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Schedule
2025
Monday, May 12th
11:30 AM

A Case of Heterotaxy and Common Atrioventricular Canal with Bradycardia

Mohamed Aashiq Abdul Ghayum, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jenna Schermerhorn, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Hayley S. Hancock, Children's Mercy Hospital
Kelsey Brattrud, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Melanie Kathol, Children's Mercy Hospital
Maria Kiaffas, Children's Mercy Hospital

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

11:30 AM

Academic Half Days Dedicated to Phone Triage Improves Resident Confidence to Independently Triage Calls

Sarah Gwazdacz, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Kelsey Gavin, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Cati Kral, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

11:30 AM

Acute Myocardial Infarction in Pediatrics: Not the Same as Acute Myocardial Infarction in Adults

Lavina Desai, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Laura Martis, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Katie Coons
David Cloutier, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Ashley K. Sherman, Children's Mercy Hospital
Eric Hockstad
Jennifer Flint, Children's Mercy Hospital

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

11:30 AM

APOBEC4, a novel regulator of p53-dependent cell cycle arrest, senescence, and apoptosis

Dipesh Thapa
Atul Ranjan, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Elizabeth A. Thoenen, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Alejandro Parrales, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Shigeto Nishikawa
Jay L. Vivian, Children's Mercy Hospital
Tomoo Iwakuma, Children's Mercy Hospital

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

11:30 AM

Assessing ECG Abnormalities in Pediatric Athletes: A Retrospective Study on Incidence and Implications for Screening Protocols

Arkadeep Ghosh
Mark Gelatt, Children's Mercy Hospital
Lindsey Malloy-Walton, Children's Mercy Hospital
Ashley K. Sherman, Children's Mercy Hospital

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

11:30 AM

Bisphosphonate Treatment in Pediatric Patients with Rare Ovarian Malignancy and Hypercalcemia: A Case Series

Samhita Bhattarai, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Seth Lamb, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jennifer W. Boyd, Children's Mercy Hospital

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

11:30 AM

ECMO without compressions versus eCPR for LCOS following cardiac surgery

Amjad Halloum
Apurva Panchal, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Sarah Tabbutt, UCSF
Martina Steurer, UCSF
Mousumi Banerjee, UM
John Charpie, UM
Javi Lasa, UTSW
Amy McCammond, UCSF
Katie Moynihan, Boston Children’s Hospital
Nancy Ghanayem, Advocate Children’s Hospital
Tia Raymond, Medical City Children’s Hospital

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

11:30 AM

Favorability of Progesterone with Estrogen among physicians in transgender adolescents: A survey

Samhita Bhattarai, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Michelle Knoll, Children's Mercy Hospital

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

11:30 AM

Implementing balanced fluid resuscitation for sepsis patients in a tertiary care pediatric emergency department

Grace E. Arends MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Christopher Kaberline, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Ibad Siddiqi, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Sarah Nienhaus, Children's Mercy Hospital
Viktoriya Stoycheva MHA, RN, CPN, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Leslie Hueschen, Children's Mercy Hospital

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

11:30 AM

Low-Dose Bevacizumab Treatment for Retinopathy of Prematurity

Makayla Ayres
Katherine Brown MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

11:30 AM

Navigating the Fallout: How Pediatric Spine Surgeons Cope, Recover, and Persevere After Major Surgical Complications

Sandeep Yanamala
Richard M. Schwend, Children's Mercy Hospital
Hannah Geoffroy, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Gary Sutkin

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

11:30 AM

Respiratory Failure in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Comparative Analysis

Michelle Brown DO, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jenna Miller, Children's Mercy Hospital
Asdis Finnsdottir Wagner, Children's Mercy Hospital
Erin Hall, Children's Mercy Hospital
Maya Dewan MD
Christopher Dandoy MD
Kalee Grassia MD
Bin Zhang PhD

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

11:30 AM

Suppression of stress granule formation is a novel vulnerability imposed by mutant p53

Elizabeth Thoenen, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Atul Ranjan, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Alejandro Parrales, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Shigeto Nishikawa, Kyoto University
Dan A. Dixon, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Sugako Oka, Kyushu University
Tomoo Iwakuma, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

11:30 AM

Temperature Monitoring in the Cardiac Operating Room

Abby Pint, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Clint Humpherys, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Dave Stubler, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Nathaniel Lata, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

11:30 AM

Utilization of Physical Activity as a Vital Sign (PAVS) to Improve Personalized Exercise Assessment and Counseling in Pediatric Cardiology Patients

Lavina Desai, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Josh Holbert, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jessica S. Watson, Children's Mercy Hospital
Amanda McIntosh, Children's Mercy Kansas City
David A. White, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Megan Jensen, Children's Mercy Hospital

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

12:00 PM

A single center qualitative study to improve coordination of follow-up care for patients diagnosed with Abusive Head Trauma

Ruairi Smith-Dewey, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Elise Wright, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Daniella Donofrio, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Hannah Goebel, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Sara Kilbride, Children's Mercy Hospital

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

12:15 PM

Same Day Discharge Following Minimally Invasive Repair of Pectus Excavatum Following an ERAS Protocol

Cory Nonnemacher, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Seth Saylors, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Meredith Elman, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Pablo Aguayo, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Charles Snyder, Children's Mercy Kansas City
David Juang, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Beth A. Orrick, Children's Mercy Hospital
Amy L. Pierce, Children's Mercy Hospital
Shawn St. Peter, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Tolulope Oyetunji, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM

Decreasing time to narcotic pain medication in patients with sickle cell disease presenting with acute pain crises in a pediatric emergency department: a quality improvement initiative.

Allison Adam, Children's Mercy Hospital
Leslie Hueschen, Children's Mercy Hospital
Lina Patel, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Christopher Kaberline, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Ibad Siddiqi, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:30 PM - 12:45 PM

12:45 PM

Reducing Antibiotic Duration for Pneumonia and Sinusitis in the Emergency Department: A Quality Improvement Approach

Joshua Saucedo, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Leslie Hueschen, Children's Mercy Hospital
Amanda Nedved, Children's Mercy Hospital
Marsha Dannenburg
Patricia Phillips, Children's Mercy Hospital
Jennifer Floyd, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Alaina N. Burns, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Rana El Feghaly, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:45 PM - 1:00 PM