Research Highlights

Grants/Funding

Josephine Enciso, M.D., Retinoic acid regulation of vascular patterning. Child Health Research Center at the National Institutes of Health. $17,500.

Ian Griffin, M.D., Zinc metabolism and homeostasis in children with cystic fibrosis and healthy controls. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. $84,425.

Heidi Karpen, M.D., The role of cholesterol in regulation of the hedgehog developmental pathway. Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. $56,657 for 3 years.

Vinod Bhutani, M.D. (University of Pennsylvania); Ann R. Stark, M.D. (co-investigator); Michael E. Speer, M.D. (site investigator), Safe outcome for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. $125,638.

Events

Steven A. Abrams, M.D., presented Problemas Respiratorios en al Recién Nacido (Respiratory Problems in Newborns; Spanish-language presentation) at the Hospital del Nino in Panama City, Panama, October 2004.

James M. Adams, M.D., presented Antenatal and Postnatal Steroids: Current Controversies at the Baylor Perinatal Outreach Program's 28th Annual Nursing Symposium, October 2004.

Gerardo Cabrera-Meza, M.D., was awarded a citation as Distinguished Visitor and was acknowledged by the City of San Miguel de Tegucigalpan, Honduras for his support of the improvement of medical education as a world strategy to reduce infant mortality in Honduras.

Xanthi Couroucli, M.D., received a travel award from the Perinatal Research Society to attend the Society's October 2004 conference in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Karen E. Johnson, M.D., elected Chairman of the Baylor College of Medicine Admissions Committee for the academic year 2004–2005.

Michael E. Speer, M.D., presented Hyperalimentation, The Past and The Present in August at the Nottingham University School of Human Development Research Seminars in the U. K.