2026-2027 Cohorts
Abigail Rose Olson Arons, UC Davis
Abraham Gallegos, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
Adam Blatt, Wake Forest University School of Medicine – Charlotte Campus
Aimée Vester, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Alicia Alcamo, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Aliza Olive, Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Alyssa Baccarella, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Bob Sun, University of British Columbia
Brad Constant, University of Colorado Anschutz and Children’s Hospital Colorado
Brigitta Gehl, Yale School of Medicine
Cal Robinson, Hospital for Sick Children
Carl Britto, Boston Children’s Hospital
Carmen Riggioni, SickKids Hospital
Cassie Grimsley Ackerley, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador
Catherina Pinnaro, McMaster University
Chang Lu, Boston Children’s Hospital
Christina Turn, Medical University of South Carolina
Cicero Willis-Pineda, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Clare Crosh, Advocate Children’s Hospital, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Clare Howard, Massachusetts General Brigham for Children
Cristina Tomatis Souverbielle, Nationwide Children’s Hospital/The Ohio State University
Daniel Zheng, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Danielle Callaway, UT Southwestern Medical Center
David M. Rub, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine/ UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Eileen Rife, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ellen Kuenzig, Department of Paediatrics, Western University, London
Ellen McGinnis, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Ellen Schill, Washington University School of Medicine
Emily Ahn, Weill Cornell Medicine
Emily Beil, Wake Forest University School of Medicine – Charlotte Campus
Emily Montgomery, University of Louisville School of Medicine
Eyad Bitar, Queen’s University
Fatima Hussain, University of Saskatchewan
Genelle Lunken, University of British Columbia
Ghita Wiebe, University of Saskatchewan
Glenn Rapsinski, University of Pittsburgh
Hallie Coltin, Université de Montréal
Hananeh Fonoudi, Emory School of Medicine / Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Hannah Kinoshita, Children’s National and George Washington University
Hiroshi Uda, Children’s Hospital of Michigan
Ian Francis, University of Michigan
Imogen Clover-Brown, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Ivana Stojkic, Nationwide Children’s Hospital/The Ohio State University
Jensen Kracht, University Arizona College of Medicine
Jeremy Sandgren, University of Iowa
Jessica Breton, Université de Montréal
Jessica Daley, University of Pittsburgh
Jillian Smith, Children’s National and George Washington University
Jordan John, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Julia H. Raney , Stanford University School of Medicine
Karen Carr, University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson
Katherine Schwartz, Cohen Children’s Medical Center and Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra / Northwell
Kathryn Weakley, Norton Children’s and the University of Louisville
Liana Nobre, University of Alberta
Lianna Wood, Boston Children’s Hospital
Margaret Jones, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Margaret Murphy, Golisano Children’s Hospital at the University of Kentucky
Maria Deza Leon, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City
Maria Gabriela Espanol Mendez, Tulane University School of Medicine
Mariana Brewer, University of Miami
Marielys Collazo-Roman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Marisa Stahl, University of Colorado Anschutz and Children’s Hospital Colorado
Mary Jensen Kracht, Banner University / University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson
Matthew Henry, University of Alberta/ Stollery Children’s Hospital
Matthew O’Brien, Yale School of Medicine
Maximilian Horlbeck, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
McKenna Parnes, University of Washington School of Medicine
Meredith R. Hickson, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Michael Jiang, Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Michael Luke, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Nabil Saleem, Emory University School of Medicine / Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Natalie Guerrero, Indiana University School of Medicine
Nicholas Beam, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Nicholas Hasle, University of Washington
Nina Hill, University of Michigan Medical School
Paige Condit, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health
Patrick Peebles, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health
Rachna Mamidi, University of Missouri, School of Medicine
Rebecca Gibson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Rebecca Koch, Duke University School of Medicine
Rita Yu Wang, Stanford University
Rui Dong, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Ryan Kilpatrick, Tufts Medical Center
Sameer Thadani, Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine
Sarah Swenson, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Shannon O’Connor, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Srinivasan Mani, University at Buffalo
Stephanie Adaikalam, Indiana University School of Medicine
Sudeep D. Sunthankar, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Tarin Bigley, Washington University School of Medicine
Tess Smith-Thomas, Golisano Children’s at UK
Ting Wei, University of South Alabama, Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine
Vivian Valcarce Luaces, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Vonita Chawla, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences / Arkansas Children’s
Zoe Michael, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
HOWLAND VITISING PROFESSOR PROGRAM – Enables emerging leaders at APS member host institutions to engage with the APS Howland Awardee.
RAPID SCHOLARS – Through structured mentoring and project funding RAPID supports residents, fellows, and junior faculty who identify as underrepresented in medicine (URIM), disabled, or from a socially, culturally, economically, or educationally disadvantaged background, and who are committed to a career in academic pediatrics.
