Accelerating Innovation in Primary Care to Support Adolescent Health Discussions.

Background And Objectives: Adolescent strengths and risks are not routinely captured in systematized and actionable ways in pediatric primary care. To address this problem, we developed a comprehensive adolescent health questionnaire (AHQ) integrated within the electronic health record and evaluated the AHQ's impact on collection of information on prioritized health-related domains.

Methods: We developed and pilot tested the AHQ.

Financial support policies as a mechanism to reduce child welfare involvement.

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Measures of Neighborhood Opportunity and Adherence to Recommended Pediatric Primary Care.

Importance: Neighborhood conditions are known to broadly impact child health. Research to date has not examined the association of the Childhood Opportunity Index (COI), a multidimensional indicator of neighborhood environment conditions, specifically with pediatric primary care outcomes.

Objective: To determine the association of neighborhood opportunity measured by the COI with health metrics commonly captured clinically in pediatric primary care, reflecting both access to preventive care and child well-being.

Health information technology and equity: Applying history's lessons to tomorrow's innovations.

Health and health care disparities are widespread with major impacts on outcomes for children and families. Inequitable care is poor quality care. Though health IT has the potential to improve disparities, health IT implementation can have unintended consequences of widening, maintaining, or creating disparities by disproportionately benefiting advantaged children, adolescents, and their caregivers.

Academic careers and the COVID-19 pandemic: Reversing the tide.

The COVID-19 pandemic halted research operations at academic medical centers. This shutdown has adversely affected research infrastructure, the current research workforce, and the research pipeline. We discuss the impact of the pandemic on overall research operations, examine its disproportionate effect on underrepresented minority researchers, and provide concrete strategies to reverse these losses.

Implementing Resident Team Assistant Programs at Academic Medical Centers: Lessons Learned.

Background: Excessive inpatient administrative tasks can lead to adverse consequences for residents and their patients. Furthermore, this burden has been linked to depersonalization, a major component of physician burnout.

Objective: To describe the development, implementation, feasibility, acceptability, and early outcomes of Resident Team Assistant (RTA) programs.

Perspectives of Urban Adolescent Black Males and Their Parents on Well Care.

Objective: Adolescents have fewer well-care visits than all other age groups. Males and ethnic minorities are seen least often. We elicited from Black adolescent males and their parents key drivers of teen well-care seeking.

Implicit Bias in Pediatric Academic Medicine.

Objective: Despite known benefits of diversity, certain racial/ethnic groups remain underrepresented in academic pediatrics. Little research exists regarding unconscious racial attitudes among pediatric faculty responsible for decisions on workforce recruitment and retention in academia. This study sought to describe levels of unconscious racial bias and perceived barriers to minority recruitment and retention among academic pediatric faculty leaders.

Do politics affect prevalence? An overview and the case of cerebral palsy.

Many factors must be considered when assessing estimates of prevalence, including research methods and quality of the work by the research team. Broad social and political forces also influence estimates of prevalence, as seen in the case of autism and intellectual disability. Indeed, researchers themselves may be influenced by broader sociopolitical factors in ways that they do not recognize.

A high throughput embryonic stem cell screen identifies Oct-2 as a bifunctional regulator of neuronal differentiation.

Neuronal differentiation is a complex process that involves a plethora of regulatory steps. To identify transcription factors that influence neuronal differentiation we developed a high throughput screen using embryonic stem (ES) cells. Seven-hundred human transcription factor clones were stably introduced into mouse ES (mES) cells and screened for their ability to induce neuronal differentiation of mES cells.