Young adolescents think a child’s maturity, not necessarily age, should be a factor in when a child gets a smartphone – and they worry about using that phone to bully other children. As debate rages …
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Dr. Inga Hofmann’s Research Team Discovers Cause for Myelofibrosis
An eight-year quest to find the cause of a disease has apparently ended now that scientists at UW-Madison have identified the mutations that produce a form of myelofibrosis, a rare genetic blood disorder. Mutations in …
Pediatrics Faculty Receive UnityPoint Health Meriter Foundation Awards
Congrats to the following faculty on their recent awards from the UnityPoint Health Meriter Foundation: Elizabeth Goetz, MD, and Dinushan Kaluarachchi, MD, received $27,046 for their project, “Oxygen saturation profiles in healthy term neonates.” The …
Children’s Respiratory and Environmental Workgroup Receives New $68M Award from NIH
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the Children’s Respiratory and Environmental Workgroup (CREW) $68,808,597 for five years to continue collecting standardized data from 10 birth cohorts around the country to better understand environmental causes …
Seminars in Pediatrics 2018
Children in immigrant families, especially those who are newly arrived, may have unique health needs. Limited health literacy; cultural and language differences; medical histories that may include undiagnosed disease, infections and lack of dental care; …
PROKids Team Receives NIH Funding For PROMIS Metrics
The PROKids team, led by Elizabeth Cox, MD PhD, received new NIH funding to develop standard guidance for the use of pediatric PROMIS metrics in ambulatory clinical populations. In collaboration with leadership from prominent child …
Social Media Adolescent Health Research Team Seeks Proposals to Study Mental Wellness and Technology
The relationship between mental wellness and technology is a hot topic, yet it is underexplored, according to Megan Moreno, MD, MSEd, MPH, professor of pediatrics and director of the University of Wisconsin Social Media Adolescent …
A Combined Strategy to Treat Neuroblastoma
A new preclinical research project led by Department of Pediatrics Assistant Professor Christian Capitini, MD, aims to strengthen the pipeline of immunotherapy treatment approaches for neuroblastoma, the third most common type of childhood cancer. The …
Dr. Neha Patel to Host Symposium on Neurofibromatosis Type 1
On Saturday, October 13, Neha Patel, MD, and her team will be hosting the 2nd annual Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Symposium. This unique event is designed to help patients, parents and siblings better understand NF1, seek …
Facebook, UW School of Medicine and Public Health Team up on Social Media Research
A partnership between Facebook and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health will explore the relationship between teens use of digital technologies and their mental and social health. The research is part …