The department takes an active role in helping residents become insightful investigators. Recent clinical and laboratory research projects include:

• Access to immunization for inner city minority children
• Varicella vaccine clinical trials
• Response of premature infants to immunizations
• Infant sequelae of maternal cocaine abuse
• Genetic patterns in patients and parents with anophthalmia
• Etiology of hyperglycemia in extremely low birthweight infants
• Postnatal renal function following maternal indomethacin therapy
• Characterization of oligosaccharides in breast milk
• Effects of homelessness on children and their development
• Interventions designed to decrease corporal punishment by parents
• Clinical trials of a new chemotherapy regimen for children with relapsed Hodgkin' disease
• Access of adolescents to mental health agencies
• Neonatal outcomes of non-diabetic, macrosomic infants
• Association between necrotizing enterocolitis and G6PD deficiency
• Models for teaching ACGME competencies to residents