Current Research

Our research activities center largely on clinical questions related to children with critical illness. Major current foci include assessing alterations in hemostatic function in critically ill children and assessing new devices for measuring hemodynamic function in a critical care setting.

Study Coordinators

Ramanjeet Kaur

Rami is currently serving as a Public Health Project Specialist in the Pediatrics Division of Critical Care. She earned her BSc in Biology at Hunter College and is actively pursuing a Master of Science in Family and Marriage Therapy at URMC. Rami is deeply committed to making a positive impact in the field of mental health, with a particular passion for serving South Asian communities and enhancing well-being through therapeutic practices. Outside of her academic and professional endeavors, she enjoys watching international cinema, reading both fiction and non-fiction, and savoring good food.

Naveed Tabasum

Naveed is originally from Gilgit Baltistan Pakistan. She earned her MSc. Political Science at the National University of Modern languages, Islamabad and her BA Political Science at the Post Graduate College, Islamabad, Pakistan. She has extensive administration work experience in several hospital facilities in Iowa and Oklahoma. She is currently working as a Human Subject Research Coordinator in Pediatrics division of Critical Care and GI. In her spare time she manages a YouTube channel, Paradise on earth 93, that showcases many of Rochester’s beautiful outdoor locations via drone footage.

Active Research

• P-ICECAP – NIH Funded
  Site PI: Jake Deines
• "Qualitative Analysis of 4th Year Rotations for URiM Students", in grant application process with COMSEP
  PI: Jake Deines
• "Pediatric Shivering during Targeted Temperature Management – Implementing a New Pediatric Focused Shivering Guideline"
  PI: Jake Deines
• "ECmo hemoSTAtic Transfusions In Children (ECSTATIC) through the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute", in collaboration with Yale and 8 other centers, including international
  Site PI: Garrett Coles
• "High flow nasal cannula versus bilevel positive airway pressure in moderate to severe pediatric asthma exacerbations"
  PI: Michele Smith
• "Critical Asthma Characteristics and Prevalence: An International Point Prevalence Study - CATCHUP" with the PALISI network
  Site PI: Michele Smith
• "Bronchiolitis and critical care outcomes with noninvasive respiratory support (BACON 2.0)" with the PALISI network
  Site PI: Michele Smith
• "Transfusion and organ dysfunction in Pediatric Septic shock (TROPICS)"
  Site PI: Jill Cholette
• "Catheter related early thromboprophylaxis with enoxaparin trial (CRETE)"
  Site PI: Jill Cholette
• "Platelet dose trial in Critical Illness"
  Site PI: Jill Cholette
• "Calcium repletion and association with fluid status and clinical outcomes in infants following cardiac surgery with cardiac bypass"
  PI: Jill Cholette
• "WE-ROCK: Worldwide Exploration of Renal Replacement Outcomes in Kidney Disease"
  Site PI: Susan Martin
• "ICONIIC: Improving CRRT Outcomes in Neonates and Infants through Interdisciplinary Collaboration"
  Site PI: Susan Martin
• "ML-ROVER: Machine Learning to Reduce Laboratory Test Overutilization"
  MPI: Adam Dziorny and Sareen Shah (Cedar-Sinai / CHLA), R21/R33 funded by AHRQ, 2024–2028
• "Pediatric Acute Kidney Injury Prediction Using Generalized, Sharable, Usable Decision Support"
  PI: Adam Dziorny, K23 funded by NIDDK, 2024–2027
• "Creating an EHR-Based System to Identify Gaps in Child Neurology Resident Education"
  PI: Rachel Gottlieb-Smith (U Michigan), Collaborator: Adam Dziorny, Funded by University of Michigan RISE, 2024
• "Identifying Opportunities to Reduce Fluid Overload: A Multi-Center Quality Improvement Partnership"
  Co-Lead Investigators: Adam Dziorny and Denise Hasson (NYU)
• "Characterizing Differences Among Referred and Non-Referred Children to Child Protective Services"
  PI: Matthew MacDougall; Primary Mentor: Adam Dziorny, a data-based approach to understanding associations between patient and family features with child protective service referrals.
• "Child Opportunity Index and Critical Care Hospitalizations: a Multicenter Retrospective Study"
  PI: Michael McCrory (Wake Forest); Site PI: Adam Dziorny
• "Trainee Individualized Learning System: Driving Resident Practice Change through Automated EHR Extraction of Clinical Experiences"
  Co-PIs: Adam Dziorny and Mark Mai (CHOA / Emory), funded by American Medical Association
• "Digi-CARES: Digital technologies for Characterizing and Assisting clinicians in Reducing Emotional distress in Survivors and Families"
  MPIs: Adam Dziorny and Mariah DeSerisy (Columbia)
• "Practice and institutional variability in high-risk airway management: a multi-institutional survey"
  Co-investigators: Ilana Harwayne-Gidansky (Albany SOM) and Adam Dziorny, a PALISI-partnered effort (PEDAL and NEAR4KIDs co-sponsored)
• "Assessing Eye Tracking to Augment Usability Testing of Critical and Difficult Airway Identification"
  PI: Adam Dziorny
• "Quantifying Passive and Active Clinical Decision Support across Pediatric Intensive Care Units"
  PI: Adam Dziorny

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Fellowship Research

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