Research Showcase Posters - Tuesday, May 19

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

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

Parenting as Protection: 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

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