KL2 Scholars

2025

Melissa Beauchemin, PhD, MSN: Characterizing and Mitigating Financial toxicity in Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer

Nadia Liyanage-Don, MD: Remote Monitoring and Feedback Intervention to Improve Inhaler Adherence in COPD

Julia McGuinness, MD: Deep learning mammographic evaluations to refine breast cancer risk prediction

2024

Christina Eckhardt, MD, MS: Role of extracellular vesicle-encapsulated microRNAs in interstitial lung disease

Rob Eschmann, PhD: An Investigation of the Effects of Racism on Health and Wellbeing, Protective Mechanisms, and a Technology-based Intervention

Andrew Geneslaw, MD, MS: Neurodevelopmental and mental health outcomes after severe childhood respiratory illness: a longitudinal, electronic health record-based study

Brett Youngerman, MD, MS: Use of Recommended Evaluation for Surgery in Patients with Drug-Resistant Epilepsy: An Administrative Claims and Electronic Medical Record Study

 

2023

Andrea T. Duran, PhD, MPhil, MS: Implementing Telehealth-enhanced Hybrid Cardiac Rehabilitation among Acute Coronary Syndrome Survivors: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Lisa Eisler, MD: Predicting and Improving Management of Allogeneic Transfusion in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Spine Surgery

Cristina R. Fernández, 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

Thomas Hays, MD, PhD: Genetic Contribution to Small for Gestational Age (SGA) birth and Severe Illness in SGA Preterm Infants

Caleb Miles, PhD: Personalizing treatment decisions and understanding causal mechanisms for functional and occupational outcomes among patients with schizophrenia

Fatemeh (Flora) Momen-Heravi, DDS, PhD, MPH, MS: Extracellular vesicle-mediated immune modulation in oral squamous cell carcinoma

Imama A. Naqvi, MD: Integrated Telehealth After Stroke Care (iTASC): a pilot randomized controlled trial

 

2022

Talea M. Cornelius, PhD, MSW: Reactions to Acute Care and Hospitalization

Alexander Melamed, MD, MPH: A predictive model to identify ovarian cancer patients who will benefit from neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Jordan Nestor, MD: Physician Utilization of Genomic services in Nephrology Through Clinical Decision Support Tools

2021

Scott Barbuto, MD, PhD: Effects of Exercise Training on Degenerative Cerebellar Disease

Syed Husain, MD, MPH:  Preventing Deceased Donor Kidney Discard by Improving Organ Quality Assessment

Yiyi Zhang, PhD, MS: Optimal Atrial Fibrillation Screening Approach in Cryptogenic Stroke Patients

2020

Robyn Gartrell-Corrado, MD: Establishing key characteristics of the tumor immune microenvironment to allow for personalized immunotherapy of pediatric high-grade glioma

Katherine Dimitropoulou, PhD, OTR/L: Adaptive motor decisions in response to task demands in children with Cerebral Palsy Hemiplegia

Justine Kahn, MD, MS: Leveraging Tumor Registry and Consortium Data to Examine Cancer Care and Survival Disparities in Adolescent and Young Adult Hodgkin Lymphoma

Minjae Kim, MD, MS: Improving Risk Prediction of Perioperative Morbidity and Mortality: Role of Intraoperative Variables

Lynn M. Petukhova, MS, PhD: eMERGE Part I: Columbia GENIE Biobank Construction

Meghna Trivedi, MD: Patient and Physician Knowledge, Attitudes, and Expectations of Genomic Testing to Inform Treatment Decisions for Advanced Cancer

 

2019

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

Hilda Fernandez, MD: Genomic Disorders, CKD, and Neurocognitive Status in Children

Eliza Miller: Modifiers of Long Term Cerebrovascular Risk in Women with History of Preeclampsia: The California Teachers Study

 

2018

Marwah Abdalla, MD, MPH: Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Masked Hypertension

Natalie Bello, MD, MPH: Relaxing and Subsequent Hypertension Risk in Women with a History of Pregnancy Induced Hypertension

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 S. Chernick, MD: A personalized interactive text message intervention to improve the reproductive health of young adolescent female

Arthur R. Garan, MD: Optimizing Function of Cardiac Rhythm Devices in Patients Supported by Left Ventricular

Angela Gomez-Simmonds: Elucidating transmission of plasmids harboring blaKPC among carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae using a combined bacterial genomics and epidemiologic approach

 

2017

Brett Anderson, MD, MBA, MS: Effects of Surgeon Technical Skill on Outcome and Resource Utilization for Children with Congenital Heart Disease

Eileen Connolly, MD, PhD, MS: Utilizing Combined Chemoradiation Therapy to Improve the Locoregional Control of Locally Advanced Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Sheng-fu (Larry) 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

Paul Oberstein, MD: The impact of physical activity level on environmental and epigenetic mechanisms in asthma

Gissette Reyes-Soffer, MD: Understanding the Regulation and Metabolism of Ip(a) Levels, an Understudied Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease

Marisa Spann, PhD, MPH: Early Brain Networks of Attention and Language as Precursors to Childhood Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Jennifer Woo Baidal, MD, MPH: Accelerating Point-of-Care Testing to Diagnose Pediatric Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

 

2016

Jiook Cha, PhD: A Developmental Neuroimaging Study of Fear Generalization and Pediatric Anxiety

Kristen Klemenhagen, PhD: Cognitive and Emotional Pattern Separation: A Possible Therapeutic Target for Anxiety and Depression

Badri Vardarajan, PhD, MS: Whole exome sequencing in Caribbean Hispanic families to identify coding variants in Alzheimer's disease

Teresa Lee, MD, MS: Identification of Novel Genetic Causes of Infantile Cardiomyopathy

Daniel Freedberg, MD, MS: Adverse Effects of Proton Pump Inhibitors on the Gastrointestinal Health of Children

 

2015

Carmela Alcantara, PhD, MA: Prognostic Risk of Sleep Deficiency After Acute Coronary Syndrome

Aviva Sopher, MD, MS: Effect of Metformin on IR, NAFLD and Body Composition in Adolescents with PCOS

Kevin Kalinsky, MD, MS: Monitoring Neoadjuvant Anti-Angiogenics in Breast Cancer with Optical Tomography

Gabrielle Page-Wilson, MD: Utilization of Proopiomelanocortin and Agouti-related Protein ELISAs for the Differential Diagnosis and Evaluation of ACTH-dependent Cushing’s syndrome

Ragy Girgis, MD, MS: Antipsychotic Binding to the D3 and D2 Receptors in Schizophrenia: a PET study using 11<-(+)-PHNO

 

2014

Siqin Ye, MD, MS: Patient Health Information Preference and Statin Therapy

Matthew Baldwin, MD, MS: Improving Critical Illness Survivorship for Older Adults

Guillermo Horga, MD: Neural Mechanisms of Sensory Predictions in Schizophrenia with Hallucinations

Quan Hoang, MD, PhD: Pathologic Myopia: Natural History and Novel Approaches in Therapy

Jemima Frimpong, PhD, MPH: Workplace Diversity in Substance Abuse Treatment Programs and Disparities in Patient Outcomes

Rebecca Schnall, RN, PhD: Using Queuing Theory to Improve HIV Testing in the Emergency Department

 

2013

Benjamin Lebwohl, MD, MS: Quality Issues in the Diagnosis of Celiac Disease

Rachel Shelton, PhD, MPH: Treatment Decision-Making among Stage II Colorectal Cancer Patients

Elizabeth Verna, MD, MS: Serum Lipopolysaccharide Measurement to Predict Hepatic Fibrosis in Liver Transplant Recipients with Hepatitis

 

2012

J. Michael Schmidt, MD: Prediction of Delayed Cerebral Ischemia after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage using Multivariate Time Series Classification Models

Matthew Maurer, MD: Tensirolimus, Erlotinib, and Cisplatin Combined to Treat Triple Negative Breast Cancer Patients

Christopher Ochner, PhD: Changes in Brain Activation and Appetite-Related Hormones following Bariatric Surgery for Obesity

Jonathan Lu, MD: Measurement of Cardiac Repolarization Reserve Using Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

 

2011

Andrew Einstein, MD, PhD: Estimating and Reducing Radiation Risk in Cardiac Imaging

Roy Alcalay, MD, MS: The Role of Glucocerebrosidase in Parkinson Disease

Thuy-Tien Dam, MD: Hormonal Mediators of Body Composition and Frailty Transitions

Sameer Patel, MD: Improving Vancomycin Use in Hospitalized Children

Scott Schobel, MD: Testing Novel Mechanisms of Antipsychotic Therapy With High-resolution Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Humans and Mouse Models of Disease

 

2010

Abby Siegel, MD: NASH, Metabolic Syndrome, and HCC Outcomes

Krzysztof Kiryluk, MD: Genetic Determinants of IgA1 Glycosylation Defects in IgA Nephropathy (IgAN)

Hannah Wunsch, MD, MSc: Evaluation of the Utility of Head CTs in General Medical and Surgical Intensive Care Patients

Catherine Clelland, PhD: Association of GCH1 with Schizophrenia: Genetic and Functional Analysis and Novel Treatment Strategies

 

2009

Angela Yoon, DDS, MPH: Biomarkers for Non-Invasive Oral Cancer Screening

Alexandra Sporn, MD: Neurocircuitry of Autism Spectrum Disorders: fMRI and TMS studies

Ismee Williams, MD, MS: Prenatal Effects of Congenital Heart Disease on Neurodevelopmental Outcome

Vaidehi Jobanputra, PhD: High Resolution Genomic Microarrays for Genotype-Phenotype Correlations of Constitutional Chromosome Abnormalities

Kathleen Friel, PhD: Mechanisms of Cerebral Palsy Recovery Induced by Balancing Motor Cortex Activity

Heather Greenlee, ND, PhD: Effects of Coenzyme Q10 on Preventing Cardiotoxicity in Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Doxorubicin Treatment

Neeraj Badjatia, MD: Metabolic Impact of Therapeutic Normothermia after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

 

2008

Allegra Broft, MD: Bulimia Nervosa and Dopamine - A link to addictions?

Hyunmi Choi, MD, MS: A Prospective Study to Improve Epilepsy Management Utilizing Decision Analysis

Katherine Crew, MD: Vitamin D and Breast Cancer Risk and Survival

Peter Dayan, MD, MS: Multicenter ED Study of Children with Apparently Unprovoked Seizures

David Lederer, MD, MS: Explaining Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Thomas Nickolas, MD: Bone Quality and Mechanical Competence in Chronic Kidney Disease

 

2007

Deborah Levy, MD, MS: Neurocognitive Function in Childhood-onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (cSLE)