Department of Pediatrics Resident Research Day

"Friends in High (Altitude) Places & Beyond: Building a Clinical Research Career Studying Pulmonary Vascular Disease"

Eric D. Austin, MD, MSCI
Associate Professor and Director, Vanderbilt Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Program
Division of Allergy, Immunology and Pulmonary Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
Director, Vanderbilt MSCI Training Program
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Friday, May 29, 12:30–2:30 p.m.
Mt. Oxford, 2nd Floor Conference & Education Center
Children's Hospital Colorado and via Zoom

Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/PedsGR26

Resident Speakers

• Sarah (Sadie) Meller, MD, PhD
  "Microglia Phagocytic Response to EV-D68 Infection in the Spinal Cord in a Murine Model of Acute Flaccid Myelitis"
       Mentor: Ken Tyler, MD, Department of Neurology

• Sweta Adhikary Pradhan MD, PhD
  "In Utero Morphine Exposure Augments Opioid Receptor Sensitivity in Offspring"
       Mentor: Chris Ford, PhD, Department of Pharmacology

• Nazanin Kazemi-Butterfield, MD, PhD
  "mTORC1 Regulates the Hepatocyte Innate Immune Response in Sepsis"
       Mentor: Clyde Wright, MD, Neonatology

• Roberto M. Delgado Zapata, MD, MPH
  "Implementing Standardized Medical Screening and Care for Newcomer Populations"
       Mentors: Hai Nguyen-Tran, MD, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology and Irina Topoz, MD, Emergency Medicine