# Dysmorphology Research Resource

> **NIH NIH U24** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · 2021 · $262,217

## Abstract

Project Summary
The specific aims of the Dysmorphology Research Resource are to use the previously
established CIFASD physical examination protocol and classification system to perform and/or
validate physical examinations of all infants, children and adults who are participants in the
CIFASD renewal project, to provide on-going training and re-training of local
pediatricians/neonatologists/geneticists who are providing preliminary examinations at some
CIFASD sites and to further develop and refine a telemedicine program developed in the last
funding period. The overall goals of the Dysmorphology Research Resource is to 1) assure
consistency as well as accuracy in recognition of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs) at
all CIFASD project sites where new subjects are being recruited 2) provide, through the
telemedicine program, an added source of research subjects resulting in a partial solution to the
problems created by the lack of adequate numbers of research subjects with a diagnosis of an
FASD, 3) train additional physicians and health care providers, particularly those in low income,
underserved areas of the United States, in the diagnosis of FASDs, and 4) through the
telemedicine program, reach underserved areas that lack physicians with expertise in clinical
recognition of FASDs. In that all children will be evaluated using a standard protocol by one of
two physicians (KLJ or MDC) with expertise in recognition of features characteristic of prenatal
alcohol exposure dramatically increases the integrity of conclusions that can be drawn regarding
the overall aims of the CIFASD Consortium. The outcomes of all clinical studies completed
through the Consortium will be totally dependent on these evaluations, either face-to-face or
through telemedicine, by the Dysmorphology Research Resource.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10169173
- **Project number:** 5U24AA014815-18
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
- **Principal Investigator:** KENNETH Lyons JONES
- **Activity code:** U24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $262,217
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2003-09-30 → 2022-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10169173

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10169173, Dysmorphology Research Resource (5U24AA014815-18). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10169173. Licensed CC0.

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