The Society for Pediatric Research announces new members for 2023

HOUSTON, January 6, 2023 – The Society for Pediatric Research (SPR) is pleased to announce 160 new members. 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 children’s health.

Active members are independent researchers that have been nominated and seconded by SPR members and approved by SPR Council who are conducting 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 the 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 members’ 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 prestigious awards program.

• Advocacy for child health research: The SPR works through the Pediatric Policy Council (PPC) to ensure that lawmakers understand the value of dedicating resources for pediatric research. Through this channel, SPR member advocacy 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 may serve as mentors to fellows and junior faculty through the SPR Junior Member Section and the PRomotion of FellOwS‘ PEdiatric Research (PROSPER) Diversity Award, providing career development guidance. SPR offers early stage investigators special support through the Grant Writing course, the Bridging to Success grant, the PRomotion of FellOwS‘ PEdiatric Research (PROSPER) Diversity Award grant, and the Research Cohort Network.

SPR’s Call for New Active Members occurs each year from mid-May to mid-July. For more information about SPR membership, please visit the SPR website.

SPR New Members Include:

Lisa Akhtar, MD, PhD, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Ammar Alishlash, MD, Children’s of Alabama, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Gabriel Altit, MD, MSc, Montreal Children’s Hospital – McGill University Health Centre
Ola Andersson, MD, PhD, Lund University
Jocelyn Ang, MD, Children’s Hospital of Michigan
Tomoki Arichi, MBBCh, PhD, King’s College London, London, UK
Ahmed Asfari, MD, Children’s of Alabama, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ravi Ashwath, MBBS, MD, University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital
Catherine Avitabile, MD, Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
Christine Bakhoum, MD, MS, Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital
Pratiti Bandopadhayay, MBBS, PhD, BMedSci (Hons), Boston Children’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Naomi Bardach, MD, MSc, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco
Katherine Bell, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Merline Benny, MD, Holtz Children’s Hospital Jackson Memorial Hospital
Indira Bhagat, MBBS, MD, Children’s Hospital of Michigan
Anoopindar Bhalla, MD, MSCI, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Shazia Bhombal, MD, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
Elisabet Borsheim, MSc, PhD, Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Denver Brown, MD, Children’s National Health System
Catherine Buck, MD, Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital, Yale School of Medicine
David Burgner, MBBChB, PhD, BSc(Hons) FRACP MRCP MRCPCH, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Mauricio Caballero, MD, MSc, National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET)
Gabriel Cara-Fuentes, MD, PhD, Children’s Hospital Colorado
Rahul Chanchlani, MBBS, MD, MSc, McMaster Children’s Hospital
Praveen Chandrasekharan, MD, MS, State University of New York at Buffalo
Hsiao-Tuan Chao, MD, PhD, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine
Sanjay Chawla, MBBS, MD, Children’s Hospital of Michigan
Jennifer Check, MD, MS, Wake Forest Baptist Health – Brenner Children’s Hospital
Ivan Chinn, MD, Texas Children’s Hospital
Christina Ciaccio, MD, MSc, Comer Children’s Hospital at University of Chicago Medical Center
Leigh-Anne Cioffredi, MD, MPH, The University of Vermont Children’s Hospital
Andrew Craig, PhD, Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital
Alison Culyba, MD, MPH, PhD, UPMC Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh
Alexis Deavenport-Saman, DrPH, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Erin Denney-Koelsch, MD, Golisano Children’s Hospital at The University of Rochester Medical Center
Robert Dietz, MD, PhD, Children’s Hospital Colorado
Amber DSouza, MD, Children’s Hospital of Illinois, University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria
Melody Duvall, MD, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital
Adam Dziorny, MD, PhD, Golisano Children’s Hospital at The University of Rochester Medical Center
Rana El Feghaly, MD, MSCI, Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, University of Missouri Kansas City
Rachel Engen, MD, MS, University of Wisconsin Madison
Juan Espinoza, MD, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Omid Fathi, MD, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
James Feinstein, MD, MPH, Children’s Hospital Colorado
Mario Ferruzzi, MS, PhD, Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Mariella Filbin, MD, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Brian Fisher, DO, MPH, MSCE, Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
Dustin Flannery, DO, MSCE, Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
Julie Flom, MD, MPH, Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital
Stephanie Ford, MD, UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Maria Gillam-Krakauer, MD, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
Katja Gist, DO, MSc, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Anand Gourishankar, MBBS, MRCP, MAS, Children’s National Health System
Abby Green, MD, St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Adam Green, MD, Children’s Hospital Colorado
Cori Green, MD, MSc, NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital
Jason Greenberg, MD, MHS, Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital
Emily Gregory, MD, MHS, Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
Ashima Gulati, MD, PhD, Children’s National Health System
Scott Guthrie, MD, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
Katherine Guttmann, MD, MBE, The Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital
Lauren Gyllenhammer, PhD, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
Scott Hadland, MD, MPH, MS, MassGeneral Hospital for Children
Jeanine Hall, MD, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Richard Hall, MD, Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Natasha Hanners, MD, Children’s Health, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Onengiya Harry, MD, MPH, MSc, Wake Forest Baptist Health – Brenner Children’s Hospital
Theodore Heyming, MD, CHOC Children’s Hospital of Orange County
Jennifer Hoffmann, MD, MS, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Helen Hsieh, MD, PhD, Stony Brook Children’s Hospital
Tetsuya Isayama, MD, MSc, PhD, National Center for Child Health and Development (NCCHD),Tokyo, Japan
Wesley Jackson, MD, MPH, North Carolina Children’s Hospital
Scott James, MD, Children’s of Alabama, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Jennifer Jetton, MD, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital
Evangelia Kalaitzoglou, MD, Kentucky Children’s Hospital, University of Kentucky
Kelly Kamimura-Nishimura, MD, MS, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Kristin Kan, MD, MPH, MSc, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Jessica Katznelson, MD, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
Michelle Katzow, MD, MSCI, Cohen Children’s Medical Center
Traci Kazmerski, MD, MS, UPMC Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh
Amrik Khalsa, MD, MSc, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Janine Khan, MBA, MBBS, MD, MRCPI, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Matthew Kielt, MD, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Emily Kieran, MBBCh, PhD, MRCPI, British Columbia Children’s and Women’s Hospital
Julia Kim, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
Birgit Knoechel, MD, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital
Kok Lim Kua, MD, Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health
Ian Law, MD, University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital
Rachel Leon, MD, PhD, Children’s Health
Jody Lin, MD, MS, Primary Children’s Hospital
Charles Macias, MD, MPH, UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Joana Mack, MD, Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Sidharth Mahapatra, MD, PhD, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Sabrina Malone Jenkins, MD, Primary Children’s Hospital, University of Utah
David Matlock, MD, Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Maud Mavigner, PhD, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Jessie Maxwell, MD, University of New Mexico Children’s Hospital
Stephanie Mayne, MHS, PhD, Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
Kimberly Montez, MD, MPH, Wake Forest Baptist Health – Brenner Children’s Hospital
Diana Montoya-Williams, MD, MSHP, Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
Jennette Moreno, PhD, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine
Kari Neemann, MD, Children’s Hospital & Medical Center
Marianne Nellis, MD, MS, NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital
Elizabeth Newell, MD, University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital
Michael O’Connor, MD, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
Eric Ortigoza, MD, MSCR, Children’s Health, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Monika Patil, MD, Texas Children’s Hospital
Meghan Pearl, MD, MS, UCLA Mattel Childrens Hospital
Craig Porter, PhD, Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Geoffrey Preidis, MD, PhD, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine
Christian Pulcini, MD, MPH, MEd, The University of Vermont Children’s Hospital
Maya Ragavan, MD, MPH, MS, UPMC Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh
Vidya Rajagopalan, PhD, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Laura Ramsey, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Corinna Rea, MD, MPH, Boston Children’s Hospital
Christopher Rees, MD, MPH, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Alison Riese, MD, MPH, Hasbro Children’s Hospital at Rhode Island Hospital, Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Rachel Robison, MD, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
Patrick Romani, PhD, Children’s Hospital Colorado
Eleny Romanos-Sirakis, MD, MS, Cohen Children’s Medical Center
Manish Sadarangani, BM BCh, DPhil, University of British Columbia; BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute
Charles Samson, MD, St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Ronald Sanders, MD, MS, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Deepika Sankaran, MBBS, MD, University of California Davis Children’s Hospital
Adrienne Savant, MD, MS, Tulane University
Johannah Scheurer, MD, University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital
John Schieffelin, MD, MPH, Tulane University; Children’s Hospital New Orleans
Jan Schriefer, MBA, MS, DrPH, Golisano Children’s Hospital at The University of Rochester Medical Center
Ellen Selkie, MD, MPH, American Family Children’s Hospital
Steven Shein, MD, UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Nakiya Showell, MD, MHS, MPH, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
Meg Simione, PhD, MassGeneral Hospital for Children
Katherine Slain, DO, UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Olga Solomon, PhD, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Erin Stenson, MD, Children’s Hospital Colorado
Stephen Stone, MD, St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Lane Strathearn, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital
Nathan Sundgren, MD, PhD, Texas Children’s Hospital
Sonya Tang Girdwood, MD, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Daniel Tawfik, MD, MS, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
Jagjit Teji, MBBS, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Michael Thompson, MD, PhD, St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Rachel Thornton, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Nemours Children’s Hospital
Sue Tolleson-Rinehart, PhD, North Carolina Children’s Hospital
Rebecca Trachtman, MD, MS, The Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital
Chani Traube, MD, NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center
Colm Travers, MBBChBAO, Children’s of Alabama, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Erlinda Ulloa, MD, MSc, CHOC Children’s Hospital of Orange County, University of California Irvine School of Medicine
Michelle Van Name, MD, Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital
Gabriel Variane, MD, PhD, Irmandade de Misericordia da Santa Casa de Sao Paulo
Ramesh Vidavalur, MBA, MD, Cayuga Medical Center
Raymond Wang, MD, CHOC Children’s Hospital of Orange County
Donald Weaver, MD, PhD, Levine Children’s Hospital
Sarah Webber, MD, American Family Children’s Hospital
Amy Weitlauf, MS, PhD, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
Jennifer Welch, MD, Hasbro Children’s Hospital at Rhode Island Hospital
Michelle White, MD, MPH, Duke Children’s Hospital
Kirsten Williams, MD, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Kent Willis, MD, Children’s of Alabama, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Leslie Young, MD, The University of Vermont Children’s Hospital

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About the Society for Pediatric Research
The Society for Pediatric Research (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 children’s health. For more information, please visit www.societyforpediatricresearch.org, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.