After she graduates in June, pediatric critical care fellow Yashica Seymour, MD, will return to her home country of the Bahamas to become its only pediatric intensivist. Dr. Seymour will work at Princess Margaret Hospital, …
2016 News
Anticipating Outcomes of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and long-term disability in children, affecting over 30,000 children each year. Although clinicians use advanced neuroimaging tools such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to …
Eldridge Lab Students Receive Awards
At the April 2016 Experimental Biology Meeting in San Diego, CA, three students in the laboratory of Marlowe Eldridge, MD, won several awards. Undergraduate students Adelaide (Atzie) Sobotik and Taylor Levin both received the David …
Research & Development Committee Awards Announced
The Department of Pediatrics Research and Development Committee recently awarded grants to thirteen faculty members for the following projects: Awni Al-Subu, MD – Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Incidence and Epidemiology (PARDIE) Study Pelin Cengiz, MD …
Peter Ferrazzano, MD, Awarded NIH-NINDS Funding
Peter Ferrazzano, MD, was recently awarded an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH-NINDS) for his proposal entitled, “MRI Markers of Functional Outcome after Severe Pediatric TBI”. …
Judy Smith, MD, PhD Awarded NIH Funding with Brazil’s Foundation for Research Development
Congratulations to Judy Smith, MD, PhD, who will serve as a Co-Investigator/Subaward Principal Investigator for a grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH-NIAID) to the Foundation for Research …
Undergraduate Student Awarded Wisconsin Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship
Congratulations to undergraduate student Katherine Schleck, and her mentor Christine Sorenson, PhD, who was awarded a 2016-2017 Wisconsin Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship, for the project, “Bim Expression Affects Retinal Astrocytes Adhesion and Migration through Altered …
Christian Capitini, MD Receives St. Baldrick’s Summer Fellowship to fund Medical Student
Congratulations to Christian Capitini, MD, who was recently awarded a $5,000 Summer Fellowship from the St. Baldricks’s Foundation, the largest private funder of childhood cancer research grants, to fund a student in his lab this …
Amy Peterson, MD, Awarded Wisconsin Partnership Program Funding
The Wisconsin Partnership Program Partnership Education and Research Committee (PERC) recently awarded Amy Peterson, MD, an Opportunity Grant in the amount of $100,000 over two years for her project, “Improved Diagnosis of Familial Hypercholesterolemia in …
Ralphe Lab Researcher Dan Smelter Receives NIH Predoctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to Dan Smelter, predoctoral student in the lab of J. Carter Ralphe, MD, on funding of his Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) from the National Institutes of …