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Associations between neighborhood-level gun violence and child general health status: An ECHO cohort analysis. 

September 8, 2025
Somayaji N, Knapp EA, Churchill ML, Hirko KA, Blackwell CK, Hipwell AE, Cragoe N, Aschner JL, Croen LA, Bastain TM, Elliott AJ, Porucznik CA, Lyall K, Camargo CA Jr, Mirzakhani H, O'Shea TM, Kaplan ZB, O'Connor TG, Karagas MR, Bekelman TA, Brennan PA, Ferrara A, Leve LD, Stroustrup A, Breton...

Promoting Kindergarten Readiness in Primary Care: Perspectives of Children’s Primary Care Providers.

September 4, 2025
Dever R, Wekon-Kemeni C, Reynolds A, Steiner MJ, Young J, Cholera R, Flower KB. Matern Child Health J. 2025 Sep 4. doi: 10.1007/s10995-025-04159-7. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40906004.

Welcome New Physician Faculty: Mimi Omede, MD

September 2, 2025
Dr. Omede joined the Department of Pediatrics as an Assistant Professor with the Division Pediatric Gastroenterology on September 2, 2025. In 2017, Dr. Omede earned her MD from V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine. She completed her Pediatric Residency with SUNY Downstate Medical Center, in Brooklyn, NY, in...

Prematurity, Neonatal Complications, and the Development of Childhood Hypertension. 

September 2, 2025
Makker K, Kuiper JR, Brady T, Hong X, Wang G, Pearson C, Sanderson K, O'Shea TM, Wang X, Aziz K. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Sep 2;8(9):e2527431. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.27431. PMID: 40911310.

Clinical Asthma: Chapter 11: Air Pollutants.

September 2, 2025
Rebuli, M.E., Carlsten, C., Alexis, N.E. (2025). Bernstein, J.A., & Levy, M.L. (Eds.). Clinical Asthma: Theory and Practice (2nd ed.). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003287209.

Quezada Promoted to Associate Professor of Pediatrics

September 1, 2025
Gerardo Quezada, MD was promoted to Associate Professor of Pediatrics effective September 1, 2025. Dr. Quezada has been a faculty member in Pediatrics since 2020. Dr. Quezada completed his undergraduate degree at Texas A&M University and earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston...

Schilling Promoted to Professor of Pediatrics

September 1, 2025
Samantha Schilling, MD, MSHP was promoted to Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, effective September 1, 2025. Dr. Schilling has been a faculty member in Pediatrics since September 2015. Dr. Schilling completed her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth University and earned her medical degree from...

2024 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Guideline for the Screening, Treatment, and Management of Lupus Nephritis.

September 1, 2025
Sammaritano LR, Askanase A, Bermas BL, Dall'Era M, Duarte-García A, Hiraki LT, Rovin BH, Son MBF, Alvarado A, Aranow C, Barnado A, Broder A, Brunner HI, Chowdhary V, Contreras G, Felix C, Ferucci ED, Gibson KL, Hersh AO, Izmirly PM, Kalunian K, Kamen D, Rollins B, Smith BJ, Thomas A,...

Prenatal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances: Association with child behavior in the environmental influences on child health outcomes (ECHO) Cohort. 

August 30, 2025
Bulka CM, Quiros-Alcala L, Xun X, O'Shea TM, Braun JM, Ames JL, Hipwell AE, Chatzi VL, Padula AM, Dabelea D, Starling A, Dunlop AL, Liang D, Schantz S, Shin HM, Oh J, Schmidt RJ, Lu K, O'Connor TG, Fry RC; ECHO Cohort Consortium. Environ Int. 2025 Aug 30;203:109760. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2025.109760....

Practice Patterns in Pediatric Cardiothoracic Presurgical Conferences: A Multicenter Survey Study.

August 29, 2025
Reed B, Puranik P, Rodenbarger A, Trivedi M, Adebo DA, Beasley G, Bezold L, Campbell MJ, Carr MR, Daily J, DeBrunner M, Del Grippo E, Fifer CG, Hoffman TM, Hupp SR, Kurtz JD, Morchi G, Owada C, Peterson R, Puchalski MD, Romans RA, Saidi A, Shenoy RU, Singh AK, Tunks...