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and a member of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS), she is also a past recipient of IDSA's Young Investigator Award. Dr. DeBiasi's research expertise includes basic science as well as clinical/translational research in several areas. She is currently the Principal Investigator for several clinical research projects and trials, focusing on improved treatments for viral encephalitis, influenza, neonatal herpes simplex virus, congenital cytomegalovirus, and adenovirus in normal and immunocompromised children. An active investigator in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) Collaborative Antiviral Study Group, through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), she also performs research on community acquired pneumonia and hospital acquired infections with multiple drug resistant organisms. Her basic research focused on mechanisms of viral pathogenesis and the development of new treatments for viral myocarditis. She is the author of original research, review articles, and book chapters focusing on severe viral infections, including viral myocarditis, encephalitis, meningitis, West Nile Virus, and adenovirus in patients with compromised immune systems. Dr. DeBiasi also treats immunocompetent and immunocompromised children hospitalized with severe infections at Children's National Medical Center in Washington.

When Danielle Leach lost her 5 year old son Mason to brain cancer she turned greif into action. She founded the Mason Leach Superstar Fund to benefit Children's National Medical Center, to encourage and empower patients to recognize their inner strength and feel like a superstar. She is also the director of partnerships at Inspire, an organization where survivors and caregivers can find support.... Mel Majoros has been sharing her battle with breast cancer online for nearly 2 years now on her blog titled "The Cancer Warrior". After being named one of the top cancer blogs in the country, Mel is taking her advocacy and inspiring outlook a step farther with her new weekly show at www.empoweradio.com.

Segment A: A tired child is a cranky child. It's nothing new to parents, but some scientists say they're finding children with chronic sleep problems have a raised risk of developing a mental illness later in life. "The brains of children are far more plastic and amenable to change," says Dr. Candice Alfano, assistant professor of psychology and pediatrics at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Dr. Alfano is also the director of the center's Child and Adolescent Anxiety Program and she will join us to talk about recent studies and programs at the center and the importance of a good night's sleep for your child. Segment B: In bestselling author Po Bronson's new book, "NurtureShock," the central premise is that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are backfiring because key twists in the science of it have been overlooked. The book covers a variety of counterintuitive topics, and relates to all stages of childhood, from toddlers to teens. During this half-hour, we'll talk with Po Bronson about his new book and take your calls at 440-2665 or 1-800-940-2240.

Naomi O'Grady, MD clarifies the strain of the current virus, discusses the difference between a pandemic and an epidemic, and outlines the prescription therapies available specific to H1N1 Influenza. O'Grady is a senior staff physician in the Clinical Center's Critical Care Medicine Department and the medical director of the department's Vascular Access and Conscious Sedation Services. She also is an attending physician with the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Department of the Children's National Medical Center and an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine's Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. This podcast is the third in a series focused on the H1N1 Influenza outbreak.

Anthony Slonim, MD, DrPH, FCCM, and Angela Hsu, MD, both from the Children's National Medical Center at the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., discuss their article in the February issue of Critical Connections, titled "Preventing Pediatric Trauma: The Role of the Critical Care Professional." They focus on the different levels of prevention in this patient population and how critical care professionals can play a more active role in making sure fewer young patients are treated for trauma. (Crit Conn 2006 Vol.5 No.1)