Dr. Kitty's Legacy Lead-Safe for Kids Sake
Recognition
| Dr. Catherine Slota-Varma, a pediatrician from
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as co-chair of the Wisconsin Childhood
Lead Poisoning Elimination Plan Implementation and Oversight Committee (IOC) from
its development in 2004 until her untimely death in 2007. Dr.
Slota-Varma was an amazing advocate for children at risk of lead
poisoning. Her patients knew her as
Dr. Kitty.
A recognition in her honor was
developed by the IOC in 2010. See below for the first recipient of
this recognition, the Dr. Kitty's Legacy Lead-Safe for Kids
Sake Recognition.
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Dr. Kitty finds a Lead-Based
Paint sign on her travels
in South America.
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Dr. Kitty's Legacy Lead-Safe
for Kids Sake Recognition" given to Tom Sieger, May 2011
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Tom Sieger, former
co-chair of the Wisconsin Childhood Lead Poisoning Elimination Plan Implementation and Oversight
Committee (IOC), receives "Lead-Safe for Kids Sake
Recognition from IOC co-chair Karen Ordinans, Executive
Director of Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin. Sieger co-chaired
the IOC with Dr. Kitty
for 3 years before her death in 2007, and then co-chaired with Karen Ordinans from
2007-2010. |
More about Dr. Slota-Varma (Dr. Kitty)...
Dr. Slota-Varma was active in childhood lead
poisoning prevention on many levels:
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Local Level: As a pediatrician practicing
for over 25 years, Dr. Slota-Varma treated many children with elevated
blood lead levels and played an active role in
curbing elevated lead poisoning rates among children in the Milwaukee
Area. She assisted the City of
Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Health Department in developing a local plan to
eliminate childhood lead poisoning.
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State Level:
Dr. Slota-Varma was instrumental in the
development of the plan to eliminate childhood lead poisoning in Wisconsin
in 2004 and in its implementation and oversight.
She chaired the statewide committee for more than 3 years. She was formerly
president of the Milwaukee Pediatric Society and was active in the Milwaukee Academy of Medicine,
the Medical Society of Milwaukee County and the Wisconsin Medical
Society.
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National Level: In September 2003, Tommy Thompson,
as Secretary of Health and Human Services, and former governor of
Wisconsin,
appointed Dr. Slota-Varma to serve a three
year term on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention.
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In 2006, Dr. Slota-Varma was awarded the
Wisconsin Department of Health Services Secretary's Partnership
for Public Health Award.
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In December 2005, Dr. Slota-Varma
provided the keynote presentation at
the 10th annual Look Out for Lead conference in Madison,
Wisconsin. |
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