Research Projects & Grants

Internal

  • Pain and stress assessment and ROP screening examination in premature infants, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Pediatrics, (07/2024 - 07/2025) Status: Approved
  • Non-pharmacological interventions for procedural pain in premature neonates, Role: Investigator, LLU Basic Science, (04/2025 - 04/2026) Status: Approved
  • Pain and stress in premature infants, Role: Investigator, LLU Basic Science, (12/2024 - 12/2025) Status: Approved
  • Targeted Nutrition for Moderate to Late Preterm Infants, Role: PI, LLU Dept. of Pediatrics, (07/2022) Status: Approved
  • Post-NICU discharge outcomes in preterm infants, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Pediatrics, (04/2021) Status: Approved
  • Music for mothers in the NICU: The effect of psycho-acoustically designed music on stress reduction in babies and their mothers in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), Role: PI, LLU Dept. of Pediatrics, (01/2018 - 01/2019) Status: Completed
  • Empowering women to pump their breasts in the work environment: to determine if an intervention education women about how to successfully pump in the workplace, along with empowering and encouraging them with texts makes a difference in longevity of breastfeeding in the working woman, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Gynecology & Obstetrics, (04/2016 - 04/2017) Status: Completed
  • Effects of intrapartum analgesic medications on newborn behaviors while skin to skin with mother in the first hours after birth: A pilot study, Role: PI, LLU Dept. of Pediatrics, (05/2014 - 05/2015) Status: Completed
  • Breastfeeding longevity study, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Gynecology & Obstetrics, (05/2014 - 05/2015) Status: Completed
  • Novel adaptive inspiratory nasal apparatus (ADINA): Comparison to high flow nasal cannula simulating traditional nasal continuous positive airway pressure (NCPAP), Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Pediatrics, (03/2014 - 03/2015) Status: Completed
  • Is the nutritional content of expressed breast milk influenced by food ingested one hour prior to pumping?, Role: PI, LLU Dept. of Pediatrics, (08/2013 - 08/2014) Status: Completed
  • Utility of amplitude integrated EEG in identifying infants with electrographic seizures predicting abnormal brain imaging and mortality, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Pediatrics, (07/2013 - 07/2014) Status: Completed
  • Analysis of term and preterm newborn infants' saliva for nitrates, nitrites, and pH, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Pediatrics, (10/2011 - 10/2012) Status: Completed
  • Impact of increased early protein delivery on the growth and development of very and extremely low birth weight infants, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Pediatrics, (02/2025) Status: Approved

Non-Profit Organization

  • A randomized, double blind, parallel-group, placebo controlled study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of IBP-9414 in premature infants 500-1500g birth weight in the prevention of Necrotizing Enterocolitis - The connection study, Role: Investigator, Infant Bacterial Therapeutics AB, (04/2024 - 10/2024) Status: Completed
  • An Evaluation of the 'When You Smoke Your Baby Smokes' Program in Term and Preterm Infants, Role: Investigator, American Academy of Pediatrics, (07/2010 - 07/2011) Status: Completed
  • Prevention of Postpartum Smoking Relapse in Mothers of Preterm Infants in the NICU: A Pilot Project, Role: Principal Investigator, March of Dimes, (11/2008 - 11/2009) Status: Closed