Past Events

FY23 Program

7:45AM - 8:15AM: Coffee, Refreshments & Registration

8:15AM - 8:30AM: Opening Remarks

• Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE,  Director, Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute
• Anthony Oro, MD, PhD, Co-Director, Stanford Maternal and Child Health Institute
• Jenna Davis, PhD, MSPH, Associate Dean, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability 

8:30AM - 10:10AM: Keynote Session
Climate Induced Change in Maternal and Child Health + Q&A Panel
Moderator: Anthony Oro, MD,PhD

• Climate Progress Measured in the Lives of Children and Mothers
  Aaron Bernstein, MD, MPH, Director, National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)/ Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  
  
• Tackling the Climate Crisis: EPA’s Approach to Climate Change and Maternal and Child Health
  Thomas Luben, PhD, MSPH,  Senior Epidemiologist, Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  
  
• There’s a Lot We Do Not Know (Yet) About the Environment’s Impacts on the Lives of Mothers and Children Living in Poverty
  Eran Bendavid, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Primary Care and Population Health), Stanford University
  
  
• Q&A Panel with All Presenters
  

10:10AM-10:30AM: Break

10:30AM-11:45AM: Session 2
Is PEDSnet Right for You? Navigating the Date-Rich Research Journey at Stanford + Q&A Panel
Moderator: Alan Schroeder, MD

• Intro to Session and PEDSNet Overview
  Alan Schroeder, MD, Clinical Professor, Pediatrics, Stanford University
  
  
• Leveraging Local EHR Data Using Slicer/Dicer
  Natalie Pageler, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Stanford Children’s Health
  
  
• STARR-OMOP
  Natasha Flowers, MS, Biomedical Informatics Data Scientist, Stanford Health Care 
  
  
• Harnessing National Health Insurance Claims and EHR Data for Pediatric Population Health Research
  Esther Velasquez, DSc, MPH, Research Engineer, Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University
  
  
• PHIS, KID, and Other National Datasets
  Christopher Russell, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Hospital Medicine), Stanford University
  
  Q&A Panel with All Presenters
  

11:45AM - 1:15PM: Lunch
Poster Session and Table Discussions

1:15PM - 2:00PM: Session 3
Groundbreaking Research from Rising Scientists (Early Career Investigators and Trainees)
Moderator: Kara Meister, MD, FAAP, FACS
Speakers chosen from submitted abstracts

• What Can Gene Editing of Primary Human Immune Cells Teach Us About HIV-1 Control and Transmission?
  Amanda Dudek, PhD, Instructor, Pediatrics (Stem Cell Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine), Stanford University
  
  
• Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Modulates Brain Connectivity in Children with Self-limited Epilepsy with Centrotemporal Spikes
  Xiwei She, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University
  
  
• In Utero Hemopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Fanconi Anemia
  Leah Swartzrock, Life Science Professional II, Pediatrics (Stem Cell Transplantation & Regenerative Medicine), Stanford University
  
  
• Predicting Neonatal Diseases Using Machine Learning and Large Language Models
  Feng Xie, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine, Stanford University
  
  
• Modeling Tumor Development and Progression for Clinically Challenging Pediatric Glioma
  Lulu Xing, PhD, Basic Life Research Scientist, Neurosurgery, Stanford University
  
  

2:00PM - 2:15PM: MCHRI Visionary Leadership Award
Moderator: Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE
Recipient: Ann Arvin, MD

2:15PM - 2:25PM: Break

2:25PM - 3:40PM: Session 4
'Omics and Maternal and Child Health
Moderator: Christina Tise, MD, PhD

• Studying Tissue Mosaicism and Evolution with Primary Template-Directed Amplification
  Charles Gawad, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology), Stanford University
  
  
• Pharmacogenomics and Maternal/Child Health
  Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Dermatology, Stanford University
  
  
• Liquid Biopsies: A Path to Creating Health Equity in the Genomic Revolution.
  Stephen Quake, D.Phil, Head of Science, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Lee Otterson Professor of Bioengineering, Stanford University
   

3:40PM: Closing Remarks
Anthony Oro, MD, PhD

Program

7:30-8:15 AM PST - Registration & Breakfast
Join us for a light breakfast and some time to network with fellow colleagues.

8:15-8:30 AM PST - Welcome Remarks

• Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE, Director, Stanford Maternal & Child Health Research Institute; Chair of Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine; Physician-In-Chief, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health
• Lloyd B. Minor, MD, Dean, Stanford School of Medicine (via video message)
• Rick Majzun, Vice President and COO, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health
• Cynthia J. Brandt, PhD, CEO and President, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health

8:30-9:15 AM PST - Community-Engaged Research Session Part I
Moderators: Ruth O'Hara, PhD

• Sinsi Hernández-Cancio, JD, Vice President for Health Justice at the National Partnership for Women and Families
• Eliseo Pérez-Stable, MD, Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health
• Nakela Cook, MD, MPH, Executive Director at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
  
  

9:15-9:30 AM PST - Break

9:30-10:00 AM PST - Community-Engaged Research Session Part II
Moderators: Lisa Chamberlain, MD, MPH

• Alonzo Plough, PhD, MPH, Vice President of Research Evaluation-Learning and Chief Science Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Nina Wallerstein, DrPH, MPH, Director of the Center for Participatory Research at the University of New Mexico
  
  

10:00-10:30 AM PST - Community-Engaged Research Q&A Session
Moderators: Lisa Chamberlain, MD, MPH, Ruth O'Hara, PhD

10:30-10:45 AM PST - Break

10:45-11:30 AM PST - Community Partner Q&A
Opening Remarks: Anisha I. Patel, MD, MSPH, MSHS, Stephanie M. Smith, MD, MPH
Moderators:  Janine Bruce, MPH, DrPH, Ryan Padrez, MD

• Cecilia Castro, Deputy Director, Dolores Huerta Foundation
• Christina Hecht, PhD, Senior Policy Advisor and Academic Coordinator, University of California, Nutrition Policy Institute, Division of Agriculture & Natural Resources
• Heidi Boynton, Executive Director, Jacob’s Heart Children's Cancer Support Services
• Mary Smith, Director of Programs, Jacob’s Heart Children's Cancer Support Services

11:30-1:00 PM PST - Lunch & Poster Session
Poster Session will include CEnR Maternal & Child Health Poster section(s) and General Maternal & Child Health Posters sections. View Poster Session abstracts here.

1:00-1:15 PM PST - Visionary Leadership Award
Moderator: Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE
Recipient: Christy Sandborg, MD, Professor of Pediatrics (Rheumatology), Emerita

1:15-2:00 PM PST - Session 3: Groundbreaking Research from Rising Scientists (MCHRI Early Career Investigators and Trainees)
Moderators: Elizabeth Burgener, MD, Baraka Floyd, MD

• Simon Borna, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stem Cell Translplantation
  FOXP3-deficient patients have expanded autoreactive T cells originating from both regulatory and effector T cells
• Jennifer Ikle, MD, PhD, Instructor, Pediatrics - Endocrinology and Diabetes
  Defining mechanisms for failure of pancreatic beta cell development in a novel mouse model of neonatal diabetes
• Zoel Quiñónez, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
  Access to Pediatric ECMO Centers: A Geospatial Analysis of the Influence of Minority Status and Poverty
  
• Roshani Sinha, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stem Cell Transplantation
  Novel humanized loss-of-function NF1 mouse model of juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia
• Yanming Wu, MD, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Maternal Fetal Medicine
  A novel in vitro stem cell model to study maternal endothelial function in preeclampsia
  

2:00-2:15 PM PST - Break

2:15-3:30 PM PST - Session 4: Neurodevelopment 
Moderators: Kelly Mahaney, MD, Bo Yu, MD, MS

• Kalanit Grill-Spector, PhD, Professor of Psychology
• Anca Pasca, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics - Neonatal and Developmental Medicine
• Suzanne Tharin, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
  
  

Closing Remarks – Anthony Oro, MD, PhD

Light desserts, coffee, and tea will be available immediately following closing remarks.

Program

8:30-8:45 AM PST - Opening Remarks 

• Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE, Stanford Maternal & Child Health Research Institute
• Lloyd B. Minor, MD, Stanford School of Medicine
• Paul King, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
• Cynthia Brandt, PhD, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health

8:45-9:45 AM PST - Welcome Introductions & Keynote Address
Moderator: Anthony Oro, MD, PhD, Stanford Maternal & Child Health Research Institute

• Kelle Moley, MD, Deputy Director of Reproductive Health Technologies, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; "Global Priorities in Reproductive Health Technologies"
  
  

9:45-10:45 AM PST - Session 1: Emerging Maternal and Prenatal Health Discoveries
Moderators: Virginia Winn, MD, Obstetrics & Gynecology; PhD, Trung Pham, MD, PhD, Pediatrics

• Nima Aghaeepour, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, “Artificial Intelligence-Driven Taxonomies of Maternal and Neonatal Adverse Outcomes”
• Stephen Luby, MD, Professor of Medicine; Director of Research for the Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford School of Medicine, "The Remarkable Impact on Child Health of Reducing Microbiological Contamination of Drinking Water"
• Danielle Panelli, MD, Instructor in Obstetrics & Gynecology, Stanford School of Medicine, "Cellular Aging in Pregnancy”

10:45-11:00 AM PST - Break

11:00-12:00 PM PST - Session 2: Scientific Advances in Diversity, Health Equity, and Social Justice
Moderators: Thomas Robinson, MD, MPH, Pediatrics and Medicine; Kara Meister, MD, Otolaryngology 

• Suzan Carmichael, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics & Gynecology, Stanford School of Medicine, “Social Determinants and Severe Maternal Morbidity”
• Erica Cahill, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Stanford School of Medicine, “Trauma-Informed Research: Evaluation of the Centering Anti-Racist Education (CARE) Pregnancy Tool”
• Irene Loe, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford School Medicine, “Promoting Growth Mindset: A School-Based Intervention Targeting Health, Behavior, and Learning in Underserved Communities” 
  
  

12:00-1:00 PM PST - Break

1:00-1:15 PM PST - Visionary Leadership Award: Yvonne Maldonado, MD, Senior Associate Dean, Faculty Development and Diversity, Taube Professor of Global Health and Infectious Diseases, Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases) and of Epidemiology and Population Health

1:15-2:00 PM PST - Session 3: Groundbreaking Research from Rising Scientists (MCHRI Early Career Investigators and Trainees)
Moderators: Elizabeth Burgener, MD, Pediatrics; Sriram Vaidyanathan, PhD, Pediatrics

• Shalmali Bane, PhD Candidate, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford School of Medicine, "Variability in risk factors for maternal and infant health and perinatal outcomes in Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Individuals giving birth in the California"
  
• Julia Bratic, MD, MPH, Resident, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine, "Pediatric Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients Show Strong Humoral and Cell-Mediated Responses to mRNA SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine"
• Nicholas Cecchi, PhD Candidate, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford Schools of Engineering and Medicine, "Factors Associated with the Magnitude of Head Impacts in High School American Football Identified via Instrumented Mouthguards"
• Aya Shibuya, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine, "Targeting Nemo-Like Kinase with small molecules for potential therapy of Diamond Blackfan Anemia" 
• Yousi (Josey) Oquendo, MSE, Medical Student, Stanford School of Medicine, "Evaluation of deformity in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis using mobile device based surface topography" 
   

2:00-2:15 PM PST - Break

2:15-3:15 PM PST - Session 4: Innovations in Pediatric Cardiovascular Medicine
Moderators: Melissa Mavers, MD, PhD, Pediatrics; Natalia Gomez-Ospina, MD, PhD, Pediatrics

• Casey Gifford, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine, "Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Complex Genetics and Congenital Heart Disease"
• Mark Skylar-Scott, PhD, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Stanford School of Engineering, " Towards 3D Bioprinting a Fontan Biopump"
• William Goodyer, MD, PhD, Instructor in Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine, "Leveraging Single-Cell RNA Sequencing with Optical Imaging for Targeted Real-Time Visualization of the Cardiac Conduction System”
   

Closing Remarks – Anthony Oro, MD, PhD

Program

8:30am-8:45am - Opening Remarks 

• Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE, Director, Stanford Maternal & Child Health Research Institute
• Lloyd B. Minor, MD, Dean, Stanford School of Medicine
• Rick Majzun, VP & Chief Operating Officer, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
• Cynthia Brandt, PhD, President & CEO, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health

8:45am-9:45am - Welcome Introductions & Keynote Address
Moderator: Anthony Oro, MD, PhD, Stanford Maternal & Child Health Research Institute

• David A. Williams, MD, Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Boston Children's Hospital; Flipping the Switch on Fetal Globin in Sickle Cell Disease: from GWAS to Therapeutics

9:45am-10:45am - Session 1: Foundation in Cell and Gene Therapy in Maternal and Child Health
Moderators: Natalia Gomez-Ospina, MD, PhD, Pediatrics; Melissa Mavers, MD, PhD, Pediatrics

• Natalia Gomez-Ospina, MD, PhD, Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine; Using the blood to treat the brain: Engineering the hematopoietic system to treat non-hematological diseases
• Adam Wilkinson, PhD, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine; Ex vivo expansion of functional hematopoietic stem cells: towards new paradigms for cell and gene therapy
• Kristy Red-Horse, PhD, Biology, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences; Coronary vessels and congenital heart defects

10:45am-11:30am - VIRTUAL POSTER SESSION #1

11:30am-12:30pm - Session 2: Scientific Advances in Diversity, Health Equity, and Social Justice 
Moderators: Trung Pham, MD, PhD, Pediatrics; Venkatesh Krishnan, PhD, Obstetrics & Gynecology 

• Fernando S. Mendoza, MD, MPH, Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine; Diversity of children and the need for transformative pediatrics
• Juno Obedin-Maliver, MD, MPH, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Stanford School of Medicine; Extending the reach towards equity and inclusion: Reconceptualizing maternal and child health research for people of all genders and sexual orientations
• Ananta Addala, DO, MPH, Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine; Provider bias in health care provision: The pediatric diabetes inequity story

12:30pm-1:15pm - VIRTUAL POSTER SESSION #2

1:15pm-1:50pm - Break

1:50pm-2:00pm -  Visionary Leadership Award
Moderator: Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE, Stanford Maternal & Child Health Research Institute

2:00pm-2:45pm - Session 3: MCHRI Early Career Investigators and Trainees
Moderators: Fernando S. Mendoza, MD, MPH, Pediatrics; David K. Stevenson, MD, Stanford Maternal & Child Health Research Institute

• Kevin Contrepois, PhD, Genetics, Stanford School of Medicine; Prediction of gestational age using urinary metabolites in term and preterm pregnancies
• Ina Stelzer, PhD, Anesthesiology, Perioperative, & Pain Medicine; Stanford School of Medicine; Integrated trajectories of the maternal metabolome, proteome, and immunome predict the onset of labor
• Victoria Ward, MD, Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine; Evaluation of a large-scale maternal and child health program in Bihar, India through an equity lens
• Sharon Paige, MD, PhD, Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine; Mitochondrial dysfunction is associated with impaired contractility in hypoplastic left heart syndrome
• Mark Wilkes, PhD, Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine; Metformin upregulates miR-26a to improve erythropoiesis in preclinical models of Diamond Blackfan Anemia through suppression of NLK expression

2:45pm-3:30pm -  VIRTUAL POSTER SESSION #3

3:30pm-4:30pm - Session 4: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Innovations in School-Age Learning 
Moderators: Anthony Oro, MD, PhD; Thomas Robinson, MD, MPH, Pediatrics and Medicine

• Household and School Transmission of COVID-19: Impact on Children and Families
  • Yvonne (Bonnie) Maldonado, MD, Pediatrics and Health Research and Policy, Stanford School of Medicine
    
    
• SARS-CoV-2 and Schools: Challenges, Controversies, and Solutions
  • C. Jason Wang, MD, PhD, Pediatrics and Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine
  • Lee Sanders, MD, MPH, Pediatrics and Health Research and Policy, Stanford School of Medicine
  • Amy R Gerstein, PhD, John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, Stanford Graduate School of Education

Program

8:00am-8:45am - Registration & Light Breakfast 

8:45am-9:00am - Opening Remarks 

• Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE, Director, Stanford Maternal & Child Health Research Institute; Arline & Pete Harman Professor & Chair, Department of Pediatrics
• Paul King, President & CEO, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
• Cynthia Brandt, PhD, President & CEO, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health

9:00am-10:00am - Welcome Introductions & Keynote

Moderator: Anthony Oro, MD, PhD, Co-Director, Stanford Maternal & Child Health Research Institute; Eugene & Gloria Bauer Professor of Dermatology, Stanford School of Medicine

• Diana W. Bianchi, MD, Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Keynote Address: The Earlier the Better: Using Precision Medicine to Develop Fetal Treatments

10:00am-11:00am - Session 1: Maternal & Perinatal Medicine

Moderator: Leslee Subak, MD, Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor, Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford School of Medicine

• Virginia Winn, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology (Reproductive Biology); Preeclampsia: Who is at risk and can we figure out why
• Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD, Director, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy Research; Professor, Medicine and Pediatrics (Allergy and Clinical Immunology); Allergy and Asthma Prevention and Therapy for Children

11:00am-11:15am - Break

11:15am-12:15pm - Session 2: MCHRI Partners Program

Moderator: Mark R. Cullen, MD, Professor of Medicine, of Biomedical Data Science, and of Health Research & Policy, Stanford School of Medicine 

• Gary Darmstadt, MD, Associate Dean for Maternal and Child Health; Professor, Pediatrics (Neonatal and Developmental Medicine); Gender Inequality and Restrictive Gender Norms: Impacts on Health
  
• Erin Gibson, PhD, Research Scientist, Neurology and Neurological Sciences; Tri-glial Dysregulation Following Chemotherapy-Related Cognitive Impairment
• David Miklos, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Medicine (Blood & Marrow Transplantation); Chimeric Antigen Receptor Therapies are Curing Mothers and Children with Blood Cancers
• Avnesh Thakor, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Radiology (Pediatric Radiology); Interventional Regenerative Medicine applied to the Pancreas

12:15pm-1:15pm - Lunch Q&A with Keynote Speaker, Diana Bianchi

1:15pm-2:15pm - Session 3: Early Career Investigators and Trainees

Moderators: Natalia Gomez-Ospina, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Medical Genetics and Stem Cell Transplantation); Melissa Mavers, MD, PhD, Instructor, Pediatrics (Stem Cell Transplantation)

• Ann Collier, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dermatology; Proximal Proteomics Uncovers a Novel Regulator of Embryonic Development
• Monica Kangussu-Marcolino, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Medicine; Finding Novel Therapies Against Central Nervous System Infections Caused by Amebic Parasites
• Elizabeth Burgener, MD, Instructor, Pediatrics; Filamentous Bacteriophages are Associated with Chronic Pseudomonas Lung Infections and Antibiotic Resistance in Cystic Fibrosis
• Peter Washington, MS, Graduate Student, Bioengineering; Data-Driven Screening and Treatment of Autism
  
• Erin Vogel, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Medicine; #InstaVape: Effects of Brief Exposure to Social Media Content
  on Adolescents’ Intention to Use E-Cigarettes
  
  

2:15pm-3:00pm - Session 4: MCHRI Faculty Scholar, Pilot Grant, and Transdisciplinary Initiative Program

Moderator: Hugh O’Brodovich, Arline and Pete Harman Professor of Pediatrics (Emeritus), Stanford School of Medicine 

• Jeremy Dahl, PhD, Associate Professor, Radiology (Pediatric Radiology); Tracking Blood Flow Changes in the Brains of Neonates Using Advanced Power Doppler Imaging
• Manpreet Singh, MD, MS, Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry); Building on the Science of Resilience in Youth at Risk for Mood Disorders

3:00pm-3:10pm - Closing Remarks & Awards Ceremony

• Anthony Oro, MD, PhD, Co-Director, Stanford Maternal & Child Health Research Institute

3:10pm-3:55pm – Poster Session 1 - Odd Numbered Posters Presented

3:30pm-4:30pm – Speed Dating Session hosted by Stanford MCHRI Eureka

4:00pm-4:45pm – Poster Session 2 - Even Numbered Posters Presented

3:30pm-4:30pm - Wine and Cheese Reception

Program

8:30am-9:00am - Registration and Light Breakfast 

9:00am-9:10am - Opening Remarks 

Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE, Stanford Child Health Research Institute; Cynthia Brandt, PhD, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health; Dean Lloyd B. Minor, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine 

9:10am-10:00am - Welcome Introductions & Keynote

Anthony Oro, MD, PhD, Stanford School of Medicine

Keynote Address by Sean Morrison, PhD, Children’s Medical Center Research Institute, University of Texas, Southwestern

10:00am-10:40am - Session 1: MCHRI Faculty Scholars Program

Moderator: Harvey J. Cohen, MD, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics 

10:00am-10:20am - Why are Pregnant Women More Susceptible to Complications from Influenza? - Catherine Blish, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine; Tashia and John Morgridge Faculty Scholar in Pediatric Translational Medicine 

10:20am-10:40am - Cellular Reprogramming to Model and Treat Pediatric Myelin Diseases - Marius Wernig, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology and, by courtesy, of Chemical & Systems Biology, and of Institute for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine; Tashia and John Morgridge Faculty Scholar in Pediatric Translational Medicine 

10:40am-11:15am - Break (Poster Session Open)

11:15am-12:15pm - Session 2: MCHRI Partners Program

Moderator: Mark R. Cullen, MD, Professor of Medicine, of Biomedical Data Science, and of Health Research & Policy 

11:15am-11:30am - A New Perspective in the Early Diagnostics and Cure of IPEX Patients - Rosa Bacchetta, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Recipient of SPARK Award  

11:30am-11:45am - Preventing Mental Health Challenges and Violence Among Adolescents in Informal Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya: Can Empowerment Programs Do Both? - Clea Sarnquist, DrPH, MPH, Senior Research Scholar, Global Child Health Program, Department of Pediatrics; Recipient of Global Child Health Equity Seed Grant Award  

11:45am-12:00pm - Physiologic Evolution: Growing Up in a Modern, Clean World - Julie Parsonnet, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine and of Health Research & Policy; Recipient of Stanford Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection Grant Award  

12:00pm-12:15pm - Stem Cells in Human AML - Ravindra Majeti, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine; Recipient of Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Grant Award  

12:15pm-1:15pm - Lunch (Poster Session Open)

1:15pm-2:15pm - Session 3: Early Career Investigators and Trainees

Moderators: Daniel Bernstein, MD, Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) and Associate Dean for Curriculum and Scholarship, Stanford School of Medicine; Natalia Gomez-Ospina, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Medical Genetics); Melissa Mavers, MD, PhD, Instructor, Pediatrics (Stem Cell Transplantation)

1:15pm – 1:27pm - Decoding p53-driven Developmental Syndromes - Margot Bowen, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Radiation Oncology; Recipient of Postdoctoral Support Fellowship 

1:27pm – 1:39pm - MTSS1/Src Family Kinase Dysregulation Contributes to Multiple Neurodegenerative Disorders - Alexander Brown, PhD, Research Scientist, Department of Dermatology  

1:39pm – 1:51pm - Beta-globin Gene Correction in Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cells to Cure Sickle Cell Disease - Daniel Dever, PhD, Instructor, Department of Pediatrics; Recipient of Postdoctoral Support Fellowship 

1:51pm – 2:03pm - An Ensemble Learning Method for Early Detection of Autism and Other Developmental Delays in Bangladeshi Children using Crowdsourced Video Annotations - Scott Fleming, Graduate Student, Department of Medicine, Center for Biomedical Informatics Research https://youtu.be/fbyS8oSLJ6g 

2:03pm – 2:15pm - Role of Drp 1/Fis 1 - Mediated Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Septic Cardiomyopathy - Bereketeab Haileselassie, MD, Instructor, Department of Pediatrics; Recipient of Pilot Early Career Award  

2:15pm-3:15pm - Session 4: MCHRI Faculty Pilot Grant & Transdisciplinary Initiative Program

Moderator: Leslee L. Subak, MD, Professor and Chair of Obstetrics & Gynecology 

2:15pm-2:30pm - Autism Spectrum Disorder: From Genes to Neurons - Joachim Hallmayer, MD, Dr. Med, Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Recipient of Faculty Pilot Award 

2:30pm-2:45pm - Developmental Regulation of Pulmonary Angiogenesis by the Lung Microenvironment - Cristina M. Alvira, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Recipient of Transdisciplinary Initiative Program Award 

2:45pm-3:00pm - Reciprocal Insights into Stem Cell Biology from Organoids and Animals - Calvin J. Kuo, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine; Recipient of Transdisciplinary Initiative Program Award 

3:00pm-3:15pm - Gene Modification and Gene Replacement in Neuromuscular Disease - John W. Day, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Neurology & Neurological Sciences; Recipient of Transdisciplinary Initiative Program Award

3:15pm-3:20pm - Closing Remarks

Anthony Oro, MD, PhD, Stanford School of Medicine

3:20pm-4:00pm – Poster Session Open

3:30pm-4:30pm - Wine and Cheese Reception 

3:30pm-4:30pm - Speed Dating Session

Speed Dating Participants

Cristina M. Alvira, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Critical Care)

Rosa Bacchetta, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Stem Cell Transplantation)

Daniel Bernstein, MD
Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology)

Catherine Blish, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Mark R. Cullen, MD
Director, Center for Population Health Sciences, Senior Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Medicine, of Biomedical Data Science, of HRP and Senior Fellow at SIEPR, Stanford University School of Medicine

Manisha Desai, PhD
Professor (Research) of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of Health Research & Policy 

Joachim Hallmayer, MD, Dr. Med
Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science 

Heidi M. Feldman, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics 

Calvin Kuo, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine

David Maahs, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics (Endocrinology), Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital Stanford

Lloyd B. Minor, MD
Dean of Stanford University School of Medicine; Professor of Otolaryngology (Head & Neck Surgery Divisions) and, by courtesy, of Neurobiology and of Bioengineering 

Anthony Oro, MD, PhD
Professor of Dermatology 

Julie Parsonnet, MD
Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Health Research & Policy

Maria Grazia Roncarolo, MD
Professor of Pediatrics (Stem Cell Transplantation) and of Medicine (Blood & Marrow Transplantation)

Clea Sarnquist, DrPH, MPH
Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Pediatrics (infectious Diseases)

Gary M. Shaw, DrPH
Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatal & Developmental Medicine) and, by courtesy, of Health Research & Policy and of Obstetrics & Gynecology (Maternal Fetal Medicine)

Marius Wernig, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and, by courtesy, of Chemical & Systems Biology, and of Institute for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine