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Research

 
Dr. M. Antoine
  • Comparison of Body Composition between Pregnancies of Teenage Girls and Mature Women and the Impact on Fetal Growth and Birth Outcome.
Dr. Kay Bailey
   
  • Parental knowledge, attitudes and beliefs toward asthma
  • Parents' knowledge, concerns and misconceptions about immunization : The Jamaican perspective
  • Impact of cockroach infestation on asthma symptoms in children 2-12 years old
  • An assessment the effectiveness of asthma clinics in Jamaica• Physician knowledge and practice concerning Caribbean asthma guidelines
Dr. M. Barton
  • Staphylococcal infection in Jamaican children : A ten year review
  • The impact of HIV on epidemiology of tuberculosis in Jamaica : A ten year review
  • The Paediatric OSCE : A new assessment tool
  • Antibiotic use and misuse in children
  • The impact of continuing medical education on physician knowledge of tuberculosis
  • The clinical epidemiology of toxocariasis in Jamaican children
  • Parents' knowledge, concerns and misconceptions about immunization

Prof. Celia D.C. Christie
  • “Mega-trial of Safety and Efficacy of Pentavalent (G1, G2, G3, G4, and P1) Human Reassortant Rotavirus Vaccine in Healthy Infants”, Funded by Merck and Co., USA..
  • “Pediatric and Perinatal HIV/AIDS Leadership Initiative in Kingston, Jamaica”, International Leadership Award, Funded by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Administrative Support of the “Kingston Pediatric and Perinatal HIV/AIDS Leadership Initiative” from the Principal’s Office, UWI and also a Research Fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology for Dr Julianne Steel-Duncan.
Dr. Vernon DaCosta
  • Attitudes of IVF patients regarding the IVF experience at the University of the West Indies and their children, V. DaCosta, J. Frederick, S. Wynter
  • A 15-year Review of Laparascopic Female Sterilisation at the University of the West Indies, documenting the successful use of outpatient sterilization under local anaesthesia (Data analysis in preparation), H Wynter , S. Wynter, V. DaCosta and J. Frederick.
  • A review of the first sixty cases of no-scalpel vasectomy (A new technique) performed in the fertility management unit of the University of the West Indies, V. DaCosta, J. Frederick, S. Wynter.
  • A pilot study in the efficacy of the uterine artery ligation via laparoscopic for the treatment of symptomatic uterine leiomyomata, V. DaCosta, S. Wynter, J. Frederick.
Dr. Horace Fletcher
  • Phytooestrogens in Jamaican foods and the impact on hormone dependent disease such as breast cancer, ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer, prostate cancer, cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis.
  • The use of peritubal versus incisional intercede at Myomectomy to improve fertility.
  • Follow-up or lack of follow-up for abnormal papanicolaou smears.
  • Incidence of endometriosis in Jamaica
  • Psychological development of low birth weight babies.
Dr. Joseph Frederick
  • Double blind randomized trial on the Use of Interceed on oviducts and incisions versus incision to increase pregnancy rates post myomectomy.
  • Operative morbidity of patients undergoing myomectomy compared to abdominal hysterectomy
  • The incidence of autoimmune antiantibodies in patients with recurrent abortions.
    Ovarian hyperstimualation syndrome in patients in patients undergoing controlled ovarian stimulation.
  • Male infertility, incidence and aetiological factors and treatment options
Dr Lennox Matadial
  • Pregnancy in teenagers
Dr Sharmaine Mitchell
  • Epidemiology of uterine cancer
Dr. Anthony Mullings
  • Hypoviscosity in pre-eclampsia is associated with poor perinatal outcome. Pepple DG, Reid HL, Mullings AM, et al.
  • An unusual case of ovarian tumor. Coard K, Mullings AM, et al
Dr. Russell Pierre
  • OSCE development in Child Health - evaluation of OSCE in the end-of-senior clerkship assessment 2002-2002.
  • The frequency of CDC-defined clinical conditions among children with HIV/AIDS (prospective follow-up of HIV infected children attending the Kingston Paediatric and Perinatal HIV/AIDS)
Dr. A. Pottinger
  • The use of corporal punishment in the classroom
  • Content analysis of crime and violence reporting in print and broadcasting media in Jamaica
Dr. Carole Rattray
  • Treatment of Hyperemesis Gravidarum with Steroids.
    Subfascial haematomas following Pfannenstiel incision – is a subfascial drain justified.
  • Normal Semenanalysis in Jamaica.
  • Audit of Radical Hysterectomies done at the University of the West Indies.
Dr Shaun Wynter
  • Rubella in pregnancy
  • Impact of long term depo provera on cardiovascular disease
Dr. M. Samms-Vaughan
 
  • Health developmental and behavioural outcomes for Jamaican adolescents at 15-16
    years old.
  • Community, domestic and school violence in Jamaican children. Exposure and
    effects
  • Autism in Jamaica, prevalence and presenting features.
  • Child abuse in Jamaica: prevalence, presenting features and quality of care
  • Psychosocial and academic correlates of stress in Jamaican adolescents: a biochemical study
  • Parental stress in Jamaica
  • Self esteem, school performance and behaviour in Jamaican adolescents
  • The influence of parental presence on child behaviour and development
Dr. M. Thame
  • Pregnancy outcome and maternal weight gain in women with homozygous SS disease and birth outcome
  • A comparison of body composition between pregnancies of teenage girls and mature women and the impact on fetal growth and birth outcome
Dr. H. Trotman
  • Pain and pain management in the newborn: Knowledge, attitudes and practices of health care providers.
  • Outcome of neonates admitted to the Intensive care Unit at the University Hospital of the West Indies: A 15 year review
  • The epidemiology of bacterial infections in the neonatal unit at the University Hospital of the West Indies
  • Comparison of body composition between pregnancies of teenage girls and mature women and the impact on foetal growth and birth outcome
  • The epidemiology of unintentional childhood injuries in Jamaica
 
     
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