New employees February 2023

Welcome new hires!

Faculty Name Division Title Komo Gursahani Emergency Medicine Associate Professor Kimberly Lashun Massey Hospital Medicine Instructor Staff Name Division Title Mary Armstrong Academic Pediatrics Staff Nurse II Allison Cakalic Ambulatory Patient Billing/Services Representative II Olivia Carter-Hoener Allergy & Pulmonary Medicine Clinical Research Coordinator I Gaurav Kumar Chaubey Infectious Diseases Postdoc Research Associate Tamera Davis Hematology […]

Funded awards January 2023

Funded grants! Jeffrey Bednarski Brian DeBosch Margaret Ferris Lakshmi Gokanapudy Hahn Eric Greer Lori Holtz Mark Manary Jason Newland Lila Nolan Cynthia Ortinau Katie Plax Gregory Storch Gregory Storch Zachary Vesoulis

PI Agency Title Jeffrey Bednarski SLCH Foundation/ Hyundai Hope on Wheels Molecular mechanisms of BCLAF1 in pediatric AML Brian DeBosch NIH/R01 Leveraging Arginase Biology Against Metabolic Disease Margaret Ferris SLCH Foundation/ Hyundai Hope on Wheels The role of the retinoid X receptor in MLL-rearranged leukemia  Lakshmi Gokanapudy Hahn International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation […]

Faculty feature Erica Schmitt

Erica Schmitt

Erica Schmitt, MD, PhD, was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and grew up near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She thought one day she would be a teacher, an archaeologist or perhaps be like Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE, and study animals. She also frequented the Veteran’s hospital with her grandfather — a Korean War veteran who had chronic health […]

New employees January 2023

Welcome new hires!

Faculty Name Division Title Eric Greer  Genetics Associate Professor Komo Gursahani Emergency Medicine  Associate Professor Staff Name Division Title Aakanksha Agarwal Critical Care  Postdoc Research Associate Samineh Barmaki Hematology/Oncology  Postdoc Research Associate Zac Boros Adolescent Medicine Case Worker II Alaina Carney Central Admin Grant Assistant Grace Curry  Gastroenterology Research Technician II Lydia Goodyear Newborn Medicine  […]

Funded awards December 2022

Funded grants! Mohamed Abdelbaki Fahd Ahmad Sarah Garwood Robert Hayashi Jason Newland Katie Plax Drew Schwartz

Name Agency Title Mohamed Abdelbaki SLCH Foundation Neuro Oncology and Investigational New Drug Support (Year 10) Fahd Ahmad SLCH Foundation  Prehospital Pediatric Manual Ventilation Trial Sarah Garwood SLCH Foundation The SPOT at Jennings High School (A School-Based Health Center) Robert Hayashi SLCH Foundation SLCH Audiology Year 5 Jason Newland CDC/University of Pennsylvania Reducing Empiric Vancomycin […]

Faculty feature Marta Celorrio

Marta Celorrio

Marta Celorrio, PhD, was born in a small town in Navarra, located in the northern region of Spain. During her childhood, she grew up surrounded by family, always playing with her siblings and cousins. Christmas was always a special time of the year for Celorrio in which she and her family would build the Nativity […]