2020 Archive

Clinical

Hand hygiene a crucial component of preventing viral spread

Mike O’Kelly

You learned how to do it before you could spell it. It may be one of the most important things you can do to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Clinical

Infection prevention and control: Planning patient protection during a pandemic

Stacey Wiedower

Read how early planning to protect patients and staff through infection prevention measures readied this facility for the pandemic.

Clinical

Self-care: The No. 1 thing you can do for your child

Keith Crabtree, PhD

This psychologist gives advice on caring for infant and toddler mental health, and the No. 1 thing to do isn’t what you would expect. %

Clinical

New screening process helps clinicians identify educational and mental health problems in children with hemophilia

Jacklyn Boggs

The HemoFOCUS screening process uses a standardized rating scale to screen children with hemophilia for inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity, which are symptoms of ADHD. The goal is to improve the odds that patients with a dual diagnosis will be identified and will receive appropriate educational and psychosocial services.

Clinical

Physician partnerships and telemedicine advance treatments and cures

Ibrahim Qaddoumi, MD, MS

Telemedicine, identified in 1879 as a way to reduce patient office visits, has become a necessary way to enhance the quality of care throughout the world.

Clinical

Meeting of the minds: Standardizing communication to improve patient handoffs and transitions of care

James Hoffman, PharmD, MS

These communications programs have a significant impact in helping ensure patient care is consistent across care teams.

Outreach

St. Jude School Program uses technology to connect teachers to students amid a pandemic

Keith Crabtree, PhD

Read how teachers work to make school as normal as possible for these pediatric cancer patients – first, get some toothpicks and gummies...

Investigator Insights

My journey to clinical research and becoming a grant-funded scientist

Dylan Graetz, MD, MPH

Read how this place is perfect for physicians to pursue research to enhance pediatric health care throughout the world.

Research

Staff scientists in core research facilities accelerate and broaden biomedical discovery

Gary Bridgman

These labs are highly specialized and deliver researchers access to advanced and speedy scientific results.

Research

CHANGE-seq: a novel, simple and scalable method to understand genome editors

Shengdar Tsai, PhD

Making DNA into a circle, called molecular circularization, has revealed a whole new way to look at genome editing.