PROS COORDINATORS

Carol Touloukian, M.D.
Jeb Teichman, M.D.

April 2008 PROS Report

Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS) is in need of your services!

The mission of PROS is to improve the health of children and enhance primary care practice by conducting national collaborative practice-based research. PROS has done valuable research to enhance pediatric practice and the health of your patients. Notable studies include Secondary Sexual Characteristics in Girls, the Febrile Infant Study, the Child Behavior Study and Life Around Newborn Discharge. Each of these, as well as many other studies, have and will continue to change the practice of pediatrics. These studies can only be done by our pediatric practitioners in office practice.

PROS Spring 2008 Meetings

Attendees at the spring 2008 Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS) Chapter Coordinator meetings on April 12th and 13th heard clarion calls regarding two new PROS studies – Brief Motivational Interviewing to Reduce Child BMI (BMI2) and Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure (CEASE). These projects test innovative approaches to delivering effective care on major public health issues.

The BMI2 project offers training in communications skills to address the epidemic of childhood obesity in pediatric practice. The CEASE project offers guidance in reducing young children’s involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke – the ubiquitous toxin which sickens young children, has no safe level of exposure, and potentially lengthens smokers’ and their children’s lives by an average of ten years.

A presentation on the Secondary Sexual Characteristics in Boys (SSCIB) study of pubertal onset highlighted its invaluable training on pubertal assessment, and emphasized that the study is still recruiting new study sites – especially practices and clinics that see substantial numbers of African American and Latino children.

For further information about PROS, go to http://www.aap.org/PROS/ or contact Indiana PROS coordinator at toulouki@indiana.edu.

General Information

PROS (Pediatric Research in Office Settings) is the practice-based research network of the AAP. There are currently 17 practices in Indiana participating in PROS. The mission of PROS is to improve the health of children by conducting collaborative practice-based research to enhance primary care practice.

The mission of PROS is to improve the health of children and enhance primary care practice by conducting national collaborative practice-based research. PROS has done valuable research to enhance pediatric practice and the health of your patients. Notable studies include Secondary Sexual Characteristics in Girls, the Febrile Infant Study, the Child Behavior Study and Life Around Newborn Discharge. Each of these, as well as many other studies, have and will continue to change the practice of pediatrics. These studies can only be done by our pediatric practitioners in office practice.

If you are interested in enhancing the quality of your practice by participating in PROS or if you just want more information about being a PROS practice, please contact PROS Indiana chapter coordinator, Dr. Carol Litten Touloukian (toulouki@indiana.edu) or PROS Central at 1-800-433-9016, ext. 7910.

Check out the PROS website below as well for more information about PROS.

PROS link - http://www.aap.org/pros/