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Get the most interesting and important stories from the 麻豆传媒.Alejandro Hoberman earns the 2022 Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award
Executive Vice Chair of Pediatrics received the 2022 Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award from the Clinical Research Forum, a nonprofit association of clinical research experts and thought leaders from the nation鈥檚 leading academic health centers.
Hoberman is the 聽from the Forum.
This year's award recognizes Hoberman and his research team for a study entitled 鈥淭ympanostomy Tubes or Medical Management for Recurrent Acute Otitis Media.鈥 First published in May 2021 in the New England Journal of Medicine, the study found no long-term benefit to surgically placing ear tubes in a young child鈥檚 ears to reduce the rate of recurrent ear infections compared to use of episodic oral antibiotics.
In 2015, the Clinical Research Forum recognized Hoberman for his team鈥檚 findings in 鈥淎ntimicrobial Prophylaxis for Children with Vesicoureteral Reflux.鈥