2024
Kylie Bushroe, MD
Mentor: Mary Politi, PhD
Medical Education: Ohio State University
Residency: St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Research Project: Evaluating Caregiver-Clinician Communication for Tracheostomy Placement in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Elisabeth Cole, MD
Mentor: David Hunstad, MD
Medical Education: Tulane University
Residency/Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship: UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Research Project: Sex differences in UTI
Tyler King, DO
Mentor: Toni Frolova, MD, PhD
Medical Education: Marian University
Residency: Indiana University
Research Project: Effects of Maternal Obesity on Perinatal Cerebral Glucose Uptake and Metabolism
Erin O’Brien, MD
Mentor: Cindy Ortinau, MD
Medical Education: University of Arkansas
Residency: St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Research Project: The influence of placenta vascular malperfusion on brain growth in fetuses with congenital heart disease
Joel Smith, MD
Mentor: Ana Maria Arbelaez, MD
Medical Education: University of Santo Tomas
Residency: Driscoll Children’s Hospital
Research Project: Risks, Characteristics and Treatment of Hyperinsulinism in Small for Gestational Age Infants
Devon Swofford, DO
Mentor: Zachary Vesoulis, MD, MSCI
Medical Education: A.T. Still University
Residency: University of Oklahoma
Research Project: Implementing and expanding NIRS use in HIE and throughout the NICU