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General Academic Pediatrics
Research
General Academic Pediatrics faculty are active in a variety of research areas. Dr. Mandy Allison's interests include influenza vaccine effectiveness and adolescent use of school-based health clinics. Dr. Stephen Berman is involved in access to health care and immunization services delivery research. Drs. Robert Brayden and Matthew Daley participate in immunization services delivery research. Dr. Maya Bunik's interests include breastfeeding support for low-income women and after-hours care/telephone triage. Dr. Sara Carpenter's interests involve health care services for children in foster care. Dr. Ellen Elias studies the physiological effects of the cholesterol deficiency seen in Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome and is also interested in caring for children with osteogenesis imperfecta. Dr. Candice Johnson's research involves ambulatory infectious disease, specifically otitis media, vaccines and urinary infections. Dr. Allison Kempe is a health services researcher whose primary areas of interest are immunization delivery, telephone care and health care access, and utilization and quality in low-income children. Dr. Barton Schmitt's primary research interest currently is pediatric telephone triage and advice. Dr. Tamara Simon's interests involve the exploration of disparities including race/ethnicity, insurance, socioeconomic status and acculturation and the impact of these disparities on pediatric patient medical care.
The Center for Research in Pediatric Telephone Care, in collaboration with Kaiser Permanente, is examining the safety of after-hours care delivered by the Call Center at The Children's Hospital--specifically, the compliance of families to the disposition recommendations of nurses at the Call Center and the effect of the Call Center on emergency room and urgent care use, according to parental report. Abstracts regarding these studies will be presented at the 2005 Pediatric Academic Society meetings. In addition, two telephone-based intervention trials are underway. The first is a randomized controlled trial of a Call Center-based intervention identifying and referring children with persistent untreated or undertreated asthma, and the second is a randomized controlled trial of a telephone-based intervention to promote breastfeeding in low-income Latina women.
In 2004 the Section participated in three studies with the Clinical Trials Organization. First was a double-blind study of montelukast for the treatment of RSV bronchiolitis. The study had the second highest enrollment worldwide out of 59 sites. Second, the Section studied the safety and efficacy of a new steroid lotion for atopic dermatitis. Third was a study of the safety of the administration of albuterol by face mask and holding chamber in children under 24 months.
Additional projects for many of this Section's faculty are listed in the Children's Outcomes Research Program.
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