Department of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
The Department of Pediatrics

Faculty Biography

The Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston is dedicated to improving the health and welfare of all infants, children, and adolescents.


Dr. Cody Arnold, MD, MSc, MPH

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Education:

MD: University of Oklahoma

Residency (Pediatrics): Oklahoma Children's Memorial Hospital

Fellowship (Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine): McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

MSc (Epidemiology and Biostatistics): McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

MPH: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Clinical and Research Interests:

  • Quality improvement research in infection control and antibiotic use, nutrition and growth, and retinopathy of prematurity
  • Developing and evaluating information systems to improve organizational performance in intensive care units

Publications (selected):

  • C Arnold, F. McLean, M. Kramer, R. Usher.  Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Second-born versus First-born Twins.  New England Journal of Medicine 1987.  317: 1121-1125
  • C Arnold, M. Kramer, C. Hobbs, F. McLean, R.Usher.  Very Low Birth Weight: A Problematic Cohort for Epidemiologic Studies of Very Small or Immature Neonates.  American Journal of Epidemiology 1991. 134: 604-613.
  • C Arnold, E. Adams, E. Torres, R. Sidebottom.  Exosurf vs. Survanta: Proportional Hazards Regression Analysis of Time to Successful Extubation and Discontinuation of Oxygenation Therapy.   Journal of Perinatology 1996.  1: 9-14.
  • Bloom, J Mulligan, C Arnold, et al.  Improving Growth of Very Low Birth Weight Infants in the First 28 Days.  Pediatrics 2003.  112: 8–14.
  • C Arnold, R Clark, J. Fong, C. Shoemaker, A. Spitzer.  Variability in Vancomycin Use in the NICU based on Data from an Electronic Medical Record. Accepted for publication Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 2008.

 

Faculty Biography

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  • Cody Arnold, MD, MSc, MPH
    Staff Physician
  • Department of Pediatrics
    Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
  • University of Texas-Houston Medical School
    6431 Fannin Street,
    Houston, Texas 77030
  • phone: 713 500-5733
    fax: 713 500-5794
    e-mail: Cody.C.Arnold@uth.tmc.edu
  • Staff Assistant:
  • Roxanne Lopez (713) 500-5733
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