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Fellowship Available
Pediatric Pulmonology Training University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Arkansas Children’s Hospital
The Program
We offer a three-year fellowship in Pediatric Pulmonology leading to board eligibility for the Pulmonology sub-board of the American Board of Pediatrics. Applicants must be board eligible in General Pediatrics by the standards of the American Board of Pediatrics, and hold a permanent resident status ("green card") if trained at an international medical school.
First year fellows devote much of their time to rotations through the Pulmonary inpatient service and the Pulmonary Clinic. Elective months (chosen from Radiology/Pathology, Otolaryngology, PICU, NICU, Allergy/Immunology, or Infectious disease) are strongly encouraged. During this year fellows study design, biostatistics, grant writing, and manuscript preparation. The initiation of a research project completes the first year course of study.
Further development and initiation of the fellow’s research project occupies most of the second year. Clinical responsibilities are reduced to provide research time. Clinical responsibilities during the second year include Pulmonary inpatient service and Pulmonary Clinic.
The third year of the fellowship is primarily devoted to research. The protected time during this year is largely devoted to continued data collection, data analysis, and submission of a first authored paper reporting the fellow’s research findings. Clinical responsibilities during the third year include Pulmonary inpatient service and Pulmonary Clinic. Senior fellows also participate in teaching residents and medical students.
The People
Six pulmonologists comprise the primary teaching staff for the Pediatric Pulmonology fellowship program.
John L. Carroll, M.D. Professor of Pediatrics & Physiology UAMS, College of Medicine Pediatric Pulmonary Division Faculty Division Chief – Pediatric Respiratory Medicine Director – Arkansas Cystic Fibrosis Center Co-director – Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center Dr. Carroll, with greater than fifteen years as an academic Pediatric Pulmonologist, has special interest in sleep disordered breathing, control of breathing disorders, cystic fibrosis, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. He is internationally recognized as one of the top experts in pediatric breathing control and oxygen sensing development. He is author on over forty peer-reviewed publications, author on over thirty book chapters or review articles, member of several consensus conferences, and has served as co-editor of a book on sleep disordered breathing in children. He maintains an active laboratory research program which has been NIH funded for greater than ten years.
Robert H. Warren, M.D. Professor, Department of Pediatrics UAMS, College of Medicine Pediatric Pulmonary Division Faculty Medical Director, Pediatric Respiratory Care Services at Arkansas Children’s Hospital Dr. Warren has greater than thirty years experience in academic Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine. His areas of special expertise include chronic ventilation, pulmonary disease in children with neurological disabilities (e.g., muscular dystrophy) and pulmonary function testing. Dr. Warren is a highly experienced expert in lung function testing and respiratory therapy.
Mohy G. Morris, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics UAMS, College of Medicine Pediatric Pulmonary Division Faculty Medical Director, Pediatric Pulmonary function Laboratories at Arkansas Children’s Hospital Dr. Morris is an internationally recognized expert in Infant Pulmonary Function Testing (PFT). He operates a state-of-the-art infant PFT research laboratory. Dr. Morris currently holds a K23 award from NIH and, therefore, approximately 25% of his time is devoted to clinical and administrative activities, the remainder being committed to research/teaching. His research involves infant lung function testing and lung function testing in pre-school children.
Dennis Schellhase, M.D Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics UAMS, College of Medicine Pediatric Pulmonary Division Faculty Medical Director - Pediatric Airway Endoscopy Services Dr. Schellhase is an expert in all aspects of Pediatric Airway Endoscopy (bronchoscopy). In addition, he has special expertise in asthma, particularly asthma in infants and toddlers, and was the main organizer and leader of a recent effort to implement an asthma care pathway at Arkansas Children’s Hospital.
Martin L. Bauer, M.D. Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics UAMS, College of Medicine Pediatric Pulmonary Division Faculty Director – Home Ventilator Program Director – Pediatric Pulmonology Fellowship Program Dr. Bauer has three years in pediatric pulmonology private practice, over eight years in academic pediatric pulmonology, and eleven years of emergency medicine practice. His focus of research and expertise is in area of chronic aspiration in children. He has special interest and expertise in the care of the technology dependent child in the home. He is especially excited by the prospect of assisting the launching of young pediatric pulmonologists on their chosen careers.
Ariel Berlinski, M.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics UAMS, College of Medicine Pediatric Pulmonary Division Faculty Dr. Berlinski completed pediatric residencies at both Pedro de Elizalde General Children’s Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Long Island College Hospital/Beth Israel Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. He completed a pediatric pulmonology fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. He has done additional work in the lung transplantation program at St. Louis Children’s Hospital/Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. His unique interest, technical expertise, and research is in delivery systems for inhaled medications. In addition, he has special interest in asthma and Cystic Fibrosis, especially in non invasive monitoring of airways inflammation.
Other Faculty
The ACH/UAMS pediatric faculty includes over 150 faculty members representing virtually every pediatric subspecialty, including twelve cardiologists, six intensivists, two nephrologists, nine neonatologists, four gastroenterologists, four infectious disease specialists, five hematologists-oncologists, three pharmacologists, and nine emergency medicine physicians.
Surgical specialists include two cardiovascular surgeons, three pediatric surgeons, three pediatric neurosurgeons, and two pediatric otolaryngologists. There are nine pediatric anesthesiologists at ACH.
Critical support physicians for the pulmonologists include six pediatric radiologists and five pediatric pathologists. These faculty members provide not only outstanding clinical support and teaching, but research opportunities as well. Two examples of many include Dr. Mark Heulitt in the Pediatric Critical Care Division who is an accomplished Pediatric Intensivist as well as an accomplished researcher in the field of work of breathing during mechanical ventilation. Dr. Heulitt is an ideal research mentor for Pediatric Pulmonary Subspecialty residency trainees and has mentored several Pediatric Critical Care fellows in his laboratory. He is fully funded by industry (Siemens – ventilator manufacturer) and is an accomplished researcher in the area of pulmonary mechanics. Dr. Perla Vargas (PhD) in the Center for Applied Research and Evaluation is an accomplished researcher in asthma epidemiology and currently holds several research grants from NIH that focus on asthma care in the rural setting. Dr. Vargas operates large programs aimed to improve asthma care delivery in the rural settings and her numerous research program provide great potential for Pediatric Pulmonary medicine trainees in our program. Dr. Vargas devotes ~ 100% of her time to research and would be an ideal research mentor.
Support Staff
In addition to the hospital staff available for patient care, eight respiratory therapists, seven nurse specialists and/or physician extenders, four pediatric speech therapists, one child life therapist, two pediatric occupational and physical therapists, one nutritionist, one social worker, and one psychologist are assigned to the Pulmonology Section.
The Pulmonary section has a full pulmonary function lab with multiple state of the art instruments for evaluation of lung function in children, fully staffed with excellent and highly qualified technicians. A fully equipped suite for flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy is maintained by an excellent technical staff. Sedation and anesthesia support are readily available.
The Place
Arkansas Children’s Hospital is a private, not for profit, free standing children’s hospital with 350 beds. Established in 1910, the hospital underwent rapid growth in the 1980’s and is now one of the ten largest children’s hospitals in the nation. The hospital serves as the major pediatric teaching affiliate for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
The hospital is the only pediatric hospital in the state of Arkansas, and serves as a referral center for areas of southern Missouri, eastern Oklahoma, northern Louisiana and northeast Texas. Nationally renowned programs such as the pediatric cardiovascular surgery program and the ECMO program attract patients from other areas of the country as well.
The hospital is the base for the pediatric residency program of UAMS, which currently has 52 pediatric and 16 medicine-pediatric residents enrolled in the program. Fellows in pulmonology play a key role in educating pediatric house staff in the care of ill children and adolescents.
The new PICU is a 26-bed unit with approximately 1200 admissions per year. In addition, the hospital has a separate 12 bed cardiovascular intensive care unit, a four bed ECMO unit, a 12-bed burn unit, and a 53-bed NICU.
The hospital operates a neonatal and pediatric transport service which uses two helicopters, three vans, and has a variety of fixed-winged aircraft available.
Martin L. Bauer, M.D. Director – Pediatric Pulmonology Fellowship Email: bauermartinl@uams.edu
For further information and an application, please write to: Rachel Bull Program Coordinator, Pediatric Pulmonology University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Pediatrics Arkansas Children’s Hospital 800 Marshall Street, Slot 512-17 Little Rock, Arkansas 72202 (Phone) (501) 364-1006 E-mail: bullracheld@uams.edu Revised: January 2005
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and has a Conrad 30 waiver program. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
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