CU Anschutz In The News

Longmont’s Robauto is working with a Denver software startup to bring artificial intelligence-powered therapy to kids dealing with behavioral issues. The app, which was designed in collaboration with Children’s Hospital of Colorado and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, is being tweaked, said Manatee CEO and co-founder Dama Dipayana. The app is part of an effort to make mental health care accessible for kids, she said.

“We don’t want any kid, certainly some of the younger kids, thinking this is what they have to do,” said Dr. Steven Berkowitz, a visiting professor in psychiatry at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus. Berkowitz said stories of heroism can put additional pressure on children and teenagers in what is already a stressful situation, including making youths feel like they are responsible and need to act “heroically” — and making students who didn’t fight back feel guilty.

Researchers led by Dr. Thomas Inge at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus wanted to know whether it’s better or safer to have it in mid-life, the most common time now, or sooner before many of those other health problems appear or do much harm.

The Denver Post’s Jessica Seaman moderated a panel with some of Colorado’s leading experts on Alzheimer’s disease on Thursday night at The Denver Post building in downtown Denver. The discussion touched on what families can do after getting a diagnosis, the potential genetic risk and the toll it takes on loved ones. The panelists include Amelia Schafer, Dr. Jonathan Woodcock and Dr. Hillary Lum, both of the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Doctors often don’t perform genetic tests for Alzheimer’s because “we just don’t find that it’s very predictive,” says Dr. Jonathan Woodcock, clinical director of the Rocky Mountain Alzheimer’s Disease Center at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus.

Whether a couple get the disease at the same time or one after another is “the luck of the draw,” says Dr. Jonathan Woodcock, clinical director of the Rocky Mountain Alzheimer’s Disease Center at CU Anschutz. In the summer of 2016, a year after Tony, a doctor diagnosed Josie with Alzheimer’s disease. By then, Josie’s physical ailments already had landed her in a nursing home.

That is the guiding force behind a massive undertaking from a Colorado pair united by fate: Dr. Richard Krugman and Lori Poland, founders of The National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect (EndCAN). The two believe that the child abuse epidemic is an “under-addressed public health crisis” that can be treated. Krugman served as dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine for 25 years, headed the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect and, perhaps most noteworthy, was Lori

As an emergency physician and a trauma surgeon, we are honored to work with our multi-disciplinary teams 24/7 to save limbs and lives after devastating injuries — including those from firearms. As public health trained researchers, we also strive to prevent those injuries because it is an unbearable part of our job to tell a mother or a father that we couldn’t save their child, or to tell a child that we couldn’t save their sibling. Sometimes we are lucky and we get to tell someone they will survive, but we had to amputate a limb or despite our efforts they will never walk again. By Emmy Betz, MD, MPH and Catherine Velopulos, MD, MHS, both of the University of Colorado School of Medicine at CU Anschutz.