A5065431369- Hepatitis C virus research
- Hepatitis B Virus Studies
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
- Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics
- Traffic and Road Safety
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
- Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
Brown University
2021-2023
Hasbro Children's Hospital
2021
Queen's Medical Center
2013-2015
University of Hawaii System
2013-2015
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2013-2015
Childhood obesity represents a serious and growing concern for the United States. Its negative consequences health well-being can be far-reaching, devastating, intergenerational. In 2017, US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued grade B recommendation screening children adolescents offering or referring to comprehensive, intensive behavioral interventions as indicated. However, many communities in States have limited access such interventions. The USPSTF’s mission is review research...
Booster seats reduce injury in motor vehicle crashes, yet they are used less frequently than car and seat belts. Primary care providers well positioned to educate encourage families use booster seats. We aimed assess how a distribution program affected the documentation of restraint usage anticipatory guidance at well-child visits pediatric primary practice. performed retrospective chart review patients aged 4 12 years from June December 2019 2020, representing before after program. The most...
Purpose: Current standard of care for CHC genotype 1 therapy includes PEG IFN and RBV, plus either TVR or BOC. Efficacy is considerably higher with the addition BOC, but so are treatmentassociated adverse events (AE). Our goal to examine treatment outcome patient tolerability these new agents in a routine clinical setting. Methods: We reviewed demographic data 180 consecutive patients who were started on IFN, (n=102) BOC (n=78) from July, 2011 June, 2013, at two U.S. academic hospital liver...
Shared decision-making is a well-recognized model to guide in medical care. However, the shared concept can become exceedingly complex adolescent patients with varying degrees of autonomy who have most their decisions made by parents or legal guardians. The complexity increases further ethically difficult situations such as terminal illness. In contrast typical patient-physician dyad, adolescents requires triad that also includes multifactorial nature these cases overwhelm treatment teams,...