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Going to Start Updating the Site Again
Posted by Paul Macklin
Friday, January 9, 2009 at 11:43 am CST
Hi, everyone, and happy new year!
I see that it's been quite some time since we've updated the site. (On a related note, we're way behind in mailing out our Christmas/holiday/new year's cards, but we'll get there soon!) We're starting to catch up on life, and we hope to start updating the website with Dakota pictures in the near future.
In the meantime, here's a quick update of life 'round here. Angie's work continues to go well. She just have a performance evaluation that went well, and there are plans at Stanford to give her more litigation work, which is fantastic.
Dakota is doing quite well. We had about a month where her acid reflux increased, making eating much less comfortable for her. She went from eating more than 30 ounces a day in nice, big 6 oz bottles to barely 20-24 ounces a day, and her weight plateaued at around 17 pounds. We worked with her pediatrician and finally determined that she needed an increase in her reflux medication dose. Since then, she's doing much better, and she's nearly up to 18 pounds! On a related note, she's showing more teething symptoms, so we may well see a first tooth in the next few weeks! She's getting very strong (especially after getting a nice jumper from Santa), and she's started to pull herself up from sitting to standing with our help.
I'm doing okay. We're just about ready to submit a bit NIH R01 grant proposal on patient-specific, multiscale breast cancer modeling, and I feel very good about it. I've learned a lot about navigating multi-institutional bureaucracy, which is actually good for me as a developing member. I'm writing a couple of book chapters now, too: one is a chapter I was invited to contribute to a Springer book, and the other is for a book we're publishing with Cambridge University Press. I hope to whip out a few publications in the coming months as well, so scientifically, all is good.
Well, that's us in a nutshell. More to come soon, I hope. -- Paul
