Scholarly Activities
The pediatric residents are associated with a department that is active in research. Excellent clinical and basic science faculty research is ongoing at Advocate Christ Medical Center, Advocate Hope Children's Hospital, the nearby High Tech Medical Park, and our affiliate institutions across the Advocate system. Pediatric residents are encouraged and supported to:
- complete a research project or paper during their training (but not required to do so).
- present their work at local and national academic meetings. Residents may apply for research funding through the hospital's Med Fund.
To encourage scholarly activity, a PGY III rotation ("Academic") requires a resident to complete three projects (research project or case report; a multiple-choice question formal board review; and weekly student lectures).
In the past five years, members of the Department of Pediatrics have
published over 200 journal articles and book chapters, been primary authors
of three major textbooks, and made over 300 presentations at national and
international scientific meetings. There are currently 32 ongoing basic
science and/or clinical research projects in Pediatrics, including:
- Myosin heavy chain expression in cardiac development and hypertrophy
- AV node function in atrial fibrillation
- Sudden death in cardiomyopathy
- Nitrogen balance in critically ill children
- Nebulized papaverine in domestic swine with induced acute lung injury
- The effect of amrinone and milrinone on systemic inflammatory response and tumor necrosis factor alpha levels during endotoxemia
- Growth patterns of premature infants with multiple risk factors
- Drug therapy in childhood obesity
- Epidemiology of juvenile diabetes in Chicago
- Efficacy of growth hormone therapy
- Clinical prognostic factors in Kawasaki disease
- Evaluation of an Evidence-Based Medicine curriculum
- The association of chylous ascites and Diamond Blackfan anemia
- Identification of the receptor for respiratory syncytial virus
- Use of fosinopril, ramipril, and irbesartan in childhood hypertension
- Management of mucus plugs in plastic bronchitis
- Oncology: active research trials (many of which are national multi-center trials) for neuroblastoma, leukemia and lymphoma, astrocytoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, Wilm's tumor and Hodgkin disease, as well as in cytogenetics, infant bone marrow transplantation, and the use of tissue plasminogen activator
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