Pediatrics
Neonatology
Research
Our research focuses on quality improvement for infant outcomes. Two key scientific platforms are driving nutrition management strategies to impact maternal and infant outcomes and necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a painful inflammatory gastrointestinal disorder that afflicts approximately 9,000 premature infants annually. It is the most common GI ailment of premature babies, and approximately 20% to 40% do not survive this devastating disease. Our team hopes to develop the first predictive test for NEC and determine which common procedures and medications in the neonatal intensive care unit contribute to its development. Our intrauterine-drug-exposed infants are enrolled in Eat, Sleep and Console to reduce narcotic exposure and improve development.
Education
We are preparing medical students, residents and fellows to offer the most up-to-date and compassionate care to their patients and caretakers. Our trainees have opportunities to work with diverse patient populations among several different clinical locations across Tucson during their clerkship rotations as medical students, and during their outpatient pediatrics block and continuity clinics as residents and fellows. They have unique opportunities with novel nutrition and microbiome tools to do research electives.
