Mentored Career Development Award (K12/KL2)
Past Awards
CCTSI K12 (KL2) Research Scholar Awardees receive up to three years of Mentored Career Development funding and training in clinical translational research. These positions are funded by a NIH/NCATS K12 (KL2) Career Development grant to the CCTSI. Institutional
support from Children’s Hospital Colorado provides funding to support two K12-like career development awards. The Children's Hospital funded scholars are notated(*), funding was from KL2 grants until K12 began in 2023.
| Awardee Name | Department | Start Date | End Date | Mentors |
| *Institutionally funded career development training award. This CDA is not funded by the KL2/K12 grant | ||||
| Meghan Althoff, MD, PhD | Medicine/Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine | 12/01/2023 | Current | Fernando Holguin, MD and Sunita Sharma, MD |
| Aubrey Armento, MD | Pediatrics/Sports Medicine | 12/01/2023 | Current | Wendy Kohrt, PhD and Christine Swanson, MD |
| Jose Diaz-Miron, MD* | Pediatrics/Surgery | 12/01/2023 | Current | Tell Bennett, MD and Lisa DeCamp, MD |
| Katherine Kissler, PhD | Nursing, Maternal Child Health | 12/01/2023 | Current | Teri Hernandez, PhD and K. Joseph Hurt, MD, PhD |
| Christy Niemeyer, PhD | Neurology | 12/01/2023 | Current | Kimberley Bruce, PhD and Maria Nagel, MD |
| Erin Englund, PhD | Radiology | 11/1/2021 | Current | Jane Reusch, MD and Alex Barker, PhD |
| Jillian Cotter, MD, MSCS* | Pediatrics/Hospital Medicine | 12/1/2021 | Current | Samuel Dominguez, MD, PhD and Lilliam Ambroggio, PhD |
| Demetria McNeal, PhD (Special KL2 Supplement Award) | Medicine/GIM | 06/4/2021 | 4/30/2023 | Pamela Peterson, MD and Stacie Daugherty, MD |
| Silvania da Silva Teixeira, PhD | Pediatrics/Nutrition Section, Division of Endocrinology, and Diabetes | 04/1/2021 | 03/31/2024 | Darleen Sandoval, PhD and Rebecca Scalzo, PhD |
| Marisa Stahl, MD (Special KL2 Supplement Award) | Pediatrics/Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition | 7/22/2020 | 4/30/2023 | Joaquin Espinosa, PhD, Ron Sokol, MD, Edwin Liu, MD, and Jill Norris, PhD |
| Wei Perng, PhD, MPH | Epidemiology | 2/1/2020 | 1/31/2023 | Dana Dabelea, MD, PhD and Deborah Glueck, PhD |
| Bradley Haverkos, MD, MPH | Medicine/Hematology_Blood & Marrow Transplant | 12/1/2019 | 11/30/2022 | Eduardo Davila, PhD and Craig Jordan, PhD |
Caroline Hall, MD, PhD* | Pediatrics/Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition | 12/1/2019 | 11/30/2022 | Sean Colgan, PhD and Edwin de Zoeten, MD,PhD |
Anastacia Garcia, PhD* | Pediatrics/Cardiology | 12/15/2019 | 8/31/2021 | Shelley Miyamoto, MD and Carmen Sucharov, PhD |
| Michelle H. Leppert, MD | Neurology | 12/1/2019 | 2/28/2023 | P. Michael Ho, MD, PhD and Cathy Bradley, PhD |
| Elizabeth Thomas, MD | Medicine/Endocrinology, Metabolism & Diabetes | 1/1/2019 | 12/31/2021 | Marc Cornier, MD and Vicki Catenacci, MD |
| Kimberley Bruce, PhD | Medicine/Endocrinology, Metabolism & Diabetes | 11/1/2018 | 10/31/2021 | Robert Eckel, MD and Wendy Macklin, PhD |
Amy G. Feldman, MD MSCS* | Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition | 11/1/2018 | 7/31/2019 | Ronald J. Sokol, MD and Allison Kempe, MD |
| Vanessa Sherk, PhD | Medicine/Endocrinology, Metabolism & Diabetes | 12/1/2017 | 11/30/2020 | Paul MacLean, PhD and Philip Zeitler, MD, PhD |
| Elizabeth Wellberg, PhD | Pathology | 12/1/2017 | 1/31/2020 | Paul MacLean, PhD and Peter Kabos, MD |
| Elena Shagisultanova, MD, PhD | Medicine/Medical Oncology | 2/1/2017 | 7/31/2019 | Virginia Borges, MD and Peter Kabos, MD |
| Yael Aschner, MD | Medicine/Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine | 12/1/2016 | 7/31/2019 | Gregory Downey, MD and Ellen Burnham, MD |
Nicholas G. Cost, MD* | Department of Surgery, Divisions of Urology and Pediatric Urology | 12/1/2016 | 11/30/2019 | Duncan T. Wilcox, MD and Anna Malykhina, PhD |
James A. Feinstein, MD MPH* | Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics | 12/1/2016 | 7/31/2017 | Allison Kempe, MD, MPH and Robert J. Valuck, PhD |
| Mehdi Fini, MD | Department of Medicine/Pulmonary | 10/1/2014 | 9/30/2017 | Kurt Stenmark, MD and Richard Johnson, MD |
| Brian Berman, MD | Department of Medicine/Neurology | 10/1/2014 | 9/30/2017 | Jason Tregellas, PhD and Maureen Leehey, MD |
| Mark Jeong, MD | Department of Medicine/Cardiology | 10/1/2014 | 9/30/2017 | Peter Buttrick, MD and Timothy McKinsey, PhD |
| Traci Lyons, PhD | Medicine/Medical Oncology | 2/1/2014 | 1/31/2017 | Pepper Schedin, PhD and Virgina Borges, MD, MMSc |
Todd Hankinson, MD, MBA* | Pediatric Neurosurgery | 12/1/2013 | 11/30/2016 | Lia Gore, MD and Nicholas Foreman, MB, ChB |
| Roberta Capp, MD, MHS | Emergency Medicine | 12/1/2013 | 7/30/2016 | David West, PhD and Adit Ginde, MD, MPH |
Emily DeBoer, MD* | Medicine/Pediatric Pulmonary | 12/1/2013 | 11/30/2016 | Robin Deterding, MD and David Lynch, MD |
| Amy Huebschmann, MD | General Internal Medicine | 10/1/2011 | 9/25/2014 | Judith G. Regensteiner, PhD and Andrea Dunn, PhD |
| Shaodong Dai, PhD | Immunology | 10/1/2011 | 4/30/2014 | Andrew Fontenot, MD and John Kappler, PhD |
| Magdalena Gorska, MD, PhD | Allergy and Clinical Immunology | 10/1/2011 | 9/30/2014 | Rafeul Alam, MD, PhD and Richard Martin, MD |
Sophie Fillon, PhD* | Pediatrics/Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition | 9/1/2010 | 8/31/2013 | Glenn T. Furuta, MD and Norman Pace, PhD |
| Benzi Kluger, MD, MS | General Internal Medicine | 9/1/2010 | 8/31/2013 | Donald Rojas, PhD and Maureen Leehey, MD |
Katherine Lee, PhD* | Pediatrics/ Infectious Diseases | 9/1/2010 | 8/31/2013 | Myron Levin, MD and Wenbo Zhou, PhD |
| David Nichols, MD | Pediatrics, Medicine, Pediatric Pulmonology | 9/1/2010 | 8/31/2013 | Carl White, MD and Jerry Nick, MD |
| Karin Hoth, PhD | Psychosocial Medicine | 7/1/2009 | 6/30/2010 | Fred Wamboldt, MD and James Crapo, MD |
Timothy J. Bernard, MD, MPH* | Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Neurology | 1/1/2009 | 12/31/2011 | Marilyn Manco-Johnson, MD and Neil Goldenberg, MD, PhD |
Wei Tan, PhD* | Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics and the Center for Bioengineering | 1/1/2009 | 12/31/2011 | Robin Shandas, PhD and Kurt Stenmark, MD |
| Adit A. Ginde, MD, MPH | Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine | 10/1/2008 | 9/30/2011 | E. Rand Sutherland, MD, MPH and Richard J. Martin, MD |
| Katrina S. Maluf, PT, PhD | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation in the Division of Physical Therapy | 10/1/2008 | 7/31/2010 | Wendy Kohrt, PhD and Robert Spencer, PhD |
| Shama Ahmad, PhD | Pediatrics, Pulmonary Division | 10/1/2008 | 9/30/2011 | Carl W. White, MD and Susan D. Reynolds, PhD |
| Nichole E. Carlson, PhD | Biostatistics and Informatics | 10/1/2008 | 9/30/2011 | Wendy Kohrt, PhD and Gary Grunwald, PhD |