Current Research and Scholarly Interests
Evidence based medicine, systematic reviews and meta-analysis
Congenital Infections
Congenital Toxoplasmosis
Point-Of-Care (POC) Tests for Congenital Infections: Validation of POC-tests for Toxoplasma Infections
Prenatal Screening for Congenital Infections using POC-tests
Guidelines Development for Congenital Infections
Improving Laboratory Diagnosis of Congenital Toxoplasmosis
Family outbreaks of acute toxoplasmosis in the US
Outcomes research (Patient safety)
Antimicrobial Stewardship
Early Life Antibiotic Use and Weight Gain: a 10 year retrospective cohort study
Comparative effectiveness and Comparative safety of medical interventions in diverse patient populations (adults vs children), settings (less developed countries vs. more developed countries) and study designs (RCTs vs routinely collected data)
Empirical appraisal of CEA for pediatric vaccines (with and without inclusion of herd immunity assumptions)
Empirical multidomain evaluation of the life cycle of translational research for medical interventions.