Research

Rainbow has a long-standing tradition of providing a comprehensive research curriculum for pediatric residents. We have created a unique, longitudinal research curriculum which allows residents ample time to complete meaningful scholarly work, while also allowing for ample flexibility in elective scheduling. Residents work on their projects throughout their residency and may use a 4-week elective block in their final years of training to complete their work.

We provide a two part didactic curriculum consisting of a two- track morning series repeated annually.

• Basic track with lectures designed for residents in the planning and early stages of project
• Advanced track for residents currently working on project

Our curriculum culminates each year with our annual Science Day. This gives our graduating residents the opportunity to present their work to their faculty and peers. With the resources of our large, accomplished faculty as well as a dedicated biostatistician and program microgrants to fund projects, our residents have had the opportunity to share their work both locally, regionally and nationally.

We are proud to share a bibliography of some recent products from our curriculum:

Yeo KT, Zhu X, Kirchner HL et al. Candida is a poor adjuct to tuberculin skin testing in international adoptees Pediatr Infect Dis J 2009 Nov ; 28:1020-1

Dauk K, Comrov E, Blumer J, O'Riordan MA, Furman L. Tinea capitis:predictive value of symptoms and time to cure with griseofulvin treatment, Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 49, No. 3, 280-286 (2010)

Chow B, Esper F , "The Human Bocaviruses: A Review and Discussion of Their Role in Infection "; Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, 2009, 29(4): 695-713

Chow B, Ou Z, Esper F. Newly recognized bocaviruses (HBoV, HBoV2) in children and adults with gastrointestinal illness in the United States. Journal of Clinical Virology 2010 Feb;47(2):143-147

Bailey, NA, O'Riordan M, Bhola, M, Association of Short Term Magnesium Sulfate Exposure in Term Newborns and the Need for Delivery Room Resuscitation, poster presentation at Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, May 2010, Vancouver, BC

Priola, G, Bryson, H, O'Riordan MA, Lyren, A, The First Patient Death: Reflections and Recommendations for the Training of Young Pediatricians, poster presentation at Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, May 2010, Vancouver, BC

Bryson, H, Priola, G, O'Riordan MA, Lyren, A, Factors Involved in Pediatrician Response to Patient Death and Use of Coping Mechanisms, poster presentation at Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, May 2010, Vancouver, BC

Goswami D, Dugan M, O’Riordan, MA, Mason K, Retrospective cohort study of infants with bronchiolitis and apnea on and off caffeine, poster presentation at SCCM, Jan 2010 Miami, FL

Griswold K, Vergales B, O'Riordan MA, Walsh M, Evaluating the Cutoff Values of 17-OH Progesterone in Premature Infants, poster presentation at Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, May 2010, Vancouver, BC

Chuang J, Ivers-Landis C, Kutchman, E, Narasimhan, S, Uli, N, Lawhun, S, Starkhoff, B, Schmitt, A, O' Riordan, M, Cuttler, L, Relationships of sleep duration and regularity with baseline adiposity and treatment outcome in youth enrolled in a weight loss program, poster presentation at Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, May 2010, Vancouver, BC

Dugan M, Karol S, Payne W, Prince B, O’Riordan MA, Leonard E, Lyren A, The Pediatric Early Warning Score: An Objective Scoring System to Identify Children At Risk for Clinical Deterioration, platform presentation at the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Conference, July 2011, Kansas City, MO

Karol S, O’Riordan, MA, Auletta J, Evaluation of Differential Time-to-Positive (DTP) as an Early Marker for Central-Venous Catheter Removal in Pediatric Oncology Patients, poster presentation at ASPHO (American Society of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology) Meeting, November 2011, Baltimore, MD

Stark, A, Splitek, K, O’Riordan, M, Lazebnik, R, Adolescent Awareness of Rape Crisis counseling Services and Attitudes Towards Disclosure of Sexual Assault, poster presentation at Society for Adolescent Medicine, March 2011, Seattle, WA

Akuete K, Oh SS, Thyne S, Rodriguez-Santana JR, Chapela R, Meade K, Rodriguez-Cintron W, Lenoir M, Ford JG, Williams LK, Avila PC, González Burchard E, Tcheurekdjian H, Ethnic Variability in Persistent Asthma After In Utero Tobacco Exposure, Pediatrics, 2011 Aug 22.

Huang, A.Y., Myers, J., Greiwe, J., Rivera, N. Direct Visualization of Stromal Toll-like Receptor-Dependent Granulocyte Mobilization in the Bone Marrow Following Sepsis, ASPHO 24th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, April 13-16, 2011

Myers, J.T., Greiwe, J.C., Nelki, R., Huang, A.Y. Real-time Imaging of Bone Marrow Granulocyte Mobilization in Response to TLR Agonists Demonstrates a Necessity for Stromal TLR4, M&M2011 Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, August 16-18, 2011.

Rotz S, Sopirala MM. Assessment beyond central line bundle: Audits for line necessity in infected central lines in a surgical intensive care unit. Am J Infect Control. 2011 Sept (epub ahead of print)

Rotz SR, Podas PV. Follow Up of cerebral vascular events in pediatric patients with Sickle Cell Disease after hematopoietic stem cell transplant: A review of the Literature. Sickle Cell Disease Association of America Annual Convention, September 2011, Memphis, TN

Navin K. Vij, MD, Christopher C. Stryker, MD, Frank P. Esper, MD, Michael R. Jacobs, MD, PhD, and Blanca E. Gonzalez, MD Influenza A/H1N1/09-10 Infections in a NICU During the 2009 - 2010 H1N1 Pandemic Accepted for publication: PEDIATRICS Volume 128, Number 5, November 2011

Diaphragm dysfunction with congenital cytomegalovirus infection. K Izumi1,2,3, I Hokuto4, S Yamaguchi5, A Uezono4, K Ikeda4, L Rice3, SE McCandless1,2,3 and DI Craven. Journal of Perinatology (2010), 1–4