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PROS
Pediatric Research in Office Settings
 High
costs, long hours with low reimbursement, tough competition for patients, and a
ridiculous cost of living are a grim fact of life for pediatricians in New York.
Why would anyone want to donate free time and energy to the AAP’s Pediatric
Research in Office Settings (PROS) network? However, participation in this
practice-based research network can not only enhance your pediatric practice and
improve care for your own patients, but can do so for all children everywhere.
There are three important studies actively seeking practices that not only
contribute to the pediatric knowledge base, but also offer free benefits to you
and your practice’s patients as well:
1.
BMI2
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Brief Motivational Interviewing to Reduce Body Mass Index. Brief
Motivational Interviewing to Reduce Child BMI2 - BMI2 is a study designed to
test interventions addressing the key barriers to obesity counseling in
pediatric primary care. Practitioners in this study receive training in ways to
help parents change behavior that promise to transform the way pediatricians
practice.
2.
CEASE
– Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure. PROS is looking for
practitioners in New York to study techniques in reducing secondhand smoke
exposure of pediatric patients and learning smoking cessation counseling
techniques and available local tobacco treatment resources for parents.
3.
SSCIB
– Secondary Sexual Characteristics in Boys – a large national cross-sectional
study to determine the degree and frequency of pubertal characteristics in young
boys in North America to determine the prevalence of these characteristics at
different ages among various racial and ethnic groups. There has been no large
scale or remotely recent work in this area since James M. Tanner’s studies in a
handful of institutionalized children in the late 1960’s.
One group, one practice, one person can make a difference. Do you want to help
develop evidence that leads to a change in pediatric practice? Do you want to
have a real impact on the care of children? Then please join PROS. Any pediatric
practice or clinic with at least one AAP member is eligible to join. (This
includes resident groups and hospital based practices as long as there is a
supervising pediatrician who is an AAP member and has joined PROS.)
For more information, go to http://www.aap.org/PROS/,
or call PROS Project Assistant Norma De Santiago
at (800) 433-9016 ext. 7623, or you can contact your local Chapter PROS
Coordinator:
NY
Chapter 1
William Hoeger, MD - (716) 244-9720,
whoeger@rochester.rr.com
Marie Murphy, MD - (585) 244-9706,
mlmurphy@rochester.rr.com
NY
Chapter 2
Paul
Lee, MD - (516) 663-9414, plee@winthrop.org
Vipin Agarwalla,
MRCP (UK) - (516) 801-6973, vipusa1@gmail.com
NY Chapter 3
Harry Moskowitz, MD, MS - (914) 741-0881,
hmoskowitz@mkmg.com
By
Paul Lee, MD, FAAP (NY Chapter 2)
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