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Schedule
2026
Monday, May 11th
12:00 PM

Improving Documentation of Pneumonia Diagnoses on General Pediatrics Inpatient Teams

Nicole Neeley, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Timothy Burchard, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Nicholas Clark, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jason Chandler, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Hank Unterschuetz, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

12:15 PM

Monitoring the laboratory frequency for musculoskeletal infections at a tertiary care Children's Hospital: a diagnostic stewardship QI project

Kedar Tilak, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Ann L. Wirtz, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Douglas Swanson, Children's Mercy Hospital
Alaina N. Burns, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Christine Symes, Children's Mercy Hospital
Maria Deza Leon, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Yorgo Zahlanie, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Megan Hamner, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Rana El Feghaly, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM

Increasing Concomitant Naloxone and Opioid Prescribing from a Pediatric Emergency Department: QI Project

Justin Chu, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Leslie Hueschen, Children's Mercy Hospital
Christopher Kaberline, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Michelle DePhillips, Children's Mercy Hospital

12:30 PM - 12:45 PM

12:45 PM

Improving Rounding Communication in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Timothy Burchard, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Sarah Brunner, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kathlyn Baharaeen, Children's Mercy Hospital
Katie Macmillan, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:45 PM - 1:00 PM

Tuesday, May 12th
12:00 PM

Clinical and Non-Clinical Factors Associated with Early Discharge in Pediatric Non-Trauma Patients Transported by Rotor Wing

Jordon Mitzelfelt, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Lisa Pruitt, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Amy Papa, Children's Mercy Hospital
Ashley K. Sherman, Children's Mercy Hospital
David Juang, University of Kansas
Sarah Brunner, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Asdis Finnsdottir Wagner, Children's Mercy Hospital
Jennifer Flint, Children's Mercy Hospital

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

12:15 PM

Treatment of severe hemolysis in a baby requiring multiple tandem extracorporeal support modalities and experimental monoclonal antibody therapy

John J. Morelli III, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Judith Sebestyen VanSickle, Children's Mercy Hospital
Lejla Music Aplenc, Children's Mercy Hospital
Debra E. Newton, Children's Mercy Hospital
Alexandra Oschman, Children's Mercy Hospital
John M. Daniel IV, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM

Current practices of anticoagulant utilization in pediatric patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

Abbey Elsbernd, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Natalie Grills, Children's Hospital Association
James Antoon, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt
Kathryn Kyler, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Lucas Orth, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Timothy Savage, Harvard Medical School
Matt Hall, Children's Hospital Association
Jennifer Goldman, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Shannon Carpenter, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:30 PM - 12:45 PM

12:45 PM

Intimate Partner Violence and Diagnostic Codes in Pediatric Health Records

Sonali Ramesh, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kelsey Gavin, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Nivedita Jayasekar, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Ashley K. Sherman, Children's Mercy Hospital
George Abraham, Children's Mercy Hospital
Gunjan Tiyyagura, Yale University
Kimberly Randell, Children's Mercy Hospital

12:45 PM - 1:00 PM

Wednesday, May 13th
12:00 PM

Internet Facilitated Child Abuse in the Midwest

Serena Wagoner, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Tara Frazier, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jim Anderst, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Ashley K. Sherman, Children's Mercy Hospital
Danielle Horton, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

12:15 PM

Quantitative Echocardiography Markers to Denote Severity of Tricuspid Regurgitation Compared to Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Single Right Ventricle Variants.

Tony Zunica, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Anmol Goyal, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Janelle Noel-Macdonnell, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Daniel Forsha, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM

Intravenous sotalol in pediatric intensive care patients with and without congenital heart disease: hemodynamic effects

Juan S. Farias, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Emily R. Backes, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Saul Flores, Texas Children's Hospital
Rohit S. Loomba, Ann & Lurie Children’s Hospital

12:30 PM - 12:45 PM

12:45 PM

Severe Thiopurine-Induced Myelosuppression in a Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Patient with the NUDT15 *1/*6 Genotype

Jillian Fry, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Erin C. Boone, Children's Mercy Hospital
Wendy Y. Wang, Children's Mercy Hospital
Shobana John, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Lisa A. Lansdon, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Midhat S. Farooqi, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Byunggil Yoo, Children's Mercy Hospital
Andrea Gaedigk, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Keith August, Children's Mercy Hospital
Terrie Flatt, Children's Mercy Hospital
Laura Ramsey, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:45 PM - 1:00 PM

Thursday, May 14th
12:00 PM

GynTok: The Influence of Social Media on the Gynecologic Health of Adolescents and Young Adults

Katherine Lukas MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Madeline Ross MD, MS, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Tazim Dowlut-McElroy, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Lauren Roth MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Patricia Huguelet MD, Children’s Hospital of Colorado
Shanna Combs MD, Burnett School of Medicine at TCU/Cook Children’s
Ana Patricia Torga MD, NIH
Eugenie Lehembre-Shiah MD, NIH
Martha Perry MD, NIH
Swetha Naroji MD, MBA, NIH

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

12:15 PM

EEG Reactivity and Rotterdam Head CT Score Predict Early Favorable Outcome in Pediatric Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

Xuexin Lu, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Ara Hall, Children's Mercy Hospital
Yong Y. Han, Children's Mercy Hospital
Avner Moeded, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Isabella Boedefeld, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Christian Kaufman, Children's Mercy Hospital
Madeline Burdick, Children's Mercy Kansas City
David Williams, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Stacy Pennington, Children's Mercy Hospital
Jessica S. Wallisch, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM

Uncovering Neurodevelopmental Risk in a Pediatric Intestinal Failure Population

Lindsay R. Groh, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jennifer V. Schurman, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Bri Schuler, Children's Mercy Kansas City
William O. San Pablo Jr, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Dana M. Bakula, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:30 PM - 12:45 PM

12:45 PM

Clinical validation of targeted somatic structural variant detection in pediatric cancer via long-read sequencing

Aravindh Nagarajan, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Byunggil Yoo, Children's Mercy Hospital
Emily G. Farrow, Children's Mercy Hospital
John Herriges, Children's Mercy Hospital
Elena Repnikova, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Lei Zhang, Children's Mercy Hospital
Tomi Pastinen, Children's Mercy Hospital
Carol J. Saunders, Children's Mercy Hospital
Midhat Farooqi
Lisa Lansdon

12:45 PM - 1:00 PM

Friday, May 15th
12:00 PM

Circulation of Respiratory Viruses from Air and Human Specimens in a Pre-kindergarten-12th Grade School District in Kansas City, MO

Nicole Neeley, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Brian Lee, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Brittney Fritchmann
Luke Gard, Children's Mercy Hospital
Nibha Sagar, Children's Mercy Hospital
Dithi Banerjee, Children's Mercy Hospital
Anjana Sasidharan, Children's Mercy Hospital
Rangaraj Selvarangan, Children's Mercy Hospital
Olivia Almendares
Hannah L. Kirking
Jennifer Goldman, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jennifer E. Schuster, Children's Mercy Hospital

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

12:15 PM

Discharging stable isolated blunt solid organ injuries from the emergency department – a tertiary center study

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

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM

Evaluation of a Pilot Study for Observation in Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax in Pediatric Patients

Cory Nonnemacher, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Seth Saylors, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Katelyn Sanner Dixon, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jieun Lee, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Tolulope Oyetunji, MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Shawn St. Peter, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:30 PM - 12:45 PM

12:45 PM

Prenatal Intervention for Congenital Lung Malformations: A Multicenter North American Cohort Study

Rakesh R. Gurrala, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Elizabeth A. Field, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Anne M. Sescleifer, John Hopkin's Hospital
TL Buchmiller
CM Calkins
BD Carr
DL Cass
JT Church
CS Derderian
VP Duron
SJ Fenton
B Gray
A Kim
JO Robertson
B Rymeski
RC Sun
JD Vrecenak
SM Kunisaki
Laura K. Vricella, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Inna N. Lobeck
Congenital Lung Malformation Study Group

12:45 PM - 1:00 PM