PSV Patient, Yaalah Gilliam, Featured in Sickle Cell Awareness Month Video

PSV patient, Yaalah Gilliam, was featured in a Fairfax County Government/Channel 16 video in recognition of Sickle Cell Awareness Month.  Gilliam, 4-years-old, has been under the care of Dr. Elizabeth Yang (PSV Hematology/Oncology) and our clinical and administrative team at our Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders.

To see the video, please visit Fairfax County Government’s YouTube Channel.

Pediatric Specialists of Virginia received a special visit from Zeus and Too Tall of The Harlem Globetrotters at our Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders (Falls Church, VA).  

Zeus and Too Tall presented a special patient and family with tickets and autographs and also signed autographs and posed for pictures with our other patients in families in the clinic.  PSV would to thank Zeus, Too Tall, and The Harlem Globetrotters for visiting our Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders and putting a smile on our patients’ faces!  We all truly enjoved seeing your tricks, learning about the team’s history, and watching how great you were with our patients and families, staff. 

Thank you so much!

PSV would like to congratulate and recognize the 19 PSV physicians who were selected as “Top Docs” in Northern Virginia Magazine’s Top Doctors of 2016 issue (February, 2016), which is out on newsstands now.

Eight of our specialties were represented among the chosen providers.  The 19 PSV doctors featured are representative of the high-quality care all of our clinicians provide to our patients and families on a daily basis.  Our physicians commitment to PSV’s mission and dedication to serving children in Virginia and nearby communities is truly remarkable.  

Thank you all again for your efforts and the exemplary specialty service you provide, and thanks to all of our PSV team members who helped make this possible.

Here is the list of PSV physicians selected as Northern Virginia Magazine’s Top Doctors of 2016 (by specialty):

• Endocrinology
  • Kathleen Link, MD
  • Rinku Mehra, MD
  • Priya Vaidyanathan, MD
     
• Gastroenterology
  • Lynn Duffy, MD
  • Muhammad Khan, MD
  • Peter Lee, MD
  • Ian Leibowitz
  • Jaime Liou-Wolfe
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• Hematology & Oncology
  • Jennifer Dean, MD
  • Christopher Lawlor, MD
  • Carly Varela, MD
     
• Infectious Disease
  • Daniel Keim, MD
  • Rebecca Levorson, MD
     
• Neurology
  • Bennett Lavenstein, MD
  • William McClintock, MD
  • Terry Watkin, MD
     
• Nephrology
  • Robert Fildes, MD
     
• Orthopaedic Surgery
  • Jeffrey Hanway, MD
  • Emily Hattwick, MD
     
• Sports Medicine
  • Jeffrey Hanway, MD

Pediatric Specialists of Virginia (PSV) would like to thank Cakes Against Cancer for facilitating a gingerbread house building workshop for our patients and families in our Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders. Many thanks also to Kyshoen Jarrett (Washington Redskins’ Defensive Back) and his fiancée Chantel, the Washington Redskins’ Charitable Foundation, and Amphora Bakery for participating in the workshop and providing our patients with fun holiday goodie bags!

PSV providers Dr. Ian Leibowitz (Chief Medical Officer, PSV), Dr. Suchi Hourigan (Chief Research Officer, PSV), Dr. Otto Louis-Jacques, Dr. Natalie Sikka, Dr. Catherine Chao, Dr. Jamie Wolf, and James Lau, PSV Volunteer Researcher, presented clinical research presentations/posters at the ImproveCareNow Conference (Chicago, IL) and at the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition Conference (Washington, DC) in mid-October, 2015.

 

Please see the complete list of research presentations and posters (Note: PSV Providers and affiliates are highlighted in yellow.):

 

“ACCURACY OF PARENTALLY REPORTED WEIGHTS AND HEIGHTS AT 12 MONTHS OF AGE AS ESTIMATES OF WEIGHT-FOR-LENGTH PERCENTILES“

Allison Waller, Yvonne Yui, Nancy Gilchrist, Kathi Huddleston, Sahel Hazrati, Suchi Hourigan, John Niederhuber.

 

“CLINICAL, SOCIAL AND GENOMIC FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH OBESITY AT 12 MONTHS OF AGE “

Yvonne Yui, Nancy Gilchrist, Sahel Hazrati, Wendy S.W. Wong,  Daniel Stauffer, Kathi Huddleston, Suchi Hourigan, John Niederhuber.

 

“BEING OVERWEIGHT AT 12 MONTHS OF AGE IN HISPANIC VERSUS NON-HISPANIC CHILDREN: COMPARING CLINICAL, SOCIAL, AND ADMIXTURE FACTORS”

Farah Khan, Sahel Hazrati, Faith De La Cruz,  Kathi Huddleston, Suchi Hourigan, John Niederhuber.

 

“VARICEAL BLEEDING REQUIRING EMERGENT MESOCAVAL SHUNT PLACEMENT.”

Suruchi Batra, Jennifer Webster, Ian Leibowitz.

 

“FECAL CALPROTECTIN: A POSSIBLE ROLE IN SCREENING FOR JUVENILE POLYPS?”

Farah Khan, Catherine Chao, Haresh Mani, Suchi Hourigan.

 

“CLINICAL UTILITY OF EGD IN A PEDIATRIC POPULATION WITH CHRONIC ABDOMINAL PAIN: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY. “

Ian Leibowitz.

 

“EFFECTIVENESS OF TEST DIRECTED AND EMPIRIC ELIMINATION DIET IN PATIENTS WITH EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS.”

Otto Louis-Jacques.

 

“DEPRESSION SCREENING AT PEDIATRIC SPECIALISTS OF VIRGINIA.”

 

Natalie Sikka.

 

“WHAT IS THE UTILITY OF COLLECTING SEPARATE DUODENAL BULB BIOPSY CONTAINERS WHEN CELIAC DISEASE IS NOT SUSPECTED?”

Colleen LeBlanc and Jaime Wolfe.

 

IS MICRONUTRIENT DEFICIENCY AND BONE MINERAL DENSITY SCREENING NECESSARY IN CHILDREN WITH NEWLY DIAGNOSED CELIAC DISEASE,”

 

James Lau.