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Denver Health
Research
The faculty conducts clinical research that is directed at common problems identified during the delivery of primary care to an urban pediatric population. These projects are often collaborative efforts to ensure service delivery by overcoming the inherent barriers to care in an underserved population.
Dr. Jeffrey Brown has developed and implemented case management teams to ensure the provision of services to special-needs children. Dr. Brown has also studied early intervention programs designed to optimize early childhood development.
Dr. Paul Melinkovich has worked with the Section of Adolescent Medicine to provide services through the innovative Denver School-Based Clinics Program and has studied the impact of universal lead-screening of children in the Denver community.
Dr. Simon Hambidge has collaborated on studies of varicella vaccine, and Drs. Hambidge and Patricia Braun have studied intervention strategies to increase childhood immunization and well-child care, and the epidemiology of childhood injuries.
Dr. Mark Anderson has investigated acute management of childhood asthma and the relationship between asthma and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.
Dr. Mary O'Connor has designed a curriculum to teach health care professionals the essentials of breastfeeding. Her curriculum can be accessed at www.breastfeedingbasics.org.
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