Research Showcase Posters - Thursday, May 21

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