Building on the highly successful APS and SPR Journey Program, we are pleased to launch the 2024-2025 APS SPR Journeys program. This year the Journeys program will feature eight virtual sessions designed to encourage and support promising early-career investigators in pediatrics by offering inspiring career journey stories, career development mentoring, feedback on research and networking with experienced Cohort Leaders and peers in academic medicine and a Mini-Gordon Conference at the PAS 2025 Meeting.

Program participants will be organized into twenty small cohort groups each guided by two leaders, experienced and successful academic pediatric professionals drawn mainly from the membership of APS and SPR. Pediatric department chairs, as well as leaders from FOPO and RAPID will nominate a total of 100 early-career participants, giving special attention to groups underrepresented in medicine. Further program details are below.

2024-2025 APS SPR Journeys Sessions

(all times are CT, except for Mini-Gordon Conference)

November 8, 11-11:30am CT
Participants: Cohort Members and Leaders – invitation only

December 13, 11am-12pm CT
January 10, 11am-12pm CT
February 14, 11am-12pm CT
March 7, 11am-12pm CT
April 11, 11am-12pm CT
Topic: Science & Career Development
Participants: Cohort Members and Leaders – invitation only

Mini Gordon Conference & Luncheon
April 25, tentatively 7am-12pm HT at PAS 2025, Honolulu, Hawaii
Participants: Cohort Members and Leaders – invitation only

Session 7: Cohort Breakout Session*
May 9, 11am-12pm CT
Participants: Cohort Members and Leaders – invitation only

Session 8: Closing Plenary: Little Things to Improve Your Research
June 13, 10-11am CT
Speaker: TBD
Participants: Open to All – APS & SPR Members and Cohorts

Session 8: Cohort Breakout Discussions
June 13, 11-11:30am CT
Participants: Cohort Members and Leaders – invitation only

2024-2025 APS SPR Journey Leaders

Steve Abman, University of Colorado
Kurt Albertine, University of Utah School of Medicine
Pankaj Agrawal, University of Miami
Brett Anderson, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Eric Austin, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Susan Baker, University of Buffalo
Elizabeth Barnert, University of California, Los Angeles
Jennifer Bermick, University of Iowa
Vineet Bhandari, The Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper/CMSRU
Carrie Byington, University of California, San Diego
Waldemar (Wally) Carlo, University of Alabama
Helen Christou, Harvard Medical School
Ann Chahroudi, Emory School of Medicine
Christiane Dammann, Tuffs University
Stephen Daniels, University of Colorado
Stephanie Fritz, Washington University School of Medicine
Erick Forno, Indiana University School of Medicine
Andrea Hahn, Children’s National Hospital/George Washington University
Lucas Hoffman, University of Washington
Lori Holtz, Wash U Medicine
David Hunstad, Wash U Medicine
James Jarvis, University of Washington, Seattle
Audrey Odom John, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Corinne Keet, University of North Carolina
Rohit Kohli, University of Southern California
Ashwini Lakshmanan, Kaiser Permanente Benard J. Tyson School of Medicine
Krithika Lingappan, University of Pennsylvania
David McCulley, University of California San Diego
Patrick McGann, Brown University
Steven Miller, University of British Columbia
Shelley Miyamoto, University of Colorado
Amy O’Connell, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Teresia O’Connor, Baylor College of Medicine
Anna Penn, Columbia University
Jochen Profit, Stanford University
Sally Radovick, University of Arizona
Lisa Satlin, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Binoy Shivanna, Baylor College of Medicine
Katharine Simon, University of California, Irvine
Andrew South, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Janice Staber, University of Iowa
Annemarie Stroustrup, Northwell Health; Cohen Children’s Medical Center; Hofstra University
Emily Tam, University of Toronto
Beth Tarini, Children’s National Hospital

2024-2025 APS SPR Journey Cohort Participants

Kristie I. Aamodt, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Neha Ahluwalia, Children’s Hospital of Michigan/ Central Michigan University
Danielle Alfano, Washington University in St. Louis
Adjoa Andoh, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Chidiogo Anyigbo, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Jennifer Apsan, Cohen Children’s Medical Center, Northwell Health
Laura Avila, Hospital for Sick Children
Alexis Ball, University of Washington School of Medicine/ Seattle Children’s
Cecilia Banda, RAPID and University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Rosara Bass, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Katherine Bell, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Nina Brodsky, Yale School of Medicine
Grant Bruno, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Catherine Buck, Yale School of Medicine
Agustin J. Cabrera, University of Miami
Jimmy Carlucci, Indiana University
Daevina Charles, Cohen Children’s Medical Center, Northwell Health
Xiaodi Chen, Brown University
Bianca Cherestal, Children’s Mercy Kansas City
Micheal Cookson, University of Colorado
Montserrat Corbera-Hincapie, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/ Holtz Children’s Hospital
Eileen Crowley, Children’s Hospital LHSC, Western University
Sean Cullen, Weill Cornell Medicine
Christopher Cummings, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Michael Curtis, Baylor College of Medicine
Caroline Diorio, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Mary Dunbar, University of Calgary
Anna Duncan, Massachusetts General for Children
Lindsay Edwards, Duke University
Laura Erdman, McMaster University
Timothy Foster, University of Florida
Kendra Francis, University of Washington School of Medicine/ Seattle Children’s
Hanae Fujii-Rios, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Kristina Gaietto, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Abhrajit Ganguly, University of Oklahoma
Grace Gombolay, Emory University
Pamela Good, Columbia University
Caroline Hall, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus/Children’s Hospital Colorado
Sarah C Haynes, University of California Davis
Nadia Hoekstra, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Emma Holmes, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital
Shubhada Hooli, Baylor College of Medicine
Madeline Horan, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Taylor House, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Alexandra Huttle, Weill Cornell Medicine
Sandra Isabel, Université Laval
Lindsay Jaeger, Emory University
Nikita Kalluri, UMass Chan School of Medicine
Cemal Karakas, University of Louisville
Siva Kasinathan, Stanford University
Sherry Kausch, University of Virginia
Kristen Kenan, University of Illinois Chicago
Maayan Leroy-Melamed, Brown University
John Ligon, University of Florida
Michelle Lim, University of California, Davis
Allie Lyle, University of Louisville
Van Kim Ma, University of California, Davis
Sarah MacEachern, University of Calgary
Rachel Margolis, Children’s National Hospital
Wendie Marks, University of Saskatchewan
Juan Matute, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Julie Mayne, Brown University
Danielle Mebuge, Duke University
Kimberley Miles, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Jaime Moore, University of Colorado Anschutz Health Sciences Center/ Children’s Hospital Colorado
Kate Nelson, Hospital for Sick Children
Krysten North, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Madeline Parr, Cohen Children’s Medical Center, Northwell Health
Emily Parsons, Uniformed Services University
Kathryn Pavia, Children’s Mercy Kansas City
Marie-Claude Pelland-Marcotte, Université Laval
Jagadeesh Ramasamy, University of Illinois Chicago
Marghalara Rashid, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Felix Richter, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital
Anne-Marie Rick, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Dafne Sanabria, Children’s Hospital of Michigan/ Central Michigan University
Sarah Schaffer DeRoo, Children’s National Hospital
Brett Schrewe, University of British Columbia
Thiviya Selvanathan, University of British Columbia
Jennifer Sequoia, Stanford University
Jessica Shui, Massachusetts General for Children
Michael Smith, University of California, San Francisco
Kathleen Snow, Boston Children’s Hospital
Nicole Stephenson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
April Tan, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/ Holtz Children’s Hospital
Alexis Tchaconas, Cohen Children’s Medical Center, Northwell Health
Vidhu Thaker, Columbia University
Stef Tica, Indiana University School of Medicine
Donna Tyungu, OUHSC
Kishore Umapathi, West Virginia University-Charleston Division
Rebecca Vitale, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Jacqueline Wong, McMaster University
Allison Jane Wu, Boston Children’s Hospital
Jingshing Wu, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Daphne Yau, University of Saskatchewan

THANK YOU

Each year, the Journeys Program is built around a theme, which typically emerges from a book of relevance to developing investigators. This year’s inspiring text is Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World by Admiral William H. McRaven. Admiral McRaven is a retired military leader and former Chancellor of the University of Texas System from 2015 to 2018. The theme for this year’s Journeys program – Little Things to Improve Your Research – was inspired by the Admiral’s book.

A complimentary copy of the book was provided to all Journeys participants thanks to the generous support of the Journeys’ Book Sponsors.