Growing Together - Fall 2007

Fall 2007
Vol. 31, No. 3

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Together is to show how
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David Kinsaul, FACHE President and Chief Executive Officer

Vicki Giambrone
Vice President, Marketing and Development

Susan A. Brockman
Editor

Contributing Writer:
Moira Alter

Photography:
Tom Suttman Dayton Children's Staff Photographer
Andy Snow

Features

NewsBriefs

Neurology director; neonatologist join staff

Pedro Weisleder, MD , has joined Dayton Children’s as director of neurology. Dr. Weisleder joins Daniel Lacey, MD, Gogi Kumar, MD, and Nadir Khan, MD, in caring for infants, children and teens with neurological disorders. He comes to Dayton Children’s from the pediatric neurology division at Duke University School of Medicine and is board certified in child neurology. If you believe your child needs neurology services, talk to your pediatrician or family doctor about a referral.

Jay Dritz, MD , has joined neonatology and the staff of the Regional Level III Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Dayton Children’s. Dr. Dritz is board certified in pediatrics and comes to Dayton Children’s from Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. Dayton Children’s NICU is a nationally recognized, state-of-the-art, developmentally centered unit offering a full range of care for premature and critically ill newborns. Dr. Dritz joins David Yohannan, MD, and Jerod Rone, MD. The NICU physicians have privileges at other hospitals in the region to provide care as needed to premature or critically ill newborns. These hospitals include Good Samaritan, Kettering Medical Center, Sycamore, Grandview, Southview, Greene Memorial Hospital, Upper Valley Medical Center, Community Mercy Health Partners (Springfield) and Middletown Regional Hospital.

Dayton Children’s to go smoke-free
Dayton Children’s is committed to providing a healthy and safe environment for our patients and visitors. Beginning January 1, 2008, Dayton Children’s will be joining 20 health care facilities in the region to provide a tobacco-free campus. For resources to help you quit smoking, visit smokefree.gov or call 1-800-QUITNOW (1-800-784-8669).

Specialty clinics open in outpatient care center Dayton Children’s is pleased to announce the opening of the fourth floor of the outpatient center. Several specialty clinics have moved to their new locations in the outpatient care center. These clinics include infectious disease, neurology and EEG, and nutrition. We are certain you will be pleased with the bright, new surroundings and the convenient location just off the upper level parking area.

Relocated Flood Memorial dedicated
For the past two years Dayton Children’s has been actively working with the City of Dayton, the Miami Conservancy District, the Northeast Priority Board, the Business Association, the Neighborhood Association and the development corporation to develop a strategic plan for the neighborhood and find a location for the Flood Memorial.

The new park – located just east of the intersection of Valley and Keowee Streets – was dedicated June 23 in honor of Joseph R. Kanak, a lifetime resident and dedicated advocate for Old North Dayton.

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Table of Contents

Health Beat

"Handy" tips for reducing school absences

Backpack safety

Before and after school care

Developing good homework and study habits

Health tips for college-bound teens

Safety tips for children with special needs

If your child doesn't want to go to school

Features

Taking control
of seizures

More about seizures

Living with diabetes

More about
endocrinology

Pediatric experts in your neighborhood
- Warren County

Meet the new
Dayton Children's ambassadors

NewsBriefs