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Research
Highlights
Grants
/ Funding
Couroucli,
Xanthi, MD. Cytochrome P450 regulation by hyperoxia and nitric
oxide, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, $598,825.
Events
Diane
Anderson, RD, LD, PhD,
- Program Director, Neonatal Nutrition Conference, Houston,
supported in part by a grant from the Department of Health and
Human Services, Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA)
and Maternal Child Health Bureau (MCHB).
- appointed to the Pediatric Weight Management Certificate Program
Committee, Commission of Dietetic Registration, March 2002.
- appointed advisor by American Dietetic Association’s Pediatric
Nutrition Practice Group in revising the book Preparation of
formula for infants in health care facilities.
William
D. Clark, MD and Camellia Fituch, MD received the Arnold J.
Rudolph Award at the 7th Annual Rudolph Memorial Grand Rounds,
February 2002.
Charleta
Guillory, MD, elected March of Dimes Gulf Coast Chapter representative
to March of Dimes State Public Affairs Committee, 2002-03.
Michael
E. Speer, MD
- course organizer and senior course director for the AAP “Perinatal
Workshop on Practice,” Scottsdale, Arizona, April 2002.
- participating member of American Academy of Pediatrics Neonatal
Resuscitation Program Steering Committee strategic planning
meeting, Chicago, March 2002.
- AAP liaison and participant in the final meeting of the American
College of Obstetrics and Gynecology Task Force on Neonatal
Encephalopathy to develop a white paper, Washington, DC, April
2002.
Marlene
Walden, PhD appointed a member of the Executive Board of Directors
for the Texas Perinatal Association, January 2002.
Presentations
Gerardo
Cabrera-Meza, MD
- presented “Environmental Neonatology” at a neonatal developmental
care course for nurses at The Hospital Angeles de las Lomas
and Hospital Infantil Privado, Mexico City, Mexico, April 2002.
- participant in the Workshop for Medical Schools Faculty to
Consolidate the IMCI Textbook, sponsored by the Pan American
Health Organization/world Health Organization, in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, April 2002.
Patricia
Ramsay, MD
- invited speaker; topic: “Respiratory epithelial cell gene
expressions relevant to bronchopulmonary dysplasia” at Baylor
University Medical Center, Dallas, February 2002.
- invited speaker; topic: “Molecular mechanisms of oxygen-induced
repression of the clara cell secretory protein gene” at Children’s
Research Institute, Columbus, Ohio, February 2002.
Marlene
Walden, PhD co-presented “Symposium: Methodological considerations
for physiologic research,” 16th Annual Conference, Southern Nursing
Research Society, San Antonio, Texas, February 2002.
Leonard
E. Weisman, MD, presented “RSV: Current prevention strategies
in high-risk infants” at the Japanese Pediatric Society Annual
Meeting, Nagoya, Japan, April 2002.
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