Global Pediatrics announces a new online training module for Minnesota pediatricians. The module as authored by Matthew Jones, M.D., during his fourth year of residency at University of Minnesota, with the assistance of Dr. Mohamed A. Hagi Aden (Regions Hospital). Click the image to view, or click here.

Maria Kroupina, child psychologist for the International Adoption Clinic, traveled to Russia for in February 2012 to lead a four-day professional training program for social workers, families and clinicians. The training, which focuses on helping children who have experienced early trauma, was developed with support of a Zero To Three fellowship (2008-2011) and will soon be offered in the United States. Contact us if you are interested in bringing Dr. Kroupina to your area.

The 36th Annual Child Welfare Symposium, sponsored by Joint Council on International Children's Services, will be held in New York City, April 16 - 18, 2012, and will include lectures by internationally recognized child development and adoption medicine experts Dana Johnson, MD, PhD, Michael K. Georgieff, MD, and John Himes, PhD, MPH, all from the University of Minnesota.

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Every year the Symposium brings together professionals in the fields of child welfare, adoption and orphan care for three days of information gathering, idea sharing and networking. All those with an interest in ensuring that children live, grow and flourish in a permanent, safe and loving family are invited to attend. Four topic-focused tracks: Medical and Nutritional Institute; U.S. Foster Care and Domestic Adoption Curriculum; Intercountry Adoption Curriculum; and Orphan Care Curriculum. 

U of M neonatology fellow, Megan Linn, M.D., traveled with our global pediatrics faculty, Tina Slusher, M.D., to Port Au Prince, Haiti, in July 2011. The purpose of the trip was to teach pediatric residents at Hospital de l'Universite d'Etat d'Haiti (HUEH; the largest hospital in Haiti), and to provide education--alongside Haitian faculty--on neonatology topics requested by neonatal nurses and doctors at St Damien Pediatric Hospital.

In June 2011, Dr. Judy Eckerle traveled with a medical team to do physical and developmental assessments for 170 kids currently living in a coastal orphanage who had never seen a doctor.

Beth Andrews, a nurse care coordinator in the International Adoption Clinic, traveled in April 2011 to Addis Ababa and Hossana, Ethiopia, to meet and work with the nurses and caregivers at care centers operated by Children's Home Society and Family Services, to provide support as they continue to take excellent care of orphaned and abandoned children, in a time of diminishing resources.  

In this photo, Beth helps the care center staff to create their own system for accurate preparation of special formula (F100) to feed malnourished children.