Kimberly Grelli, MD
Research Mentor: Dawn Gano, MD, MAS
Work Product: Association of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia with White Matter Injury and Neurodevelopmental Performance in Preterm Infants
Current Position: East Bay Newborn Group
Katherine Wu, MD
Research Mentor: Emin Maltepe, MD
Work Product: Birth Asphyxia Model for Development of Neurotherapeutics
Current Position: East Bay Newborn Group
Elizabeth Crouch, MD
Research Mentor: Eric Huang, MD, PhD
Work Product: Common progenitors in the ventricular zone of the developing human brain have angiogenic and neurogenic potential
Current Position: UCSF
Katsuaki Kojima
Research Mentor: Edward F. Chang, MD
Work Product: Evoked responses underlying speech envelope tracking
Current Position: Cinninnati Children's Hospital
Rachael Beckert, MD, RD
Research Mentor: Elizabeth Rogers, MD, Laura Jelliffe, PhD and Sue Rhee, MD
Work product: Maternal Anemia and Pregnancy Outcomes: A Population-Based Study
Current position: Neonatologist at Kaiser San Francisco
Ernesto Gonzalez, MD
Research mentor: Anita Moon-Grady, MD (Pediatric Cardiology)
Work product: Practice and Utility of Genetic Testing Practices in Infants with Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease
Current position: Attending, Good Samaritan Hospital
Annie Fang, MD
Research mentor: Dawn Gano, MD (Child Neurology)
Work product: Patterns of Injury and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in a Prospective Cohort of Neonatal Encephalopathy
Current position: Attending, Kaiser Oakland
Emily Stieren, MD, PhD
Research mentor: Peter Walter, PhD (Biochemistry and Biophysics)
Work product: Mechanisms of Creb3L1 Activation and Trafficking During Development
Current position: Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCSF
Nicole Weiss, MD
Research mentor: Tom Newman, MD, MPH (Epidemiology & Biostatistics)
Work product: Early Screening for Hereditary Spherocytosis (HS) in a Population of Jaundiced Neonates
Current position: Attending, Kaiser Santa Clara
James Anderson, MD
Research mentor: Elizabeth Rogers, MD
Work product: Resuscitation, Survival and Major Morbidity of 22-24 Week Infants Born in California
Current position: Attending, East Bay Newborn Specialists
Melissa Liebowitz, MD
Research mentor: Ron Clyman, MD
Work product: Prophylactic indomethacin compared to delayed management of the patent ductus arteriosus and neonatal morbidity in premature infants < 28 weeks gestation
Current position: Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSF
Melissa Morgan, MD
Research mentor: George Rutherford, MD (Epidemiology & Biostatistics)
Work product: Pulse Oximetry to Guide Oxygen Therapy in Neonates Born at a Resource-Limited Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya
Current position: Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCSF
Kathryn Ponder, MD
Research mentor: Susan Fisher, PhD (Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences)
Work product: Preeclampsia and Inflammatory Preterm Labor Alter the Human Placental Hematopoietic Niche
Current position: Attending, East Bay Newborn Specialists
Lawrence Shiow, MD, PhD
Research mentor: David Rowitch, MD, PhD
Work product: Understanding the Molecular Basis of Neonatal White Matter Injury: Inflammation, Prostaglandins and Wnt Signaling
Current position: Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCSF
Leslie Lusk, MD
Research mentor: Roberta Keller, MD
Work product: Fetal Ultrasound Markers of Severity Predict Resolution of Pulmonary Hypertension in Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
Current position: Attending, East Bay Newborn Specialists
Catherine Rottkamp, MD, PhD
Research mentor: Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD (Neurology)
Work product: Role of Oxygen Tension in OSVZ Oligodendrocyte Differentiation
Current position: Assistant Professor, UC Davis
Luke Judge, MD, PhD
Research mentor: Bruce Conklin, MD (Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease)
Work product: Isolation of single-base genone-edited human iPS cells without antibiotic selection
Current position: Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCSF
Eunice Rhee, MD
Research mentor: Joseph McCune, MD, PhD
Work product: The Study of Immune Layering and Vaccine Effector Response (SILVER)
Current position: Attending, Kaiser Los Angeles
Lisa Bain, MD
Research mentor: Michael Kuzniewicz, MD, MPH
Work product: Factors Associated with Failure to Screen Newborns for Retinopathy of Prematurity
Current position: Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford
Gavin Henderson, MD, PhD
Research mentor: Jennifer Puck, MD
Work product: Interplay Between Single Resistance-Associated Mutations in the HIV-1 Protease and Viral Infectivity, Protease Activity, and Inhibitor Sensitivity
Current position: Attending, Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek
Mark Petersen, MD
Research mentor: Katerina Akassoglou, PhD (Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease)
Work product: Role of Fibrinogen in Neonatal Brain Injury
Current position: Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCSF
Cindy Tran, MD
Research mentor: Joanne Engel, MD PhD (Infectious Disease)
Work product: Decoding bacterial determinants of Pseudomona aeruginosa in call-associated bacterial aggregation and host membrane protrusion formation
Current position: Attending, Kaiser San Francisco
Andrea Wickremasinghe, MD
Research mentor: Tom Newman, MD, MPH (Epidemiology & Biostatistics)
Work product: Black Race is Not Protective Against Hazardous Bilirubin Levels
Current position: Attending, Kaiser Santa Clara
