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Mentor: Kevin Shea (Orthopaedic Surgery)

“Development of Patient Database to Predict the Development of Avascular Necrosis in Pediatric Leukemia and Lupus Patients"

Steroid-associated vascular necrosis (AVN) is a debilitating condition that poses a significant risk of pain, joint collapse, and reduced quality of life in pediatric patients who have received high-dose steroids. Rod’s research project involves developing a comprehensive database of AVN patients at Stanford. Rod will work to build infrastructure to record patient-reported outcome measures, steroid course data, BLAST anatomic classification of affected joints, and surgical interventions/outcomes. The ultimate aim of developing this database is to collect comprehensive patient data in order to assess the efficacy of screening interventions, namely an MRI protocol developed in the Shea lab.