Dr. Margaret Nguyen is the Associate Division Chief of Research at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego and an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California San Diego. A graduate of the Pediatric Community Track at Children’s National Medical Center and Howard University, Dr. Nguyen has been passionate about understanding and addressing community health. Recognizing…
She is a physician scientist and her research efforts focus on incorporating novel cellular therapies for relapsed hematological malignancies in the transplant setting. She has conducted several investigator-initiated clinical studies as Principal or Co-investigator of institutional and multicenter trials and her research projects have been funded on NIH grants, charitable foundations and Biotech. She is…
Dr. Kristy Murray serves as the Chief Research Officer at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Professor and Executive Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University. Prior to her appointment in 2024, she served as the Vice Chair for Research for the Department of Pediatrics and Professor of Pediatrics in the…
John Morrison is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL. Dr. Morrison obtained his medical degree and his doctorate of philosophy in pathology and microbiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He then completed pediatric residency and a…
Dr. Millington’s research centers on the metabolic, endocrine, and cardiovascular health of transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) youth, with a particular emphasis on the physiological effects of gender-affirming hormone therapy. Specifically, she aims to use gender affirming care as a unique research paradigm through which to study sex dimorphic disease. Through her work with the Trans…
Dr. Ulrike Mietzsch is a Neonatologist at Seattle Children’s Hospital and Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Division of Neonatology. She is board certified in both, neonatal-perinatal medicine and neonatal neurocritical care. She is the co-director of the Neonatal Neurocritical Care Program (NeuroNICU) at Seattle Children’s Hospital and associated…
Dr. Kera McNelis completed medical school at Case Western Reserve University, where she had her first experience with neonatal nutritional and necrotizing enterocolitis research. She completed pediatric residency at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, and then moved to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) for neonatology fellowship. In fellowship, she continued to focus on body…
Dr. McGinnis is a Clinical Child Psychologist whose research program is dedicated to advancing pediatric mental health through the development and evaluation of digital health tools. Her work is grounded in the belief that emotional health assessment and intervention must be both scientifically rigorous and practically accessible. As the Principal Investigator of an NIH K23…
Associate Professor Atul Malhotra is a senior neonatologist at Monash Newborn, Monash Children’s Hospital, and research academic in the Department of Paediatrics, Monash University, Australia. He is the current recipient of an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellowship. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, 4 book chapters, and his research has attracted over $20 million…
Dr. Lin’s clinical research focus is on children and young adults with cardiomyopathy and risk of heart failure. As medical director of the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, she oversees our multidisciplinary efforts aimed at the early detection and treatment of the heart disease that can accompany conditions as diverse as…
Catherine Limperopoulos, Ph.D., is Center Director of Prenatal, Neonatal & Maternal Health Research and Director & Chief of the Developing Brain Institute (DBI) at Children’s National. Dr. Limperopoulos is also (tenured) Professor of Radiology, Neurology and Pediatrics and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the George Washington University (GWU) School of Medicine & Health Sciences….
Dr. Yanling Liao is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at New York Medical College. Trained in biochemistry, she completed her PhD at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and pursued postdoctoral training at Stanford University in Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Dr. Liao has built a distinguished academic career focused on stem cell-based regenerative medicine and…