Past Award Winners
Past Award Winners and Research Projects
2020 Award Winners and Research Projects
Special Award Focus Area: Bleeding Disorders Affecting Women and Girls ($35,000) - These awards were made possible through an educational grant through Shire/Baxalta.

Ming Y. Lim, MD
Assistant Professor, HSC, Salt Lake City, Utah
Mentor: Dr. Geroge Rodgers and Dr. Sara Simonsen
Project Title: Obstetric complications and postpartum contraceptives in women with von Willebrand disease - a statewide population-based study

Joseph Oved, MD
Instructor, Division of Hematology at Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP), Bala Cynwyd, PA
Mentor: Michele P. Lambert, MD
Project Title: Defining the dysbiosis of the gut microbiome in pediatric patients with newly diagnosed ITP
Special Award Focus Area: Bleeding Disorders Affecting Women and Girls ($15,000)

Lauren Andrew, MD
Obstetrics and Gynecology Resident, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Calgary in Canada
Mentor: Dr. Leslie Skeith
Project Title: Understanding patients' and physicians' perspectives and barriers to participating in postpartum clinical trials: A qualitative substudy of the pilot PARTUM trial
2019 Award Winners and Research Projects
Special Award Focus Area: Bleeding Disorders Affecting Women and Girls ($35,000) - These awards were made possible through an educational grant through Takeda.

Annemarie E. Fogerty, MD
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Mentor: Dr. Walter H. Dzik
Project Title: Mechanmism of Gestational Thrombocytopenia

Chelsea Kebodeaux, MD
Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine
Mentor: Dr. Oluyemisi Adeyemi-Fowode
Project Title: Alternate-day versus daily oral iron therapy in adolescents with iron deficiency anemia and heavy menstrual bleeding: a randomized clinical trial
Special Award Focus Area: Blood Disorders Affecting Women and Girls ($15,000)

Jerome Jeffrey Federspiel, MD, PhD
Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellow, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Mentor: Dr. Andra H. James
Project Title: Preventing venous thromboembolism following ccesarean delivery: building evidence to inform practice
2018 Award Winners and Research Projects
Special Award Focus Area: Bleeding Disorders Affecting Women and Girls ($35,000) - Theis award was made possible through an educational grant through Takeda.

Julia Coleman, MD
Mentor: Dr. Christopher C. Silliman
Project Title: Sex Dimorphisms in Trauma-Induced Coagulopathy: A Mechanistic Exploration of a Sex-Specific Survival Benefit Project Description
Special Award Focus Area: Blood Disorders Affecting Women and Girls ($15,000)

Tazim Dowlut-McElroy, MD, MS
Mentors: Julie L. Strickland MD, MPH; Shannon L. Carpenter, MD, MS
Project Title: Use of Levonorgestrel-Releasing Intrauterine Device for the Treatment of Heavy Menstrual Bleeding in Adolescents with Bleeding Disorder
2017 Award Winners and Research Projects
Special Award Focus Area: Bleeding Disorders Affecting Women and Girls ($35,000) - These awards were made possible through an educational grant through Shire/Baxalta.

Margo Rollins, MD
Pediatric Hematologist
Mentor: Robert Sidonio, Jr., MD, MSc
Project: Determine the feasibility and utility of a novel point of care device (Anemocheck) in the monitoring of reduction of hemoglobin during the menstrual cycle in symptomatic Hemophilia A or B carriers

Ruchika P. Sharma, MD
Pediatric Hematologist
Mentor: Veronica Flood, MD
Project: Coagulating Disorders in Menstruating Adolescent Females
Special Award Focus Area: Blood Disorders Affecting Women and Girls ($15,000)

Deva Sharma, MD
Pediatric Hematologist
Mentor: Michael DeBaun, MD
Project: Epidemiologic study of acute vaso-occlusive pain associated with menstruation in women with sickle cell disease
2016 Award Winner and Research Project
Special Award Focus Area: Blood Disorders Affecting Women and Girls ($15,000)

Leslie Skeith, MD
Hematologist
Mentor: Marc Rodger, MD
Project Title: Exploring the concept of a minimal clinically important difference in women with antiphospholipid syndrome and past pregnancy loss