Research Projects & Grants

College/University

  • A Multicenter, Randomized Trial of Preterm Infants receiving Caffeine and Less Invasive Surfactant Administration Compared to Caffeine and Early Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CaLI Trial), Role: Investigator, Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns, (07/2024 - 07/2025) Status: Approved
  • Umbilical Cord Milking in Non Vigorous Infants (the MINVI Trial), Role: PD/PI, Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns, (07/2018 - 05/2024) Status: Awarded
  • Premature Infants Receiving Cord Milking Or Delayed Cord Clamping, Role: PD/PI, Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns, (04/2018 - 03/2025) Status: Awarded

Federal

  • Premature infants receiving milking or delayed cord clamping: Randomized controlled multicenter non-inferiority trial, Role: PI, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/NIH/DHHS, (12/2024 - 12/2025) Status: Approved
  • Umbilical cord milking in non-vigorous infants (the MINVI trial), Role: PI, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/NIH/DHHS, (09/2024 - 09/2025) Status: Approved

For Profit Organization

  • Multicenter, prospectively defined observational registry with retrospective data collection, evaluating premature and term-near-term neonates with pulmonary hypertension receiving inhaled nitric oxide via invasive or noninvasive ventilator support at US centers, Role: Investigator, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Inc, (10/2019 - 10/2020) Status: Completed

Internal

  • Fetal cardiac remodeling and delayed postnatal transitioning in infants born to mothers with preeclampsia, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Pediatrics, (07/2022) Status: Approved
  • Improving the process of umbilical venous catheter placement for central access in newborns, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Pediatrics, (09/2021) Status: Approved
  • Post-NICU discharge outcomes in preterm infants, Role: PI, LLU Dept. of Pediatrics, (04/2021) Status: Approved
  • A machine learning approach to assessing extubation readiness in extremely preterm newborns, Role: PI, LLU Dept. of Pediatrics, (09/2020) Status: Approved
  • Near-infrared spectroscopy to evaluate feeding tolerance in infants with NEC, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Pediatrics, (12/2019) Status: Approved
  • The effect of packed red blood cell transfusion on pulmonary and gastrointestinal hemodynamics in newborn infants, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Pediatrics, (05/2016 - 05/2017) Status: Completed
  • Pre-operative lung ultrasound score and its association with post-operative outcomes in infants with congenital cardiac defect, Role: PI, LLU Dept. of Pediatrics, (01/2025) Status: Approved
  • Outcomes of various therapy types for the patent ductus arteriosus in preterm infants, Role: Investigator, LLU Dept. of Pediatrics, (12/2024 - 12/2025) Status: Approved