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Faculty Highlights
Our faculty are among the most distinguished in America and are very active in the academic community. Our faculty current sit on editorial boards for 9 different journals, offer service or consultation to 8 governmental agencies, and Chair two important sections within the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Even in these difficult economic times, our faculty continues to grow, with the addition of 13 new faculty since the fiscal year 2009 in endocrinology, cardiology, general pediatrics, neonatology, hospitalists, genetics, nephrology, hematology/oncology, infectious disease and pulmonology.
Research
The Department of Pediatrics had a total dollar award of approximately $15.9 million dollars in fiscal year 2009, with $3.9 million being NIH funded.
- Dr. Savithri Nageswaran was awarded a five-year grant from the federal Health Resources and Services administration entitled Community-Based Care Coordination for Children with Complex Chronic Conditions.
- Dr. Kathi Kemper received a 3 year award from the Hopeman foundation to develop and expand her Program for Complementary and Integrative Medicine.
- Dr. Hernan Sabio received an award from The American Thrombosis & Hemostasis Network entitled ATHN Data Quality Counts which is an effort by the ATHN to jumpstart a national hemophilia database.
- Dr. Thomas McLean received a 1 year Infrastructure Grant to Expand Pediatric Oncology Phase Clinical Trials from the St. Baldricks Foundation.
- Dr. John Fortunato was awarded an industry grant from AstraZeneca studying the Correlation of Oropharyngeal Pepsin and Gastroesophageal.
- Dr. Katherine Poehling was awarded a grant from the NIAID studying the Impact of Vaccine on Influenza Disease in Young Children.
- Dr. Michael O'Shea was awarded a grant studying Mother Administered Interventions for VLBW Infants.
- Dr. Robert Schwartz was awarded a grant studying Brief Motivational Interviewing for BMI Reduction.
- Dr. Joseph Skelton was awarded a grant from The Duke Endowment to further expand the BrennerFIT program.
- Dr. Avinash Shetty was awarded a grant from the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatrics AIDS Foundation studying Prevention of Perinatal HIV in Urban Zimbabwe.
Recent Publications (selected from 2007)
- Castellino SM, McLean TW: Pediatric genitourinary tumors. Curr Opin Oncol 2007;19(3):248-253.
- Guthrie B, Rouster-Stevens KA, Reynolds SL: Review of medications used in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Pediatr Emerg Care 2007; 23(1):38-46.
- Kemper KJ: The yin and yang of integrative clinical care, education, and research. Explore 2007;3(1):37-41.
- Kerrigan JR, Nagaraj SK, Schwartz RP: Index of suspicion. Pediatr Rev 2007;28(4):139-145.
- Laughon M, Bose C, O'Shea TM, et al: Factors associated with treatment for hypotension in extremely low gestational age newborns during the first postnatal week. Pediatrics 2007;119(2):273-280.
- Mason EO Jr, Wald ER, Givner LB, et al: Recurrent systemic pneumococcal disease in children. Pediatri Infect Dis J 2007;26(6):480-484.
- Nixon PA, Washburn LK, Schechter MS, O’Shea Thomas M: Follow-up study of a randomized controlled trial of postnatal dexamethasone therapy in very low birth weight infants: effects on pulmonary outcomes in age 8 to 11 years. J Pediatr 2007; 150(4):345-350.
- O’Shea Thomas M, Nageswaran S, Hiatt DC, Legault C, Moore ML, Naughton M, Goldstein DJ, Dillard RG: Follow-up care for infants with chronic lung disease: a randomized comparison of community- and center-based models. Pediatrics 2007; 119(4):e947-e957.
- Poehling KA, Szilagyi PG, Grijalva CG, Martin SW, LaFleur B, Mitchel E, Barth RD, Nuorti JP, Griffin, MR: Reduction of frequent otitis media and pressure-equalizing tube insertions in children after introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. Pediatrics 2007; 119(4):707-715.
- Strauss JS, Krowchuk DP, Leyden JJ, Lucky AW, Shalita AR, Siegfried EC, Thiboutot DM, Van Voorhees AS, Beutner KA, Sieck CK, Bhushan R: Guidelines of care for acne vulgaris management. J Am Acad Dermatol 2007; 56(4):651:663.
- Williams J, Klinepeter K, Palmes G, Pulley A, Foy JM: Behavioral health practices in the midst of black box warnings and mental health reform. Clin Pediatr 2007; 46(5):424-430.
- Abramson, JS, Overturf GD: Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus). In: Kleigman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 18th edition. Philadelphia: Saunders/Elsevier, 2007:1130-1135.
- Kemper KJ, Gardiner P: Herbal medicines. In : Kleigman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 18th edition. Philadelphia: Saunders/Elsevier, 2007: 357-361.
- Krowchuk DP, Mancini AJ, eds.: Pediatric Dermatology: a quick reference guide. Elk Grove Village (IL): Section on Dermatology, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2007.
- Sinal SH: Shaken baby syndrome. In: Jackson NA, ed. Encyclopedia of domestic violence. New York: Routledge, 2007:626-631.
Recent Awards
- Dr. Robert Schwarz was awarded an Outstanding Achievement Award for Childhood Obesity Prevention from the NC Pediatric Society.
- Dr. Katherine Poehling was awarded an Outstanding Achievement Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics' Council on Community Pediatrics/Section on Epidemiology.
- Drs. Laurence Givner, Jon Abramson, and Daniel Krowchuk were awarded America's Top Pediatricians by the Consumer's Research Council of America.
- Dr. Jon Abramson was the recipient of the Denny, Katz, Simon, and Tinglestad Academic Service Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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