B. Keith English, M.D. Chair, Pediatrics & Human
Development Departmental Update
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Multi-Campus Model for Pediatrics in CHM Upper Peninsula Region
Traverse City Grand Rapids Lansing Flint Midland Region Hospital
Partners = Student Clinical Education Sites Grand Rapids : HDVCH
Lansing: Sparrow Childrens Center Traverse City: Munson Medical
Center Upper Peninsula: Marquette General Hospital Midland
Regional: MidMichigan Health (Midland, Alma, Gladwin, Clare) Flint:
Hurley Childrens Hospital
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Pediatrics and Human Development APR: Timetable Self-study to
be completed by February 1, 2015 Report to Dean and then Provost in
April, 2015 Great opportunity for strategic planning for
Pediatrics
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The Six Key Questions for the APR 1.What do we do? 2.Why do we
do it? 3.How well do we do it and who thinks so? 4.What difference
would it make whether we did it or not? 5.Given our present status,
how do we intend to change in ways that help us advance? 6.How will
we evaluate our future progress and successes?
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New Faculty Andre Bachmann, PhD, tenured Professor, Grand
Rapids campus, started 1/5/15 Aghiad Chamdin, M.D., Assistant
Professor, Pediatric Hematology- Oncology, starts 2/1/15 (4/1/15)
Rebecca Schein, M.D., Assistant Professor, Pediatric Infectious
Diseases, starts 3/15/15
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Faculty Recruitment Plans Posted positions in Pediatric
Pulmonology and Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Plans to post
positions in Academic General Pediatrics (2), Neonatology,
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics (DBP) and Child Psychology or
Speech Language Pathology
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Faculty Recruitment Plans DBP and PhD (child psychology or
speech language pathology) recruits part of MDCH-funded development
of autism services in Lansing Plans to develop an Approved Autism
Evaluation Center (AAEC) in partnership with Wardcliff Abilities
Center (Jane Turner and Kathryn Larson are spearheading this
effort)
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Faculty Recruitment Plans Recruitment for three investigator
positions in autism-related research underway Plans to recruit at
least three individual investigators in pediatric neurosciences in
Grand Rapids in partnership with pediatric neurology expansion at
HDVCH
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Academic Competitiveness Funds MSU Plans to hire 100 new STEM
faculty in next couple of years Funding from Office of the Provost
and OVPRGS Proposals solicited from Departments and Colleges in
November; additional discussions underway
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Academic Competitiveness Funds Precision Pediatrics concept has
been well-received by MSU leadership Partnership with Rick Leach in
Ob-Gyn in maternal-infant health proposal Partnership with George
Mias, Rick Neubig, others, for Precision Pediatrics proposal
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B. Keith English, M.D. Chair, Pediatrics & Human
Development Precision Pediatrics at MSU
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12 Why Precision Pediatrics? Personalized, individualized, or
precision pediatrics? For some, personalized medicine denotes the
creation and use of unique therapies for every patient, whereas
precision medicine refers to the tailoring of medical treatment to
the individualized characteristics of each patient (National
Research Council, 2011)
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13 Fit with Grand Initiatives and NIH Funding Priorities Fit
with NICHD Funding Priorities for the next decade: Catalog and
identify interrelated environmental and genetics factors that are
key to.. health Focus areas include developmental origins of health
and disease & behavior and cognition (interventions for autism
and pharmaceutics for brain recovery) Fit with the NIH/DARPA/NSF
Brain Initiative Fit with with National Human Genome Research
Institute (NHGRI) funding priorities
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14 Fit with MSU ACF Principles Enhancing competitiveness and
excellence of tenured MSU faculty (1), improved NIH funding (4),
and align-ment with Grand Challenges & funding priorities (3)
Enhancing status of MSU investigators to exceed that of our
aspirational peers (2) and be on par with leading centers
(precision medicine being embraced by UCSF, UCLA, Stanford, Duke,
Harvard) Great potential for stronger international collaboration
in pediatrics (5) (e.g., Malawi, Brasil) and for expanding MSU
institutional diversity (6), in bringing precision pediatrics to
populations of children in Michigan and around the world
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15 Fit with Multi-campus model for CHM Pediatrics Fit with
expansion of pediatric neurology, epilepsy and neuroscience in
Grand Rapids ( & epigenetics at VARI) Fit with expanded
programs in autism-related research in Pediatrics in East Lansing
Fit with public health expansion in Flint (e.g., neuroscience of
sleep) and CHM investigators in Traverse City (autism), Saginaw,
Marquette
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16 How To Build Precision Pediatrics (1) Recruit Leading
Omics/Big Data Scientists (2) Recruit Leading Physician-Scientists
whose focus is on genetics/epigenetics of major medical conditions
in children (e.g., autism/NDDs, asthma, childhood cancers) (3)
Recruit Leading Health Services researchers whose aim is to bring
Precision Pediatrics to populations of children