Elizabeth Bacon, DO associate medical director-Cystic Fibrosis Center

• medical school: Des Moines University, Des Monies, IA
• residency: Blank Children's Hospital, Des Moines, IA
• fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
• board certification: Pediatric Pulmonology, Pediatrics

PUBLICATIONS

• Edwards, D., Bacon, E. (2014). Optimizing function for patients diagnosed with cerebral palsy. SIG 13 Perspectives on Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders (Dysphagia), 23, 123-131.
• Mueller, G.A., Wolf, S., Bacon, E., Forbis, S., Langdon, L., & Lemming, C. (2013). Contemporary topics in pediatric pulmonology for the primary care clinician. Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care, 43(6), 129-160.
• Bacon, E.A., & Evans, C.M. (2000). Rapid neuropsychological decline, mild cortical gliosis, and spinal muscular atrophy [abstract]. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 12(1), 145-146.
• Evans, C.M., & Bacon, E.A. (2000). Rapid neurocognitive decline in spinal muscular atrophy. NeuroPsychiatry Reviews, 1(2), 22-25.

PRESENTATIONS

• Bacon, E.A. (2015, March). Diffuse lung disease. Presented at Pediatric Grand Rounds, Dayton Children’s Hospital, Dayton, OH.
• Bacon, E.A. (2011, June). Growing up with cystic fibrosis. Presented at the Blank Children’s Hospital CF Center Family Education Day, Des Moines, IA.
• Bacon, E.A. (2011, April). Update on cystic fibrosis. Presented at the Iowa Lung Conference, Iowa Society for Respiratory Care, Ames, IA.
• Bacon, E.A. (2011, January). Update on cystic fibrosis. Presented at Pediatric Grand Round, Blank Children’s Hospital, Des Moines, IA.
• Bacon, E.A. (2010, December). All that coughs and wheezes is not asthma. Presented at Pediatric Grand Rounds, Blank Children’s Hospital, Des Moines, IA.
• Bacon, E.A., Acton, J., VanDyke, R., Fencel, M., Boesch, R.P., Seid, M., et al. (2010, March). Nutritional and lung function outcomes after gastrostomy tube placement. Poster presentation at the Boat Lecture Series, Cincinnati, OH.
• Bacon, E.A., Acton, J., VanDyke, R., Fencel, M., Boesch, R.P., Seid, M., et al. (2009, October). Nutritional and lung function outcomes after gastrostomy tube placement. Poster presentation at the North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference, Minneapolis, MN.
• Bacon, E.A. (2009, May). Chiari I malformation in a child that presented with snoring. Poster presentation during the Clinical Images in Pediatric Pulmonology session, American Thoracic Society’s meeting, San Diego, CA.
• Bacon, E.A. (2008, December). Living with cystic fibrosis. Presented at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
• Bacon, E.A. (2008, October). Hepatopulmonary syndrome in an adolescent with moderate lung disease and severe CF-related liver disease. Presented during the Pediatric Fellows’ Session at the North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference, Orlando, FL.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• American Thoracic Society
• American College of Chest Physicians