2016

A Children’s National Health System research team has uncovered a novel process by which the gene APOL1 contributes to renal disease, according to a paper published November 18 in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Children’s National Health System today signed an agreement with the U.S. Army to accept the transfer of nearly 12 acres from the Walter Reed property in Northwest Washington, D.C.

Children’s National and Celsion announce clinical study to treat recurrent childhood tumors using MR-HIFU targeting to apply heat-activated chemotherapy drug

The American Board of Pediatrics has elected Robin Steinhorn, MD, Senior Vice President of the Center for Hospital Based Specialties at Children’s National, to its Board of Directors for a six-year term beginning Jan. 1, 2017.

Cerebellar development is interrupted by premature birth and its related complications, according to a case-control study

Key topics include using yoga and mindfulness in care for adolescents with cardiac diagnoses, improving outcomes using 3D printing, and clustering risk factors to predict heart health.

Children’s National Health System has been named the winner of the District of Columbia Hospital Association (DCHA) 2016 Patient Safety Award in recognition of improved patient outcomes in the hospital’s Cardiac Intensive Care service.

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Eric Vilain, MD, PhD, an internationally renowned geneticist working in the field of gender-based biology, has been named Director of the Center for Genetic Medicine Research.  Dr. Vilain will also become the A. James Clark Distinguished Professor of Molecular Genetics.

The volume of an optic nerve glioma (OPG) is directly correlated with the likelihood of vision loss in children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), according to a study published in the November 2016, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The study is the first to use quantitative imaging technology to accurately assess the total volume of individual OPGs in NF1.

His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, met with a delegation from Children’s during an event at Tawam Hospital in Al Ain, UAE.