Celebrating Highly Cited Researchers in 2022
UW Pediatrics professor Janet Englund joins 47 UW faculty and researchers who have demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field. The highly anticipated list of researchers highlights those who have published multiple highly cited papers during the last decade.
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Improving Adolescent Health by Listening to Youths’ Needs
Associate Professor, Yolanda Evans, is on a mission to improve health information and access for patients and families. “By thinking innovatively, we can create a workforce who don’t necessarily need a master’s, but who can still be trained to intervene early on for mental health needs like depression, anxiety and eating disorder care. This way, adolescents aren’t struggling with these issues for months to years before they are helped.
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Pediatric Genetic Sequencing Aims to Expedite Unexplained Conditions
Genomic advances are helping solve undiagnosed genetic disorders in children—and UW Pediatrics is making it even faster. Learn how UW Pediatrics researcher and assistant professor, Dr. Danny Miller, is using whole-genome sequencing technology to expedite clinical decisions and treatments, and enlighten parents about their child’s genetic conditions. Thanks to an award from the National Institutes of Health, Miller aims to accelerate child genome sequencing to only three hours.
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