Virtual Lectures & Poster Presentations | May 24 - May 28, 2021
The Department of Pediatrics’ annual Research Week will be held virtually May 24-28, 2021. Through a mix of livestreamed lectures and interactive sessions, Research Week’s celebration of scholarship will be available virtually to Department of Pediatrics’ faculty, researchers, trainees and staff, as well as the entire University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health community.
Research Week 2021 Schedule
8 – 9 AM, Morning Report, Quality Improvement
Kristin Shadman, MD: From Project to Promotion: Breaking down the barriers to QI scholarly work
Christine Brichta, MD, MPH: Improving pediatric obesity comorbidity screening in primary care clinics
8:00-9:00 AM, Morning Report, Grant Funding
Jesse Boyette Anderson, MD: Granted: Getting your project funded & staffed
Christine Brichta, MD, MPH: Grant writing for the first time: Where to start
Paige Condit, MD: Title Forthcoming
8:00-9:00 AM, Morning Report, COVID Toes
9:15AM-1:00 PM, Faculty Research Forum and Town Hall
| 9:15-9:30 | Mei Baker, MD – Statewide Newborn Screening for Spinal Muscular Atrophy: the Wisconsin Experience |
| 9:30-9:45 | Jessica Babal, MD – Using group concept mapping approach to understand how pediatric residents and residency leadership conceptualize resident well-being |
| 9:45-10:00 | Emma Mohr, MD, PhD – Improving developmental outcomes in congenital infections |
| 10:00-10:15 | Christian Capitini, MD – Adoptive cell therapy for GD2+ cancers |
| 10:15-10:30 | Yury Bochkov, PhD – Development of experimental rhinovirus C vaccine |
| 10:45-11:00 | J. Carter Ralphe, MD – Title Forthcoming |
| 11:00-11:15 | Paul Sondel, MD, PhD – New approaches towards inducing potent in vivo immune-mediated destruction of neuroblastoma in preclinical model |
| 11:15-11:30 | Emily Ruedinger, MD, MED – Activism through education: Development and evaluation of a longitudinal curriculum on social justice (this a work in progress) |
| 11:30-11:45 | Huichuan Lai – Gut microbiome in young children with cystic fibrosis (CF): Comparison with their non-CF siblings and influence of probiotics |
| 11:45-12:00 | Bikash Pattnaik, PhD – Title Forthcoming |
| 12:00-12:15 | Matthew Harer, MD – Neonatal Acute Kidney Injury is Poorly Documented as a Discharge Diagnosis: Findings from the AWAKEN Cohort |
| 12:15-1:00 | Town Hall – Trish Barribeau and Chrissy Pientok |
7:30-8:30 AM, Odell Lecture (Pediatric Grand Rounds)
Peter Ferrazzano, MD – Professor and Division Chief, Critical Care, Ferrazzano Research Group, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1:00-1:30: Odell Award Winner Presentation
Bikash Pattnaik, PhD – Title forthcoming
1:30-3:00: Platform Presentations
| 1:30-1:45 | Paige Condit, MD – Establishing normal renal tissue oxygenation values in preterm neonates |
| 1:45-2:00 | Brady Hauser, MD – Accurate Assessment of Adverse Outcomes of Neonatal Circumcision |
| 2:00-2:15 | Brittney Moore – Comparison of structural brain imaging in infant macaques with prenatal Zika virus exposure in early and mid-first trimester |
| 2:15-2:30 | Henry Zapata Galarza, MD – Translational Read-through of a KCNJ13 nonsense mutation with ELX-01 and ELX-03 results in functional Kir7.1 channels. |
| 2:30-2:45 | Santhi Logel, MD – Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth Have Higher Prevalence of Autoimmune Disease |
| 2:45-3:00 | Doug Dean, PhD – Rapid and Motion-Corrected Multiparametric Imaging in Young Children |
3:00-3:30: View online virtual posters and abstracts here: (link forthcoming)
3:30-5:00 – Virtual Poster Presentations
Zoom Link Each Virtual Poster Session will be a different breakout room within this zoom link.
Past Research Week Highlights and Presentations
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2020
Four lectures, ten faculty research vignettes, six oral presentations, 52 poster presentations, and a cumulative total of 725 attendees made up the Department of Pediatrics’ Annual Research Week, which took place virtually from May 26-29, 2020. The live-streamed format – which was in response to COVID-19 and physical distancing guidelines – expanded the annual celebration of scholarship beyond the walls of the Health Sciences Learning Center and allowed members of the School of Medicine and Public Health community and anyone interested in the latest advances in pediatric research to attend the lectures and earn up to 9.5 CME credits. Nearly 100 individuals attended the presentations each day, with 125 individuals attending Thursday’s distinguished Gerard B. Odell Lecture and Pediatric Grand Rounds and close to 140 people attending the virtual poster presentations on Friday. View the Research Week 2020 posters and abstracts.
2019
The Department of Pediatrics 2019 Spring Research Day was held on May 31, 2019. It included 80 abstracts by faculty, fellows, residents and students. Of these, 31 (39%) had been presented at the Pediatric Academic Society (PAS) meeting: 28 as poster presentations and three as platform presentations.
2018
The Department of Pediatrics 2018 Spring Research Day was held on June 1, 2018. It included 90 abstracts by faculty, fellows and residents. Of these, 55 (61%) were accepted at the Pediatric Academic Society (PAS) meeting: 44 as poster presentations, 10 as platform presentations and one as a workshop.
2017
The Department of Pediatrics 2017 Spring Research Day was held on May 12, 2017. It included 71 abstracts by faculty, fellows and residents. Of these, 25 (35%) were accepted at the Pediatric Academic Society (PAS) meeting: 13 as poster presentations, 10 as platform presentations and two as workshops.
2016
The Department of Pediatrics 2016 Spring Research Day was held on May 13, 2016. It included 59 abstracts by faculty, fellows and residents. Of these, 24 (41%) were accepted at the Pediatric Academic Society (PAS) meeting: 18 as poster sessions and six as oral presentations.
2015
The Department of Pediatrics 2015 Spring Research Day was held on May 8, 2015. It included:
- Six oral presentations by faculty, fellows and residents; and
- 31 poster presentations in the HSLC atrium, 17 (56%) of which were accepted at the Pediatric Academic Societies’ annual meeting (12 as posters; 5 as oral presentations).
2014
The Department of Pediatrics 2014 Spring Research Day was held on Friday, April 11, 2014. It included:
- “45 Years of Cancer Immunotherapy Research: A Journey of Persistence, Luck, Mentors, Colleagues and Students,” a Grand Rounds presentation by Paul Sondel, MD, PhD;
- “In Plain Sight: Using Administrative Data for Clinical Research,” a keynote presentation by M. Bruce Edmonson, MD, MPH;
- Six oral presentations by faculty, fellows, staff and residents; and
- 40 poster presentations in the HSLC atrium.
2013
The Department of Pediatrics 2013 Spring Research Day was held on Friday, April 12, 2013. The event included a keynote presentation, “Contributions of Clinical Geneticists to Genetics Research: A Personal Reflection” by Phil Giampietro, MD, PhD; seven oral presentations by faculty, fellows, and residents; and 46 poster presentations in the HSLC atrium.
2012
The Department of Pediatrics 2012 Spring Research Day was held on Friday, April 13, 2012. The event included a keynote presentation, “Navigating Canoes and Careers,” by James Gern, MD; five oral presentations by faculty, fellows, and residents; and 44 poster presentations in the HSLC atrium.
2011
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Areas of interest: pathogenesis/treatment/prevention of lung disease, bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD)
Boriosi Research Group
Area of interest: clinical research in pediatric sedation
Carrel Research Group
Areas of interest: obesity, body composition, cardiovascular fitness
Cengiz Research Group
Areas of interest: neonatal encephalopathy, hypoxia ischemia (HI), neurotrophin receptor TrkB
Conway Research Group
Areas of interest: immunizations, vaccine hesitancy & refusal, vaccine efficacy, global health, influenza, pertussis, policy & implementation, system strengthening
Cystic Fibrosis Clinical Trials Research Group (Rock)
Areas of interest: Cystic fibrosis, clinical trials
Dean Research Group
Areas of interest: Brain development; myelination; neurodevelopmental disorders; quantitative magnetic resonance imaging
Eldridge Research Group
Areas of interest: cardiopulmonary physiology and pathophysiology, effects of exercise, acute hypoxia, altitude, hyperbaria and environmental exposure
Farrell Research Group
Areas of interest: pediatric pulmonology and nutrition, cystic fibrosis (CF), newborn screening
Ferrazzano Research Group
Areas of interest: pediatric cerebral ischemia, neurodevelopmental differences in the physiology of ischemia and reperfusion, and the response to neuroprotective interventions.
Gern Research Group
Areas of interest: childhood asthma and allergies, rhinovirus, birth cohort, microbiome, bacteria, immune development, virus
Harer Research Group
Areas of interest: renal function in premature neonates, acute kidney injury (AKI), near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS)
Hokanson Research Group
Areas of interest: pulse oximetry screening, congenital heart disease
Huttenlocher Research Group
Areas of interest: basic molecular mechanisms that regulate cell movement—in the context of wound healing, inflammation and cancer
Immunotherapy & Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Research Group (Capitini)
Areas of interest: cancer immunotheraphy, graft versus host disease (GVHD), natural killer (NK) cells, CAR T cells
Jackson Research Group
Areas of interest: asthma, viruses, microbes, exacerbations, prevention, disease mechanisms
Klein Research Group
Areas of interest: fungal pathogenesis, immunology
Kling Research Group
Areas of interest: fetal & neonatal erythropoieisis, iron metabolism, cord blood, iron deficiency, prematurity, infants of diabetic mothers, intrauterine growth restriction
Lemanske Research Group
Areas of interest: pediatric asthma, treatment, origins, causes, natural history
Matthews Research Group
Areas of interest: sleep medicine education, impact of obstructive sleep apnea
McCulley Research Group
Areas of interest: neonatology, lung & pulmonary vascular development, congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), pulmonary hypertension
Mezu-Ndubuisi Research Group
Areas of interest: neonatology, effects of oxygen on the retina, retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)
Mohr Research Group
Areas of interest: pathogenesis underlying different congenital infection phenotypes, Zika virus
Otto Research Group
Areas of interest: childhood cancer, adoptive immunotherapies, nano-oncology, stem cell graft design
Pattnaik Research Group
Areas of interest: pediatric blindness, oxytocin, Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA16)
Pollock Research Group
Areas of interest: school health, electronic health record tools, online health resources
Program of Research on Outcomes for Kids – PROKids (Cox)
Areas of interest: health services research, family-centered interventions, diabetes
Ralphe Research Group
Areas of interest: impact of metabolism and energy production on cardiac contractile performance in the immature heart
Seroogy Research Group
Areas of interest: early life immune maturation, T cell tolerance, environmental influences and mechanisms on innate and adaptive immune maturation and its relationship to allergic diseases, health care delivery to Amish children
Smith Research Group
Areas of interest: unfolded protein response, Brucella, rhinovirus, ORMDL3
Social Media and Adolescent Health Research Team: SMAHRT (Moreno)
Areas of interest: technology, digital health, adolescents, social media
Sondel Research Group
Areas of interest: cellular therapy, natural killer (NK) cells, monoclonal antibody, anti-tumor immunity, cancer vaccines, T-cell therapy, combination therapy, radio-immunotherapy, molecular targeted radionuclide therapy, tumor-reactive antibody, neuroblastoma, melanoma
Sorenson Research Group
Areas of interest: regulation of apoptosis, vascular development, neovascular eye diseases
Wald/DeMuri Research Group
Areas of interest: upper respiratory infections (URI) in children, sinusitis, otitis media, pharyngitis
Wilhelm Research Group
Areas of interest: molecular mechanisms underlying learning and memory, congenital brain diseases, neurodevelopmental outcomes, central nervous system injury