The American Pediatric Society (APS) and the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR) are pleased to announce the selected participants for the APS SPR Journeys & Frontiers in Pediatric Research program.  The APS, SPR and PAS congratulate all selected nominees and share our appreciation to all nominators.

Sarah Kollar
Nominator: Juan Salazar
Institution: Connecticut Children’s Medical Center

Nassr Nama & Hana Mijović
Nominator: Allison Eddy
Institution: BC Children’s Hospital

Onome Oghifobibi
Nominator: Terence Dermody
Institution: UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

Kent Willis
Nominator: J.A. McCullers with Ajay Talati
Institution: University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center

Miller Huang
Nominator: Alan S. Wayne
Institution: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Engin Deniz & Rozalyn Rodwin
Nominator: Cliff Bogue
Institution: Yale University School of Medicine

Danielle Daniels
Nominator: Gregory P. Conners
Institution: SUNY Upstate Medical University

Mariana Brewer
Nominator: Charles Schleien
Institution: Hofstra University, Zucker School of Medicine

April Clawson & Jennifer Saccente
Nominator: Frederick E. Barr
Institution: Arkansas Children’s Hospital, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Kiri E. Sunde & Emma Mohr
Nominator: Ellen Wald
Institution: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Elizabeth Yen
Nominator: Johnathan  Davis
Institution: Tufts Medical Center

Christine Denton
Nominator: Jeff Teckman
Institution: Saint Louis University School of Medicine

Josh Motelow
Nominator: Jordan S. Orange
Institution: New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Bonnie W. Lau
Nominator: Keith J. Loud,
Institution: Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock

Monica Wojcik
Nominator: Stella Kourembanas
Institution: Harvard Medical School / Children”s Hospital

Natalia Gomez-Ospina & Lori Wai Hang Lee
Nominator: Mary B. Leonard
Institution: Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics

Laurie Eldredge
Nominator: Leslie Walker-Harding
Institution: Seattle Childrens Hostpital

Loretta Reyes & Dwight McCoy Chambers
Nominator: Lucky Jain
Institution: Emory University

Jeremy Rubinstein & Abigail Russi
Nominator: Margaret K. Hostetter,
Institution: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Midhat Farooqi
Nominator: Michael Artman
Institution: University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine

Moriah Rabin
Nominator: Michael Cabana
Institution: Children’s Hospital at Montefiore/Albert Einstein School of Medicine

Jegen Kandasamy
Nominator: Mitchell B. Cohen
Institution: University of Alabama at Birmingham

Jennifer Silverstein & Jonathan R. Burris
Nominator: Patrick Brophy
Institution: University of Rochester Medical Center

Thao (Tina) Ho
Nominator: Patricia Emmanuel
Institution: USF Health; Morsani College of Medicine

Wen-I (Wendy) Chang
Nominator: Phyllis A. Dennery
Institution: Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Rachel Buckle- Rashid
Nominator: Patricia Poitevien and Phyllis Dennery
Institution: Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Praveen Chandrasekharan
Nominator: Steven Lipshultz
Institution: University of Buffalo

Melissa Weidner & Talia S. Schwartz
Nominator: Sally Radovick
Institution: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Deepthi Alapati
Nominator: Meg Frizzola
Institution: Nemours/Alfred I DuPont Hospital for Children

Ghadeer Alnajjar & Nicolas Chiriboga Salazar
Nominator: Desmond Schatz
Institution: University of Florida

Marciana Laster
Nominator: Sherin U Devaskar
Institution: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Steve Hicks & Molly Carney
Nominator: Sarah Iriana
Institution: Penn State College of Medicine

Mark Connelly & Kirkland Wilson
Nominator: Stephen J. Teach
Institution: Children”s National Health System

Ejiofor Ezekwe & Elizabeth (Liz) Jalazo
Nominator: Stephanie Davis
Institution: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Sarah E. Henrickson & Mariko Bennett
Nominator: Joseph W St Geme
Institution: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Jennifer Wambach
Nominator: Barbara Warner
Institution: Washington University School of Medicine