Presentations:

 - Determining the Needs of Survivors of Pediatric Critical Illness

Objectives:

1. Learn about the ongoing study in the Comer PICU that is looking at resulting morbidities that survivors of critical illness face

2. Appreciate that though mortality is decreasing in this population, morbidity continues to increase and a better understanding of these morbidities will help us develop novel therapeutic interventions to assist these children and their families

- The Role of Gender in Publication in the Journal of Pediatrics: 2015 - 2016: Equal Reviews, Unequal Opportunties

Objectives:

1.  Evaluate outcomes based on gender at the Journal of Pediatrics

2.  Understand the number of opportunities afforded to women at The Journal of Pediatrics

- The Effects of Weather Change on Acute Complications in Sickle Cell Disease

Objectives:

1.  Describe the relationship between temperature and ED visits for sickle cell complications in our population

2.  Describe the real or potential effect of high utilizers on a dataset

3.  Name an important health policy implication of our study for children with sickle cell

- Healthy infants harbor intestinal bacteria that protect against allergic sensitization

Objectives:

1.  Describe our humanized model of allergic sensitization to food

2.  Demonstrate the usefulness of this model in exploring the immunological mechanisms that the microbiota protects from allergic responses to food