The Society for Pediatric Research announces new members for 2021

HOUSTON, Jan. 15, 2021 ā€“Ā The Society for Pediatric Research (SPR) is pleased to announce 128 new members. Ā SPR encourages and supports pediatric research endeavors by creating a multidisciplinary network of diverse researchers to improve child health. Collaboration among SPR members creates meaningful progress for the future of childrenā€™s health.

Active members are independent researchers that have been nominated and seconded by SPR members and approved by SPR Council who are conducting ongoing hypothesis-driven research in a field related to pediatrics.

Some benefits of SPR membership include:

  • Research and presentation forum: SPR is the founding organization of theĀ PAS Meeting, the premier North American scholarly child health meeting. This annual gathering of 8,000 child health professionals is a forum for research presentation and discussion that is highly relevant to SPR membersā€™ research endeavors. Each year, SPR members contribute original and invited science to the program and serve on key committees to shape the PAS Meeting.
  • Honoring pediatric researchers: Each year, SPR honors the outstanding achievements of members through a prestigiousĀ awards program.
  • Advocacy for child health research: TheĀ SPR works through theĀ Pediatric Policy Council(PPC) to ensure that lawmakers understand the value of dedicating resources for pediatric research. Through this and other channels,Ā SPR member advocacyĀ has helped achieve year-over-year growth in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funds available to support pediatric research, as well as important protection of Medicare payments to hospitals and institutions where SPR members conduct their research.
  • Developing pediatric researchers: SPR offers strategic and practical support for pediatric researcher members. Active members serve as mentorsĀ to fellows and junior facultyĀ through theĀ SPR Junior Member Section providing career development guidance. SPR offersĀ early stage investigatorsĀ special support through the Grant Writing 101 course and via theĀ Bridging to SuccessĀ grant, which is awarded to a researcher who has submitted a competitive but not yet funded K grant proposal.

SPRā€™s Call for New Active Members occurs each year from mid-May to late July. For more information about SPR membership, please visit theĀ SPR website.

SPR new members include:

  • Prashant Agarwal, MD; Central Michigan University
  • Awni Al-Subu, MD; University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
  • Saadet Andrews, MD, PhD; The Hospital for Sick Children
  • Christina Astley, MD, ScD; Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Amy Beck, MD, MPH; University of California, San Francisco
  • Peter Beernink, PhD; University of California, San Francisco
  • Alicia Bertaina, MD, PhD; Stanford University
  • Lori Billinghurst, MD MSc; The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Univ of Pennsylvania SOM
  • Elijah Bolin, MD; University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences/Arkansas Children’s Hospital
  • Kira Bona, MD, MPH; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • Kristen Breslin, MD, MPH; Children’s National Hospital
  • Michele Burns, MD, MPH; Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Jennifer Burnsed, MD, MS; University of Virginia
  • Amy Calhoun, MD; University of Iowa
  • Andres Camacho-Gonzalez, MD, MSc; Emory University School of Medicine
  • Carolina Cerezo, MD; Brown University/ Hasbro Children’s Hospital
  • Eileen Chambers, MD; Duke University Medical Center
  • Arvind Chandrakantan, MD, MBA, FAAP, FASA; Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine
  • Kao-Ping Chua, MD, PhD; University of Michigan
  • Tammy Corr, DO; Penn State College of Medicine
  • Abdallah Dalabih, MD, MBA; University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences/ Arkansas Children Hospital
  • James Davis, MD, PhD; University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
  • Engin Deniz, MD; Yale School of Medicine
  • Lisa Denzin, PhD; Rutgers Child Health Institute of NJ/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • Daniel Dulek, MD; Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • Matthew Durbinj, MD, MS; Indiana University School of Medicine
  • Laurie Eldredge, MD, PhD; University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Fabeha Fazal, PhD; University of Rochester
  • Ashley Fischer, MD; University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria
  • John Flibotte, MD; Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
  • Jenny Francis, MD, MPH; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  • Anthony Garcia-Prats, MD MSc (Clin Epi) PhD; University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
  • Parvesh Mohan Garg, MD; University of Mississippi Medical Center
  • Katharine Garvey, MD, MPH; Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Sunanda Gaur, MD; Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • Senta Georgia, PhD; Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
  • Evgenia Gourgari, MD; Georgetown University Medical Center
  • Munish Gupta, MD MMSc; Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • Heidi Harmon, MD, MS; University of Iowa
  • Mark Hatley, MD, PhD; St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
  • Nia Heard-Garris, MD, MSc; Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital; Northwestern Univ Feinberg SOM
  • Linda Hiraki, MD SM ScD; The Hospital for Sick Children
  • Joel Hudgins, MD, MPH; Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Deepak Jain, MD; Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • Mambarambath Jaleel, MD; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  • Brian Jenssen, MD, MSHP; University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
  • Jami Josefson, MD, MS; Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital/Northwestern University
  • Dinushan Kaluarachchi, MBBS; University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • Ranjith Kamity, MD; NYU Winthrop Hospital
  • Matthew Kelly, MD MPH; Duke University Medical Center
  • Sadiqa Kendi, MD; Boston Medical Center
  • Alisa Khan, MD, MPH; Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School
  • Edwin Kim, MD, MS; University of North Carolina School of Medicine
  • John Kohler, MD, MBA; East Carolina University
  • Liza Konnikova, MD, PhD; Yale School of Medicine
  • Ioannis Koutroulis, MD PhD MBA; Children’s National Hospital
  • Lisa Kuhns, PhD, MPH; Northwestern University, Feinberg SOM/Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital
  • Michael Kulis, PhD; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Saquib Lakhani, MD; Yale University School of Medicine
  • Shelley Lawrence, MD, MS; University of California, San Diego and Rady Children’s Hospital of San Diego
  • Jennifer Leiding, MD; University of South Florida
  • Eyby Leon Janampa, MD; Childrenā€™s National Hospital
  • Simon Li, MD; Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • Susan Lipsett, MD; Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Albert Manasyan, MD; University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Karen Mangold, MD, MEd; Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
  • Susanne Martin Herz, MD, PhD; University of California San Francisco
  • Jonathon McNeil, MD; Baylor College of Medicine
  • Jeffrey Meyers, MD; University of Rochester
  • Imran Mir, MD; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  • Emma Mohr, MD, PhD; University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
  • Lakshmi Moorthy, MS MD (MBBS); Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • Timothy Moran, MD, PhD; University of North Carolina School of Medicine
  • Sarah Morton, MD, PhD; Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Ricardo Mosquera, MD, MS; University of Texas, Houston
  • Arwa Nasir, MBBS MSc MPH; University of Nebraska Medical Center
  • Sheri Nemerofsky, MD; Montefiore Medical Center – Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  • Maribeth Nicholson, MD, MPH; Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • Michelle Niescierenko, MD, MPH; Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Adam Numis, MD; University of California, San Francisco
  • Caitlin O’Brien, MD, MPH; Johns Hopkins
  • Amy O’Connell, MD, PhD; Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Micah Olson, MD; Phoenix Children’s Hospital
  • Jacquelyn Patterson, MD, MPH; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Iris Perez, MD; Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
  • Robert Pesek, MD; University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock
  • Thao-Ly Phan-Vo, MD, MPH; Nemours
  • Homaira Rahimi, MD; University of Rochester
  • Arshad Rahman, PhD; University of Rochester Medical Center
  • Maya Ramagopal, MBBS; Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • Manimaran Ramani, MD; University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Nancy Reichman, PhD; Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • Danielle Rios, MD, MS; University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
  • Shannon Rose, PhD; University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences/Arkansas Children’s Research Institute
  • David Rosen, MD, PhD; Washington University
  • Ariel Salas, MD; University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Margaret Samuels-Kalow, MD MPhil MSHP; Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Amarilis Sanchez-Valle, MD; University of South Florida
  • Srinath Sanda, MD; University of California, San Francisco
  • Derek Sant’Angelo, PhD; Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • Kelly Schieltz, PhD; University of Iowa
  • Samantha Schilling, MD; University of North Carolina
  • Shaon Sengupta, MD, MPH; The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
  • Birju Shah, MBBS MPH MBA FAAP; University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
  • Wissam Shalish, MD; McGill University Health Center
  • Jason Shapiro, MD; Hasbro Children’s Hospital
  • Karen Sheehan, MD, MPH; Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
  • Jocelyn Silvester, MD, PhD; Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Lamia Soghier, MD, MEd; Children’s National
  • Shylaja Srinivasan, MD; University of California, San Francisco
  • Amy Starmer, MD, MPH; Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
  • Elizabeth Taglauer, MD, PhD; Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Kelan Tantisira, MD, MPH; Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
  • Alcy Torres, MD; Boston Medical Center
  • Elizabeth Tucker, MD; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Christine Turley, MD; Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital
  • Payam Vali, MD; University of California Davis
  • Aravindhan Veerapandiyan, MD; Arkansas Children’s Hospital/University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
  • Sreekanth Viswanathan, MD, MS; Nemours Children’s Hospital
  • Sara Watson, MD; University of Louisville
  • James Wilkinson, MD, MPH; Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
  • Ariel Williamson, PhD; Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
  • Monica Wojcik, MD; Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Tai-Wei Wu, MD; Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine
  • Eveline Wu, MD, MSCR; The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Elizabeth Yen, MD, MA; Tufts Medical Center
  • Bridget Young; PhD; University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
  • Matthew Zinter, MD; University of California, San Francisco

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About the Society for Pediatric Research

TheĀ Society for Pediatric ResearchĀ (SPR) encourages and supports pediatric research endeavors by creating a network of multidisciplinary researchers to improve child health. Collaboration among SPR members creates meaningful progress for the future of childrenā€™s health. For more information, please visitĀ www.societyforpediatricresearch.org, and follow us onĀ Facebook` andĀ Twitter.

Media Contact:
Jana Wells
Senior Association Director
Society for Pediatric Research
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