Collaborative research within Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics and throughout the country are natural byproducts of our mission of providing comprehensive medical care to our patients and their families.

Faculty are attracted to an academic pediatric center such as Children's Mercy not only for its reputation of excellence in clinical care and education, but also for a career opportunity in academic medicine. Each of our faculty members has or is in the process of developing a focus or niche of clinical and or translational research. 

Areas of Activity

• Obstructive sleep apnea in children who are obese and in those with Down Syndrome and other craniofacial disorders
• Susceptibility to hearing loss in Cystic Fibrosis patients
• Exercise-induced asthma evaluation and therapy
• Studying inhaled antimicrobial therapies in pulmonary infections and evaluating different approaches for airway clearance in individuals with various forms of pulmonary compromise
• Sleep apnea in children with sickle cell disease
• Chronic neonatal lung disease
• Sleep quality in hospitalized children
• Restless leg syndrome
• Narcolepsy
• Center for Therapeutic Diagnostic Network