Research
Research
The LSU Department of Pediatrics is dedicated to enhancing pediatric health by fostering the research efforts of our faculty and trainees. Through research, we aim to improve the lives of children and their families by discovering new cures, refining diagnostic and management strategies, and advancing health outcomes for all children. Our strong commitment to research empowers our faculty and trainees to develop innovative methodologies that enhance the health and quality of life for children and their families. This is achieved by promoting scholarly activity through comprehensive research training, collaboration, and the dissemination of findings, thereby enabling medical discovery to thrive.
Below is a list of select publications categorized by specialty divisions:
Allergy/Immunology
Asthma and Obesity: Weight Loss and Inflammatory Markers
Tuberculosis, a model for Translational Research
Role of IgIV in the induction of antibody response in vitro in patients unresponsive to bacterial vaccine antigens in vivo
Cellular and molecular basis of the immune response in specific antibody deficiency.
Ambulatory Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Resiliency Education to Reduce Depression Disparities_Workgroup, Co-I Pasternak
CPPRN Linked LA County Services Dataset, Co-I Pasternak
Community Resilience Learning Collaborative and Research Network, Co-I Pasternak
Community and Patient Partnered Research Network (CPPRN) - Direct Point-of-Service Screening and Enrollment, Co-I: Pasternak
Mind the Gaps: The Contraceptive Experiences of Parenting Adolescents, La-CATS Roadmap Scholar Grant, PI: Dumas
Growing Together: A Mentorship and Support Network for Adolescent Parents, La-CATS Community Scholars, PI: Dumas
Young Mothers Study: A Medical Home Intervention for Parenting Adolescents, LSUHSC Intramural Grant, PI: Dumas
School-Based Medical Clinic Expansion to Provide Adolescent Mental Health Services, PI: Pasternak
Safer Sex Intervention Evaluation,Office of Adolescent Health HRSA, PI: Pasternak (completed)
Clinical Quality Improvement (CQI) for a SBHC Network, PI: Pasternak
Community and Patient Partnered Research Network (CPPRN) PI: Pasternak, Springgate
Growing Young Families Together: Qualitative Exploration of Unmet Needs of Teen Parents, American Academy of Pediatrics PI: Dumas (Completed)
Understanding Kids First Tiger Care Patient Population: Retrospective Data Analysis, PI: Pasternak
NOLA medical home for LGBT Youth: Focus Group Study, PI: Dumas (Completed)
Healthy Families Text: Efficacy of a text-messaging intervention to reduce weight for length percentile and growth velocity in infants 0-18 months at risk for obesity, PI: Lefevre, Co-I Morgan
Critical Care
Residents Perceptions of Social Media and Professionalism
Faculty Development
The Discordance of Ethical Beliefs and Practices in the Management of Chronic Respiratory
Failure in Permanently Comatose Children
Incorporating Enhanced Dialogs and Open but Anonymous Audience Attitude Assessments
Using a Computerized Audience Response System to Teach Medical Ethics
Examining Perspectives on Physicians' Duty, Risk and Burden in Quotidian and Exceptional
Conditions
Endocrinology
Mechanisms of Biologic Variation in Hemoglobin Glycation
The Study of Insulin Sensitivity in Low-Birth weight Louisiana Youth (The Silly Study)
Supporting documents [in PDF format] for "Hypokalemia and Alkalosis in Adipsic Hypernatremia are not Associated with Hyperaldosteronism" by by Michael Y. Torchinsky, MD; Stephen Deputy, MD; Fred Rambeau, BS; and Stuart A. Chalew, MD, to be published in Hormone Research
Gastroenterology
Amitriptyline for Moving Children from Tube to Oral Feeding
Neurogastroenterology and Motility
Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis
Childhood Obesity
Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
Magnet Ingestions
Pyloric Flow Measured by Intrapulmonary Impedance
Gabapentin for Feeding Difficulties After Cardiac Surgery
Disability in Children and Adolescents with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and/or
Fibromyalgia
Hematology/Oncology
Children's Oncology Group (COG) Clinical Treatment Protocols: We offer the most current protocols for treatment of leukemia, lymphoma, CNS tumors, sarcomas, and other cancers seen in the pediatric population. We are members of the Pediatric consortium of institutions offering childhood cancer treatment, the Children's Oncology Group (COG), and thus have access to the most recent and promising advances in the understanding and treatment of childhood cancer.
PBMTC clinical treatment protocols
Non-ablative SCT for pediatric hemoglobinopathy patients
Cord blood transplantation in sickle cell disease/thalassemia patients (Celgene-sponsored)
CD34-selected stem cells for transplantation
Co-transfer of Dendritic cell precursors and Cytokine stimullation to accelerate immune
recovery following hematopoietic stem cell transplant.
Infectious Disease
Rotavirus VLPs in plants as vaccine candidate
Rotavirus VLPs as vaccine candidates
Development of a vaccine against Helicobacter pylori
Clinical and genetic surveillance of rotavirus in New Orleans
Evaluation of rotavirus vaccine efficacy
Neonatology
Carnitine palmitoyltransferase-1 in neonatal pig heart
Nephrology
Cardiovascular Disease in Chronic Kidney Disease and Dialysis
Cardiovascular Risk in Pediatric Transplant Patients
Multicenter clinical trial of focal glomeruloschelrosis in children and young adults
Mechanisms and Treatment of Inflammation in Chronic Kidney Disease and Dialysis
Malnutrition-Inflammation Complex (MIC) in Chronic Kidney Disease and Dialysis
Prenatal and Perinatal Programming of Adult Hypertension
Tulane Hypertension & Renal Center of Excellence