A force in sports medicine and a force in rowing! Dr. Kathryn (Kate) Ackerman, MD, MPH, FACSM is going to the Paris Olympics as USRowing’s team physician. Here at home, her contributions to sports medicine got major hurrahs from the American College of Sports Medicine. Let’s hear it for Dr. Ackerman, director of the Wu Tsai Female Athlete Program at Boston Children’s and recipient of a 2024 Citation Award from the ACSM! https://lnkd.in/ec9qaiXx https://lnkd.in/eNrraKzv
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About us
Boston Children's Hospital is a 404-bed comprehensive center for pediatric health care. As one of the largest pediatric medical centers in the United States, Boston Children's offers a complete range of health care services for children from birth through 21 years of age. (Our services can begin interventions at 15 weeks gestation and in some situations we also treat adults.) We have approximately 25,000 inpatient admissions each year and our 200+ specialized clinical programs schedule 557,000 visits annually. Last year, the hospital performed more than 26,500 surgical procedures and 214,000 radiological examinations. Our team of physicians and nurses has been recognized by a number of independent organizations for overall excellence, and we're proud to share some notable examples with you here.
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http://www.childrenshospital.org
External link for Boston Children's Hospital
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- Hospitals and Health Care
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- 10,001+ employees
- Headquarters
- Boston, MA
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1869
- Specialties
- Research, Patient Services, Technology, Pediatrics, Hospital, and Innovation
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Employees at Boston Children's Hospital
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Andreas Ramos
Author of 22+ books on digital marketing | Adjunct Professor | Teach university-level AI-powered digital marketing at Omnes, CSTU, DMAnc | Graduate,…
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Chris Newell
Senior Director Organizational Development at Boston Children's Hospital
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Walter Pressey
Independent Director, Forsyth Institute
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Michael Edson
IT Manager, Virtual Care and DH Emerging Tech
Updates
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Babies’ brains undergo dramatic structural and physiological changes after birth. In Nature Portfolio, Carol Wilkinson and her colleagues used EEGs to track trajectories of brain activity from ages 0-3, providing a baseline for understanding neurodevelopmental disorders. They saw age-dependent, nonlinear changes in periodic alpha and beta activity suggestive of a distinct milestone in the maturation of thalamocortical circuits, which enable complex sensory processing. 👇
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Many vaccines are only partially effective, stop working with time, or don’t work well in the very young or the very old. Through an unbiased screen of > 200,000 small molecules, Ofer Levy, MD PhD, David Dowling, Ph.D., and colleagues in our Precision Vaccines Program found a new potential adjuvant that induces robust responses in donor immune cells. They’ve optimized it for clinical use and hope to test it with influenza and whooping cough vaccines and their own opioid vaccine, under development, to prevent deaths from fentanyl overdose. 👇 http://ms.spr.ly/6044lKNvp
A promising vaccine adjuvant, optimized for clinical use - Boston Children's Answers
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Even teens with chronic medical conditions can misuse alcohol, interfering with their treatment and overall health. This randomized trial led by Dr. Elissa Weitzman, director of research in our Division of Adolescent Medicine, tested a brief, computer-based intervention called Take Good Care that educates and engages teens about how alcohol affects their specific medical condition (like diabetes in the example above). A year later, high-risk drinkers had cut back their alcohol use by about 40 percent compared with those who did not see Take Good Care. 👇
Brief Intervention for Alcohol Use Among Youths With Chronic Medical Conditions
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Health care is enthusiastically embracing artificial intelligence, but does AI live up to the hype? In this Perspective piece in the journal NEJM AI, Boston Children’s Chief Innovation Officer John Brownstein, Christopher Longhurst of UC San Diego Health, and colleagues call for real-world evaluations of AI’s benefit in the clinical setting, similar to clinical trials for a new drug. They write that such evaluations are scarce, and write that AI systems should be tuned to local practices and populations, including underserved patients. 👇
A Call for Artificial Intelligence Implementation Science Centers to Evaluate Clinical Effectiveness
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Mapping connections between neurons can reveal how the nervous system governs bodily functions — in this case, walking and flight in fruit flies. In two studies in Nature, co-led by Wei-Chung Allen Lee, PhD, of Boston Children’s and Harvard Medical School and John Tuthill of the University of Washington researchers combined electron microscopy with other techniques to show how neurons in the central nervous system interact with muscles to coordinate a fly’s maneuvers. The studies, notable for doing this kind of mapping in an animal with limbs, could someday yield insights applicable to us humans. (Image courtesy John Tuthill.) For details and a cool video, check out HMS’s Instagram post. 👇
Creating maps of connections between neurons
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Congratulations to Olumide F. for being named an HHMI Gilliam Fellow! 🎉
Congratulations to Olumide Fagboyegun for being named an HHMI Gilliam Fellow! Olumide F. Beth Stevens Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) www.stevenslab.org www.kirbyneuro.org
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Gymnastics is a high-impact sport associated with a large number of wrist, elbow, and shoulder injuries. To reduce the risk of reinjury, experts at Boston Children’s have developed a set of return-to-gymnastics protocols for five common upper extremity injuries. The protocols provide step-by-step guidelines to help gymnasts regain strength and stability necessary to return to their sport safely. 👇
A safer return to gymnastics after injury - Boston Children's Answers
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At a time when mental health problems are skyrocketing, a new study in JAMA Pediatrics provides one of the most comprehensive state-by-state accountings to date of firearm suicides in children and youth. The findings are eye-opening — but could also help in crafting interventions. 👇
Firearm suicides in children and youth vary by state - Boston Children's Answers
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As the lab of Beth Stevens has shown, microglial cells help prune synapses in the developing brain by tagging those to be eliminated with the immune protein C1q. Surprising new work in Cell, led by Nicole Scott-Hewitt, shows that C1q can also be taken in by neurons, where it appears to influence neuronal protein translation by interacting with ribosomal proteins, RNA-binding proteins, & RNA in the cell cytoplasm. Moreover, C1q builds up in neurons over time, suggesting it has a role in age-related neurodegenerative conditions. Lots more to explore 👇
Microglial-derived C1q integrates into neuronal ribonucleoprotein complexes and impacts protein homeostasis in the aging brain
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