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Pediatric Research Podcast

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Pediapod is the pediatrics podcast from Pediatric Research, produced in association with Nature Publishing Group. Join us as we explore the etiologies of diseases of children and disorders of development, featuring interviews with top researchers and highlighted content from one of the premier journals in the field of pediatrics.

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Episodes

June 2025: What's hot in pediatric genetics?

Listen to June's Pediapod episode: What's hot in pediatric genetics research, with Stephen Kingsmore Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 16, 2025•16 min

April 2025: Senior Investigator: Conversation with Avroy Fanaroff

This episode features a conversation with Senior Investigator Avroy Fanaroff, Emeritus Professor at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, who has had a long and impactful career in neonatology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 21, 2025•16 min

March 2025: What's hot in pediatric sepsis?

Listen to March's Pediapod episode: What's hot in pediatric sepsis research, with Sarah Kandil and Eleanor Molloy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 14, 2025•16 min

Senior Investigator: Conversation with Michael DeBaun

This episode features a conversation with Senior Investigator Michael DeBaun, Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, who has had a long career investigating the causes of and treatments for sickle cell anemia, and advocating for children and adults with this condition across the globe. You can access his Vanderbilt page here: Michael R. DeBaun, MD, MPH | Department of Pediatrics Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Nov 01, 2024•17 min

Collection on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

In this episode, Geoff Marsh speaks to Dr. Stephanie Ford about our Collection on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Read the collection here: https://www.nature.com/collections/fccidiefbi Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 10, 2024•17 min

August/Senior Investigator: Conversation with Tina Cheng

This episode features a conversation with Senior Investigator Tina Cheng, who has held several leadership positions over her career, including her current roles as Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati, and Director of the Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation. Her clinical work and research work have had a long and lasting impact on child health disparities and health equity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Aug 30, 2024•13 min

June/Senior Investigator: Conversation with Richard Jackson

This month features a conversation with Senior Investigator, Professor Richard Jackson, who’s had an extensive career in Public Health. Now Professor Emeritus at the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, Richard has served in many leadership positions including nine years as Director of the CDC's National Centre for Environmental Health. Our conversation covered a wide range of topics affecting children's health, from pesticides to urban planning to gun v...

Jul 16, 2024•14 min

Collection on neonatal encephalopathy and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy

In this episode, listen to our editorial apprentice, Dr. Eric Peeples describe the scope and importance of our collection on neonatal encephalopathy and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. Visit the collection here: Neonatal Encephalopathy and Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (nature.com) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 18, 2024•14 min

What's hot in Endocrinology?

In this episode of Pediapod, Section Editor Jeanie Tryggestad discusses the most recent advances in the field of Pediatric Endocrinology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 24, 2024•11 min

Conversation With Pediatric Researchers Cynthia Bearer and Eleanor Molloy

Pediatric researchers Cynthia Bearer and Eleanor Molloy join podcast host Geoff Marsh to give an update on plans for the podcast and to offer some sage advice for Early Career Investigators. Find more Pediapod episodes here: https://www.nature.com/collections/fcbjjbchaa Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 22, 2024•13 min

Conversation with Linda de Vries

This episode involves a conversation with senior investigator Linda de Vries, who has had a large and lasting effect in the world of pediatric research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 06, 2024•14 min

Global climate change: the defining issue of our time for our children’s health

The United Nations recently stated that “climate change is the defining issue of our time, and we are at a defining moment” ( https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/climate-change ). This statement ended the political debate about the role of human activities in climate change. Global climate change is happening and it will have a profound effect on our children. Listen and learn from Dr. Kari Nadeau the Chair of Environmental Health from Harvard School of Public Health and one of the guest editors...

Jan 16, 2024•14 min

Predicting functional and quality-of-life outcomes following pediatric sepsis.

Illness severity scores are commonly used for mortality prediction and risk stratification in pediatric critical care research. However, as mortality has steadily declined in the pediatric intensive care unit there has been increasing attention given to evaluating non-mortality outcomes in survivors. In this episode we meet Early Career Investigator Elizabeth Killien from Seattle Children's Hospital. In order to evaluate the ability of two commonly used illness severity scores to predict morbidi...

Nov 29, 2023•13 min

Conversation with Dr. Maximo Vento

This episode, along with a few more to come, involves a conversation with a senior investigator who has had a large and lasting effect in the world of pediatric research. The Early Career Investigator episodes will still be coming once a month, but hopefully this will add a bit of variety to the Pediapod feed and shine a light on some of the pioneers who have helped shape the face of modern Pediatrics. This episode features Dr. Max Vento. Read Max Vento's biocommentary here: www.nature.com/docum...

Nov 20, 2023•18 min

The association of placental pathology and neurodevelopmental outcomes in patients with neonatal encephalopathy

Hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy (HIE), a subset of neonatal encephalopathy, is the most common neurological condition in term born infants. It is known that a range of acute and chronic placental pathologies are more common in infants with HIE. However little is known about how differences in utero-placental function might contribute to varied outcomes in these infants. In this episode of Pediapod, we speak to Early Career Investigator Dr. Jeffrey Russ from Duke University Medical Center, who r...

Nov 02, 2023•13 min

Do Bayley trajectories predict school-readiness better than single assessments in formerly very preterm infants?

The development of children born very preterm is most often evaluated using the Bayley Scales of Infant Development. These single assessments are routinely used as outcome measures for neonatal interventions or as a means of prognosis. However, early Bayley scores may not accurately predict later outcomes. In this episode of Pediapod, we speak to Dr. Mary Lauren Neel from Emory University who, along with her team, set up a study to determine whether Bayley-III score trajectories measured at mult...

Oct 23, 2023•12 min

Novel metrics to characterise the temporal lobe of very preterm infants.

The temporal facilitates many complex neurological processes. Alterations to these processes are known to correlate with specific functional deficits commonly found in preterm-born children at and beyond school age. However, as yet there is not an objective, validated method to assess the temporal lobe structure or size in very preterm infants. In this episode of Pediapod, I speak to neonatologist and this month's highlighted Early Career Investigator, Katherine Bell, from the Brigham and Women'...

Sep 11, 2023•11 min

Trends in fetal and neonatal outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic severely affected health and healthcare systems worldwide and could have resulted in changes in fetal and neonatal outcomes. In this episode, we speak to Early Career Investigator, Vivek Shukla from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Using machine learning techniques, he performed a population-based study to identify changes in fetal and neonatal outcomes during the initial and delta COVID-19 pandemic period as compared to the baseline period. Listen to the full study...

Aug 23, 2023•12 min

The transition to telemedicine in pediatric primary care during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of telemedicine was limited in pediatric primary care. Then, in 2020 it increased exponentially. However, early COVID-19 reports described inequities in telemedicine use across multiple specialties. In this episode, we meet Early Career Investigator, Kelsey Schweiberger from the University of Pittsburgh. In a recent paper, she describes the factors associated with scheduling and attendance of telemedicine appointments for pediatric primary care throughout th...

Jun 29, 2023•11 min

Cardiorespiratory signature of neonatal sepsis

Heart rate characteristics and demographic factors have long been used to aid early detection of late-onset sepsis, however respiratory data may contain additional signatures of infection. In this episode we meet Early Career Investigator Brynne Sullivan from the University of Virginia. She and her team developed machine learning models to predict late-onset sepsis that were trained on heart rate and respiratory data to provide a cardiorespiratory early warning system which outperformed models u...

Jun 07, 2023•12 min

BMI trajectories and BPD among very preterm infants

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is the most common morbidity among very preterm infants. Commonly, nutritional interventions are focused on achieving optimal body weight gain. However, very preterm infants with evolving lung disease often experience disproportionate growth in the neonatal period, which may contribute to the odds of developing BPD. In this episode of Pediapod, we speak to Early Career Investigator Marc Beltempo from McGill University, Montréal, Canada who has investigated the li...

Apr 13, 2023•11 min

March: Cardiovascular outcomes in children with Kawasaki disease

Kawasaki disease is a common childhood vasculitis and its global incidence appears to be increasing. Although this disease is self-limiting, the associated vasculopathy can cause cardiovascular complications. In this episode of Pediapod, we meet Early Career Investigator Cal Robinson at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada who performed a population-based cohort study using Ontario health administrative databases to determine the risk of cardiovascular events and mortality after Kawas...

Mar 20, 2023•13 min

February: Pharamcogenetic profiling in children with medical complexity

Children with medical complexity typically require multiple medications throughout the course of their treatment. These individuals also increasingly undergo genome-wide testing early in life as a diagnostic test. Since many medications prescribed to children have established gene-drug interactions, could this genetic data be repurposed to aid precision prescribing in this priority pediatric population? In today's Pediapod, we meet Early Career Investigator, Gregory Costain, a physician scientis...

Feb 28, 2023•13 min

Sex-specific effects of prenatal opioid exposure

Neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) represents a major public health problem in the US with a high socioeconomic burden. The pathophysiology of this condition is not yet fully understood. Data from animal models have shown that opioids modulate brain reward signalling via an inflammatory cascade, however no such data exist for opioid-exposed neonates. In this episode of Pediapod we meet Early Career Investigator Elizabeth Yen, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Tufts University Schoo...

Jan 27, 2023•13 min

Barriers to finding a genetic diagnosis for children with rare disease.

Rare diseases affect millions of people in the USA. However, access to subspecialty care is not distributed equitably and there may be other barriers to clinic attendance. Furthermore, once established within the genetics clinic, families may still face barriers along the path to getting a molecular diagnosis. In this episode, we meet Early Career Investigator, Monica Wojcik, a neonatologist and geneticist at Boston Children's Hospital who ran a study to determine the influence of social determi...

Dec 27, 2022•14 min
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