171 Ashley Ave.
Charleston, SC 29425
843-792-1414
800-424-MUSC
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July 2008
Dear faculty, Children's Hospital staff and other friends,
This year has generated some tremendous success in education, research, and new clinical stars. We have worked hard to provide training that will ensure that South Carolina will have a new generation of pediatricians to take care of our children. The Children's Hospital Fund (CHF) has helped us to create our second endowed chair. The CHF has also had gifts and pledges of $3.5 million that we will receive in the coming years to create chairs for research and teaching. We have been able to work with the state to continue funding for the projects that will provide care for children and grants to explore how to better prevent and treat the children and adults in the state. Dr. Singh and Dr. Maria have catalogued the work that is being done within the Darby Children's Research Institute (DCRI). The total funding supported by the DCRI is nearly $29 million. We have started an in-house K12 grant ($200,000 per year from the department to support research training) that will allow us to build training programs to develop future researchers from stars. We have continued to have a very strong General Academic Fellowship Program that has been funded through departmental dollars from medicine and pediatrics, and grants that Paul Darden has been awarded.
Bill Basco, MD, is taking the reins of the Division of General Pediatrics that has been led ably by Routt Reigart, MD, over the past several decades. Dr. Reigart is renowned for his work in environmental toxins, especially lead poisoning. His legacy, however, is measured more in the present and the future, than his own research and clinical success. He has been a tireless educator and a catalyst for academic progress. As Dr. Basco assumes the helm of the Division of General Academic Pediatrics, Dr. Routt will be the senior statesman continuing to teach, study the environment and encouraging those in his division to keep moving forward in all of facets of academic medicine. We welcome Dr. Basco, and we congratulate Dr. Routt for catalyzing academic change in the department.
We look at our current productivity and see opportunities to improve in many ways. A number of the leaders will carry on in the tradition that Dr. Reigart has molded.
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Sincerely,
L. Lyndon Key, MD
Chair, Department of Pediatrics |
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