- Acute Pain Services
- Alexa's PLAYC
- Asthma & Allergy Clinic
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Audiology/Hearing
- Autism Discovery Institute
- Behavioral Health
- Blood & Bone Marrow Transplant Program
- Brachial Plexus Treatment
- Cardiology
- Cardiovascular Surgery
- Celiac Disease Clinic
- Center for Healthier Communities
- Cerebral Palsy Center
- Chadwick Center For Children & Families
- Child & Adolescent Services Research Center (CASRC)
- Child Care Center (Alexa's PLAYC)
- Child Life Services
- Children's Care Connection (C3)
- Children's Hospital Emergency Transport (CHET)
- Chronic Pain Program
- Craniofacial Services
- Critical Care Center (The Ernest Hahn Critical Care Unit)
- CT Scan
- Cystic Fibrosis Clinic
- Day Surgery Center
- Dental Care
- Dermatology
- Developmental Evaluation Clinic
- Developmental Screening & Enhancement Program (DSEP)
- Developmental Services
- Down Syndrome Center
- Emergency Care Center
- Endocrinology/Diabetes
- Endoscopy
- Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disorders Clinic
- Fatty Liver Clinic
- Feeding Team
- Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
- Genetic Services
- Hand Clinic
- Heart Institute
- Helen Bernardy Center for Medically Fragile Children
- Hematology/Oncology
- High-Risk Infant Program (HRI)
- HomeCare
- Hope Bereavement Support Program
- Hospice
- Infectious Disease Services
- Integrative Medicine Program
- Kawasaki Disease Clinic
- Kidney Transplant Program
- Laboratory Services/Pathology
- Limb Deficiency Clinic
- Liver Transplant Program
- Medical Practice Foundation
- Motion Analysis Laboratory
- Muscle Disease Clinic
- Neonatal Services/NICU
- Nephrology/Renal
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Newborn Screening Program
- Nutrition Clinic
- Occupational Therapy
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedic Services
- Otolaryngology/ENT
- Pastoral Care
- Pharmacy Services
- Physical Therapy
- Prader-Willi Syndrome Clinic
- Psychiatry
- Pulmonary/Respiratory Medicine
- Radiology
- Reconstructive Surgery
- Rehabilitation Medicine
- Renal Clinic
- Rheumatology
- Scoliosis Center
- Sleep Studies Center
- Solid Organ Transplant Program
- Speech/Language Pathology
- Sports Medicine
- Surgery Services
- Toddler School (Alexa's PLAYC)
- Trauma Program
- Urgent Care Centers
- Urology
- Weight & Wellness Center
Research
Dr. Gabriel G. Haddad, Physician-in-Chief, Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, UC San Diego, has been awarded a $10 million program project grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (a division of the National Institutes of Health).
A world-renowned physician-scientist in pediatric pulmonary medicine, Dr. Haddad will lead a collaborative team of investigators from UCSD and the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute to study the impact of low oxygen on cells and tissue in the heart, lung and brain. Understanding the molecular, cellular and genetic mechanisms that contribute to low oxygen tolerance or susceptibility will have a major impact on treatments of central nervous system and cardiorespiratory diseases and events, including stroke, heart attack, obstructive sleep apnea and pulmonary hypertension.
The overall aims of this project are:
- To study the adaptive mechanisms to hypoxia in cardiovascular and respiratory systems at both cellular and molecular levels;
- To study the fundamental genetic mechanisms of tolerance in a Drosophila model;
- To modulate/manipulate molecular mechanisms in mammalian cells/tissues/animals to render them hypoxia-tolerant after learning from a tolerant organism, e.g., the fly; and
- To identify molecular signatures of hypoxia tolerance and susceptibility that may be predictive clinically.
The investigative team includes:
Gabriel G. Haddad, M.D., Chair Pediatrics, UCSD (PI of the PPG)
Jason Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago
Rolf Bodmer, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Development and Aging Program, Sanford-Burnham Institute for Medical Research
Andrew McCulloch, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UCSD
Giovanni Paternostro, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, The Sanford-Burnham Institute for Medical Research
Frank Powell, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Physiology Division, UCSD and Director, University of California White Mountain Research Station
Dr. Gabriel Haddad is a world-renowned physician-researcher in the field of pulmonary medicine.
