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CPCE is accepting applications to our Pilot Grant Program through October 2.
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Spotlight on:
Dr. Sen Virudachalam
Dr. Virudachalam leads the Home Plate program, a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a peer-mentored intervention focused on improving
food preparation practices
among parents of toddlers.
More broadly, Dr. Virudachalam is interested in understanding how best to promote positive health behaviors starting from early childhood, both in community and home-based settings.
Dr. Virudachalam's nomination to the Health Hero Challenge is timely, because September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. Childhood obesity puts kids at risk for chronic health problems, but the good news is that it can be prevented. Communities, families, and health professionals can work together to encourage kids to be physically active and eat healthy diets.
Please support Dr. Virudachalam by voting
here
. Voting continues through September 18, and individuals may vote once per day.
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2017-2018 Faculty Luncheon Series Session 1: Presentations by the 2017 Awardees for Excellence in Mentoring Research Trainees
Date: September 8, 2017
Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Location: Abramson Research Center 123-ABC
Presenters: Daniel Licht, MD, Matthew Weitzman, PhD , Joanne Wood, MD, MSHP
Symposium on Integrative Health: Advances in Research and Evidence-based Practice
Date: September 15, 2017
Time: 7:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: Colket Translational Research Building
The evidence base for integrative medicine interventions is growing, and patients and families are increasingly using integrative modalities and expecting physicians and allied health professionals to offer guidance on their use. This one-day symposium will offer healthcare practitioners a review of the evidence on common integrative modalities and their application to clinical practice. For more information and to register, click
here.
Penn LDI 50th Anniversary Symposium
Date: October 5 - 6, 2017
Location: The Inn at Penn, 3600 Sansom Street
Join in a collaborative exchange of ideas on novel solutions to today’s health care challenges, together with leaders in health care policy and practice from academia, government, and the private sector. For more information and to register, click
here.
CHOP Pediatric Global Health Conference
Date: October 6 - 7, 2017
Location: CHOP Colket Translational Research Building
This conference will explore the state of immigrant and refugee health from a global, national and local perspective. Attendees will gain clinical, advocacy, public health and research tools to better serve these populations. Cases, discussions and stories will help us better understand the context of those who leave their homes seeking a better life. Find additional information online
here.
Mid-Atlantic Bioinformatics Conference
Date: October 10, 2017
Location: Colket Translational Research Building
Presented by the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHi) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn's Institute for Biomedical Informatics (IBI), the second annual Mid-Atlantic Bioinformatics Conference will feature a distinguished line-up of internationally recognized speakers who will discuss the role of epigenetics and 3-dimensional chromatin organization as it relates to primary analysis, integration with large-scale data from adult and pediatric data sets, and the growing challenges in integrating epigenomic data with other types of omics data in the era of precision medicine. For additional information and to register, click
here.
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Dr. Fiks and colleagues evaluated a distance-learning, quality improvement intervention to improve pediatric primary care provider use of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) rating scales.
Parents may experience psychological distress when a child is acutely hospitalized, which can negatively affect child outcomes. Interventions designed to support parents' coping have the potential to mitigate this distress. CPCE researchers conducted a review of peer-reviewed published articles to identify interventions designed to provide coping support to parents of hospitalized children and conduct a meta-analysis of coping support intervention outcomes (parent anxiety, depression, and stress).
Calls for public reporting of outcomes in congenital heart surgery have led to several different reporting schemes, including a star rating system and benchmark procedure-specific mortality data tables. Unanswered questions remain about the optimal format for public reporting of congenital heart surgery outcomes. In conjunction with three parent advocacy groups, Dr. Feudtner and colleagues developed a questionnaire to gauge parents' attitudes regarding the format and content of an "optimal" public reporting scheme.
Continuous-flow ventricular assist devices (CF VADs) designed for adults are increasingly used in pediatric patients. However, there is greater risk of device inflow obstruction as a result of size and anatomy.
Antibiotics are often employed after discharge to prevent treatment failure in children with complicated appendicitis, although existing studies comparing intravenous and oral antibiotics for this purpose are limited. Dr. Keren and other members of the Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) Network compared treatment failure leading to hospital readmission in children with complicated appendicitis who received oral versus intravenous antibiotics after discharge.
National guidelines recommend blood cultures for children hospitalized with presumed bacterial community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) that is moderate or severe. This cross-sectional study sought to determine the prevalence of bacteremia and characterize the microbiology and penicillin-susceptibility patterns of positive blood culture results among children hospitalized with CAP.
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Grants of up to $130,000 over two years will be awarded to junior faculty researchers for innovative translational research projects in hematology/oncology, with a focus on hematologic malignancies, that can be either based around a clinical trial with strong correlative science or laboratory investigation. To be eligible, applicants must hold an M.D., D.O., Ph.D., or equivalent degree at time of award and be within five years of initial faculty appointment.
As the charitable foundation for the American College of Chest Physicians, the CHEST Foundation has a mission of championing lung health by supporting clinical research, patient education, and community service. Grants of up to $15,000 will be awarded to healthcare professionals in nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations who donate their time and medical expertise to community-based projects that demonstrate a clear positive impact on the lung health of that community and have the potential for long-term sustainability and reproducibility.
CCF currently is accepting applications for its Career Development Award, an annual research program that provides funding to clinical investigators who have received their initial faculty appointment to establish an independent clinical cancer research program. A single grant of $200,000 over three years will be awarded in support of research with a patient-oriented focus. To be eligible, applicants must be a physician within the first to third year of a full-time primary faculty appointment in a clinical department at an academic medical institution, without an existing career development award (such as K23, K08).
The American Association for Cancer Research is accepting applications for its AACR NextGen Grants for Transformative Cancer Research program. The annual program is designed to to stimulate highly innovative research from young investigators. Three-year grants of up to $450,000 will be awarded in support of creative, paradigm-shifting cancer research that might not be funded through conventional channels. To be eligible, applicants must have a doctoral degree. At the start of the grant term on July 1, 2018, applicants must hold a tenure-eligible appointment at the level of assistant professor; have held this appointment for no more than three years; and work at an academic, medical, or research institution anywhere in the world. AACR membership is required.
The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood is intended to be an incubator of promising research and development projects that may ultimately enhance the development, health, safety, education or quality of life of children from infancy through seven years of age across the country. Each of its grants is made with the expectation that a successful project outcome will be of significant interest to other investigators or developers, within the grantee’s field of endeavor, and will be amenable to beneficial application or adaptation elsewhere. In essence, the foundation’s goal is to provide seed money for those imaginative endeavors, addressed to the needs of young children, which appear most likely to bear fruit on a national scale.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) will release a new Funding Announcement (PFA) on Implementation of Effective Shared Decision Making Approaches in Practice Settings on September 1, 2017.
The American Kidney Fund Clinical Scientist in Nephrology (CSN) fellowship program enhances the training of nephrologists who wish to pursue an academic career and whose primary professional commitment is to scholarship in the provision of patient care. CSN fellows conduct prevention and outcomes research while receiving advanced training in essential skills such as medical ethics, biostatistics and epidemiology.
Last year, the NIH received approximately $30 billion in federal support. In spite of this amount, about 42,500 grants were not funded. To address these unfunded proposals, the NIH has a new Pilot Program that is designed to match researchers with nonprofit disease Foundations or with investments from private companies. Through a new collaboration between the NIH and the private contractor Leidos, researchers can now upload their unfunded NIH Proposals into an online portal at the Online Partnership to Accelerate Research (OnPAR). Foundations and other potential funders can review the NIH scores, and decide whether they might be interested in funding the Projects. Currently, this Pilot Program allows researchers with priority scores better than the 30th percentile to submit their abstracts. Interested Foundations might ask that a researcher send their full NIH Application along with its scores. The consensus opinion is that there are a lot of worthy grants being submitted to the NIH, but there is only so much funding available. OnPAR is one way of trying to match researchers with private Foundations.
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About CPCE
We are a pediatric research center dedicated to discovering and sharing knowledge about best practices in pediatric care by facilitating, organizing and centralizing the performance of clinical effectiveness research -- research aimed at understanding the best ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases in children. CPCE’s multidisciplinary team conducts research on a diverse range of clinical effectiveness topics grouped within four areas of research:
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