Research Highlights
General and Community Pediatrics Research Newsletter, August 2007 (.pdf)
- Total FY '07 section publications: 22 (33 division wide)
- All junior faculty now have at least one NIH grant
- Pediatric Academic Society Meeting 2007: 2 Presidential Plenary Presentations
- Developing strong interdisciplinary ADHD and asthma projects (gene-environment, pharmacogenetics, tailored decision-making, biomarker feedback , disease biomarkers)
- Growing cluster of nutrition, physical activity, obesity and bone-related projects
- Emerging tobacco related research cluster (R01, R21, 4 foundation awards)
- Lead role in setting new national standard for bone density testing and growth norms
- Committee member for US EPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Lead Standards
In the News in FY '07:
Press: Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times, LA Times, Cincinnati Enquirer, San Francisco Chronicles, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Tampa Tribune, Toronto Star, Reuters Healthwire, Salon, American Baby
Television: ABC News, Black Entertainment Television, Fox National News, WCPO
Research Section Faculty and Fellows
Christopher Bolling, MD, Associate Professor: Behavioral interventions for obesity prevention and treatment, community based research, advocacy
William Brinkman, MD, MEd, Assistant Professor: Shared decision making and decision aids to promote family/self management of common childhood conditions, educational interventions
Jonathan Castillo, MD, NRSA Fellow: Resident education and exchange at international sites, care of Limited English Proficiency families, minority health
Kristen Copeland, MD, Assistant Professor, NRSA fellow: Obesity prevention, physical activity promotion in child care settings
Tanya Froehlich, MD, Instructor, NRSA fellow (DDBP): ADHD etiology, epidemiology, and pharmacogenetics
Sheela Rath Geraghty, MD, MS, IBCLC, FAAP, Assistant Professor; Medical Director, Center for Breastfeeding Medicine: Determinants of breastfeeding, clinical breastfeeding management
Richard Hornung, DrPH, Professor of Pediatrics: environmental exposures assessment, longitudinal data analysis, epidemiologic methods
Robert Kahn, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Research Section Director: Gene-environment interaction in childhood conditions, maternal health influences, health disparities
Heidi Kalkwarf, PhD, Associate Professor: Bone health, dietary guidelines
Bruce Lanphear, MD, MPH, Professor of Pediatrics and Environmental Health: Children's environmental health, health effects of environmental toxicants, prevention of lead poisoning and of asthma
Robert Rinsky, PhD, Adjunct Professor: Editor, Public Health Reports, epidemiology of occupational exposures
Robert Siegel, MD, Adjunct Associate Professor: Community based research, obesity prevention and treatment.
Jeffrey Simmons, MD, Instructor, NRSA Fellow: health services and quality improvement research; tailoring the system of inpatient asthma care to address patient level variability
Adam Spanier, MD, MPH, Instructor: Pediatric environmental health, environmental and genetic risk factors in asthma
Stephen Wilson, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine-Pediatrics: Racial differences in tobacco-associated biomarkers and the impact of biomarker feedback on smoking cessation
Karen S. Wosje, PhD, Assistant Professor: Modifiable determinants of bone health and body composition, dietary patterns of children
Kimberly Yolton, PhD, Assistant Professor: Effects of environmental toxins on infant and child neurobehavior; neurobehavioral outcomes among low birth weight and high risk infants
