Region 6

Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Manitoba, Saskatchewan

We will have our annual fall meeting which will be hosted by the Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO. The specific information about this meeting can be obtained from Lorraine Brewer (labrewer@cmh.edu)

As Beth Simpson completed her term as the regional chair for region 6, Lorraine Brewer has been elected as a third regional chair after Young J. Juhn, at Mayo Clinic as a second chair and Heidi Sallee as the first chair at St. Louis University. We thank Beth Simpson for her excellent leadership during her tenure. Also, please join us to congratulate on Lorraine’s new role as the regional chair.

At our regional level, we are trying to develop serve list for interest groups. Young J. Juhn at Mayo Clinic proposed an idea developing serve lists for individual interest group. Many members of our region expressed their support for the idea and indicated their interests on sharing information among faculty who belongs to an interest group. Interest groups considered include General Pediatrics, Hospitalist, Behavioral/Development, Emergency Medicine, and Child Abuse. Once the serve list for each group is developed, members in an interest group can post questions and share relevant information. The serve list for an individual interest group should work better than a serve list that includes every member.

Region VI Chair:
Young J. Juhn (juhn.young@mayo.edu)
Heidi Sallee (salleehm@slu.edu)
Lorraine Brewer (labrewer@cmh.edu)

Young J. Yung, MD
Mayo Clinic
200 1st Street SW
Rochester, MN 55905
Phone: 507-284/9528
Fax: 507-284/9744
Email: juhn.young@mayo.edu