Play of the Week: Play of the Week goes to Lianna Morales, who was stopped by a parent in the pedestrian connector to compliment her and her amazing discharge summary per the subspecialist seeing their baby outpatient! Fantastic work, Lianna! Big congratulations to Leanne Perez and her husband, JB, on the birth of their baby, Amelia, on 10/1! Kudos to Keenan Caswell on his fascinating CPC with mentor, Dr. Hiraldo! Shoutout to Natalie Goggins who took the opportunity for some

Play of the Week: Play of the Week goes to Brittany Hume-Dawson who is biking to work from Gaithersburg in the dark, 20 miles per day, dedicated to fitness as a military officer. Fitness queen! Additional shout outs to Dr. Zanetti, Paola Robles Vera, and Grace Manno for planning a fantastic Fall Resident Retreat! Fun was had by all! House Zanetti won the morning's Jeopardy made by the Zanetti family (go girls!). House Schacht took the win for the House Games! Photos from the

Play of the Week: Play of the Week goes to the Puntin' Peds Flag Football Team who won their first game 27-6! September has been an exciting month for the NCC Peds Residency Family: Congratulations to Brenda Zhang and her husband, Joe, on their nuptials over Labor Day weekend! Congratulations to Melanie Yonko, her husband, Ben, and their son, Silas, on welcoming their newest addition to the family, Amelia, on September 18th! Congratulations to Grace Trello and her husband, St

Play of the Week: Play of the Week goes to the Wellness Committee and the facility dogs for a fantastic Puppies & Pancakes wellness session! Schedule: Event Time and Location Audience/Notes Monday, 9/21 Case & Orient to Service 0745-0850 America 2525 All Welcome Tuesday, 9/22 PI/QI "Step 3 - Set the Target" PGY-3 Update: Newborn Screen 0745-0850 America 2525 All Welcome Wednesday, 9/23 No Morning Report Academic Half-Day Infectious Disease 1300-1500 Building: Bldg 5 Fourth F

Play of the Week: Play of the Week goes to Grace Manno who successfully intubated a critically ill child during her night shift at Children's National PICU! Also to Danny Rabe who performed a flawless champagne tap on a critically ill child in the INOVA PICU! Final shout-outs to Katy Crandall and Tanner Charette for a fantastic lecture and Journal Club this week! Schedule: Event Time and Location Audience/Notes Monday, 9/14 Education/Reverse Education Meetings 0745-0850 Resid

Play of the Week: Play of the Week goes to Simal Ali and her mentors Dr. Auvil and Dr. Kolasinski for a fantastic first CPC of the year! Schedule: Event Time and Location Audience/Notes Monday, 9//7 No Morning Report Happy Labor Day! Tuesday, 9/8 Case & PGY-2 Lecture by Dr. Crandall 0745-0850 America 2525 All Welcome Wednesday, 9/9 Fellow/Resident Combined Didactics "New PSR System and PSR Reviews" 0745 - 0845 CHANGE OF LOCATION: CANYON CONFERENCE ROOM All Welcome Thursday, 9

Play of the Week: Play of the Week goes to Danny Rabe and the Cardiology team for a wonderful Academic Half-day! Also, shout out to Melanie Yonko and Leanne Perez, who are both due with baby girls in the next month or so. Schedule: Event Time and Location Audience/Notes Monday, 8/31 Case & Endocrinology Lecture by Dr. Molter 0745-0825 America 2525 All Welcome Tuesday, 9/1 SIM/Skills PIV Art Stick IO 0745-0850 America 2525 Residents/Interns/Medical Students https://classroom.g

Play of the Week: Play of the Week goes to Erin Scroggins and Dr. Edwards who teamed up to present a workshop on medical ethics at the Pain Care Skills Training and Substance Use Disorder Symposium. Way to represent NCC Peds! Schedule: Event Time and Location Audience/Notes Monday, 8/24 Case & Orient to Service 0745-0825 America 2525 All Welcome Tuesday, 8/25 Dermatology Lecture by Dr. Yang & Case 0745-0850 America 2525 All Welcome Of note, the lecture will precede the case o

Play of the Week: Play of the Week goes to Jacquelin Doman - the NICU said she was super helpful with stabilizing and assisting with line placement on a new HIE/cooling baby and also crushed an intubation for surfactant delivery on her first try! All while handling the high acuity census after being called in for a back-up cross cover shift. Great job, Jacquelin! Research Highlight: Congratulations to Belle Houston for her new publication in Children, "Image-Based Assessment

Play of the Week: Play of the Week goes to the ward night team, Caroline Reckart and Paola Robles Vera - they provided care above and beyond the expectations of a night team not only by developing excellent rapport with a parent and their medically complex child, but also by ensuring the family's wishes for a procedure were met to minimize anxiety surrounding the pre-op environment and anesthesia induction. Patient-centered care at its finest on display! Schedule: Event Time

Play of the Week: Play of the Week goes to Tanner Charette who stepped up as the MICC intern to assist the NICU team during the delivery of 29-week twins. The NICU praised him for his excellent NRP and placement of both a PIV and UVC. Play of the Week also goes to Camille Leoni who flawlessly performed an LP on an altered but squirmy 8-month-old on the ward for an encephalopathy work-up, all with a huge crowd of observers! Shout out to Dr. Williams from the Adolescent Clinic

Play of the Week: Play of the Week goes to Dan Mahoney-Herbin who convinced a mom to accept Vitamin K for their baby on a busy Saturday! Additional shout outs to Paola Robles Vera who performed a flawless champagne tap on a neonate with history of E. Coli meningitis; Natalie Goggins who stayed up all night and followed a new PICU admission peripherally - helping him to get settled in even though the PICU was not her responsibility - and handling a ward admission and several c

Play of the Week: Play of the Week goes to the residents and faculty who participated in a friendly game of kickball this week and to our awesome ref, Ms. Staci Harrison! There have been mixed reports on who actually won, but in the end, everyone is a winner when we are having fun! (For more action shots, visit this Google Drive) Additional shoutout to Keenan Caswell who received multiple kudos from the NICU team for his successful lumbar puncture, intubation, and overall cal

Play of the Week: Play of the Week this week goes to Kaitlyn Yeh for getting a champagne tap lumbar puncture on a patient at INOVA PICU! Big thanks and shout out to the ward team who cleaned out all the cabinets, tossed old supplies and protocols, and gave the resident work room a much-needed "summer" cleaning! Special shoutout to Dr. Foxx who returned this week to receive her retirement award and to RN Nikki who will be leaving us after a wonderful 8 years to start a new job

Play of the Week: Play of the Week this week goes to our new interns who worked their first shifts as pediatricians this week! Also to Keenan Caswell who successfully placed a UVC at 2:30 in the morning! Paola Robles Vera also got her first intubation!! Play of the MONTH goes to Dr. Nicole Martin and Dr. Hirata for holding the nursery together in Greenwald’s absence! We missed them at morning report because they had to stay in the nursery! Schedule: Event Time and Location Au

Play of the Week: Play of the Week this week goes to Keenan Caswell for intubating a critically ill neonate in the NICU on a cross-cover shift. Also, to Dr. Carlin who held down the fort on both the NICU and the MICC this week as attending for both services which included a few higher acuity babies. She did this all without a fellow and covered so that our residents could attend the Intern Welcome BBQ. Thank you, Dr. Carlin! Additionally, thank you to Dr. Zanetti, Ms. Edwards

Play of the Week: Play of the Week this week goes to all of our wonderful PGY3s on their graduation- we will miss them so much! Also, I have some awesome plays of the week this week: Dr. Katy Crandall for a perfect champagne tap on a febrile infant overnight, coached by her stellar senior resident, Dr. Leanne Perez Dr. Nicole Saporito for seamlessly intubating a critically ill neonate in the delivery room Dr. Kaitlyn Yeh & Dr. Ellie Dullea for successfully counseling a hesita

Play of the Week: Play of the Week this week goes to Dr. Mckenzie Bowling, Dr. Madison, and Ms Katie Flickinger for leading a nutrition panel for the Pediatric interest group at USU! Mckenzie even made muffins! Also to Dr. Nicole Saporito for a UVC and intubation in the NICU. Way to go! Schedule: Event Time and Location Audience/Notes Monday, 6/15 Education/ Reverse Education 0745-0845 Residents: America 2525 --- Faculty: Canyon Conference Room Pediatric Residents only ---

Play of the Week: Play of the Week this week goes to Dr. Nicole Saporito for putting together a hilarious and heartwarming end of year video for the party last week! Also to Dr. Katy Crandall, Dr. Keenan Caswell, and Dr. Kayla Dahlquist for winning PGY 1, 2, and 3 resident of the year, respectively. You guys should be so proud of yourselves! Stay tuned to find out who won faculty, fellow, and screener of the year, which will be announced at the intern welcome picnic!! Also t

Play of the Week: Play of the Week this week goes to Dr. Paul McQuillen for obtaining intraosseous access on a critically ill patient at CNMC ED. Also to Dr. Marian-Joy Spirnak and her husband John on the birth of their son over the weekend, Augustine Baluyot Spirnak. He is beautiful! Also to Dr. Nicole Saporito for all of her hard work planning tonight's End of Year party- she has put in so much time into planning this for all of us and we are so thankful!! Also to our fo