Good News Bulletin: August 2024
Walter Lambert, MD, received the Department of Children and Families’ Lifetime Achievement Award during the 2024 Florida Children & Families Summit. This award was established to recognize Floridians whose contributions have led to significant outcome improvements or innovation, locally or statewide.
Karen Young, MD, is the principal investigator on a $1 million grant the Korea-US Innovation Project entitled, “Promoting Healthy Population Growth: Novel Biomakers and Regenerative Therapies for Neonatal Intractable Diseases.”
Jason Jent, PhD, was the recipient of an XR Faculty Award from the University of Miami. His project is entitled, “Multimodal virtual reality (VR) simulation for training caregivers on evidence-based strategies helping young children to regulate problematic strong emotions.” The Faculty XR Awards is a technology incubator and experiential learning lab for the advancement of immersive media research projects. The 2025-26 XR Award will pair Dr. Jent with a team of XR developers to design and develop or prototype and XR app that will further his teaching, research, and creative scholarship.
Congratulations to Monica Cardenas MD, and her team on the recognition of Holtz Children's Hospital as a Platinum Level Asthma Center of Excellence and an Asthma-Friendly Hospital by the Florida Asthma Coalition.
Staff at Holtz Children’s Hospital have met all four criteria to be recognized as Asthma Friendly, which include: completing asthma management-related professional development for the asthma team lead, hospital pulmonologists, and at least one of the other specialties; providing all patients with an admitted diagnosis of asthma with a written asthma-action plan; ensuring all patients with an admitting diagnosis of asthma are provided with or referred to self-management education that meet EPR-3 Guidelines for adults and children discharged from emergency departments or hospital inpatient settings; and providing all patients with severe, persistent asthma with referrals and/or information about multi-component home-based asthma-management education.
Lourdes Quintana Forster, MD FAAP, has been appointment to the UMMG BOG Patient Experience Access and Optimization Committee by the UMMG Board of Governors.
Lisa Gwynn, DO, MBA, MSPH, has been appointed to the UMMG BOG Clinical Quality Committee by the UMMG Board of Governors
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