| ONGOING RESEARCH & ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:
· Serve on Hospital Morbidity, Mortality & Improvement Task Force & direct NICU M&M Conferences
· Direct NICU Pain Assessment & Management Team
o Present grant support by the Mayday Fund (2005-06) to investigate the utility of a quality improvement model using an interdisciplinary team to improve pain assessment & management in the NICU
o Parent & staff surveys
o Mentor one fellow (B. Cofer, MD) in this capacity
· Co-Direct Pediatric Advance Comfort Team at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital
o Education
§ Plan/Direct Annual CME Conference (last 3 years)
§ Resident & staff education/lectures
§ Regional & national conferences/programs on palliative care
§ Serve on fellow academic advisory board for S. Alisanski, MD (Peds Oncology)
o Development: Fund raising, promotion of service, development of full-scale service
o Advocacy: Promotion of services locally; writing & speaking nationally
o Research: Preparing manuscript on use of M&M Conference to impact palliative care education & track progress (study completed in late 2004 with former fellow S. Guthrie, MD)
· Membership & service/activities with Southern Society for Pediatric Research
o Institutional Representative for Vanderbilt
o Judge for Young Investigator Award (2005)
o Lead Reviewer & Moderator for Health Care Research program (2006)
· Clinical Service: Attend in NICU; Consults for Prenatal Diagnoses; F/U Clinic ½ day week when not on service
· Academic Service & Advocacy: VUMC Ethics Committee; TN Folic Acid Council (March of Dimes & State Dept. of Health); TN Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Task Force
· Editorial Service
o Editor, Neonatology Section, Pediatric Textbook, eMedicine.com
o Editorial Board, AAP PREP Self Assessment, Neonatology topics
§ Write test questions & critiques for 16 Am Board Pediatrics content specifications annually (2003-present, term expires in 2009)
§ Contribute to editing & critiques of ~120 questions/yr across pediatric topics
PROPOSED/PROJECTED FUTURE RESEARCH/ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:
· Palliative Care
o Conduct 2nd chart audit/evaluate impact of pediatric palliative education on inpatient care over the last 5 yrs at VCH (1st study published in Pediatrics 2004)
o Investigate role of spirituality in family/parent decision-making for children at the end of life (protocol under revision with M. Cortez, MD after 1st IRB review)
· Clinical Neonatology
o Study sound in NICU environment: old NICU vs new NICU, and HFJV device
§ Happy to do with fellow, also have Audiology PhD candidate interested
o Wyeth sponsored study on GE reflux study
· Perinatal Ethics
o Look at parental information & prenatal diagnoses/outcomes in Center for Advanced Maternal-Fetal Care
Recent Publications:
Carter BS, Howenstein M, Gilmer MJ, Throop P, France D, Whitlock JA. Circumstances Surrounding the Deaths of Hospitalized Children: Opportunities for Pediatric Palliative Care Pediatrics. 2004 Sep;114(3):e361-6.
Wing AE, Carter BS. Once Again, Vanderbilt NICU in Nashville Leads the Way in Nurses' Emotional Support Pediatr Nurs. 2004 Nov-Dec;30(6):471-2.
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