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Volume 1, Issue 17 • November 23, 2011
Grand Rounds for
Week of 11.28.11
OB-GYN:
Tues., 11.29.11
8 a.m. CSB 628
Topic: Pulmonary Embolism
Speaker: Dr. Lawrence Mohr
PEDIATRICS:
Fri., 12.2.11
8 a.m. Storm Eye Auditorium
Topic: Adolescent Reproductive
Health Update
Speaker: Kristen Rager, MD,
MPH, FSAHM
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s
Hospital at Vanderbilt
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Volume 1, Issue17
November 23 , 2011
Sandra Fowler, MD, MSc
Division Chief, Pediatric
Infectious Disease
Phone: (843) 792-2385
Email: [email protected]
Web Sites:
http://www.musckids.com/
http://clinicaldepartments.musc
.edu/pediatrics
Facts FAX team:
Rita Ryan, MD
John Sanders
Scott Russell, MD
Linda Howard
Robin Rose
Suzanne Scott
Meredith Strehle
Sandra Fowler, MD, MSc, Division Chief, Pediatric Infectious Disease
Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease
The Division consists of 3 board-certified Pediatric Infectious Diseases specialists: Drs. Terry Dixon,
Division Chief Sandra Fowler, and Dan Wray. The Division’s primary clinical activities include
outpatient and inpatient consultations for complicated common, and uncommon infectious
diseases such as osteomyelitis and tuberculosis; long-term antibiotic management; and evaluation
and care for immunocompromised patients. We operate one of 3 specialized Ryan White-funded
pediatric HIV clinics in the state, serving both perinatally and behaviorally infected children and
youth with a multidisciplinary team of Pediatric ID physicians, along with Dr. Eve Spratt in Child
Psychiatry; Consuela Drayton, RN, nurse case manager; Angel Payton-Harmon, MSW, social
worker; and Pam Ingram, M. Ed, school psychologist.
Dr. Dan Wray Dr. Sandra Fowler Dr. Terry Dixon
The Division has current research collaborations with specialists in behavioral health to address
risk behaviors in HIV infected youth. Effective prenatal screening for HIV along with perinatal HIV
prophylaxis has nearly eliminated perinatal HIV transmission. Unfortunately, these gains have not
translated into reduced behavioral transmission among youth, who now account for the largest
proportional increases in HIV infection.
Dr. Terry Dixon, the newest member of the group, received his MD and PhD in microbiology from
Duke University, where he also completed his residency and ID fellowships. He is also boardcertified in Clinical Microbiology. He is developing a basic research program in molecular
diagnostics of candida infections, and has already been recognized as a superb clinician and
teacher. He also has an interest in pediatric-specific antimicrobial stewardship strategies. Dr.
Wray specializes in transplant infectious diseases in adults and children. Dr. Fowler has a
particular interest in viral infections and antiviral therapy and is currently conducting clinical trials
involving treatment of congenital CMV infection, treatment of severe influenza, and surveillance
for rotavirus disease in young children. She is also active in the Children’s Hospital Infection
Prevention program.
Children’s Hospital Infection Prevention Wins:
• There were no cases of ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) in the CH in the month of
October
• Pediatric Intensive Care Unit has gone 21 months without a central line associated
bloodstream infection (CLABSI)
• No CLABSI in Pediatrics outpatient clinics in 2 years