Jennifer Frankovich, MS, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Rheumatology
Project Title: Defining KIR and HLA Class I Genotypes at Highest Resolution via High-throughput Sequencing in Caucasian Patients with PANS and Caucasian Controls

Anita Kishore, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Project Title: Examining the Impact of Outdoor Psychiatric Treatment on Anxiety and Affective Response

Shiraz Maskatia, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Project Title: Limited Cardiac MRI vs Echocardiography to Assess Systolic Function in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Annette Nasr, RN, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology
Project Title: Understanding the Long Term Relationship of the Parental Live Liver Donor and the Adolescent Young Adult Dyad

Meera Sankar, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology
Project Title: Barriers to Optimal Breast Milk Provision and Successful Breastfeeding in the NICU Setting

Melissa Scala, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology
Project Title: The Starling Project: Evaluation of a Novel Device for Characterizing the Language Environment of the NICU

Despina Contopoulos-Ionnidis, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases
Project:  Early Life Antibiotic Exposure and Childhood Obesity

Victoria Cosgrove, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Project: Who is bullied?  An examination of biological and psychological correlates of adolescent peer

Hayley Gans, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases
Project: Risk Factors for Cytomegalovirus and Epstein Barr Virus Infections in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Patients

Scott Sutherland, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Nephrology
Project: Using Kinetic GFR to Identify AKI Events and Progression

Joyce Teng, MD, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Dermatology
Project: Investigating Genetic Mutations Associated with Lymphatic Malformation

Moon Lee, MD, MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Project: A pilot train-the-trainer program for community emergency departments to implement in situ pediatric resuscitation simulations.

Sharon Chinthrajah, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Project: Understanding Gender Differences in Asthma

Priya Vishnu Akula, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Project:  Evaluation and Improvement of Quality of Neonatal Inter-facility Transport

Grace Gengoux, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Project:  Social Motivation Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Improving Peer Initiation

Sandhya Kharbanda, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Hematology/Oncology/SCT/Cancer Biology
Project:  Cell free nucleic acid analysis for identification of novel biomarkers of engraftment failure, graft-versus-host disease, and infections, following hematopoietic stem cell transplant   

Joseph Kim, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hospital Medicine
Project:  Cell-free DNA Sequencing of Plasma to Diagnose Infectious Diseases

Kavita Sarin, MD, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Dermatology
Project:  Identifying the genetic etiology of Becker’s nevus