THE AUA TIMES AUA Clinical Chair of Pediatrics Publishes New Book Dr. Alvin Eden, AUA Clinical Chair of Pediatrics, recently published a book, Fit from the Start: How to Prevent Childhood Obesity in Infancy, a comprehensive, practical guide for parents who want to raise their infants (age 0–12 months) with lifelong healthy eating, sleeping, and exercise habits. The book was published by Shape Up America!, an organization dedicated to educating the public on healthy life choices. Dr. Eden has been a practicing pediatrician for more than 40 years and published his first book in 1975: Growing Up Thin. He has shared his medical expertise on national TV shows and was a clinical professor of pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, N.Y. He wrote the book with Dr. Barbara J. Moore, PhD and Adrienne Forman, MS, RDN, in response to the childhood obesity epidemic sweeping the U.S. Fit from the Start has received rave reviews from the U.S. medical community. Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders, the 15th U.S. Surgeon General, praised the book for its excellent
advice and its “easy-to-read, matter-of-fact” style. Director of the Yale Prevention Research Center Dr. David L. Katz was enamored by the book’s “engagingly detailed” information about building “an early, solid foundation of life long good health.” Dr. Eden hopes the book will be a resource for parents who supplement infant care with regular checkups. If you would like to purchase a copy, it is available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and other major booksellers.
Alumni Earn Prestigious Fellowships After completing a residency, medical school graduates apply to fellowships as the last part of their medical training. When graduates complete their fellowships, they are permitted to practice, pending licensure. Here are just a few AUA graduates who have recently secured prestigious fellowships throughout the United States. Dr. Regina Krel, Class of 2011 Headache Medicine Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Headache Medicine at John R. Graham Headache Center in Boston, M.A. Although she was a neurology resident at Stony Brook University Hospital Center and an internal medicine resident at NYMC/Richmond University Medical Center, Dr. Krel’s research has gone above and beyond that of many of her peers. She has researched the use of incobotulinum in refractory trigeminal neuralgia and age-related risk of depression and suicide in patients with high-dose steroid use, and she was second author on an abstract about tumefactive MS in the elderly. Her work on basilar and hemiplegic migraines was published in the acclaimed peer-reviewed journal Neurology. Dr. Talha Memon, Class of 2012 Sleep Medicine Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Dr. Memon is pioneer among his peers. Before securing this fellowship, he was the first AUA graduate to earn a residency in California after AUA was recognized by the Medical Board of California. He matched as a Family Medicine resident at the University of California, Riverside. Last year, he obtained another first: the only Caribbean medical graduate to earn a prestigious sleep medicine fellowship at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. This is one of the world’s top-rated sleep medicine fellowships and the second- largest sleep medicine program in the country.