Academic General Pediatrics Fellowship

Alumni

Fellowship Alumni

Our alumni have made significant contributions to enhancing real-world outcomes, including:

• Inequities Continue in Pediatric Patient-Family Experiences - Research Horizons
• From Screening to Sustenance - Research Horizons
• Training in Secure Firearm Storage to Save Children - Research Horizons
• Brain Development Research Featured on TODAY Show - Research Horizons
• New Driver Training Program Keeps Teens with ADHD Safer Behind the Wheel - Research Horizons
• Study Reveals Most Effective School-Based Suicide Prevention Programs - Research Horizons
• Shared Reading Appears to Improve Social-Emotional Health - Research Horizons
• Standardized Screenings Improve Detection, Reduce Bias in Teen Substance Use - Research Horizons
• How Childhood PFAS Exposures Impact Teen Bone Health - Research Horizons
• Prenatal Exposure to PBDEs Linked to Adolescent Behavioral Concerns - Research Horizons
• Parental Stress, Depression Can Spike When Children with Brain Injury Develop Secondary ADHD - Research Horizons
• Providing Legal Advocacy Reduces Hospital Admissions by 38% - Research Horizons
• Community-Led Interventions to Address Food Inequity - Research Horizons
• Parent-Led Groups Get Real About Managing Childhood Obesity - Research Horizons

2026

• Katia Crisler, MD, MPH
• Research Interests: Social needs and supports for families experiencing pediatric cancer
• Institution after graduation: Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY
• Michael Lugo, MD, MPH
• Research Interests: Food and nutrition security in hospital-to-home transitions
• Institution after graduation: Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO

2025

• Chelsey Anderson, PhD
• Research Interests: Shared decision-making for mobility interventions
• Institution after graduation: Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research
• Cathrin “Dani” Green, PhD, LCP
• Research Interests: Diagnosis and treatment of ADHD in Black adolescents
• Institution after graduation: Cincinnati Children’s
• Nathan Lutz, PhD
• Research Interests: Parenting interventions, children in foster care
• Institution after graduation: Nationwide Children’s Hospital Medical Center

2024

• Michelle Gorecki, MD
• Research Interests: Food access and nutrition quality
• Institution after graduation: Cincinnati Children's
• Kelsey Wiggs, PhD
• Research Interests: Etiology and treatment of ADHD and related diagnoses
• Institution after graduation: Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry
• Landon Krantz, MD, MS
• Research Interests: Adolescent mental health; public health; school-based health and primary care partnership
• Institution after graduation: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
• Michelle March, MD, MPH, MEd
• Research Interests: Interventions to improve social determinants of health (SDH) and injury prevention
• Institution after graduation:ESD Pediatric Group

2023

• Margaret Jones
• Research Interests: Antiracism, health equity
• Institution after graduation: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
• Kim Hartley, PhD
• Research Interests: Associations between greenness, environmental exposure, and perceived stress
• Institution after graduation: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

2022

• Clare Crosh, DO
• Research Interests: Parental beliefs and motivations towards early shared reading in the first 6-months of life
• Institution after graduation: Advocate Health Care
• Marie Pfarr, MD
• Research Interests: Telehealth use and hospital-to-home transitions for children with medical complexity
• Institution after graduation: University of Alabama at Birmingham

2021

• Kara Duraccio, PhD
• Research Interests: Understanding how mental health, obesity, race, and income impacts insomnia in youth
• Institution after graduation: Brigham Young University
• Keith Martin, DO
• Research Interests: Barriers and facilitators to prevention and healthcare in Latina families
• Institution after graduation: Johns Hopkins University
• Brandon Terrizzi, PhD
• Research Interests: Longitudinal analysis methods with application for child health and development
• Institution after graduation: Government Research Institution

2020

• Jessica M. Aguilar, PhD, CCC-SLP
• Research Interests: Speech-language pathologists’ interventions for executive functioning following TBI
• Institution after graduation: Private practice, Tucson, AZ
• Ashley Jenkins, MD
• Research Interests: Inpatient healthcare transition for adolescents and adults with pediatric chronic conditions
• Institution after graduation: University of Rochester Medical Center

2019

• Jean Chia, MD
• Research Interests: Goal-directed care planning for children with medical complexity
• Institution after graduation: Stanford University
• Whitney J. Raglin Bignall, PhD
• Research Interests: Promoting emotional and behavior health in primary pediatrics
• Institution after graduation: Nationwide Children’s Hospital

2018

• Erik R. Hoefgen, MD
• Research Interests: The economic impact expenses incurred by families of hospitalized children
• Institution after graduation: Washington University in St. Louis
• Amrik Singh Khalsa, MD
• Research Interests: Caregiver intuitive eating behaviors, infant feeding styles, and infant growth trajectories
• Institution after graduation: Nationwide Children’s Hospital
• Allison Parsons, PhD
• Research Interests: Equity gaps in assets and barriers that influence child wellbeing
• Institution after graduation: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

2017

• Catherine S. Forster, MD, MSc
• Research Interests: Recurrent UTI; UTI from colonization and antibiotic resistance
• Institution after graduation: University of Pittsburg
• Megan E. Narad, PhD
• Research Interests: Interventions for children and families following pediatric TBI
• Institution after graduation: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

2016

• John S. Hutton, MD, MS
• Research Interests: Home reading environment and brain activation in preschool children
• Institution after graduation: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
• Stephanie Donauer, PhD, MS
• Research Interests: Prenatal Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Infant Neurobehavior
• Institution after graduation: University of Cincinnati

2015

• Stephen P. Becker, PhD
• Research Interests: Phenotypic correlates distinguishing sluggish cognitive tempo from ADHD
• Institution after graduation: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
• Annie A. Garner, PhD
• Research Interests: Decision making regarding driving and licensure in teens with ADHD
• Institution after graduation: St. Louis University
• Roohi Y. Kharofa, MD, MPH
• Research Interests: School BMI policies and other modifiable factors of clinic attendance for children
• Institution after graduation: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
• Joanna E. Thomson, MD, MPH
• Research Interests: Children with medical complexity; Pneumonia in children with neurologic impairment
• Institution after graduation: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

1998-2014

• Lilliam Ambroggio, PhD
• Sarah J. Beal, PhD
• Andrew F. Beck, MD, MPH
• Patrick W. Brady, MD, MSc
• William B. Brinkman, MD, MEd, MSc
• Courtney M. Levinson Brown, MD, MSc
• Hillary L. Burdette, MD
• Jonathan Castillo Porter, MD, MPH
• Kristen A. Copeland, MD
• Tanya E. Froehlich, MD, MS, FAAP
• Sheela Rath Geraghty, MD, MS, IBCLC, FAAP, FABM
• Jill S. Huppert, MD, MPH
• Mona E. Mansour, MD, MS
• Tanya L. Kowalczyk Mullins, MD, MS
• Sonya Negriff, PhD
• Kieran J. Phelan, MD, MSc
• Megan Ratcliff, PhD, MPH
• Jeffrey M. Simmons, MD, MSc
• Lauren G. Solan, MD, MEd
• Lisa Sontag-Padilla, PhD
• Adam J. Spanier, MD, PhD, MPH, FAAP
• Abigail M. Tissot, PhD
• Stephen E. Wilson, MD, MSc
• Karen S. Wosje, PhD
• Kimberly Yolton, PhD