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 …
UW Health Primary Care Clinics Lead the Way in Immunization Rates
Through incredible teamwork to raise awareness about the importance of childhood and adolescent immunizations and vaccinations, UW Health primary care clinics achieved impressive rankings for immunizations, as measured by the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality. …
How Young Teens See the Smartphone Debate: UW Research Provides Novel Findings
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 …
Paul Sondel, MD, PhD and Team Awarded U54 Subaward from NIH/NCI and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Congratulations to Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, Subaward Principal Investigator, and UW Team Members, Amy Erbe-Gurel, PhD, Jacquelyn Hank, PhD, Zachary Morris, MD, PhD, and Alexander Rakhmilevich, MD, PhD, for their recent subaward through the Children’s …
Dr. Elizabeth Cox Publishes New Findings on PROMIS Metrics
Elizabeth D. Cox, MD, PhD and colleagues recently published new findings about the content validity of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System® (PROMIS®) Family Relationships measure in the journal, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. …
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 …
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; …
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 …
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 …