Heart disease can be detected in the hospital by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR)- a device that uses a large magnet. CMR is used to test how healthy the heart muscle is and how well the heart is pumping. We will test a new method to see how helpful it is to quickly get good pictures and if this is useful for testing the health of heart muscle in patients with heart disease.

Pediatric asthma is not well controlled in SC and it's important to understand the facilitators and barriers to asthma care, especially in rural and underserved populations. Though school-based clinics provide quality asthma care to pediatric patients and has been shown to increase asthma control and decreased unnecessary health care utilization (i.e., emergency room), enrollment continues to be low. To identify and understand the facilitators and barriers to asthma care within school-based clinics, it is important to query caregivers (parents, grandparents, foster parents, legal guardians) and providers (doctors, APPs) to elicit their thoughts and opinions. This study will include caregiver and provider surveys and individual interviews to collect and analyze these thoughts and opinions.

This project examines how to improve speech understanding with cochlear implants (CIs), particularly for older CI recipients. While older individuals benefit from CI technology, performance is poorer than that of younger implanted adults for difficult listening tasks. The mechanisms that contribute to this variability are not well-understood. The current project examines how differences in brain structure and function may contribute to success with a cochlear implant. To compare, we will also be examining how older patients without cochlear implants understand speech in difficult listening situations.