Hilary Baldwin, M.D.

• Development of Survey Tool to Assess Differences Between Hospitalist and General Pediatric Teaching Services

Theresa Barton, M.D.

• Immunogenicity of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Immuno-compromised Children
• Characteristics of S. Pneumoniae Isolates in Pneumococcal-Associated Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

Casey Drake, M.D.

• Community Acquired – Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Infection (CA-MRSA) in Children

Vanthaya Gan, M.D.

• CLIP Asthma (ExxonMobil:  Community Leadership in Preventing Asthma).  The Purpose Was to Evaluate
• The Role of Indoor Allergens in Asthma-associated Morbidity
• ACE Asthma: Inner City Asthma Consortium (ICAC): Asthma Control Evaluation (ACE):  A Biomarker-Based Approach to Improving Asthma Control.  The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.  The primary objective of the Asthma Control Evaluation study is to evaluate if the biomarker-supplemented approach to asthma therapy improves asthma outcomes (asthma symptoms days and asthma exacerbations) as compared to a guideline-based approach without the use of a specific biomarker.  The biomarker to be evaluated in this protocol will be exhaled nitric oxide (eNO)
• Caregiver Psychiatric Symptomatology and its Relationship to Service Utilization by Children with Asthma:  Texas Higher Education Coordination Board:  To evaluate the relationship between caregiver psychiatric symptoms (Depression) to their children' asthma symptom, their health care utilization
• Indoor Allergen prevention education in Asthmatic.  The study would evaluate the effectiveness of dust mite education (including the placement of allergy covers over the mattress) on asthma morbidity in a subset of children who admitted to CMCD with asthma
• Pediatric TEDAS: Texas Emergency Department Surveillance: Partnership with institutions that address health care needs of pediatric asthma in Texas: Pilot project – planning in progress
• Student Research Supervision: Faculty mentor for John Alexander MS III for the MD with Distinction in Research Program:  Patient-based research-Asthma Screening Project

Patricia Hicks, M.D.

• BEAM Study (NICHD)-Randomized clinical trial on the beneficial effect of antenatal magnesium sulfate
• NICHD Neonatal Research Network Follow-up LBW Studies
• Steroid Study (NICHD) Randomized Clinical Trial on the Beneficial Effect of Antenatal Magnesium Sulfate
• Effect of Gatifloxacin on Carriage Streptococcus Pneumoniae and Haemophilus Influenzae in Children Treated for Recurrent or Persistent Otitis Media-sponsored By Bristol Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals
• A Phase III Double-blind, Randomized, Comparative, Multi-center Study of the Immunogenicity and Safety of Three Doses of GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals’ Thimerasol-free Hepatitis B Vaccine (10 mcg/0.5ml) Compared to the US-licensed GlaxoSmithKline
• Biologicals’ Preservative-free Hepatitis B Vaccine (Engerix-B®, 10mcg/0.5mL) When Administered Intramuscularly on a 0,1, 6 Month Schedule to Healthy Infants In Their First Two Weeks of Life – Sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals
• Pre-booster concentration of Anti-Hib Antibodies in Serum Samples Obtained from Infants (12 to 15 Months of Age) who Have Completed the Primary Series of Vaccination with Licensed Hib Vaccine-sponsored by Aventis Pasteur Pharmaceuticals

Dawn Johnson, M.D.

• Occult Liver Damage in Physically Abused Children

Angela Mix, D.O.

• EMLA Study Abstract Completed:  Final Phase of Enrollment This Winter and Paper to Follow