Congratulations to the following fellows and residents whose research projects were selected for funding in the ninth cycle of the Warshaw Fellow Research Awards and Buchter Resident Research Awards. These awards are named in honor of Dr. Barry Warshaw, Vice Chair of Education and Dr. Susie Buchter, Residency Program Director, for their pioneering and tireless efforts cultivating fellows and residents in pediatric research at Emory University School of Medicine. 

The Warshaw Fellow Research Award and Buchter Resident Research Award were created in 2017 to encourage pediatric trainees to engage in high-quality research, provide a mechanism to fund trainee projects, and enhance the research environment at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Funds may be used for any type of child health-related research, including basic, clinical, translational, and outcomes research.

 

Warshaw Fellow Awards
PI	Title	Mentor(s)	Fellowship Program
Kaveeta Kaw	Investigating Vascular Remodeling in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension using a 3D Bioengineered Platform	Hananeh Fonoudi	Cardiology
Mitchell Witkowski	Short versus Prolonged Antibiotic Therapy for Bacterial Bloodstream Infections in Neutropenic Pediatric Oncology Patients	Dr. Pratik Patel	Pediatric Infectious Disease
Veronica Urbik	Correlation of Mid-Upper Arm Circumference and Fat-free Mass in Preterm Infants	Dr. Kera McNelis	Neonatology
Shana Burstein	Analysis of the Genetic Heterogeneity of Multifocal Wilms Tumors	Andrew Hong	Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Arvinth Sethuraman	Peritoneal Dialysis as a Model for FAST Interpretation in Children	Claudia Morris	Pediatrics/Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Maansi Malhotra	Medical Complexity and Clinical Outcomes in Children with Tracheostomies: A Retrospective Chart Review.	Dr Ajay Kasi	Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Sallie Lin	Geographic Distribution and Associated Factors of Community-Acquired Multi-Drug Resistant Enterobacterales	Latania Logan	Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Myrto Skafida	Engineering ‘off-the-shelf’ CD5-edited CD5-CAR gamma delta T cells for T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia	Sunil Raikar	Pediatric Hematology Oncology
Andrew Scott	Establishing a Validated Histopathologic Framework for Reliable Diagnosis of Spontaneous Intestinal Perforation versus Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Neonates	Hanna Alemayehu, MD	Pediatric Surgery Research Fellowship
Buchter Resident Awards
PI	Title	Mentor	Subspecialty
Rahul Patel	Characterizing the Progression from Mild to Moderate or Severe Encephalopathy Within the First Six Hours of Life	Elizabeth Sewell, MD	Peds Resident
Rachel Botbyl	Implementation of Dot Phrases to Facilitate Identification and Documentation of General Movements Assessment Eligibility in the NICU	Mary Lauren Neel, MD MSCI	Peds Resident
Caitlin Diefendorf	Predicting Response to Anti-TNFα Treatment Using Artificial Intelligence Evaluation of Endoscopic Imaging in Pediatric Ulcerative Colitis	Chathruckan Rajendra, MD	Peds Resident