Professor, Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine

Pediatrics

Mariam Chacko is an expert in the field of Pediatrics. She studied medicine at Christian Medical College Ludhiana. She has 1 awards "Fellow (FAAP)". Mariam Chacko is also a published physician. She has 39 publication published. The most recent publication is: Effect of mineralocorticoid activity on transtubular potassium gradient, urinary [K]/[Na] ratio, and fractional excretion of potassium.

Publications

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• Choice of Postpartum Contraception: Factors Predisposing Pregnant Adolescents to Choose Less Effective Methods Over Long-Acting Reversible Contraception.
• Evaluation of the Professional Process Portfolio: An Innovative Tool to Help Develop and Demonstrate Leadership Competency.
• Feasibility of providing sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment in off-campus, nonclinic settings for adolescents enrolled in a school-based research pro...
• Learning about pap smears: an educational skit for Hispanic adolescents.
• Gonorrhea and chlamydia screening among young women: stage of change, decisional balance, and self-efficacy.
• Neural tube defects: knowledge and preconceptional prevention practices in minority young women.
• Gonorrhea and chlamydia screening in sexually active young women: the processes of change.
• Chlamydia and gonorrhea screening in asymptomatic young women.
• Pelvic inflammatory disease in adolescents.
• Enhancing recruitment and retention of minority young women in community-based clinical research.
• Young women's perspective of the pros and cons to seeking screening for chlamydia and gonorrhea: an exploratory study.
• Correlates of consistent condom use with main-new and main-old sexual partners.
• Efficacy of a motivational behavioral intervention to promote chlamydia and gonorrhea screening in young women: a randomized controlled trial.
• Relationship between health literacy, reading comprehension, and risk for sexually transmitted infections in young women.
• Use of hymenal measurements in the diagnosis of previous penetration.
• Understanding partner notification (Patient self-referral method) by young women.
• Sexually transmitted disease treatment and return for test of cure of adolescents in a family planning clinic.
• Assessment of oral contraceptive pill continuation in young women.
• Prevalence and impact of dysmenorrhea on Hispanic female adolescents.
• Leukocyte esterase dipstick as a rapid screening test for vaginitis and cervicitis.
• A case-control study of anatomic changes resulting from sexual abuse.
• New sexual partners and readiness to seek screening for chlamydia and gonorrhoea: predictors among minority young women.
• Vaginal douching in teenagers attending a family planning clinic.
• Contraceptive and sexuality knowledge among inner-city middle school students from minority groups.
• Chlamydia trachomatis infection in sexually active adolescents: prevalence and risk factors.
• Screening for pharyngeal gonorrhea in the urban teenager.
• Racial differences in vaginal douching knowledge, attitude, and practices among sexually active adolescents.
• Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and adolescents. Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of runaway and homeless youths.
• The uterine cervix: diagnostic opportunities.
• Infectious disease of public health significance among children and adolescents in Texas.
• Evaluation of DNA damage in the oral mucosa of tobacco users and non-users by 32P-adduct assay.
• Failure of a lottery incentive to increase compliance with return visit for test-of-cure culture for Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
• Effect of mineralocorticoid activity on transtubular potassium gradient, urinary [K]/[Na] ratio, and fractional excretion of potassium.
• Test of cure for gonorrhea in teenagers. Who complies and does continuity of care help?
• Communication and special health care needs of a profoundly hearing impaired adolescent.
• Management of chlamydial infections in adolescents.
• Iron deficiency in black females during late adolescence.
• Increasing appointment compliance through telephone reminders: does it ring true?

Schools

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• University of The Punjab Allama Iqbal Medical College

• Christian Med College Hospital

• Baltimore City Hospital

• University MD Hospital

Doctors Specialties

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• Adolescent Medicine
• Pediatrics

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Fellow (FAAP)

Education

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• University of Maryland
• Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
• Christian Medical College Ludhiana

Hospital

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• Texas Children's Hospital

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