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Establishing normative physiological values among breastfeeding infants in Malawi for the development of a pneumonia dysphagia risk score.

May 19, 2025
Hoekstra NE, Schuh H, Chagomerana M, Senekkis-Florent P, Pedersen C, Mvalo T, Lefton-Greif MA, McCollum ED. BMJ Open Respir Res. 2025 May 19;12(1):e002612. doi: 10.1136/bmjresp-2024-002612. PMID: 40389369.

Establishing normative physiological values among breastfeeding infants in Malawi for the development of a pneumonia dysphagia risk score.

May 19, 2025
Hoekstra NE, Schuh H, Chagomerana M, Senekkis-Florent P, Pedersen C, Mvalo T, Lefton-Greif MA, McCollum ED.BMJ Open Respir Res. 2025 May 19;12(1):e002612. doi: 10.1136/bmjresp-2024-002612.PMID: 40389369 

A murine model of Barth syndrome recapitulates human cardiac and skeletal muscle phenotypes.

May 19, 2025
Yazawa E, Keating EM, Wang S, Sweat ME, Ma Q, Xu Y, Schlame M, Pu WT. Dis Model Mech. 2025 May 1;18(5):dmm052077. doi: 10.1242/dmm.052077. Epub 2025 May 19. PMID: 40326536.

Advances in sinonasal microbiome analysis.

May 19, 2025
Roca C, Mirmozaffari Y, Martin WJ, Capps N, Sullivan KM, Thorp BD, Ferkol TW, Davis SD, Kimple A, Wolfgang MC. Ear Nose Throat J. 2025 May 19:1455613251341711. doi: 10.1177/01455613251341711. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40384122.

Duffus Named Associate Director of Medical Education for Pediatrics

May 19, 2025
Dr. Sara Duffus has been named Associate Director of Medical Education in Pediatrics. Dr. Duffus is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology. Her role as associate director will include co-leadership of the Pediatrics Clerkship, recruitment and retainment of outpatient pediatric preceptors, integration of pediatric curricula...

From blueprint to biobank: Leveraging expert recommendations for implementing change (ERIC) to pediatric cancer biobanking in Pakistan.

May 16, 2025
Aijaz J, Raza MR, Sajid KN, Naseer F, Jawaid N, Jamal S, Bhakta N, Alexander TB, Roberts MC. PLoS One. 2025 May 16;20(5):e0321316. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0321316. eCollection 2025. PMID: 40378096.

Evaluating the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pediatric Asthma Incidence

May 14, 2025
Ashley L Devonshire, Theresa Guilbert, Cindy S Bauer, Heidi Schmidt, Stephanie Davis, Michelle Hernandez,, Anne M Fitzpatrick, Jonathan M Gaffin, Meyer Kattan, Aliva De, Daniel J Jackson, David Mauger, Wanda Phipatanakul, Justin T Schwartz, William Sheehan, Dayna Long, Lourdes Juarez, Leonard B Bacharier, Jeffrey R Stokes, Stephen J Teach, Wayne...

Piven Earns Prestigious Lifetime Award from the International Society for Autism Research

May 13, 2025
Joseph Piven, MD, the Thomas E. Castelloe Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics and director of the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities was given the award for his fundamental contributions to research on autism spectrum disorders.

Addressing food insecurity: a paediatric academic advocacy collaborative quality initiative.

May 13, 2025
Amati JBA, Mehta S, Buitrago Mogollon T, Maldonado L, Sease KK, Best D, Montez K, Vander Schaaf E, Erickson E, Holloway J, Gustafson K, Roberts J, Avery C.BMJ Open Qual. 2025 May 13;14(2):e003083. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2024-003083. PMID: 40360391.

Clinical Phenotypes of a Pediatric Cohort with GDF2-Related Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia.

May 12, 2025
Oliver O, Britt AD, Borst AJ, Goldmuntz E, Bakeer N, Lang SS, Fuller S, Vossough A, Beslow LA. J Clin Med. 2025 May 12;14(10):3359. doi: 10.3390/jcm14103359. PMID: 40429357.