A Clinton School project in Houston is gaining national attention. Josh Stokes (’10) is completing his final Capstone project with the University of Texas Medical School at Houston’s Houston Early Age Risk Testing and Screening (HEARTS) program.
Stokes is helping a group of doctors administer the program, which is designed to screen all sixth grade children in the Houston Independent School District for cardiac abnormalities and congenital heart defects.
In the program’s first screening at Francis Scott Key Middle School, 10 out of 94 students were found with positive results, five that required immediate follow-up, two with life saving surgery. The follow-up was covered by the program.
This screening targets sixth graders specifically because, as principal investigator Dr. John Higgins points out, that this is the time in an athletic child’s life when they are about to make the jump to more serious athletic training.
The story received front-page coverage in the Houston Chronicle and was covered on CNN, CBS, MSNBC and drew a prominent feature on ABC Nightly News. Click here for the ABC video.
Congrats to Josh for his accomplishments in Houston.
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