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To find out the effects of ApoE4 on the Preterm Brain.

Safety of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) in children with Crohn's disease in remission.

To know if stool transplant from a healthy person into an ulcerative colitis patient can help treat the disease.

Develop better ways of screening and diagnosing certain types of brain injuries in infants and children who are born with and without congenital heart disease.

To understand how environmental factors affect a child's early brain development. This includes positive factors like social support and parent-child bonding and challenges like poverty, stress and early life exposures.

1) To determine if 5 doses of Epo (Erythropoietin) 1000 U/kg (birth weight) intravenous (IV) reduces the rate of death or neurodevelopmental impairment (mild, moderate, or severe) at 24 months of age. 

2) To assess safety of Epo. 

3) To determine whether Epo decreases the severity of HIE-induced brain injury as evidenced by early MRI and plasma biomarkers of brain injury.

To improve patient care and achieve the best health outcomes possible for children with IBD.

We are interested in observing whether and how infants learn when interacting with a robot during a learning assessment contingency paradigm. 

The purpose of the study is to collect information from children 0-18 years of age with all types of pancreatitis to determine the number of children diagnosed with this condition, understand the causes and progression of the disease, and review laboratory and imaging findings as well as responses to any treatments given.

Our goal is early identification of deviation from healthy brain development to allow targeted early intervention and improve developmental outcomes.