Sentences with phrase «first pediatric hospitals»
One of the first pediatric hospitals in the United States to perform three heart transplants in 24 hours
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For the first 2 years of my career, I worked as a pediatric staff nurse at Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
1958: Maurice Raben, MD a pediatric endocrinologist at Floating Hospital purified hormones from human pituitary glands to create the first growth hormone treatment
A new pediatric clinic has been built in Benghazi for the infected children, but to Colizzi's dismay, its first director was the former head of the hospital where the trouble began.
Dr. Matthew Giefer, director of gastrointestinal endoscopy at Seattle Children's Hospital, and colleagues analyzed 342 children ages 0 - 18 with acute recurrent pancreatitis (ARP) and chronic pancreatitis (CP) from INSPPIRE (International Study Group of Pediatric Pancreatitis: In search for a cure), the nation's first and only multicenter, National Institutes of Health - funded pediatric pancreatitis registry, led by Dr. Aliye Uc of University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital.
«This is the first study, we believe, to assess the impact of estrogen replacement on memory and other cognitive processes in young athletes who lose their periods due to excessive exercise,» said Charu Baskaran, MD, the study's lead investigator and a pediatric endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston.
«Our study is the first to examine the interactions between prenatal diagnosis, birth location and cardiac surgical center volume to determine survival among infants with HLHS,» said Dr. Shaine Morris, lead researcher, pediatric cardiologist at Texas Children's Hospital and assistant professor of pediatrics — cardiology at BCM.
The discovery comes at a time when CHU Sainte - Justine Mother and Child University Hospital has reached an agreement with Génome Québec to create the first pediatric clinical genomic centre in Canada.
J. Michael Murphy, EdD, of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Department of Psychiatry, senior author of the JAACAP paper, notes that this is the first study to document the positive impact of a large - scale pediatric mental health intervention using validated mental health measures and real - world benchmarks like end - of - the - year promotion and school attendance.
In the first multi-state study of children's and non-children's hospitals, assessing pediatric readmission and revisit rates — being admitted into the hospital again or visiting the emergency room within 30 days of discharge — for common pediatric conditions, UCSF researchers found that diagnosis - specific readmission and revisit rates are limited in their usefulness as a quality indicator for pediatric hospital care.
«We believe we are the first to compare adolescent blood pressures to body mass index in these four major ethnic / racial groups,» said Joshua Samuels, M.D., M.P.H., the study's senior author, a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at McGovern Medical School and an attending pediatric nephrologist at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital.
«While racial disparities in surgical outcomes have been reported in adult health care, less is known about possible disparities in pediatric surgery,» said first author David I. Chu, M.D., a fellow in Pediatric Urology at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).
Although this was the first pediatric heart transplant performed at the Hospitals, the University of Chicago has the second largest heart transplant program in Illinois and has been performing heart transplants for adults since 1984.
November 22, 2000 University of Chicago Hospitals performs its first pediatric heart transplant On November 20, just in time for Thanksgiving, Diamond Alexander, 11, received a heart transplant.
This 313 - bed institution — which includes more than 60 intensive care beds and the only pediatric neuro - intensive care and cardiac intensive care units in the region — is one of the nation's first children's hospitals and the only freestanding children's hospital between Philadelphia and Atlanta.
Though Andre is immediately struck by her on her first day at the pediatric hospital, Barbara, naturally, regards him with the same level of suspicion she bears toward just about everyone at the hospital.
In 2008, Nemours / Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE started the journey to become an innovative leader in pediatric healthcare institutions, establishing the first Healing Touch Program and staff position in the tri-state area of DE, PA, and MD..
Nicholas Chadi, M.D., a pediatrician who specializes in adolescent medicine at Boston Children's Hospital, is the first pediatric addiction medicine fellow to train in North America.