Dr. Krous is the Director of Pathology at the Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, Professor of Pathology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and Director of the San Diego SIDS/SUDC Research Project. He has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the SIDS Global Strategy Task Force and Vice Chair of the SIDS Advisory Council to the California Department of Health Services. Dr. Krous is a member of the Editorial Boards of Pediatric and Developmental Pathology, Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology and Illinois Child Welfare and has reviewed manuscripts for numerous other journals. Dr. Krous has authored greater than 300 research publications, abstracts, and chapters, and has edited three books, including Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Problems, Progress & Possibilities. He has been invited to give numerous national and international lectures about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and other topics in forensic pediatric pathology. Dr. Krous is a recipient of the Senator Daniel E. Boatwright Award for “extraordinary public service on behalf of Californians touched by SIDS.”
CFSID is very proud to be one of the first countries to partner with the SUDC Program in New Jersey and to refer our Canadian Families to Dr. Krous’ San Diego SUDC Research Project. SUDC is defined as “the sudden death of a child older than one year of age which remains unexplained after a thorough case investigation, including review of the clinical history and circumstances of death, and performance of a complete autopsy with appropriate ancillary testing.” (Krous HF et al, Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2005;8(3):307-19)
SUDC is a diagnosis of exclusion and is made when all known and possible causes of death have been ruled out.
SUDC is very rare and very little research is being conducted worldwide. Last year, CFSID worked with 11 families who experienced the death of their child over the age of one year. Dr. Krous explained that cases have been accessioned into the SUDC Research Project internationally. Cordele and Mike Hudson, a Canadian family whose son, James die at age 17 months, have enrolled in this project and through their fundraising efforts, CFSID was able to bring Dr. Krous to Canada and begin the educational component of our Blowing Kisses SUDC Program.
Dr. Krous provided a presentation on the latest findings in research of SUDC which were very promising and exciting. In 2005, the SUDC Research Project published its first article summarizing the findings of the first 50 cases. Subsequent publications have detailed research findings useful for differential diagnosis. The Project has an article currently in press which report a small number of SUDC cases in which anomalies in the hippocampus (a deep brain structure responsible for many complex activities including memory, emotions and navigation among other things) have been identified, providing preliminary evidence that this neuropathology may play a role in the causation of a subset of SUDC cases.
For more information on the SUDC Research Project, please visit http://sudc.org/page.asp?id=11.
Principal Investigator Dr. Henry Krous (hkrous@rchsd.org) and Project Manager Amy Chadwick (achadwick@rchsd.org) can be reached via email or by phone at 858/966-5944
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Cabot Trail Relay Race
Once again Blowing Kisses participated in the Cabot Trail Relay, however did not use the event this year as a fundraiser. Still the team was honoured to run in memory of James and all of our athletes performed amazing, placing an overall 36th! Well Done!
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3rd Annual Golf Tournament
The 3rd Annual James Hudson Memorial Golf Tournament was held August 3, 2007 at Montague Links in Dartmouth Nova Scotia. The event was a success raising nearly $10,000. Proceeds will be shared evenly between the James Hudson Scholarship Fund, and the Canadian Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths SUDC Fund. This event could not be possible if it was not for Trevor and Kelly Chisholm as well as the following: ACL Construction, Atlantic Cat, Halifax Chrysler/Dodge, Back Office Admin Support, MacPhee Pontiac, Scotia Bank, Armco Capital, Ocean Contracting, Royal Pipe, Hertz Equipment, Miller Tire, The Shaw Group, M and M Meats – Farnham Gate/Young Street, Red Bull.
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SUDC Research
http://www.sidscenter.org/UnexplainedDeath.pdf
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