Co-Editor, COMSEP Journal Club

PI: Randy Rockney, Professor of Pediatrics, Family Medicine, and Medical Science

Dr. Rockney is one of three co-editors of the COMSEP (Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics) Journal Club. Every month Dr. Rockney and his co-editors publish and distribute four reviews of recently published journal articles related to medical education. As editors they solicit reviews; provide guidance re: completion of those reviews; edit the reviews; and publish them for the COMSEP membership.

Pediatric Emergency Care Coordination in EMS Agencies: Measuring the Influence, Magnifying the Improvement 

PI:  Linda L. Brown, MD MSCE

Designating Pediatric Emergency Care Coordinators (PECCs) for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agencies is hypothesized to improve the quality of pediatric prehospital care, and ultimately lead to better outcomes for acutely ill and injured children. Proposed responsibilities for PECCs include developing and revising EMS protocols, participating in quality improvement, and promoting pediatric continuing education opportunities. The connections between PECCs and improvements in quality of clinical care and patient outcomes need further evaluation.

Little is known about the best means to recruit, deploy, retain and evaluate PECCs, and even less has been done to measure the effect of PECCs on EMS agencies and the children who require their care. The goal of this project is to assess the impact PECC designation has on clinical care and patient and family-centered outcomes, and to determine the best methods for implementing PECCs in an EMS agency. This 4 year multi-center study is funded through the Targeted Issues Grant of the EMS for Children Program and will recruit participants in Rhode Island Connecticut and Colorado.

Mechanisms mediating adverse outcomes due to parasitic diseases among pregnant women and children and interventions to mitigate     

PI: Jennifer Friedman, MD, PhD

Dr. Friedman's work quantifies key morbidities due to schistosomiasis and other helminth infections including anemia, undernutrition, and neurocognitive delays. Her work has also addressed how schistosomiasis causes morbidity and optimal interventions to decrease morbidity. This has included two randomized controlled trials to establish dosing and frequency of dosing or Praziquantel for pregnant women and children under four.

Urinary biomarkers to improve detection of early renal disease in patients with diabetes and obesity

PI: Robin Kremsdorf, MD, Assistant Professor

Dr. Kremsdorf's study describes the baseline associations of acute kidney injury biomarkers in children and adolescents with diabetes.

2020 Excellence in Teaching Award Winners

Shuba Kamath, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator

Albert Ross, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Wen-I (Wendy) Chang, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator

Phillip Gruppuso, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Medical Science, Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry (Research)

Elizabeth Anne Lowenhaupt, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Clinician Educator, Associate Professor of Medical Science, Clinician Educator, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator

Ian Michelow, MD, M-Med
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Alison Riese, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Assistant Professor of Medical Science

Erica Chung, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator

Alison Heinly, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator

Elizabeth Lange, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Doctoring Year 1

Wen-I (Wendy) Chang, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator

Elizabeth (Betsy) Toll, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator, Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator

Post-Clerkship Curriculum

Emily Allen, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator

Anthony Caldamone, MD
Promotions Committee Chair, Professor of Surgery, Professor of Pediatrics

Bradley Denardo, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Diane Dermarderosian, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator

Michael Koster, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator

Greg Lockhart, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Clinician Educator, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator

Elizabeth Anne Lowenhaupt, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Clinician Educator, Associate Professor of Medical Science, Clinician Educator,Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Clinician Educator

Lisa Swartz Topor, MD, MMSc
Associate Professor of Pediatrics 

Adams, A. V., Mooneyham, G. C., Van Mater, H., & Gallentine, W. (2020). Evaluation of diagnostic criteria for hashimoto encephalopathy among children and adolescents. Pediatric Neurology, 107, 41-47. doi:10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2019.12.011  

Alverson, B., & Biondi, E. (2020). It is time for a gastroenteritis guideline. Hosp Pediatr, 10(7), 625-627. doi:10.1542/hpeds.2020-0117

Ayyala, R. S., Taylor, G. A., & Callahan, M. J. (2020). Stresses and anxieties in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic - what we can learn. Pediatr Radiol, 50(8), 1052-1054. doi:10.1007/s00247-020-04727-9

Bangalore Krishna, K., Kogan, B. A., Ernst, M. M., Romao, R. L., Mohsin, F., Serrano-Gonzalez, M., Quintos, J. B., Phornphutkul, C., Aguiar, L., & Lee, P. A. (2020). Individualized care for patients with intersex (disorders/differences of sex development): Part 3. J Pediatr Urol. doi:10.1016/j.jpurol.2020.06.004

Barker, D. H., Shapiro, J. M., Lobato, D., McQuaid, E. L., & Leleiko, N. S. (2020). Challenges and approaches to assessing medication adherence in pediatric inflammatory bowel diseases. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr, 70(6), 759-761. doi:10.1097/mpg.0000000000002727

Beck, J. J., VandenBerg, C., Cruz, A. I., & Ellis, H. B., Jr. (2020). Low energy, lateral ankle injuries in pediatric and adolescent patients: A systematic review of ankle sprains and nondisplaced distal fibula fractures. J Pediatr Orthop, 40(6), 283-287. doi:10.1097/bpo.0000000000001438

Deshommes, T., Nagel, C., Tucker, R., Dorcélus, L., Gautier, J., Koster, M. P., & Lechner, B. E. (2020). A quality improvement initiative to increase hand hygiene awareness and compliance in a neonatal intensive care unit in haiti. J Trop Pediatr. doi:10.1093/tropej/fmaa029

Dreyer, B. P., Trent, M., Anderson, A. T., Askew, G. L., Boyd, R., Coker, T. R., Coyne-Beasley, T., Fuentes-Afflick, E., Johnson, T., Mendoza, F., Montoya-Williams, D., Oyeku, S. O., Poitevien, P., Spinks-Franklin, A. A. I., Thomas, O. W., Walker-Harding, L., Willis, E., Wright, J. L., Berman, S., Berkelhamer, J., Jenkins, R. R., Kraft, C., Palfrey, J., Perrin, J. M., & Stein, F. (2020). The death of george floyd: Bending the arc of history towards justice for generations of children. Pediatrics. doi:10.1542/peds.2020-009639

Ehrlich, B. S., Movsisyan, N., Batmunkh, T., Kumirova, E., Borisevich, M. V., Kirgizov, K., Graetz, D. E., McNeil, M. J., Yakimkova, T., Vinitsky, A., Ferrara, G., Li, C., Lu, Z., Kaye, E. C., Baker, J. N., & Agulnik, A. (2020). A multicountry assessment in Eurasia: Alignment of physician perspectives on palliative care integration in pediatric oncology with World Health Organization guidelines. Cancer. doi:10.1002/cncr.33001

Harney, S. M., Kahn, J. M., Jin, Z., Wong, P., McKetta, S., & Satwani, P. (2020). Race and socioeconomic status in pediatric allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for nonmalignant conditions. Pediatr Blood Cancer, e28367. doi:10.1002/pbc.28367

Hegyi, T., Kleinfeld, A., Huber, A., Weinberger, B., Memon, N., Carayannopoulos, M., & Oh, W. (2020). Unbound bilirubin levels in phototherapy-treated preterm infants receiving soy-based lipid emulsion. Pediatr Int. doi:10.1111/ped.14346

Lewis-de los Angeles, C. P., Williams, P. L., Jenkins, L. M., Huo, Y., Uban, K. A., Herting, M. M., Malee, K., Csernansky, J. G., Nichols, S., Van Dyke, R. B., Sowell, E.R ., & Wang, L. for the Pediatric Imaging Neurocognition and Genetics Study (PING) and the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS). (2020). Brain morphometric differences in youth with and without perinatally-acquired HIV: a cross-sectional study. Neuroimage: Clinical, 102246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102246

Li, J., Roosevelt, G., McCabe, K., Preotle, J., Pereira, F., Takayesu, J. K., Porter, J. J., Monuteaux, M., & Bachur, R. G. (2020). Critically ill pediatric case exposure during emergency medicine residency. J Emerg Med. doi:10.1016/j.jemermed.2020.04.047

MacDonell-Yilmaz, R. E. (2020). Searching the sea. Pediatr Blood Cancer, e28262. doi:10.1002/pbc.28262

Manickam, S., Vivier, P. M., Rogers, M. L., McGowan, E. C., Smego, R., Tucker, R., & Vohr, B. R. (2020). Neighborhood inequality and emergency department utilization in neonatal intensive care unit graduates. J Pediatr. doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2020.06.074

Mortensen, S. J., Orman, S., Testa, E. J., Mohamadi, A., Nazarian, A., & von Keudell, A. G. (2020). Risk factors for developing acute compartment syndrome in the pediatric population: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol, 30(5), 839-844. doi:10.1007/s00590-020-02643-0

Sauer, C. G., Robson, J., Turmelle, Y. P., Cerezo, C. S., Loomes, K. M., Huang, J. S., Quiros-Tejeira, R. E., Benkov, K. J., Narkewicz, M. R., Leichtner, A., & Weinstein, T. (2020). North american society for pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition position paper on entrustable professional activities: Development of pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition entrustable professional activities. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr, 71(1), 136-143. doi:10.1097/mpg.0000000000002684

Slingsby, B. A., Moore, J. L., Wing, R., & Brown, L. L. (2020). When parents hit: Providing education to physician trainees about corporal punishment through a pilot simulation and debriefing. Pediatr Emerg Care. doi:10.1097/pec.0000000000002131

Sobel, A. D., Ramirez, J. M., Walsh, D. F., Defroda, S. F., & Cruz, A. I., Jr. (2020). Evaluation of spanish language proficiency and resources available in academic pediatric orthopaedic centers. J Pediatr Orthop, 40(6), 310-313. doi:10.1097/bpo.0000000000001466

Suttle, M. L., Chase, M. A., Sasser, W. C., 3rd, Moore-Clingenpeel, M., Maa, T., Werner, J. A., Bone, M. F., Boyer, D. L., Marcdante, K. J., Mason, K. E., McCabe, M. E., Mink, R. B., Su, F., & Turner, D. A. (2020). Burnout in pediatric critical care medicine fellows. Crit Care Med, 48(6), 872-880. doi:10.1097/ccm.0000000000004290

Tackett, A. P., Farrow, M., Kopel, S. J., Coutinho, M. T., Koinis-Mitchell, D., & McQuaid, E. L. (2020). Racial/ethnic differences in pediatric asthma management: the importance of asthma knowledge, symptom assessment, and family-provider collaboration. J Asthma, 1-12. doi:10.1080/02770903.2020.1784191

Westley, L., Nokes, J., & Rozenfeld, R. A. (2020). Decreasing usage of lights and sirens in an urban environment: A quality improvement project. Pediatr Qual Saf, 5(2), e279. doi:10.1097/pq9.0000000000000279