Our Labs

The Bogetz Lab focuses on improving serious illness care for children with severe neurological impairment and their families through interventions to promote high quality communication and family-centered care.

 The Diekema Lab focuses on ethical issues that affect children in the clinical, research, and policy arenas. Areas of focus have included the limits of parental decision-making on behalf of children, vaccine hesitancy, allocation of limited resources, and issues arising during disasters and pandemics.

The Kett Lab’s primary research interest is communication and medical decision-making with the families of sick children and with NICU families in particular.

Our lab focuses on understanding the ethical and social impacts of advances in neuroscience on children and families affected by neurodevelopmental, neurological and psychiatric disorders.

 The Montenegro Lab focuses on examining and addressing bias in medicine.

The Opel Lab focuses on improving child health by optimizing clinician-parent communication, pediatric decision-making and the clinician-parent relationship. Specific research topics include vaccine communication and shared decision-making.

The Parnes lab is focused on exploring how individual and environmental factors shape young people’s mental health. We prioritize co-creating solutions with youth to support their well-being and resilience.

Dr. Trowbridge's research focuses on understanding and improving relationship-centered communication between clinicians, patients and caregivers.

The Vo Lab focuses on building systems that foster comprehensive, team-based care and advance systems-level improvements for children with chronic health conditions. Specific research topics include improving the shared decision-making process between families and clinicians and identifying strategies to decrease variations in health outcomes amongst patients with medical complexity.

The Weiss lab focuses on research ethics, with a particular interest in neonatal clinical trials.

The Wightman Lab focuses on research on medical decision-making for children with complex, chronic medical conditions.

The Wilfond lab seeks to improve people's experiences navigating our systems and institutions providing healthcare and conducting clinical research though promoting accessible and balanced information and supporting families facing important decisions.