In this episode Lewis First, MD, MS, FAAP, editor-in-chief of Pediatrics, is back for another edition of “First Up.” He offers a bird’s-eye view of what’s in the September issue of the journal. Hosts David Hill, MD, FAAP, and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP, also talk to Markus Buchfellner, MD, about a mysterious outbreak of hepatitis with no known cause.
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Lewis First, MD, MS, FAAP
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Lewis First, MD, MS, FAAP, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Vermont (UVM) Larner College of Medicine, Chief of Pediatrics at the UVM Children’s Hospital, and editor-in-chief of the AAP’s peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics. Dr. First also educates the public weekly as a broadcaster and columnist with his “First with Kids” segments that appear on radio, television, and in local newspapers.
Markus Buchfellner, MD
Guest
Markus Buchfellner, MD, is a pediatric infectious diseases fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Children's of Alabama. He completed medical school at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) and residency at the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL. One of his primary research interests in fellowship thus far relates to CMV infection and disease in stem cell transplant patients, but he also enjoys collaborating with his health department in studying local outbreak surveillance of adenovirus and monkeypox.
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*The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and not necessarily those of the American Academy of Pediatrics.