Cynthia Howard

Contact Information Phone: 612-625-8383 Fax: 612-625-2920 Email: drcindy@umn.edu Address: 717 Delaware St SE, Mail Code 1932 Minneapolis, MN  55414 www.peds.umn.edu/iac

PATIENT CARE

Dr. Howard sees patients in the International Adoption Clinic (outpatient, Fairview Pediatric Specialty Clinic) and on the Pediatric Infectious Disease unit at University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital (inpatient).

RESEARCH

Dr. Howard received two University of Minnesota grants that funded her completion of a competency-based global health curriculum for residents and medical students.

EDUCATION

Dr. Howard completed an undergraduate B.A. (biology) and medical school at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and her residency at University of Alabama, Birmingham. She completed a fellowship in pediatric infecious diease and earned a masters degree in public health and tropical medicine at Tulane University.

TEACHING

Dr. Howard teaches medical students, residents and fellows in both the local global health elective and elective in international adoption medicine. She presents frequently on global infectious disease topics at resident noon lectures, and she gives several talks each year during the Global Health Course--the audience of which is comprised of medical professionals from around the world. She also is frequenly an invited speaker to other colleges and universities on how to develop dynamic and viable pediatric global health residency programs.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Slusher T, Gbadero D, Howard C, Toro L, McCracken G. A prospective double blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of dexamethasone therapy for pediatric patients with sepsis syndrome or septic shock. Pediatr Infect Dis J, 1996;579-583.

Meier D, Tarpley J, Olaolorun A, Howard C, Price C. Hematogenous osteomyelitis in the developing world: a practical approach to classification and treatment with limited resources. Contemporary Orthopaedics, 1993;26:495-505.