CHRI Conference Attendee Information
Program Agenda
Wednesday, December 3
The doors at the Scott Conference Center (SCC) will open at 7:00 am, and a breakfast buffet will be provided at 7:30 am. Program starts at 8:00 am.
Parking and Directions
Lot 9 is exclusively used for SCC guests and provided at no cost. It is located across the street from the SCC main entrance on Pine Street.
Directions from I-80: Take exit 449 for 72nd Street North, Continue down 72nd Street, Take a right on Pine Street, SCC is located at 6450 Pine Street
Directions from Dodge Street: Turn South off Dodge Street, Take a left on Pine Street, SCC is located at 6450 Pine Street
More information about the Scott Conference Center.
Schedule
7:30 - 8 a.m. Pre-Conference Poster Session & Breakfast
8 - 8:15 a.m. Welcome & Opening RemarksAnn Anderson Berry, MD, PhD - Child Health Research Institute Executive Director
8:15 - 11:30 a.m. Invited Talks & Abstract Award Winners
Paul Trippier, PhD, Professor, UNMC Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
"Drug Discovery for CLN3 Disease: Tales from the pediatric drug development core"
Kevin Dibbern*, PhD, Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Pediatrics, Sports Medicine "ACL reconstruction is associated with significant differences in contralateral tibial morphology compared to controls"
William Rizzo, MD, Professor, UNMC Department of Pediatrics, Inherited Metabolic Diseases "From fat to feathers: A strange journey in rare disease research"
Mabruka Alfaidi*, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology"Novel gene in pediatric patients with severe pulmonary arterial hypertension"
10 - 10:15 a.m. Break
Sidharth Mahapatra*, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, UNMC Department of Pediatrics, Critical Care and UNMC Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
"Exploiting iron overload to activate ferroptosis and potentiate cisplatin response in pediatric group 3 medulloblastomas"
Arwa K. Nasir, MBBS, Professor, UNMC Department of Pediatrics, General Pediatrics
"Global trends in autism diagnosis and management"
Haiying Shen*, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Pediatrics, Neurology "Astrocyte-specific GlyT1 deletion enables a viable model of NKH-associated epileptic encephalopathy"
*Abstract Award Winners
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Lunch
12 - 1 p.m. Keynote Presentation / CHRI Grand Rounds
Marius George Linguraru, DPhil, MA, MSc, the Connor Family Professor and Endowed Chair in Research and Innovation at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C.; Professor of Radiology and Pediatrics, The George Washington University; Principal Investigator and Director of Pediatric Accelerated Intelligence Lab, Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation
"Ethical AI for children's health and rare diseases"
Ann Anderson Berry, MD, PhD, CHRI Executive Director
1:45 - 2 p.m. Break
2 - 3:30 p.m. Breakout Rooms - Breakout Handout
3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Poster Session & Featured Resources
4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Social Hour
Abstracts
Abstract award winners bolded
| Abstract Title | Researcher |
| Agrochemicals Exposures Commonly Associated with Congenital Anomalies and Pediatric Cancer: A Scoping Review | Muskan Ahuja, BDS, MPH |
| Novel gene in pediatric patients with severe pulmonary arterial hypertension. | Mabruka Alfaidi, MD, PhD, FAHA |
| Kinesiophobia and Psychological Readiness Are Associated With Less Daily Physical Activity After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction | Aaron Allison |
| Evaluating a Vision-Language AI System for Food Recognition: Implications for Dietary Assessment and Clinical Practice | Taranum Bano |
| Improving Use of Social Communicative Gestures by Children with Autism | Rebecca J. Barall, M.Ed., CBIS, BCBA, LBA |
| Cellular exposure to alcohol induces genome-wide DNA-protein crosslinks | Chris Cummings, MD, PhD |
| Mechanisms contributing to impaired feto-placental and maternal outcomes with chronic HIV infection | Murali Devanaboyina |
| ACL Reconstruction is Associated with Significant Differences in Contralateral Tibial Morphology Compared to Controls | Kevin Dibbern, PhD |
| Nortriptyline: a repurposable adjuvant to chemotherapy in group 3 medulloblastoma that triggers apoptosis by inducing mitochondrial dysfunction | David Doss |
| Survey of Current Clinical and Imaging Practices Amongst Regional Obstetric Providers in Nebraska: A Discussion of Future Application of Artificial Intelligence in Fetal Echocardiography | Sulthana Farhath, MD |
| Navigating the Metabolomics Landscape and Mitochondrial Bioenergetics of LCHAD/MTP Deficiency using human-Derived Fibroblasts | Aiswariya Gavi |
| Outcomes of rural pediatric traumatic brain injuries admitted to a single pediatric intensive care unit | Eleanor Gradidge, MD |
| Long-Term Molecular and Clinical Outcomes in Pediatric Medulloblastoma |
Allison Guild, DO |
| Development of a fluorescently labelled anti-B7H3 antibody for intraoperative imaging of rhabdomyosarcoma |
Ritika Gupta |
| Investigating the Roles of Sodium and Potassium Intake in Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy |
Alexandra Hergenrader, MD |
| Environmental Reservoirs of ESBL E. coli: Implications for Fetal and Early Life Exposure |
Noe Hernandez, MSc |
| Travel burden and pediatric cancer mortality: Evidence from 2000-2020 state cancer registry data |
Emma Hymel, MPH |
| Mapping the Cell Surface Proteome Following Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury |
Amanda Johnson |
| Investigating Placental Inflammation Following Organic Dust Extract Challenges |
Kaylee Jones |
| A multidimensional analysis of financial hardship: material, behavioral and psychological burdens among caregivers of pediatric cancer patients |
Josiane Kabayundo, MPH |
| Targeting the Kinetochore Complex: A Novel Approach to Mitigating Tumor Aggressiveness in Group 3 Medulloblastoma |
Ranjana Kanchan, PhD |
| Quality of Life as Perceived by Clients of ABA Services |
Jasmeen Kaur, MA, BCBA, LBA |
| Dolutegravir Delays Cerebral Organoid Maturation |
Manjeet Kumar, PhD |
| Whole blood GFAP and LCH-L1 for prediction of absence of intracranial injury on computed tomography in pediatrics |
Grace Lai, MD, PhD |
| The Integrated Stress Response Orchestrates Immune Remodeling and Biofilm Persistence in Staphylococcus aureus Craniotomy Infection |
Artha Govind Lotlikar, MS |
| Exploiting Iron Overload to Activate Ferroptosis and Potentiate Cisplatin Response in Pediatric Group 3 Medulloblastomas |
Sidharth Mahapatra, MD, PhD |
| Generative-AI Companion for Life-Span Diseases: Building Long-Term Memory and Personalized Support System |
Gargi Nandy |
| Is Metatarsus Adductus Truly Self-Limiting? A Retrospective Cohort Study |
Smitha Mathew, MBBS |
| Pressure-Time Integral as a Marker of Fatigue and CompensatoryGait in Pediatric Foot Deformities | Smitha Mathew, MBBS |
| Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Jordan Pediatricians Regarding Autism: a survey study | Arwa Nasir, MBBS, MSc, MPH |
| Longitudinal Trends in Pediatric Cancer Incidence in the United States: Analysis of SEER data from 2000 to 2022 | Amelia Nichols, MPH |
| Neutrophil Reprogramming Fuels Immunosuppression in Pediatric Neurosurgical Biofilm Infections | Adedayo Ogunware, MsC |
| Sustaining Food Insecurity Surveillance: Insights from a Decade of Clinical Cohort Data | Samuel Owolabi, MBBS |
| Zero-Shot Classification of Autistic Behaviors in Video Using a Multimodal Large Language and Vision Model (LLM-VLM) | Anirban Pal |
| Enhancing Transparency and Trust in AI-Driven Medical Systems Through Conversational AI Explanations | Ravi Pandey |
| Adherence to Preconception Health Guidelines, Associated Factors, and Pregnancy Outcomes Among U.S. Women with a Recent Live Birth (2016-2022) | Julie Petersen, PhD, MPH |
| Risk factor differences that may explain Black-white racial disparities in preterm birth in Omaha, Nebraska, 2015-2022 | Julie Petersen, PhD, MPH |
| Maternal Macadamia-Rich Diet Supplementation Reshapes Gut Microbiota, Enhances Short-Chain Fatty Acid Production, and Improves Fetal Programming in a Maternal Obesity Mouse Model | Deekshika Sekar, MS |
| Astrocyte-Specific GlyT1 Deletion Enables a Viable Model of NKH-Associated Epileptic Encephalopathy | Haiying Shen, MD, PhD |
| Interventions in the NICU for Fathers to address mental health and bonding: A scoping review | Cara Solness, PhD |
| Dolutegravir Affects Placental Vasculature | Micah Summerlin, BS |
| Space is a young mouse's game - age as variable in post-flight recovery | Timothy Sveeggen, PhD |
| Statewide population-based temporal and spatial trends for congenital heart defects, 2015-2024 | Jabeen Taiba, PhD, MPH |
| Social Stress and the Opioid Brain | Ria Vootla |
| Tangeretin improves neuronal cell survival via phosphorylation of Akt after hypoxia-ischemia | Rajnish Yadav |