Neonatology Specialty Grand Challenge

Neonatology Specialty Grand Challenge

Historically, though high infant mortality rates were recognized by the British medical community at least as early as the 1860s, the advent of neonatal intensive care is relatively recent. In 1898, Dr. Joseph B. De Lee (1) established the first premature infant incubator station at the Chicago, Illinois Lying-in Hospital. The first American textbook on prematurity was published in 1922 (2). It...

Specialty Grand Challenge – Genetic Disorders

Medical Genetics is going through rapid growth with the help of evolving high throughput technologies and collaborative work across various scientific areas. Human genome sequencing opened the flood gate in identifying gene mutations for hundreds of genetic diseases and the genetic markers associated with complex disease risk factors. This decade can be considered as the golden age of medical g...

Specialty Grand Challenge – Pediatric Pulmonology

In William Silverman’s book, “Where’s the evidence” (1), he elegantly espouses the need for, and the contributions of, good research to improve clinical outcomes. But with respect to technological advancements, he challenges us and future generations on where the line between “knowing (the acquisition of new knowledge) and ‘doing’ (the application of the new knowledge)” should be drawn (1). Jus...

Frontiers in pediatric cardiology—specialty grand challenge

Progress in science has always been driven by curiosity. On one side, curiosity is characteristic of the genius and the visionary, who is always thinking ahead of their time, like Leonardo da Vinci. Many of his revolutionary ideas, like the airplane and the submarine, couldn’t be realized only because the materials and the technology available at his time were not advanced enough. But Leonardo ...

Specialty Grand Challenge In Pediatric Infectious Diseases