Covid-19 Research at UH

Studies & Trials Not Actively Recruiting

Protective Behaviors, Care Experience, and Health Outcomes of Underserved Cancer Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Principal Investigator: Cynthia Owusu, MD
This study is aims to understand how cancer patients protect themselves at home against COVID-19, what helps or hinders their prevention efforts, experiences of cancer and health care disruption, socioeconomic unmet needs, and the impact of these factors on their health during the pandemic.

Factors Influencing Nurses' Stress and Growth during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Patricia Beam, DNP, RN, NPD-BC
This study aims to describe COVID-19 work-related disruption and personal exposure to nurses, the nature and frequency of organizational supports used by nurses and examine nurses’ positive and negative responses.

Blood Coagulation Findings in Hospitalized Pediatrics Patients with COVID-19

Sanjay Ahuja, MD
The purpose of this study is to determine whether coagulation activation markers can predict the severity of illness in PIMS patients. The aims of the study are to describe the coagulation dysfunction in patients with PIMS, including abnormal coagulation screens, D-dimers, fibrinogen, and other markers of hemostasis by collecting data from the clinical records of patients to describe the coagulation abnormalities, and to correlate the abnormalities in the coagulation parameters to severity of illness and inflammatory markers such as CRP and ESR.

Prenatal Care Adequacy During COVID-19

Kerri Brackney, MD
Dr. Brackney is conducting a retrospective cohort study comparing the change in adequacy of prenatal care for African American/Black and non-African American/Non-Black women before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, which will include a survey of postpartum women. The hypothesis of this study is that the COVID-19 pandemic caused changes in access to prenatal care that disproportionately and negatively affected African American/Black women.

Surveillance and Epidemiology of Perinatal COVID-19 Infection

Anna Maria Hibbs, MD
The purpose of this study is to provide real-time cumulative information of mothers identified with active COVID-19 Infection. The study will collect the number of cases of COVID-19 infection among mothers who deliver at participating hospital, the likelihood of perinatal transmission of COVID-19 from mother to baby, the likelihood of post-natal transmission of COVID-19 from mother to baby and the risk factors associated with that transmission, the spectrum of disease severity in newborns with COVID-19 infection and the risk factors for more severe disease, the outcomes of infants with acquired COVID-19 infection, and the infection control procedures that hospitals are practicing (immediate maternal-newborn separation vs. rooming-in; direct nursing vs. expressed breast milk feedings; etc.).

Conception Planning in OBGYN

Rachel Weinerman, MD
The purpose of this study is to collect self-reported data on conception planning in OBGYN, Reproductive Endocrinology, and Fertility Center patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Presence on Fertility Stimulation

Rachel Weinerman, MD
Dr. Weinerman's study aims to study the effects of COVID-19 antibody presence on fertility stimulation and early pregnancy outcomes.

Understanding Coronavirus Disease 2019 in US Children

Steven Shein, MD
The purpose of this study is to the SARS-CoV-2 infection among children, adolescents, and young adults hospitalized in the U.S., including how the immune systems of children and young adults work to prevent COVID-19 and to help them recover from it.

More Noteworthy COVID-19 Studies

Clinical Trial with Novel Anti-Cancer Agent Used for Patients with COVID-19+ Cancer Patients
Afshin Dowlati, MD

Epidemiology, Transmission and Immunology of COVID-19 in Nursing Home Residents
David Canaday, MD

Understanding Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) Associated with COVID-19
Sahera Dirajlal-Fargo, DO

Evaluation of modified chest X-ray techniques in COVID-19 Patients.
Robert Gilkeson, MD

Machine Learning Analysis of COVID-19 Imaging
Amit Gupta, MD

The postmortem pathology of COVID-19: a multi-institutional autopsy case study
Holly Harper, MD

Cardiac Manifestations of COVID-19
Danilo Aurelio, MD

Development of Multi-Organ Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Technology for Covid-19 Patients
Chaitra Badve, MD

COVID-19 in Patients with Chronic Liver Diseases
Kenneth Chavin, MD

Impact of Outpatient Glycemic Control on Outcome of COVID-19 in Patients with Diabetes.
Nadine El Asmar, MD

Short and long term outcomes of patients hospitalized with COVID 19 pneumonia.
Jihane Faress, MD

Association of imaging, clinical and laboratory findings in COVID-19 patients, with outcome characteristics
Robert Gilkeson, MD

Telemedicine in Laryngology
N Scott Howard, MD, MBA

Oral host defense factors in COVID-19 infection
Jeffrey Jacobson, MD

Immune Function And Resiliency Before And After Covid-19 Vaccination In Persons Living With Hiv Infection And Controls
Jeffrey Jacobson, MD

Pilot study to investigate the immunogenicity and safety of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in select patient populations with immune based disorders
Jeffrey Jacobson, MD

Risk of Thromboembolic Events in COVID-19 Patients
Stefanie Lehmier, MD

Whole Genome Sequencing Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Positive Patients
Grace McComsey, MD

Investigation of Gut and Mucosal Integrity in Covid Progression
Grace McComsey, MD

Relationship between vitamins K and D and COVID-19 outcomes, acutely and after recovery
Grace McComsey, MD

Evaluation of the physiological and immunological responses to COVID-19 vaccinations
Grace McComsey, MD

Long term immunological responses of COVID-19 vaccination in cancer patients on chemotherapy
Alberto Montero, MD

Innate And Adaptive Immune Cell Perturbations In Covid-19
Lalitha Nayak, MD

Hypercoagulability in COVID-19 Infections – Developing a Point-of-Care Device to Assess Prognosis
Lalitha Nayak, MD

Coronavirus 2019 and Obstetric Transmission
Rachel Pope, MD, MPH

COVID and Intimate-Partner Violence
Rachel Pope, MD, MPH

COVID-19 and Bell's Palsy using the TriNetX platform
Cyrus Rabbani, MD

Multicenter Study of COVID-19 Disease in Critically Ill Patients in the US: Examination of the Incidence, Risk Factors, Clinical Features, and Outcomes of Acute and Chronic Kidney Disease
Arash Rashidi, MD

Site for The Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP) SARP IV Characterization and Longitudinal Follow-Up Protocol
Kristie Ross, MD

Description of COVID-19 epidemiology, diagnosis and management in nursing home patients.
Elie Saade, MD

Proof of Concept Safety Trial for S-Nitrosylation Therapy to Improve Oxygenation Status in Severe Covid-19 Patients Receiving Supplemental Oxygen Support
Robert Schilz, DO

Clinical outcomes in patients with cancer diagnosed with COVID19
Sadd Sheikh, MD

Myocardial Infarction Presentation and Management in the Era of COVID-19
Mehdi Shishehbor, DO, MPH, PhD

Impact of glycemic control on morbidity outcomes in diabetic patients with COVID-19 in the community hospital setting.
Catherine Wilson, MD

Role of SARS-CoV-2-associated plasma exosomes in modulation of cytokine production
Min Yao, MD, PhD

Using Geospatial Mapping to Determine Risk Factors for Opioid Overdose among patients seen in an Urban Level-1 Trauma Center in Cleveland Ohio
Justin Yax, DO

Pre-exposure Immunologic Health and Linkages to SARS-COV2 Serologic Responses, Endothelial Cell Resilience, and Cardiovascular Complications: Defining the mechanistic basis of high risk endotypes. (Cardio-COVID)
David Zidar, MD, PhD

Vitamin D as an Immunomodulator to Prevent Complications and Reduce Resource Utilization in Outpatients (Telehealth Enabled Trial)
Kevin Cooper, MD