CURRENT SCHOLARS
These K12 awards are funded by the NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Science (K12TR004413).
K12 Scholars
| Scholar | Year of Award | Department | Project Title | Mentor |
| Abigail Pulsipher, PhD | 2023 | Otolaryngology | EoTracker Development Project: EPX Activity: A New Diagnositic and Prognostic Biomarker for Eosiniphilic Chronic Rhinosinusitis | Julie Barkmeier Kraemer, PhD |
| Rebecca Delaney, PhD | 2023 | Population Health Sciences | Developing a Serious Video Game to Facilitate Pediatric to Adult Care Transitions in Congenital Heart Disease | Angela Fagerlin, PhD |
| Larissa McGarrity, PhD | 2023 | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation | Evaluation of feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a dyadic positive psychology intervention for patients post-bariatric surgery and their partners: A pilot randomized controlled trial | Alexandra L Terrill, PhD |
| Dusti Jones, PhD, MS | 2023 | Population Health Sciences | Translating mHealth to population level just-in- time adaptive interventions: Using resilience-based emotional processes to promote tobacco cessation among historically underrepresented populations. | David Wetter, PhD, MS |
| Nicole Pershing, MD | 2023 | Pediatrics | Bacteriophage effects on necrotizing enterocolitis pathology | June Round, PhD |
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