Congratulations to Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, for his award of $39,000 from the Meriter Foundation for his project, “Oxytocinergic signaling in the eye: its contribution to Retinopathy of Prematurity.” Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) that occurs in …
2013 News
Dr. Pamela Kling Awarded Meriter Foundation Funding
Pamela Kling, MD, was recently awarded $23,500 for her project, “Iron Status Linking Obesity During Pregnancy and Asthma in Offspring” from the Meriter Foundation. Obesity complicates 30% of pregnancies and predisposes to greater prevalence of …
Elizabeth Goetz, MD, MPH, Receives Meriter Foundation Award
Elizabeth Goetz, MD, MPH, received an award of $8,000 from the Meriter Foundation for her project, “Improving Quality of Care and Lowering Costs by Reducing NICU Admissions.” This project aims to develop and evaluate a …
Dr. David McCulley Awarded Meriter Foundation Funding
Congratulations to David McCulley, MD, on his recent award of $25,000 from the Meriter Foundation for his project, “Mammalian Pulmonary Lymphatic Circulation.” This project aims to investigate the development and function of the lymphatic vascular …
Christine Sorenson, PhD, Receives Retina Research Foundation Award
Congratulations to Christine Sorenson, PhD, for her recent award of $25,000 from the Retina Research Foundation for her project, “Retinal Vessel Rarefaction and Bim Expression.” This proposal aims to determine whether Bim expression in astrocytes …
Access Community Health Center Pediatric Asthma Clinic Receives Evjue Foundation Gift
Kate Swenson, NP, Pediatric Pulmonology; Dr. Theresa Guilbert, and Kathleen Shanovich, NP, Pediatric Allergy are pleased to announce a $7,000 gift from the Evjue Foundation to support their Access Community Health Center South Park St, …
Dr. Daniel Jackson Awarded the 2013 Klosterfrau Award for Research of Airway Diseases in Childhood
Congratulations to Daniel Jackson, MD who was recently awarded the Klosterfrau Award for Research of Airway Diseases in Childhood 2013 for his research entitled “Evidence for a Causal Relationship between Allergic Sensitization and Rhinovirus Wheezing …
J. Carter Ralphe, MD, Receives Children’s Cardiomyopathy Foundation Award
Congratulations to J. Carter Ralphe, MD, for his recent $50,000 award from the Children’s Cardiomyopathy Foundation for his project titled, “Human IPS cells and ECT in the study of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.” The goal of this …
Pediatric Residents Receive American Academy of Pediatrics – CATCH Award
Congratulations to PL1 Residents Jennifer Kolb, MD, and Kathryn Gannon, MD, for their recent award of approximately $3,000 from the American Academy of Pediatrics – CATCH program. Their project, “Teen Time,” will provide education and …
Building Bridges to Adult Healthcare
In many ways, the job of a pediatrician is like that of a parent: to prepare children to successfully navigate the adult world. But for children with chronic illnesses or disabilities, that job is particularly …