With several faculty funded by the National Institutes of Health, as well as several other faculty funded with foundation grant support, Critical Care Medicine’s research agenda includes
- Development of a vaccine against bacteria that is a leading cause of death in children
- Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of pulmonary hypertension
- Identifying the genes that predispose healthy infants to develop respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis, and
- Investigating novel measures of lung volume
- Investigation of perfluorocarbon-mediated gas exchange in pediatric respiratory failure
- Novel modes of ventilation in pediatric respiratory failure utilizing a large animal model
- Bench work on metabolic and nutritional derangements in the critically pediatric patient
- Efficacy of procedures used in neonatal and pediatric transport
- Use of simulator technology to teach crisis management through observational studies in the field
- Withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy
- Brain death and organ transplantation
- The ethics of randomized clinical trials
- Advancing innovations in postgraduate medical education
- Applying innovative medical educational technologies globally
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