Scholarly Activity

Check out what research projects some of our med-peds residents have done!

Erik Reidel

Conference

American Society of Pediatric Hematologists and Oncologists (ASPHO) in Seattle, WA.  “Successful Use of Plasmapheresis in a Pediatric Patient with Sickle Cell Disease and Multiorgan Failure”

Chloe Hundman

1. “Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome vs Eating Disorder: Decompressing the Diagnosis.” Digestive Disease Week 2024. Virtual Poster.
2.  “Advanced Esophageal Cancer Necrotizing Through Mediastinum into the Right Bronchus Intermedius: A Novel Presentation of Bronchoesophageal Fistula”. CHEST 2023 Honolulu, HI.
3. “A Neck Mass Deviating from the Norm.” Southern Medical Association Virtual Abstract Competition 2023.
4. “Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome vs Eating Disorder: Decompressing the Diagnosis.” SGIM Southern Regional Meeting New Orleans, LA. Oral presentation
5. “Palliative dual stenting in advanced esophageal cancer necrotizing through mediastinum.” Southern Medical Association Virtual Abstract Competition 2024.
6. “A Rare Cause of Encephalopathy: D-lactic Acidosis in Short Bowel Syndrome.” American College of Gastroenterology 2024. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
7. “Gastrointestinal manifestations as an indicator for clinically severe COVID-19" American College of Gastroenterology 2024. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
8. “Secondary Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in a Young Patient with Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Epstein-Barr Virus Associated Classic Hodgkin Lymphoma” American College of Gastroenterology 2024. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Blake Barton

“Turning Heads: Neck Pain and Facial Numbness in an Adolescent”, American Medical Society for Sports Medicine National Meeting, Baltimore, MD

Laura Harrison

1. Poster presentation at AAP National Conference; "Application of the explanatory models framework to real-world clinical interactions at a pediatric cancer center in Guatemala"; Washington, DC.
2. Oral presentation at Southern Medical Association Annual Scientific Assembly; “A case of refractory hypertension and hypokalemia in the setting of licorice consumption"; Greensboro, NC.

Katie Stoops

1. American Society of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (ASPHO) Conference 2024
2. Seattle, WA. “DO ALL FEBRILE INFANTS WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASES REQUIRE HOSPITAL ADMISSION? A SINGLE CENTER RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW OF OUTCOMES”
3. Publications
   Katie Stoops, MS4; Sandeepkumar Kuril, MD, Ruxolitinib in a Child with JAK2 Exon 12 Polycythemia Vera, Journal of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, September 2022.
4. Katie Stoops MD, Kate Shapiro MD, Jeremey Slone MD, Jane Hankins MD, Rohith Jesudas MD, Clifford Takemoto MD, Amanda Green MD, Mandated Admission for Febrile Infants with Sickle Cell Disease?: Single Center Retrospective Review, Pediatric Blood and Cancer, March 2024.
5. Srishti Sareen, MD, Jaya Adabala, MD, Katie Stoops, MD, Jacob Marler, PharmD, Lindsay Lands, MD, Alva Weir, MD, Routine Screening of African American Males in Hematology Clinic for G6PD Deficiency: A Prospective Comparative Study of a Pharmacogenomic Panel Versus Standard Enzyme Assay, Blood ASH Publications, November 2024.
6. Srishti Sareen MD, Rahul Reddy Tirumalareddy MD, Mark Mitchell MD, Jaya Adabala MD, Mirza Mashaal Khan MD, Katie Stoops MD, Jacob Marler PharmD, Lindsey Lands MD, Alva Bowen Weir III MD, The importance of routine G6PD screening in oncology patients: A prospective comparative study in African American males (AAM) highlighting the additional benefits of pharmacogenomics (PGx) panels over standard enzyme assay, Journal of Clinical Oncology, May 2025.
7. Shruthi Suryaprakash MD, Katie Stoops MD, Rohith Jesudas MD, Terri H. Finkel MD, Nathaniel Rogers MD, Acute Abdominal Pain in an 11-year-old Boy, Pediatrics In Review: Index of Suspicion, June 2025.

Esther Blondeau-Lecomte

Southern Regional Meeting/Southern Society for Pediatrics Research “Neonatal Septic Shock caused by Flavobacterium Lindanitolerans” New Orleans, LA

Christina Miller

1. Southern Regional Meeting New Orleans, LA “EFFECT OF COMPLETE VS PARTIAL ANTENATAL CORTICOSTEROID PROPHYLAXIS ON IN-HOSPITAL OUTCOMES IN EXTREMELY LOW GESTATIONAL AGE NEONATES: A SINGLE CENTER RETROSPECTIVE STUDY”
2. Pediatric Academic Societies Toronto, Canada “EFFECT OF COMPLETE VS PARTIAL ANTENATAL CORTICOSTEROID PROPHYLAXIS ON IN-HOSPITAL OUTCOMES IN EXTREMELY LOW GESTATIONAL AGE NEONATES: A SINGLE CENTER RETROSPECTIVE STUDY”

Laura Lang

Posters

1. "Assessing barriers and facilitators to medical interpretation in the pediatric intensive care unit." Poster at Pediatric Academic Societies, Honolulu, HI.  
2. "Rasburicase-Induced Methemoglobinemia Treated with Ascorbic Acid in a Woman with Metastatic Uterine Cancer and Oliguric Acute Kidney Injury: A Case Report." Poster at College of Medicine Research Day, UTHSC, Memphis, TN.

Presentations

1. "Assessing barriers and facilitators to medical interpretation in the pediatric intensive care unit." Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Publications

1. Tarantino L., Burrows, J., Goodrich, N., Kerns, E., & McCulloh, R. (2022, September) Pediatric Pulmonology. Is a hospital pathway for heated, high-flow initiation and weaning associated with shorter treatment duration and length of hospital stay in bronchiolitis?

Haydy George

Presentation

1. MD Haydy George, MD Robert Tatum, MD Stephen Pishko, A case of Acute Invasive Fungal Sinusitis in an Immunocompetent Patient, The National Med-Peds Residents Association | American Academy of Pediatrics 2025. 
2. Conference Abstract: Modupeoluwa Owolabi…Haydy George. “Hospitalization Among HIV Patients: A Retrospective Analysis During the COVID-19 Pandemic”. Abstract ID 1827163. ID Week. Oct 16-19,2024. Los Angeles, CA.
3. Conference Abstract: Wenning Qin…Haydy George, et. al “Generating PERV-free donor pigs for xenotransplantation” Transgenic animal conference. August 2019
4. Conference Abstract: The Activity of Polyphenol Oxidase in Barley Plants Hordeum vulgare”, Haydy George et al. Annual Undergraduate Research Conference, UMass Amherst, 2014
5. Keynote speaker for Enhancing Content Academic Learning Institute with the Education Alliance of Brown University in May 2012.

Publication

1. Cecia Arba, … George et al (2025). Peripheral Neuropathy Due to Amniotic Constriction Band: A Systematic Review of Literature. In prep
2. Prince MA, … George H et al (2024). Exploring the Impact of Therapeutic Advances in HIV-related Mortality in the United States. IJID Regions
3. Zafarshamspour S, … George H et al (2024). Traumatic atlantoaxial rotatory fixation in adults: a systematic review of published cases. Neurosurgical Review
4. Lesha E, George H†, et al. (2022). “A Survey of Transcription Factors in Cell Fate Control”. Transcription Factor Regulatory Networks, 133-141.
5. Zaki M, … George H et al. (2021). ”Cell Therapy Strategies for COVID-19: Current Approaches and Potential Applications”. Science Advances.
6. Yue Y†, ... George H et. al. (2021). “Extensive Porcine Genome Engineering for Xenotransplantation Science. (Nature Biomedical Engineering 5 (2), 134-143).
7. Niu D †, ... George H†, et. al. (2017). “Inactivation of porcine endogenous retrovirus in pigs using CRISPR-Cas9’ Science. 25 simultaneous genome editing in pigs. Science. † These authors contributed equally to this work. (Cover of September 22nd 2017 issue)
8. Guell M, … George, H., et. Al. (2017). “PERV inactivation is necessary to guarantee the absence of pig-to-patient PERVs transmission in xenotransplantation. Xenotransplantation 24 (6).
9. Yang L †, ... George H†, et. al. (2015). “Genome-wide inactivation of porcine endogenous retrovirus activities (PERVs)”. Science. 62 simultaneous genome editing in single mammalian cells. † These authors contributed equally to this work. (Top 10 Immunology Articles of the Year)