Pediatric Research Podcast

This episode features a conversation with Senior Investigator Tina Cheng, who has held several leadership positions over her career, including her current roles as Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati, and Director of the Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation. Her clinical work and research work have had a long and lasting impact on child health disparities and health equity.

Listen to July's Pediapod episode: What's hot in stem cells and regenerative biology? with Atul Malhotra. 

This month features a conversation with Senior Investigator, Professor Richard Jackson, who’s had an extensive career in Public Health. Now Professor Emeritus at the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, Richard has served in many leadership positions including nine years as Director of the CDC's National Centre for Environmental Health. Our conversation covered a wide range of topics affecting children's health, from pesticides to urban planning to gun violence, testament to his rich and varied career.

In this episode, listen to our editorial apprentice, Dr. Eric Peeples describe the scope and importance of our collection on neonatal encephalopathy and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.Visit the collection here: Neonatal Encephalopathy and Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (nature.com)

In this episode of Pediapod, Section Editor Jeanie Tryggestad discusses the most recent advances in the field of Pediatric Endocrinology.

Pediatric researchers Cynthia Bearer and Eleanor Molloy join podcast host Geoff Marsh to give an update on plans for the podcast and to offer some sage advice for Early Career Investigators.Find more Pediapod episodes here: https://www.nature.com/collections/fcbjjbchaa

This episode involves a conversation with senior investigator Linda de Vries, who has had a large and lasting effect in the world of pediatric research.

The United Nations recently stated that “climate change is the defining issue of our time, and we are at a defining moment” (https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/climate-change). This statement ended the political debate about the role of human activities in climate change. Global climate change is happening and it will have a profound effect on our children.Listen and learn from Dr. Kari Nadeau the Chair of Environmental Health from Harvard School of Public Health and one of the guest editors of Pediatric Research's special issue on climate change. Read Dr. Nadeau's editorial here: Global climate change: the defining issue of our time for our children’s health | Pediatric Research (nature.com)

Illness severity scores are commonly used for mortality prediction and risk stratification in pediatric critical care research. However, as mortality has steadily declined in the pediatric intensive care unit there has been increasing attention given to evaluating non-mortality outcomes in survivors. In this episode we meet Early Career Investigator Elizabeth Killien from Seattle Children's Hospital. In order to evaluate the ability of two commonly used illness severity scores to predict morbidity outcomes, she performed a secondary analysis of the Life After Pediatric Sepsis Evaluation (LAPSE) multicenter longitudinal cohort study of functional and health-related quality of life outcomes among survivors of septic shock.Read the full article here: Predicting functional and quality-of-life outcomes following pediatric sepsis: performance of PRISM-III and PELOD-2 | Pediatric Research (nature.com)