Fernando F. Corrales-Medina, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, is leading a five-year, longitudinal study that aims to minimize the lifelong joint impairment caused by hemophilia, a condition known as debilitating chronic hemophilic arthropathy.
Holtz Children’s Hospital at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center is among the nation’s top children’s hospitals, according to the U.S. News & World Report 2017-18 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings. Holtz Children’s is ranked in three specialties this year: 25th in pediatric diabetes and endocrinology, 31st in pediatric nephrology, and 38th in pediatric gastroenterology and GI surgery.
In the last week of April, the 33-year-old mom, who is a patient care tech at Jackson Memorial Long Term Care, started feeling unusual movements and kicks from her unborn baby.
