Staff Name Division Title Tanvitha Kotla Newborn Medicine Undergraduate Student Claire Potter Central Admin Coordinator Department Payroll & Administration
New Employees April 2023
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Funded Awards March 2023
PI Agency Title Ana María Arbeláez Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences Prescribing Healthy Futures: A Collaboration between Washington University Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Operation Food Search Patricia Dickson NIH/R01 Cellular Phenotypes of Genetic Variants in Mucopolysaccharidosis Sarah Garwood ICTS/CTRFP /Saint Louis University Free to Flex: Development Of YMCA-Based Initiative To Support […]
New Employees March 2023
Staff Name Division Title Lylah Aikoye Hematology / Oncology Undergraduate Student Anna Bauer Hematology / Oncology Clinical Research Study Assistant II Aluet Borrego Alvarez Endocrinology Staff Scientist Jenifer Goers Infectious Diseases Case Worker I Kiley Hudson Newborn Medicine Undergraduate Student Grace Hurley Hematology / Oncology Graduate Student Ashley Jones Hematology / Oncology Research Technician II […]
Faculty Feature Christopher Sumski
Christopher Sumski, DO, MEd, was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. Because of this, his love for the Cardinals, Blues and toasted ravioli started early in life. After high school, Sumski began his tour of the Midwest, first attending undergrad at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. He double majored in Health Sciences and […]
Funded Awards February 2023
PI Agency Title Ana María Arbeláez SLCH Foundation Child Health Intervention Prediabetes Program (CHIPP) Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg NIH/R21 ADAM10 polymorphism in susceptibility to S. aureus disease Lakshmi Gokanapudy Hahn NIH/R21 Clonal Hematopoeisis in Heart Transplant Recipients Carol Kao NIH/University of Alabama at Birmingham CPIC Pilot: Staphylococcus aureus a-toxin antibody response in maternal-infant dyads Melissa […]
New employees February 2023
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
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, 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
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
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 […]