Kara Duraccio, PhD (Graduated 2021)
Selected Research Projects During Fellowship: Understanding the risk factors for insufficient sleep in youth; determining the impact of shortened sleep on dietary outcomes in adolescents; understanding how various factors (e.g., mental health, obesity status, race, income) impacts insomnia improvement in youth following Behavioral Sleep Medicine Intervention; highlighting the dynamic relationship between sleep and cardiometabolic health in youth over time
Keith Martin, DO (Graduated 2021)
Selected Research Projects During Fellowship: Barriers and Facilitators to Prevention and Care of COVID-19 infections in Cincinnati Latinx Families, Association between unscheduled pediatric primary care visits and risk of developmental delay, Shared reading and social-emotional problems, Shared reading and social-emotional problems
Brandon Terrizzi, PhD (Graduated 2021)
Selected Research Projects During Fellowship: The effects of early exposure to environmental toxins on children’s later cognitive functioning, Characterizing the longitudinal variability of young children’s performance on a standardized motor assessment between infancy and early childhood, Understanding providers’ perspectives about decision making in the care of transgender youth.
Clare Crosh, DO (Graduated 2022)
Selected Research Projects During Fellowship: Relational not clinical: reframing dialogic reading; Parental beliefs and motivations towards early shared reading in the first 6-months of life; Literacy heatmap
Marie Pfarr, MD (Graduated 2022)
Selected Research Projects During Fellowship: Identify Factors associated with High Telehealth Use in Children with Medical Complexity, Evaluation of Home Telehealth Technology in Children with Medical Complexity, Improving Hospital to Home Transitions with Children with Medical Complexity- CMC Transition Task Force, Healthcare provider contact prior to critical illness in children with medical complexity
Jessica M. Aguilar, PhD, CCC-SLP (Graduated 2020)
Selected Research Projects During Fellowship: I-InTERACT Secondary Outcomes; OHIO Discourse; Survey of speech-language pathologists’ experience with EF interventions for adolescents with TBI and interest in learning about and using an evidence-based intervention (TOPS) in clinical practice
Ashley Jenkins, MD (Graduated 2020)
Selected Research Projects During Fellowship: Inpatient Healthcare Transition for Adolescent and Adult Patients with Chronic Conditions of Childhood; Spina Bifida Action Research (SBAR): Using Concept Mapping to Assess the Health Needs of Individuals with Spina Bifida Transitioning to Adulthood; Interdisciplinary Communication Project: Using Group Level Assessment to Guide Healthcare System Improvement
Jean Chia, MD (Graduated 2019)
Selected Research Projects During Fellowship: Understanding Patient/Family-Stated Goals Elicited during Care Planning for Children with Medical Complexity; Retrospective cohort analysis on goal-directed care planning for children with medical complexity
Whitney J. Raglin Bignall, PhD (Graduated 2019)
Selected Research Projects During Fellowship: Promoting emotional and behavior health in primary pediatrics; Trust in Primary Care; Investigating the psychometric properties of the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire
Erik R. Hoefgen, MD (Graduated 2018)
Selected Research Projects During Fellowship: The economic impact of missed wages on non-healthcare related expenses incurred by families of hospitalized children; Non-complex chronic health care super-utilizers
Allison Parsons, PhD (Graduated 2018)
Selected Research Projects During Fellowship: PEAS – Sleep and Physical Activity; Diversity and Health Disparities Grant: Eliminating health disparities block by block; Living within systems of discrimination: Tools to communicate within and between groups; Identifying existing equity gaps in assets and barriers that influence child wellbeing through community engagement; Living within systems of discrimination: Tools to communicate within and between groups
Amrik Singh Khalsa, MD (Graduated 2018)
Selected Research Projects During Fellowship: Attainment of ‘5-2-1-0’ Obesity Recommendations in Preschool-Aged Children; Exploring the relationship between caregiver intuitive eating behaviors, infant feeding styles, and infant growth trajectories; Psychometric Properties of the Intuitive Eating Scale-2 in a low-income urban population; Maternal Body Dissatisfaction and Perceptions of Infant Weight
Catherine S. Forster, MD, MSc (Graduated 2017)
Selected Research Projects During Fellowship: NGAL in recurrent UTI; Predictive ability of NGAL in distinguishing colonization and infection in CIC patients; Consensus criteria to distinguish UTI from colonization in kids on CIC; Antibiotic resistance in CIC patients
Megan E. Narad, PhD (Graduated 2017)
Selected Research Projects During Fellowship: Driving after pediatric TBI; 3 RCTs for interventions for children and families following pediatric TBI
John S. Hutton, MD, MS (Graduated 2016)
Selected Research Projects During Fellowship: Neurobiological Effects of Home Reading Environment, Screen Time and Animated Format in Preschool Children Processing Stories; Home Reading Environment and Brain Activation in Preschool Children Listening to Stories; Correlation Between Home Reading Environment Domains and Neural Activation During Story Listening in Preschool Children Informing an Expanded Emergent Literacy Model; Story Time Turbocharger? Increased Cerebellar Activation in More Highly Engaged
Preschool-Age Children During Story Listening
Stephanie Donauer, PhD, MS (Graduated 2016)
Selected Research Projects During Fellowship: Prenatal Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Infant Neurobehavior; Prenatal Exposure to Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers and Polyfluoroalkyl Chemicals and Neurobehavioral Outcomes in Early Infancy
Stephen P. Becker, PhD (Graduated 2015)
Selected Research Projects During Fellowship: Integrating Child-Report of Internalizing Symptoms into ADHD Portal; Phenotypic Correlates Distinguishing Sluggish Cognitive Tempo from ADHD
Annie A. Garner, PhD (Graduated 2015)
Selected Research Projects During Fellowship: Patterns of Visual Attention in Teen Drivers with ADHD; Decision Making Regarding Driving and Licensure in Teens with ADHD
Roohi Y. Kharofa, MD, MPH (Graduated 2015)
Selected Research Projects During Fellowship: WIC Study; School BMI Policies in order to create a BMI policy for the Milwaukee Public School Systems; Modifiable factors of clinic attendance for children seen in primary care for a well-child check
Joanna E. Thomson, MD, MPH (Graduated 2015)
Selected Research Projects During Fellowship: Prospective cohort of children with medical complexity; Pneumonia in children with neurologic impairment; Hospital Medicine complex care service