Publications
Publications are featured in the Weekly Bulletin during the Research + QI features.
2026 Featured Publications
Please note that only Department of Pediatrics members are listed for brevity.
- An atlas of lumps and bumps: Part 51: Diffuse cutaneous mastocytosis - Alexander KC Leung
- Blood Gas Interpretation Under Hypothermic Conditions: A Comparative Study of Alpha-Stat and pH-Stat in Neonatal Hypoxic–Ischemic Encephalopathy - Abhay Lodha, Khorshid Mohammad & Yacov Rabi
- Factors Related to Parent and Child Health-Related Quality of Life Among Infants and Toddlers with Cancer - Greg Guilcher
- Research priorities in infection prevention and control in Alberta, Canada: a modified Delphi process - Devika Dixit
- Target product profiles for paediatric formulations of azithromycin and nitrofurantoin - Devika Dixit
- Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) or Opioid Analgesia Added to Ibuprofen for Children’s Musculoskeletal Injury: Two Randomized Clinical Trials - Antonia Stang
- Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Morquio A Syndrome: An International Retrospective Study of 41 Children - Gregory Guilcher & Pascale Grimard
- Insights from Overviewing Selective International Guidelines for Pediatric Asthma - Alexander K.C. Leung
- Low-value care and variation in practice in the care of children hospitalized with bronchiolitis in Canada (CareBEST): Protocol for a multi-center prospective cohort study - Michelle Bailey & Chris Novak
- Management of serious Staphylococcus aureus infections in children: A survey of paediatric infectious diseases physicians in Canada - Carsten Krueger
- Navigating treatment dilemmas in severe paediatric IDA: A case report - Rachel Fagen
- Prenatal Exposure to Phthalates, Bisphenols and Their Mixtures and Early Childhood Allergic Conditions and Asthma: Results from the APrON Cohort - Deborah Dewey, Gillian England-Mason & Munawar Hussain Soomro
- Prenatal and childhood exposures to heavy metals and their associations with child cognition, motor skills, behaviour and mental health Open Access - Deborah Dewey & Munawar Hussain Soomro
2025 Featured Publications
Please note that only Department of Pediatrics members are listed for brevity.
- Addressing Barriers Newcomer Families Face When Obtaining Routine Childhood Vaccines in Alberta, Canada - Siobhan M. Wong King Yuen, Emily J. Doucette & Cora Constantinescu et al.
- An expansion of the phenotype in individuals with SYNCRIP-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder - Lindsay Phillips & Kara Murias et al.
- COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Pediatric Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant Patients - Sarah A. O’Neill, Cora Constantinescu & Tony H. Truong et al.
- External Validation of Brief Resolved Unexplained Events Prediction Rules for Serious Underlying Diagnosis - Chris Novak et al.
- Hospitalizations for Eating Disorders and Other Mental, Behavioral, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Before and During COVID-19 in Canada - Ellie Vyver et al.
- Motivators and barriers to neurodevelopmental research enrolment - Hayley G.P. Huston, Carly A. McMorris & Kara Murias et al.
- Neurodevelopment in the First 2 Years of Life Following Prenatal Exposure to Maternal SARS-CoV-2 Infection - Daphne M Vrantsidis, Marcel van de Wouw, Emily R M Hall & Gerald F Giesbrecht et al.
- Noninvasive Respiratory Support for Stabilization After Birth is a Safe Approach in Infants Who are Micropreterm - Ayman Abou Mehrem
- Premature Thelarche: An Updated Review - Alexander K.C. Leung et al.
- The Buddy Program: High school students inform the design of a school-based peer support program for concussion - Carolyn A Emery et al.
- The safety and efficacy of onabotulinumtoxinA injections for children and adolescents with chronic migraine: A systematic review and meta-analysis - Rebecca Lindsay, Amira Kalifa, Jonathan Kuziek & Serena L Orr et al.
- Unraveling the relationship between executive function and mind wandering in childhood ADHD - Kara R. Murias et al.
- Hospital Level of Service, Rural-Urban Location, and Neonatal Resuscitation Interventions: A Population Study in Alberta Canada from 2000-2020 - Amuchou Soraisham et al.
- Human Knowledge-based Artificial Intelligence Methods for Skin Cancer Management: Accuracy and Interpretability Study - Mohamed Eltorki et al.
- Impact of age-related changes in buccal epithelial cells on pediatric epigenetic biomarker research - Nicole Letourneau, Gerald F. Giesbrecht, Deborah Dewey & Gillian England-Mason et al.
- Maternal concentrations of perfluoroalkyl sulfonates and alterations in white matter microstructure in the developing brains of young children - Gillian England-Mason & Deborah Dewey et al.
- Outcomes of a Population-Based Congenital Cytomegalovirus Screening Program - Jessica K. E. Dunn et al.
- Parental and family presence are essential: A qualitative study of children's lived experiences with family presence in pediatric intensive care - Laurie A. Lee et al.
- Preterm growth assessment: the latest findings on age correction - Abhay Lodha et al.
- SARS-CoV-2 Encephalitis versus Influenza Encephalitis: More Similarities than Differences - Alexander K.C. Leung et al.
- Towards a histological diagnosis of childhood small vessel CNS vasculitis - Marinka Twilt, Harvey B Sarnat & Susanne M Benseler et al.
- Transdiagnostic Predictors of Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Autism and Epilepsy: A Cross-Sectional Study - Kim Smyth, Jeffery Buchhalter & Deborah Dewey et al.
- Vitamin C Deficiency in an Adolescent With Severe Anorexia Nervosa - Brielle Cram, Katherine Pohoreski, Chris Novak & Ellie Vyver et al.
- A multidimensional fecal microbial and inflammatory biomarker profiling in preterm and full-term neonates -Harish Amin, Amuchou Soraisham, Belal Alshaikh & Sumesh Thomas et al.
- An Atlas of Lumps and Bumps, Part 44: Dermatosis Papulosa Nigra - Alexander K.C. Leung et al.
- Effectiveness and Risks of Probiotics in Preterm Infants - Belal N. Alshaikh et al.
- Group A ß-hemolytic Streptococcal Pharyngitis: An Updated Review - Alexander K.C. Leung et al.
- Hospitalizations for all-cause pediatric acute respiratory diseases in Alberta, Canada, before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-level retrospective cohort study from 2010 to 2024 - Christine D. Lukac, David W. Johnson & James D. Kellner et al.
- Outcomes Following a Mental Health Care Intervention for Children in the Emergency Department - Amanda S. Newton, Jennifer Thull-Freedman, Jianling Xie, Teresa Lightbody, Jennifer Woods, Antonia Stang, Kathleen Winston, Jacinda Larson, Bruce Wright, Michael Stubbs, Matthew Morrissette & Stephen B. Freedman et al.
- Outpatient follow-up and future care-seeking for pediatric ambulatory care-sensitive conditions - Jennifer Thull-Freedman, Antonia Stang & Stephen B. Freedman et al.
- Pharmacologic Management of Acute Pain in Children A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis - Mohamed Eltorki et al.
- Predictive factors for the diagnosis of coeliac disease in children and young people in primary care: A systematic review and meta-analysis - Christian E. Farrier et al.
- Response to Inhaled Nitric Oxide and Mortality Among Very Preterm Neonates With Pulmonary Hypertension - Amuchou Soraisham et al.
- Trends and hospital practice variation for analgesia for children with sickle cell disease with vaso-occlusive pain episodes: An 11-year analysis - Mohamed Eltorki et al.
- An Atlas of Lumps and Bumps, Part 44: Dermatosis Papulosa Nigra - Alexander K.C. Leung et al.
- Anesthesia, extremely premature infants and full-scale intelligence quotient at 5 years of age - Amina Benlamri, Abhay Lodha & Debbie McAllister et al.
- The death of a Bryde’s whale: paediatricians’ perspective and health education implications - Alexander KC Leung et al.
- A Case Series of Appendicitis and Pseudo-appendicitis in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit - Alexander K.C. Leung et al.
- An Atlas of Lumps and Bumps, Part 45: Steatocystoma Multiplex - Alexander K.C. Leung et al.
- Diffusion MRI tractography with along-tract profiling reveals subtle neurodevelopmental differences between moderate and late preterm infants - Leonora Hendson, Hussein Zein, Regan King, Khorshid Mohammad & Lara M Leijser et al.
- Evaluating Vaccination Status and Barriers in Children with Rheumatic Diseases - Babatope O. Adebiy, Nicole A. Johnson, Otto G. Vanderkooi & Heinrike Schmeling et al.
- Fetal intracerebral hemorrhage: review of the literature and practice considerations - Mary Dunbar et al.
- G-ROP versus WINROP for retinopathy of prematurity screening: a Calgary perspective - Ayman Abou Mehrem et al.
- Pediatric Transplant and Cellular Therapy Consortium RESILIENT Conference on Pediatric Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease Survivorship after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: Part III. Long-Term Impact of Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease on Endocrinologic, Cardiovascular, and Metabolic Outcomes in Survivors of Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation - Gregory M.T. Guilcher & Geoffrey D.E. Cuvelier et al.
- Neuroglia pathology in genetic and epigenetic disorders of the central nervous system - Harvey B Sarnat & Vijayaraghava T S Rao et al.
- Success and safety of neonatal endotracheal tube exchanges: a NEAR4NEOS multicentre retrospective cohort study - Ayman Abou Mehrem & Jennifer Unrau et al.
- Advances in pharmacotherapy of juvenile idiopathic arthritis - Stephanie K. A. Wong & Marinka Twilt et al.
- An Atlas of Lumps and Bumps, Part 46: Ganglion Cysts - Alexander K.C. Leung et al.
- Are Children’s Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviours at 5 Years Predicted by Maternal Perinatal Depression Trajectory Profiles? - Deborah Dewey et al.
- Consensus Approach for Standardization of the Timing of Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Classification of Brain Injury in Neonates With Neonatal Encephalopathy/Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy: A Canadian Perspective - Khorshid Mohammad, Hussein Zein & Carlos Fajardo et al.
- Developing consensus outcome measures in juvenile systemic sclerosis: a global survey of pediatric rheumatologists and literature review - Marinka Twilt et al.
- Development of an Entrustable Professional Activity for Intestinal Ultrasound in North America - Jennifer C deBruyn et al.
- Impact of age-related changes in buccal epithelial cells on pediatric epigenetic biomarker research - Gerald F. Giesbrecht, Deborah Dewey & Gillian England-Mason et al.
- Sex-specific white matter alterations in children exposed to high pregestational BMI - Gerald F. Giesbrecht & Deborah Dewey et al.
- Sleep Bruxism in Children: A Narrative Review - Alexander K.C. Leung et al.
- Using machine learning to investigate the influence of the prenatal chemical exposome on neurodevelopment of young children -Gillian England-Mason, Sarah J. MacEachern, Munawar Hussain Soomro, Nicole Letourneau, Gerald F. Giesbrecht & Deborah Dewey et al.
- A Population-Based Study of Limb Body Wall Complex With Proposed Features for Prenatal Diagnosis - Mary Ann Thomas et al.
- Adapting selected international paediatric asthma guidelines for use in Hong Kong - Alexander K.C. Leung et al.
- An Atlas of Lumps and Bumps, Part 47: Popliteal Cyst - Alexander K.C. Leung et al.
- Diffusion MRI tractography with along-tract profiling reveals subtle neurodevelopmental differences between moderate and late preterm infants - Leonora Hendson, Hussein Zein, Jeanne Scotland, Khorshid Mohammad & Lara M Leijser et al.
- Early phase study enrollment in Canadian children with cancer near end of life: A retrospective cohort study from Cancer in Young People in Canada - Gregory M T Guilcher & Tony H Truong et al.
- Long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes at three years in preterm infants born before 29 Weeks gestation following Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes (PPROM) - Harkirat Bhullar, Amelie Stritzke & Abhay Lodha
- Specialty Consultations and Diagnostic Testing Accuracy After Brief Resolved Unexplained Events: A Multicenter Observational Study - Chris Novak et al.
- The relationship between sleep and problem behaviors in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder - Kara Murias et al.
- An Atlas of Lumps and Bumps, Part 48: Olecranon Bursitis - Alexander Leung et al.
- Nocturnal Enuresis - Alexander Leung et al.
- An Atlas of Lumps and Bumps, Part 49: Solitary Cutaneous Mastocytoma - Alexander KC Leung et al.
- Positive Predictive Value of Tissue Transglutaminase IgA for Celiac Disease - Dominica Gidrewicz et al.
- Primary hyperhidrosis: an updated review - Alexander KC Leung et al.
- Empowering partnership: key lessons from the co-development of patient-oriented research with parents, researchers, and healthcare professionals - Elsa Fiedrich et al.
- Exploring the relationship between pain catastrophizing and migraine in youth: A longitudinal clinical cohort study - Nynke J. van den Hoogen, Jonathan Kuziek, Kirsten Sjonnesen & Serena L. Orr et al.
- Evaluating a novel pediatric critical care outreach program’s impact on ICU transfers and outcomes - Meagan Mahoney & Jonathan Gilleland et al.
- Evidence on the effect of in-utero cannabis exposure in neonates - Basel Thayyil & Kamran Yusuf et al.
- Age-related characteristics of the efficacy of different glucocorticosteroids in the therapy of acute lymphoblastic leukemia - Gesche Tallen et al.
- Characterization of a real-world population with pediatric epilepsy point-of-care standardized data collection as a tool for healthcare quality improvement and disparities research in Canada - Morris H. Scantlebury, Sabrina D’Alfonso, Fejiro Erome, Juan Pablo Appendino, Alice Ho, Julia Jacobs & Jeffrey Buchhalter et al.
- Clinical significance of cytogenetic changes in childhood T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia: results of the multicenter group Moscow-Berlin (MB) - Gesche Tallen et al.
- Deliberations about clinical pharmacogenetic testing in pediatric oncology - Gesche Tallen et al.
- DisorderING promotes epigenetic order - Gesche Tallen et al.
- Efficacy and toxicity of dexamethasone vs methylprednisolone-long-term results in more than 1000 patients from the Russian randomized multicentric trial ALL-MB 2002 - Gesche Tallen et al.
- Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for purine nucleoside phosphorylase deficiency: an EBMT-IEWP retrospective study - Victor Anthony Lewis & Gregory M T Guilcher et al.
- Long-Term Neurodevelopmental Outcomes at 5 Years in Preterm Infants Born At <27 Weeks’ Gestational Age following Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes - Sarah Tougas, Harkirat Bhullar, Amelie Stritzke & Abhay Lodha et al.
- Lichen Striatus: An Updated Review - Alexander K.C. Leung et al.
- Reduced vs. standard dose native E. coli-asparaginase therapy in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: long-term results of the randomized trial Moscow-Berlin 2002 - Gesche Tallen et al.
- Strategies to improve the quality of survival for childhood brain tumour survivors - Gesche Tallen et al.
- Severe self-injurious behaviours: A significant paediatric problem - Myka Estes & Sarah J MacEachern et al.
- An Atlas of Lumps and Bumps, Part 50: Maculopapular Cutaneous Mastocytosis - Alexander Leung et al.
- Biomarkers for juvenile idiopathic arthritis treatment response—have we identified them? - Stephanie Wong & Marinka Twilt et al.
- Childhood-onset Takayasu arteritis: clinical presentation, challenges and disease course - Marinka Twilt, Nicole Johnson, Andrew Wade & Lorraine Hamiwka et al.
- International Headache society evidence-based guidelines on the use of non-invasive neuromodulation devices for the acute and preventive treatment of migraine - Serena Orr et al.
- Migraine and Trauma-Informed Care: A Review of the Literature and Recommendations for Clinical Practice and Research - Serena Orr et al.
- Multidose Ondansetron after Emergency Visits in Children with Gastroenteritis - Stephen Freedman et al.
- Posttraumatic Stress in Parents of Hospitalized Children With Medical Complexity - Tammie Dewan, Andrea Whiteley & Laurie Lee et al.
- PV-10 enhances immune responses in hepatitis B vaccination through STING pathway - Luis Murguia-Favela & Aru Narendran et al.
- Site-Level Variation in Tracheal Intubation in the Pediatric Emergency Department A Report From the National Emergency Airway Registry for Pediatric Emergency Medicine (NEAR4PEM) - Christine Kennedy et al.
- Chinook winds and migraine attack onset in children and adolescents: A prospective longitudinal clinical cohort study - Jonathan Kuziek, Kirsten Sjonnesen, Ashley D. Harris & Serena L. Orr et al.
- Depressive and generalized anxiety symptoms among adolescent pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in Mwanza Tanzania - Deborah Dewey et al.
- Diagnosis and management of celiac disease - Dominica Gidrewicz & Justine Turner et al.
- Improving skull-stripping for infant MRI via weakly supervised domain adaptation using adversarial learning - Regan King, Lara Leijser & Roberto Souza et al.
- "Non-COVID-19" Coronavirus Diseases Not to be Misdiagnosed as COVID-19 - Alexander Leung et al.
- Point prevalence and incidence of depressive and generalized anxiety symptoms among women attending antenatal clinics, a longitudinal study among adolescent mothers in Mwanza Tanzania - Deborah Dewey et al.
- Trends in Term-Equivalent Age Brain Volumes in Infants Born Across the Gestational Age Spectrum - Anouk S Verschuur, Elsa Fiedrich & Lara M Leijser et al.
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