Areas of Research
Our research spans from basic through translational and clinical. We are devoted to addressing difficult problems and advancing knowledge through our research.
- 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 Assistant Professor (Ted Andrews)
- 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)
