StAT Alumni
Nina Shevzov-Zebrun
Community Partner: Equip
Previously: NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Program Description: The goal of this project was to describe the current actual and perceived landscapes of policies, procedures and processes guiding identification of eating disorders in California schools, and, in turn, generate a needs assessment to improve eating disorder identification in middle and high school educational settings.
Sophia Figueroa Katz
Community Partner: Refugee Health Alliance
Previously: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Program Description: The purpose of this project is to improve the medical care delivered to refugee children at the US-Mexico border. Clinical practice guidelines are an important tool to practice evidence-based medicine. However, fundamental gaps between international recommendations and realistic best practice often leave clinicians in low-resource settings without useful guidance. We will adapt existing clinical guidelines for common pediatric conditions to the local context through a systematic, iterative, and participatory process.
Anna Le
Community Partner: Ayudando Latinos A Soñar (ALAS) in Half Moon Bay, CA
Previously: CDU/UCLA Medical Education Program
Program Description: The goal of this project is to partner with ALAS, a Latino-centered community organization and identify the facilitators and barriers Latino families experience with accessing necessary pediatric developmental and behavioral care. We hope to highlight areas of improvement to refine the existing ALAS/LPCH collaborative telehealth-community DBP model.
Hanh Nguyen
Community Partner: Chao Lab, Primary School, Everytown for Gun Safety
Previously: David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Program Description: The goal of this project is to characterize the type and frequency of lockdown drills implemented by California Bay Area K-12 schools, and assess the educators’ experience and perceptions of lockdown drills. A common theme from existing research about lockdown drills focused on students is the potentially detrimental mental health impacts of these exercises. Capturing the educators’ experience is also important to inform ongoing discussions about the merits of lockdown drills in school settings.
Rah-Sha Al-Hassan
Community Partner: Pediatric Emergency Department: Stanford Hospital Marc and Laura Andreessen Pediatric Emergency Department
Previously: Howard University College of Medicine
Program Description: The goal of this project is to determine the extent in which the pediatric emergency department is utilized for newborn visits following nursery discharge, as a result of lack of access to a follow up appointment in a pediatric clinic.
Sasha Alcon
Community Partner: Child Advocacy Center of Santa Clara County
Previously: Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra
Program description: The purpose of this project is to evaluate the current mental health resources utilized by the Child Advocacy Center program in Santa Clara County. The Child Advocacy Center serves children and families who have experienced any form of abuse and neglect and offer comprehensive services to their patients including working with community based mental health specialists to provide trauma informed care. This project will be a program evaluation looking at the services, referral processes, availability and barriers to care seen by community based mental health providers.
Nicole Dominique-Branley
Community Partner: LPCH, Department of Hepatology with Dr. Noelle Ebel, Office of Child Health Equity
Previously: LSUHSC School of Medicine in New Orleans
Program description: The goal of this project is to improve access to living organ transplantation by understanding the experiences and financial hardships of caregivers who donated a section of their liver to their children. I plan to survey and interview caregivers to learn their experiences in order to improve our distribution of resources to families learning about the transplant process and to promote public policy in urging legislators to pass the Living Donor Protection Act of 2021.
Diana Peña
Community Partner: Stanford Pediatrics, Department of Endocrinology
Previously: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Project Description: The goal of this project is to identify unique family-level barriers that Stanford patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and public health insurance face in getting insulin pump technology in order to understand what contributes to T1D disparities. After identifying the barriers, the goal is to create a pilot intervention informed by families with public insurance in order to increase insulin pump use.
Tiffany Lee
Community Partner: LPCH Government Relations
Previously: Oregon Health and Science University
Project Description: The goal of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of physician advocacy on influencing state legislation by assessing the perceptions of physician advocacy amongst state legislators and their staffers. Additionally, this project will examine the difference in efficacy between individual physician advocacy versus organizational physician advocacy and pediatric advocacy versus advocacy by physicians of other specialties. The hope is to use the insight gathered from this project to ultimately identify ways to improve the efficacy of physician advocacy and increase influence on legislative outcomes.
Kylie Seeley
Community Partner: Stanford Pediatrics, Department of Endocrinology
Previously: Oregon Health & Science University
Project Description: The goal of this project is to improve glycemic outcomes and quality of life for Stanford pediatric patients with new diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes who are at risk of poor outcomes due to low socioeconomic status.
Cristal Suarez
Community Partner: Family Voices of California
Previously: UC Davis School of Medicine
Project description: The goal of this project is to partner with a statewide collaborative of parent-run centers for children and youth with special health care needs to enact a survey and interviews of caregivers in an advocacy training program. The project aims to evaluate the impact of this comprehensive curriculum on caregivers' perceptions of empowerment and advocacy ability, participation in leadership roles, and influence on health care policy and service improvements.
Bethel Mieso
Community Partner: The Primary School
Previously: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Project description: This project has two goals. The first goal is to identify the system and market barriers to acquiring new or replacement eyeglasses for school-aged children with vision impairment on Medicaid. The second goal will be to raise attention to how the child health disparity of unmet vision needs impacts children's academic performance and to propose solutions to influence policy and improve access to eyeglasses for children.
Catherine Raney
Community Partner: Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
Previously: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Project description: The goal of this project is to generate hypotheses regarding facilitators and barriers to youth starting treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD). This is critical, because <5% of youth with OUD access treatment, and there is a paucity of literature on why access is so poor and what can be done to improve it. My study will help fill this knowledge gap by interviewing youth about their experiences starting treatment in different settings including in the hospital, in the emergency department, and at home, with the ultimate goal of increasing access to life-saving medications through youth-centered interventions.
Yvonne Lee
Community Partner: Family Connections
Previously: Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
Project description: The goal of Project Worried Well is to empower parents at Family Connections, a bilingual, family-based learning community for all SES levels, as their child’s first line care provider through health education on common pediatric illnesses. There is a gap in health education that has been demonstrated in the understanding of what common pediatric illnesses look like, how to confidently manage them at home, and when to seek higher levels of care for children, and this is most prevalent in families with parents of younger age, lower education level, and single household incomes. We aim to develop an effective educational tool on how to manage common pediatric illnesses for parents that is easy to understand, access, and disseminate in hopes of making a difference in parental knowledge, confidence, and intentions overall.
Natasha Abadilla
Community Partner: Project WeHOPE (East Palo Alto)
Previously: Stanford School of Medicine
Program description: The goal of this project is to work with families of children living in RV communities to reduce health disparities by assessing for unmet health needs and attainable interventions that we as physicians can provide or execute. We as pediatricians specifically have the unique privilege of seeing children at many touch points for well child checks and vaccinations, and we can leverage these opportunities to better care for children who are homeless or facing housing instability. This project's partners are Project WeHOPE in East Palo Alto and community members in their RV Safe Parking program, and results will contribute to the sustainability of the program, better inform local pediatrics clinics on how to best provide support to families and patients who are homeless, and empower community members to advocate for themselves at local government meetings.
Lauren Rivkin
Community Partner: SF Unified School District, Alameda County Office of Education, and Cardea Services
Previously: University of Illinois College of Medicine - Rockford
Program description: This project is intended to describe the quality and efficacy of current comprehensive sexual health education through parent and educator focus groups. We expect to identify the perceived assets and deficits in the current curriculum, as well as barriers and facilitators to effective implementation of a comprehensive sexual health education program.
Hannah Michalko
Community Partner: Gardner Packard Children's Health Center
Previously: University of Rochester School of Medicine
Program description: The goal of the Integrative Medicine Community Outreach ProjEct (I-COPE) is to improve the mental health of adolescents by providing access to pediatric integrative medicine therapies. We will implement a bilingual 5-session pilot program (I-COPE) to provide hands-on integrative medicine education for adolescents enrolled in public health insurance. Before and after the program, we will assess measures of resiliency, self-perceptions of mental health, and parental perceptions to evaluate for program feasibility and efficacy.
Tito Joe Thomas
Community Partner: Youth Alive!
Previously: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Program description: The goal of this project is to understand how to best support violence prevention professionals and identify barriers in providing effective violence intervention efforts in the East Bay.
Dora Alvarez
Previously: University of California San Francisco
Project Description: Dora partnered with Dr. Baraka Floyd in her project to elicit caregivers’ perspectives on positive childhood experiences and how providers can best communicate about these experiences. Her project focused on determining what one group of parents thinks about this topic, how it relates to their uptake of resources, and any suggestions they would make to providers in approaching these sensitive issues. Although this only reflects a specific clinic’s patient population, we hope it will be a starting point for further research.
Alaina Butler
Previously: University of Washington
Project Description: Alaina partnered with Brighter Beginnings. The purpose of this project was to understand the short-term effects of screening for adverse childhood experiences at Brighter Beginnings, an organization with primary care clinics in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. The first goal of this project was to implement a screening program for adverse childhood experiences at Brighter Beginnings for each well child greater than three years of age, then employ surveys to better understand how ACEs screening is being conducted at Brighter Beginnings as well as patient/parent opinions of ACEs screening, perceived benefits or positive outcomes, and perceived drawbacks. The results of the surveys will be shared with Brighter Beginnings to improve internal processes and with a broader audience of other primary care clinics who are initiating ACEs screening.
Aydin Zahedivash
Previously: University of Texas
Project Description: Aydin partnered with The Primary School. The goal of this project is to quantify the consequences of our fragmented screening and treatment system for children with social, emotional, and language support needs, and to help inform broader policy efforts to standardize support for families. Among the most potent motivators of policy change are the financial consequences of ineffective social systems, and we hope to use our modeling to highlight the costs of our current system and propose methods for financially sustainable, equitable early childhood interventions.
Chrysa Cheronis
Previously: Rosalind Franklin University
Project description: Chrysa partnered with members of the Asylum Latino Initiative (ALI) / Latinx Family Resource Program (LFRP) at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. The goal of this project is to improve access to care for asylum seeking patients and their families presenting to LPCH and activating the Inpatient Asylum Protocol (IAP). This protocol has been active since 2019, and we now are able to perform a retrospective chart review of this patient population and to conduct a mixed methods analysis describing the patient demographics, their medical and social needs, as well as the interventions of the protocol.
Susanna Jain
Previously: Oakland University
Project description: Susanna partnered with The Primary School to educate general pediatricians about the negative effects on health and wellbeing associated with school exclusion in childhood. The goal of the project is to advance community health by offering practical solutions for general pediatricians and local education agencies to reduce exclusionary school discipline, which will reduce the negative effects of these practices on the health of preschool and school-aged children.
Kleshie Baisie
Previously: University of California, Riverside
Project description: Kleshie partnered with San Mateo County WIC. The goal of the project is to explore the barriers to referral from Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital (LPCH) to San Mateo County WIC, and to ensure that at least 50% of mothers who are eligible for WIC in the LPCH Well-Baby Nursery (WBN) and Packard Intermediate Care Nursery (PICN), are referred to San Mateo County WIC within a 6-month trial of the intervention.
Zara Quader
Previously: Rosalind Franklin University
Project description: Zara partnered with James Ranch, and Fresh Lifelines for Youth. The project objective was to create and introduce a peer health education pilot within the juvenile justice system based on health topics important to the youth in order to offer evidence-based, peer-to-peer education informed by an adolescent development framework, to promote health practices during and after detention and develop the leadership and public speaking skills of the youth who are peer educators.
Laura Rose
Previously: University of California, Irvine
Program description: Laura partnered with Ronald McDonald House Charities Bay Area. The project obective was to assess the childcare needs for healthy siblings at RMHC, in order to assist RMHC in their effort to strengthen and expand current sibling support services.
Meghan Schmitt
Previously: University of Illinois
Program description: Meghan partnered with the Ronald McDonald House Charities Meal Program. The purpose of this project is to assess the degree of food insecurity among families of hospitalized children in the bay area. The study had three main goals: 1) To assess the prevalence of food insecurity and the barriers to access among families of hospitalized children in the bay area. 2) To assess how the Ronald McDonald House Charities Meal Program is addressing food insecurity in this population, what barriers to access exist for this program, and what additional resources would be helpful to further address this issue. 3) To disseminate findings to our community partner and within our larger community in order to determine how Ronald McDonald House Charities resources should be prioritized in the future.
Deema Akari
PREVIOUSLY: University of California Riverside
Project Description: Deema is partnering with Ravenswood Family Health Center and the Gardner Center for Youth to assess parental knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes about school readiness after participating in the Ravenswood Kinder Ready Program.
Simran Gambhir
PREVIOUSLY: Drexel University
Project Description: Simran will be examining the perspectives and experiences of people who have undergone intimate partner violence during the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically in relation to healthcare and telemedicine.
Ruzan Orkusyan
PREVIOUSLY: University of California Irvine
Project Description: In partnership with the San Mateo County Institute for Human and Social Development (IHSD) and Head Start, Ruzan will look at the parent and teacher experiences with preschool reopening during the Covid-19 pandemic to define the challenges, concerns and barriers faced by parents and teachers during the reopening process and opportunities for improvement. The overall goal of the project is to inform local efforts of IHSD to improve the experience of school reopening for families and teachers and ensure that Head Start continues to provide a safe learning and growing environment for young children.
Tatum Sohlberg
PREVIOUSLY: Oregon Health and Science
Project Description: Tatum is partnering with two community organizations, Dolores Huerta Foundation and Cultiva la Salud, to examine parent perspectives of quality, appeal, and healthfulness of school meals in the Central Valley during the COVID-19 pandemic using photovoice methodology. The goal of the project is to inform local advocacy efforts to improve nutritious offerings in local school-based meal programs during COVID-19 and beyond.
Noelle Pineda
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Stanford Medical Youth Science Program (SMYSP)
PROJECT TOPIC: Assess the impact of SMYSP on past participants’ experiences of social-academic integration throughout different stages of their professional careers.
View Dr. Pineda's presentation at the 12th Annual Pediatrics Research Retreat.
Kamaal Jones
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Project WHAT!
PROJECT TOPIC: Kamaal is working with Oakland based organization Community Works to study one of their programs “ProjectWhat!”, which is a youth-led advocacy group for children of incarcerated parents. This group provides a setting for young people who have an incarcerated parent to come together weekly to learn about the history of mass incarceration, to become advocates for the needs of children in similar situations, and to train community leaders about these issues.
View Dr. Jones's presentation at the 12th Annual Stanford Pediatrics Research Retreat.
Ria Pal
COMMUNITY PARTNERS:
PROJECT TOPIC: Investigating pediatric functional neurologic disorder, a condition with few guidelines for workup and management. She is interested in the utility of neurodiagnostic testing as well as the potential for ambiguity in guidelines to form a basis for health disparities along demographic and clinical characteristics.
Julia Raney
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: iMPACt (Mid-peninsula Pediatric Advocacy Council)
PROJECT TOPIC: Evaluate the impact of a mental health training among residents and primary care providers working primarily with low SES families.
View Dr. Raney's presentation at the 12th Annual Pediatriacs Research Retreat.
Vania Singleterry
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Stanford ED
PROJECT TOPIC: Identifying and characterizing homelessness within the Stanford emergency department.
Lauren (Kutzscher) Thompson
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Jacob’s Heart Children’s Cancer Support Services
PROJECT TOPIC: Exploring the financial burden of pediatric cancer treatment, especially as it affects low-SES patients and their families.
Anju Goyal
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Jacob’s Heart Children’s Cancer Support Services
PROJECT TOPIC: Exploring the financial burden of pediatric cancer treatment, especially as it affects low-SES patients and their families.
View Dr. Goyal's presentation at the 12th Annual Stanford Pediatrics Research Retreat.
Eve Ayeroff
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Next door solutions
PROJECT TOPIC: The effect of athletics based intimate partner violence prevention curricul on high school male athletes.
View Dr. Ayeroff's presentation at the 12th Annual Stanford Pediatrics Research Retreat.
Dippy Bhattacharya
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Pediatric ICU at LPCH and the Pediatric residency program
PROJECT TOPIC: Mixed methods survey of pediatric residents in our program to assess their attitude and practices regarding interpreter use for patients with limited english proficiency in our pediatric ICU.
View Dr. Bhattacharya's presentation at the 12th Annual Stanford Pediatrics Research Retreat.
Alex Ball
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: San Mateo County Asthma Coalition's
PROJECT TOPIC: Impact of a brief asthma workshop on knowledge and practices of elementary school staff, teachers, and parents related to asthma care.
View Dr. Ball's presentation at the 12th Annual Stanford Pediatrics Research Retreat.
Alyssa Honda
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Healthy Lifestyles Clinic: Parks Rx
PROJECT TOPIC: Alyssa, alongside Hannah Valino, investigated a public health intervention that connects families with overweight and obese children to bi-monthy park activities. This program is run by the Santa Clara Public Health Department as well as the Santa Clara Valley Healthy Lifestyles Clinic. Emphasizing an increase in access to natural environments, the strategy has been found to foster social connectedness, address mental health, and reduce health disparities.
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July Lee
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Stanford Peds ED: Needs of Immigrant Children
PROJECT TOPIC: July collaborated with Dr. Nancy Ewan Wang to examine the impact of the exisiting immigration climate on the use of pediatric and ambulatory care emergency services. Elucidating how broader societal trends are affecting patient populaitons, the project highlights the role health care providers can play in supporting vulnerable communities especially in alleviateing fear and building trust in the health care system.
Monica Schwarz
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Make a Wish Foundation: Disparities in Access to Wishes
PROJECT TOPIC: The practice of wish-granting is a potent form of palliative care. However, disparities in this process have been known to exist for disadvantaged communities. Seeking to understand how to optimize this form of care to promote more equity, Monica partnered with the Make a Wish Foundation in CA to investigate the experiences of English and Spanish-speaking parents of wish recipients and wish granters.
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Anu Gorukanti
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Head Start: Implementation Science in Action
PROJECT TOPIC: Anu worked closely with the Institute for Human and Social Development to examine the social screening procedures for low-income families in an early childhood education center. Focusing on identifying barriers that both staff and families may face, Anu worked to provide feedback for the future improvement of the social-screening process through an implementation science framework.
Hannah Keppler
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Fair Oaks Clinic: Promoting Family Planning at Newborn Visits
PROJECT TOPIC: Hannah worked with the Fair Oaks County Clinic in San Mateo County to implement and evaluate a pilot family planning intervention for new parents. The program aims to screen women for unmet contraceptive needs and provide for family planning resources in postpartum visits.
Ashley Landsman
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: WIC: Disparities in Breastfeeding Adherence
PROJECT TOPIC: Ashley collaborated with the San Mateo WIC office to examine breastfeeding adherence among vulnerable populations. Specifically, she sought to understand what factors influence early introduction of formula in low-income families. Through her project, Ashley highlights the importance of continued maternal education around breastfeeding and newborn feeding behaviors.
Brandon Seminatore
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Transition of Care for Peds Neuro Patients
PROJECT TOPIC: Brandon is a Peds Neuro resident interested in the transition of care for children with neurological conditions to adult providers and community resources. He will examine potential disparities among different populations of patients, while also trying to understand provider perspectives regarding transition from peds and adult care.
Hannah Valino
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Healthy Lifestyles Clinic: Parks Rx
PROJECT TOPIC: Hannah collaborated with Alyssa Honda to investigate a public health intervention that connects families with overweight and obese children to bi-monthy park activities. This program is run by the Santa Clara Public Health Department as well as the Santa Clara Valley Healthy Lifestyles Clinic. Emphasizing an increase in access to natural environments, the strategy has been found to foster social connectedness, address mental health, and reduce health disparities.
Elana Feldman
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Foster Care Clinics
PROJECT TOPIC: Working with California Children's Services, Elana researched hospitalization patterns of low income children in foster care with chronic medical conditions. Despite the unique challenges that many of these patients face, little is known about how disparities in health care utilization manifest. Elana's findings highlight the need for allocation of additional resources to support this vulnerable patient population.
Kerri Lynn Rice
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Santa Clara County Department of Children and Family Services
PROJECT TOPIC: Parent perspectives of a Promotoras program that promotes mentorship and positive parenting
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Kerrilynn Rice is a pediatrician at UCSF.
Joyce Ang
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Pediatrician at Sutter Health
PROJECT TOPIC: Qualitative examination of parent perceptions of their child's health and social needs following exposure to domestic violence
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Joyce Ang is a pediatrician at Sutter Health.
Jessica Moriarty
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Peninsula YMCA
PROJECT TOPIC: Evaluation of Latinx parent engagement in an anti-bullying program
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Jessica Moriarty is a clinical assistant professor in Pediatrics at Stanford Medicine.
Jayme Congdon
PROJECT TOPIC: Parent and provider perceptions of Long Acting Reversible Contraception delivered in a "high risk" pediatric clinic
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Jayme Congdon is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Core Faculty at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF.
Lee Trope
PROJECT TOPIC: Parent and provider perceptions of Long Acting Reversible Contraception delivered in a "primary care" pediatric clinic
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Lee Trope is a pediatrician at Stanford Medicine.
Jill Krissberg
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Camp Unity
PROJECT TOPIC: Evaluation of a Pacific Islander Summer Camp & exploration of cultural identity
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Jill Krissberg is an Assistant Professor of Nephrology at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital at the Feinberg School of Medicine.
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE StAT? I chose StAT because I wanted to learn how to use the responsibility of a Pediatrician to help make changes on a larger scale. I wanted to help change the lives of my patients outside of the hospital, in their day to day lives, to improve their health.
IF YOU COULD DESCRIBE YOUR EXPERIENCE IN StAT IN UP TO 3 WORDS, WHAT WOULD THEY BE? Humbling, Inspiring, Exciting
WHAT WERE SOME LESSONS LEARNED AND/OR SKILLS GAINED FROM YOUR TIME IN StAT? To make change, you need to be a good listener, be patient, and think outside the box.
WHAT DID YOU LOVE ABOUT THE STANFORD/PALO ALTO SETTING? I love the diversity and the wealth of culture in the community. Growing up in a town where everyone is the same, living in a place where everyone's differences are celebrated is really beautiful...and also makes for great local food!
Laura Campbell
PROJECT TOPIC: The Insider Perspective on Substance Use and Recidivism in Incarcerated Youth: A Qualitative Analysis
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Laura Campbell is a clinical assistant profesor in Obstetrics & Gynecology at Stanford.
Anu Gollapudi Hall
PROJECT TOPIC: The Insider Perspective on Substance Use and Recidivism in Incarcerated Youth: A Qualitative Analysis
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Anu Gollapudi Hall is an attending physician in the Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at the University of Washington in the Seattle Children’s Hospital
Matthew Myers
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Matthew Myers is an adolescent medicine specialist and a trainee in the Leadership Education in Adolescent Health Program (LEAH) at UCSF.
Maya Ragavan
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence in San Jose
PROJECT TOPIC: Health After Surviving Intimate Partner Violence: Women's and Adolescents’ Perspectives
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Maya Ragavan is an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of General Academic Pediatrics at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Brittany Chan
PROJECT TOPIC: Got milk? Barriers to physician referral of mothers to donate to human milk banks
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Brittany Chan is a pediatrician with Texas Children's Pediatrics in Spring, Texas.
Ashley Case McClary
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Fair Oaks Clinic
PROJECT TOPIC: School Readiness Friendly Clinic
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Ashley Case McClary is a pediatrician at Austin Regional Clinics.
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE StAT? I felt that having a strong advocacy foundation was the best way to tackle Social Determinants of Health for my patients and communities
IF YOU COULD DESCRIBE YOUR EXPERIENCE IN StAT IN UP TO 3 WORDS, WHAT WOULD THEY BE? Supportive, challenging, time of growth
WHAT WERE SOME LESSONS LEARNED AND/OR SKILLS GAINED FROM YOUR TIME IN StAT? So much! I learned how to systematically approach quality improvement projects and the importance of working “up stream”. I also became fascinated with toxic stress and the impact this has on a child’s growth and development.
WHAT DID YOU LOVE ABOUT THE STANFORD/PALO ALTO SETTING? Stanford/Palo Alto is exploding with innovation. No where else is there more collaboration between schools and area experts which leads to creative solutions.
Melanie Atmadja
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Melanie Atmadja is a pediatrican at Sutter in Mountain View.
Jenna Klotz
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Jenna Klotz is a pediatric neurologist in Palo Alto, California and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford and Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital.
Jaime Peterson
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Jaime Peterson is a general pediatrician and assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at OHSU.
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE StAT? To gain skills in community advocacy and community based participatory research to improve the lives of underserved children and families.
IF YOU COULD DESCRIBE YOUR EXPERIENCE IN StAT IN UP TO 3 WORDS, WHAT WOULD THEY BE? Empowering, soul-food, hope
WHAT WERE SOME LESSONS LEARNED AND/OR SKILLS GAINED FROM YOUR TIME IN StAT? Physicians have a unique role to play in community advocacy by bringing their research and health knowledge to help answer questions, promote understanding and advocate for policy changes that the community needs.
WHAT DID YOU LOVE ABOUT THE STANFORD/PALO ALTO SETTING? To gain skills in community advocacy and community based participatory research to improve the lives of underserved children and families.
Noga Ravid
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Noga Ravid is a pediatrician at Stanford and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland.
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE StAT? Interest in advocacy and developing a skill set around this.
IF YOU COULD DESCRIBE YOUR EXPERIENCE IN StAT IN UP TO 3 WORDS, WHAT WOULD THEY BE? Supportive, educational, stimulating
WHAT WERE SOME LESSONS LEARNED AND/OR SKILLS GAINED FROM YOUR TIME IN StAT? Deeper knowledge around social determinants of health; research skills including writing a grant proposal, designing a project, seeking mentorship.
WHAT DID YOU LOVE ABOUT THE STANFORD/PALO ALTO SETTING? Sunshine, lots of great biking and hiking, and the Stanford aquatic facilities!
Chris Weiss
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Christopher Weiss is a pediatrician in Stanford, California and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including El Camino Hospital and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford.
Jessica Witkowski
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Jessica Witkowski is a pediatrician at UC Davis.
Adriana Anavitarte
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Adriana Anavitarte is a pediatrician in San Jose, California and is affiliated with Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.
Erin Gonzalez
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Erin Gonzales is a pediatrician with Kaiser Permanante.
Elysia Alvarez
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Elysia Alvarez is a pediatric hematologist/oncologist offering care to children, adolescents and young adults with cancer at UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Nicole Glenn
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Nicole Glenn is a pediatrician at Sutter Health.
Vicki Ward
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Victoria Ward is a pediatrician in Palo Alto, California and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including El Camino Hospital and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford.
Jenna Nolan
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Jenna Nolan is a pediatrician in Riverside, California and is affiliated with Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center.
Abi Pitts
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Maryann (Situ) Pitts, MD is a board certified pediatrician in San Jose, California. She is currently licensed to practice medicine in California. She is affiliated with Santa Clara Valley Medical Center and Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital Stanford.
Alice Hensley
Terrel Stevenson
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Terrell Stevenson is a pediatrician and Clinical Assistant Professor in San Jose, California and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including El Camino Hospital and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford.
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE StAT? To learn valuable research skills while still being able to give back to the community
IF YOU COULD DESCRIBE YOUR EXPERIENCE IN StAT IN UP TO 3 WORDS, WHAT WOULD THEY BE? Inspiring. Eye-opening. Community.
WHAT WERE SOME LESSONS LEARNED AND/OR SKILLS GAINED FROM YOUR TIME IN StAT? I learned how to do qualitative research with focus groups and how to write an IRB, and I was able to present my research at PAS. Most importantly, though, I gained a new lens through which I see the world and my patients and met so many wonderful friends/colleagues with think similarly to me.
WHAT DID YOU LOVE ABOUT THE STANFORD/PALO ALTO SETTING? Concerts at Shoreline, diversity, great ethnic foods of all kinds, liberal attitude
Michael Friedberg
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Ecumenical Hunger Program (EHP) in East Palo Alto
PROJECT TOPIC: Youth Gardening and Nutrition Initiative
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Michael Friedberg is a pediatrician in Pediatric Health Care at Newton Wellesley.
Emily Johnston
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Ecumenical Hunger Program (EHP) in East Palo Alto
PROJECT TOPIC: Santa Clara County Juvenile Hall
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Emily Johnston is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Children’s of Alabama, and a member of the Institute for Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship.
Lahia Yemane
PROJECT TOPIC: Needs Assessment of Eritrean Community in Santa Clara County
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Lahia Yemane, MD is a board certified pediatrician and clinical professor in Palo Alto, California. She is currently licensed to practice medicine in California. She is affiliated with Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital Stanford.
Elizabeth Mannino Avila
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Elizabeth Mannino Avila is a pediatrician in San Diego, California and is affiliated with Rady Children's Hospital.
Robyn Rogers
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: The Mind Body Awareness Project
PROJECT TOPIC: Mindfulness Training for Incarcerated Youth Project
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Robyn Rogers is a pediatrician in Tacoma, Washington and is affiliated with MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and Health Center
Sidharth Mahapatra
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Sidharth Mahapatra is a pediatrician in Omaha, Nebraska and is affiliated with Children's Hospital and Medical Center. He is also an Associate Professor with UNMC Department of Pediatrics and UNMC Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the Chair of Nebraska Children’s Brain Tumor Collaborative, and the Co-Director of the Pediatric Cancer Research Group.
Mindy Ju
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Mindy Ju is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at University of California, San Francisco at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.
Lena Winestone
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Lena Winestone is a pediatric blood and marrow transplant specialist with a strong interest in treating children with high-risk or relapsed leukemia or lymphoma. She has a particular focus on using novel immunotherapies – treatments that improve the body's own ability to fight cancer – so that patients with therapy-resistant leukemia can receive successful blood and marrow transplants
Amna Khan
PROJECT TOPIC: Increasing Language Access in Pediatric Clinics
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Amna Khan is a pediatrician in San Jose, California and is affiliated with Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.
Andrea Estrada
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: YMCA
PROJECT TOPIC: Health Needs of East Palo Alto’s Farmer’s Market Attendees
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, George Washington University Department of Pediatrics
Liz Enlow
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose
PROJECT TOPIC: Pasitos de Bebe: NICU to Home
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Elizabeth Enlow is a neonatologist and Assistant Professor in Cincinnati, Ohio and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Elizabeth Barnert
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Elizabeth Barnert, MD, MPH, MS is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE StAT? Learn advocacy skills and be around like-minded colleagues
IF YOU COULD DESCRIBE YOUR EXPERIENCE IN StAT IN UP TO 3 WORDS, WHAT WOULD THEY BE? Enriching, challenging, inspiring
WHAT WERE SOME LESSONS LEARNED AND/OR SKILLS GAINED FROM YOUR TIME IN StAT? Advocacy and research skills
WHAT DID YOU LOVE ABOUT THE STANFORD/PALO ALTO SETTING? Friends of Palo Alto library :) bike friendly, family nearby, comfortable. lots of work to be done in surrounding community
Aimee Grace
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: San Jose Police Department
PROJECT TOPIC: Human Trafficking and Healthcare
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Aimee Malia Grace, MD, MPH, FAAP, is the Director of Health Science Policy for the University of Hawaii (UH) System, working in the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation. She is responsible for identifying funding and establishing strategic opportunities, partnerships, policies, and initiatives to improve health and health care across the state and nation by leveraging UH’s research enterprise, programs and capabilities in the area of health sciences. She is also the co-founder of Heal Trafficking, a national network of health professionals dedicated to addressing human trafficking.
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE StAT? StAT provided an amazing opportunity to learn public health and advocacy skills while doing a longitudinal community-based research project...and meeting amazing mentors and friends along the way!
IF YOU COULD DESCRIBE YOUR EXPERIENCE IN StAT IN UP TO 3 WORDS, WHAT WOULD THEY BE? Inspiring, exciting, thorough
WHAT WERE SOME LESSONS LEARNED AND/OR SKILLS GAINED FROM YOUR TIME IN StAT? I learned skills in public health, advocacy, social determinants of health, and statistics; how to manage a team; time management during residency; and how to present at national conferences!
WHAT DID YOU LOVE ABOUT THE STANFORD/PALO ALTO SETTING? Everything...weather, people, Stanford environment (sports, academics, nature) - it's amazing!
Jasmine Waipa
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Jasmine Waipa is a pediatrician in Honolulu, Hawaii and is currently affiliated with Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children.
Sahar Rooholamini
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Support for Families of Children with Disabilities and Parents Helping Parents
PROJECT TOPIC: Families First: Strengthening the Medical Home
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Sahar Rooholamini is a pediatrician and associate professor in Seattle, Washington and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford and Seattle Children's Hospital.
Jon Marron
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Shelter Network
PROJECT TOPIC: Conflict of Interest Resolution for Pediatrics
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Jon Marron is a pediatric oncologist, bioethicist, health services researcher, and educator at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Allison Hill
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Girls on the Run International and Girls on the Run Silicon Valley
PROJECT TOPIC: Girls on the Run (Santa Clara County)
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Allison Hill is an attending physician in the Division of Cardiology, Heart Institute at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, as well as a clinical assistant professor of Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Laura Carter
PROJECT TOPIC: Asthma Needs Assessment and Intervention in Homeless Shelters
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Laura Carter is a attending physician and a Hospital-Based Medicine instructor in Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Jason Bacha
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Youth Tennis Advantage and San Francisco Recreation and Parks
PROJECT TOPIC: Increasing Water Access in Public Parks
WHERE THEY ARE NOW: Dr. Jason Bacha, MD, is a board certified pediatrician in Stanford, Califonia. He is curently licensed to practice medicine in California.
IF YOU COULD DESCRIBE YOUR EXPERIENCE IN StAT IN UP TO 3 WORDS, WHAT WOULD THEY BE? Rewarding and enlightening
WHAT WERE SOME LESSONS LEARNED AND/OR SKILLS GAINED FROM YOUR TIME IN StAT? Community involvement/engagement, navigating the public health system
WHAT DID YOU LOVE ABOUT THE STANFORD/PALO ALTO SETTING? Trails, parks, cycling, music venues, and diverse food
Meg Itoh
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County (Refugee Foster Care Program)
PROJECT TOPIC: Understanding the lives and health needs of refugee foster care youth in Santa Clara County
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE StAT? To be involved in my community beyond the clinical realm.
IF YOU COULD DESCRIBE YOUR EXPERIENCE IN StAT IN UP TO 3 WORDS, WHAT WOULD THEY BE? Uplifting
WHAT WERE SOME LESSONS LEARNED AND/OR SKILLS GAINED FROM YOUR TIME IN StAT? Listen to your what your community partners need rather than push your own agenda on them
WHAT DID YOU LOVE ABOUT THE STANFORD/PALO ALTO SETTING? Being close to my mom's cooking, running the Dish
Keely Olmsted
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: St. Gabriel’s Hospital, Malawi Children’s Hospital, and Global Partnerships
PROJECT TOPIC: Children’s Hospitals and Global Partnerships: Partnering with St. Gabriel’s Hospital, Malawi
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Keely Olmsted is a pediatrician in Antioch, California and is affiliated with Sutter Delta Medical Center.
Rachel Bensen
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: St. Gabriel’s Hospital, Malawi Children’s Hospital, and Global Partnerships
PROJECT TOPIC: Legislative Advocacy in Child Health (LACH)
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Rachel S Bensen, MD is a doctor speacializing in Pediatric Gastroenterology and a clinical associate professor primarily located in Palo Alto, CA, with other offices in Stanford, CA and Palo Alto, CA. She has 15 years of experience.
John Peoples
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Peoples loves working with children, and believes strongly in the whole child approach at COPA – not only supporting a child¹s medical needs but also stringently advocating for healthy emotional and intellectual development. He works very closely with families to shape the plan of care for their children. Additionally, Dr. Peoples has been an ardent advocate of health care access for all children, leading health and developmental outreach programs for over 15 years.
Monica Eneriz Wiemer
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: St. Gabriel’s Hospital, Malawi Children’s Hospital, and Global Partnerships
PROJECT TOPIC: Children’s Hospitals and Global Partnerships: Partnering with St. Gabriel’s Hospital, Malawi
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Monica Eneriz Wiemer is a pediatrician in Stanford, California and is affiliated with Sutter Health.
Arti Desai
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: St. Gabriel’s Hospital, Malawi Children’s Hospital, and Global Partnerships
PROJECT TOPIC: Universal Children’s Health Coverage: Uniting Children’s Hospitals to Affect Change
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Arti Desai is a pediatrician and associate professor in Seattle, Washington and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Seattle Children's Hospital and University of Washington Medical Center.
MyMy Buu
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: ICAN
PROJECT TOPIC: Happy 5: Needs of Vietnamese Children
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. MyMy Buu is a pediatric pulmonologist in Palo Alto, California and is affiliated with Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford.
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE StAT? It fit my career mission and goals of working with underserved populations and develop skills to explore and describe health disparities.
IF YOU COULD DESCRIBE YOUR EXPERIENCE IN StAT IN UP TO 3 WORDS, WHAT WOULD THEY BE? Collaborative, empowering, eye opening
WHAT WERE SOME LESSONS LEARNED AND/OR SKILLS GAINED FROM YOUR TIME IN StAT? Qualitative research. State advocacy and health policy.
WHAT DID YOU LOVE ABOUT THE STANFORD/PALO ALTO SETTING? There are so many different day trips from the Palo Alto area. So I had plenty to do and explore during my golden weekends.
Liat Snyder
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Liat Snyder is a pediatrician in Yonkers, New York and is affiliated with Montefiore Medical Center.
Sherica Rosser
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Sherica Rosser is the Medical Director for prior authorization in Medicare and Retirement at Optum and a pediatric emergency room physician.
Sheri Chavez
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Shari Chavez is a radiation oncologist in Los Angeles, CA. She treats patients diagnosed with cancer using radiation therapy that targets cancerous cells.
Nicole Williams
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Nicole Williams is a child neurologist at Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare. She evaluate and manage children with neurological conditions including seizures, epilepsy, abnormal development, abnormal behavior, structural brain anomalies, and brain injuries. This work includes consultation in the NICU and reading neonatal EEG studies.
Nicole Marsico
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Marsico works in Santa Cruz, CA and 1 other location and specializes in Pediatrics. Dr. Marsico is affiliated with Dominican Hospital and Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center Of Santa Cruz.
Noelle Johnstone
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Noelle Johnstone is a pediatrician in Palo Alto, California and is affiliated with Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, where she is also a clinical instructor in pediatrics.
Maria Mosquera
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Partnering with Head Start in EPA
PROJECT TOPIC: Healthy Weight Healthy Futures Program
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Maria Mosquera is a pediatrician in Passaic, New Jersey and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including St. Joseph's University Medical Center and St. Mary's General Hospital.
Heather Iezza
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Partnering with Head Start in EPA
PROJECT TOPIC: Healthy Weight Healthy Futures Program
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Heather Iezza joined the awesome pediatric team at St. Joseph Medical Group in 2010. She loves being a pediatrician and caring for children as they grow and develop from infancy to young adulthood. She believes in a family centered approach to medical care and providing parents the information and tools to care for their children.
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE StAT? I was inspired to join StAT program to learn how to make a positive impact in my community to combat childhood obesity.
IF YOU COULD DESCRIBE YOUR EXPERIENCE IN StAT IN UP TO 3 WORDS, WHAT WOULD THEY BE? Inspiring, teamwork, community
WHAT WERE SOME LESSONS LEARNED AND/OR SKILLS GAINED FROM YOUR TIME IN StAT? I learned that it essential to get community buy-in and have stake holders from the community that you are trying to impact.
WHAT DID YOU LOVE ABOUT THE STANFORD/PALO ALTO SETTING? Stanford was my hometown so coming back for residency training and being close to family was wonderful.
Letisha Pelayo
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Leticia Pelayo is a pediatrician in San Jose, California and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.
Anisha Patel
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Somos Mayfair
PROJECT TOPIC: Un Equilibrio San (A Healthy Balance)
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Anisha Patel is is a professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Population Health at Stanford. She is the director of Community-Engaged Research in Stanford’s Maternal and Child Health Research Institute and an associate dean of Research in Stanford’s School of Medicine.
Joyce Javier
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Joyce Javier is a Associate Professor in the Department of Health Systems Science at KPSOM.
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE StAT: Wanted to give back to the community that raised me and learn how to advocate for underserved populations
IF YOU COULD DESCRIBE YOUR EXPERIENCE IN StAT IN UP TO 3 WORDS, WHAT WOULD THEY BE? StAT changed my career trajectory and gave me the inspiration and tools to pursue a career in academic general pediatrics.
WHAT DID YOU LOVE ABOUT THE STANFORD/PALO ALTO SETTING? Working with Lisa, Janine and my other mentors Drs Mendoza, Wise , & Huffman
Arash Anoshiravani
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Dr. Arash Anoshiravani is a Clinical Associate Professor in Pediatrics, specializing in Adolescent Medicine, at Stanford University. He is also the Medical Director of the Stanford Children's Health Teen Van.