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.


Claudia Pedroza, Ph.D

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Education:

BA, Mathematics: Boston University

MA, Mathematics: Boston University

PhD, Statistics: Harvard University

Research Interests:

  • Bayesian Approaches

    • Selected Publications:

    • Wilde, E.A., Hunter, J.V., Newsome, M.R, Scheibel, R.S., Bigler, E.D., Johnson, J.L., Fearing, M.A., Cleavinger, H.B., Li, X., Swank, P.R., Pedroza, C., Roberson, G.S., Bachevalier, J., & Levin, H.S. (2005). Frontal and temporal morphopmetric findings on MRI in children after moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. Journal of Neurotrauma 22, 333-44.
    • Levin, H., McCauley, S.R., Pedroza, C., Boake, C., Brown, S.A., Goodman, H., Merritt, S.G., Brundage, S.I. (2005). Predicting depression following mild traumatic brain injury. Archives of General Psychiatry 62, 523-528.
    • McCauley, S.R., Boake, C., Pedroza, C., Brown, S.A., Levin, H., Diaz-Marchan, P.J., Goodman, H., Merritt, S.G. (2005). Postconcussional Disorder: Are the DSM-IV Criteria an Improvement Over the ICD-10? Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 193, 540-550.
    • Boake, C., McCauley, S.R., Levin, H.S., Pedroza, C., Contant, C.F., Song, J.X., Brown, S.A., Goodman, H., Brundage, S.I., Diaz-Marchan, P.J. (2005). Diagnostic criteria for postconcussional syndrome after mild to moderate traumatic brain injury. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 17, 350-356.
    • McCauley, S.R., Pedroza, C., Brown, S.A., Boake, C., Levin, H., Goodman, H., Merritt, S.G. (2006). Confirmatory factor structure of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression scale (CES-D) in mild-to-moderate traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury 20, 519-527.
    • Wilde, E.A., Bigler, E.D., Pedroza, C., Ryser, D.K. (2006). Post traumatic amnesia predicts long-term cerebral atrophy in traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury 20, 695-699.
    • Pedroza, C. (2006). A Bayesian forecasting model: predicting U.S. male mortality. Biostatistics 7, 530-550.
    • Early Treatment for Retinopathy of Prematurity Cooperative Group (2006). The Early Treatment for Retinopathy of Prematurity Study: structural findings at age 2 years. British Journal of Ophthalmology 90, 1378-1382.
    • Tyson, J.E., Kennedy, K.A., Lucke, J.F., Pedroza, C. (2007). Dilemmas initiating enteral feedings in high risk infants: how can they be resolved? Seminars in Perinatology 31, 61-73.
    • McCauley, S.R., Boake, C., Pedroza, C., Brown, S.A., Levin, H., Goodman, H., Merritt, S.G. (2008). Correlates of persistent postconcussional disorder: DSM-IV Criteria versus ICD-10. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 30, 360-79.
    • Quinn, G.E., Dobson, V., Davitt, B.V., Hardy, R.J., Tung, B., Pedroza, C., Good, W.V. (2008). Progression of myopia and high myopia in the early treatment for retinopathy of prematurity study: findings to 3 years of age. Ophthalmology 115, 1058-1064.e1.
    • Morris, B.H., Oh, W., Tyson, J.E., Stevenson, D.K., Phelps, D.L., O'Shea, T.M., McDavid, G., Perritt, R.L., Van Meurs, K.P., Vohr, B.R., Grisby, C., Yao, Q., Pedroza, C., Das, A., Higgins, R.D. (2008). A multi-center randomized trial of conservative vs. aggressive phototherapy for extremely low birth weight infants. New England Journal of Medicine 359, 1885-96.
    • McCauley, S.R., McDaniel, M.A., Pedroza, C., Chapman, S.B., Levin, H.S. (2009). Incentive effects on event-based prospective memory performance in children and adolescents with traumatic brain injury. Neuropsychology 23, 201-209.
    • McCauley, S.R., Pedroza, C., Chapman, S.B., Cook, L., Hotz, G., Vasquez, A.C., Levin, H.S. (2010) Event-based prospective memory performance during subacute recovery following moderate to severe traumatic brain injury in children: effects of monetary incentives. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 16, 335-341.
    • Wilde, E.A., McCauley, S.R., Kelly, T., Levin, H.S., Pedroza, C., Clifton, G.L., Valadka, A.B., Robertson, C.S., Moretti, P. (2010) Feasibility of the neurological outcome scale for traumatic brain injury (NOS-TBI) in adults. Journal of Neurotrauma, in press.

     

    Faculty Biography

    • Claudia Pedroza, Ph.D
      Assistant Professor
    • Department of Pediatrics
    • University of Texas-Houston Medical School
      Center for Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine
      6431 Fannin Street, MSB 2.106
      Houston, Texas 77030
    • phone: (713) 500-5721
      fax: (713) 500-0519
      e-mail: Claudia.Pedroza@ uth.tmc.edu
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