KL2 Scholars

KL2 scholars complete a rigorous training program that guarantees exposure to a wide range of clinical and translational research methods in both classroom and experiential settings.

Current KL2 Scholars

  • Ashley Blanchard, MD, MSc

    • Assistant Professor, Pediatrics in Emergency Medicine
    • Project: Lock and Protect: Randomized Controlled Trial to Reduce Adolescent Access to Lethal Means of Suicide
    Ashley Blanchard, MD, MSc

  • Yongmei Huang, MD, DrPH, MPH

    • Assistant Professor of Reproductive Sciences (in Obstetrics and Gynecology)
    • Project: Optimizing the Treatment of Gynecologic Cancer Patients with Opioid Use Disorder

  • Elizabeth Park, MD, MSC

    • Assistant Professor of Medicine
    • Project: Identifying Meaningful Quality Measures for use in Pediatric Equity Measurement

  • Avesh Thuluvath, MD, MS

    • Assistant Professor of Medicine
    • Project: The Development of a Novel Clinical Risk Prediction Model for Frailty in End-Stage Liver Disease

KL2 Scholar Graduates

  • Marwah Abdalla, MD, MPH: Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Masked Hypertension
  • Melissa Accordino, MD: SWOG 1703CD: Randomized Multicenter Trial Comparing Tumor Marker Directed Diesase Monitoring Versus Usual Care in the Monitoring of Metastatic Hormone Receptor Positive Breast Cancer Patients
  • Roy Alcalay, MD, MS: The Role of Glucocerebrosidase in Parkinson Disease
  • Carmela Alcantara, PhD, MA: Prognostic Risk of Sleep Deficiency After Acute Coronary Syndrome
  • Brett Anderson, MD, MBA, MS: Effects of Surgeon Technical Skill on Outcome and Resource Utilization for Children with Congenital Heart Disease
  • Neeraj Badjatia, MD: Metabolic Impact of Therapeutic Normothermia after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
  • Matthew Baldwin, MD, MS: Improving Critical Illness Survivorship for Older Adults
  • Scott Barbuto, MD, PhD: Effects of Exercise Training on Degenerative Cerebellar Disease
  • Melissa Beauchemin, PhD, MSN: Characterizing and Mitigating Financial toxicity in Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer
  • Natalie Bello, MD, MPH: Relaxing and Subsequent Hypertension Risk in Women with a History of Pregnancy Induced Hypertension
  • Whitney Booker, MD, MS: Oral Nifedipine versus Intravenous Labetalol for Postpartum Hypertensive Emergency: A Randomized Clinical Trial
  • Allegra Broft, MD: Bulimia Nervosa and Dopamine - A link to addictions?
  • Jiook Cha, PhD: A Developmental Neuroimaging Study of Fear Generalization and Pediatric Anxiety
  • Bernard Chang, MD, MPH: Test of an Alternative Emergency Department Management Strategy for TIA and Minor Stroke Patients; an Explanatory and Guideline-Relevant RCT to Reduce PTSD after TIA and Minor Stroke
  • Lauren Chernick, MD: A personalized interactive text message intervention to improve the reproductive health of young adolescent female
  • Hyunmi Choi, MD, MS: A Prospective Study to Improve Epilepsy Management Utilizing Decision Analysis
  • Catherine Clelland, PhD: Association of GCH1 with Schizophrenia: Genetic and Functional Analysis and Novel Treatment Strategies
  • Eileen Connolly, MD, PhD, MS: Utilizing Combined Chemoradiation Therapy to Improve the Locoregional Control of Locally Advanced Triple Negative Breast Cancer
  • Talea Cornelius, PhD, MSW: Reactions to Acute Care and Hospitalization
  • Katherine Crew, MD: Vitamin D and Breast Cancer Risk and Survival
  • Thuy-Tien Dam, MD: Hormonal Mediators of Body Composition and Frailty Transitions
  • Peter Dayan, MD, MS: Multicenter ED Study of Children with Apparently Unprovoked Seizures
  • Katherine Dimitropoulou, PhD, OTR/L: Adaptive motor decisions in response to task demands in children with Cerebral Palsy Hemiplegia
  • Andrea Duran, PhD, MPhil, MS: Implementing Telehealth-enhanced Hybrid Cardiac Rehabilitation among Acute Coronary Syndrome Survivors: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
  • Christina Eckhardt, MD, MS: Role of extracellular vesicle-encapsulated microRNAs in interstitial lung disease
  • Andrew Einstein, MD, PhD: Estimating and Reducing Radiation Risk in Cardiac Imaging
  • Lisa Eisler, MD: Predicting and Improving Management of Allogeneic Transfusion in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Spine Surgery
  • Rob Eschmann, PhD: An Investigation of the Effects of Racism on Health and Wellbeing, Protective Mechanisms, and a Technology-based Intervention
  • Cristina Fernandez, MD, MPH, FAAP: Associations between prenatal food insecurity and inadequate physical activity and feeding practices, cardiac autonomic function, and emotional regulation to stress in high-risk infants
  • Hilda Fernandez, MD: Genomic Disorders, CKD, and Neurocognitive Status in Children
  • Daniel Freedberg, MD, MS: Adverse Effects of Proton Pump Inhibitors on the Gastrointestinal Health of Children
  • Kathleen Friel, PhD: Mechanisms of Cerebral Palsy Recovery Induced by Balancing Motor Cortex Activity
  • Jemima Frimpong, PhD, MPH: Workplace Diversity in Substance Abuse Treatment Programs and Disparities in Patient Outcomes
  • Arthur (Reshad) Garan, MD: Optimizing Function of Cardiac Rhythm Devices in Patients Supported by Left Ventricular
  • Robyn Gartrell, MD: Establishing key characteristics of the tumor immune microenvironment to allow for personalized immunotherapy of pediatric high-grade glioma
  • Yevgeniya Gartshteyn, MD: The Hidden Enemy: Uncovering the role of SAP positive T cells in Lupus Nephritis
  • Andrew Geneslaw, MD, MS: Neurodevelopmental and mental health outcomes after severe childhood respiratory illness: a longitudinal, electronic health record-based study
  • Ragy Girgis, MD, MS: Antipsychotic Binding to the D3 and D2 Receptors in Schizophrenia: a PET study using 11<-(+)-PHNO
  • Angela Gomez-Simmonds, MD: Elucidating transmission of plasmids harboring blaKPC among carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae using a combined bacterial genomics and epidemiologic approach
  • Heather Greenlee, ND, PhD: Effects of Coenzyme Q10 on Preventing Cardiotoxicity in Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Doxorubicin Treatment
  • Thomas Hays, MD, PhD: Genetic Contribution to Small for Gestational Age (SGA) birth and Severe Illness in SGA Preterm Infants
  • Quan Hoang, MD, PhD: Pathologic Myopia: Natural History and Novel Approaches in Therapy
  • Guillermo Horga, MD: Neural Mechanisms of Sensory Predictions in Schizophrenia with Hallucinations
  • Syed Husain, MD, MPH: Preventing Deceased Donor Kidney Discard by Improving Organ Quality Assessment
  • Vaidehi Jobanputra, PhD: High Resolution Genomic Microarrays for Genotype-Phenotype Correlations of Constitutional Chromosome Abnormalities
  • Justine Kahn, MD, MS: Leveraging Tumor Registry and Consortium Data to Examine Cancer Care and Survival Disparities in Adolescent and Young Adult Hodgkin Lymphoma
  • Kevin Kalinsky, MD, MS: Monitoring Neoadjuvant Anti-Angiogenics in Breast Cancer with Optical Tomography
  • Minjae Kim, MD, MS: Improving Risk Prediction of Perioperative Morbidity and Mortality: Role of Intraoperative Variables
  • Krzysztof Kiryluk, MD: Genetic Determinants of IgA1 Glycosylation Defects in IgA Nephropathy (IgAN)
  • Kristen Klemenhagen, PhD: Cognitive and Emotional Pattern Separation: A Possible Therapeutic Target for Anxiety and Depression
  • Jerard Kneifati-Hayek, MD, MS: Develop Real-Time Automated Measures to Detect Diagnostic Imaging Order Errors and Investigate Underlying Factors
  • Benjamin Lebwohl, MD, MS: Quality Issues in the Diagnosis of Celiac Disease
  • David Lederer, MD, MS: Explaining Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
  • Teresa Lee, MD, MS: Identification of Novel Genetic Causes of Infantile Cardiomyopathy
  • Deborah Levy, MD, MS: Neurocognitive Function in Childhood-onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (cSLE)
  • Nadia A. Liyanage-Don, MD: Remote Monitoring and Feedback Intervention to Improve Inhaler Adherence in COPD
  • Sheng-fu Lo, MD, MHS: Development of Patient-Derived Xenograft Models of Chordomas in Humanized Mice to Investigate in Vivo Effect of Immunotherapy: A step toward Precision Medicine in Chordoma Treatment
  • Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir, MD: The Impact of Physical Activity Level on Environmental and Epigenetic Mechanisms in Asthma
  • Jonathan Lu, MD: Measurement of Cardiac Repolarization Reserve Using Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
  • Matthew Maurer, MD: Tensirolimus, Erlotinib, and Cisplatin Combined to Treat Triple Negative Breast Cancer Patients
  • Julia McGuinness, MD: Deep learning mammographic evaluations to refine breast cancer risk prediction
  • Alexander Melamed, MD, MPH: A predictive model to identify ovarian cancer patients who will benefit from neoadjuvant chemotherapy
  • Caleb Miles, PhD: Personalizing treatment decisions and understanding causal mechanisms for functional and occupational outcomes among patients with schizophrenia
  • Eliza Miller, MD: Modifiers of Long Term Cerebrovascular Risk in Women with History of Preeclampsia: The California Teachers Study
  • Fatemeh Momen-Heravi, DDS, PhD, MPH, MS: Extracellular vesicle-mediated immune modulation in oral squamous cell carcinoma
  • Imama Ali Naqvi, MD: Integrated Telehealth After Stroke Care (iTASC): a pilot randomized controlled trial
  • Katherine Nash, MD, MHS: Identifying Meaningful Quality Measures for use in Pediatric Equity Measurement
  • Jordan Nestor, MD: Physician Utilization of Genomic services in Nephrology Through Clinical Decision Support Tools
  • Thomas Nickolas, MD: Bone Quality and Mechanical Competence in Chronic Kidney Disease
  • Paul Oberstein, MD: The impact of physical activity level on environmental and epigenetic mechanisms in asthma
  • Christopher Ochner, PhD: Changes in Brain Activation and Appetite-Related Hormones following Bariatric Surgery for Obesity
  • Gabrielle Page-Wilson, MD: Utilization of Proopiomelanocortin and Agouti-related Protein ELISAs for the Differential Diagnosis and Evaluation of ACTH-dependent Cushing’s syndrome
  • Sameer Patel, MD: Improving Vancomycin Use in Hospitalized Children
  • Lynn Petukhova, MS, PhD: eMERGE Part I: Columbia GENIE Biobank Construction
  • Ohemaa Poku, PhD, MPH: Promoting Help Seeking Behaviors for Black and Latinx Adolescents and Young Adults Affected by HIV and Mental Health Challenges: The Role of Stigma, Inequities, and Resilience
  • Gissette Reyes-Soffer, MD: Understanding the Regulation and Metabolism of Ip(a) Levels, an Understudied Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease
  • Dana Sacco, MD: DEtecting FENtanyl to Decrease ovERdose (DEFENDER)
  • J. Michael Schmidt, PhD: Prediction of Delayed Cerebral Ischemia after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage using Multivariate Time Series Classification Models
  • Rebecca Schnall, RN, PhD: Using Queuing Theory to Improve HIV Testing in the Emergency Department
  • Scott Schobel, MD: Testing Novel Mechanisms of Antipsychotic Therapy With High-resolution Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Humans and Mouse Models of Disease
  • Rachel Shelton, PhD, MPH: Treatment Decision-Making among Stage II Colorectal Cancer Patients
  • Abby Siegel, MD: NASH, Metabolic Syndrome, and HCC Outcomes
  • Aviva Sopher, MD, MS: Effect of Metformin on IR, NAFLD and Body Composition in Adolescents with PCOS
  • Marisa Spann, PhD, MPH: Early Brain Networks of Attention and Language as Precursors to Childhood Neuropsychiatric Disorders
  • Alexandra Sporn, MD: Neurocircuitry of Autism Spectrum Disorders: fMRI and TMS studies
  • Meghna Trivedi, MD: Patient and Physician Knowledge, Attitudes, and Expectations of Genomic Testing to Inform Treatment Decisions for Advanced Cancer
  • Badri Vardarajan, PhD, MS: Whole exome sequencing in Caribbean Hispanic families to identify coding variants in Alzheimer's disease
  • Elizabeth Verna, MD, MS: Serum Lipopolysaccharide Measurement to Predict Hepatic Fibrosis in Liver Transplant Recipients with Hepatitis
  • Ismee Williams, MD, MS: Prenatal Effects of Congenital Heart Disease on Neurodevelopmental Outcome
  • Jennifer Woo Baidal, MD, MPH: Accelerating Point-of-Care Testing to Diagnose Pediatric Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
  • Hannah Wunsch, MD, MSc: Evaluation of the Utility of Head CTs in General Medical and Surgical Intensive Care Patients
  • Siqin Ye, MD, MS: Patient Health Information Preference and Statin Therapy
  • Angela Yoon, DDS, MPH: Biomarkers for Non-Invasive Oral Cancer Screening
  • Brett Youngerman, MD, MS: Use of Recommended Evaluation for Surgery in Patients with Drug-Resistant Epilepsy: An Administrative Claims and Electronic Medical Record Study
  • Yiyi Zhang, PhD, MS: Optimal Atrial Fibrillation Screening Approach in Cryptogenic Stroke Patients
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