Pediatrics

Emily Meier, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, was interviewed by The Washington Post to discuss treating patients with sickle cell disease and medical progress made to treat the disease.

Gerard Martin, M.D., professor of pediatrics, wrote a post for the blog ACC in Touch about physicians tackling public health funding for their congenital heart disease patients. 

Kanishka Ratnayaka, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, was featured in the Ugandan newspaper New Vision, for his work at the Ugandan Health Institute this week training physicians and performing surgeries.

Stephen Teach, M.D., professor of pediatrics, was quoted in a Medscape Medical News article on research finding that giving children with acute asthma flare-ups one or two doses of dexamethasone in the emergency department provides equivalent relief to a five-day course of prednisone while reducing…

Stephen Teach, M.D., professor of pediatrics, was interviewed by ABC7 on parents being distracted by mobile devices leading to the ineffective supervision of children. 

Lee Ann Beers, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, was quoted in The Washington Post article on Phillip Seymour Hoffman's heroin overdose and how to talk to children about substance abuse.

Vittorio Gallo, Ph.D., professor of pediatrics, was featured in Medical Daily for his research finding a “potentially novel therapeutic target” to reduce the rate of deterioration and to promote growth of brain cells damaged by multiple sclerosis (MS).

Vittorio Gallo, Ph.D., director of the Center for Neuroscience Research at Children’s National Health System and professor of pediatrics, and other researchers have found a “potentially novel therapeutic target” to reduce the rate of deterioration and to promote growth of brain cells damaged by…

Gerard Martin, M.D., professor of pediatrics, was mentioned in a Becker’s Clinical Quality & Infection Control article for his support of pulse oximetry screening to help ensure CCHD identification occurred as quickly as possible, improving outcomes for some of the sickest patients.

 Vittorio Gallo, Ph.D., professor of pediatrics, and Joseph Scafidi, M.D., assistant professor of neurology, were interviewed by NPR's Shots for a story on their research finding that a naturally occurring substance called epidermal growth factor appears to reverse a type of brain damage that'…