Researcher Recognition, October 2024

Post Date: October 29, 2024 | Publish Date:

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Congratulations to these Cincinnati Children’s scientists who have recently been recognized in their fields of expertise.

Jennifer Lynn Nicholas Receives AAP’s Dr. Beverly P. Wood Outstanding Pediatric Radiology Clinical Educator Award
Jennifer Lynn Nicholas, MD, MHA, pediatric radiology attending physician in the Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, received the Dr. Beverly P. Wood Outstanding Pediatric Radiology Clinical Educator Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Radiology’s Committee on Continuing Medical Education. She is also the Chief of Pediatric Ultrasound and an associate professor in the UC Department of Radiology.

Selena Hariharan Receives AAP’s Women in Pediatric Emergency Medicine Award for Excellence in Advancement of Gender Equity
Selena Hariharan, MD, MHSA, attending physician in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, received the Women in Pediatric Emergency Medicine Award for Excellence in Advancement of Gender Equity from the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine.

Scott Callahan and Andy Beck Honored as Doctors of the Year by Aubrey Rose Foundation
Both Scott Callahan, MD, medical director, Complex Care Center, and staff physician III, General and Community Pediatrics, and Andy Beck, MD, MPH, director, Population Health/Health Equity Research and Innovation, Office of Population Health and Michael Fisher Child Health Equity Center, and an attending physician in the divisions of General & Community Pediatrics and Hospital Medicine, have been named two of the top doctors of the year by the Aubrey Rose Foundation. This annual award recognizes physicians whose dedication, talents, and skills have improved the lives of numerous childhood patients.

Ndate Fall Receives MSJ Distinguished Nurse Researcher Award
Ndate Fall, PhD, MS, RN, associate staff scientist, Heart Institute and Patient Services Research, received the 2024 Distinguished Nurse Researcher Award from Mount St. Joseph University. She was presented the award at the 29th Leadership in Nursing Awards ceremony on October 9 at the Drees Pavilion.

Angelique Gloster Waller Awarded Gaskins Foundation’s Healthcare Professional of the Year
Angelique Gloster Waller, MD, staff physician III in the Community Health Services Network, received the Gaskins Foundation’s 2024 Healthcare Professional of the Year Award. She is part of the Division of General and Community Pediatrics.

Sheila Angeles-Han Appointed to the Advisory Scientific Committee of the Arthritis National Research Foundation
Sheila Angeles-Han, MD, has been appointed to the Advisory Scientific Committee of the Arthritis National Research Foundation (ANRF). The ANRF funds young investigators researching the causes and treatments of various forms of arthritis. As grant applications increase annually, the committee reviews applications and advises the Board of Directors on research trends and clinical treatments to shape the future of the foundation.

Benjamin Wissel Awarded the 2024 Epilepsia Prize for Clinical Research
Benjamin Wissel, MD, PhD, a recent Medical Scientist Training Program graduate, was awarded the 2024 Epilepsia Prize in Clinical Research for his article “Automated, Machine Learning-Based Alerts Increase Epilepsy Surgery Referrals: A Randomized Controlled Trial.” Supported by the International League Against Epilepsy, the prize is awarded for a paper of exceptional quality that constitutes an important contribution to clinical or experimental epilepsy. Read an interview with Wissel reflecting on this award.

Cincinnati Children’s Residency Programs Ranked Among The Best in the U.S.
Three residency programs at Cincinnati Children’s again have been ranked among the best in the country for clinical experience for their specialties by Doximity’s 2024-2025 Residency Navigator. For the first time ever, Cincinnati Children’s and UC’s Medicine/Pediatrics (Med-Peds) Residency Program was ranked No. 1 in the country.

Ranked No. 3 in the country are the Child Neurology and Pediatrics residency programs, which received the same rankings in 2023-2024. All three programs were also ranked No. 1 in the Midwest and Ohio by Doximity.

Recent Grants

The following researchers received grants near or above $1 million from July 1 to Aug. 30, 2024.

Mihir Atreya, MD, MPH, attending physician in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and assistant professor, received a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of General Medicine Sciences to study translational approaches to unravel organ-specific microvascular endothelial responses in sepsis. Read more.

Nurit Azouz, PhD, assistant professor, Allergy and Immunology, received a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to study mechanisms of aryl hydrocarbon receptor control of eosinophilic esophagitis. Read more.

Alister Bates, PhD, assistant professor, Pulmonary Medicine, received a five-year, $3.9 million grant from the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute for his study, “Calculating the Components of Work of Breathing in Neonates with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia.” Read more.

Cristina Cebrian, PhD, assistant professor, Developmental Biology, received a five-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to study cyst induction and growth in ADPKD. Read more.

Lee Denson, MD, director, Schubert-Martin Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, and professor, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, received a three-year, $2 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study dosing and pilot efficacy of 2′-Fucosyllactose in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Read more.

Amie Duncan, PhD, psychologist, Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, and associate professor, received a five-year, $3.2 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study RCT of a daily living skills intervention for autistic adolescents prior to the transition to adulthood. Read more.

Marie-Dominique Filippi, PhD, professor, Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, and director, Comprehensive Mouse and Cancer Core, received a four-year, $2.6 million grant from the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute to study regulatory mechanisms of hematopoietic stem cell functions post-transplant. Read more.

Peter Margolis, MD, PhD, co-director, James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence, and professor, received a three-year, $1.1 million grant from ImproveCareNow, Inc., to implement the COMBINE Trail Results in the ImproveCareNow Learning Health Network.

Douglas Millay, PhD, associate professor, Molecular and Cardiovascular Biology, received a five-year, $2.6 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to study the development and optimization of skeletal muscle delivery vehicles. Read more.

Nathan Pajor, MD, instructor, Pulmonary Medicine, received a two-year, $1 million grant from Janssen Research & Development for a real-world disease course study of infants from HDFN-affected pregnancies.

Jeremy Rubinstein, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Oncology, received a five-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute to study Allogeneic virus-specific T-cell therapy after hematopoietic stem cell transplant: determinants of treatment success and failure. Read more.

Ying Sun, PhD, professor, Human Genetics, received a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to study systemic enzyme delivery by a brain targeted SapC-DOPS nanocarrier for treatment of Neuronopathic Gaucher Disease. Read more.

Leanne Tamm, PhD, co-director of the Center for ADHD, and professor, Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, received a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study parsing neurobiological bases of heterogeneity in ADHD. Jeffery Epstein, PhD, director of the Center for ADHD, is also listed as a PI. Read more.

Matthew Weirauch, PhD, member, Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, and professor, Human Genetics, Biomedical Informatics, and Developmental Biology, received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute to study CisBP and CisBP-RNA: web resources for protein-DNA and protein-RNA binding models. Read more.

Susanne Wells, PhD, director, Epithelial Carcinogenesis and Stem Cell Program, and professor, Oncology, received a five-year, $2.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study HPV and host factors in juvenile onset recurrent respiratory papillomatosis. David Smith, MD, PhD, faculty member, Pulmonary Medicine, is also listed as a PI. Read more.