Our Pediatric Critical Care Medicine team is always hard at work. Here are some of our recent projects:

Projects

  • Optimizing enteral nutrition in the PICU: Identifying interruptions and barriers to feeding and developing a protocol
  • Using simulation to teach how to deliver bad news
  • Impact of ventilator liberation protocol on mechanical ventilation in the PICU
  • Traf3 regulated pathways in B cell lymphoma
  • Analyzing staph aureus isolates and resistance
  • Multi-frequency oscillatory ventilation in ARDS
  • Identifying anticoagulation practices on ECMO: Development and implementation of a protocol
Lecturer at a podium

“I love the Iowa PICU Program!
- Warm and friendly learning environment with mixed bread and butter diseases and rare diagnoses
- Endless research opportunities.”

Weerapong Lilitwat, MD (PICU Fellow 2016-2019)

Research timeline

Research TIMELINE
Months 1-4Thought Funneling, initial meetings with potential mentors
Months 5-7Formation of Scholarly Oversight Committee
Months 8-12Development of the primary research project
Year 2
  • Engagement and ownership of project follow through
  • Submitting and presenting results to national meetings
  • Considering secondary projects
Year 3
  • Completion of primary project including manuscript
  • Secondary project(s)

Excellence in pediatric research and training

The Stead Family Department of Pediatrics has a long-standing tradition of excellence in pediatric research and scientific discovery. We are deeply committed to training future leaders in clinical, basic, and translational research.

In 2019, the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine secured $232.2 million in external research funding, ranking 34th nationally by U.S. News & World Report. Over the past 15 years, our department has consistently ranked among the top pediatric departments in NIH funding nationwide.

Through NIH support, the University of Iowa’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Science offers extensive research services, including grant preparation, biostatistics, and database management, to advance child health research.

Our team's interests areas

Our division’s research focuses include:

  • Traumatic brain injury

  • Sepsis and hemodynamic monitoring

  • Diagnostic safety in critical care

  • Pathogenesis of acquired heart defects

  • Cardiac arrest management

  • Acute lung injury

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