2.8.19

1st Year Neonatology Fellows at Women and Infants Hospital/Alpert Medical School

2018-2019

1st Year Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellows

Medical School Pediatric Residency Research Focus

Danielle Kolitz, MD dkolitz@wihri.org

U. Texas School of Med. at San Antonio

Hasbro Children’s Hospital Providence, RI

The Impact of Components of Nutrition on BPD Mentor: Barbara Stonestreet, MD

Giulia Molinaro, DO gmolinaro@wihri.org

Philadelphia Coll. of Osteopathic Medicine

Geisinger Medical Center Danville, PA

Blind Mini-Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Neonates with Ventilator Associated Pneumonia and the Impact on Antibiotic Usage. Mentor: Nicholas Guerina, MD, PhD

Ogochukwu Nwanne, MD onwanne@wihri.org

University of Nigeria Driscoll Children’s Hosp/Texas A&M Corpus Christi, TX

The Impact of Neighborhood Deprivation on the Neurodevelopmental Outcomes on Extreme Preterm Infants

Mentor: Betty Vohr, MD

2.8.19

2nd Year Neonatology Fellows at Women and Infants Hospital/Alpert Medical School

2018-2019

2nd Year Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellows

Medical School Pediatric Residency Research Focus

Anshu Mahadeo, MD amahadeo@wihri.org

SSR Medical College Belle Rive, Phoenix, Mauritius

Driscoll Children’s Hospital Corpus Christi, TX

The Role of Chitinase 3-like 1 (Chi3L1) in Chorioamnionitis and Prevention of Preterm Labor Mentor: Juan Sanchez-Esteban, MD

Julia Mayne, MD jmayne@wihri.org

Albany Medical College Albany, NY

Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Township, NJ

Bridging Connections: A Language Intervention Study of Preterm Infants in the NICU Mentor: Betty Vohr, MD

Jenna Mennella, DO jmennella@wihri.org

Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine New York, NY

Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital Valhalla, NY

Markers of PPROM in Serum and Fetal Membranes Mentor: Beatrice Lechner, MD

3rd Year Neonatology Fellows at Women and Infants Hospital/Alpert Medical School

2018-2019

3rd Year Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellows

Medical School Pediatric Residency Research Focus

Caty Buck, MD cobuck@wihri.org

University of CT School of Medicine Farmington, CT

Southwestern Children’s Hospital Dallas, TX Chief Resident: 2015-16

1. Prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), infant birthweight, and adipocytokines: The HOME Study

2. Prenatal Exposure to Stressful Life Events and Infant Breastfeeding: Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring Study

3. Neonatal Adipocytokines and Growth during Childhood Mentor: Joseph Braun, PhD

Ravi D’Cruz, MD rdcruz@wihri.org

Alpert Medical School of Brown University Providence, RI

Hasbro Children’s Hospital Providence, RI

Trained as an architect prior to medical school, Dr. D’Cruz is most interested in the impact of design on health. To this end, he is currently engaged in two primary capacities: 1. Clinical Director of the "Design + Health" class, studying:

The implications of a multidisciplinary collaboration between Alpert Medical and Rhode Island School of Design students as they work to identify and solve issues in NICU care through design interventions.

2. "Primary Clinical Course Advisor": Biomedical Engineering Capstone Project for senior Brown Biomedical Engineering students studying:

Current technology, leading to design and fabrication of novel devices in the NICU. Once designed, our intention is the testing of these prototypes to improve care. We are currently gathering background on success rates and barriers to care for current procedures, and will use this data to compare new interventions in the coming years.

Mentor: Elisabeth McGowan, MD

Ashish Gupta, MD akgupta@wihri.org

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College Jabalpur, India

St. Peter’s University Hospital New Brunswick, NJ

1. CPAP vs. Unsynchronized NIPPV at Equal MAP 2. Survey of Ventilation Practices in the USA and Canada 3. Use of Whole Exome Sequencing to Diagnose a Rare Case of Congenital

Diarrhea in a Newborn 4. Bench evaluation of NICU and non-NICU ventilators using an active lung model

(ASL 5000) Mentor: Martin Keszler, MD Updated: 2.8.19

3rd Year Neonatology Fellows at Women and Infants Hospital/Alpert Medical School –

2017-2018

3rd

Year Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellows

Medical School Pediatric Residency Research Focus

Jamie Fierce, MD jfierce@wihri.org

Tufts University School of Medicine Boston, MA

Hasbro Children’s Hospital Providence, RI

1. The role of protein aggregation and misfolding in preeclampsia 2. Early markers of preeclampsia Mentor: Surendra Sharma, Ph.D., MD (Hon.)

Justin Goldstein, MD jrgoldstein@wihri.org

Sackler School of Medicine Tel Aviv, Israel

University of Rochester Rochester, NY

1. Accurately measuring and delivering consistent tidal volumes during volume-targeted high frequency ventilation.

2. Evaluating the level and effect of ambient noise produced by high-frequency neonatal ventilators in a single-family room NICU

3. Using an advanced neonatal test lung to model the physiologic effects of multiple high-frequency ventilators.

Mentor: Martin Keszler, MD

Ed Hurley, MD ehurley@wihri.org

New York Medical College Valhalla, NY

Hasbro Children’s Hospital Providence, RI

1. The perinatal hepatic transcriptome 2. Effect of growth restriction on hepatic gene expression in the perinatal period Mentor: Philip Gruppuso, MD