Karen D. Fairchild
Pediatrician
Lee St Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Dr. Karen Fairchild is a pediatrician practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Fairchild is a doctor who specializes in the health care of children. As a pedicatrician, Dr. Fairchild diagnoses and treats infections, injuries, diseases and other disorders in children. Pediatricians typically work with infants, children, teenagers and young adults up to age 21. They practice medical care as well as preventative health care. Dr. Fairchild can oversee and manage the physical, mental and emotional health of their patients.
Board Certification
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD- 1997
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The role of fever in the infected host.
- Detection of fungemia by polymerase chain reaction in critically ill neonates and children.
- Clinical microbiology of bacterial and fungal sepsis in very-low-birth-weight infants.
- Binding of low concentration of peptide to H-2Kd produced in insect cells requires mouse beta 2-microglobulin co-expression.
- Effect of moderate hypothermia on gene expression by THP-1 cells: a DNA microarray study.
- Expression and characterization of recombinant mouse beta 2-microglobulin type a in insect cells infected with recombinant baculoviruses.
- Synthesis of novel neutrophil-specific imaging agents for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging.
- Implementation of a 'Hypothermia for HIE' program: 2-year experience in a single NICU.
- Incidence of invasive ureaplasma in VLBW infants: relationship to severe intraventricular hemorrhage.
- A novel neutrophil-specific PET imaging agent: cFLFLFK-PEG-64Cu.
- Hypothermia increases interleukin-6 and interleukin-10 in juvenile endotoxemic mice.
- Preface: early-onset neonatal sepsis-recent advances in diagnosis and prevention.
- Preface: Healthcare associated infections in the neonatal intensive care unit.
- Pathogen-induced heart rate changes associated with cholinergic nervous system activation.
- FDG-PET Quantification of Lung Inflammation with Image-Derived Blood Input Function in Mice.
Fellowships
- Neonatology, Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA 1996
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