As an academic institution with a thriving research program, Maria Fareri Children's Hospital recently celebrated the work of young researchers during the 8th Annual
Paul K. Woolf, MD Pediatric Trainee Research Day. We congratulate all for their dedication, results, and future research
successes.
Spotlighted
researchers at 8th Annual Paul K. Woolf, MD Pediatric Trainee Research
Day (center left to right: Priya Misra, MD; Amanda Rahman, DO; Selena
Levine, Do and Gaurav Nayyar, MD, PhD) with (L-R) Michael Gewitz, MD,
William Russell McCurdy Physician-in-Chief,; Mitchell Cairo, MD, Chief,
Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation; Krishnan
Sankaran, MD, pediatric pulmonologist and Leonard Newman, MD, Chairman,
Department of Pediatrics, New York Medical College.
Winner of Best Quality Research Abstract Award, Priya Misra, MD, a pediatric resident, presents "Preventing Sudden
Cardiac Death in the Pediatric Population: Improving Utilization of the
American Heart Association 14-Element Guideline to Pre-Participation
Evaluation."
Amanda
Rahman, DO, a neonatology fellow presents "Exclusive Human Milk Diet is
Associated with a Decreased Incidence of Severe Intraventricular
Hemorrhage in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants," which was recognized
as Best Clinical Research Abstract.
Pediatric
hematology, oncology and stem cell transplantation fellow, Guarrav
Nayyar, MD, PhD, received Best Translational Research Abstract
recognition for "Combining Dinutuximab with Alt-803 (Il-15 Superagonist)
Significantly Improves the Activity of Ex Vivo Expanded Natural Killer
Cells Against Gd2+ Pediatric Solid Tumors (St)"
A
roomful of pediatric sub-specialists listen to Selena Levine, DO,
present her Best Basic Research Abstract: "Ruxolitinib Significantly
Enhances in Vitro Apoptosis in Hodgkin Lymphoma (Hl) and Primary
Mediastinal B-Cell Lymphoma (Pmbl) and Survival in a Lymphoma Xenograft
Murine Mouse"
8th
Annual Paul K. Woolf, MD Pediatric Trainee Research Day Honorable
Mention Abstracts were crafted by (center left to right): Daniel Krich,
Do; Aliza Gardenswartz, MD; Sharina Rajbhandari, MD; Jordan Watson, MD
and Ahuva Freilich-Bergman, MD. They are joined by (L-R) Drs. Gewitz,
Krishnan, Cairo and Newman.