2024 Young Investigator Award Recipients
APA Young Investigator Award
- Cecile Yama, MD
Advancing Family-Centered Antipoverty Policies in the United States: A Qualitative Investigation of Cash Transfer, Near-Cash Benefits and Child Health Among Low-Income and Minoritized Parents with Young Children
Institution: UCLA
Local Mentor: Rebecca Dudovitz, MD, MSHS
National Advisor: TBA - Katherine Nash, MD, MHS
Identifying Meaningful Targets for Equity Performance Measurement in Pediatrics
Institution: Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Local Mentor: Harold Pincus, MD
National Advisors: Naomi Bardach, MD, MAS (UCSF) & Suni Kaiser MD, MSc (UCSF) - April Perez-Moore, DO
Investigating how modifiable social determinants of health impact maternal NICU visitation and maternal-preterm infant bonding
Institution: UMass Chan Medical School / UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center
Local Mentor: Sarabeth Broder-Fingert, MD, MPH
National Advisor: TBA
Nutrition in Underserved Communities
- Christina Kim, PhD
Examining the Relationship Between Experiences of Weight Stigma During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Behaviors
Institution: NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Local Mentor: Rachel Gross, MD, MS
National Advisor: TBA
2024 RAPID Scholars
RAPID-NIDDK
- Jasmine Umana, MD
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Acupuncture for Treatment of Children and Young Adults with Sickle Cell Disease Hospitalized with Pain Crises
Institution: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Local Mentor: Angela Ellison, MD
NAC Mentor: Jean Raphael, MD, MPH (Baylor College of Medicine Texas Children’s Hospital Houston, Texas) - Robin Ortiz, MD, MS
Exploring the potential of caregiver toxic stress as a biomarker for child cardiovascular health
Institution: NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Local Mentor: Alan Mendelsohn, MD
NAC Mentor: Faye Jones, MD (University of Louisville School of Medicine) - Nadirah El-Amin, DO, MPH
Characterizing the Thrombo-inflammatory Pathway in Children with Sickle Cell Disease
Institution: Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Local Mentor: India Sisler, MD
NAC Mentor: Michael DeBaun, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
RAPID-PIDS
- Karen Hanze Villavicencio, MD
Identification of Microbial metagenomic determinants of disease severity in children from the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCHa) Study
Institution: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Local Mentor: Daniel P. Beiting, PhD
National Mentor: Octavio Ramilo, MD (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital) - Cecilia Banda Hibjan, MD
A Clinical Predictive Score for Severe Adenovirus Disease in Pediatric Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients
Institution: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Holtz Children’s Hospital, Jackson Health System
Local Mentor: Ivan A. Gonzalez, MD
National Mentor: Yvonne Maldonado, MD (Stanford University School of Medicine)
RAPID-ABP
- Anthony Bui, MD, MPH
Beliefs and Attitudes about Facilitators and Barriers to Mental Healthcare Among Vietnamese American Youth and their Parents
Institution: University of Washington School of Medicine and Seattle Children’s
Local Mentor: Tumaini Coker, MD, MBA
NAC Mentor: Jennifer Woo Baidal, MD (Columbia University Irving Medical Center) - Vivian Valcarce, MD
Optimizing Neonatal Care: Validating the steps to establish a human milk pasteurization center within NICUs
Institution: University of Alabama Birmingham
Local Mentor: Ariel Salas, MD, and Waldemar Carlo, MD
NAC Mentor: Jason Mendoza, MD, MPH (Seattle Children’s Hospital)
RAPID-APS
- Danielle Perez Sharp, MD
The association between maternal vulnerability index and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy diagnosis, severity, and mortality
Institution: Stanford University School of Medicine
Local Mentor: Jochen Profit, MD, MPH
NAC Mentor: Karen D. Hendricks-Muñoz, MD, MPH (Children’s Hospital of Richmond of VCU) - Nicole Stephenson, MD
Monitoring Preterm Lung Disease Through Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasound
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Local Mentor: Stephanie Davis, MD
NAC Mentor: Brian Sims, MD, PhD (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
RAPID-Mead Johnson
Gretell Gomez Zaghmout, MD
Impact of maternal breast milk vs. donor human milk diet on microbiota of premature infants
Institution: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Holtz Children’s Hospital, Jackson Health System
Local Mentor: Teresa Del Moral, MD, PhD, MPH
NAC Mentor: Yasmin Pedrogo, MD, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine
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