CHOC Pediatrica
News and Information for Pediatric Healthcare Professionals
CHOC metabolic disorders division has discovered a previously unreported condition that could provide answers for parents of children experiencing unexplained liver failure. Led by Dr. Jose Abdenur, the division’s medical director, the team has coined the genetic condition Mitochondrial Transcription Factor A (TFAM) deficiency and has published its findings this month in the journal Molecular […]
Pectus excavatum is the most common congenital chest wall abnormality and can displace the heart as well as limit lung capacity.
Dr. Sudeep Kukreja, associate medical director of the neonatal intensive care unit at CHOC Hospital and medical director of the hospital’s newborn hearing screening program, has received the Dev. A. GnanaDev Membership Award from the California Medical Association (CMA). The award is given to the CMA physician member residing and practicing in California who during […]
Seventeen-year-old Carson comes from a close-knit family of athletes and had been playing baseball for a decade when consistent, unexplained pain left his family stumped and looking for answers. The next 18 months were filled with countless physical therapy and orthopedic appointments. When an MRI of his spine lead the radiologist to assume they were […]
CHOC wants its referring physicians to get to know its specialists. Today, meet Dr. Laura Totaro, a pediatric hospitalist at CHOC at Mission Hospital. What is your education and training? I attended Loma Linda University Medical School and graduated in 2011. I then became part of the first UC Irvine/CHOC pediatric residency class and graduated […]
CHOC has partnered with pingmd, a secure, HIPAA compliant messaging app, which allows you to securely send text messages, videos and images to our specialists available within the network. We spoke with Dr. Kenneth Grant, pingmd physician champion and assistant division chief of gastroenterology/nutrition division at CHOC, to provide us with the latest on this […]
