Grants Announced at KiDS Awards Dinner

February 20, 2009

Grants funded by KiDS in 2009:

Child Life and Family Services:

$7.500 Dr. Karen Hendricks-Munoz

To support for the annual “Celebration of Life” Family Reunion for NICU graduates from Tisch and Bellevue, and their families.

$5,327 Jose Acevedo

To implement a fitness program for teenage and young-adult cancer survivors, to learn safe & effective fitness routines.

$15,000 Linda van Schaick

To continue providing age-, development- and language-appropriate books for the youngest and neediest pediatric patients at Bellevue Hospital.

$10,000 Steven Schutzer

To provide language-specific DVD’s and books to educate pediatric patients and families undergoing testing at the Cochlear Implant Center. And to fund three additional loaner hearing aids for children.

$10,000 Erica Martin

To continue providing Thera-Togs, custom-fit undergarments that help improve posture and balancing in children with musculoskeletal and neurological conditions.

$10,000 Jean Simon

To provide continued funding for adapted recreation programs, including horseback riding, yoga, swimming and dance, for children with disabilities at the Rusk Institute.

$5,000 Dr. Jennifer Havens

To purchase new computers for the computer lab in the child psychiatry inpatient unit at Bellevue.

$25,000 Dr. Achi Ludomirsky

To provide seed funding for the creation of a summer camp for children with congenital heart disease in the New York Metro area.

$8,000 Marianne Hardart

To provide ongoing support of the Horticultural Therapy Program at Tisch Hospital.

$15,000 Dr. Harold Koplewicz

To provide free and reduced-fee clinical care to children and adolescents at the NYU Child Study Center.

Research, Training and Outreach:

$20,425 Dr. Colin Phoon and Dr. William Coetzee

To purchase a special camera to enhance their research into visualizing the cellular distribution of proteins in the developing heart, with the goal of understanding the physiology of the developing heart.

$6,000 Dr. Colin Phoon

To enable NYU Langone Medical Center to host the first pediatric echocardiography conference in the greater New York Metro region.

$2,500 Dr. Shonna Yin and Dr. Arthur Fierman

To continue funding research into the prevention of medication errors by parents and caregivers.

$25,000 Dr. Francine Blei

To help support a one-year fellowship in the Vascular Anomalies Training program and to assist with the student education fund. And to complete the creation of two age-appropriate children’s books addressing vascular anomaly birthmarks.

$26,000 Linda Leva

To create a strength and conditioning program at HJD to assist children with mild to severe orthopedic and neurological conditions.

$36,000 Dr. Philip Kahn

To help establish a laboratory for translational research into the onset of Lupus in children.

Facilities, Technology and Equipment:

$38,000 Dr. Karen Hendricks-Munoz and Dr. Elena Wachtel

To purchase a second Olympic Cool Cap system which provides selective brain cooling for full-term infants, to prevent death or neurologic injury. The Hospital will match these funds to complete the total purchase price.

$40,000 Dr. Court Cutting and Dr. Barry Grayson

To help fund medical services and devices, such as hearing tests, dentures, implants, and arm immobilizers, for children-in-need undergoing treatment at the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery.

$18,500 Jean Simon and Robert Cafaro

To purchase light-weight wheelchairs and prone standers , as well as support family education workshops for children with traumatic brain injury, to facilitate a smoother transition to home, school and the community.

$15,000 Carie Sumida

To purchase additional adaptive bicycles for children with physical disabilities, enhancing their mobility and socialization.

$3,600 Laura Brooks

To purchase additional assistive communication devices for children who have lost their ability to speak.

$20,000 Dr. David Salsberg and Jean Simon

To purchase multi-sensory equipment that addresses sensory,communication, cognitive, and mobility limitations in children with traumatic brain injury.

$10,000 Dr. Yang Kim

To help fund technology to continuously monitor an infant’s vital signs during transport.

$25,000 Dr. Stephen Warren

To purchase cutting-edge equipment to treat children with a variety of complex airway issues at the Institute for Reconstructive Plastic Surgery.

The following items will be funded by the Hospital:

$15,000 Dr. Sean Bailey

To continue funding research that monitors tissue-oxygen levels in vital organ systems during NICU procedures. These will be used for premature neonates in the NICU.

$7,027 Dr. Jessica Foltin

To provide resuscitative aids to pediatric emergency medicine residents, fellows and attendings.

$80,000 Joan Cutrone

To purchase two additional Giraffe Omnibeds, combination radiant warmer isolettes, which provide the optimal environment for premature babies.

$16,500 Steven Schutzer

To purchase new equipment to improve audiologic evaluations in children at Tisch Hospital.

$18,200 Miriam Sabbagh

To purchase additional Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES) units to improve strength, tone and mobility in children with special needs.

$3,000 Rita Krever

For staff to attend an educational program in complementary and alternative medicine for children with cancer at MD Anderson Cancer Center.