Department of Pediatrics publications and presentations, November 2024
Publications
Over the past month, members of the Department of Pediatrics have published important research in respected journals and been accepted to present at renowned conferences. Congratulations to:
- Ricardo Mosquera, MD, MPH (Professor and Director, Pulmonary and Sleep Division), et al.: “Evaluation of Open-Source Ciliary Analysis Software in Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia: A Comparative Assessment (external link) ”
- Julie Eapen, MD; Maria Caldas-Vasquez , MD; Tomika Harris, Katrina McBeth , MD; Fatima Boricha , MD, FAAP; Janice John, Ivan Magana Ceballos , MD; Giuseppe Colasurdo , MD; Maria Tellez, Tina Reddy, et al.: “Effect of an In-Home Palivizumab Administration Program for Children with Medical Complexity (external link) ”
- Matthew Rysavy, MD, PhD (Assistant Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine); Jon Tyson, MD, MPH (Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine), et al.: “Trends in sex differences in neurodevelopmental outcomes among extremely preterm infants (external link)“
- Dr. Rysavy; Dr. Tyson; Claudia Pedroza, PhD (Associate Professor); Yuxin Zhang, PhD; et al.: “Surgical Necrotizing Enterocolitis and Spontaneous Intestinal Perforation Lead to Severe Growth Failure in Infants (external link)“
- Jon Tyson, et al.: “Cerebral injury and retinopathy as risk factors for blindness in extremely preterm infants (external link)“
- Matthew Rysavy, et al.: “Comparing methods for risk prediction of multicategory outcomes: dichotomized logistic regression vs. multinomial logit regression (external link)“
- Maria del Mar Romero López, MD, MS, PhD; Lindsay Holzapfel, MD, MS; Matthew Rysavy; Covi Tibe, BS; Jon Tyson; et al. research (external link) cited in: “Vitamin D for very preterm infants—determining the how, when, and why (external link)“
Presentations
Michael Chang, MD (Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases), and Misti Ellsworth, DO (Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases), were lead presenters at the Symposium for Antimicrobial Stewardship on November 21.
Tricia Zucker, PhD (Professor and Co-director of Children’s Learning Institute), provided an update on the Children’s Learning Institute at the McGovern Medical School State of the School Address held at the Sarofim Research Building on November 18.
The Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Division had the biggest list in recent memory of accepted abstracts to be presented at the Southern Society for Pediatric Research (external link) (SSPR) Annual Meeting — 18! Several team members are also receiving honors in conjunction with this event.
SSPR Annual Meeting is set for February 13 to 15, 2025, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
| Presenter and Faculty Mentor (if applicable) | Abstract and Format |
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Maisie Nievera/ Amir Khan, MD Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Division |
Predicting Outcomes of Preterm Infants with Complex Congenital Heart Defects (Poster Presentation) |
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Gracelyn Mechem/ Joseph Alcorn, PhD Associate Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Pediatric Research Center |
Impact of Surfactant Protein-A on Expression of Inflammatory Cytokine and Toll-Like Receptor 4 Expression in Alveolar Epithelial and Macrophage Cells Under Hyperoxic Conditions (Oral Presentation) |
| Joseph Alcorn, PhD |
Surfactant Protein-A Exacerbates Lung Damage, Neutrophil Infiltration and Expression of Inflammatory Cytokine mRNA in Mice Exposed to Prolonged Hyperoxia (Oral Presentation) |
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Thu Tran, DO Assistant Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine |
TICAM2 Alveolar Epithelial Derived MIR-147B Provides Lung Protection During Acute Lung Injury Through Repression of TICAM2 (Oral Presentation) |
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Jason Lin/ Thu Tran, DO |
Effects of Neonatal Resuscitation Program Oxygen Initiation Guidelines on Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (Oral Presentation) |
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Isha Pahrik/ Lindsay Holzapfel, MD, MS Assistant Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine |
Evaluating Accuracy of Electrolyte and Blood Gas Level Point of Care Testing Among Inborn Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Oral Presentation) |
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Madison Horn/ Jaclyn E. Ruggiero, MD Assistant Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine |
Fostering Kangaroo Care: An Intervention for Parental Education and Involvement in a Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) (Poster Presentation) |
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Kate McGarrity/ Allison J. Davidson, DO Assistant Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Jaclyn E. Ruggiero, MD |
Navigating the Journey Home: The Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Length of Stay for Neonates Discharged with Respiratory Support from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) (Poster Presentation) |
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Tina O. Findley, MD Associate Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine |
Maternal Supplementation with Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) and Arachidonic Acid (AA) Enhances Brain Growth in Neonatal Mice (Oral Presentation) |
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Natalie Lanners/ Tina O. Findley, MD |
Placental Dysfunction and Congenital Heart Disease: Investigating the Placenta-Heart Axis (Oral Presentation) |
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Katherine Le/ Tina O. Findley, MD |
Single-Nucleus Transcriptomic Profiling Reveals Dysmaturity of Ventricular cardiomyocytes in Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease (Oral Presentation) |
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Anna Melendez-Smith/ Lydia S. Youmans, MD Assistant Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine |
Feeding Patterns and Practices in Myelomeningocele Infants Undergoing In-Utero vs. Post-Natal Repair in the NICU (Oral Presentation) |
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Erin Kim/ Maria del Mar Romero Lopez, MD, MS, PhD Assistant Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and the Institute for Clinical Research and Learning Health Care |
Do Early Stool Patterns in the Most Extremely Preterm Infants Influence Feeding, Growth, and Bowel Injury? (Poster Presentation) |
| Maria del Mar Romero Lopez, MD, MS, PhD |
Tibial Speed of Sound in Extremely Preterm Infants: Inter-Rater and Intra-Rater Reliability (Oral Presentation) |
| Maria del Mar Romero Lopez, MD, MS, PhD |
Metabolic Bone Disease in Extremely Preterm Infants: Risk Factors and Outcomes (Oral Presentation) |
| Maria del Mar Romero Lopez, MD, MS, PhD |
Exploratory Analysis of Association between 25-hydroxyvitamin D and Neonatal Acute Kidney Injury in Preterm Infants: a ViDES Study Preliminary Analysis (Poster Presentation) |
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Frank Abene, DO Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellow, class of 2025 |
Feasibility of Characterizing Ciliary Function in Extremely Premature Infants with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (Oral Presentation) |
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Aman Jain, MD Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellow, class of 2025 |
The Relationship of Glucosuria with Blood Glucose, Urine Output, and Weight Loss in Extremely Preterm Infants (Oral Presentation) |