The mission of the research program at Blythedale Children's Hospital is to translate advances in basic neuroscience into improved treatment for children with neurological impairments - impacting movement, sensation, and cognition - at Blythedale Children's Hospital.
Areas of Research:
Clinical studies currently focus on the following areas:
Learn more about these important bench-to-bedside initiatives, which improve the delivery of care to children with complex medical needs through the below publications.
Blythedale Children's Hospital partners with BRANY Institutional Review Board Services for research initiatives.
Blythedale is a founding member of only eight hospitals nationwide of the Pediatric Brain Injury Consortium (PBIC) led by Sudhin A. Shah, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine and Stacy J. Suskauer, MD, Kennedy Krieger Institute.
Peer-Reviewed Research Publications
Joseph J. Fins, MD, D Hum Litt, MACP, FRCP; Julie Knitter, OTR; Debjani Mukherjee, PhD; Karen Conti, DPT, MA, PT; Barbara Donleavy-Hiller, OTR; Linda M. Gerber, PhD; Jennifer E. Hersh, MBE; Rita Kotorac-Erlbaum, CCC, SLP; Barbara Milch, PT; Scott M. Klein, MD, MHSA, FAAP, FAAHPM
Nayoung Kim, PhD, William Watson, PhD, Eric Caliendo, MD, Sophie Nowak, BA, Nicholas D. Schiff, MD, Sudhin A. Shah, PhD*, and N. Jeremy Hill, DPhil. (2022). October 2022 vol. 12 no. 5 352-364 doi:10.1212/CPJ.0000000000200066
William D. Watson, Stacy J. Suskauer, Gulce Askin, Sophie Nowak, Katherine T. Baum, Linda M. Gerber, Laura S. Blackwell, Christine H. Koterba, Kristen R. Hoskinson, Brad G. Kurowski, Matthew J. Mclaughlin, Sarah J. Tlustos, Kanecia O. Zimmerman, Sudhin A. Shah. (2021) July-August 36(4):253-263. doi: 10.1097/HTR.0000000000000650.
Nayoung Kim, PhD, James O'Sullivan, PhD, Emily Olafson, BA, Eric Caliendo, MD, Sophie Nowak, BA, Henning U. Voss, PhD, Ryan Lowder, BA, William D. Watson, PhD, Jana Ivanidze, MD, Joseph J. Fins, MD, Nicholas D. Schiff, MD, N. Jeremy Hill, DPhil, and Sudhin A. Shah, PhD
Caliendo, Eric MD; Lowder, Ryan BA; McLaughlin, Matthew J. MD, MS; Watson, William D. PhD; Baum, Katherine T. PhD; Blackwell, Laura S. PhD; Koterba, Christine H. PhD; Hoskinson, Kristen R. PhD; Tlustos, Sarah J. PhD; Shah, Sudhin A. PhD; Suskauer, Stacy J. MD; Kurowski, Brad G. MD, MS
Matthew J. McLaughlin, Eric Caliendo, Ryan Lowder, William D. Watson, Brad Kurowski, Katherine T. Baum, Laura S. Blackwell, Christine H. Koterba, Kristen R. Hoskinson, Sarah J. Tlustos, Kanecia O. Zimmerman, Sudhin A. Shah, Stacy J. Suskauer
Eric T. Caliendo, Nayoung Kim, David Edasery, Gulce Askin, Sophie Nowak, Linda M. Gerber, Katherine T. Baum, Laura S. Blackwell, Christine H. Koterba, Kristen R. Hoskinson, Brad G. Kurowski, Matthew McLaughlin, Sarah J. Tlustos, William D. Watson, Sumit N. Niogi, Stacy J. Suskauer, Sudhin A. Shah
Ka Lai K. Au Julie L. Knitter OTR, Susan Morrow-McGinty OTR, Talita C. Campos, Jason B. Carmel, Kathleen M. Friel
William D. Watson, Ph.D., ABPP, Hsuan-Wei Chen, B.S., Ana K. Ortiz, B.S., Stacy J. Suskauer, M.D., Sudhin A Shah, Ph.D., Chani Traube, M.D., FAAP, FCCM
Watson W, Lahey S, Baum KT, Hamner T, Koterba CH, Alvarez G, Chan JB, Davic KC, DiVirgilio EK, Howarth RA, Jones K, Kramer M, Tlustos SJ, Zafiris CM, Slomine BS. (2022). Child Neuropsychology, 2022, May 30.
Watson, W., Pedowitz, A., Nowak, S., Neumeyer, C., Shah, S., (2020). Rehabilitation Psychology, 65(1), 22-30
Mooney SWJ, Alam NM and Prusky GT. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 2021. 15:737409. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.737409
Mooney SWJ, Alam NM, Hill NJ, Prusky GT. J Vis. 2020 Dec 2;20(13):17. doi: 10.1167/jov.20.13.17. PubMed PMID: 33369613; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7774112.
Mooney SWJ, Hill NJ, Tuzun MS, Alam NM, Carmel JB, Prusky GT. J Vis. 2018 Nov 1;18(12):7. doi: 10.1167/18.12.7. PubMed PMID: 30452585; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6238984.
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