Pediatrician In Chief Partners with CHOP for Study
William Steinbach, M.D., Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics, is one of the Principal Investigators on a new $8.6 million, five-year U54 grant that will help shed light on the most complicated infectious diseases seen in immunocompromised children. The grant, “Pediatric Fungal Network study of rate invasive fungal diseases in immunocompromised pediatric patients (PFN-STRIDE),” is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN).
Dr. Steinbach is leading the study with Brian Fisher, D.O., MSCE, MPH, of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The work will encompass epidemiology, molecular diagnosis and novel clinical trials of therapy. Dr. Steinbach founded and directs the International Pediatric Network. In Arkansas, he also serves as Associate Dean for Child Health in the College of Medicine and as Pediatrician-in-Chief for Arkansas Children’s. He holds the Robert H. Fiser, Jr., M.D. Endowed Chair in Pediatrics.
