The institute is inclusive of patients in the pediatric population, both primary and specialty care, neonatal intensive care, newborn, maternal care, and well women. With more than 68,000 births across the PSJH system, the Women and Children’s Institute provides the first experience for our youngest patients and strives to develop a health partnership that lasts a lifetime.
Submissions from 2018
Delivery Outcomes, Emergency Room Visits, and Psychological Aspects of Gestational Diabetes: Results From a Community Hospital Multiethnic Cohort., Harsimran Singh, Khajika Soyoltulga, Taylor Fong, and John Billimek
Immediate Versus Delayed Insertion of the Levonorgestrel Intrauterine Device in Postpartum Adolescents: A Randomized Pilot Study., Reni Soon, Katie McGuire, Jennifer Salcedo, and Bliss Kaneshiro
Modeling Safe Sleep Practices for the Newborn in the Hospital: Is it Happening?, Marietta Sperry and Kimberly Kohlieber
Disparities in fertility-sparing surgery in adolescent and young women with stage I ovarian dysgerminoma., Laura L Stafman, Ilan I Maizlin, Matthew Dellinger, Kenneth W Gow, Melanie Goldfarb, Jed G Nuchtern, Monica Langer, Sanjeev A Vasudevan, John J Doski, Adam B Goldin, Mehul Raval, and Elizabeth A Beierle
Does Changing Newborn Bath Procedure Alter Newborn Temperatures and Exclusive Breastfeeding?, Carol Suchy, Cyndi Morton, Rocky Roy Ramos, Alexandra Ehrgott, Megan Marie Quental, Amanda Burridge, and Dana N Rutledge
Prediction of clinical deterioration after admission from the pediatric emergency department., Stacy M Tarango, Phung K Pham, Dayun Chung, and Ara Festekjian
Ovarian Cancer, Krishnansu S Tewari, Richard T. Penson, and Bradley J. Monk
Randomized phase II trial of bevacizumab plus everolimus versus bevacizumab alone for recurrent or persistent ovarian, fallopian tube or peritoneal carcinoma: An NRG oncology/gynecologic oncology group study., William P Tew, Michael W Sill, Joan L Walker, Angeles Alvarez Secord, Albert J Bonebrake, Jeanne M Schilder, Ashley Stuckey, Laurel Rice, Krishnansu S Tewari, and Carol A Aghajanian
Tumor mutational burden is a determinant of immune-mediated survival in breast cancer., Alexandra Thomas, Eric D Routh, Ashok Pullikuth, Guangxu Jin, Jing Su, Jeff W Chou, Katherine A Hoadley, Cristin Print, Nick Knowlton, Michael A Black, Sandra Demaria, Ena Wang, Davide Bedognetti, Wendell D Jones, Gaurav A Mehta, Michael L Gatza, Charles M Perou, David B Page, Pierre Triozzi, and Lance D Miller
Impact of port site scar on perception of patients with breast cancer: patient-reported outcomes., Amy Voci, David Lee, Emily Ho, Rebecca Crane-Okada, and Maggie DiNome
A randomized controlled trial: does coaching using video during direct laryngoscopy improve residents' success in neonatal intubations?, Sarah Volz, Timothy P Stevens, and Rita Dadiz
Trastuzumab Emtansine for Residual Invasive HER2-Positive Breast Cancer., Gunter von Minckwitz, Chiun-Sheng Huang, Max S Mano, Sibylle Loibl, Eleftherios P Mamounas, Michael Untch, Norman Wolmark, Priya Rastogi, Andreas Schneeweiss, Andres Redondo, Hans H Fischer, William Jacot, Alison Conlin, Claudia Arce-Salinas, Irene L Wapnir, Christian Jackisch, Michael P DiGiovanna, Peter A Fasching, John P Crown, Pia Wülfing, Zhimin Shao, Elena Rota Caremoli, Haiyan Wu, Lisa H Lam, David Tesarowski, Melanie Smitt, Hannah Douthwaite, Stina M Singel, and Charles E Geyer
Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 Testing in Breast Cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology/College of American Pathologists Clinical Practice Guideline Focused Update., Antonio C Wolff, M Elizabeth Hale Hammond, Kimberly H Allison, Brittany E Harvey, Pamela B Mangu, John M S Bartlett, Michael Bilous, Ian O Ellis, Patrick Fitzgibbons, Wedad Hanna, Robert B Jenkins, Michael F Press, Patricia A Spears, Gail H Vance, Giuseppe Viale, Lisa M McShane, and Mitchell Dowsett
Rational design for cervical cancer therapeutics: cellular and non-cellular based strategies on the horizon for recurrent, metastatic or refractory cervical cancer., Juliet E Wolford and Krishnansu S Tewari
Does Maternal Buprenorphine Dose Affect Severity or Incidence of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome?, Jacqueline Wong, Barry Saver, James M Scanlan, Louis Paul Gianutsos, Yachana Bhakta, James Walsh, Abigail Plawman, David Sapienza, and Vania Rudolf
Early Weight Gain in Infants With Cleft Lip and Palate Treated With and Without Nasoalveolar Molding: A Retrospective Study., Shannon M Woods, Judah S Garfinkle, David A Covell, Mansen Wang, Lauren S Busch, and Larry M Doyle
Genetic variations and risk of placental abruption: A genome-wide association study and meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies., Tsegaselassie Workalemahu, Daniel A Enquobahrie, Bizu Gelaye, Sixto E Sanchez, Pedro J Garcia, Fasil Tekola-Ayele, Anjum Hajat, Timothy A Thornton, Cande V Ananth, and Michelle A Williams
Abruptio Placentae Risk and Genetic Variations in Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Oxidative Phosphorylation: Replication of a Candidate Gene Association Study., Tsegaselassie Workalemahu, Daniel A Enquobahrie, Bizu Gelaye, Timothy A Thornton, Fasil Tekola-Ayele, Sixto E Sanchez, Pedro J Garcia, Henry G Palomino, Anjum Hajat, Roberto Romero, Cande V Ananth, and Michelle A Williams
Submissions from 2017
The Cost of Nurse-Midwifery Care: Use of Interventions, Resources, and Associated Costs in the Hospital Setting., Molly R Altman, Sean M Murphy, Cynthia E Fitzgerald, H Frank Andersen, and Kenn B Daratha
Lethal neonatal case and review of primary short-chain enoyl-CoA hydratase (SCEH) deficiency associated with secondary lymphocyte pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) deficiency., Jirair K Bedoyan, Samuel P Yang, Sacha Ferdinandusse, Rhona M Jack, Alexander Miron, George Grahame, Suzanne D DeBrosse, Charles L Hoppel, Douglas S Kerr, and Ronald J A Wanders
Risks and benefits of opportunistic salpingectomy during vaginal hysterectomy: a decision analysis., Lauren A Cadish, Jonathan P Shepherd, Emma L Barber, and Beri Ridgeway
Decision Zone at the Margins of Life and Good Health: The Role of Medical Staff Guidelines for the Care of Extremely Early Gestation Pregnancies and Premature Infants., Kevin M. Dirksen, Joseph Kaempf, Mark Tomlinson, and Nicole M Schmidt
A Randomized Study Comparing Digital Imaging to Traditional Glass Slide Microscopy for Breast Biopsy and Cancer Diagnosis., Joann G Elmore, Gary M Longton, Margaret S Pepe, Patricia A Carney, Heidi D Nelson, Kimberly H Allison, Berta M Geller, Tracy Onega, Anna N A Tosteson, Ezgi Mercan, Linda G Shapiro, Tad T Brunyé, Thomas R Morgan, and Donald L Weaver
Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Child Behavior among Mexican Women and Their Children., Emily P Flynn, Esther O Chung, Emily J Ozer, and Lia C H Fernald
Effects of socioeconomic status on children with well-differentiated thyroid cancer., Evan F Garner, Ilan I Maizlin, Matthew B Dellinger, Kenneth W Gow, Melanie Goldfarb, Adam B Goldin, John J Doski, Monica Langer, Jed G Nuchtern, Sanjeev A Vasudevan, Mehul V Raval, and Elizabeth A Beierle
Poor sleep quality, antepartum depression and suicidal ideation among pregnant women., Bizu Gelaye, Gifty Addae, Beemnet Neway, Gloria T Larrabure-Torrealva, Chunfang Qiu, Lee Stoner, Miguel Angel Luque Fernandez, Sixto E Sanchez, and Michelle A Williams
Characteristics associated with requests by pathologists for second opinions on breast biopsies., Berta M Geller, Heidi D Nelson, Donald L Weaver, Paul D Frederick, Kimberly H Allison, Tracy Onega, Patricia A Carney, Anna N A Tosteson, and Joann G Elmore
Comparison of the Single-Syringe Push-Pull Technique With the Discard Technique for Obtaining Blood Samples From Pediatric Central Venous Access Devices., Sarah Hess and Mary Decker
Intraoperative radiotherapy: Patient selection, management, and follow-up., Dennis R Holmes and Robert Zimmerman
Intraoperative radiotherapy: Patient selection, management, and follow-up., Dennis R Holmes and Robert Zimmerman
Calcium chloride in neonatal parenteral nutrition: A 15 year experience., R K Huston, Joseph Kaempf, M Wang, L Wang, Gary Grunkemeier, and H S Cohen
Calcium chloride in neonatal parenteral nutrition: A 15 year experience., R K Huston, Joseph Kaempf, M Wang, L Wang, G L Grunkemeier, and H S Cohen
Reducing Head CT Use for Children With Head Injuries in a Community Emergency Department., Rebecca M Jennings, Jennifer J Burtner, Joseph F Pellicer, Deepthi K Nair, Miranda C Bradford, Michele Shaffer, Neil G Uspal, and Joel S Tieder
Is Pregnancy-Associated Melanoma Associated with Adverse Outcomes?, Maris S Jones, Jihey Lee, Stacey L Stern, and Mark Faries
The quest for sustained multiple morbidity reduction in very low-birth-weight infants: the Antifragility project., Joseph Kaempf, N M Schmidt, S Rogers, C Novack, M Friant, L Wang, and N Tipping
Antenatal corticosteroids for the late preterm infant and agnotology., Joseph Kaempf and G Suresh
Triple-negative breast cancer in the elderly: Prognosis and treatment., Henry G Kaplan, Judith A Malmgren, and Mary K Atwood
Second Primary Malignant Neoplasms and Survival in Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors., Theresa H M Keegan, Archie Bleyer, Aaron S Rosenberg, Qian Li, and Melanie Goldfarb
A Phase II Clinical Trial of an Aromatase Inhibitor for Postmenopausal Women with Lymphangioleiomyomatosis., Calvin Lu, Hye-Seung Lee, George P Pappas, Daniel F Dilling, Charles D Burger, Adrian Shifren, Srihari Veeraraghavan, Jeffrey T Chapman, Joseph Parambil, Stephen J Ruoss, Lisa R Young, Stephen R Hammes, Elizabeth J Kopras, Tammy Roads, Jeffrey P Krischer, and Francis X McCormack
Transplant with a twist: A pitfall in sonographic diagnosis of renal transplant torsion., Evan Narasimhan, Anne Kennedy, and Jeffrey Campsen
Regarding "Toward normal birth-but at what cost?", David L Newfield
Risk of gestational diabetes mellitus in relation to maternal dietary calcium intake., Citlalli Osorio-Yáñez, Chunfang Qiu, Bizu Gelaye, Daniel A Enquobahrie, and Michelle A Williams
The Infant with Aortic Arch Hypoplasia and Small Left Heart Structures: Echocardiographic Indices of Mitral and Aortic Hypoplasia Predicting Successful Biventricular Repair., Jennifer M Plymale, Peter C Frommelt, Melodee Nugent, Pippa Simpson, James S Tweddell, and Amanda J Shillingford
Risk of glucose intolerance and gestational diabetes mellitus in relation to maternal habitual snoring during early pregnancy., Chunfang Qiu, Wayne Lawrence, Bizu Gelaye, Lee Stoner, Ihunnaya O Frederick, Daniel A Enquobahrie, Tanya K Sorensen, and Michelle A Williams
Surgical implications and variability in the use of the flat epithelial atypia diagnosis on breast biopsy specimens., Laura S Samples, Mara H Rendi, Paul D Frederick, Kimberly H Allison, Heidi D Nelson, Thomas R Morgan, Donald L Weaver, and Joann G Elmore
Junctional neural tube defect in a newborn: report of a fourth case., Cameron Schmidt, Vlad Voin, Joe Iwanaga, Fernando Alonso, Rod J Oskouian, Nitsa Topale, R Shane Tubbs, and W Jerry Oakes
Unresectable hepatoblastoma: current perspectives., Angela D Trobaugh-Lotrario, Rebecka L Meyers, Allison F O'Neill, and James H Feusner
Circulating early- and mid-pregnancy microRNAs and risk of gestational diabetes., Pandora L Wander, Edward J Boyko, Karin Hevner, Viraj J Parikh, Mahlet G Tadesse, Tanya K Sorensen, Michelle A Williams, and Daniel A Enquobahrie
Impact of neonatal early-onset sepsis calculator on antibiotic use within two tertiary healthcare centers., S Warren, M Garcia, and C Hankins
Placental genetic variations in vitamin D metabolism and birthweight., Tsegaselassie Workalemahu, Sylvia E Badon, Michal Dishi-Galitzky, Chunfang Qiu, Michelle A Williams, Tanya Sorensen, and Daniel A Enquobahrie
Submissions from 2016
Characterization of the microbiome of nipple aspirate fluid of breast cancer survivors., Alfred A Chan, Mina Bashir, Magali N Rivas, Karen Duvall, Peter A Sieling, Thomas R Pieber, Parag A Vaishampayan, Susan M Love, and Delphine J Lee
Extremely premature birth and the choice of neonatal intensive care versus palliative comfort care: an 18-year single-center experience., Joseph Kaempf, Mark Tomlinson, and J Tuohey
PIK3CA-associated developmental disorders exhibit distinct classes of mutations with variable expression and tissue distribution, Ghayda Mirzaa, Andrew E Timms, Valerio Conti, Evan August Boyle, Katta M Girisha, Beth Martin, Martin Kircher, Carissa Olds, Jane Juusola, Sarah Collins, Kaylee Park, Melissa Carter, Ian Glass, Inge Krägeloh-Mann, David Chitayat, Aditi Shah Parikh, Rachael Bradshaw, Erin Torti, Stephen Braddock, Leah Burke, Sondhya Ghedia, Mark Stephan, Fiona Stewart, Chitra Prasad, Melanie Napier, Sulagna Saitta, Rachel Straussberg, Michael Gabbett, Bridget C O'Connor, Catherine E Keegan, Lim Jiin Yin, Angeline Hwei Meeng Lai, Nicole Martin, Margaret McKinnon, Marie-Claude Addor, Luigi Boccuto, Charles E Schwartz, Agustina Lanoel, Robert L Conway, Koenraad Devriendt, Katrina Tatton-Brown, Mary Ella Pierpont, Michael Painter, Lisa Worgan, James Reggin, Raoul Hennekam, Karen Tsuchiya, Colin C Pritchard, Mariana Aracena, Karen W Gripp, Maria Cordisco, Hilde Van Esch, Livia Garavelli, Cynthia Curry, Anne Goriely, Hulya Kayserilli, Jay Shendure, John Graham, Renzo Guerrini, and William B Dobyns
Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis: A Pathway for Improving Brainstem Serotonin Homeostasis and Successful Autoresuscitation in SIDS-A Novel Hypothesis., Vijayakumar Praveen and Shama Praveen
Unplanned Extubation, Competency, and Simulation in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Randall Stennett
Navigating your career path in pediatric hematology/oncology: On and off the beaten track., Patrick A Zweidler-McKay, Mary-Jane Staba Hogan, Rima Jubran, Vandy Black, Jacqueline Casillas, James Harper, Suman Malempati, Judith Margolin, Judy Felgenhauer, Kathleen M Sakamoto, Janet Franklin, Mona Shah, Nita Seibel, George Buchanan, Sarah R Vaiselbuh, Caroline Hastings, Joanne Hilden, and Linda C Stork
Books, Posters, Presentations from 2015
Pregnancy and Pertussis: Why the Change in TDAP Administration?, Marietta Sperry
Books, Posters, Presentations from 2014
Skin to Skin in the Operating Room for Cesareans, Marietta Sperry
