Callahan Laboratory

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The Callahan Lab aims to improve the ways we manage genetic information to maximize benefit for children and their families. Their approach recognizes that genetic information is complex and has wide-reaching implications, and therefore requires thoughtful management in the context of the neonatal intensive care unit. The Callahan Lab is working to employ parent and clinician viewpoints to create more balanced ways to conceptualize the utility and potential hazards of genetic information.

More broadly, the Callahan Lab is focused on studying and improving the ways in which clinicians and researchers communicate complex medical information with families in the NICU.

The lab uses quantitative and qualitative methods, employing surveys, epidemiologic research, and interviews.

Research Highlights

The Callahan Lab has several ongoing avenues of research:

  • Exploring parents' and clinicians' wants and worries for genetic tests in the NICU
  • Evaluating reasons parents decide to decline genetic testing
  • Assessing utility of a rapid genome-based panel as part of CHOP's Baby Eagle initiative
  • Developing measures for lung disease of prematurity that better reflect parents priorities
Leader
Katharine Press Callahan

Katharine Press Callahan, MD, MSME