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Dr. Christopher Forrest works to establish a National Pediatric LHS Embedded Scientist Training and Research Center.

In The News highlights findings on COVID-19 vaccination and children, pediatric underinsurance, and a glimpse into how cancer cells interact with each other.

NAM Recognizes Christopher Forrest, MD, PhD, for advancing large-scale pediatric research networks.

Evaluating data from collaborating PEDSnet institutions yields epidemiological insight into SARS-CoV-2.

This week in the news, Hyundai fuels our childhood cancer research with Hope on Wheels and we congratulate the 2018 Silver Award recipient.

Don't let those crisp, white lab coats fool you. While researchers share the ultimate goal of reaching new findings that can advance the best possible medical care, they aren't all the same. Each investigator has a highly specialized knowledge base that is constantly changing as they apply new things that they've discovered, whether in the lab, at the bedside.

As newly appointed chair of the research committee for the national patient-centered clinical research network called PCORnet, he is helping research studies take shape to include a participant population of up to 80 million Americans who are part of 33 large research networks.

Although the year is coming to a close, the research achievements at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 2015 remain enduring contributions to pediatric health.

“How tired do you feel?” a doctor asks a child with a chronic disease. Or, “How well are you managing stress?” The answers to questions like these are even more important, from many patients’ and families’ perspectives, than the particular numerical result of their lab test results.