Current Projects

 

FACULTY:
  • PULSE OXIMETRY SCREENING FOR CONGENITAL HEART
  • DISEASE (POCHD)
  • Kimberly Ernst, MD
  • Co-investigators: Dr Escobedo, Dr Cline, and Dr Simon
  • Status: Proposal in development
  • ADAPTING AN ELECTRONIC NEONATAL INPATIENT DOCUMENTATION SYSTEM TO IMPROVE DOCUMENTATION AND PATIENT CARE
  • Kimberly Ernst, MD
  • Status: Data collection
  • IBUPROFEN TREATMENT RESULTS IN HIGHER PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS (PDA) CLOSURE RATES IN VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT FEMALES VERSUS MALES
  • Kimberly Ernst, MD
  • Co-investigators: Dr Sekar and Karen Corff
  • Status: Completed, Pre-publication
  • TELEMEDICINE APPROACHES TO EVALUATING ACUTE-PHASE ROP e-SCREEN ROP
  • Marilyn Escobedo, MD
  • Co-investigators: Dr McCaffree, Dr Siatkowski, and Karen Corff
  • Status: Proposal completed, Submitted for funding
  • TREATMENT OF TRANSIENT HYPOTHYROXEMIA OF PREMATURITY
  • Marilyn Escobedo, MD
  • Co-investigator: Dr Noori
  • Status: Proposal completed, Submitted for funding
  • MEAD JOHNSON HUMAN MILK FORTIFIER
  • Marilyn Escobedo, MD
  • Co-investigators: Dr Willeitner, Debra McCann, and Michelle Huynh
  • Status: Awaiting IRB approval
  • A RANDOMIZED, CONTROLLED TRIAL OF IMMEDIATE VS. DELAYED CORD CLAMPING IN THE PRETERM NEONATE
  • Marilyn Escobedo, MD
  • Co-investigators: Dr Dannaway, Dr Elimian, Dr Goodman, Dr Knudtson, and Dr Nightingale
  • Status: Enrolling patients
  • A MULTI-CENTER, OPEN-LABEL PHARMACOKINETIC, PHARMACODYNAMIC, CLINICAL SYMPTOMS, AND SAFETY STUDY OF PANTOPRAZOLE DELAYED-RELEASE GRANULES ADMINISTERED AS A SUSPENSION IN NEONATES AND PRETERM INFANTS WITH A CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS OF GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE
  • Marilyn Escobedo, MD
  • Co-investigators: Dr Krous, Karen Corff, and Debbie McCann
  • Status: Completed, Pre-publication
  • MONOCLONAL CONS-ANTIBODY IN VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT INFANTS (Epidemiology and Pharmacokinetics)
  • Marilyn Escobedo, MD
  • Co-investigators: Unknown
  • Status: Completed, Pre-publication
  • EARLY EXTUBATION AND CPAP AFTER SURFACTANT TREATMENT VS. SURFACTANT AND CONTINUED MECHANICAL VENTILATION AMONG PRETERM INFANTS LESS THAN 1250 GRAMS
  • Venu Gottipati, MD
  • Co-investigators: Dr Sekar and Mike McCoy
  • Status: Completed, Pre-publication
  • ROLE OF STAT3 DURING INFLAMMATION IN TROPHOBLAST-LIKE CHORIOCARCINOMA CELLS
  • Lorry Krous, MD
  • Co-investigators: Dr Jarvis
  • Status: Completed, Pre-publication
  • PROSPECTIVE, RANDOMIZED TRIAL OF A NECK PILLOW TO REDUCE HYPOXIC EVENTS IN PRETERM INFANTS DURING A CAR SEAT CHALLENGE
  • Mary Anne McCaffree, MD
  • Co-investigators: Dr Drabu and Dr Wells
  • Status: Enrolling patients, Funded
  • THE CONTRIBUTION OF POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION TO INFANT LENGTH OF STAY IN THE NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
  • Mary Anne McCaffree, MD
  • Co-investigators: Dr Gillaspy and Carla Hetherington
  • Status: Enrolling patients, Funded
  • BARRIERS TO QUALITY PERINATAL CARE IN THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: A PRIMARY CARE PERSPECTIVE OF ACCESS AND RESOURCE USE
    Mike McCoy, MS, ARNP
  • Status: Awaiting final approval from IRB
  • CREATIVE HEARTS: THE PAGes (PARENTS ARE GREAT) PROJECT
  • Laurie Mouradian, ScD, OTR/L
  • Co-investigators: Dr Isenberg, Dr Sheldon, and Dr Thompson
  • Status: Preparing for IRB submission
  • ALLOIMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENIA
  • Raja Nandyal, MD
  • Co-investigators: Dr Goodman
  • Status: Enrolling patients
  • FAILURE OF PDA CLOSURE IS ASSOCIATED WITH AN INCREASED MORTALITY IN PRETERM INFANTS
  • Shahab Noori, MD
  • Co-Investigators:  Dr Friedlich, Dr Seri, Dr Sekar, and Mike McCoy
  • Joint project between The University of Oklahoma and the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles
  • Status: Unknown
  • DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES IN MYOCARDIAL FUNCTION IN HEMODYNAMICALLY STABLE PRETERM INFANTS DURING THE FIRST MONTH OF POSTNATAL LIFE
  • Shahab Noori, MD
  • Co-Investigators:  Dr Adie, Dr Friedlich, Dr Ebrahimi, Dr Ramanathan, and Dr Seri
  • Joint project between The University of Oklahoma and the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles
  • Status: Unknown
  • ARE CHANGES IN CEREBRAL AND/OR SOMATIC OXYGEN EXTRACTION PATTERN PREDICTIVE OF OCCURRENCE OF INTRAVENTRICULAR HEMORRHAGE?
  • Shahab Noori, MD
  • Co-Investigator:  Dr Dannaway
  • Status:  Awaiting IRB approval
  • EFFECT OF pH ON MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTILITY AND HEMODYNAMICS IN PRETERM NEONATES
  • Shahab Noori, MD
  • Co-investigators: Unknown
  • Status: Enrolling patients
  • EXHALED NITRIC OXIDE IN PRETERM INFANTS
  • Kris Sekar, MD
  • Co-investigators: Unknown
  • Status: Proposal in development
  • COMPARISON OF TWO ANTIFUNGALS FOR NEONATAL CANDIDIASIS
  • Kris Sekar, MD
  • Co-investigators: Unknown
  • Status: Proposal in development
  • SYNCHRONIZED INTERMITTENT MANDATORY VENTILATION (SIMV) VS. NASAL INTERMITTENT POSITIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION (NIPPV) IN PRETERM INFANTS WITH RESPIRATORY DISTRESS
  • Kris Sekar, MD
  • Co-investigators: Dr Bhatia, Dr Nandyal, Dr Gottipati, Dr Ramanathan, Dr Soll, Brooke Burks, Karen Corff, Michelle Huynh, Debbie McCann, Mike McCoy, and Caitlin Thi
  • Status: Enrolling patients
  • BRAIN COOLING FOR HYPOXIC-ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY
  • Kris Sekar, MD
  • Co-investigators: Unknown
  • Status: Completed, Pre-publication
  • PROLONGED OUTCOMES FOLLOWING NITRIC OXIDE THERAPY (prONOx)
  • Kris Sekar, MD
  • Co-investigators: Debbie McCann
  • Status: Completed, Pre-publication
  • A PROSPECTIVE, BLINDED, RANDOMIZED, CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL COMPARING PREMATURE INFANTS FED AN EXCLUSIVE DIET OF PASTEURIZED DONOR HUMAN MILK TO SIMILAR INFANTS RECEIVING PRETERM FORMULA DURING THE TRANSITION FROM PARENTERAL TO ENTERAL FEEDINGS
  • William Wells, MD
  • Status: Awaiting final approval from IRB, Funded
  • BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE FACTORS IN HUMAN MILK: IMPACT OF PASTEURIZATION
  • Andrea Willeitner, MD
  • Status: Completed, Pre-publication
FELLOWS:
  • STUDIES IN NEONATAL IMMUNITY -– NEONATAL NEUTROPHIL VS. ADULT NEUTROPHIL GENE EXPRESSION AT REST AND FOLLOWING LPS STIMULATION
  • Jennifer Hunter, MD
  • Co-investigator: Dr Jarvis
  • Status: Enrolling patients
  • WRAPPING INTERVENTION VS. MATTRESS FOR PREVENTION OF HyPOTHERMIA STUDY (WIMPY)
  • Parker Simon, DO, MPH
  • Co-investigators: Dr Dannaway, Dr Escobedo, Dr Krous, Dr Wlodaver, Brooke Burks, Jennifer Milam, and Caitlin Thi
  • Status: Enrolling patients
  • ACTIVATED PLATELETS IN NEONATES
  • Parker Simon, DO, MPH
  • Co-investigators: Dr Dale, Dr Saxena
  • Status: Proposal in development
  • RANDOMIZED CONTROL STUDY OF HUMAN MILK FORTIFIER
  • Jami Lewis, MD
  • Co-investigators: Dr Willeitner
  • Status: Proposal completed, submitted for funding