Baylor Research
The extensive research conducted at Baylor College of Medicine and its affiliated hospitals is a strong feature of the residency program. Our committed faculty members provide robust support for residents actively pursuing research projects.
Baylor College of Medicine among the very top in the nation for funds received for pediatric research from the National Institutes of Health.
Texas Children’s Hospital has three distinct research facilities that offer specific areas of focus to expand learning opportunities. The Feigin Center houses state-of-the-art laboratories including a GMP cell and vector processing facility; an animal imaging facility, and SIM center for educational training. The Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute offers collaboration with different clinical departments to research developmental disorders and other inherited pediatric neurological diseases. The Children’s Nutrition Research Center, the largest and most comprehensive center of its kind, is dedicated to the study of childhood nutrition.
In addition, Texas Children’s Hospital strongly supports educational research and innovation via the Center for Research Innovation and Scholarship (CRIS) in medical education as well as our Simulation Center.
Research Highlights
- Residents have the opportunity to interact, pursue, and receive mentorship from all faculty, including subspecialties.
- Residents gain insight into future subspecialty career options during Fellow’s Research Day.
- Baylor College of Medicine’s reputation and scholarly research pursuits attract high acceptance rates of residents interested in fellowship opportunities at other prestigious institutions.
- The Texas Medical Center provides avenues for collaboration with other institutions of higher learning and patient care such as The University of Texas School of Public Health, MD Anderson and Rice University.
Resident Scholarship Program
Medicine is rapidly changing. Increasingly, pediatricians are no longer just clinical practitioners. In many settings, pediatricians are expected to participate in a range of scholarship activities including clinical studies, basic science research, advocacy, education, quality improvement, patient safety, and simulation. Reflecting this trend, the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education now requires that all pediatric residents engage in scholarship. The aim of the Resident Scholarship Program is to provide knowledge, skill, and supervised experience in designing, conducting, and reporting a scholarly project.
The Resident Scholarship Program consists of several components:
- Core lecture series
- Scholarly Project rotation to work on your scholarly project
- Participate in Resident Scholarship day and present your project to the wider Baylor College of Medicine community
The possibilities for what your scholarly project might entail are vast. Our hope is that you find an area of interest, capitalize on all components of RSP and begin your career with an eye toward scholarship. Scholarship can be in any of the following fields: research, clinical (case reports, chart reviews, patient information), advocacy, teaching, or quality improvement.
Current Resident Scholarly Activity
Our most recent Resident Scholarship Day was held on May 30, 2025.
| Presenter | Title |
|---|---|
| Peace Adeyemo | Severe Air Leak Syndrome: A Harbinger of Mortality in Severe Respiratory Failure in Neonates |
| Kezia Asiedu | Outcomes and Reproductive Health Counseling in Adolescent Females with Sickle Cell Disease |
| Lyena Birkenstock | Understanding Communication Breakdowns Using Professional Interpreters During Pediatric Emergency Department High-Acuity Events |
| Daniel Bland | Breakthrough Communication in Action: An Improv-Based, Role-Playing Simulation to Improve Communication Skills in Pediatric Residents |
| Ashley Devoll | Let’s Boogie! A Bronchiolitis QI Initiative to Reduce High Flow Nasal Cannula Utilization in the Emergency Center |
| Neha Dhawan | Impact of Mode of Delivery on Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Preterm Infants: A Single Center Analysis |
| Kyrra Engle | Everybody's nervous, everybody's anxious”: A Qualitative Study of Pediatric Residents' Experiences and Needs Providing Care for Pregnant Patients in Texas Post-Dobbs |
| Brianna English | An Observational Assessment of THC Product Marketing in Houston Smoke Shops: Elements that can contribute to Youth Appeal |
| Kiely Fagundes | Growth and other short-term outcomes of low dose late postnatal dexamethasone in very low birth weight infants – A retrospective cohort study |
| Amaryllis Fernandes | Rehabilitation progress in children after paracorporeal ventricular assist device implant |
| Lauren Ferrino | A computational technique for intramural length estimation in anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery: an automatic and noninvasive approach for risk stratification |
| Noah Fry | An Update to the Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patient-Derived Xenograft Program at Texas Children’s Hospital at Baylor College of Medicine |
| Emily Grimes | Clinical Implications of a Novel Variant of the FLNC Gene in a Pediatric Patient |
| Joel Jacob | Engaging Parents and Healthcare Professionals in Neurodevelopmental Care for Children with Congenital Heart Disease Using Developmental Care Signs |
| Sammie "Tripp" James | Higher Burden of Neurodevelopmental Delays in Children Undergoing Heart Transplantation in Early Childhood |
| Thomas Johnson | Pediatric Oncology as a Complex Adaptive System: How Reframing the Discussions Surrounding Pediatric Oncology Systems Can Impact Outcomes in LMIC's |
| Tiffany King | Patient with sickle cell disease presenting with severe acute chest syndrome and plastic bronchitis. |
| Javier Leija | Trends in use of bivalirudin for anticoagulation in children: single center experience |
| Blake Meyer | Improving Bowel Continence in Pediatric Patients with Spina Bifida |
| Katherine Naeger | Medical Education using Clinical Guidelines and Case-Based Learning |
| Khanh Nguyen | Examining the increase of invasive Group A streptococcus infections through the CNS |
| Aparna Panatpur | Risk Factors Associated with Failed Extubation Post Lung Transplant in a Pediatric Center. |
| Heerali Patel | Zebras Do Exist: When Necrotizing Enterocolitis is Not the Cause of Acute Abdominal Symptoms in Preterm Neonates - A Case Series |
| Christopher Peek | Novel SAMD9 Variant Causing MIRAGE Syndrome Treated with Subcutaneous Immunoglobulin |
| Christopher Peek | Microbial determinants of antibiotic-induced cytopenia |
| Marisa Pinson | X-Linked Joubert Syndrome in a Female Newborn with Oral-Facial-Digital Syndrome type I |
| Aaron Ross | Optimized Alemtuzumab Dosing and Route of Administration May Improve Outcomes in Primary Hemangiopathic Lymphohistiocytosis |
| Cassie Weyland | Infective Endocarditis at a Single Tertiary Care Children's Hospital |
| Sathi Wijeyesinghe | Ex vivo rhinovirus infection of airway organoids reveals dysregulated immune signaling in pediatric asthma |
| Aaron Williams | Newborn screening predicts phenotype conversion and developmental outcome in hyperphenylalaninemia. |