Our current Fellows and their current reseach projects are:
Third year 2007-2010:
Jamie Jones, DO: Quality improvement project evaluating the current practices of obtaining blood cultures to diagnose and treat neonatal sepsis.
Stephen Wade, MD: Quality improvement project to evaluate a protocol defining routine screening for pulmonary hypertension in infants with chronic lung disease. Also, evaluating cardiac echocardiogram interreader reliability when screeeing for neonatal pulmonary hypertension.
Second year 2008-2011:
Julie Gooding, MD: Quality improvement project evaluating the impact of providing banked donor breast milk to preterm VLBW infants on growth and risk for late onset neonatal sepsis.
Rebecca Raczynski, MD: Study of the effect of sepsis on amplitude-integrated EEG in extremely low gestational age newborns.
First year 2009-2012:
Kristen Boswell, MD:
Caroline Hetu, MD:
Other opportunities for scholarly projects include participation in ongoing research studies as follows:
1) Blood pressure during adolescence in very low birth weight children at 14 years of age
2) Heart rate characteristics monitoring for early diagnosis of sepsis: a randomized controlled trial
3) Maternally administered interventions for very low birth weight infants: a randomized trial
4) Case control study of the genetic determinants of intraventricular hemorrhage
Previous Fellows