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Atu Agawu, MD, MPH, MSCE (Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition)

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KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholar

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Characterizing Facilitators of and Barriers to Central Line Care Amongst Children with Intestinal Failure Requiring Home Parenteral Nutrition.

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Alison M. Cogan, PhD, OTR/L (Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy)

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KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholar

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Designing Precision Rehabilitation for Post-acute Care (PRe-PAC)

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Jeanine Hall, MD, MPH (Emergency and Transport Medicine)

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KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholar

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Post Emergency Department Access to Care for Headaches

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Albert Han, MD, PhD (Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery)

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KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholar

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Defining the role of cancer-associated fibroblasts in HPV+ oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma

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Jeanine Yonashiro-Cho, PhD (Family Medicine)

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Dementia Caregiving Practices in Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Communities: Improving Caregiving Outcomes Through Culturally-Tailored Interventions

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Isaac Asante, BPharm, MS, PhD (Ophthalmology)

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KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholar

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Docosahexaenoic acid Metabolic Dysregulation in APOE4 Carriers and its Role in the Development of Alzheimer's Disease

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Melissa Bent, MD (Orthopedic Surgery)

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Promoting Physical Activity for Children with Ambulatory Cerebral Palsy using Augmented Reality

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Taylor Burkholder, MD, MPH (Emergency Medicine)

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Evaluating the implementation of the WHO Emergency Care Toolkit in Zambia

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Bridgid Conn, PhD (Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine)

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KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholar

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Developing an Intervention Model to Address Chronic, Severe Mental Health Symptoms Among Transgender and Non-Binary Adolescents and Young Adults

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Jessica Sheth Bhutada, MD, MS (Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation)

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KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholar

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Determining Modifiable Risk Factors for Metastatic Gastric Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults

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Tiffany M. Abramson, MD (Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Medicine)

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Exploring the intersection of persons experiencing homelessness and emergency medical services: patient and provider perspectives

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Adam C. Frank, MD, PhD (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences)

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Utilization of machine learning approaches on multimodal and ambulatory data to characterize obsessive-compulsive disorder and predict treatment response.

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Ani A. Kardashian, MD (Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, Medicine)

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Food insecurity, food “deserts,” and the risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in women with HIV

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Xenos L. Mason, MD (Neurological Surgery and Neurology)

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KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholar

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Connectomic neuroimaging biomarkers of response to deep brain stimulation in dystonia

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Pradip Chaudhari, MD (Pediatric Emergency and Transport Medicine)

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Repeat neuroimaging in children with intracranial hemorrhage after traumatic brain injury.

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Frances Chow, MD (Neurological Surgery, Neurology, and Neuro-oncology)

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Epigenetic determinants of responsiveness to immunotherapy in glioblastoma.

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Elizabeth Joe, MD (Neurology)

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Dementia diagnoses in a safety net health system.

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Jonathan D. Warus, MD (Pediatrics Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine)

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Understanding Factors and Experiences Affecting Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Decision-Making to Improve Youth Engagement in HIV Prevention Services.

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Mallory Chavannes, MCD, MHSc (Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition)

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KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholar

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Longitudinal assessment of bowel wall thickening and doppler flow in children with Crohn's disease using point-of-care ultrasound

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Robert Featherstone, PhD (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences)

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KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholar

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Treatment-resistant depression in Latino patients: Clinical characteristics and therapeutic preferences

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William V. Padula, PhD (Pharmaceutical and Health Economics)

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Pressure Ulcer Research on Patient-centered Outcomes and Stakeholder Engagement (aka The “PURPOSE”) Study.

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Roy Poblete, MD (Neurology)

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Pro-resolving lipid mediators in traumatic brain injury.

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Caitlin S. Sayegh, PhD (Pediatrics)

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Mobile Health Intervention to Promote Chronic Illness Self-Management Skills among Adolescents and Young Adults.

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Julie Jaffray, MD (Pediatric Hematology/Oncology)

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A Multi-Institutional Risk Factor Evaluation and Risk Assessment for Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism in Pediatric Patients.

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Jeremy Mason, PhD (Urology)

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Enhancing patient care via predictive models of cancer-related events.

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Scott Mosley, PharmD (Clinical Pharmacy)

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Implementation of personalized-medicine-based dual anti-platelet therapy in patients with acute coronary syndromes in a diverse urban population.

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Natalia Sanchez, PhD (Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy)

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Development and application of big data techniques to gait analysis: dissociating recovery from compensation during gait in individuals post-stroke

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Ashaunta T. Anderson, MD, MPH, MSHS (General Pediatrics)

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Validation of Quality Indicators in Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease

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Sumeet Bhanvadia, MD (Urology)

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Improving Adherence of Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer Care in Low Income Latino Patients

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Kimberly Gokoffski, MD, PhD (Ophthalmology)

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Applied Electrical Fields Direct Optic Nerve Regeneration

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Lorraine Kelley-Quon, MD, MSHS (Pediatric Surgery)

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Postoperative Opioid Use and Perscription Utilization in Children

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Nhu Tran, PhD (Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery)

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Longtitudinal Assessment of Cerebrovascular Autoregulation and Associations to Neurodevelopment Delays in Infants with and without Congential Heart Disease

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Frank Attenello, MD, MS (Neurosurgery)

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KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholar

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Characterization and Modification of the Host Pericyte Role in Glioblastoma Angiogenesis and Growth

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Brian Lee, MD, PhD (Neurosurgery)

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Decoding / encoding somatosensation from the hand area of the human primary somatosensory (S1) cortex for a closed-loop motor / sensory brain-machine interface (BMI)

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Sonali Saluja, MD, MPH (Geriatric, Hospital, Palliative and General Internal Medicine)

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KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholar

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Understanding Insurance After the Affordable Care Act - Los Angeles safety-net patients’ experiences with applying for insurance and using healthcare

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Stefanie Thomas, MD (Clinical Pediatrics)

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Clinical Trial Uptake among Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patients: A Mixed Methods Pilot Study

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Houda Alachkar, PharmD, PhD (Clinical Pharmacy)

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Maternal embryonic leucine-zipper kinase (MELK): a new target for high risk acute myeloid leukemia

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Christina Azevedo, MD, MPH (Neurology)

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Thalamic Atrophy: A New MRI Metric for Assessing Neurodegeneration in Multiple Sclerosis

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Anoopindar Bhalla, MD (Pediatric Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine)

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KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholar

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Characterizing Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Phenotypes Using Physiology and Biomarker Data

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Aaron Jensen, MD, MEd (General Pediatric Surgery)

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Education and Clinical Translation: Simulation-based Team Training for Pediatric Trauma Resuscitation and Correlation with Nationwide Pediatric Trauma Center Outcomes

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Ashwani Lakshmanan, MD, MPH (Pediatric Neonatology)

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Addressing Disparities in Follow Up after NICU Discharge: A Promotora Led Patient Navigation Intervention

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Nathan Robison, MD (Hematology, Oncology, and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Pediatrics)

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KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholar

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A Multi-Institutional Phase I Study of MEK162 for Children with Low-Grade Gliomas and Other Ras/Raf/MEK/ERK Pathway Activated Tumors

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Barbara Sargent, PhD, PT, PCS (Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy)

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Effects of an in-home Kicking Activated Mobile training program on the leg coordination patterns of preterm infants at high risk for cerebral palsy

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Leah Stein Duker, PhD, OTR/L (Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy)

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KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholar

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Environmental Factors and their Impact on Children Undergoing Chemotherapy Infusions

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Margaret Trost, MD, FAAP (Hospital Medicine, Pediatrics)

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Enhancing empathy with socially assistive robotics to reduce children’s pain during peripheral IV placement

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Gregory Idols, MD (Gastroenterology and Hepatology)

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Multiplex Gene Panel Testing in the Diagnosis of Hereditary Cancer

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Sarah Rubin, MD (Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, Pediatrics)

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Enabling Early Recognition of Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

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Christopher Russell, MD (Pediatrics)

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Evolution of bacterial lower respiratory tract infections in pediatric patients with tracheostomies

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Mark Shiroishi, MD (Neuroradiology)

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Multiparametric Functional MRI to Differentiate Pseudoprogression from True Early Progression in Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma Treated with Temozolomide Chemaradiation.

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Stefanie Bodison, OTD, OTR/L (Occupational Therapy)

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KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholar

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Investigation of the Neural Mechanisms of Sensorimotor Integration in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Elizabeth Burner, MD, MPH (Emergency Medicine)

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Harnessing mHealth and social support to improve diabetes related health behavior for inner-city patients

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Danieli Salinas, M.D. (Pediatric Pulmonology)

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Outcome Prediction in Children with a Positive California Cystic Fibrosis Newborn Screening.

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Alex K Wong, MD (Surgery)

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Development of hyaluronan as a biomarker for lymphedema.

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Lilyana Amezcua, MD (Neurology)

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Ancestry: Marking its Impact in Hispanics with Multiple Sclerosis

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Lara Nelson, MD (Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine)

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Stress Response in Children and their Parents after Hospitalization in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

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Johanna Olson, MD (Clinical Pediatrics)

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The Physiologic andPsychosocial Development of Gender Non-Conforming Youth From Childhood to Young Adulthood

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Gabriel Zada, MD (Neurosurgery)

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Integrative Genomic and Epigenetic Analysis of Pituitary Adenomas

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Joyce Javier, MD, MPH (General Pediatrics)

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Engaging Immigrants in Faith-Based Preventive Parenting Interventions

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Mimi Kim, MD (Endocrinology)

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KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholar

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Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Due to 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency

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Beth Pyatak, PhD, OTR/L (Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy)

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KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholar

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Beating the Odds: Facilitating Lifestyle Change in Urban Latino Young Adults with Diabetes

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Douglas Vanderbilt, MD (Clinical Pediatrics)

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Biological and Psychosocial Risk Factors to Neurodevelopment in Infants Treated with Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

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Kimberly Aldinger, PhD (Cell and Neurobiology)

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Epigenetic Analysis in Syndromic Epilepsy to Identify Novel Causal Genes

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Alex Balekian, MD, MSHS (Internal Medicine)

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Critical Care Outcomes in Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease: An Approach to Disease-Specific Predictive Modeling and Comparative Effectiveness

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Robert Brown, MD (Surgery, Developmental Biology, Regenerative Medicine)

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Role of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Irradiation Brain Injury

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William Mack, MD (Neurosurgery)

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Complement Mediated Injury in a Translational Model of Chronic Cerebral Hypoperfusion

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Kathleen Page, MD (Medicine)

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Effect of intrauterine exposure to gestational diabetes on adiposity, insulin sensitivity, and beta cell function in Hispanic children

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