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In this issue:
Wisconsin Pediatricians Receive National Awards
Funding Available:
Chapter Advocacy Summit
Medical Home Webinar Teleconference Series
AAP Past President to Lead
Let's Move Campaign
AAP National Balloting Now Open
Articles of Interest
Calendar of Events
Funding Opportunities
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 Wisconsin Pediatricians Receive National AAP Awards
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Wisconsin pediatricians received six national recognitions during the recent AAP District VI meeting held in Anaheim, CA. WIAAP will formally present the awards at our fall meeting, to be held on Friday October 28, 2011 in Oconomowoc.
Ann Thompson Behrmann, MD, FAAP
David T. Bernhardt, MD, FAAP
Carl Eisenberg, MD, FAAP
Barbara L. Knox, MD, FAAP
Mala Mathur, MD, MPH, FAAP
Wisconsin Chapter and WIAAP Foundation - For the development of the Wisconsin Alliance of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics and the resulting mental health webinar series. Co-chairs for the initiative are:
James Meyer, MD, FAAP
Joseph O'Grady, MD, FAAP
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Funding Available: AAP Chapter Advocacy Summit
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WIAAP will fund two (2) candidates interested in attending the AAP being held March 14-16, 2012 in Schaumburg, IL. For application requirements and more details, click here.
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Medical Home Webinar Teleconference Series
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The American Academy of Pediatrics with the National Center for Medical Home Implementation archive session materials on the value and implementation of medical homes. For more details, click here.
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AAP Past President to Lead Let's Move Campaign
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The White House has announced that American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Immediate Past President Judith S. Palfrey, MD, FAAP is the new executive director of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! initiative.
Let's Move! is a comprehensive initiative dedicated to solving the problem of obesity within a generation, so that children born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams.
Read full press release
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AAP National Balloting Now Open
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Please ensure your dues are current to participate in the national AAP election, now open. Voting members receive an e-mail announcement from the AAP Election Coordinator containing their personalized link to the election ballot. The ballot link may also be accessed by logging on to the Member Center of the AAP Web site. For those members whose membership status is in good standing, the link will take them directly into the election ballot.
WIAAP Immediate Past President Jeffrey Lamont is a candidate for the District VI National Nominating Committee.
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Opinion: Why We Should Measure Safety and Not Performance
Quoting statistics has become fashionable, especially in medicine. Experts create performance measurement and then show that physicians do not always meet artificial goals... Read full article
Paramedics Filling Health Care Gap as Need Grows
In Denver, a select group of paramedics in several states is helping to provide primary health care by making house calls - an initiative encouraged by the federal health care law to address shortages in primary care and cut down on expensive visits to doctors and emergency rooms.... Read full article
CDC: Strokes Rising in Younger Ages The number of people aged 15 to 44 hospitalized for stroke jumped by more than third between 1995 and 2008, say researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The increase may be due partly to the increasing numbers of young people who have diseases such as high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes -- diseases usually associated with older adults, they added... Read full article
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