NOTEWORTHY ACHIEVEMENTS

Recent Publications

2019

Elliott, C., Zlatev, D., Crew, J., and Shem, K. Do appreciable changes in the upper extremity motor capability to perform clean intermittent catheterization come about with time after traumatic spinal cord injury? 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/nau.23943

Quach, N. T., Ehsanian, R., Dirlikov, B., Sechrist, S., Mohole, J., McKenna, S., Isaac, L., and Duong, T. T. Burden of Care Implications and Association of Intracranial Hypertension With Extremely Severe Post-traumatic Amnesia After Traumatic Brain Injury: A 5-Year Retrospective Longitudinal Study.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2019.00034/full

Ehsanian, R., Timmerman, M. A., Wright, J. M., McKenna, S., Dirlikov, B., and Crew, J. Venous Thromboembolism is Associated With Lack of Vitamin D Supplementation in Patients With Spinal Cord Injury and Low Vitamin D Levels.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.pmrj.2018.09.038

2018

Govindaswami, B., Jegatheesan, P., Nudelman, M., and Narasimhan, S. R. Prevention of Prematurity Advances and Opportunities.

Peltz, G.,  Jegatheesan, P., Govindaswami, B., Narasimhan, S. R., and Son, D. Prevention of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: RCT Ondansetron. R01 HD070795-01A1 PI.

Song, D., Jegatheesan, P., Nafday, S., Ahmad, K. A., Nedrelow, J., Wearden, M., Nemerofsky, S., Pooley, S., Thompson, D., Vail, D., Cornejo, T., Cohen, Z., and Govindaswami, B. Patterned frequency-modulated oral stimulation in preterm infants: A multicenter randomized controlled trial.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0212675

Rochlin, D. H., Rajasingh, C. M., Karanas, Y. L., and Davis, D. J. Full-Thickness Chemical Burn From Trifluoroacetic Acid: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.

Li, A. Y., Rustad, K. C., Long, C., Rivera, E., Mendiola, M., Schenone, M., and Karanas, Y. L. Reduced incidence of feeding tube dislodgement and missed feeds in burn patients with nasal bridle securement. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305417917303467?via%3Dihub

Sheckter, C. C., Rochlin, D. H., Moshrefi, S., Schenone, M., Vargas, V., Sproul, J., and Karanas, Y. L. Volume- vs. rate-based tube feeding in burn patients: A case-control study. 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468912218300749

Demerath, E. W., Johnson, W., Davern, B. A., Anderson, C. G., Shenberger, J. S., Misra, S., and Ramel, S. E. New body composition reference charts for preterm infants. 

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/105/1/70/4633928

2017

Ramel, S. E., Zhang, L., Misra, S., Anderson, C. G., and Demerath, E. W. Do anthropometric measures accurately reflect body composition in preterm infants? 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ijpo.12181

Van Naarden Braun, K., Grazel, R., Koppel, R., Lakshminrusimha, S., Lohr, J., Kumar, P., Govindaswami, B., Giuliano, M., Cohen, M., Spillane, N., Jegatheesan, P., McClure, D., Hassinger, D., Fofah, O., Chandra, S., Allen, D., Axelrod, R., Blau, J., Hudome, S., Assing E., and Garg, L. F. Evaluation of critical congenital heart defects screening using pulse oximetry in the neonatal intensive care unit. 

https://www.nature.com/articles/jp2017105

Govindaswami, B. Inhaled Nitric Oxide Use in Preterm Infants in California Neonatal Intensive Care Units.

Patel, R., Nudelman, M., Olarewaju, A., Pooley, S. W., Jegatheesan, P., Song, D., and  Govindaswami, B. Homecare and Healthcare Utilization Errors Post-Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Discharge. 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5533584/

Peltz, G., and Govindaswami, B. Prevention of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: RCT Ondansetron. R01 HD070795-01A1 PI.

Barlow, S. M., Maron, J. L., Alterovitz, G., Song, D., Wilson, B. J., Jegatheesan, P., Govindaswami, B., Lee, J., and Rosner, A. O. Somatosensory Modulation of Salivary Gene Expression and Oral Feeding in Preterm Infants: Randomized Controlled Trial. 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5489710/ 

2016

Govindaswami, B., Nudelman M., Jegatheesan, P., and Song D. Maternal Magnesium for threatened Preterm Birth provides Infant Neuroprotection: decreased risk of Cerebral Palsy in the Very Low Birthweight Infant.

Barlow, S., Maron, J., Song, D., Jegatheesan, P., and Govindaswami, B. National Institutes of Health: Salivary Gene Expression and Feeding. R-01 PIs.

Jegatheesan P, Nudelman M, Goel K, Song D, Govindaswami B. Perfusion index in healthy newborns during critical congenital heart disease screening at 24 hours: retrospective observational study from the USA.

Intravenous Heparin:  Improving Protocol Implementation and Achieving Therapeutic Anti-Xa in the Obese.

Barlow, S., Maron, J., Song, D., Jegatheesan, P., and Govindaswami, B. Salivary Gene Expression and Feeding. R-01 PIs.

Jochen, P., and Govindaswami, B. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in US NICUs. R-01.