Department of Pediatrics
Research Areas
Our department includes world-renowned experts in several fields of study and practice.
Research Areas
Our department includes world-renowned experts in several fields of study and practice.
- Regulation of liver development -- Phil Gruppuso, MD and Jennifer Sanders, PhD
- Causes of PPROM
- BPD pathogenesis -- Phyllis Dennery, MD
- Early Lung Development in Neonates -- Juan Sanchez Esteban, MD
- Neonatal fungal infections -- Joseph Bliss, MD
- Neonatal Encephalopathy -- Barbara Stonestreet, MD
- Biomarkers for Pre-Eclampsia -- Surendra Sharma, MD, PhD, Shibin Cheng, MD, PhD
- Malaria Vaccine Development -- Ian Michelow, MD
- Management of Bronchiolitis -- Brian Alverson, MD
- Ventilation of critically ill children
- Hyperoxia in patients hospitalized with bronchiolitis -- Brian Alverson, MD
- Poetry in the Hospitals: Exploring the Effects of a Poetry Intervention among Inpatient Pediatric Patients
- Disparities in management of the Hospitalized bronchiolitis patient -- Brian Alverson, MD
- Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome -- Adam Czynski, MD
- Barriers to care -- Delma Jean Watts, MD and Shuba Kamath, MD
- Association of race/ethnicity with resource utilization -- Delma-Jean Watts, MD
- Factors affecting resource utilization in infants with bronchiolitis
- Early Development of Infants -- Barry Lester, MD
- Referral processing efficiency (QI)
- Devices used to stabilize infants during spinal tap procedures -- Brian Alverson, MD
- Tuberculosis Domestic and international -- Silvia Chiang, MD
- Substance use -- Jack Rusley, MD
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Primary Care Setting -- Olutosin Ojugbele, MD
- Functional Abdominal Pain -- Irina Gorbounova, MD
- Irritable Bowel Disease -- Shova Subedi, MD, Jason Shapiro, MD
- Impact of medical student and evaluator gender on evaluations -- Alison Riese, MD, & Brian Alverson, MD
- Teaching residents about primary care of resettled refugees -- Carol Lewis, MD, and Delma-Jean Watts, MD
- Establishing Validity Evidence for Tool to Evaluate Resident Teaching in Large Group Setting
- Professional Identity Formation in UIM (underrepresented in medicine) Pediatric Residents
- Discovering ways to promote equity in the selection process for pediatric chief residents
- Association of OSCE, shelf and clinical grades in 5 medical schools
- The Utilization of Simulation for the Education of Allergic Diseases
- Viewpoint of Haitian Residents on Exchange rotations -- Michael Koster, MD
- Complicated Pediatric Osteomyelitis Viewpoint of Haitian Residents on Exchange rotations -- Michael Koster, MD
- Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
- Biomarkers for Pre-Eclampsia -- Shibin Cheng, MD & Surendra Sharma, MD
- Neonatal follow up/long term outcomes -- Betty Vohr, MD
- PPROM -- Beatrice Lechner, MD
- Prenatal Diagnostic Imaging -- Tomo Tarui, MD
- Tuberculosis Domestic and international -- Silvia Chiang, MD
- Helminthiasis – Jennifer Friedman, MD, and Emily McDonald, MD
- Malaria – Emily McDonald, MD & Ian Michelow, MD
- Maternal child global health – Silvia Chiang, MD, & Jennifer Friedman, MD
- Sickle Cell Disease -- Patrick McGann, MD
- Early Childhood literacy -- Pam High, MD, and Natalie Golova, MD
- ACES
- Autism
- ADHD
- Neuroimaging and development of young children with a focus on environmental influences
- Ethnic disparities in symptom recognition in Asthma -- Daphne Koinis Mitchell, MD
- Disparities in asthma and sleep -- Daphne Koinis Mitchell, MD
- BPD pathogenesis -- Phyllis Dennery, MD, and Daniella Teape, MD
- Ethnic/ Racial Disparities & Outcomes in Urban Pediatric Patients with Atopic Dermatitis -- Marcella Aquino, MD
- Ethnic disparities in symptom recognition in Asthma -- Daphne Koinis-Mitchell, MD, and Daniella Teape, MD
- Obesity and asthma disparities -- Daphne Koinis-Mitchell, PhD, and Monica Serrano Gonzalez, MD
- Adolescent Screening in inpatient settings -- Alison Riese, MD
- Cyberbullying -- Alison Riese, MD
- Substance use -- Jack Rusley, MD
- HIV Prevention -- Jack Rusley, MD
- Sexual Reproductive Health & Sickle Cell Disease -- Maayan Leroy-Melamed, MD
- Interventions to improve overweight related morbidity -- Celeste Corcoran, MD
- Co-morbid overweight/Diabetes/Renal disease -- Lisa Swartz Topor, MD
- Interventions to improve overweight related morbidity -- Celeste Corcoran, MD, and Elissa Jelalian, MD
- Mindful Eating -- Monica Serrano Gonzalez, MD