Members of our Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine are engaged in developing and maintaining academic portfolios. Many faculty members are involved in a wide array of scholarly activities.

Areas of Past and Present Activity

• The Section of Pediatric Hospital Medicine is in an active collaboration with the Human Factors Program at Wichita State University. This partnership is involved in research in the Human Factors in Healthcare. Current projects include:
• • Studying how defaults in Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) affect providers' ordering practices.
  • Evaluating how mobile technology influences medical education and medical care delivery.
  • Evaluating multi-tasking in a health care environment. 
• Site primary investigator for the National Institutes of Health funded research study, MARC 35: Prospective Cohort Study of Severe Bronchiolitis and Risk of Recurrent Wheezing
• Site primary investigator for the National Institutes of Health funded research study, MARC 30: Prospective Multicenter Study of Bronchiolitis Admissions: Etiology and Disposition.
• Charter members of the Society of Hospital Medicine with active participation in the Pediatrics and Annual Meeting Planning Committees.
• • Original authors of literature reviews for the Society of Hospital Medicine newsletter, The Hospitalist.
• Charter members of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Hospital Medicine.
• • Prior editor representing pediatric hospital medicine for the American Academy of Pediatrics publication, Grand Rounds.
• Authoring of the book chapter, "Pediatric Hospitalist Staffing," in the first pediatric hospital medicine textbook to be published.
• Consistent involvement in annual academic presentations, workshops, posters and abstracts.
• Co-presentation of a Family Centered Rounds workshop at the 2007 Pediatric Academic Society's annual meeting
• Research on interventions designed to improve physician social histories, thereby enhancing the detection of social determinants of health in hospitalized children.
• Research on the association of socioeconomic status and inpatient pediatric outcomes.