Recent grant applications from faculty members have focused on avoiding missed opportunities for immunization and studying parental preferences for alternative immunizations schedules. Recent research presentations by faculty members have included the cost effectiveness of varicella vaccine, deficiencies in math skills of housestaff, new methods of evaluating medical student performance in pediatric clerkships and the use of computers as teaching methods for common pediatric topics.

Many of the completed studies have been published or are currently in preparation. The department's hematology-oncology physicians are active members in the research protocols and drug studies of the Children's Cancer Group, a multi-center group of pediatric cancer treatment centers. Other faculty are starting projects concerning cost effectiveness of bacterial antigen assays, EEG biofeedback on immune function and therapeutic trials for non-infectious, non-specific diarrheal disease in children.