Scholarly Activity

                       

Residents are required to complete a scholarly activity project by the middle of their third year of training.  These projects offer many varied opportunities, including community educational projects, curriculum development, case reports, as well as traditional research projects.  (see table below)

 

Scholarly Project Opportunities

Case Report

Case Series

Chart Audit/Quality Assurance Project

Patient / Community Education

Book Chapter or Review Article

Community / Health Policy Project

Instructional / Curriculum Design

Research (Basic or Clinical)

Each year Stony Brook residents are selected to present their research at regional and national meetings.  The Department of Pediatrics fully funds resident attendance at meetings where they are presenting their work.

Residents have the opportunity to attend various national conferences.  Several residents each year attend the AAP National Educational Conference, as well as conferences in the pediatric specialties.

 

Resident Research/Scholarly Projects

 Resident Research/Scholarly Projects

Examples of current research and recent research projects that have been presented or accepted for presentation or publication.
Examples of Recent
Resident Research/Scholarly Projects

Aarat Patel PL3	Rituximab for Severe Refractory Pediatric Wegener's Granulomatosis. Journal of Clinical Rhuematology.
Taaha Shakir  PL1	Is CBIR1 a Predictor of Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease? Accepted for presentation NASPGHAN (gastroenterology) Meeting 2007
Laura Hogan  PL3	Bone Mineral Density in Survivors of Lymphoid Malignancy Presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting 2006 and 2007
Alicia Leiby  PL3	Drinkable aloe vera gel for irritable bowel syndrome in children In progress
Ali McGaw  PL1	Trisomy 2 Mosaicism in Hypomelanosis of Ito American Journal of Medical Genetics, 2007

 

Faculty Research

Click here for information on current faculty research

 

GCRC

Funded by the National Institutes of Health, The General Clinical Research Center provides on-going available support and resources for investigators to conduct research on human subjects for the advancement of medical science. The vision is to maintain National Institute for Health (NIH) funding as a clinical research center and to become one of the leading research centers in the region/country.