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Pediatric Residency Program
Subspecialties
 Adolescent Medicine
Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology
Cardiology
Child Abuse and Neglect
Critical Care Medicine
Dermatology
Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
Emergency Medicine
Endocrinology
Epidemiology
Family and Child Health
Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
General Academic Pediatrics
Genetics and Metabolism
Hematology, Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation
Infectious Diseases
Neonatology
Nephrology
Neurology
Nutrition
Prevention Research Center for Family and Child Health
Pulmonary Medicine
Adolescent Medicine
Clinical training in Adolescent Medicine includes extensive experience with primary adolescent health care and specific problems common during adolescence, including abnormalities of growth and development; eating disorders; orthopedic and sports medicine problems; issues relating to sexuality and reproductive health; psychosocial, mental health, and substance abuse problems; and the management of teenagers with chronic illnesses and recurrent somatic symptoms.
Research projects include access to and use of adolescent health care; process and outcome evaluation research of school-based physical and mental health services; cross-sectional study of high-risk adolescent behavior; adolescent pregnancy and childbearing; and growth and pubertal development.
Visit our Adolescent Medicine Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology
More than a third of all children suffer from atopic dermatitis, food allergy, asthma, allergic rhinitis, animal dander sensitivity, drug allergy, insect sting sensitivity, recurrent anaphylaxis, or a combination of these disorders. In addition, concern about whether a child is immunodeficient or has a rheumatologic disorder is not uncommon. Given the frequency with which these disorders are encountered, additional training in this area during pediatric residency is of substantial practical benefit.
The faculty members in the Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology have diverse clinical and research interests and are eager to provide a well-rounded learning experience for residents. The opportunity to interact with our faculty and assist in the care of our inpatients is available to residents at The Children's Hospital during ward rotations. Outpatient electives are also available in Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology (combined with Dermatology).
During the Allergy/ Immunology elective, residents work closely with our faculty in clinics at the National Jewish Health, The Children's Hospital, and Denver Health Medical Center to evaluate, treat, and review the management of patients with a variety of common and sometimes not so common allergic and immunologic disorders. Residents observe skin testing and participate in the performance of food challenges, drug challenges, and exercise challenges. Thorough teaching about the correct technique for the use of nebulizers, metered dose inhalers, dry powder inhalers, peak flow meters, spacers, EpiPens, and approaches for the management of patients with difficult to control asthma, food allergy, and atopic dermatitis is provided. Residents interested in research are encouraged to contact us to discuss available opportunities.
The Rheumatology elective is based in our busy outpatient clinic at The Children's Hospital, where residents have the opportunity to care for patients with a wide variety of diseases, including Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, vasculitis, and Dermatomyositis. In addition to seeing patients with established rheumatologic conditions, the emphasis is on developing a practical approach to common presenting symptoms in our new patients, such as joint pain, fever, rash and increased markers of inflammation, that can be applied to the future practice of pediatrics. Didactic as well as bedside teaching is incorporated throughout the rotations. Residents are also given the opportunity to do their second half day of clinic with us or to perform basic and clinical research projects. Faculty research interests include T-cell development and activation, T-cell response to viral infections, and the pathogenesis and treatment of autoimmunity.
Visit our Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
Cardiology
Training in Pediatric Cardiology involves intensive clinical training in all aspects of clinical pediatric cardiology as well as development of clinical and/or basic research skills. Clinical areas of interest include general pediatric cardiology, critical care management, cardiomyopathy, cardiac transplantation, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, interventional cardiology including radio-frequency ablative treatment for dysrhythmia and transcatheter occlusion of congenital heart defects, prenatal cardiac diagnosis, cardiovascular imaging including cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging, and echocardiography including fetal and transesophageal
echocardiography, pulmonary hypertension, systemic hypertension, cardiac intensive care, cardiac catheterization, interventional and adult congential heart disease, Kawasaki disease, cardiac arrhythmias, electrophysiology, hyperlipidemia, acute rheumatic fever, cardiovascular aspects of Marfan syndrome, and cardiopulmonary exercise testing.
Residency training in pediatric cardiology is involved in all three years of pediatric training. First-year residents care for many medical pediatric cardiology inpatients with supervision from the pediatric cardiology fellows and faculty. The second- and third-year residents can select elective time on the following: cardiology outpatient clinic service; cardiology inpatient service, with medical, surgical, and transplant inpatients; and the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. The outpatient rotation includes patients in The Children's Hospital and satellite clinics and also the outreach clinics. Lectures on clinical evaluation, including cardiac physical examination, electrocardiography, echocardiography, structural congenital heart disease, and cardiovascular physiology are included. The inpatient and CICU rotations focus on the management of cardiac patients with cardiac failure to thrive, congestive heart failure, and postoperative management. Emphasis is placed on integrating the physical findings with pathophysiology to develop diagnostic and treatment plans. Second- and third-year residents have opportunities for cardiology continuity clinics, along with both basic and clinical research projects.
Visit our Cardiology Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
Critical Care Medicine
Residents rotating through the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit are exposed to a diverse patient population, both culturally and medically. There are approximately 1,000 admissions each year to the PICU from our catchment area of seven states. About half are surgical (ranging from spinal fusions, to trauma, to transplants) and half are medical (including common pediatric problems, such as sepsis, to the more obscure metabolic/genetic diseases).
Residents are actively involved in the management of each patient, and thereby interact with the application of newer therapies, such as the potential use of antibodies in sepsis, and different pain control methods, which will enable better understanding and treatment of critically ill children. The research interests of the department focus on developmental vascular biology and the response of the developing lung to injury. Projects investigating the molecular mechanisms controlling normal and abnormal pulmonary and systemic vascular tone and growth are ongoing. The effects of hypoxia on cells in the pulmonary circulation are of particular interest. In addition, extensive investigations in the area of high-altitude physiology are ongoing.
Visit our Critical Care Medicine Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
Dermatology
The Pediatric Dermatology section consists of three internationally recognized pediatric dermatologists, each board certified in both Pediatrics and Dermatology. The section authors the best selling Color Textbook of Pediatric Dermatology. Clinics are held daily, and 11 half-day sessions are available each week. Pediatric residents may elect pediatric dermatology experiences in any of the clinics, and many elect pediatric dermatology as their continuity clinic. First-year residents have brief experiences in Pediatric Dermatology during the ambulatory rotation, and second-year residents have 5 clinics per week during the combined Dermatology/Rheumatology experience. Third-year residents may elect an additional month devoted to full-time pediatric dermatology. A pediatric dermatology fellowship is available, and the section encourages pediatric candidates for dermatology residency. Special dermatology clinical experiences are available in management of hemangiomas and vascular malformations, laser therapy, and epidermolysis bullosa. Core lectures in Dermatology are provided to all pediatric residents monthly, and specially requested didactic sessions are provided. All section members are recognized for their excellent teaching.
Visit our Pediatric Dermatology Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
The Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics section is involved in a variety of clinical research projects involving autism, sensory processing disorders,
sex chromosome abnormalities, and fragile X syndrome, as well as training residents, fellows and other allied professionals. All first-year residents have a one month rotation in the section. They are given the opportunity to participate in a variety of clinics, including Genetics, Rehabilitation, the Child Development Unit, the Special Care Clinic, Child Psychiatry, the Child Protection Team and the Child Abuse Clinic, Occupational and Physical Therapy, Audiology, Speech and Hearing. Each month the residents make a visit to the home of a child with a developmental disability in order to better understand the practical challenges children with disabilities face and how families organize themselves to meet these challenges. The residents are invited to observe the Kidstreet Program (a day care and intervention program for children who are technologically dependent) and the work of the Anchor Center for the Blind. The residents also have didactic sessions addressing physician-patient relationships, communication, public policy, developmental assessment, speech and language and law as it relates to children with developmental disabilities and child maltreatment, and legal aspects of pediatrics.
Visit our Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
Emergency Medicine
The Children's Hospital Emergency Department is the region's only Regional Pediatric Trauma Center and provides high-quality emergent and urgent care 24 hours a day. The pediatric emergency department provides care for a wide array of medical, surgical, and traumatic conditions. Patients with many different presenting complaints and many levels of acuity are seen. The patients are primarily
undiagnosed, so this is a great opportunity to practice critical thinking skills and develop appropriate and cost-effective diagnostic and therapeutic plans. All of the faculty members are board certified in pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine and can provide strong guidance in this challenging arena.
The ED faculty are also involved in The Children's Hospital Community-Based Urgent/Emergent Care Network by providing medical direction and clinical coverage in the community sites. The faculty are responsible for the direction of pediatric transports and provide 24-hour-a-day phone consultation to primary care providers and emergency departments throughout the region. Faculty are represented on the Colorado State Trauma Task Force. They are actively involved in program development and education of prehospital care providers, provide The Children's Hospital housewide Mock Cor program, administer The Children's Hospital Pediatric Advanced Life Support program, and are actively involved in regional injury prevention, including the medical direction of the Kiwanis' Pediatric Trauma Institute. We offer an elective experience for residents who desire more experience in the ED, and we also offer the possibility of doing a second half-day clinic during the second and third years. This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience at procedures, as well as providing further training in care of the patient in an emergency department setting. There are multiple, ongoing research projects, in addition to the clinical focus of the department. Faculty are also available for mentoring research projects for trainees interested in a career in PEM.
Visit our Emergency Medicine Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
Endocrinology
Henry Silver, MD, PhD, Pediatric Endocrine and Growth Center
The Henry Silver, MD, PhD, Pediatric Endocrine and Growth Center provides comprehensive diagnostic and treatment services for children with
all endocrine disorders, including
disorders of growth,
pituitary function, puberty, thyroid function, adrenal function, calcium and phosphorous metabolism (including rickets), osteoporosis and
endocrine-disorders associatedwith chronic illness.
The clinical and research activities of the members of the Endocrinology section include the epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents,
cardiovascular correlates of obesity and insulin resistance, epidemiology and treatment of insulin resistance disorders in the pediatric population, the pharmacologic treatment of adolescent obesity, the treatment of children with osteogenesis impefecta and other forms of osteoporosis.
Visit our Endocrinology Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
The Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes
The Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes (BDC) provides comprehensive diabetes care to children from the Denver metropolitan area and the five-state region. The focus is on outpatient intensive diabetes management designed to prevent the acute and chronic complications of diabetes. A team approach to diabetes self-management education and care is practiced, utilizing physicians, nurses, dietitians, and social workers. Outreach services are provided throughout Colorado and in Wyoming. Clinical studies include trials to improve current diabetes management, prevent microvascular complications, and implement early intervention/prevention trials. Other research focuses on the epidemiology of diabetes and its complications. In collaboration with the section of Gastroenterology, the BDC offers comprehensive evaluation, treatment, and research to better understand the association of type 1 diabetes and celiac disease. The BDC is working in collaboration with the Nutrition Center and Endocrinology in a multicenter treatment trial of type 2 diabetes in children. A one-month diabetes elective is available and may include a week's experience attending the Colorado Diabetes camp (July each year). One week during the endocrinology elective is spent at the Barbara Davis Center. Opportunities for a continuity experience in diabetes, and/or diabetes research are available (contact Georgeanna J. Klingensmith,
georgeanna.klingensmith@uchsc.edu).
Visit our Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
Epidemiology
The Section of Epidemiology is responsible for infection control and prevention, and microbial epidemiology throughout The Children's Hospital. It is also responsible for the TCH Outcomes Program (outcomes measurement, quality of health care). Residents on the Infectious Diseases elective interact daily with the Hospital Epidemiologist to learn principles of Infection Control.
Visit our Epidemiology Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
Family and Child Health
The pediatric Section of Family and Child Health includes all of the child abuse and neglect consultation, treatment, prevention, education, and research programs of the Kempe Children's Center (KCC), as well as the Prevention Research Center for Family and Child Health (PRC).
The Kempe Child Protection Team (CPT) provides both inpatient and outpatient clinical evaluation and medical care for abused and neglected children at The Children's Hospital. Fourth-year medical students and residents can take an elective with the department. Residents attend weekly clinics, weekly CPT meetings, and participate in consult work with the team.
In conjunction with KCC, consultation and education services are provided to child welfare and medical professionals throughout the Rocky Mountain Region. Research within the entire Section includes outcome study of infants in foster care, analysis of the Colorado child welfare system, predictors of sexually abusive behavior in adolescents, controlled intervention trials for home visitation, and studies on the epidemiology and medical diagnosis of child abuse injuries.
Visit our Child Abuse and Neglect Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
The Prevention Research Center for Family and Child Health (PRC) has been established to design, test, and disseminate interventions that improve the health and development of low-income children and their families. A significant focus of the Center has been on the prevention of child abuse and neglect, unintentional injuries to children, welfare dependence, and crime. Nurse home visitors help pregnant women improve birth outcomes, learn to care competently for their newborn children, and develop family economic self-sufficiency by planning subsequent pregnancies, reaching educational goals, and finding work.
Visit our Prevention Research Center Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
The Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
is dedicated to providing excellent clinical care, advancing research through basic, clinical translational and epidemiology research, educating future pediatricians and fellows and providing advocacy for children with gastrointestinal, liver and nutritional disorders.
Faculty within the Section are recognized as national leaders in the clinical care of children with liver disease,
eosinophilic diseases of the GI tract, celiac disease,
pancreatitis, inflammatory bowel disease, and
intestinal failure. The Section has an active inpatient
gastroenterology and transplant hepatology
service with a dedicated inpatient attending. The resident elective in pediatric gastroenterology is an outpatient-based elective designed to provide the resident with a broad exposure to common pediatric gastrointestinal disorders (e.g., abdominal pain, constipation, gastroesophageal reflux, failure to thrive, diarrhea
as well as the full spectrum of more complicated pediatric gastroenterologic disorders such as celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, eosinophilic esophagitis, non alcoholic fatty liver disease, chronic viral hepatitis, biliary atresia and liver transplantation).
There are 8 outpatient clinics per week at TCH, with 1-2 satellite clinics per week.
The full range of pediatric GI procedures is performed in a dedicated pediatric gastroenterology procedure center at TCH.
Continuity experiences may be available for interested residents. Residents
on the elective
also attend the Pediatric GI teaching conferences
(weekly clinical topic conference, liver conference and Fellows Rounds and monthly Pathology, Radiology, Research, Journal Club and Pediatric GI/Surgery Conference).
Residents have participated in research projects in the Section,
in such areas as liver disease, celiac disease, gastrointestinal eosinophilic diseases, gastroesophageal reflux, intestinal failure, and inflammatory bowel disease.
Basic laboratory research within the Section is focused on liver disease,
mucosal immunobiology
and celiac disease.
The Section provides diagnostic and therapeutic care to a large group of patients with gastrointestinal, liver, pancreatic, and nutritional diseases. We have clinics at The Children's Hospital (TCH), at 4 metro-wide satellite clinics, and at regional clinics in Greeley and Colorado Springs, CO and Billings, MT. Multidisciplinary clinics include The Pediatric Liver Center, The Gastrointestinal Eosinophilic Disease Program, Intestinal Failure, Adolescent Obesity and The Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Visit our Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
General Academic Pediatrics
The Section of General Pediatrics is involved in a diverse array of clinical and research activities. Clinical services are provided at The Children's Hospital, at several sites affiliated with Denver Health and Hospitals, and at Gateway Pediatrics. Residents have Continuity Clinic and ambulatory rotations at these locations, allowing the resident to build a panel of patients to whom they provide care for up to three years. Other clinics provide services for children with special health care needs, foster and adopted children, children with cleft palate, and at the young mother's clinic.
Areas of research interest of general pediatrics faculty include telephone care in pediatrics, new vaccines, immunization rates, management of otitis, foster care, antibiotic drug trials, early interventions for children with developmental delays, ambulatory management of asthma, delivery of community-based services and health outcomes of children adopted from foreign countries.
The general pediatric faculty teach in pediatric group practices, general pediatric clinics, urgent care clinics, special primary care (which serves special needs patients), inpatient services, and general consultation service. Section faculty members have authored several computer-based teaching programs. Numerous ambulatory lecture sessions are organized and faculty continues to make innovations in curriculum development.
Visit our General Academic Pediatrics Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
Clinical Genetics and Metabolism
Clinical Genetics and Metabolism provides comprehensive diagnostic consultation around a broad range of genetic problems, including birth defects, inherited disorders, and inborn errors of metabolism. The service has two arms: a Clinical Genetics service and an Inherited Metabolic Disease service. The Inherited Metabolic Disease service manages many of its own patients, while the Clinical Genetics service works principally through consultation with primary care providers and other specialists. Both provide inpatient consultations, and both have busy local and regional outpatient clinics. Geneticists also participate in multispecialty clinics that follow patients with such conditions as neurofibromatosis, spina bifida, cleft lip and palate, neuromuscular disease, and congenital hearing loss.
Residents rotating on the inpatient services at The Children's Hospital and in nurseries at Denver Health Medical Center and the University of Colorado Hospital interact routinely with Clinical Genetics and Metabolism faculty through diagnostic consultations. The Inherited Metabolic Disease service also works directly with house staff to manage inpatients with inborn errors of metabolism. Genetic counselors are available through both services to assist in family education and counseling and in ordering specialized testing. In addition, two registered dietitians work directly with physicians at all levels to manage nutritional approaches to metabolic disorders.
Residents electing a genetics rotation participate in all aspects of the Clinical Genetics and Inherited Metabolic Disease services, including inpatient consultations, weekly general and inherited metabolic disease clinics, multispecialty clinics, and generally two regional clinics outside Denver.
Visit our Clinical Genetics and Metabolism Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
Hematology, Oncology
and Bone Marrow Transplantation
Pediatric residents all rotate on the Hematology, Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation service in their second year. They participate in the inpatient and outpatient care of children with malignancies and a wide variety of hematologic disorders. The Children's Hospital (TCH) Oncology Program provides comprehensive multidisciplinary care for most of the Rocky Mountain Region. The TCH Oncology Program is a leader in the care of children with leukemia and solid tumors. The comprehensive Neuro-Oncology Program is recognized nationally for its successes in dealing with children with brain tumors. The Experimental Therapeutics Program provides new and innovative care to children with refractory cancer. The Hematology Program is also a comprehensive program for all children with blood disorders. The Hematology staff have extensive expertise in general Hematology, Sickle Cell Anemia and other hemoglobinopathies, Hemophilia and thrombosis, and Immuno-Hematology, and they provide this expertise to the children and pediatric healthcare providers throughout the region. The Bone Marrow Transplantation Program is comprehensive, offering all types of potentially life-saving allogenic and autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplants to children with refractory leukemia or solid tumors, marrow failure disorders, severe congenital immune deficiencies, and metabolic diseases.
During their inpatient rotation in their second year, pediatric residents gain experience in the care of children undergoing diagnosis and treatment for cancer and hematologic diseases. The residents round daily with an oncology attending and fellow, and a hematology attending and fellow, as appropriate. Oncology rounds are multidisciplinary, with the participation of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and social workers. The residents follow their own patients on the service and share care with Oncology PNPs. While the residents do not primarily follow BMT inpatients, they are taught about BMT and cross-cover the patients on the BMT service at night.
During their month of clinic, the resident rotates through all the subdisciplines, spending time in general Oncology clinic, Neuro-Oncology clinic, BMT clinic, and the comprehensive, long-term follow-up HOPE clinic, for the survivors of childhood cancer. It is during this month that the residents will be able to appreciate how the multidisciplinary team approach supports the children and their families through the prolonged crisis of childhood cancer.
For those residents planning a future in academic pediatrics, either as a Hematologist or Oncologist, or as a subspecialist who will participate in the care of these children, additional experience is encouraged and readily available. Residents in the Academic Track can elect to have their second continuity clinic following children with cancer or blood disorders, with a faculty member from our division. It is also possible to use the Residency Program's built-in flexibility to design a personal curriculum to include electives in Hematology, Oncology, BMT, or Neuro-Oncology. The Hematology, Oncology, BMT faculty are dedicated to providing outstanding care for children and teaching to our future colleagues.
Visit our Hematology, Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
Infectious Diseases
Clinical and research interests of the Infectious Diseases section include Kawasaki disease, bacterial pathogenesis, toxic shock syndrome, herpes and enteroviruses, HIV, viral respiratory infections, TB, myocarditis, encephalitis, and international health.
The ID faculty serve as general ward attendings as well as ID attendings and are very committed to resident education. The inpatient service sees 30-40 new consults each month and is a popular elective with residents and medical students. HIV and infectious diseases outpatient clinics meet weekly.
Residents on the ID elective work directly with an ID fellow and attending physician. They see inpatient consults, attend HIV and ID outpatient clinics, attend daily microbiology rounds, and receive hands-on training in microbiology and virology laboratory techniques.
Visit our Infectious Diseases Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
Neonatology
The Section of Neonatology provides attending support at the three clinical training sites. There is a fellowship training program and the neonatalogy fellows are also active in pediatric resident training.
The three training sites all have a different clinical focus.
Denver Health Medical Center provides care to neonates with a wide spectrum of problems and acuity, particularly babies with abnormal transition, in-utero drug exposure, and prematurity. The
University of Colorado Hospital
also provides general neonatology services, but
focuses on high-risk maternal referrals and the extremely low birth weight infant. The Children's Hospital is an out-born facility with a wide variety of
critically ill infants, including those with surgical problems and those who require more intensive supportive care involving ECMO, high-frequency ventilation, inhaled nitric oxide, and selective brain cooling.
The resident curriculum includes daily patient-oriented teaching rounds and didactic presentations. Every attempt is made to assure that each resident gets exposure to all three NICU settings over the course of the three years. The maximum time spent in the NICU setting complies with the recommendations of the ABP. Clinical research is active, with a focus on pre- and postnatal nutrition and metabolism, intrauterine growth restriction, acute respiratory failure in the term
and pre-term
infant, and hypoxic ischemic brain injury.
Visit our Neonatology Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
Nephrology
The clinical and research interests of the members of the Nephrology section include treatment of steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome, treatment modalities of chronic glomerulonephritis, mechanisms and prevention of progressive renal injury, treatment of hypertension in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), the evaluation of renal water channel and ion transport function in health and disease, and advances and improvements in the care of children with end stage renal disease, including all forms of renal replacement therapy, such as hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), and renal transplantation.
Visit our Nephrology Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
Child Neurology
The Child Neurology section offers a broad, comprehensive range of clinical outpatient and inpatient neurological and neuropsychological services. Children with a broad spectrum of neurological complaints–from headaches to seizures and developmental disorders–are referred to our clinic and the inpatient service. Pediatric residents who rotate with either service will be exposed to the state-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic techniques necessary to treat children and counsel their families with these disorders. As a subspecialty with high demand, the pediatric resident will greatly benefit from exposure to our service through an elective rotation. Faculty members are actively involved in clinical and basic neuroscientific research, including epilepsy, headache, mitochondrial and other metabolic disorders, cellular neurophysiology, neurodevelopment, and neuropsychology.
Both research and clinical electives are available.
Visit our Child Neurology Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
Nutrition
The Nutrition section provides a comprehensive range of clinical service, including outpatient clinics for under-nutrition and failure to thrive and for childhood and adolescent obesity, and inpatient nutrition support. We offer an extensive education program in clinical Nutrition for medical students, residents, and fellows. The section also has a broad spectrum of research, ranging from nutrient control of gene expression to epidemiologic and metabolic studies in communities in Colorado and beyond. Stable isotopes, calorimetry, and other state-of-the art techniques are used to study macro- and micronutrient and energy metabolism in the Pediatric General Clinical
Research Center and through the resources of the Clinical Nutrition Research Unit. Areas of particular interest include treatment and prevention of obesity, child feeding behaviors, breastfeeding, prematurity, and cystic fibrosis. An international micronutrient research program includes work in Central and South America, Africa, and Asia. Research training for clinical fellows and postdoctoral researchers is supported by a Nutrition training grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Visit our Nutrition Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
Pulmonary Medicine
The Section of Pulmonary Medicine includes both clinical and research activities and opportunities for residents.
Clinical activities include an active inpatient service, providing year-round coverage for one of the inpatient teams. All residents will have the opportunity to be involved with this service, which includes acute asthma, cystic fibrosis, pneumonia, bronchiolitis, pulmonary hypertension, chronic ventilation, persistent hypoxia (including sleep related hypoxia), and other pulmonary problems.
A clinical elective is also available, focusing on outpatient pulmonary problems, such as chronic asthma, cystic fibrosis, persistent hypoxia, airway anomalies, sleep-related breathing disorders, interstitial lung disease and others. Inpatient pulmonary consultations and bronchoscopies are also included during this elective.
Research activities include several aspects of pulmonary inflammation, airways hyper-responsiveness, fetal pulmonary vasoreactivity, neonatal screening for cystic fibrosis, pulmonary vascular disease, interstitial lung disease, oxidant injury of the lung, lung growth and development, pulmonary proteomics, genomic epidemiology in cystic fibrosis, sleep disorders in chronic lung disease, asthma management, and assessing lung function in infants.
Visit our Pulmonary Medicine Website for more information, including a list of our faculty.
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