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Child Health (83)

Project
Air Pollution Effects on Woman and the Developing Fetus
Mailman School of Public Health

The effects of ambient air pollution on the developing fetus. . . . More »

Project Leader
Perera, Frederica

Location
Poland

Project
A Phase I / II Randomised Controlled Study of OGT 918 in Niemann-Pick type C
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Niemann-Pick disease, type C (NPC), is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder in which abnormal intracellular lipid trafficking leads to accumulation of multiple lipids, including . . . More »

Project Leader
Patterson, Marc

Location
United Kingdom

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A Program for Families with HIV / AIDS
College of Physicians and Surgeons

In collaboration with Universidad Central del Este, San Pedro de Macoris; Fundacion Mir, La Romana Catholic Church (Religiosas Addratices, Spain; the Dominican Order, Adrian, Michigan; the Order of . . . More »

Project Leader
Nicholas, Stephen

Location
Dominican Republic

Project
Assessment of Embargo Impact; Establishment of Determinants of Low Birth-Weight Reduction Resilience; and Adaption to Embargo-Related Resource Shortages
School of Nursing

Epidemiologic assessment of embargo effects and public-health strategies to minimize effects. Development of internet-based specialty continuing education in nursing. Program evaluation on activities . . . More »

Project Leader
Garfield, Richard

Location
Haiti

Project
Assessment of Mortality Rate Changes Determination of Multivariate Predictors of IMR
School of Nursing

Secondary analysis of forty studies assessing the impact of economic embargo on health since 1990. Use of other social data to predict and test IMR levels. . . . More »

Project Leader
Garfield, Richard

Location
Iraq

Project
Averting Maternal Death and Disability
Mailman School of Public Health

The Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program was established at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in 1999 with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. . . . More »

Project Leaders
Rosenfield, Allan, Maine, Deborah

Locations
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Ethiopia, India, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Peru, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan

Project
Biennial Seminars in Neonatology
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Seminars in neonatology are given every two years in Brazil.

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Project Leader
Polin, Richard

Location
Brazil

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Body Composition / Comorbidity of Obesity in Chinese Children
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Project in collaboration with Dr. Dympna Gallagher, Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's Hospital. Correlating differences in body composition with comorbidity of childhood obesity in Chinese . . . More »

Project Leader
Deckelbaum, Richard

Location
China

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Body Composition and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Tanner 1
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Study of body composition and cardiovascular risk factors in children. . . . More »

Project Leader
Gallagher, Dympna

Location
China

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Cellular Immunity to HIV in Infants
Mailman School of Public Health

This is a study to investigate correlates of protective immunity to HIV among infants of HIV-infected mothers in South Africa. The study measures cell-mediated immune responses to HIV antigens in . . . More »

Project Leader
Kuhn, Louise

Location
South Africa

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Child and Adult Mental Health in Rwanda
College of Physicians and Surgeons

National mental health survey in Rwanda including an evaluation of psychosocial programs for trauma. . . . More »

Project Leader
Neugebauer, Richard

Location
Rwanda

Project
Children of China Pediatric Foundation: David Roye Jr.
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Participated and organized pediatric care for group traveling to various locations in China to perform orthopedic surgery, urological surgery and plastic-surgery procedures on Chinese orphaned . . . More »

Project Leader
Roye Jr, David

Location
China

Project
Children of China Pediatric Foundation: Jeffrey Ascherman
College of Physicians and Surgeons

The foundation organizes and makes trips to China to operate on orphans with a variety of surgical problems, including cleft lip and palate, orthopedic anomalies, and urologic abnormalities. . . . More »

Project Leader
Ascherman, Jeffrey A

Location
China

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Children of China Pediatric Foundation: Katherine Biagas
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Participated and organized general pediatrics care for group traveling to Harbin, China, to perform orthopedic and plastic-surgery procedures on Chinese children. The above-named foundation provides . . . More »

Project Leader
Biagas, Katherine

Location
China

Project
Circular Migration Among Dominican Adolescents and Their Families
Mailman School of Public Health

This collaborative research project investigates the antecedents, processes, and health consequences among adolescents and their families who move between the Dominican Republic and the United . . . More »

Project Leader
Cushman, Linda

Location
North America

Project
Cleft Lip, Cleft Palate, Facial Deformities Project
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Training of a Honduran resident in surgical techniques for repair of cleft lip, palate, facial deformities, burns and trauma. . . . More »

Project Leader
Haddad, Jr., Joseph

Location
Honduras

Project
Contemporary Challenges in National and International Public Policy: Implementation of the Millennium Development Goals
Mailman School of Public Health

Course entitled "Contemporary Challenges in National and International Public Policy: Implementation of the Millennium Development Goals" . . . More »

Project Leader
Barber-Madden, Rosemary

Location
Brazil

Project
Continuing Education in Pediatric Dentistry
Columbia University Medical Center

Lectures in pediatric dentistry, including the management of child behavior in a dental office, tooth-pulp pathology and treatment, the eruption of the teeth and the guidance of the developing . . . More »

Location
Peru

Project
Courses for Foreign Physicians
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Annual postgraduate courses for neonatologists and perinatologists from Eastern Europe, including Russia, sponsored by the American Austrian Foundation. Course in preparation for 2002 in Innsbruck on . . . More »

Project Leader
Polin, Richard

Location
Austria

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Disease Risk Nutrition Study
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Secular trends in adult-disease risk factors and nutrition in children, a five-country comparison. In collaboration with Ehime University (Japan), Beijing Children's Hospital (China), and Mahidol . . . More »

Project Leader
Deckelbaum, Richard

Locations
Japan, China, Thailand

Project
Doctors for Global Health
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Non-governmental organization. Mission statement: To improve health and foster other human rights with those most in need by accompanying communities, while educating and inspiring others to . . . More »

Project Leader
Ratcliffe, Elyanne

Locations
El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, Uganda

Project
Dominican Academic Exchange Program
Mailman School of Public Health

The Dominican Academic Exchange Program provides public-health students from Columbia University and the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo with the opportunity to gain an understanding of the . . . More »

Project Leader
Aguirre-Molina, Marilyn

Locations
Dominican Republic, North America

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Eastern European Child Abuse and Child Mental Health Project
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Beginning in 1995, we trained mental-health workers in basic concepts of treatment and prevention of child abuse. We then facilitated the creation of interdisciplinary teams, organized into . . . More »

Project Leader
Lewis, Owen

Locations
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Moldova

Project
Effects of Maternal Prenatal Smoking on Adolescent Offspring Smoking
College of Physicians and Surgeons

The Centre for Tobacco Prevention has undertaken a prospective longitudinal study of 3,000 fifth graders (age 11) in Stockholm County to identify the risk factors for onset of smoking and progression . . . More »

Project Leader
Kandel, Denise

Location
Sweden

Project
Effects of the Chernobyl Accident on Thyroid Cancer and Related Diseases
Mailman School of Public Health

This is a cohort study of risk of thyroid cancer and other thyroid disorders following exposure to radioactive isotopes of iodine among those exposed at ages 18 years or younger due to the accident . . . More »

Project Leader
Howe, Geoffrey

Location
Ukraine

Project
Environmental Arsenic, Pregnancy, and Children
Mailman School of Public Health

We are testing the hypotheses that arsenic exposure from drinking water may be associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. This hypothesis is based on the fact that arsenic is a known teratogen in . . . More »

Project Leader
Graziano, Joseph

Location
Bangladesh

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Environmental Lead, Reproduction, and Infant Development
Mailman School of Public Health

Continues to study the relation of chronic lead (Pb) exposure to several health outcomes during childhood. This large prospective cohort study founded upon a previous study of pregnancy outcome, . . . More »

Project Leader
Graziano, Joseph

Location
Serbia and Montenegro

Project
Ethiopian Public Health Training Initiative
Mailman School of Public Health

This is a broad program developing training materials and holding training conferences for Ethiopian health workers of all types. It has been in place for a number of years and includes the 5 . . . More »

Project Leader
Brown, Roy

Location
Ethiopia

Project
Exchange Professorship
School of Nursing

This was the first extended faculty exchange for Columbia University School of Nursing and Gothenburg University College of Health Sciences. The major goals of the six-week visit were to actualize . . . More »

Project Leader
Byrne, Mary

Location
Sweden

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Fetal Physiology: Australia
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Study of fetal response to hypoxia, fetal circulation activity, and fetal neurobehavioral development. Similar programs conducted in Canada, New Zealand, and the Czech Republic. . . . More »

Project Leader
Stark, Raymond

Location
Australia

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Fetal Physiology: Canada
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Study of fetal response to hypoxia, fetal circulation activity, and fetal neurobehavioral development. Similar programs conducted in Australia, New Zealand, and the Czech Republic. . . . More »

Project Leader
Stark, Raymond

Location
Canada

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Fetal Physiology: Czech Republic
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Study of fetal response to hypoxia, fetal circulation activity, and fetal neurobehavioral development. Similar programs conducted in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. . . . More »

Project Leader
Stark, Raymond

Location
Czech Republic

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Fetal Physiology: New Zealand
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Study of fetal response to hypoxia, fetal circulation activity, and fetal neurobehavioral development. Similar programs conducted in Canada, Australia, and the Czech Republic. . . . More »

Project Leader
Stark, Raymond

Location
New Zealand

Project
Glucose-Transporters (Type 1) Deficiency
College of Physicians and Surgeons

DFG (Deutsche Forschungemeindscnaft), Dr. Daryl DeVivo. Glucose, an essential fuel for the brain, is transported into the brain via a glucose-transporter protein, GLUT-1. In the glucose . . . More »

Location
Germany

Project
Guatemala Open Heart Team
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Medical missions to Guatemala to evaluate for and perform open- and closed-heart surgery on children of Guatemala . . . . More »

Project Leader
Gaffney, Joseph

Location
Guatemala

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Health Needs of Hospitalized Swedish Children at Discharge
School of Nursing

Based on work by Dr. Mary Byrne during a faculty-exchange visit to Gothenburg University College of Health Sciences one year previously, this project identifies the needs of hospitalized children at . . . More »

Project Leader
Byrne, Mary

Location
Sweden

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Improving Immunization toward Elimination of Measles and Rubella in WPRO countries
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Expanding policy and programs for measles and rubella immunization in WHO/WPRO countries to match WPRO goal of measles elimination in the region. Focus is on Japan and China as key leaders. . . . More »

Project Leader
Cooper, Louis

Locations
China, Japan

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Incarnation Childrens Center / Centro de Ninos Encarnacion
Columbia University Medical Center

Maternal-newborn HIV disease has placed an undue burden upon two church-sponsored social-services programs in La Romana, D.R., a town with 213,600 inhabitants that is an important center of the sugar . . . More »

Location
Dominican Republic

Project
Interventional Cardiac Catheterization in Children with Heart Disease
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Have made two trips to Guatemala City to perform heart catheterization on children with congenital heart disease. Working with a Guatemalan cardiologist, we have treated children using interventional . . . More »

Project Leader
Hsu, Daphne

Location
Guatemala

Project
Jerusalem Perinatal Cohort Schizophrenia Study
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Obstetric complications and other perinatal exposures are hypothesized to increase the risk for schizophrenia. However, studies in this area are usually limited by sample size and by their reliance . . . More »

Project Leader
Malaspina, Dolores

Location
Israel

Project
Juvenile Justice Project
College of Physicians and Surgeons

In 2001 the Center for the Promotion of Mental Health in Juvenile Justice was created at Columbia University with Dr. Wasserman as Director. The Center’s Steering Committee includes experienced and . . . More »

Project Leader
Wasserman, Gail

Location
United States of America

Project
Life Outcome Study of Former Child Soldiers in Mozambique
Mailman School of Public Health

There are an estimated 300,000 children under 18 years of age who are engaged as armed combatants around the world (Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, 2002). In light of this, the . . . More »

Project Leader
Boothby, Neil

Location
Mozambique

Project
Medical Mission Abroad: Surgical Management Cleft Lip/Palate and Other Congenital Conditions in Children
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Once a year, members of the craniofacial cleft lip/palate team of CPMC travels to Central or South America to work with local volunteers to provide surgical care to children with cleft lip/palate . . . More »

Project Leader
Roser, Steven

Location
Colombia

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Medical Missions Abroad: Guatemala
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Once or twice a year, a team of anesthesiologists, surgeons, nurses, and others travels to a host country to perform surgery for children with cleft lip/palate deformities. The team brings its own . . . More »

Project Leader
Roser, Steven

Location
Guatemala

Project
Mother-Infant Interaction and Maternal Depression
College of Physicians and Surgeons

This study examines a community sample of 132 mother-infant pairs for the role of maternal depression in the organization of mother and infant self- and interactive regulation. . . . More »

Project Leader
Beebe, Beatrice

Location
United States of America

Project
MTCT-Plus Inititative
Mailman School of Public Health

Maternal-to-Child Transmission Plus builds on the efforts in Africa, rapidly expanding over the last several years, to prevent MTCT of HIV using a well-established package of low-cost and effective . . . More »

Project Leaders
Rosenfield, Allan, El-Sadr, Wafaa

Locations
Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, Zambia

Project
Multidisciplinary Surgical Mission: Program 1
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Correction of surgical disabilities in Chinese orphans. Orthopedic, plastic and reconstructive, urological, eye, and general pediatric problems. . . . More »

Project Leader
Schullinger, John

Location
China

Project
Multidisciplinary Surgical Mission: Program 3
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Correction of surgical disabilities. Orthopedic, plastic and reconstructive, urological, eye, and general pediatric surgical problems. . . . More »

Project Leader
Schullinger, John

Location
China

Project
Multi-Institutional Studies of Pediatric Health Transplantation Recipients, Outcomes, and Complications
College of Physicians and Surgeons

The study group has continued to add international centers to our study to try to improve transplantation in children around the world. We have many ongoing clinical-data acquisitions using this . . . More »

Project Leader
Addonizio, Linda

Location
Canada

Project
NIEHS/EPA Superfund Basic Research Program: Health Effects and Geochemistry of Arsenic and Lead
Mailman School of Public Health

The primary goal of this program is to obtain new knowledge and to train multidisciplinary pre- and post-doctoral students regarding the bioavailability of soil lead in humans and the . . . More »

Project Leader
Graziano, Joseph

Locations
Bangladesh, United States of America

Project
Nutrition in Childhood and Cancer Risk
Mailman School of Public Health

Investigates the association between nutrition in childhood and various cancer outcomes in men and women followed from age 55 in the Netherlands Cohort Study on Nutrition and Cancer (NLCS). . . . More »

Project Leader
Lumey, Lambert

Location
Netherlands

Project
Oxford Workshop for the History of Childhood
College of Physicians and Surgeons

The Oxford Workshop for the History of Childhood at Magdalen College, Oxford, and the Program for Pediatrics and the Humanities at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University are . . . More »

Project Leader
Truman, John

Location
United Kingdom

Project
Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials
College of Physicians and Surgeons

As an investigator within the PACTG (Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trial Network), I have sponsored a new clinical trials unit in Johannesburg, South Africa. The unit will be integrated into the . . . More »

Project Leader
Abrams, Elaine

Location
South Africa

Project
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Critical Care in Developing Countries: Guatemala
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Congenital cardiac surgery in Guatemala. Establishment of programs for treatment, education and follow-up care. Five years of experience, over two hundred patients treated. A new center for children . . . More »

Project Leader
Schechter, William

Location
Guatemala

Project
Pediatrics in Kosovo
College of Physicians and Surgeons

A program started by Dr. Alan Ross, of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, in which pediatricians spend one month at a time on a children's ward in Prizrew, Kosovo, teaching . . . More »

Project Leader
Cohen, Soloman

Location
Kosovo

Project
Plastic-Surgery Mission
Columbia University Medical Center

Free plastic surgery to the needy and indigent farm families; cleft lip, palate, hypospadias, burn contracture, and other simple plastic-surgical procedures; age one week to adult; one week at a time . . . More »

Location
India

Project
Polish Mothers and Children Study of the Columbia Center for Environmental Health
Mailman School of Public Health

Polish Mothers and Children Study of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health is collaborating with a team of researchers at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, to follow a . . . More »

Project Leader
Perera, Frederica

Location
Poland

Project
Postgraduate Fellowship for Polish Neonatologists
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Regular rotation of Polish Neonatologitst on our clinical service. Rotations last two or three months. Ongoing for several years. . . . More »

Project Leader
Schulze, Karl

Location
Poland

Project
Prevention of Health Effects in Children from Energy-Related Air Pollution: An International Collaborative Project
Mailman School of Public Health

An international collaborative project on the prevention of health effects in children from energy-related air pollution. . . . More »

Project Leaders
Tang, Deliang, Perera, Frederica

Location
China

Project
Program with Profamilia to Establish Adolescent Health Centers
Mailman School of Public Health

Program with Profamilia to Establish Adolescent Health Centers. This collaborative initiative has established a new adolescent reproductive health clinic at Profamilia, Santo Domingo, which includes . . . More »

Project Leader
Cushman, Linda

Location
North America

Project
Promoting Dual Protection among Rural South African Youth
College of Physicians and Surgeons

This project is developing and evaluating a school-based intervention to promote dual protection against HIV/STDs and pregnancy among South African youth in Kwazulu/Natal. . . . More »

Project Leader
Exner, Theresa

Location
South Africa

Project
Psychiatric Impact of Exposure to 2003 Outbreak of SARS on Youth in China
Mailman School of Public Health

The study will examine exposure to the 2003 SARS outbreak among children of medical professionals in Beijing and assess Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder (or PTSD symptoms)and other psychiatric . . . More »

Project Leader
Wu, Ping

Location
China

Project
Rakai Project: Uganda
Mailman School of Public Health

Population-based HIV/STD / infectious disease cohort, currently covering all consenting adults in 44 villages in rural Rakai District, southwestern Uganda. Cohort established in 1998. Annual . . . More »

Project Leader
Wawer, Maria

Location
Uganda

Project
Research and Educational Collaboration in Pediatric Urology
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Exchange physicians and scholars, develop collaborative research programs. . . . More »

Project Leader
Hensle, Terry

Location
Armenia

Project
Rotation With the International Family AIDS Program in La Romana, Dominican Republic
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Located on the Southeastern coast of the Dominican Republic, La Romana is the site of several innovative new opportunities for medical students. After working in the Dominican Republic, their . . . More »

Project Leader
Nicholas, Stephen

Location
Dominican Republic

Project
Summer Internship at St. Luke's International Medical Center in Tokyo, Japan
College of Physicians and Surgeons

A summer internship for rising second-year medical students in Tokyo, at the St. Luke's International Medical Center. The goal of the overall program is to enrich the medical student experience with . . . More »

Project Leader
Pierson Jr, Richard

Location
Japan

Project
Support Groups for Mothers, Children, and Parent-Child Video Bonding Consultations for Women Pregnant and Widowed on 9-11
College of Physicians and Surgeons

This is a treatment project offering weekly support groups and periodic mother-child video bonding consultations for these 9-11 widows. The project also inclueds a research component. . . . More »

Project Leader
Beebe, Beatrice

Location
United States of America

Project
Surgery for Hydrocephalus and Spinal Dysraphism
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Yearly one-week surgical mission to Guatemala to treat infants and children with hydrocephalus as well as various open and closed neural tube defects. This was the fourth consecutive year in going . . . More »

Project Leader
Feldstein, Neil

Location
Guatemala

Project
Surgical Missions to China: Program 1
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Correction of surgical disabilities in Chinese orphans. Orthopedic, plastic, general pediatric, urological problems. . . . More »

Project Leader
Chiu, David

Location
China

Project
Surgical Missions to China: Program 2
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Medical mission to lesser-known area of China (Harbin). Target population: orphans. Objective: to provide surgical care for deformed children in the orphanage. . . . More »

Project Leader
Chiu, David

Location
China

Project
Surgical Missions to China: Program 3
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Medical missions to lesser-known area in China. Target population: orphans. Objective: to provide surgical care for deformed children in the orphanage. . . . More »

Project Leader
Chiu, David

Location
China

Project
The Extended Child and Adolescent Mental Health Public Delivery System in Brazil: Dimensions of Exclusion
College of Physicians and Surgeons

The goal of this project is to design a methodology to describe how child mental health service delivery has been occuring in Brazil. A comparative pilot study will be conducted in 5 sites from a . . . More »

Project Leader
Duarte, Christiane

Location
Brazil

Project
The Right to Play (RTP) Research Collaboration
Mailman School of Public Health

The Right to Play (RTP) Research Collaboration partners faculty at the Mailman School with RTP (formerly known as Olympic Aid), an athlete-driven, humanitarian nongovernmental organization that works . . . More »

Project Leader
Adams, Alayne

Locations
Africa, Asia

Project
The Role of Beta 1-3 Glucons in Childhood Asthma
Department of Environmental Health Sciences

Dust samples from 23 homes in the Netherlands were collected and analyzed for fungi and fungi-associated antigens. Evidence from previous studies has shown a clear association among home dampness, . . . More »

Project Leader
Chew, Ginger

Location
Netherlands

Project
The World Initiative
Mailman School of Public Health

Since the beginning of 2004, a small group of researchers in Child Epidemiology under the direction of Christina Hoven, have been reviewing vast amounts of social, political and economic information . . . More »

Project Leader
Hoven, Christina

Location
United States of America

Project
Treatment of B-Cell Lymphoma in Children: France
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Randomized multigroup, multicenter trial of chemotherapy in children with newly diagnosed B-Cell Lymphoma. . . . More »

Project Leader
Cairo, Mitchell

Location
France

Project
Treatment of B-Cell Lymphoma in Children: United Kingdom
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Randomized multigroup, multicenter trial of chemotherapy in children with newly diagnosed B-Cell Lymphoma. Mitchel S. Cairo, MD, Study Chair. . . . More »

Project Leader
Cairo, Mitchell

Location
United Kingdom

Project
Visiting Fellowships in Neonatology and Pediatric Surgery
College of Physicians and Surgeons

The Foundation brings to the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center attending Polish neonatologists and pediatric surgeons, who spend three-month periods on the Neonatal (NICA) Service and the . . . More »

Project Leader
Schullinger, John

Location
Poland

Project
Volumetric Analysis of the Pediatric Brain In Premature Infants: Program 1
College of Physicians and Surgeons

We are evaluating the long-term effect of prematurity and low birth weight on the white- and gray-matter structures of the pediatric brain using MRI and volumetric analysis. This will be correlated . . . More »

Project Leader
Millar, William

Location