Food Allergy Webinar
As the new school year approaches, many of your patients and their families may have questions about food allergies.
Kara Coffey, MD, a pediatric allergist at UVA Health Children's will share information and answer questions about allergies.
Where? Via Zoom: Register here.
When? Wednesday, July 17, 12:15-1 p.m.
Severe Asthma Clinic Opening
Asthma is one of the most common long-term health conditions. While most children's asthma can be controlled with standard treatments, many children live with severe asthma. This type of asthma can be incredibly limiting and even fatal. Brittany Wall, MD, and Samantha Minnicozzi, MD, are launching a Severe Asthma clinic in January 2026 to better meet the needs of this patient population.
Expanded Area of Service for Allergies, Asthma, & Respiratory Concerns
Minnicozzi is also helping pediatric patients in a greater area of service. Twice a month, at Virginia Baptist Hospital in Lynchburg, she sees patients with:
- Food allergies
- Eczema
- Environmental allergies
- Asthma
Saving Lives Through Research
Fern Hauck, MD, has focused much on understanding what causes SIDS in the hope it can be prevented. In this Research in Motion video, Hauck shares what she's currently working on and why it matters.
Fern Hauck: I love that my research involves saving the lives of countless infants from sudden infant death syndrome, also known as SIDS, and other infant deaths that may occur suddenly and unexpectedly during sleep. This is the total motivation for my work in saving these lives. I also love that I get to work with countless other people, also focused on this one objective.
Well, my name is Fern Hauck, and I'm a professor of family medicine and of public health sciences. My research for many years has focused on SIDS. It first started out looking at the risk factors for SIDS through a large case control study. It has then evolved into my current research, which involves a large group of researchers around the country, where we're developing innovative educational ways that we can have parents learn about the guidelines for safe sleep and other behaviors to help prevent these deaths.
Finally, Iâm working on the genetic and metabolic factors that may be contributing to these SIDS deaths, again with a great group of researchers. These deaths occur unexpectedly without warning, so therefore all parents or caregivers of newborns need to follow the recommendations, and this is across the country and across all populations. We know that this can help save lives because it's been done in other countries. This is my ultimate goal and the goal of all the people Iâm working with, and this is what keeps me motivated to continue this important research.