Schedule
2025
Friday, May 16th
11:30 AM

A Novel Surgical Technique for the Management of Recurrent Thyroglossal Duct Cysts Using Dakins Solution Packing

Jay Szekely, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Meghan Tracy, Children's Mercy Hospital
Janelle R. Noel-Macdonnell, Children's Mercy Hospital
Elie Khalifee, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

A Prospective Multicenter Observational Study on the Applicability of Cold Snare Polypectomy in Children Undergoing Colonoscopy

Hunter J. Friesen, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Thomas M. Attard, Children's Mercy Hospital
Andrew Liman, Stanford University; Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Roberto Gugig, Stanford University; Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Monique Barakat, Stanford University; Lucile Packard Children's Hospital

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Bilateral Buccal Myomucosal Flap Palatoplasty for the Management of Velopharyngeal Dysfunction in Children

Jay Szekely, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Meghan Tracy, Children's Mercy Hospital
Janelle R. Noel-Macdonnell, Children's Mercy Hospital
Jill M. Arganbright, Children's Mercy Hospital

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

But, It's Just a UTI

Gillian Long, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Cold Snare Polypectomy in Pediatric Polyposis – A Multicenter Experience

Hunter J. Friesen, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Thomas M. Attard, Children's Mercy Hospital
Andrew Liman, Stanford University; Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Osamu Yasui, Stanford University; Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Catharine Walsh, University of Toronto; The Hospital for Sick Children
Roberto Gugig, Stanford University; Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Monique Barakat, Stanford University; Lucile Packard Children's Hospital

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Decreasing time to antibiotics in febrile oncology patients with central line in the pediatric emergency department; A Quality Improvement initiative

Abbigayle Carlson, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Leslie Hueschen, Children's Mercy Hospital
Stephanie Clark, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Christopher Kaberline, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Joel Thompson, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Examining learner preferences of teaching techniques by PHM attendings and fellows on multilevel teaching rounds

Sian Best, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jacqueline M. Walker, Children's Mercy Hospital

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Posterior pharyngeal flap for the management of velopharyngeal dysfunction: comparing outcomes for children with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome to those without

Jay Szekely, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Meghan Tracy, Children's Mercy Hospital
Janelle R. Noel-Macdonnell, Children's Mercy Hospital
Jill M. Arganbright, Children's Mercy Hospital

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Switching Lanes: Leaving Behind Discharge Antibiotics and Laboratory Testing in Perforated Appendicitis

Seth Saylors, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Cory Nonnemacher, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Meredith Elman, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Pablo Aguayo, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Richard Hendrickson, Children's Mercy Kansas City
David Juang, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Irene Isabel P. Lim, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Rebecca Rentea, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Charles Snyder, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Shawn St. Peter, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Tolulope Oyetunji, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Time from Triage to Imaging in Stroke Activations at Children’s Mercy Hospital

Annie Altschul, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Marcie Files, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jennifer Flint, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Brooke Fridley PhD, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Variability in Methotrexate Metabolites in a Cohort of JIA Patients

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

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Viral Detection in Anterior Nasal Swabs Versus Nasopharyngeal Swabs in Children

Nicole Neeley, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Abby Kietzman, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Rangaraj Selvarangan, Children's Mercy Hospital
Dithi Banerjee, Children's Mercy Hospital
Jennifer Goldman, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jennifer Schuster, Children's Mercy Kansas City

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

What Happens After They Leave the ED? Following Up Acute Asthma Exacerbations after Changes in Clinical Practice Guidelines for Treatment

Phillip S. Wozniak, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jade B. Tam-Williams, Children's Mercy Hospital

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
12:00 PM

Diagnostic and Clinical Utility of OncoScan Microarray and NGS-Based Sequencing in Pediatric Solid Tumors: Children’s Mercy Hospital’s Experience

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

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
12:15 PM

Exploring Anticoagulation Trends as Early Infection Markers in Pediatric ECMO and CRRT Patients

Samantha Davidson, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jay Rilinger, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jenna Miller, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Caroline Holton, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Joshua Herigon, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Brian Lee, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM

Effects of Genetic Polymorphisms on the OCT1 and OCT2-Mediated Uptake of Atenolol

Mollie Margaret Walton MD, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jonathan Wagner DO, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Ceclia E. Villanueva PhD, University of Kansas Medical Center
Bruno Hagenbuch PhD, University of Kansas Medical Center

12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
12:45 PM

Detection of chromosomal mosaicism- The importance of karyotyping and FISH

Allison Kalinousky, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Jennifer L. Roberts, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Madeeha Alikhan, University of Missouri-Kansas City
John Herriges, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Lei Zhang, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Elena Repnikova, Children's Mercy Kansas City

12:45 PM - 1:00 PM