Past Award Winners

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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