CM-Wide Poster Session

Benefits of a Blended Diet: Secondary analysis of the impact of diet type on feeding tube weaning success

Kristina Nash, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Dana Bakula, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Rachel Graham, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Brenda Fetter, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Sarah Bullard, Children's Mercy Kansas City
April Escobar, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Julianne Brogren, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Amy Ricketts, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Ryan Thompson, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Lori A. Erickson, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Sarah Edwards, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Development and Evaluation of Online Career Development Workshops for Trainees from Multiple Institutions Transitioning to Academic and Industry Careers

Nuria Lara Castillo, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Chazmyn Riley, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Terry Dang, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Gwendolyn M. Pais, Midwestern University
Uyen T. Nguyen, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Biruk Birhanu
Kevin Downes, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Sonya Tang Girdwood, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Adeline Yang, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Diagnosis of WHIM Syndrome in an Adolescent with Cavitary Pneumonia and Chronic Leukopenia

Katey Campbell MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Mary Nguyen Jacobson MD FAAAAI FACAAI, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Early prediction of SSRI treatment response in adolescents with depression using multimodal machine learning

Addison Pritchett MS, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Catherine Koertje MD, Children's Mercy Hospital
George Quaye MS, PhD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Andrea Manlove BSN, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Whitney Sparks MS, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Brooke Fridley MS, PhD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
J Steven Leeder PharmD, PhD, Children's Mercy Hospital

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Enhancing Immune Cell Function and Reshaping the Tumor Microenvironment Through CCR2 Inhibition

John Szarejko, Children's Mercy Kansas City
John N. Maina Mr, Children's Mercy Kansas City
John Perry, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Erythrocytosis In Transgender Adolescents Receiving Injectable Testosterone: A Single-center Retrospective Cohort Study

Seth Lamb, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Janelle Noel-Macdonnell, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Michelle Knoll, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Ex Vivo Modeling of Leukemic Stem Cell Targets in Relapse/Refractory Pediatric Leukemia

Sashi Kandel, Children's Mercy Kansas City
John N. Maina, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jacqelyn M. Nemechek, Children's Mercy Kansas City
John M. Perry, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Exploring How Parental Involvement Impacts Police Encounters and Delinquent Behavior Among Black Adolescent Girls

Danielle V. Porter, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Elizabeth Otto, Texas A & M University - College Station
Dyamon Brown, Texas A & M University - College Station
Jasmine Alli, Texas A & M University - College Station
Robyn Douglas, Texas A & M University - College Station
Noni Gaylord-Harden, Texas A & M University - College Station

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Impact of Childhood Opportunity Index and Area Deprivation Index on the Time to Presentation and Stability of Osteochondritis Dissecans of the Knee

Jason Schwab, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Devan Desai, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kennison Adams, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Brian R. Lee, Children's Mercy Hospital
Brian S. Harvey, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Single-Cell Gene Expression among Children with Uncontrolled Asthma

Omowumi V. Akinjole PhD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Shireen Sadeghi
Setayesh Shirzad
Sui Par
Mckervin Reau
Abril Reyes
Kumal Udofia
Danielle Farr
Carl Schwendinger-Schreck
George E. Quaye, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Brooke Fridley, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Elin Grundberg, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Bridgette L. Jones, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Integrated 2D, 3D, and In Vivo Modeling to Define CRK and CRKL Functions in Glioblastoma Invasion and Therapeutic Targeting

Piyanka Hettiarachchi, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Taeju P. Park, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Maternal Lactoferrin Reduces Vertically-Acquired Escherichia coli Infection in the Offspring without Modifying Innate Immune Response in a Mouse Model

Mark Gamadia, Kansas City University
Joe Varberg, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Joshua L. Wheatley, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Sivani Badrivenkata, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Michael J. Hageman, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Susana Chavez-Bueno, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Measuring school anxiety in pediatric chronic pain: Initial investigation of the psychometric properties of the School Anxiety Inventory for Chronic Pain (SAI-CP)

Caitlyn Maye, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Robert C. Gibler, University of Kansas Medical Center
Kristen E. Jastrowski Mano, University of Cincinnati
Dustin Wallace, Children's Mercy Hospital
Cara M. Hoffart, Children's Mercy Hospital
Jenny Scheurich, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Potent anti-tumor efficacy of B7-H3 CAR-T cells in H3G34 mutant Diffuse Hemispheric Gliomas.

Monika Yadav, Children's Mercy Kansas City
David Akhavan
Siddharth Subham
John Jeppson
Daniel Zamler
Nadine Santana-Magal
Scott Chin
Omar Tinoco
John Szarejko, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kirill Sabitov, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Garrett R. Gibson, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Brooke L. Fridley, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Doug Myers
Stefan Bossmann
Kalyani Pyaram
Viveka Nand Yadav, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pursuit of a Full Night's Sleep

Kennison Adams MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Andrew Donaldson MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Brian Harvey DO, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Solanidine Metabolic Ratios Suggest Incomplete CYP2D6 Phenoconversion in Pediatric Patients

Brett M. Gilio, University of Kansas Medical Center
Ethan A. Poweleit, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Stephani Stancil, Children's Mercy Kansas City
J Steven Leeder, Children's Mercy Hospital
Paul C. Toren, Children's Mercy Hospital
Brandon Retke, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Andrea Gaedigk, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jeffrey R. Strawn
Laura Ramsey, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Stem cell model of novel patient variant consistent with pathogenicity of Diamond Blackfan Anemia

Alexandra Prosser-Dombrowski
Jacqelyn M. Nemechek, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Priyanka Prem Kumar, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Irina Pushel, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Christopher Seidel, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Danny E. Miller, University of Washington
Jay L. Vivian, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jennifer Gerton, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
John M. Perry, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Surveillance of Influenza Detection in the New Vaccine Surveillance network, Kansas City 2025-2026

Libby Corkran, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Anjana Sasidharan, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Dithi Banerjee, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Symptomatic Hyponatremia: A Rare Complication of Double Balloon Enteroscopy; A Case Report.

Kirby Lampe, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Victoria Sarata, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Thomas M. Attard, Children's Mercy Hospital

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Are we Winning at Twinning? Immunosuppression and Rejection in Identical Twin Kidney Transplants

Shivani Wadnerkar, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Nicholas Herrera, Kansas University Medical Center

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Combined Liposomal Bupivacaine and Dexamethasone Results in a Fivefold Reduction of Inpatient Opioid Use Following PSF in AIS Surgery

Anne Stuedemann, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kenneth Shaw, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Michon Huston, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Nicolette Saddler, Children's Mercy Kansas City
John Anderson, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Michael Benvenuti, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Ashley Sherman, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Michon Huston, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Comparing Safety and Efficacy Between Regional Citrate, Unfractionated Heparin, and Bivalirudin in Pediatric Continuous Kidney Replacement Therapy.

Bahar Barani, Children's Mercy Hospital
Darcy Weidemann, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Charley Spear, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Naile Tufan Pekkucuksen, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Elucidating therapeutic potential of USP1 inhibition In Diffuse Midline Gliomas.

Monika Yadav, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Adora Klinestiver
Garrett Gibson
Daniel Zamler
Dana Messinger
Carl Koschmann
Viveka Nand Yadav, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of In-line Immobilized Lipase Cartridge in Enterally Fed Patients With SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME: A RETROSPECTIVE CASE SERIES

Elizaveta Khenner, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jennifer Morton, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Laura Green, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Alcresta Therapeutics
William San Pablo, Children's Mercy Hospital

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Fracture Risk and Postoperative Outcomes in Type 1 Diabetes Pediatric Patients: Identifying High-Risk Patients

Alexis DeMarea

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Infant KMT2A-rearranged acute lymphoblastic leukemia stem cell model demonstrates early differential protein expression and kinase activity

Alexandra Prosser-Dombrowski, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Priyanka Prem Kumar, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Thomas Gremminger, University of Kansas Medical Center
Michaella Rekowski, University of Kansas Medical Center
Midhat Farooqi, Children's Mercy Hospital
Michael Washburn, University of Kansas Medical Center
Jay L. Vivian, Children's Mercy Hospital
John M. Perry, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Known Adrenal Insufficiency Does Not Increase Early Complication Rates Following Posterior Spinal Fusion in Non-Ambulatory Cerebral Palsy Patients

Zachary Denton, University of Kansas Medical Center
Rayyan Abid
John Anderson, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Michael Benvenuti, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Anne Stuedemann, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Addison M. Pritchett MS, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kenneth Aaron Shaw, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Leukemia-specific processes identified via global proteomic analysis of patient bone marrow

Irina Pushel, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Trenton Edwards, University of Kansas Medical Center
Thomas Gremminger, University of Kansas Medical Center
Lisa A. Lansdon, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Michaella J. Rekowski, University of Kansas Medical Center
Keith J. August, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Nicole M. Wood, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Michael P. Washburn, University of Kansas Medical Center
Midhat S. Farooqi, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Pharmacogenetic Associations of Methotrexate Metabolism in a JIA Cohort

Nuria Lara Castillo, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Marc Sudman, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Sasi Arunachalam, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Brooke Fridley MS, PhD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Susan Thompson, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Mara Becker, Duke University
Laura Ramsey, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Pharmacokinetic Profiles of Dexmedetomidine during Pediatric ECMO

Mackenzie Dreher
Kathryn Pavia, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jonathan B. Wagner, Children's Mercy Hospital
Allison Scott, Children's Mercy Hospital
Paul C. Toren, Children's Mercy Hospital
Brandon Retke, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Population Pharmacokinetic Analysis of R- and S-Fluoxetine and Norfluoxetine in Children and Adolescents

Ethan A. Poweleit, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Whitney Sparks MS, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Catherine Koertje, Children's Mercy Hospital
Addison M. Pritchett MS, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Angela Wiedner, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Gail Robertson, Children's Mercy Hospital
Lindsey Malloy-Walton, Children's Mercy Hospital
Stephani L. Stancil, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Alexa L. Pagano, Children's Mercy Hospital
Kathyrn Kyler, Children's Mercy Hospital
Jonathan B. Wagner, Children's Mercy Hospital
Jeffrey R. Strawn, University of Cincinnati
Brandon Retke, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Paul C. Toren, Children's Mercy Hospital
J Steven Leeder, Children's Mercy Hospital
Laura Ramsey, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Rare TBL1XR1::JAK2 fusion in a patient with pediatric T-ALL identified by Optical Genome Mapping and long-read sequencing

Aravindh Nagarajan, Children's Mercy Kansas City
John Herriges, Children's Mercy Hospital
Lei Zhang, Children's Mercy Hospital
Elena Repnikova, Children's Mercy Hospital
Lisa Lansdon, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Midhat Farooqi, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Recombinant Erythropoietin (rEpo) Use for Anemia of Prematurity- A Three-Year Single Center Experience

Hannah Darland, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Krishna Dummula, Children' Mercy Hospital
Chaitali Mahajan, Children's Mercy Hospital
Vishal Pandey, Children's Mercy Hospital

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Refractory Benign Esophageal Strictures Complicated by Esophageal Perforation and Treated with Serial Dilations and Stent Placement in a Pediatric Patient

Victoria Sarata, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kirby Lampe, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Nadia Ibrahimi, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Resident-led Infant Safety Baby Showers, Pediatric Injury Prevention Counseling Beyond Clinic Walls

EY Park, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Chase Branstetter, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Sean O'Very, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Tazah Weinmaster, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Sophia Hai, UMKC School of Medicine
Gracyn Pietrusinski, UMKC School of Medicine
Johana Mejias-Beck, UMKC School of Medicine

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Targeting Asparagine Metabolism as a Therapeutic Vulnerability in Pediatric H3-Mutant High-Grade Gliomas

Sunghae Kim, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Monika Yadav, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Garrett Gibson, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Vivek Nand Yadav, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Unclear source of Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Utilizing Small Bowel Capsule to Detect an Enteric Duplication Cyst

Victoria Sarata, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kirby Lampe, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kathyn Clarkston, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Using Spatial Transcriptomics to Understand Gene Expression between Different Stages in Neuroblastoma Tumors

Samuel Q. Mellentine, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jennifer C. Kasemeier, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Joe Varberg, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Noelle P. Dahl, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

An Exploration of Productivity Measurement for Pediatric Inpatient Consultation-Liaison Psychology

Corinne Evans M.A., Children's Mercy Kansas City, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Casey Lawless Ph.D., Children's Mercy Kansas City, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Walker S. McKinney Ph.D., Children's Mercy Kansas City, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Katherine Schwartzkopf PsyD, Indiana University School of Medicine
Marissa M. Dawson PsyD, Children's Mercy Kansas City, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Crystal Tracy M.S., Children's Mercy Kansas City, Indiana State University
Mallory Netz Ph.D., Children's Mercy Kansas City, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Carisa Parrish Ph.D., Children's Mercy Kansas City, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Antibiotic-Pathogen Concordance in Pediatric Complicated Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Makenna Steger MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Marina Dantas MD, MSCR, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jessica Markham MD, MSc, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Berina Karisik DO, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Smit Shah MD, MS, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Alaina Burns PharmD, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Cell models of infant acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Priyanka Prem Kumar, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Irina Pushel, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Meagan Vacek, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jay Vivian, Children's Mercy Kansas City
John Perry, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jacqelyn Nemechek, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Bradley Thornton, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Catherine Bahadursingh, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Clinical Course of a Previously Healthy Patient with Chronic Active EBV Infection

Carina H. Perdew, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Nikita S. Raje, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Thao P. Le, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Cody D. Shopper, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Clonidine dosing after acute pediatric brain injury

Bekah Spengler, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kim Hartman, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Matt McLaughlin, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Development of in vitro assays to study HLA risk alleles for TMP-SMX induced IADRs

Nina K. Krbachian, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Priscilla Flores-Ascencio, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Robert T. Tessman, Children's Mercy Hospital
Whitney M. Nolte, Children's Mercy Hospital
Jennifer Goldman, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Establishing Type I Interferon signatures to identify diseases and categorize pathology associated with interferon dysregulation

Eric S. Geanes, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Aditi Bobba, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Rebecca McLennan PhD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Gage Greening PhD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Todd Bradley PhD, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Evaluation for non-accidental trauma (NAT) and bleeding disorders in infants referred to pediatric hematology

Abbey Elsbernd, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Shannon Carpenter, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Lyndsey Hultman, Children's Mercy Kansas City
James Anderst, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Feasibility Of Using Caregiver Obtained Muac Z-score Measurement In Monitoring Malnutrition In The Pediatric Patient

Michelle L. Roach, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Dana Bakula, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Saiyara Baset, Children's Mercy Kansas City
April Escobar, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Rachel Graham, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Aileen Har, Children's Mercy Kansas City
E. Nicole Jennison, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Amanda May, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Elizabeth Melia, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kristina Nash, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Corey Schurman, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kathryn Yeldell, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Sarah Edwards, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

High-Frequency and Conventional Ventilation in VLBW Neonates During Interfacility Transport

Trevor Cabrera, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Janelle R. Noel-Macdonnell PhD, Children's Mercy Hospital
Emily McNellis, Children's Mercy Hospital

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Investigating Reactive Metabolite Burden of Drugs Implicated in Adverse Drug Reactions

Priscilla Flores-Ascencio, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jennifer Goldman, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Whitney M. Nolte, Children's Mercy Hospital
Robert T. Tessman, Children's Mercy Hospital
Nina K. Krbachian, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Lessons learned: Targeted RNA sequencing as a tool for resolving variants of uncertain significance

Allison Kalinousky, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Vitoria Paolillo, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Florencia Del Viso, Children's Mercy Hospital
Elena Repnikova, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Ana S A Cohen, Children's Mercy Hospital
Joseph Alaimo, Children's Mercy Hospital
Emily G. Farrow, Children's Mercy Hospital
Carol J. Saunders, Children's Mercy Hospital
Isabelle Thiffault, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Neuroinflammatory signatures in mouse models of EPG5-associated neurodegenerative disorders

Alex Hardinger, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Bradley Thornton, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Priyanka Prem Kumar, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Laramie Pence, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jay L. Vivian, Children's Mercy Hospital

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Recurrent Fevers as a Prominent and Underrecognized Feature of EPG5-Related Vici Syndrome

Natyssja Lara, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Anne H. Holmes, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Bradley T. Thornton, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Priyanka Prem Kumar, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Zita Surpenant
Lauren Bartik, MS, CGC, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jay L. Vivian, PhD, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Scleral Lens For Recurrent Corneal Ulcer in a Pediatric Patient with Blepharokeratoconjunctivitis

Hannah Walleck, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Christina Twardowski, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

The automated production of cubic eggshells for optical chick embryo development

Daniel Kremer, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jennifer C. Kasemeier, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Noelle P. Dahl, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Samuel Q. Mellentine, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Matthew L. Breitkreutz, Children's Mercy Hospital

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

The impact of vanzacaftor/tezacaftor/deutivacaftor on parent and child perceived psychosocial functioning in people with cystic fibrosis: a single center experience

Ashley Severin, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Stephanie Duehlmeyer, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Ellen Meier, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Mallory Netz, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

The Pediatric Anesthesia Informed Consent Tool (PACT) to Improve Patient and Parent Engagement: Development and Pilot Testing

Yoo Sun (Sunny) Jeong, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Michelle Stage
Richard Blum
Elaine Meyer
Mollie Ruben
Danielle Blanch-Hartigan
Ryan Lam
David Waisel
Stephanie Kukora, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

The Use of Omalizumab For Idiopathic Isolated Angioedema In A Pediatric Patient

Manali Shah, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Thao Le, Children's Mercy

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Belatacept Use in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Single-Center Case Series

Shivani Wadnerkar, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jeffrey Saland, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ron Shapiro, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

CRISPR-Cas9 Based Whole Genome Screen Reveals Genetic Modulators of Chemoresistance in Leukemia

Jacqueline K. Babai, University of Kansas Medical Center
Jacqelyn Nemechek, Children's Mercy Kansas City
John C. Means, Children's Mercy Hospital
Scott T. Younger, Children's Mercy Hospital
John M. Perry, Children's Mercy Hospital

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Does Variation in Systemic Steroid Use Impact Outcomes in Preschoolers Hospitalized with Viral Respiratory Tract Infection?

Smit Shah, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kathyrn Kyler, Children's Mercy Hospital
Matt Hall, Children's Health Association
Megan M. Gubichuk, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jessica L. Markham, Children's Mercy Hospital

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Dose-Dependent Metabolic and Proteomic Determinants of Chemotherapy Resistance in KMT2A-Rearranged Pediatric ALL

Diana S. Acevedo Dr., Children's Mercy Kansas City
John M. Perry, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Evaluating the Impact of a Certificate Program in Pediatric Bioethics for Interdisciplinary Healthcare Professionals on Professional Development and Practice

Vanessa Watkins, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Angie Knackstedt, Children's Mercy Hospital
Brian S. Carter, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jeremy Garrett, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kadriye O. Lewis, USFQ
Stephanie Kukora, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Evaluation and Treatment of Pediatric Pre-eruptive Intracoronal Resorption​

Sophia Rosen, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Neena Patel, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Amy Burleson, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jenna Sparks, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Robin Onikul, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Human Metapneumovirus Infection of the Central Nervous System: In Vitro and In Vivo Models

Gage Greening, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Joanna Yuen, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Rebecca McLennan, Children's Mercy Hospital
Eric S. Geanes, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Santosh Khanal, Children's Mercy Hospital
Marc L. Herman, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Brittany Hauger, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Daniel A. Louiselle, Children's Mercy Hospital
Todd Bradley, Children's Mercy Hospital

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Identifying Candidates for Field Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (E-CPR) in Pediatric Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Retrospective Review

Sherouk A. Abdelmoity, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Lindsay Fick, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jenna Miller, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jennifer Flint, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Impact of Age on Growth, Readmission, and Malnutrition after Pediatric Feeding Tube Weaning

Minh H. Tran, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Saiyara Baset, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Lindsay R. Groh, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Sarah T. Edwards, Children's Mercy Hospital
Kristina Nash, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Amy Ricketts, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Julianne Brogren, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Ryan M. Thompson, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Sarah Bullard, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Rachel Graham, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Janelle R. Noel-Macdonnell PhD, Children's Mercy Hospital
Lori A. Erickson, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Dana Bakula, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Inhaled Ciclesonide, a brain-sparing glucocorticoid, attenuates hyperoxia-induced lung injury in neonatal rats

Heather Menden, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Moral Tensions at the Bedside: A Survey of Neonatal Nurses’ Perceptions of Trisomy 18 Care

Isabella Hadden, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Angela Knackstedt, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kelstan Ellis, Children's Mercy Hospital
Stephanie Kukora, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Nature's Secret Code: Fibonacci Sequence and 3D Modelling the Growing Rib

Amogh Shetty, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Mathew Illimoottil, University Missouri-Kansas City
Ashley K. Sherman, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Aditi Hendi MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Richard Schwend MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Optimization of post-surgical analgesia after pediatric adenotonsillectomy: An opioid-sparing, steroid-forward approach

Blake Welker, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Daniel Jensen, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Aliza Elrod, Children's Mercy Kansas City
John Dahl, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Elizabeth Edmundson, Children's Mercy Kansas City
David Williams, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Meghan Tracy, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Transphyseal Rigid Intramedullary Nailing in Pediatric Femoral and Tibial Fractures: A Systematic Review

Parker D. Boyce, University of Missouri - Kansas City
Zachary Podoll MD, University of Missouri - Kansas City
Michael Benvenuti MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Trend in Outcomes from Protocol Driven Hydration Strategy Following Bariatric Surgery and Potential for Improvement

Efua H. Bolouvi MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Nadeen Alturki MBChB, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jieun Lee MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Shawn St. Peter MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

A Case of Early Pediatric-Onset Multiple Sclerosis

Mellanie R. De Guzman Psy.D., Children's Mercy Kansas City
Marcy L. Vandament Ph.D., Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

A Novel Role of Chromatin Reader ZMYND8 in Senescence-Associated Stemness in Leukemia

Jacqelyn Nemechek, Children's Mercy Kansas City
John C. Means, Children's Mercy Hospital
Fang Tao
Irina Pushel, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Scott T. Younger, Children's Mercy Hospital
John M. Perry, Children's Mercy Hospital

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Effect of Infusion Rate Modification on Adverse Reactions Associated with Calaspargase Pegol

Jane Mauro, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Eosinophilic Cationic Protein as a Noninvasive Biomarker for Pediatric Eosinophilic Esophagitis

Rasheed Ansari, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Rachel Chevalier, Children's Mercy Hospital
Norah Almahbub, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jamie Ryan, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Epidemiology and Microbiology of Admission Surveillance Nasal Swabs in a Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit(NICU) and Their Association with Subsequent Infections

Kedar Tilak, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Alison Tran, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Sydney Rogers, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Maddi Singleton, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Neena Kanwar, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Venkatesh Sampath, Children's Mercy Hospital

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Evaluating AMH levels in adolescents with PCOS: A retrospective cohort study

Lauren Roth, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kelsey Tague, NSU Dr Kiran C Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine
Tazim Dowlut-McElroy, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Expanding Resident Knowledge and Self-Efficacy in Addressing Medical Mistrust

Tyandra Moore, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Frances Turcotte Benedict, Children's Mercy Hospital
Emily Killough, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Dominique N. Lewis, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Leah N. Jones, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Functional Data Analysis of Spatial Trajectories measured by spatial protein imaging with application to the ovarian cancer tumor microenvironment

Chase J. Sakitis, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Diasy Liao, Emory University
Brett M. Reid, Moffitt Cancer Center
Courtney E. Johnson, Emory University
Mary K. Townsend, Oregon Health & Science University
Joellen M. Schildkraut, Emory University
Andrew B. Lawson, Medical University of South Carolina
Shelley S. Tworoger, Oregon Health & Science University
Kathryn L. Terry, Brigham and Women's Hopsital
Lauren C. Peres, Moffitt Cancer Center
Julia Wrobel, Emory University
Alex C. Soupir, Moffitt Cancer Center
Brooke L. Fridley, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Implementation of a Nebulized Tranexamic Acid Protocol for Pediatric Post-Tonsillectomy Hemorrhage: A Quality Improvement Initiative

Blake A. Welker, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Elie Khalifee, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kyle Swingerman, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Andrea Nguyen, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Dovan Khalifee, Children's Mercy Kansas City
John Dahl, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Janelle Noel-MacDonnell, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Meghan Tracy, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Elie Khalifee, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Improving Care in Neuromuscular Scoliosis: Accelerated Discharge Pathways Decreases Length of Stay and Opioid Utilization Following Primary Posterior Spinal Fusion

Ryan R. Henn, University of Kansas Medical Center
Denise Brewster, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Katie Carpenter, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jessica Woods, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Anne Stuedemann, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Micheal Benvenuti, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Richard Schwend, Children's Mercy Kansas City
John Anderson, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Aaron Shaw, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Incidence and Outcomes of Non-High Risk Neuroblastoma Patients – With and Without Liver Disease at Initial Presentation

Katherine E. Ruvalcava, Kansas City University
Kevin Campbell MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Neonatal Early‑Onset Sepsis: It’s Not Always What You Think

Kedar Tilak, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Douglas Swanson, Children's Mercy Hospital
Gabriela M. Henriquez Luthje
Susana Chavez-Bueno, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Neonatal Outcomes in Term Infants with Maternal Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Use: A Retrospective Chart Review Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Carlie G. Gatlin, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Venkatesh Sampath, Children's Mercy Hospital
Megan H. Tucker, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Henry Yeh
Angela Bolton, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Staci S. Elliott, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Mary Anne Kucera, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kerry Kohrs, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Deanna McPherson, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Persistent Wheezing in an Adolescent Patient

Matilda Dervisevic, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Stephen Cliff, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Quality Improvement in the Management and Treatment of Pectus Carinatum Using the Dynamic Compression System

Beth A. Orrick, Children's Mercy Hospital
Amy L. Pierce, Children's Mercy Hospital
Tolulope A. Oyetunji MD MPH, Children's Mercy, Kansas City
Emina Dizdarevic, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kaylene Whited, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Reframing the Resident Mindset

Gillian Long DO, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Pamela Carpenter MEd, C-TAGME, APPD
Anik Patel MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Respiratory virus co-detections in pre-kindergarten-12th grade students and staff in Kansas City, Missouri

Brittney Fritschmann, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jennifer Goldman, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jennifer Schuster, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Dithi Banerjee, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Nibha Sagar, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Anjana Sasidharan, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Brian Lee, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Rangaraj Selvarangan, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Hannah L. Kirking
Olivia Almendares

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Ansa Pancreatica Causing Recurrent Pancreatitis in an Adolescent

Chase Branstetter, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Elizaveta Khenner, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Victoria Sarata, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Nadia Ibrahimi, Children's Mercy Hospital

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Association of Robin Sequence Clinical Characteristics and Polysomnography with Invasive vs Non-Invasive Therapeutic Interventions

Blake A. Welker, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Aliza Elrod, Children's Mercy Kansas City
John Dahl, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Zarmina Ehsan, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Meghan Tracy, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Janelle Noel-Macdonnell, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

CCR2 Inhibition as a Dual-Target Strategy for Immune Modulation and HSCs preservation post-Irradiation

John N. Maina Mr, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Sashi Kandel, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jacqueline K. Babai, University of Kansas Medical Center
John Szarejko, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jacqelyn Nemechek, Children's Mercy Hospital
John M. Perry, Children's Mercy Hospital

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Clinical Outcomes after COVID-19-Positive Donor Heart Transplantation in the United States Pediatric Population

Mujeeb Zubair, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Ayush D. Shah, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Ekaanth Veerakumar, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Shanzil Shafqat, Dow Intenrational Medical College
James E. O'Brien, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Edo K. Bedzra, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Clinical Outcomes of ACL Reconstruction using a Physical-Sparing Technique with Iliotibial Band Autograft in Skeletally Immature Children

Carrie J. Froemming BS, Children's Mercy Kansas City
LeiLani Mansy, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Connor Mathes MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Shannon Margherio PT, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Donna Paccica MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kevin Latz MD, Children's Mercy Hospital
Ryan Koehler, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Closing the Gap: Improving Detection of RED-S in Pediatric Sports Medicine Clinics Through Targeted Screening

Megan Euerle, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Greg Canty, Children's Mercy Hospital
Brian S. Harvey, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

CRK/CRKL-Dependent Transcriptional Programs Regulate Glioblastoma Cell Motility

Anil Ahsan, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Irina Pushel, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Taeju P. Park, Children's Mercy Kansas

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Delayed Airway Injuries After Perioperative Intubation in Pediatric Patients with Down Syndrome: A Preliminary Analysis

Ryan R. Henn, University of Kansas Medical Center
Adriane Latz, University of Kansas Medical Center
Frank Materia, University of Kansas Medical Center
Micheal Puricelli, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Dental Findings Associated With Dandy Walker and Orofacial Digital Syndrome

Cailey C. Schell, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Neena Patel, Children's Mercy Hospital
Robin Onikul, Children's Mercy Hospital
Jenna Sparks, Children's Mercy Hospital
Amy Burleson, Children's Mercy Hospital

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Dental Rehabilitation of Pediatric Patient with Ellis-van Creveld Syndrome: Case Report

Emma Kojima DDS, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Dental Rehabilitation with General Anesthesia and Analysis of Waiting Time Periods

Hannah Shelton, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Bethany Castro, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Neena Patel, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Robin Onikul, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jenna Sparks, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Amy Burleson, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Enteral Probiotics Alter Inflammatory Signaling and Lung Remodeling in a Neonatal Sepsis–Associated Lung Injury Model

John J. Morelli III, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Menden L. Heather, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Sherry M. Mabry, Children's Mercy Hospital
Venkatesh Sampath, Children's Mercy Hospital

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Feeding Tube Weaning Outcomes Across Pediatric Age Groups in a Multidisciplinary Feeding Clinic

Julianne Brogren, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Lori A. Erickson, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Amy Ricketts, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kristina Nash, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Ryan Thompson, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Dana Bakula, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Sarah Bullard, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Lindsay R. Groh, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Sarah Edwards, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Rachel Graham, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

From Recommendation to Practice: Evaluating Utilization of the GOLDILOKS Clinic Clinical Guidance in Psychiatric Conditions

Nicole M. Koziol, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Lauren S. French, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Sarah Clingan, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Carmen Cecilia Martinez-Connor, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Tracy L. Sandritter, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Alexa L. Pagano, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Laura Ramsey, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

General Anesthesia Utilization and Referral Patterns in Pediatric Dental Patients

Bethany Castro, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Hannah Shelton, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Neena Patel, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Robin Onikul, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jenna Sparks, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Amy Burleson, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Identifying 30-Day Readmission Risk in Neonatal Congenital Heart Disease: Insights from a Multi-Center United States Interstage Home Monitoring Cohort

Ryan M. Thompson, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Lori A. Erickson, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jeremy Affolter, Children's Mercy Hospital
Amy Ricketts, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Natalie Jayaram, Children's Mercy Hospital
Sara Crawford, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Nickey Barr, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Whitney Pierce, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Impact of Single- Versus Dual-Surgeon Approach in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Posterior Spinal Fusion: A Systematic Review

Easton W. Attwood, University of Kansas Medical Center
Ryan Henn, University of Kansas Medical Center
Robert Burks, Naval Postgraduate School
Aaron Shaw, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Long-read sequencing enables SLCO1B1 haplotype phasing and facilitates the discovery of novel star alleles

Shobana John, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Erin C. Boone, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Byunggil Yoo, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Andrea Gaedigk, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Laura B. Ramsey, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Scoliosis and Stimulators: A Case Series of Spinal Fusions in Pediatric Patients with Neuromuscular Scoliosis and VNS Devices

Firas Batrash, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Michael Benvenuti, Children's Mercy Kansas City
K Aaron Shaw, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Richard M. Schwend, Children's Mercy Hospital
John Anderson, Children's Mercy Hospital

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis as a Wakeup Call: A Qualitative Analysis of Family Perceptions, Behavior Change, and Barriers to Weight Management

Curtis E. Walker II, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Richard M. Schwend MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Caleb Grote MD, PhD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Christina Boxx MSIOP CCRP, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Sarah Hampl MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Video Capsule Endoscopy Findings In Children With Pten Hamartoma Syndrome: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Hunter J. Friesen, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Hyein Cha, UMKC School of Medicine
Thomas M. Attard, Children's Mercy Hospital

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM