Children's Health Research Summit 2009
The Children's Health Research Summit II was held Jan. 30, 2009, as a forum for exchange of ideas and networking opportunities to develop improved infrastructure for children’s health research in San Antonio and South Texas.
Directory of Participants (.doc)
Presentations:
- State of Child Health in San Antonio and Bexar County
- Medical-Legal Assistance for Families
- San Antonio Children’s Museum: Where Children Play to Learn and Adults Learn to Play
- Smoking Cessation Counseling for Parents of Pediatric Inpatients: Reaching the Medically Underserved at a Teachable Moment
- Institutional Support for Your Clinical and Translational Research
- National Children's Study
- Environmental Health Research Involving Texas Children
Poster presentations:
- "The Impact of Vitamin A on the Health of Children Age 6-60 Months in the Mid-Hills of Nepal" by Ruth Grubesie, RN, DrPH, PHCNS-BC, UT Health Science Center
- "Development of Visual Representation and Action Processing in Children" by Alberto Cordova, Ph.D., UT San Antonio; and Carl Gabbard, Texas A&M University
- "CHART Center" by Robin Tragus, MSN, RN, CCRC, UT Health Science Center
- "Post Discharge Growth and Development in a Predominantly Hispanic, Very Low Birth-Weight Population" by George Powers, MD; Rajam Ramamurthy, MD; Kathleen Matula, PhD; Carolyn McLerran, RN, MSN; Wanda Daniels, RN, MSN; PREMIEre Program, UT Health Science Center
- "Healthy and Ready to Learn: An Early Approach to Obesity and Diabetes Prevention" by Suzanne Winter, PhD; Zenong Yin, PhD; Art Hernandez, PhD; Ashely Love, DrPH; UT Health Science Center and Bank of America Child and Adolescent Policy Research Institute
- "Increasing Research Through Collaboration: A Model for Research Center, Lay Advocacy Group Interaction" by Drs. Cody, Sebold and Hale, UT Health Science Center