Awards and Appointments
Research Appointments
The National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement, within the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, under the direction of David Schonfeld, MD, has been providing consultation, technical assistance, and training to Half the Sky Foundation in China since the earthquakes in Sichuan Province.
Kimberly Risma, MD, PhD, has been selected to receive a Schmidlapp Scholar Award from the Fifth Third Bank/Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Women Scholars Program. The $100,000 honor is given annually to a female faculty member at Cincinnati Children’s. A physician in the Division of Allergy and Immunology, Dr. Risma focuses her research on understanding how lymphocytes kill target cells by secretion of toxic proteins.
James Wells, PhD, of the Division of Developmental Biology, has been awarded a Career Development Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The award, entitled “The Role of Sox17 in Beta Cell Hemeostasis and Regeneration,” includes funding of $100,000 per year.
Stavra Xanthakos, MD, of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, has been awarded a grant from The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. The grant, entitled, “Biological Determinants of Steatohepatitis after Adolescent Bariatric Surgery,” includes funding of $886,248 over 5 years. Xanthakos, also the medical director of the Surgical Weight Loss Program for Teens, is the grant’s principal investigator.
Surgery appointments
- Jason Frischer, MD, assistant professor, Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery
- Evan R. Kokoska, MD, associate professor, Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery
- Leslie Ayensu-Coker, MD, assistant professor, Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology, Division of Adolescent Medicine
- Todd Maugans, MD, assistant professor, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery
- Steven S. Agabegi, MD, assistant professor, Division of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
- Viral Jain, MD, assistant professor, Division of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
- Roger Cornwall, MD, assistant professor, Division of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
- Shital Parikh, MD assistant professor, Division of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
- Alessandro de Alarcón, MD, assistant professor, Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology / Head & Neck Surgery
