Research Opportunities
When you collaborate with our world-class faculty researchers, you’ll explore innovative ways to treat patients and advance health care.
During our dedicated research elective, you may work on an ongoing project with faculty or develop your own supervised project.
Areas of Faculty Research
Our faculty conduct research in a number of areas, including:
- Adherence to oral chemotherapy (Kara Kelly)
- Airway epithelial immunity (Geovanny Perez)
- allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant, bone marrow transplantation (Nataliya Buxbaum)
- Alternative airway during resuscitation - laryngeal mask airway (Munmun Rawat)
- Antibody and B cell responses during childhood, including Kawasaki disease (Mark Hicar)
- Apnea of prematurity (Munmun Rawat; Praveen Chandrasekharan)
- Applied research in behavioral medicine (Leonard Epstein)
- Basic research in behavioral medicine (Leonard Epstein)
- Birth asphyxia and neonatal resuscitation (Munmun Rawat)
- Bleeding disorders (Beverly Schaefer)
- Breast milk storage and processing (Deepali Handa)
- Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (Vasanth Kumar; Anne Marie Reynolds)
- Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (Vasanth Kumar; Anne Marie Reynolds)
- Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) (N Ja Hpa)
- Calcium signaling (Xiaoyan Wu)
- Cancer-related disparities in care (Kara Kelly)
- Celiac disease (Susan Baker)
- Chikungunya vaccine (Oscar Gómez)
- Childhood cancer survivorship (Denise Rokitka)
- Childhood diarrhea (Oscar Gómez)
- Clinical Genetics (Taosheng Huang)
- Clinical research in behavioral medicine (Leonard Epstein)
- clinical trials, design and conduct (Nataliya Buxbaum)
- Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (Lucy Mastrandrea)
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (Munmun Rawat)
- Congential diaphragmatic hernia (Praveen Chandrasekharan)
- COVID-19 community interventions (Oscar Gómez)
- COVID-19 related multisystem inflammatory syndrome of childhood (MIS-C) (Mark Hicar)
- Craniofacial Disorders (Laurie Sadler)
- Cystic fibrosis (Daniel Sheehan; Robert Baker; Susan Baker; Carla Frederick; Danielle Goetz)
- Development of HIV vaccine to novel conformational epitope. (Mark Hicar)
- Does Using Pre-Catheterization Ultrasound Bladder Volume Estimation Reduce the Proportion of Unsuccessful Bladder Catheterization Attempts in Children < 2 Years Old in the Pediatric Emergency Department? (Sarah DiPalma)
- Dysmorphology (Laurie Sadler)
- Early childhood obesity prevention (Stephanie Anzman-Frasca)
- Early Phase Clinical Trials in Children (Clare Twist)
- Electrolyte (Xiaoyan Wu)
- Enteric vaccines (Oscar Gómez)
- Eosinophilic esophagitis (Susan Baker)
- Epidemiology (John Sellick, Jr; Xiaozhong Wen)
- Epidemiology of Kawasaki disease (Mark Hicar)
- Epilepsy (Ping Li; Joy Parrish; Jonathan Lopez; Arie Weinstock; Osman Farooq; Sarah Finnegan; Robert Glover; Michelle Hartley-McAndrew; Modhi Alkhaldi)
- Feedback devices during resuscitation (Munmun Rawat; Praveen Chandrasekharan)
- Fluid management in pediatric critical care (Amanda Hassinger)
- Gas exchange and noninvasive method of assessing effective ventilation and chest compression (Munmun Rawat; Praveen Chandrasekharan)
- Gastroesophageal reflux (Robert Baker; Susan Baker)
- Gene profiles of patients with CAKUT (Xiaoyan Wu)
- Genetics of rheumatic disease (James Jarvis)
- Genomics (James Jarvis; Vijay Aswani)
- Gestational exposure to electronic cigarette aerosol (N Ja Hpa)
- Growth hormone deficiency (Indrajit Majumdar; Teresa Quattrin; Kathleen Bethin; Lucy Mastrandrea)
- Health disparities (Linda Kahn; Laurene Tumiel Berhalter; Oscar Gómez; Kim Strong Griswold)
- Hematological malignancies (Matthew Barth)
- Hepatitis (Robert Baker)
- Hepatitis C (Thomas Mahl; Oscar Gómez)
- HIV antibody responses (Mark Hicar)
- Hodgkin lymphoma (Kara Kelly; Paola Ghione)
- Human Genetics (Taosheng Huang)
- Hypertension (James Lohr; Xiaoyan Wu)
- Implementation of an Institutional Simulation Curriculum to Teach Team Leadership Skills, Management of Critically Ill Patients, and Emergent Procedures to Pediatric Residents (Sarah DiPalma)
- Improvement of Anticipatory Guidance in the Pediatric Emergency Department for Common Complaints: A Quality Improvement Project (Sarah DiPalma)
- Individual differences (Stephanie Anzman-Frasca)
- Inflammatory bowel disease (Robert Baker; Susan Baker)
- Inflammatory muscle disease (James Jarvis)
- Inhaled nitric oxide (Munmun Rawat; Praveen Chandrasekharan)
- Intersections across health outcomes (Stephanie Anzman-Frasca)
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (James Jarvis)
- Kangaroo care (Munmun Rawat)
- Liver disease (Thomas Mahl; Anthony Martinez; Andrew Talal; Robert Baker; Susan Baker)
- magnetic resonance imaging, technology development (Nataliya Buxbaum)
- Medication administration during resuscitation (Munmun Rawat; Praveen Chandrasekharan)
- Meningococcal vaccines (Oscar Gómez)
- Metabolism (Taosheng Huang; Margarita Dubocovich; Suzanne Laychock)
- Mitochondrial Medicine (Taosheng Huang)
- Natriuretic peptides in newborn lung (Bobby Mathew)
- Neonatal bioinformatics (Munmun Rawat; Praveen Chandrasekharan)
- Neonatal epidemiology (Munmun Rawat; Praveen Chandrasekharan)
- Neonatal hypoglycemia and dextrose gel (Munmun Rawat; Praveen Chandrasekharan)
- Neonatal Nutrition (Anne Marie Reynolds; Deepali Handa)
- Neonatal nutrition (Anne Marie Reynolds; Deepali Handa)
- Neonatal Nutrition, BPD, Neonatal resuscitation (Kavya Rao)
- Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (Anne Marie Reynolds)
- Neonatal resuscitation (Bobby Mathew; Munmun Rawat; Praveen Chandrasekharan)
- Neurobiology of autism (Michelle Hartley-McAndrew)
- Neuroblastoma (Clare Twist)
- Neuromuscular Disorders (Geovanny Perez; Gil Wolfe)
- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (Matthew Barth)
- Nutrition (Kara Kelly; Robert Baker; Susan Baker)
- Obesity (Xiaozhong Wen)
- Oxygen and resuscitation (Vasanth Kumar)
- Oxygen use in preterm/term infants (Munmun Rawat; Praveen Chandrasekharan)
- Pathogenic Mechanisms (Taosheng Huang)
- pediatric hematology-oncology (Nataliya Buxbaum)
- Pediatric lymphoma (Matthew Barth)
- Pediatric Pulmonology (Danielle Goetz)
- Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn (Bobby Mathew)
- Placental transfusion (delayed cord clamping and milking) (Munmun Rawat; Praveen Chandrasekharan)
- pre-clinical models of immunity (Nataliya Buxbaum)
- Primary culture endothelial cells from glomeruli in mice (Xiaoyan Wu)
- Pulmonary hypertension (Vasanth Kumar; Jayasree Nair; Munmun Rawat; Praveen Chandrasekharan; William Gibbons)
- Quality improvement projects in neonatal nutrition - exclusive human milk diet, neonatal hypothermia bundle, Neonatal POCUS (Kavya Rao)
- Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD) (Geovanny Perez)
- Symptom management (Kara Kelly)
- Systemic lupus (James Jarvis)
- Thermal care of preterm infants (Bobby Mathew)
- Thromboses (Beverly Schaefer)
- Tobacco and nicotine product use (Xiaozhong Wen)
- Translational Research (Taosheng Huang; Geovanny Perez)
- translational research, bench-to-bedside (Nataliya Buxbaum)
- transplant immunology (Nataliya Buxbaum)
- Type 1 diabetes (Indrajit Majumdar; Teresa Quattrin; Kathleen Bethin; Lucy Mastrandrea)
- Type 2 diabetes (Indrajit Majumdar; Teresa Quattrin; Kathleen Bethin; Lucy Mastrandrea)
- Vasopressor use for systemic hypotension (Munmun Rawat; Praveen Chandrasekharan)
- Weight management and obesity (Indrajit Majumdar; Teresa Quattrin; Kathleen Bethin; Lucy Mastrandrea)
- Will young bronchiolitis patients have a better clinical outcome if treated with High Flow Nasal Cannula at 1.5L/kg/min comparing with an arbitrary starting flow rate? (Sarah DiPalma)
- Williams Syndrome (Laurie Sadler)
