The Steele Children's Research Center's 'Angel Wing for Children with Diabetes' recently was awarded the prestigious American Diabetes Association Education Recognition Certificate for a quality diabetes self-management education program.
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Steele Center researcher and professor Murray Brilliant, PhD, is a geneticist interested in albinism. Dr. Brilliant's laboratory is currently working on a method to restore normal gene function in the pigmented tissues of the albino eye.This method will exploit the cell's endogenous DNA repair mechanisms. Most people with albinism have two different mutations on their two different DNA strands. By cutting the DNA at a specific sequence located between the two different mutation sites, the natural capacity to repair the DNA can be harnessed resulting in strand switching in a significant number of the cells.  Read more...

Pediatric cardiologist Scott Klewer, MD has been elected to a two-year term as Chief of Staff at University Medical Center. The appointment took effect Jan. 1.

Dr. Klewer will be the chief administrative officer for the more than 700 university and community physicians who practice at UMC. He also will serve as chairman of the hospital's Medical Executive Committee.

Dr. Klewer's specialty is providing medical care to children with heart problems, and his particular expertise is in the non-invasive imaging of the heart. As a Steele Center researcher, Dr. Klewer investigates bicuspid aortic valve (BAV), the most common congenital heart defect.  Read more...