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Children’s Mercy and Ugandan Collaborators Receive NIH Funding to Test a Novel Communication Strategy to Promote HIV Testing

The project “Enhancing communication on relationship preservation, safer conception and PrEP to promote HIV testing,” received a 3-year $632,187 Formative and Pilot Intervention Research for Prevention and...

Dr. Amy Smith Receives Funding to Study How Parent-Child Engagement During Music Enrichment Classes Relate to Early Indicators of Long-Term Health Risk

Dr. Smith will use the funding on her project “The impact of a music enrichment program on health and developmental outcomes during early childhood”. The project follows early results from a randomized...

Dr. Emily Farrow Receives Grant to Develop, Test Comprehensive Panel for Early Detection of Angelman Syndrome

Dr. Farrow’s project will address the current limitations of diagnostic testing for Angelman Syndrome by utilizing a novel long read (LR) based sequencing approach, capturing multiple disease categories...

CODIEFY Study Offers Kid-focused COVID-19 Clarity

The CODIEFY study uses COVID-19 testing and single-cell genomic sequencing technology and other tools to create evidence-based COVID-19 education.

Dr. Tomi Pastinen Receives Grant To Better Understand Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Using 3rd Generation Sequencing

Find a Researcher Researcher Network Donate Follow Us See All Stories Dr. Tomi Pastinen Receives Grant To Better Understand Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Using 3rd Generation Sequencing Tomi Pastinen, MD, PhD...

Provider Resources for Antimicrobial Stewardship

The following resources may be helpful in staying up to date on current best practices in antimicrobial stewardship.   Children’s Mercy Antibiotic Handbooks   The Children’s Mercy...

Healthy Homes Program at Children's Mercy Kansas City

Children’s Mercy environmental health specialists help make children’s homes safer by performing a healthy home environmental assessment. Refer a patient or family now.

Clinical Experience - Allergy and Immunology Fellowship

Email As part of their cross-training, fellows spend time in a variety of clinics including the pediatric allergy clinic at Children's Mercy, the adult asthma center at University Health, the adult...

Child Neurology Residency - How to Apply

The Child Neurology training program at Children's Mercy accepts three residents per year. We are a categorical program; therefore, two years of pediatrics training and three years of child neurology...

Academic Curriculum Pediatric Dentistry Residency

Pediatric Dentistry is an age-defined specialty that provides both primary and comprehensive preventive and therapeutic oral health care for infants and children through adolescence, including those with...

Understanding implicit bias, and why it affects kids

We all want the best for our kids. But when someone makes assumptions about your child before knowing them, it may negatively impact them. And the reality is we all make judgments and assumptions about...

Snowplow Parenting

If you follow the news, you might have learned a new term in the past few weeks: “snowplow parenting.” You may have even looked in the mirror, gasped, and thought, “uh-oh...do I do that?”

Ways to help teens get more sleep

Teens can have difficulty sleeping because they often face a perfect storm of biological and social factors that disrupt sleep. Teens need an average of 9 hours of sleep each night and with a little...

Addressing suicide risk as a parent

The thought of losing your child is one many caregivers try to avoid. And yet, suicide is the second leading cause of death for teens across the nation and in Kansas City. We want to help change this...

Is Potty Training Your #1 (and #2) Priority? Here’s What You Need to Know.

As a pediatric psychologist, I work with a lot of parents who are struggling with potty training. So many, in fact, that several of them have taken to calling me their “Poopcologist.” I should probably just...

Research Education at the Children's Mercy Research Institute

The Children’s Mercy Research Institute (CMRI) offers several research education opportunities for healthcare professionals, researchers, and students.

Pectus Excavatum

Pectus excavatum, or sunken chest, is the most common chest abnormality in children. The experts at Children’s Mercy are recognized leaders in pectus excavatum surgery, including the minimally invasive...

Comparative Performance Of A Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) And Logistic Regression (LR) Model To Predict Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) Among Youth With Established Type 1 Diabetes (T1D)

Authors: David D. Williams, Sarina Dass, Jon Bass, Susana Patton, Sanjeev Mehta, Ryan McDonough, Colin Mullaney, Leonard D’Avolio, Mark Clements   Preventing dangerous and costly episodes of DKA is a goal...